I'm a pretty healthy eater—I’m by no means a chocoholic, and I understand the concept of moderation. Except for Saturdays during football season . . . and on holidays . . . and on vacation. Okay, so I'm not as disciplined as I like to let on. I sat thinking about this yesterday as I ate cheese pizza while cheering on the Gators: is Fall killing my healthy lifestyle? I know it's hard to blame a season for forcing me into my sweat pants, but it's cold anyway, bring on the candy corn.
WebMD, apparently on a slow news day, decided to put a giant picture of candy corn on their page only to turn around and tell me it's making me fat. Thanks guys. They even compiled a list of the 9 most fattening fall foods to put a little extra guilt on that piece of apple pie.
Number one: Halloween Candy. No, really? Stealing my cousin’s mini-Snickers is counterproductive to my time spent in the gym. Their solution to candy-snacking? Chewing on a piece of sugar-free gum. Right, because if I'm going to wolf down a package of Sour Patch Kids, some aspartame is going to cut it . . . My solution? Reading the sugar content on those sugar-drenched gummie kids (of 40 grams, 29 grams are sugar); maybe just one will do. C'mon it's Halloween.
Also on the top ten are root vegetables: potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, etc. Though they're nutritious enough on their own, I guess I do have a tendency to cover them in cheese, gravy and anything else that decidedly masks anything that made them nutritious in the first place. The fix? Grilling or roasting.
Finally, to help rid yourself of those football weekend pounds, the experts at WebMD recommend doing jumping jacks, sit-ups or push-ups during halftime or during commercials. Uh huh, right, at your next tailgate maybe you could offer an 8-minute abs class; I'll be standing next to the nachos.
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