Well, DH and I are going out to brunch, and I plan to eat whatever I
want :-).  And then I'll go back to my normal WOE.  Works fine for me;
I won't gain any weight.

But I don't have kids' Easter baskets to content with.  Maybe you
could get the kid to hide it :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

We normally eat out so I don't have to deal with leftovers in the house.  My
kids are adults so I don't have to deal with candy in the house.  Even when
they were kids they didn't receive a lot of candy in their basket.  They
received small holiday related toys, etc.  My main problem was keeping them
from eating too many of the hard boiled eggs.  I often talked them into
doing egg salad or deviled eggs the next day.

Here's a humerous site about one of the traditional Easter candies you might
enjoy.
http://www.peepresearch.org/index.html

Beverly

Like Chris, I allow myself to eat what I want to eat during celebrations,
and then go back to eating normally the next day.  After all, what? I'm not
going to enjoy Thanksgiving or other holiday meals over the next 40 years of
my life? No way!  I don't even want to live like that!  :) I enjoy my
healthy way of eating, but I also enjoy birthdays w/ chocolate cake, eating
way too much turkey and then napping on Thanksgiving, and tiny chocolate
eggs on Easter.

About those chocolate eggs... I do try to limit myself, somewhat, with the
"bad and evil" foods, like chips, chocolate, ice cream. I give myself what
the bag says is 1 serving, and I count that into Fit day, and I don't have
any more... unless I decide to have 2 servings. ;)

The goal, for me, is to ENJOY the foods, and not get caught up in BS guilt.
I'm not my parent and I'm not a child; therefore, guilt has no place in my
relationship to food.

Enjoy the holiday, Amy, and have a chocolate goodie for me! (we're Jewish
around here and I see no evidence of chocolate--egg, bunny
otherwise...sigh...

Heidi
262/220/219
Losing 100lbs.  1 lb. at a time.
Start 10/24/04

This year there are no plans, so that helps.

I have no kids, but I *do* have my own basket <g>

Well I just thank god that I'm an atheist.
The telly is awash with crap, and the "second"
and digital channels are all showing Easter stuff,
ITV3 is yet again showing Jesus of Nazareth!
Jesus was here in London today, just ambling
around nibbling the palms of his hands, so I asked
him what he was doing? He replied: "Just biting
my nails", then on the pitch in the park he leapt
up to head the football, I told the kids it was just
Jesus going up for the cross......................
I can remember a carpenter telling me once that
his proffession was blessed because Jesus had
also been a carpenter, I had to point out so had
Karen and look what happened to her!

I had invited 5 people over for brnch. I 'd prepared several home made
dishes, so I knwe what was in them. I thought I might use that knwoledge
for making my eating decisions.
But I just ate what I wanted once it was all on the table. There was
onting unhealthy there anyway. And I wnated to enjoyt myself. So i had
smome fish with my blini pancakes, a little bit of butter and sour
cream. bread, a smidgen of cheese, two very small easter eggs, a small
glass of banana smoothie, and fruit salad, coffe, skim milk..

 I think I had 800-900 kcal at brunch. Considering it was
breaksfast-and-lunch in one, I think that is fine. I felt stuffed at the
end of the meal, coimpletely stuffed. I hadn'felt that way in a long
time. It was great to discover that I do have a sense fot what eating
the right amount is. I though my body didnt have a satiation point. But
it does. Yay.

Then I ate very moderatly during the rest of teh day. I clocked in at
1675 kcals for the whole day. That is slighlty less than otherwise.