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Using Lent as a way to change your diet for the better

bellissimom
bellissimom Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is anybody doing Lent?
This year I decided to eat an apple every day for the 40 days of Lent as a way to encourage myself into better eating habits.

I eat it on my way home from work and don't find myself snacking before dinner.

Share your lent story. :)

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  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    I basically kicked a 4 a day Diet Pepsi habit over Lent a few years back.

    Now have maybe 2 a month
  • twinmom_112002
    twinmom_112002 Posts: 739 Member
    I am trying to kick my diet coke addiction....
  • BrownieKitty12345
    BrownieKitty12345 Posts: 149 Member
    You can't "do" Lent. Lent is a holiday.

    I am celebrating Lent by increasing my exercise time, fasting on certain days, volunteering for some of my hometown charities, and praying the rosary twice a day (in the morning before I do anything and before I go to bed at night.)

    Diet soda's are hard to kick. I gave them up about two years ago. If you can make it past two weeks then its easy peasy after that. Good luck!!
  • slabs57
    slabs57 Posts: 3 Member
    I gave up soda a few years back for Lent. After that, I got used to not drinking heavily carbonated drinks (it hurt going down the esophagus) and even now, I can only take a couple of sips out of a can before I have to give it away or toss it out. Another year, I gave up all sweets (except ice cream -- I considered that "dairy"). I lost a lot of weight doing that. I wasn't even exercising and I dropped ~10 lb. Needless to say, I have a sweet tooth, so when I started eating sweets again, I blew up in weight. Sad cycle of bouncing between 115 and 145 lb, but I hope the next time I get down to my goal weight, I'll maintain it.
  • itsker56
    itsker56 Posts: 22 Member
    Gave up Mt Dew a few years ago for Lent - Meow123393 - my favorite prayer - the Rosary.
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    In before the lock... I used Lent of 2013 as an unintentional lead-in to weight-loss and fitness... Among other things, I gave up soda. It really wasn't that hard and over the course of the season, I felt like I had lost weight (I wasn't weighing myself then). After Easter, I bought a Fitbit and started walking, then I found MFP and started tracking calories. Almost three years in, I've lost 65 pounds, have maintained the loss for about a year, and will be running my first half-marathon in April.
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    meow123393 wrote: »
    You can't "do" Lent. Lent is a holiday.

    I am celebrating Lent by increasing my exercise time, fasting on certain days, volunteering for some of my hometown charities, and praying the rosary twice a day (in the morning before I do anything and before I go to bed at night.)

    Diet soda's are hard to kick. I gave them up about two years ago. If you can make it past two weeks then its easy peasy after that. Good luck!!

    And since we're correcting people, Lent is a season.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
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  • cross2bear
    cross2bear Posts: 1,106 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
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    Literally screaming LOL!!! My coworkers asked what happened!!
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    itsker56 wrote: »
    Gave up Mt Dew a few years ago for Lent - Meow123393 - my favorite prayer - the Rosary.

    I thought the rosary consisted of 5 prayers, repeated in a pattern.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
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    the former Catholic in me looooooooooves this LOLOLOL
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