Lent

I don't know much about panara or chipotle, I don't those around my house. I think most people will say Subway is fine as long as you get the healthy subs.

I am going to give up fast food too. But my mom usually has me take her to lunch ocassionally when we go shopping. I will have to get a salad or a yogurt we need to stop for food.

Check out this thread...best idea ever! hahaha!

Im definitely doing it! Im a scale addict!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/188330-lenten-scale-diet-official-thread-join-us

I usually give up fried food and anything involving white bread... two years ago, I lost 20 pounds doing this, but I kept with it beyond lent. It was really hard but it was also very easy to get to the gym and avoid those things because i wasn't working during the day. Now that i am working a 8-5 I am going to give up sweets and white bread again and make it a habit to walk during my breaks at work.

Good luck!

For the last two years I have given up alcohol which I am doing this year, and adding chocolate to it.

I would have ZERO problem giving up alcohol. And good for you for being able to do that every year... However my recent trip to the Godiva store at the Woodfield Mall will prevent me from giving up chocolate....lol at least the UUUBER expesive kind since I have a few, ahem...boxes at home. But other kinds of chocolate like snickers and twix and stuff... I will be all in for that. But the $40/pound chocolates that I wont be eating very much of anyways cuz one probably cost like 3 bucks, ya...THOSE I WILL be eating lol. I Godiva!!!!

Pasta!!! It's so easy to get sucked into it's Noodley Goodness............... And I'm adding more veggies and fruit.

At first I thought if it has a drive through its fast food, but what are your thoughts on those that do not: Subway, Chipotle, Panera...those are considered fast food too right?

Happy Fat Tuesday to everyone !

As far as Subway Chipotle and Panera go... I do not consider them to be fast food restaurants. However, that all depends on what you can trust yourself to get at these places. For example... If you go to Chipotle and you just HAVE to get the steak smothered in all the beans and salsa's and cheese and guacamole...then ya... I would probably consider that a "fast food restaurant" at least to myself to keep myself from going there and "spending" all of my calories on one huge burrito. But if you can go there and get chicken with a little beans, corn salsa and no cheese or guacamole in a bowl instead of a burrito, then I wouldn't consider it to be a fast food place. Then it can be your rewards place during lent. Like, if I do really good in the next (insert amount of time) then I can reward myself with a chicken/veggie bowl from Chipotle.

Do what is best for YOU! And remember, just because other people (including myself) try to give you advice about where to eat/not to eat does not mean anything. It is just that, advice. I wish you well during this lent season and hope that you can come up with something reasonable to "give up" or a good habit to "take up". <---remember it can go either way, it is all about bettering yourself in one way or another. :flowerforyou: