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

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


    still being good, hardest places are

    1. shopping and trying to avoid the sweet aisle and looking at the 2for1 offers on biscuits / pringles!
    2. biscuit morning at work....every Friday at 10.30, take it in turns to buy biscuits, ~50 in company and budget is about 30euro....there was me eating grapes the other day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    Saturday very hard, always have something nice (i.e. humongous bar of galaxy or dairymilk) after dinner. Yesterday? bowl of strawberries, raspberries and grapes. Bugger.


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


    Give me strawberries, raspberries and grapes over a junk bar anytime, even if I'm not off sugar!

    After yesterday's race they had some sweets. I pocketed some, and gave them to my kids afterwards. So far so good.

    What was really hard was bringing the family to Murphy's Ice Cream and restrict myself to a cup of tea while they were all enjoying their ice creams and tarts! But I told myself, if I make it through that, I'll make it through the entire lent.

    All the while I have lost 5 pounds without going hungry once and can see a definite improvement in my running times, which makes it all worth while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Lenten fail, only did 13 miles this week. Just having a crap week in general. Pledge broken.


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


    12 days going strong. Find myself eating WAY to much bread. Replacing my sugar fix. Cutting back this week. I want to lose weight if I am going to be so hard on myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    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!)


    Who am I kidding. Its all or nothing for me. Giving up chocolate isn't that hard when you can eat other rubbish. I've put on weight over the last 10 days despite running about 90m.


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


    12 days going strong. Find myself eating WAY to much bread. Replacing my sugar fix. Cutting back this week. I want to lose weight if I am going to be so hard on myself.

    Was only thinking along the same lines myself this morning - eating way more bread than normal. Will give it up next Monday I think.

    Question for ye... Any exemptions for eating something you've pledged to stay off? I do my Viva this Friday and if all goes well, I think Id like some cake over the weekend....... Exemption allowed or not??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭sideswipe


    Izoard[/B]- 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!)

    Sorry, think I messed up the list with my post.


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


    MarieC wrote: »
    Was only thinking along the same lines myself this morning - eating way more bread than normal. Will give it up next Monday I think.

    Question for ye... Any exemptions for eating something you've pledged to stay off? I do my Viva this Friday and if all goes well, I think Id like some cake over the weekend....... Exemption allowed or not??


    Why wait till nxt monday ????
    Not a hope on getting exempted. People will be asking to have their paddys day soon.
    Just realised i only had one bagel today and no bread. Happy days.


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


    em... NO EXEMPTIONS not even Paddies day. If you do you are out!!

    13 days without a biscuit, I thought I'd be going stir crazy but its getting a little easier. Now when I go back on them I'm going to have to ration myslef to 4 at a time rather than a 10 at a time.

    Eating a lot of cereal and crackers with jam lately...

    Just to get an extra 5 mins sleep this week and less temptation to hit snooze I ironed 15 shirts in a row on Sunday. A flippin hour of ironing!!!!


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


    Day 14
    14 pledges gone :(
    40 pledges still intact?? :)
    32 days to well deserved luxuries....

    Stay strong!!!!!!

    I've dropped nearly a kg in 2 weeks :eek:




    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!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭another world


    Day 14
    15 pledges gone :(
    39 pledges still intact?? :)
    32 days to well deserved luxuries....



    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.

    Broke badly today. I knew it was a long shot anyway :rolleyes:


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


    Day 14
    16 pledges gone :(
    40 pledges still intact?? :)
    32 days to well deserved luxuries....



    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.

    According to post on saturday, UL student broke then too, just adding that. I am still off the crisps, though lack of running and several days boozing has meant I have actually put on about 3 pounds over lent :mad: hope to get it to drop off over the next few weeks.


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


    I had one of those crisis of conscience moments yesterday when I wondered if tortilla chips counted as crisps. Erred on the safe side and stayed away from them.

    Just realised that if I last to the end of Lent, I'll be back on the crisps in time for my taper week to Conn :D


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


    I had one of those crisis of conscience moments yesterday when I wondered if tortilla chips counted as crisps. Erred on the safe side and stayed away from them.

    Just realised that if I last to the end of Lent, I'll be back on the crisps in time for my taper week to Conn :D

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


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


    Just realised that if I last to the end of Lent, I'll be back on the crisps in time for my taper week to Conn :D

    I was planning on using oodles of chocolate for carbo loading all along that week ...


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


    Someone brought in home-made cookies to the office.....why oh why??!!!! :(


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


    Day 15
    16 pledges gone :(
    38 pledges still intact?? :)
    31 days to well deserved luxuries....

    MarieC I feel your pain... how insensitive of them :pac:



    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.


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


    Day 15
    17 pledges gone :(
    37 pledges still intact?? :)
    31 days to well deserved luxuries....

    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.

    Its 15hrs to my PhD viva, Im knocking myself off this list now because I know that I aint gonna get thru tonight or tomorrow without something Im not meant to eat. Thats even though I feel like puking right now! :(


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


    Good luck, good luck, good luck!!! I did my viva a few months back and was terrified but once you start talking you'll be fine. Remember no-one knows your research as well as you.


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


    2 mars bars
    3 bags of tayto
    4 scones
    half of a brack


    So i think i am out of the ballgame.

    Elevenses bars got me the taste on thursday..........


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


    Another unexpected hurdle yesterday while shopping.

    Since the start of lent I have always walked past the sweet shelves in the supermarket keeping my head down. That was easy enough. But yesterday the missus asked me to pick up a few things, including oatcakes and muffins, and they were in those same shelves and I had a good look at everything that was on display.

    I came very close to cracking. That little devil on my shoulder kept whispering into my ear that I had already lost 5 pounds and I should reward myself for yesterday's race and one chocolate bar would taste soooooooo delicious and would hardly make a difference ....

    Eventually I managed to find the damn oatcakes and moved on, pledge still intact. Boy, that was a close one!


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


    ^^^
    This thread is quickly becoming Agony Aunt for my sugar cravings ... :D


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


    Day 20
    18 pledges gone :(
    36 pledges still intact?? :)
    26 days to well deserved luxuries....

    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.

    I can't believe it, because of my bloody blabbering and lack of attention yesterday at dinner, before I knew it, I had emptied the salt seller onto my dinner :eek: Pure force of habit (and lack of concentration). Stupid me.

    Best of luck to the rest of you, stay strong (stay alert :o).


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


    I can't believe I haven't had crisps or coke for nearly 3 weeks. :D It's definitely become easier. I haven't lost any weight though... the lack of running has seen to that :rolleyes:


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


    littlebug wrote: »
    I can't believe I haven't had crisps or coke for nearly 3 weeks. :D It's definitely become easier. I haven't lost any weight though... the lack of running has seen to that :rolleyes:

    I'm the same as yourself. On a postive note we would be really fat now if we had kept eating the crisps too.


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


    Busy on here today - this thread fell to page 3!

    I spoke too soon above about it getting easier. I had a day of feeling sorry for myself re injuries and even had thoughts of throwing in the towel altogether. I then stood in the crisp aisle in the supermarket looking to see if they had my favourite roast chicken walkers sensations :eek: Thankfully they didn't so the pledge remains intact.

    Closest I've been to breaking point :(


    this is like confession.


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


    20 days to go! Lots of red on this list... everyone else still being good?! Fair play to those left keep it up!


    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.


    It was my birthday and my Bro's OH arrived with her speciality Jamie Oliver chololate orange brownies baked for me... I had had the worst week in nearly 3 years and it would have been just rude not to after her going to all that trouble....

    Now what I am trying to do is do it all in moderation.

    Alas I'm out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭Bambaata


    I hit snooze this morning :-( At least i still got up and i didnt miss the swim


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    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.

    Gave myself a couple of mulligans, but who am I kidding? Been milling the kids jellies - sooo out!:)


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