Candy, it's...it's...Everywhere!

How'd everyone's Valentine's day go? Did my last post help anyone out? Let me know if it did! Love success stories.

So a big thing after Valentine's day is all the candy. It can be real tempting too, because it's usually of high quality and super chocolatey (my favorite). There are some ups and downs to this candy I speak of.

Let's go bad news first: candy for the most part is very sugary, fatty, and comes in large quantities. All not great things. Eating too much candy leads to stomach aches and stomach bulges. No one wants that. I'm not saying you should waste your candy. It's probably really tasty, so why not share it with your friends! This way you enjoy with someone and end up eating less automatically. Now if you have a TON of candy, just compose yourself and enjoy it over time! All at once you are not only hurting your body, but you are also having the same tastes and flavors over and over.

Now for the good! For the most part, athletes will burn straight through candy. It's simple sugars that get processed into instant energy for us because we are working out so often. Now if you are not working out all the time then these sugars transformed into energy don't get used and get transformed again into fats. These get stored as extra weight for yourself. No bueno. But! If we are working and not over-consuming, you shouldn't have much to worry about. To me, over consuming is more than one candy-bar-amount per day of the sweets.

And check this out! Chocolate has so many benefits. Research has shown that it can fight cancer with all its antioxidants. The darker the chocolate, the more packed with antioxidants it is. It has also been shown to be a good for your circulatory system and for brain function. Just don't go overboard, chocolate is known to be real high in saturated fats, depending on the chocolate.

So go eat some candy! Key word: some.