Halloween Candy Preparation!

Boy is it getting cold outside! Next week is Halloween! Before you know it snow will be on the ground. Ok ok, I know, not so fast! So back to Halloween :)

Halloween was probably my favorite holiday growing up. Every year my mother would take hours to prepare our faces. You see we didn't wear masks like you see many of the kids wearing today. No, my mother put hours of preparation into making sure we LOOKED the part.

My brother and I would start getting our faces painted shortly after we got home from school! Shoot, you think Jack Nicholson looked like the Joker you should have seen me!

One thing I do remember all too well was the amount of candy we would collect from our trick-or-treating. I mean I was never a huge chocolate fan and can remember never eating everything I was given. To the point my mother would end up having a collection in the house after a few weeks! We ended up eating our favorites and getting rid of the rest.

This year as you venture out to prepare for would-be tricker treaters avoid so many mistakes that can lead to pitfalls in your own nutrition. Try to implement some of these small tricks of your own.

1. Don't buy extra candy! Look our childhood population is overweight as it is and only getting bigger. So you run out of candy, now what? SHUT YOUR LIGHT OFF!

2. Don't taste test! Put it in a bowl for the kids, hand it out and leave it alone!

3. Be generous, give the kids a choice of 2 things. One, it helps you get rid of it sooner. Two, your not left to ponder about what to do with "leftovers." Three, kids always love parents who give our more.

4. Eat VERY healthy on Halloween! If you start your day off right and continue into the night you will avoid the backlash of being around candy for hours.

5. Get a intense fat burning workout in before your the tricker treating begins! You will feel better about yourself and make better food choices all day long!

Helping you trick your body into becoming leaner this Halloween,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT