What are you giving up for Lent?

[DeBora4BobbyL]

What foods are you giving up for lent, and if you don't practice lent, what would be difficult for you to give up if you were told that there is ONE food that you could not eat? After voting on the poll, please list the specifics of what you would hate to have to give up?

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I don't celebrate lent, but if I did, I would give up carbs.

[LoriMae]

Well I gave up chocolate. I know that doesn't seem like much, I can do without the candy bars really well. But I REALLY want a piece of chocolate cake! Or a cookie.

[jana]

i will give up on all trans fatty foods. make it from scratch will do it for me. then i'll know what's in the food i eat. what is put into the food you eat is important.and, if you can't figure out the ingredients or can't pronounce them, then you don't know what your eating! go healthy!

[barbszy]

I gave up the little "indulgences" that I normally allow myself: the half and half for my coffee, the REALLY GOOD coffee, a good candy bar now and then....those little treats that I have come to enjoy.

[Rbeccers]

I don't celebrate Lent but if I did I would probably give up all the soda I drink. I typically only drink diet which really isn't that much better then the regular stuff except for having fewer calories, but I usually have anywhere from two to four cans a day. I know that doctors say that soda can actually cause you dehydrate more but I also drink a lot of water so I figure that it all evens out in the end and I really love the taste of it. It used to be that I drank about 3 liters a day but then one week I went without for some reason or other and started having withdrawl symptoms (of course that was back when I drank the regular leaded stuff) that is when I switched to the diet and cut way back on the amount I allow myself. I try very hard to have no more then four cans and prefer to stay at the two can limit.

[mickie65]

I gave up sodas.... especially coke or pepsi... Oh it's so hard for me, but heck, it was hard for Christ hanging on that cross too! Pale in comparison.

[dval]

I gave up candy and sweets. That's my favorite stuff to eat! :)

[Coll]

I really don't celebrate Lent. We do try to eat fish on Fridays though.
I'd never be able to give up pasta.

[mamab]

I don't celebrate Lent, but our church does do corporate fasts every year. This year, from 1-7 to 1-28, my family gave up red meat. I've never gotten so sick of chicken in my life!! I could give it up again, though. I think I might try to go completely vegetarian for a week, but I'm not sure I'd make it.

[momsmenu]

I have given up ice cream...a true sacrifice for me!

[livingstonpitt]

I don't practice lent but for the last week have given up caffeine...little did I know that INCLUDES chocolate, colas, and ice tea. It is getting better but I sure miss my OREOS!!!!!!!!!

[livingstonpitt]

Thank you for the contests!

[ajrsmom]

We don't celebrate Lent either.

I would find it really hard to give up chocolate or pizza/pasta. I have in the past though. It gets easier once its been out of your system for a few days. I found the caffiene and sugar headaches to be the worst part.

[Amayesing]

I gave up chocolate too and every day somebody is offering me chocolate and it all looks so good

[Aerica]

If I did celebrate Lent I would prob give up fast food and soft drinks. I can't do without my sweets!

[noctowl]

I do not observe Lent, but I would have a hard time giving up my soda! Carbs and meat would be the next hardest to give up. I am trying to gain weight so I really need my carbs!

[ewriggs]

In the Eastern Orthodox Churches, we follow the same discipline from year to year and fast to fast: we abstain from all meat (including chicken and fish) other animal products (milk, cheese, eggs), olive oil and wine (some expand olive oil to include all oils, including margarine, and we do expand the concept of wine to include all alcoholic beverages except, possibly beer). We also go to more services and increase our prayer life.

Exceptions are made, of course, for health problems like diabetes and other chornic diseases, but these are worked out with the guidance of our priest. Each person has a somewhat different discipline, and we work on not looking at what others are doing and simply work on our own discipline.

Cheerio!
Elizabeth

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~*~ Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.
Fasting of the body is food for the soul. ~*~
~*~ Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom ~*~
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