Lenten Sacrifices

[homer]

Anyone give up anything for Lent? I have given up soda the last couple of years and that wasn't too tough so I decided to crank it up a little this year. I'm giving up non-DVD television during the week and only watching shows I've DVR'd on Sundays (which is technically the cheat day of Lent anyway I believe). This sounds easy but when you live by yourself and work out over lunch there's a lot of time to kill between 6pm and bedtime.

 

Anyone else sacrificing anything? (Lent runs from Feb 5th through March 23rd - Ash Wednesday to Easter)

 

 

I hope this isn't too religious. It's less about Lent and more about what people give up - kinda like New Year's Resolutions.

[jason21nl]

I have no will power. I can't seem to give up anything ever. I say, I'm going to eat more healthy, then that night I go to a fast food joint. No soda, then go to the gas station and grab a dew. I can't even think of anything I could give up for a week. Ideas?

[RobertR]

I gave up beer last year. I've also done the "cheater's" way of giving up blended Scotch.

 

I'm think soda this year. Caffinated soda anyways.

 

Robert

[dadofandrew]

I'll do soda/pop as well, as I hardly ever drink it anyway. I have never known anyone to have much luck for Lent, for anything serious at least.

[BrewCrewForever]

Soda for me. I don't drink a whole lot of it and when I do it is usually diet. But Im going cold turkey on it, none at all for me. Maybe even past the 40 days.

[twobrewers]

I'm giving up Brewerfan.net.

 

What?!?

[BrewCrewForever]

I'm giving up Brewerfan.net.

 

What?!?

I don't think I could give up brewerfan or lambeauleap. Impossible.

 

[DuWayne Steurer]

I don't mean to come off all critical, but is giving up something (soda) that you rarely drink even really making a sacrifice? Now, I'm just asking out of personal curiosity, not to be judgemental.

[BrewCrewForever]

I don't mean to come off all critical, but is giving up something (soda) that you rarely drink even really making a sacrifice? Now, I'm just asking out of personal curiosity, not to be judgemental.

Well I dont buy cans or bottles of it that often, but I do get it anytime I go out to eat and drink it quite a bit at work. So its not a huge sacrifice, but it is still one and I think its better for me if I dont drink it. Just sticking to milk, water and juice.

For instance today I just ate lunch here at my office, normally when I eat lunch I eat it with a Coke, today I had a bottled water.

 

[Menotti80]

I'm giving up non-DVD television during the week...

OH MY GOSH. I hope you aren't a college basketball fan or this doesn't include sporting events, because there is no way I could miss the first 2 rounds of the NCAA tourney (March 20-23)

[Team Canada]

Let's avoid semi-snarky comments about giving up church, etc. That's not the point of this thread. If you're doing something for Lent, feel free to respond, otherwise move on to the next thread.

[homer]

"OH MY GOSH. I hope you aren't a college basketball fan or this doesn't include sporting events, because there is no way I could miss the first 2 rounds of the NCAA tourney (March 20-23) "

 

Yeah, that might be tough. I know I'll cheat to watch the Badger game - and then I can watch everything on Sunday since that's Easter.

[patrickgpe]

i'm giving up soda and pizza which will be hard because i have pizza 2-3 times a week and i drink over 100 ounces of coke a day.

[homer]

"i drink over 100 ounces of coke a day"

 

I don't know if you struggle with weight issues, Patrick, but I have friends that did nothing other than cut soda out of their diet and lost significant weight. Just make sure you don't replace it with something equally calorie filled (like chocolate milkshakes - not sure I could drink 100 oz of milkshake in a day anyway http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif )

[berniebrewer4life]

I'm giving up fast food. I eat it too much(basically because i don't make time to make myself a decent meal). So far, so good.

[brwrsfan]

I also gave up fast food and soda this year. I've given up many things in the past: pizza, junk food, video games. It's really not all that difficult if you just get it in your mind that you can't have it. I don't eat a ton of fast food, probably twice a week or so, but it's not overly easy either. It's only 6 weeks...

[Principessa21]

I guess I'll give up soda too. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif I was going to just do cigarettes, and then I remembered I was going to take a break from them anyway. So it's going to be chocolate and watching ANTM reruns of cycles I've already seen dozens of times.

[patrickgpe]

I don't know if you struggle with weight issues, Patrick, but I have friends that did nothing other than cut soda out of their diet and lost significant weight. Just make sure you don't replace it with something equally calorie filled (like chocolate milkshakes - not sure I could drink 100 oz of milkshake in a day anyway

I wouldn't call me thin, but definitely not fat. I am trying green tea. therefore i get my caffeine at work without having any calories. I would be happy if i lost a few pounds doing this over lent and maybe it would give me motivation to keep it up.

[PlayerHader]

I'm taking it easy on the swears, especially the F-bomb. It is hard when you say it so much without even thinking around the house.

[mtrebs]

I'm giving up chips. This basically includes all chip-like snacks (Doritos, Cheetos, tortilla chips, even pretzels, etc.). Not that I eat them that often - I don't even keep them in the house - but when I eat them I eat the entire bag in one or maybe two sittings. It really only affects me on treat-days at work...but it seems like we have one of those every day.

[Brian the Automator]

Ok, so since we have the rule on no religion/politics and this thread certainly begs this into question, let's please keep replies limited to things you're giving up instead of views on religion/catholocism. I'm assuming this thread is meant in fun, and not to provoke that kind of conversation (which by the way is freely allowed at our "sister" forum for politics/religion). We hid a few replies that sort of crossed that line.... No strikes or anything issued, just try and be careful that way tho.

 

Thanks,

Brian

[davego]

Try to remember the Friday stuff...and more so I'm shooting with trying to do something (like be more grateful) rather then give something up.

[sgtcluels]

I've given up giving up things for Lent. I think I can make it work. :P

[hawing]

I already messed up the Lenten rules by eating chicken soup on Ash Wednesday. However, it was because I have a cold, and it wasn't very high quality chicken. The broth felt really good on my throat, though.

 

Seriously, I try to maintain the meatless days (and usually succeed), but that's about it. I did give up ice cream a few years ago, and succeeded at that; but lately I haven't been eating ice cream enough to make giving it up a worthy sacrifice.

[mothershipconnection]

Lent was conditioned as a positive for me, because I went to catholic school and the best meal we got was cheese pizza from Pizza Hut, which fit in with the whole lent thing, so we got it more often than the rest of the year. Funny how it's all about sacrifice and we got hooked up with pizza instead of a slimy piece of ham on a bun.

 

I had a friend who gave up caffeine and his girlfriend said she suffered more from him being irritable and lethargic than she had from any of her own lent pledges.