Key points

Instead of fearing or avoiding your sweet craving, plan on it and embrace it.

Removing the “good” and “bad” food labels frees you up to eat what you are truly craving, and enjoying it.

Dietary restraint is one potential pathway that fuels compulsive eating behaviors.

Stock your cupboards with your favorite Halloween candy and remind yourself that it will always be there.

Stressed about Halloween candy this season? Childhood experiences often shape the attitudes we hold towards sweets as adults. We saw Cookie Monster gobble his way through a box of cookies at lightning speed while our parents tried to bribe us to eat our veggies: “Just a few more bites of broccoli and you can have some ice cream.”

Sprinkle in the food marketing slogans like “guilty pleasures,” which fu

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