What are you giving up for lent?

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For me it's social media and sugar.

Ate so much crap today, actually quite looking forward to it.

Carbs. Trying the keto diet.

Bread

Sweets and chocolate - it will be a challenge as I eat both every day

Alcohol.

Not a thing

Weighing myself. Anyone else?

Biscuits. Partly on religious grounds and partly because guzzling half a packet at a time has caused me to put on half a stone in a month!

I’m giving up vinted and Amazon.
I’ve already done 44 days without alcohol and I’m carrying on but I don’t feel like that counts as it’s not just lent.

Meat

Biscuits/chocolate/cakes and booze.

Biscuits, cakes, sweets and chocolate.

meat and biscuits

Do none of you think its weird to use a religious festival to try and lose weight?

same here

The weight of society's expectations of women.
Oh crap, I forgot. I already did that!

@Magnificen er no, I'm a practising Christian so not using anything for anything I'm doing what my religion tells me to. That ok?

Giving up sugar
Taking up smoking again… I miss it.

Nothing. Lent was hell as a Catholic child!

Sugar, and MN! This is my last day on here till Easter Sunday. This place is a thief of time and it’s good for me to use Lent to reset my priorities.

When I retire I will consider giving up alcohol: if I did that now it would be a penance for my colleagues, which is not the point.

Nothing, I’m not religious. I don’t understand the point of giving something up, it seems very inward looking to me. Much more useful to try to do something positive that will help others.

Being so hard on myself.
Also will aim to be kind whenever any opportunity presents itself.
I am not a Christian, but have always felt that the people who do lent best look outwards rather than inwards. Eating bread or not = no positive impact. Making some bread or other food to share with those who need it = much more helpful.

Do none of you think its weird to use a religious festival to try and lose weight?

As a practicing Christian - lent a good starting point. Otherwise it would be tomorrow, which would never come. Ideally though, the money spent on said biscuits could be given to charity.

Besides we have no trouble with religious festivals which allow us to put on weight.

Abstinence

That's kind of the point. It's meant to be a time of self discipline when you assess priorities and aim to be better. So doing good, helping others, being nicer,more thoughtful etc are all positive things to try and achieve, religious or not.

Nowhere are you told to give things up but that's a matter of choice. No one ever says they're giving up sprouts and broccoli for Lent so I guess doing without a simple pleasure for a while is a bit of a personal test.
Not saying I achieve any of the above but it's worth a try.

Nothing . Was brought up Catholic and hated Lent. Glad to no longer be practising.