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How committed are the A/R/Tists eh? LENT 2010
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mmmmm, cream eggs - I'd forgotten just how tasty they are
Gonna need something to help me through the nicotine cravings - how many cream eggs can I fit into me in 40 days??
My sister's partner has accepted a challenge to see how fast he can eat 48 creame eggs... it will be a while before the attempt its made.
I might have to get a few tonight to have with tea after the crepes with nutella mmm mmm mmm0 -
shotgunmcos wrote: »*Sundays - NO
*Paddies Day - NO
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Do I get a dispensation on my birthday, which is about halfway through lent?
If anyone here wants to celebrate my birthday with me (in a virtual sense), do they get a dispensation too?
When growing up, myself and my sisters all got a dispensation on my birthday, St Patrick's Day, my sister's birthday and my father's birthday. All of which generally fell during lent. Have just calculated now that that's a dispensation for 10% of the total number of days during lent!0 -
Hey my birthday falls in there too plus I'm going on a weeks sunny holiday in there also (granted I won't ned to iron shirts that week!)
C'mon guys n gals its only a month and a half. Ye are cracking already and it hasn't even begun!!0 -
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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) :cool:
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.
gerard65- nothing - no catholic guilt here :rolleyes:
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.0 -
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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) :cool:
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.
gerard65- nothing - no catholic guilt here :rolleyes:
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 .
Maybe lent had nothing to do with religion originally and was some of the first document pre-season training fads.0 -
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Best of luck with this everyone Hope yer not gone all Father Ted at Lent tonight....chomping through 12 packs of Taytos, 6 packs of beer and entire boxes of milk tray :pac:
Pity we don't have anyone giving up the roller-skating.....0 -
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Right. This is it, brace yourselves pledgers. Day 1, 46 days to go
No-one else aloud join in the pledge now but post as you wish. Remember honesty, if you break it once you know what to do, the less red font on this list on Easter Sunday the better we can all feel about the team spirit, willpower and easter eggs filled with crisps and beer (in some cases).....
I almost made myself sick with the glutony last night (2 choc nutri grains, pack of choc biscuits, hot choc, 8 nutella and banana pancakes and a crunchie), however this morning I was early for my swim and my shirt is wrinkle free!
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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.
gerard65- nothing - no catholic guilt here
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
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I went through the sweets cupboards and polished off just about anything in there last night. I called it carbo loading until my wife pointed out that I don't have a race today. But most of the tempting stuff is gone.
Right, over 10 hours into lent and I'm still in it. Go me!
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Well, last night i didn't hace peanut butter, been off it since last week so said i wouldnt binge on it the night before lent. Been too busy with this thesis malarky anyway. I have decided to add dark chocoalte too my lent list. Im a lover of proper dark chocolate, anything over 80%. yesterday i savaged through 100gms in 2 seconds so i decided it might be wise to knck it on the head. Had no oancakes either
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What's this 46 day stuff? Fasting, etc usually ends Easter Sunday which is only 39 days away?? Am I missing something
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It always gets me that it should be 40 days of fasting so technically it should be Easter Monday before it ends. HTFU! 0 -
What's this 46 day stuff? Fasting, etc usually ends Easter Sunday which is only 39 days away?? Am I missing something.
It always gets me that it should be 40 days of fasting so technically it should be Easter Monday before it ends. HTFU!
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TFBubendorfer wrote: »Take a calendar and start counting the days between now and Easter Sunday ... Frick it ....another week of abstinence it is so! 0
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Early days yet but just checking...
All pledges still intact?
I had a weak moment there at the 4pm slump in work and then again last night when I discovered a crunchie at the back of the fridge... came away from both clean though
Snooze button one was a toughie this morning but still all good 0
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