2012 Halloween candy trends according to the informal Fagan family candy poll:
- Most popular candy: KitKats, Peanut M&Ms, Twix
- Least popular candy: Baby Ruth, 3 Musketeers
We had a lot of trick-or-treaters last night and I was quite thankful that Ryan bought another two bags of candy on his way home from work yesterday or we would’ve run out. We have some leftover candy, but our leftovers are limited to 3 Musketeers, Baby Ruth, Milk Duds and the occasional mini Snickers. All my favorites are gone!
Workout
Today’s workout was a 50 minute cardio hodgepodge, followed by some planks that made my abs burn!
My 50 minutes of cardio was split between three different cardio machines:
- 10 minutes stair master
- 15 minutes treadmill incline walking
- 10 minutes stair master
- 15 minutes elliptical
Hopping on and off various machines really helps me fight cardio boredom!
My time on the treadmill was spent completing a 15 minute incline walking workout that could easily be repeated for a 30-minute walking workout on days when a longer workout is more appealing.
I covered one mile during my 15-minute workout and the fast pace coupled with the inclines really had me haulin’ hiney.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning started with a banana…
And ended with scrambled eggs that I made with a splash of milk, shredded cheese, onion and yellow bell pepper.
The yellow pepper in my eggs kind of looks like pineapple to me. You know I love the whole sweet and salty combination thing, but I’m not so sure about pineapple scrambled eggs. Ick.
Time to work! I’m heading out to deliver Meals on Wheels lunches at 10:30 a.m. and am hoping to wrap a freelance article before then. Catch you after lunch!
P.S. We reached more than 1,000 giveaway entries on yesterday’s New Balance giveaway post, so New Balance will be donating $1,000 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. THANK YOU so much for your help!!! The giveaway winner will be randomly selected and announced tomorrow morning.
Of Possible Interest
- How to Help Hurricane Sandy Victims (ABCNews.go.com)
- Peanut Butter White Chocolate Candy (LetsGetCookin.wordpress.com)
- Stop Treating Foods as Good or Bad (FitSugar.com)
- Making Fitness Fun (LindsaysList.co)
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I got back on to check last night, and was so excited that the comments had gone over 1,000! Thanks for putting this out there!
Your least favorites are the favorites in my house! And I still have so many of your favorites — too bad we can’t trade
oh mannn! we should be neighbors.
You guys are nicer than me! I would have given away the baby ruths and 3 musketeers first!
fact: i ate all the almond joys during the days leading up to halloween (we bought our candy on saturday), so none of them made it into the candy bucket for trick-or-treaters…
I did the same with our Twix bars! Sorry Trick-or-Treaters… those babies are mine!
I ate all of the Almond joys prior to the kiddos coming too! Looks like we could have had a serious showdown for those sacred almond joys had we been in the same house!
Woo hoo for reaching the 1000 goal!! I totally would’ve kept the peanut M&Ms for myself!
Thank you, you have inspired me again to get up off my backside and do business with the treadmill!!
The kids’ favorites are my favorites, too. KitKats are my #1!
And that’s such great news about the donation. You have some awesome readers.
Oh my gooooooosh, I haven’t had a KitKat in AGES! My favorite treat during Halloween time are those chocolate covered marshmallow pumpkins and/or the snickers pumpkins.. I didn’t see any in the stores near my apartment this year though!
I looked at the peanut butter white chocolate candy link that you posted…first thought is that this would be really good to make like your puppy chow with biscoff & pumpkin pie spice. I feel a craving coming on….
Pinapple in scrambled eggs is actually really good! I make Hawaiin scrambled eggs with pineapple, red onion, light laughing cow wedge and egg whites.
Also, what is the trick to using the stair master? I’ve gotten on it a few times determined to make it work for me but I just can’t figure out the pace/resistance – I desperately want to use it!
Yay for the $1,000 donation! It was awesome of you to work that in!
The day after Halloween used to be one of my favorite days of the year as a kid because you have about a year’s supply worth of candy in your possession. If it even made it to the next day…and in that case November 1 was the day of the tummy ache
Oooooh great incline workout! Adding into my repertoire!
I think I would find the workout she posted too difficult. I think 4.0 is a FAST walking speed. I suck , I know. I always thought I was a relatively really strong walker too!
Oops…wrong reply…I meant to reply to the person below . Oops.
I did the last incline treadmill workout you posted and it was awesome so I can’t wait to try this one! Question though, and this probably makes me sound so lame, but when the incline gets up to 11 or higher, I have to hold the handles! Do you think that hinders the workout?
QUESTION: Can a beginner treadmill walker do this? Or would it be too intense? The inclines and speed seem like a lot. I have tired legs
But I feel like a failure for being unable to walk vigorously on treadmill or outside. I’m SO slow.
IS this a beginner type of workout? Should a beginner be able to do it? And if not, then what is a beginner incline treadmill walking workout?
Or for outside? Since I don’t have a gym for much longer anyway.
Also, your scrambled eggs look like oatmeal. Ha!
hi rachel! i would not call this a beginner walking workout at all. the speeds and inclines are really high. i really hope to post some beginner workouts once i have my personal training certification, so i hope to have something to show you relatively soon!
Thanks…I don’t belong to a gym
But the last time I was at one, I tried the treadmill walking and I managed to do a speed of 3.5 – 3. 8 walking, but could only squeak up to incline 12. TIRED
I do walk outside a lot but am tired easily. Winter is tough cause I live in COLD cold weather, so this isn’t the greatest situation. I don’t have money for gym and don’t have space for videos. Not sure what to do. I feel like I need to do something intense. But maybe I need to just be grateful and be kinder to myself. Do what I can and be thankful for that. I tend to WORRY and complain a lot. I need to work on my perceptions of things.
Thanks for posting the how to help hurricane sandy victims link-all of us here at the Jersey Shore appreciate it
Isn’t that the worst? You’re so happy to have trick-or-treaters, but when they go for the Butterfinger or Reese’s all I can think is “darn it, I was hoping to eat that later!” You might like this video, I got a pretty good laugh out of it yesterday!
http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2012/10/the-guide-to-trading-halloween-candy.html#.UJKI7sW-gXs
Totally thought it was pineapple
Those Baby Ruths would be gone in a heartbeat if I was around, just sayin. Way to go with the 1,000 entries, that is so impressive, and you should be so proud for thinking up such great way to raise money for a cause. You’re a smart cookie, Julie
It is funny that the 3 Musketeers bars were one of the least popular because those are one of my favorites! Send them my way!
I had to play games in my head with the cardio machines this morning so I didn’t get bored! Sadly my IT band hurts so no running for me. But I do think it’s weird that 10 min on the elliptical is boring but I could run forever!
We had tons of little kids around the neighborhood but unfortunately neither I nor my roommate were home to hand out candy. At least there’s two bags of it sitting in the closet now
Love the incline walking workout…
It is SUCH a nice change from a normal running workout – and certainly works your glutes. I picture myself hiking a mountain while doing the incline walking, visuals always help!
Living in an apartment complex, we don’t get any trick-or-treaters That means no candy in our house at all haha.
Could not have been more excited when I got to work yesterday and saw the daycare across the street getting ready for their Halloween parade!
I think I could get on board with pineapple in scrambled eggs!
Your poll results look very accurate to me
This was my first Halloween as a person providing the candy, and I think I got a little too excited and waaaay overestimated the amount of people that would visit the house. We have a TON of leftovers…my favorites (mini snickers and reese’s) included! Danger zone!!
Haha I think KitKats are my least favorite but it seems to be everyone else favorite. That or Reeses. You can never go wrong with chocolate and PB.
Jealous that you got so many kids! I only got -four-, but considering the fact that it was snowing, I’m surprised to have even gotten those. And I’d definitely be sad if the KitKats were gone because those are my favorite!
So glad you made it to 1,000! Such great news!
Really? I love 3 Musketeers!
Although nothing will ever beat PB cups.
VEry cool that you reached 1,000!
I don’t realyl like the ones you don’t like either. We should be friends!
We didn’t have any trickortreaters since we live in condos and there are hardly any kids.
I love the newish Milky Way caramel ones! Yum!!
the 3 musketeers didn’t last 5 minutes in this house!
i might have to stop reading your blog!!
just kidding.
I envy your trick or treat traffic! I have lived in a college town and then the country for 5 years with no trick or treaters. We just moved to a nice family suburb and I was anticipating tons of kids, but we only had 5. I was so sad! Now I have a bowl full of candy in my house….ugh!
I am the queen of cardio boredom! I look like I have really bad ADD whenever I’m in the gym because unless I’m running I’m hopping on and off all the equipment
I haven’t done an incline walking workout in awhile! I think I need to put that on my radar for a workout tonight or tomorrow
Really? 3 Musketeers are my favorite! Maybe because they seem the least sinful. I like to switch up the cardio machines too or else I also get totally bored! There’s only so much elliptical or treadmill I can take!
I would be pretty stoked with having leftover Milk Duds. Those are one of my favourites! But a lack of KitKat bars would mean trouble.
Peanut M &M, Twix, and Milky way are my favorite! Yum! So glad you guys had fun handing out candy!
OoOO those are some of my faves too! Hehe, I was eating a tiny butterfinger today and thought of you! It’s one of my faves as well, and I think you mentioned it a few times before?
I always underestimate the power of walking on an incline!!
I hate cardio bordem and find myself fighting it far too frequently! Have you ever tried the Tracy Anderson treadmill routine? It makes you look ridiculous and will call for some stares at the gym but it was a challenge and made me sweat!
Here’s the you tube video breakdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVLD5TOi6g4
3 Musketeers are my favorite! I wouldn’t mind having a lot of those leftover I definitely thought the yellow peppers in your eggs were pineapple at first too haha!
This. kicked. my. butt!!! It was my first time trying an inclined walking routine, and, holy moly, I don’t think I have ever sweat so much on the treadmill before. Definitely adding these to my workouts more often.
Thanks for posting
yay for making the 1000 entries! Glad I could help out in some way.
AWESOME treadmill workouts!! Julie you’re the best!! I love all your posts!
Nice workout. With limited time, I really like fast workouts that can be done from home in under 30 minutes. Will def. give this one a shot. Thanks for sharing!