Anonymous wrote:This is too much! Help me narrow it down...
Sugar
Alcohol
Grains
Red meat
Facebook
Nagging
Complaining
DCUMs
Add in: exercise and gratitude journaling

You could do one each week. You can't eat meat on Fridays and you're fasting on Ash Wed and Good Friday so keep that in mind. Some years, I'll give up 3 things just on weekends (like chocolate, coffee, and cheese) and then only 1 thing during the week (like just the chocolate).

You can go all out on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Saturday before Easter Sunday. Totally splurging on Easter Sunday feels 10x better after sacrificing for the past 3 days.

Anonymous wrote:is grains, sugar, dairy and alcohol too much?

No, this is what I'm doing too. Back on the Whole30 or 40 diet.

This is too much! Help me narrow it down...
Sugar
Alcohol
Grains
Red meat
Facebook
Nagging
Complaining
DCUMs
Add in: exercise and gratitude journaling

Candy

Catholicism

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practicing Christians, please share.

I'm definitley doing sugar and complaining.
Considering adding meat, alcohol, nagging and Facebook.

I don't really understand this. Does this mean you go back to complaining and nagging after Lent?

PP, the short answer (with no theology) is, after 40 days of focused effort not to complain or nag, it will come more naturally to the PP to complain and nag less. I think nobody answered your question so far because the answer seemed pretty obvious...?

PP here, ha, no, it wasn't obvious to me. Thanks for the thoughtful response. Most folks I know who give up something for Lent (chocolate, wine, etc.) then binge on it once Lent is over. Hence my confusion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave up Catholicism for lent about 20 years ago. It worked out so well, I decided to make it permanent. One of the best decisions of my life!

Hating Catholics is out, hating Muslims is in.

this is lent, not the front page of the Style section on New Years Day

Anonymous wrote:I gave up Catholicism for lent about 20 years ago. It worked out so well, I decided to make it permanent. One of the best decisions of my life!

Hating Catholics is out, hating Muslims is in.

I gave up Catholicism for lent about 20 years ago. It worked out so well, I decided to make it permanent. One of the best decisions of my life!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practicing Christians, please share.

I'm definitley doing sugar and complaining.
Considering adding meat, alcohol, nagging and Facebook.

I don't really understand this. Does this mean you go back to complaining and nagging after Lent?

PP, the short answer (with no theology) is, after 40 days of focused effort not to complain or nag, it will come more naturally to the PP to complain and nag less. I think nobody answered your question so far because the answer seemed pretty obvious...?

Grains.

Keeping the sugar and the chocolate and wine.

Anonymous wrote:is grains, sugar, dairy and alcohol too much?

Wow, sugar and grains is enough to put most people in withdrawal mode! Good luck!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM. I did it in 2012 too, PP! and it got easier as the days went by.

I am sick and addicted.

I also give up DCUM. Parts of DCUM are good and have been helpful, but more often than not I'm disappointed by the toxicity. Giving it up is actually a good thing.

Giving up: sugar and DCUM -- plan to keep a gratitude journal in the time I'd normally spend on DCUM. I've given each of these up before and found that after 5 days I didn't give it a thought. Hope that I can make the combo work . . . and maybe not come back to DCUM at all.

is grains, sugar, dairy and alcohol too much?

Arizona...oh wait, you're supposed to give up something that you like, so that won't work.