Lent - does anyone give anything up anymore?

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:27 pm

I went without alcohol for one night, but that was unintentional. I may try and give up using 'any' as a prefix 3 times in one (short) sentence.

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:36 pm

I've given up alcohol

biscuits and chocolate.

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:04 pm

But that's 3 of the 4 major food groups (the other being crisps)! I sit as painful as it sounds?

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:13 pm

cj wrote:But that's 3 of the 4 major food groups (the other being crisps)! I sit as painful as it sounds?

Biscuits and chocolate are ok although my daughters take great pleasure in eating them in front of me

The hardest thing is not having a can of beer or glass of wine watching the sport on the box but so far touchwood I've not lapsed.

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:25 pm

I guess it's like giving up smoking. Remove yourself from the usual surroundings in which you pursue the vice you want to give up. Or tie your hands behind your back and tape your mouth shut. Either of which seem totally feasible.

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:29 pm

cj wrote:I guess it's like giving up smoking. Remove yourself from the usual surroundings in which you pursue the vice you want to give up. Or tie your hands behind your back and tape your mouth shut. Either of which seem totally feasible.

Luckily I've never really smoked other than the usual token attempts to get some street cred.

I'm pretty sure I would smoke a lot if I did and would find it hard to stop.

hoob · Post by **hoob** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:43 pm

or alternatively do something really stupid like develop something resembling an allergy to alcohol......

This has really upset me!

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:39 pm

As I am an agnostic pagan, I don't do Lent and so do not have to give anything up - apart, of course, all the things that I can't afford anyway on what the taxman leaves of what was intially a salary !

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:49 pm

hoob wrote:or alternatively do something really stupid like develop something resembling an allergy to alcohol......

This has really upset me!

Commiserations! How do you compensate? Chocolate? Sex? Chat forums?

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:51 pm

hoob wrote: allergy to alcohol......

I've never given up anything for lent - I do remember loads at school did this every year but never lasted the full course!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:42 pm

Vonny wrote:
hoob wrote: allergy to alcohol......

I've never given up anything for lent - I do remember loads at school did this every year but never lasted the full course!

I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:08 pm

I've given up putting salt on meals for Lent...

which is probably a good thing...

bap · Post by **bap** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:19 pm

Lentils, obviously

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:33 pm

englishangel wrote:I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)

I also have Hertford to thank for giving up sugar in tea & coffee and also cereal. Stopped having it in my first couple of years at Hertford when I sat at the bottom of the long tables in dining hall. The sugar was always at the top of the table near the seniors & they weouldn't pass it down

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:40 pm

I've given up pints of beer and chocolate, in a healthly eating way. So tasting other's beer is ok, as is the occasional biscuit (usually a biscuit is breakfast). Trying to cut down on bread too.

Bread's the hardest thing not to eat. CH taught me how to live off toast and I've never looked back (stomach too big to turn round

).