Lent - does anyone give anything up anymore?
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Lent - does anyone give anything up anymore?
I went without alcohol for one night, but that was unintentional. I may try and give up using 'any' as a prefix 3 times in one (short) sentence.
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Biscuits and chocolate are ok although my daughters take great pleasure in eating them in front of mecj wrote:But that's 3 of the 4 major food groups (the other being crisps)! I sit as painful as it sounds?
The hardest thing is not having a can of beer or glass of wine watching the sport on the box but so far touchwood I've not lapsed.
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I guess it's like giving up smoking. Remove yourself from the usual surroundings in which you pursue the vice you want to give up. Or tie your hands behind your back and tape your mouth shut. Either of which seem totally feasible.
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Luckily I've never really smoked other than the usual token attempts to get some street cred.cj wrote:I guess it's like giving up smoking. Remove yourself from the usual surroundings in which you pursue the vice you want to give up. Or tie your hands behind your back and tape your mouth shut. Either of which seem totally feasible.
I'm pretty sure I would smoke a lot if I did and would find it hard to stop.
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Commiserations! How do you compensate? Chocolate? Sex? Chat forums?hoob wrote:or alternatively do something really stupid like develop something resembling an allergy to alcohol......
This has really upset me!
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I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)Vonny wrote:hoob wrote: allergy to alcohol......
I've never given up anything for lent - I do remember loads at school did this every year but never lasted the full course!
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I also have Hertford to thank for giving up sugar in tea & coffee and also cereal. Stopped having it in my first couple of years at Hertford when I sat at the bottom of the long tables in dining hall. The sugar was always at the top of the table near the seniors & they weouldn't pass it downenglishangel wrote:I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)
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I've given up pints of beer and chocolate, in a healthly eating way. So tasting other's beer is ok, as is the occasional biscuit (usually a biscuit is breakfast). Trying to cut down on bread too.
Bread's the hardest thing not to eat. CH taught me how to live off toast and I've never looked back (stomach too big to turn round ).
Bread's the hardest thing not to eat. CH taught me how to live off toast and I've never looked back (stomach too big to turn round ).
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