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How committed are the A/R/Tists eh? LENT 2010

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭Sosa


    Izoard- I'll give up sticking my head into the goodie-press and stealing the kids treats
    T runner - Sugar (added sugar to tea, coffee, cereals etc.)

    average runner - Fizzy drinks, my real downfall area.
    RedB - I'm in - no sugary foods/drinks or crisps. No beer (Gels for long runs are the exception)
    RubyK - Salt. I use WAY too much of the stuff, pluMs cheese & onion crisps.
    meathcountysec - I'll give up sticking my head into the goodie-press i.e. no more crisps, biccies, choccie etc.
    pgibbo - Sweets, chocolate bars and crisps are what I give up for lent.
    TFBubendorfer - Sugar it is. No chocolate, sweets, sugar in coffee and so on. Gels for long runs are the exception
    shotgunmcos - Biscuits (my biggest vice), Chocolate, Snooze Button, Wrinkly Shirts (taking up ironing for Lent too)
    tisnotover - sweets, choc bars and crisps
    Littlebug- crisps (the devils food)
    luvlylady - chocolate, white bread & pasta (except wholemeal).
    MitreSize5 - chocolate, I need to break the bar a night routine thats been going on all my life. recently got my cholesterol tested and it 5.8!! Doctor reckons its all down to the Galaxy's
    ULstudent - limit coffee to 2 cups a day, stay off the peanut butter: i go through, on average, a 1kg tub of meridian natural peanut butter a week! Not one flapjack either will pass my lips.
    BrokenMan - Chocolate Bars and Crisps
    RacoonQueen - Chocolate(creme eggs ) and fizzy drinks except the day of/after the Barcelona marathon if I deserve the treat. :
    [B]menoscemo[/B] - Crisps, I go through about 15 packets a week and I doubt they give me anything good back
    another world -Chocolate. It´s going to be tough, I eat at least a bar a day
    Blueskye - Chocolate. Although I don't know if I'll even survive 24 hours as I have a serious addiction!! But I'll give it a try.
    MrCreosote Coffee- limit to 2 cups a day. I'll be happy if I last a week. I'm not even going to try chocolate...

    Slogger Jogger - Crisps (my usual daily vice)

    Sosa - All Desserts,biscuits,chocolate,cake,...etc...basically all treats...this will be my 4th year in a row doing this.
    All i allow is a nutri grain or breakfast bar (not any with chocolate in it).
    gilmore - chocolate and crisps, I have at least one of each per day.
    SUNGOD - white bread and chocolate
    donothoponpop - booze. Also a bit worried about perceived Catholic association with lent, so I won't let my eldest lad make his Communion, to balance the kharma universe.
    roversrunner - Everything sweet and crisps. High sugar foods such as yogurts.
    beamgirl - chocolate, finding that it gives me heartburn recently but still cant stop eating it!
    Racheljev - chocolate and sweets, I'd live on 'em if I could.....
    Triangle - The lovely chocolate cupboard and the vino (ouch, there goes my weekend tipple)
    christeb - Processed sugar (choc / sweets / ice cream etc and watching episodes of The Office (US)
    Sideswipe - Chilli Nancho's (I eat loads of the big share bags and never share)

    BeepBeep67 - Crisps (Hula Hoops, Chipsticks, Doritos, Phileas Fogg, Tayto, Walkers, etc)
    Raging_Hull - Chocolate and anything with chocolate in it. Absolutely no exceptions!
    Village Runner- Have to be realistic.
    Going to give up till ballycotton. Biscuits, cake , all chocolate, scones and brack. On long runs and long cycles i will have energy bars.

    kennyb3 - all take away food
    DustyBin - snooze button (training mornings only - doesn't count when I've the morning off!) & nicorette - been off the fags since Aug, about time I gave up the nicorette
    MarieC - fairly good re. healthy eating but will be very disciplined for Lent re cake, biscuits, chocolate, taytos, icecream, sweets. Think I will also give up butter, and another things thats gone for the next 6weeks is watching crap telly cos Im too lazy/tired to get off the couch e.g. Desparate Housewives, Home + Away etc.

    Sub430 - made a grand announcement in the office that I was giving up "sugary sh1te" for the 40 weeks of Lent - 40 days should be a doddle
    kevin7 - Why not set tough targets? No choc/crisps/biscuits. No eating after dinner. No Go handy on the alcohol
    ultra(eatin)man1-Bread,crisps,custard cream sambos,cake tastin,alcoholic beer,sweets,Meat
    Bally8- Ok Ok- I will try give up my precious diet coke but thats as much as I can bring myself to live without
    Rainbow Kirby - I don't really do the whole Lent thing, but I'm going to try and cut down on procrastination. All college assignments must be started at least 3 days before they are due. Also, absolute minimum 25 miles per week (unless I get injured) and core work at least 3 times a week.
    McConkey - Feeling a little guilty that I haven't stuck my name down for anything yet. Will give up the Coca-Cola since I have it nearly every day. Going to keep it simple and leave it at that!
    keano007 - chocolate, crisps, and take-aways....if by some miracle I manage to pull this off I'm gonna get the biggest Easter egg I can find!
    Bambaata - Snooze Button
    seanin4711 - crisps!!! and sucky sweets!
    Peckham - processed bread and chocolate/biscuits
    ronanmac - Fries (had four in the past five mornings ), snooze button on training mornings, crisps and coffee down to two cups a day
    blind_hurler - No more crisps, biccies, chocolate not even one cream egg till the Sunday etc.
    misty floyd - Chocolate. I'm addicted.
    toomuchdetail -crisps -down to 4 packs a week, biscuts up to 6 a day when not eating crisps.Ceasar salad dressing for my putrid daily tuna/mixed mush canteen salad ,my daily scone and flailing .

    Cantona56-Guna try staying off the chocolate!!
    tridying – Harp
    Geld – Big effort to give up cake, biscuits, chocolate, sweets, chips. In a nutshell all junk.

    Had chocolate cake on my birthday and a slice of another cake last week at a family get together.
    Only because the last few years the wife was telling me i was ridiculous not to have cake on my own birthday....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    I am soooooo looking forward to those lovely chocolate eggs, I have not got the words for it. Whoever said the cravings would stop after a while was a damn liar!

    The missus must have gotten her dates wrong, she re-started baking her sweeties this week, and I could only stare at them.

    Thank Goodness there's only 4 hours and 40 minutes left. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Triangle


    Izoard- I'll give up sticking my head into the goodie-press and stealing the kids treats
    T runner - Sugar (added sugar to tea, coffee, cereals etc.)

    average runner - Fizzy drinks, my real downfall area.
    RedB - I'm in - no sugary foods/drinks or crisps. No beer (Gels for long runs are the exception)
    RubyK - Salt. I use WAY too much of the stuff, pluMs cheese & onion crisps.
    meathcountysec - I'll give up sticking my head into the goodie-press i.e. no more crisps, biccies, choccie etc.
    pgibbo - Sweets, chocolate bars and crisps are what I give up for lent.
    TFBubendorfer - Sugar it is. No chocolate, sweets, sugar in coffee and so on. Gels for long runs are the exception
    shotgunmcos - Biscuits (my biggest vice), Chocolate, Snooze Button, Wrinkly Shirts (taking up ironing for Lent too)
    tisnotover - sweets, choc bars and crisps
    Littlebug- crisps (the devils food)
    luvlylady - chocolate, white bread & pasta (except wholemeal).
    MitreSize5 - chocolate, I need to break the bar a night routine thats been going on all my life. recently got my cholesterol tested and it 5.8!! Doctor reckons its all down to the Galaxy's
    ULstudent - limit coffee to 2 cups a day, stay off the peanut butter: i go through, on average, a 1kg tub of meridian natural peanut butter a week! Not one flapjack either will pass my lips.
    BrokenMan - Chocolate Bars and Crisps
    RacoonQueen - Chocolate(creme eggs ) and fizzy drinks except the day of/after the Barcelona marathon if I deserve the treat. :
    [B]menoscemo[/B] - Crisps, I go through about 15 packets a week and I doubt they give me anything good back
    another world -Chocolate. It´s going to be tough, I eat at least a bar a day
    Blueskye - Chocolate. Although I don't know if I'll even survive 24 hours as I have a serious addiction!! But I'll give it a try.
    MrCreosote Coffee- limit to 2 cups a day. I'll be happy if I last a week. I'm not even going to try chocolate...

    Slogger Jogger - Crisps (my usual daily vice)

    Sosa - All Desserts,biscuits,chocolate,cake,...etc...basically all treats...this will be my 4th year in a row doing this.
    All i allow is a nutri grain or breakfast bar (not any with chocolate in it).
    gilmore - chocolate and crisps, I have at least one of each per day.
    SUNGOD - white bread and chocolate
    donothoponpop - booze. Also a bit worried about perceived Catholic association with lent, so I won't let my eldest lad make his Communion, to balance the kharma universe.
    roversrunner - Everything sweet and crisps. High sugar foods such as yogurts.
    beamgirl - chocolate, finding that it gives me heartburn recently but still cant stop eating it!
    Racheljev - chocolate and sweets, I'd live on 'em if I could.....
    Triangle - The lovely chocolate cupboard and the vino (ouch, there goes my weekend tipple)
    christeb - Processed sugar (choc / sweets / ice cream etc and watching episodes of The Office (US)
    Sideswipe - Chilli Nancho's (I eat loads of the big share bags and never share)

    BeepBeep67 - Crisps (Hula Hoops, Chipsticks, Doritos, Phileas Fogg, Tayto, Walkers, etc)
    Raging_Hull - Chocolate and anything with chocolate in it. Absolutely no exceptions!
    Village Runner- Have to be realistic.
    Going to give up till ballycotton. Biscuits, cake , all chocolate, scones and brack. On long runs and long cycles i will have energy bars.

    kennyb3 - all take away food
    DustyBin - snooze button (training mornings only - doesn't count when I've the morning off!) & nicorette - been off the fags since Aug, about time I gave up the nicorette
    MarieC - fairly good re. healthy eating but will be very disciplined for Lent re cake, biscuits, chocolate, taytos, icecream, sweets. Think I will also give up butter, and another things thats gone for the next 6weeks is watching crap telly cos Im too lazy/tired to get off the couch e.g. Desparate Housewives, Home + Away etc.

    Sub430 - made a grand announcement in the office that I was giving up "sugary sh1te" for the 40 weeks of Lent - 40 days should be a doddle
    kevin7 - Why not set tough targets? No choc/crisps/biscuits. No eating after dinner. No Go handy on the alcohol
    ultra(eatin)man1-Bread,crisps,custard cream sambos,cake tastin,alcoholic beer,sweets,Meat
    Bally8- Ok Ok- I will try give up my precious diet coke but thats as much as I can bring myself to live without
    Rainbow Kirby - I don't really do the whole Lent thing, but I'm going to try and cut down on procrastination. All college assignments must be started at least 3 days before they are due. Also, absolute minimum 25 miles per week (unless I get injured) and core work at least 3 times a week.
    McConkey - Feeling a little guilty that I haven't stuck my name down for anything yet. Will give up the Coca-Cola since I have it nearly every day. Going to keep it simple and leave it at that!
    keano007 - chocolate, crisps, and take-aways....if by some miracle I manage to pull this off I'm gonna get the biggest Easter egg I can find!
    Bambaata - Snooze Button
    seanin4711 - crisps!!! and sucky sweets!
    Peckham - processed bread and chocolate/biscuits
    ronanmac - Fries (had four in the past five mornings ), snooze button on training mornings, crisps and coffee down to two cups a day
    blind_hurler - No more crisps, biccies, chocolate not even one cream egg till the Sunday etc.
    misty floyd - Chocolate. I'm addicted.
    toomuchdetail -crisps -down to 4 packs a week, biscuts up to 6 a day when not eating crisps.Ceasar salad dressing for my putrid daily tuna/mixed mush canteen salad ,my daily scone and flailing .

    Cantona56-Guna try staying off the chocolate!!
    tridying – Harp
    Geld – Big effort to give up cake, biscuits, chocolate, sweets, chips. In a nutshell all junk.

    Lol forgot about this thread. I made it two weeks and then caved in, first snuck a little chocolate and second with the wine. What willpower eh? )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭claralara


    I wasn't on the list but I made it!! I'm afraid to have any chocolate, sweets or crisps now though for fear of the inevitable binge to follow! Damn easter egg in the corner begging to be eaten!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭meathcountysec


    Chocolate, cakes, crisps yom yom yom yom ..... come to Daddy:D:D:D:D:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Whoohoooo! I made it! I'll probably pig out on chocolate today but I am so smug about it all I'm going to keep the crisps and coke thing going for another week :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Oh thank God that lent is over. It was much harder than I thought it would be!

    On the plus side, I've lost 6 pounds without ever going hungry.

    On the minus side, I've probably gained most of them back by tomorrow and if I go into shock from sugar overdose at some stage today it would not come as a great surprise.

    I'll be good again on Wednesday (I think), for Connemara. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭mitresize5


    made it too and dont mind admitting I'm quite proud of myself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭blind_hurler


    mitresize5 wrote: »
    made it too and dont mind admitting I'm quite proud of myself


    +1

    really enjoyed that first piece of choclate....

    and looking forward to some yummy cake later..

    think i'll be rolling around after today :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    That bag of tayto was the best ever.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭McConkey


    Phew, made it anyway....finally finished something! :) Haven't managed to get my hands on any Coca-cola yet though that might change with a trip to the pub in the pipeline tonight!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    littlebug wrote: »
    I am so smug about it all I'm going to keep the crisps and coke thing going for another week :D

    :rolleyes: I lasted til 4pm :o mmmm crisps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭claralara


    Haha, and I'd say it was the most satisfying packet of crisps ever!!

    I felt as sick as a pig after all the chocolate - I don't think my body knew what was invading it!

    No crisps yet though - gonna see how long I can keep that up. The only times I really struggled with the lack of crisps was when I was drinking so should get another few days at least... Let's see how stubborn I can be with my smugness!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭geld


    Delighted to have made it as well. It felt a bit reassuring when I passed all the goodies at work, the lovely baking at home and the other temptations. The lent thing made it a bit easier.

    Had my fill of chocolate yesterday and was thinking about doing another spell without all the junk. I certainly felt better without it. Morale there somewhere!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    I've decided I'm going right through to the HM + 5 weeks for me!

    Soon my pretties, soon you will be mine!
    :p
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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Is that your press at home? Have you been stocking up all this time? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Is that your press at home? Have you been stocking up all this time? :pac:

    LOL - I wish, it's the nearest shop to my house :D.

    Well done Leeds btw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    BB.. I'm getting worried about you :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Daithi BC


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    Soon my pretties, soon you will be mine!

    That's very evil - I have an unopened can of Pringles in the house, and you've just made me very hungry. On the other hand, I have a 1:29:50 half marathon to run tomorrow, so I'm going to have to attempt restraint by willpower.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Blimey, you extended that lent for a long time.
    So long, in fact, that I have started another no-sugar fasting period in the mean time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Blueskye


    I'm also on a no-sugar buzz. No sugar, dairy or yeast. Feeling better even after 3 days.


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