Lent Season

[new york knight]

this wednesday is ash wednesday .. the begining of Lent

catholics are supposed to sacrafice or "give something up" for those 6 1/2 weeks as well as not eat meat on ash wednesday or on fridays leading up to easter

this year im giving up 2

-soda
-chocolate

just curious if any other members participate

[Sweetleaf22]

[Ron Mexico]

Raw Onions and Coconut. Hate both so wont be to hard.

[truegrinder]

im going to try and quit eating after 8 p.m. I have had a bad habit of eating cereal or sweets late at night before bed. Too many unnecessary carbs late. I need to lose some lbs...

[new york knight]

thats a great 1 grinder .. i too do the same thing eating same type foods later at night

i want to get on the same type schedule as you

[truegrinder]

yeah being a health and phys.ed teacher I am trying to portray a good image. I weigh about 195 now and want to get down to 175. I try to eat healthy as does my wife. I need to workout more and be more stricter with my eating habits especially at night. I just really love ice cream and all candy, chocolate, and sweets. This should help out a lot. My wife is giving up sweets this year. She is very strict during lent too. She gave up soda as well last year. She had a pop at midnight of Easter. She woke up and set alarm and then had a diet pepsi. lol.. Lent is very important to us and my family as we are big catholics. It is awesome to give up something for a short period of time. Look at all the sacrifices Jesus made for us!

[new york knight]

i agree with you 100% friend .. jesus sacrificed everything for us .. its great to give something up .. makes ya feel real good about yourself

i grew up going to church school and church every sunday (or saturday evening) i have done all the sacraments. i gave up going to church weekely when i was 18. i go every now and then (mainly xmas and easter) but in all honesty would love to have the will power to go each week again. im Never going to rule that out.

[Davydave]

The best Ash Wednesday story ever. Courtesy of Artie Lange.

[Shednblues]

Every year, I give up potato chips, cheezies, and all those types of salty snacks. One more day to finish the bags in the house. I really should give up sports betting...

[Big Pimpin]

this is like people doing a new years resolution then quitting in 6.5 weeks.....a joke

[Romanowski]

just so I understand, a sacrifice to honor what jesus did, is to do something for your health?

sounds nice, but honoring yourself, and your health is something you should do all the time

in honor of the sacrifices that jesus did for you, being thankful for your life saved...

why not instead do something for someone ELSE, volunteer somewhere...thats a true sacrifice

[Romanowski]

pretty sure if you started winning at life you wouldnt know what to do

youd sabotage it eventually, probably pretty quickly

Originally Posted by Sweetleaf22

[Sweetleaf22]

' winning '










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[Chris46139]

Ther entire city of Pittsburgh gave up on winning for more than just lent

[Sweetleaf22]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ winning ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



always....