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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭RubyK


    I do indeed. Looks like I'll be using a lot more of it now though!

    I do hope I can last, as I do use a ridiculous amount of the stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    I'd love a hot choc this morning... sick of tea already!

    4 pledges gone but 48 still going... anyone else buckle on Day 2?


    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
    _________________________________________________________________


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭RedB


    tisnotover wrote: »
    for those off chocolate + anyone doing Ballycotton, do we get to eat that post-race mars bar they give out!?! ;)

    You do get to eat it...............but not until Easter Sunday :D!
    I'm going to hide mine until then and .........wait - I can't describe what happens then...its upsetting me too much :(. Forget about it!


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


    tisnotover wrote: »
    for those off chocolate + anyone doing Ballycotton, do we get to eat that post-race mars bar they give out!?! ;)

    Oh God, I never even thought of that! Still, no, you can't have it!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭BrokenMan


    Right got to rethink the layout in the kitchen at home. The press we keep the tea and coffee in is the same one as we keep the goodies. Went to make a cup of coffee last night and had to move the crisps and chocolate out of the way to get the jar, OH had been out shopping. Was not a happy camper.
    Still managed to resist and onto day 3 :)


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


    Feels like the world is trying to tempt me..

    today one of the lads in work brought in a nice big cake to share..

    But I was strong and said "no thanks I'm really going to enjoy this piece of fruit instead.." :D


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


    I had lunch in town today and had a nice panini .... why oh why do they have to load the plate up with CRISPS :rolleyes: I'm happy to report that I didn't even touch one of them.... god that was hard :(


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


    littlebug wrote: »
    I had lunch in town today and had a nice panini .... why oh why do they have to load the plate up with CRISPS :rolleyes: I'm happy to report that I didn't even touch one of them.... god that was hard :(

    I'm that proud of you I could burst:D;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭village runner


    Done the shopping today. Got the other half popcorn and the kiddies cookies that i dont like. My only treat was a bagle. I promised myself energy bars for cycles or should i restrict myself to ones i dont like and a gel. Would this get me back into the choccie buzz ?
    I am having massive cravings but once i get to bed it will go away. Unfortunately it will be 3.30am.
    A day at a time.


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


    I'd love a bag of crisps but mustn't !


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


    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!)
    Put the names back on bold.


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


    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!)

    Put the names back on bold.... and had to post again as I can't add a strikethrough when I went to edit the post. Sorry about that!


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


    I was up in M&S yesterday,i love the food hall,je$us i could spend a fortune in there,but yesterday was no fun as most things i wanted were struck off for lent.
    going well though,i have substituted my sweets/cakes/chocolate and desserts with crackers with cheese & hot cross bun/bagle...i consider those bread.
    This is easy ...i might keep it going until Cork...see how i am at Easter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    Need..diet..coke...:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Bally8 wrote: »
    Need..diet..coke...:(

    Take the Pepsi Challenge;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    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!)



    The story went something like this. Christeb was at his Godchild's bday dinner. Chocolate cake goes around. Christeb resists. Christeb's uncle punches christeb in stomach and while gasping for air, cake is forced into christeb's mouth.


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


    christeb wrote: »
    The story went something like this. Christeb was at his Godchild's bday dinner. Chocolate cake goes around. Christeb resists. Christeb's uncle punches christeb in stomach and while gasping for air, cake is forced into christeb's mouth.

    Is inhaling the same as ingesting?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭MarieC


    Im not a massive sweets/taytos/chocolate eater at all at all. But surprised that Im missing it, feel I need it. Not even a full bar, just a square....green and blacks preferably...mint.......


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    I only eat chocolate at work, usually go to the shop at lunch to get a drink with the good intentions of getting a bottle of tropicana and end up with coke zero - I drink water throughout the day so need a little change for my lunch. Of course, when I'm in the shop creme eggs/those thin dairy milk bars call out to me. I don't even like chocolate. :rolleyes:

    Then we get boxes of sweets and biscuits from patients when they're going home so they do be sitting around. Don't eat junk when I'm at home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    Is inhaling the same as ingesting?

    Christeb later ate 1/2 a snickers bar of his own accord and has been like a pig in chocolate $%^t all day today!


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


    I stayed away from the world famous coffee cake in Kilmac today.
    It gets easier after that


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


    I think the missus didn't get the memo.

    Last night she made a trifle for dessert, and when I exasperated reminded her that I would not eat sugar during lent she came out with the line "what, not even a small portion?"

    The bad news: she's turning into her mother :eek:
    The good news: The pledge is still alive, and after surviving that episode I think I'm doing rather well. :D
    The other good news: I've lost 3 pounds in one week. While I'm sceptical about the rapid weight loss, this is definitely going into the right direction. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭tisnotover


    Sosa wrote: »
    I stayed away from the world famous coffee cake in Kilmac today.
    It gets easier after that

    steered clear of that too lad, though...in car home, lad I was it devoured too choc bars right under my nose....last time I give him a lift :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,895 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Not missing fizzy drinks at all at the moment. Funny though as i thought i would want one when hungover on sunday for the sugar boost!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭RubyK


    Hanging in there, just about! I've actually dreaming of salt and crisps in my sleep. Damn this challenge!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Was in Liverpool over the weekend and the lads were buying packs of crisps and leaving them open in the middle of the table just to tempt me :mad: somehow though i ressited despite being locked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭DustyBin


    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!)



    Damn snooze button was always gonna get me! - nearly missed the long run Saturday morning cos of it. Alarm went off, DustyBin turned off the alarm because I'm not using the snooze button anymore - woke up half an hour later & late.
    Still off the nicorette though :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Still off the peanut butter!!!! i would have gone through 2kg tubs by now if i was still on it!

    I have decided that for the remainder of lent i will stay off the dak choc aswell as once one of those 100gm bars are open, its oplished off. So i might have a bit here or there but will majorly cut down.

    Gonna limit myself to 2/3 coffees a day too. need to cut back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭ronanmac


    QUOTE=DustyBin;64585435]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!)

    Got home late last night after a FIFA 10 tournament at a mate's house, couldn't sleep as the nightmare that was Michael Carrick's jammy goal that knocked my Barca team out of the tournament kept giving me nightmares. Alarm went at 5.45, I actually got out of bed and, feeling totally zombified, turned it off. Technically, I didn't break Lent as I didn't hit the snooze button, I just turned it off full stop :D. Let's see if I can de-guilt myself tomorrow morning!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    Hey Geld.. no poster here called 'Wrinkly Shirts' it part of my pledge ;) Also, there was a rule that no one can join after Pancake Tuesday so its up to the posse if you are aloud stay mate, perhaps you can be aloud for fixing up the list format again... cheers

    Day 6 - I'm hanging in there, just about... 47 pledges still left and 40 more days to go.. stay strong everyone... think how good you will feel about yourself and how delicious the reward will taste/feel ... :D

    The first weekend was a toughie alright. Sat night curled up watching Winter Olympics with a cup of tea and choc hob nobs carckers+cheese+cucumber+tomato :rolleyes: Sunday after the Race they had sambos, cake and choc chip cookies on offer... I resisted. After the race a 2 hour hike with my OH up a snowy mountain and then a full roast dinner with 8 others, one of whom kindly baked a chocolate cake for dessert! I had a pear.. however thankfully it was the biggest juicest tastiest pear I have ever had :D I had such a craving last night that I ate 4 bowls of Alpen.....


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