Candy/Treat Holiday Bonanza!

Thank goodness the weigh-in was December 13th! Ever since I have been bombarded with chocolates, candies, tarts, various sweets,cookies, etc. Oh man!! I was up 8lbs last week (I assume it was water retention, hormones and the scale exacting its revenge on me) and I'm back to normal now after 5 days of trying to avoid the truckload of sweets and goodies that have been thrown my way at the day job since then.

Forget the food. It was full of veggies and fruits and protein bars.  honestly, it would be easier to keep track of the sweets and treats.

And more fun!

Holiday ROLL CALL:

Thursday, December 17th:

- Organic dark chocolate bars  - a thank you from a coworker

- A bag of truffle chocolates (mmmmm)

- a box of Pot of Gold chocolates as another thank you

Friday December 18th:

- a box of chocolate covered cherries (ewwwww! who eats those things?

- Purdy's Chocolates. The big box as thanks. yah, thanks for the calories!

Monday December 21st:

- 3 boxes of various chocolates from Charlie's Chocolate Factory

- Homemade shortbread cookies (a treat and thank you gift from the caterers)

- various homemade cookies (coworker was making em and decided to share) which consisted of:

*Nanaimo bars

*Chocolate chip Smarties cookies

*Dark chocolate brownies

*Chocolate Macaroons

Tuesday, December 22nd

- A big box of various Lindor chocolates (wowza!)

Wednesday, December 23rd

- A non food gift - yay! Little bottles of scented sanitizer.

- And the best gift ever - LIQUOR! a mickey of my fave booze - GIN! MWAH! I love you too kind stranger. :)

Happy Eating!

Trickin' and Treatin'! The real scare: NOT eating any Halloween candy. Muhahahahaha!

HALLOWEEN SLIMMING TIP: Expecting trick or treaters?? Don't buy your candy till the last minute. Better yet, only buy candy you DON'T like so that you aren't tempted to eat any of it.

My weaknesses don't  include candies or chocolates or desserts so Halloween is not a scary occasion for me in terms of treats. My real weakness is salty and starchy foods so it's around events like Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas where I really have to pay attention to what I eat.
This year at work I have several fun size kit kats and coffee crisps that are sitting at my desk and I can't be bothered to eat them.

MILESTONE MOMENT: Another weakness of mine used to be seeing food. Meaning that if I see it in front of me, no matter how full I am, I would have to eat it or at least nibble at it. That was me a year ago. Today, I can see food ant

ROLL CALL

Breakfast:
1 slice whole grain sprouted bread
2 free range organic eggs
3 oz rosemary ham


Lunch:
Garden salad (lettuce, tomatoes,
1 grilled chicken breast
1 tbsp Kraft French salad dressing

Dinner:
1/2 cup rice
Curried beef
Side salad

Going to a Halloween party so I will probably have to update this post after the party as I will definitely have some drinks and I'm sure there will be chips and other such noshes there as well.

DRINKS:
1 tall long starbucks Americano with honey and nonfat/whole milk (1 tbsp each)

EXERCISE: Rest day. I'll go back to the gym tomorrow to kick off the week

Happy Halloween and we won't let Halloween scare us away from eating healthy today!