Mike Dougherty's Blog

Post-Halloween blues or blood sugar crash?

Luckily for those of us who encounter a sweet tooth from time to time, we often buy too much Halloween candy, under the pretense that you have to be prepared for a larger-than-expected crowd of trick-or-treaters at the door. You can’t disappoint the children, you know?

That self-rationalization gets us through Halloween night, but rarely does it do us much good the next day as we realize we indulged way past the “I’ll just have a few pieces” level that we promised ourselves.

Kids may experience the drop in blood sugar and call it the blues, but we adults get the chance to throw in some guilt, too. But we still may call it the blues.