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

RacoonQueen

I nearly crumbled today. Was stood at the vending machine, feeling like I could do with a nice bottle of coke zero as a pick me up, thinking, feck it sure it's only the internet they don't care if I cave...alas, I was strong and opted for a nice bottle of deep river rock instead. Going strong.

gilmore

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. :
menoscemo - 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.
(Only got to add this now and so far I have been a good little boy!)

I should have just given up chocolate, did my best but just couldn't stay away from the crisps. Oh well.

littlebug

It's a good job I didn't give up chocolate... we made rice crispie buns today I'm still holding strong on the crisps though :cool:

village runner

Came home after a shi*e run. Didnt have dinner ready. 3 bagels and 5 slices of bread later. I didnt have any sweets, biccies and choccies. Starting to treat the bagel like a scone now. 6 days is a long time. Even feel lighter.

racheljev

Almost a week with no chocolate or sweets... Resist, I must resist! Was at a 40th birthday party on Saturday night and there was a goody bag at each seat with Big time bars, dib dabs, flying saucers, refreshers, mint crisp bars, curly wurlys, cola bottles... all those good healthy 80's sweets, and I didn't eat one! Brought the bag home with me and stashing it till Easter sunday.;)

mitresize5

I dont mean to jinx it or anything but is anyone starting to get comfortable i.e. the cravings just a little bit less intense

TFBubendorfer

mitresize5 wrote: »

I don't mean to jinx it or anything but is anyone starting to get comfortable i.e. the cravings just a little bit less intense

I didn't really have cravings, but for the first 2 or 3 evenings I nearly got up and went to the sweets cabinet, purely out of habit. Past that now, and yes, I do think it's getting easier.

The one thing that keeps tempting me are those delicious looking scones they are selling here at work. Still holding out though, and still 3 pounds lighter than a few days ago.

shotgunmcos

If ever I need to give in to the craving its now... HELL of a day at work. 11 hours put down, had to have porridge and a bunch of grapes a couple of hours ago to keep going. Now off home for a 90min easy run... if I get through this day without eating that crunchie in the fridge I'm doing well..


Almost 1 week down..... 39 days to go I'm fed up I want chocolate!!

Macanri

If you go on about that crunchy anymore, I'll go round and eat it myself:P. Throw the feckin thing in the bin or give it to someone. Out of sight out of mind!

Bally8

Sorry guys Im out! Watched a DVD at the weekend, had the usual Walkers Sensations and a drink. Wasnt until I was getting ready for bed when my OH said 'guess your out of the boards lent thing now'. I couldnt believe it- I had drank a glass of diet coke and it didnt even occur to me that I was off it- it was just an automatic process. Darn!

donothoponpop

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. :
menoscemo - 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.
(Only got to add this now and so far I have been a good little boy!)

What was I thinking?:eek: A week without wine is a week without fun. Sipping a delightful Pinot Noir now, I'll run a ten miler tomorrow for penance.:)

Slogger Jogger

Frankly I'm glad d'pop. Didn't fancy your company sipping water on Saturday

another world

It´s getting tough! First few days were fine but now I´m finding moments when I could break very very easily Need to be strong!

donothoponpop

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

Frankly I'm glad d'pop. Didn't fancy your company sipping water on Saturday

This was a factor, I'll admit. Went to the stores this evening, to get a nice bottle for Saturday, ended up buying about seven or eight- and just had to try one!

Now open a bag of crips, g'wan, g'wan, g'wan...;)

average_runner

How unhealthy are scones if you maybe had 3 a week?

metamorphosis

average_runner wrote: »

How unhealthy are scones if you maybe had 3 a week?

Pretty cack i think. Depends on the volume of training though. nothing but wheat flour, butter and sugar.

I'm not one to talk though - iv pretty much gone through a loaf of banana bread from the market since yesterday to drown my peanut butter lent withdrawal!

MarieC

I've had a cold since Monday so Im feeling very sorry for myself (and my two giant coldsores). Have resisted the urge to break out and just have some cake. Problem is I dont want a slice of cake.......I want a slab of it. Me, a spoon, a cake and a flagon of tea...........bliss...........

metamorphosis

MarieC wrote: »

I've had a cold since Monday so Im feeling very sorry for myself (and my two giant coldsores). Have resisted the urge to break out and just have some cake. Problem is I dont want a slice of cake.......I want a slab of it. Me, a spoon, a cake and a flagon of tea...........bliss...........

Have you given up cake for lent marie? If not id go for it because when im sick there's nothing i like more than hot drink and cake/something nice. Last time i devoured a carrot cake. Oh nom

misty floyd

A full week off the chocolate. Last night I had 6 french fancies and half a large bag of walkers sensations. Hangin in there.

Blueskye

What are french fancies?

kennyb3

misty's flash word for iced buns (i think)

christeb

misty floyd wrote: »

A full week off the chocolate. Last night I had 6 french fancies and half a large bag of walkers sensations. Hangin in there.

do you not think it's too easy if you're allowed sub chocolate for cakes? Personally it's all or nothing (which might explain why I folded so early!).

MarieC

misty floyd wrote: »

A full week off the chocolate. Last night I had 6 french fancies and half a large bag of walkers sensations. Hangin in there.

O wow Id love some french fancies now!!! why did u mention them??? Only the pink or chocolate ones tho, not a fan of the lemon ones.......

MarieC

Purpleskye wrote: »

What are french fancies?

You get them in any shop, the come in packs of 8. Pink box. Its a small cube of sponge, a lil frosting on top, and then covered in pink, yellow or choc icing.
Bite size cakes - savage!

MarieC

ULstudent wrote: »

Have you given up cake for lent marie? If not id go for it because when im sick there's nothing i like more than hot drink and cake/something nice. Last time i devoured a carrot cake. Oh nom

Cake is not allowed for Lent no.......Im going making loads of carrot cake after viva next week, have the absolute, without doubt best recipe in the world for it.

Its true, not actually exaggerating here

P.S - Just re-read this and realised no carrot cake until after Lent!! Lent does not finish in accordance with my PhD! Doh!!!!!

shotgunmcos

8 days down
38 to go
10 pledges have fallen
44 still afloat

And NO NO NO.. no chocolate of any kind, chocolate icing on buns, choc chips, choc flavoured etc.... NOT ALLOWED (My flippin delicious psp22 recovery drink is only delicious because its chocolate flavour :mad: )... not even chocolate sprinkles on your latte/mocha/cappucino people!!!

And Macrani, throw the crunchy in the bin?!! What true chocoholic could do such a thing


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. :
menoscemo - 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.
(Only got to add this now and so far I have been a good little boy!)

average_runner

So what Cake is Healthy or some type of snack food that is healthy?

RubyK

MarieC wrote: »

You get them in any shop, the come in packs of 8. Pink box. Its a small cube of sponge, a lil frosting on top, and then covered in pink, yellow or choc icing.
Bite size cakes - savage!

I haven't had one of those in ages, until I discovered Aldi's ones at the weekend. Damn they are delish! And now only two left in the pack :eek:
I wouldn't mind but I'm not usually sweet toothed

I'm still missing my tayto, and salt! Saturday is going to be one hell of a challenge. Going to the pub to watch the Rugby with my OH, where there will be tayto calling me, especially after a few bottles of Heiniken, and then it will be chipper chips for dinner. Chipper chips minus salt = wrong, wrong, wrong.

MarieC

RubyK wrote: »

I haven't had one of those in ages, until I discovered Aldi's ones at the weekend. Damn they are delish! And now only two left in the pack :eek:
I wouldn't mind but I'm not usually sweet toothed

I'm still missing my tayto, and salt! Saturday is going to be one hell of a challenge. Going to the pub to watch the Rugby with my OH, where there will be tayto calling me, especially after a few bottles of Heiniken, and then it will be chipper chips for dinner. Chipper chips minus salt = wrong, wrong, wrong.

They salt them even before they give them over to you so Im not so sure that you will be able get chipper chips that dont violate your Lenten pledge......

average_runner

here's a tip for you.

If your getting chips in the chipper to bring home, dont let them put salt on them as it cools them down.