For Lent
 

Giving up starches and sugars for lent and giving up alcohol til I lose 20 to kick start my goal of losing 50 before I turn 50 in 7 months. I've been able to get in at least 5 days a week of 30 mins or more of treadmill/ellptacle/bike since Jan. 1. Clothes fit better but no big weight loss. Also doing pushups - started with 10 a session, now 20, adding 10 a month til I get to 100.

Anybody else giving up anything for lent - or starting up something?

Fat and sugar. Gotta lose around 20 also. I hope to lose it before April 1st.
Started last week. Lost 3 lbs. I am on track to succeed, unless I fall off the fat wagon.
I can do without sugar.

Do Atkins...I lost 26lb in one month (January). ;)

Atkins does work. I've done it several times and lost 45 at one time. Gained it back. The key is keeping it off. I seemed to gain it back too fast. Gotta cut back the fat, too and get into the cardio habit.

I did Atkins a couple years ago. It worked great, but when I took a dump, it felt like I was crapping a freakin cinder block. That diet hurts my azz.

A few years back I lost almost 60lb on Atkins. Most of it's come back now, it's time to diet again.

:eek: No pics please.....We will just take your word for it....;)

i think im gonna give up cigs for not only lent but for good i really need to 40 cigs/day aint to good for ya

40 cigs. Jesus christ man, u smoke when ur sleeping ?

i sleep with one behind my ear!! j/k no i smoke from 5:30 am till 10:00 pm i smoke all day long at work sometimes i have smoked 1/2 a cig and walk into a room of a house im building and find one 1/2 smoked and still lit that i set down so i put one out finnish the other and relight the one i snubbed out:smokin: i love cigs!!!! but my lungs hate me i cough so hard every moring i puke:eek:

quit
 

watched my dad die from lung cancer. I quit just after that. Good luck

thats what im afraid of im only 28 and have been smoking for 12 years . its time to quit . how did you do it??????

I used chantix pox just woke up one day and didn't want them anymore but I started dipping about 5 weeks later..... Dumb

Pox, my dad pretty much quit for 2 weeks, using some tablets, that came in a blue capsule. It worked great, i was happy for him, he would only smoke 1 a day the first week, and then none the 2nd week. but sadly he's back to the habbit.

If ya want i can pm ya the name

do it! pm me

I used peppermints from Sam's. Lots of peppermints. Chantix is a great drug, just make sure some one wathces for the side effects.

Pm sent

The Nicorrette, (sp) seemed to help alot also. Know some that used the patch and worked. The main thing is you have to want to quit.

Again, good luck

the tablets my dad used are called,"commit" blue capsule.

tried the patch it gave me hives all over my arms it think it reacted to all my tattoos it was wierd i could feel that **** pumpin in my arm :help:

try chantix or zyban......i quit using zyban but i hear chantix is better...smoked for 24 yrs....been 4 yrs since i quit...i cant believe i was so damn stupid to smoke all those years....i think the most important thing about quiting is you have to WANT to quit...if your halfassed about it, it will never work..

Both my parents smoked 2 packs a day, I got plenty of second hand smoke. Never started myself, pretty addicted to cokes though. That's my Lent penance, no cokes, no sugar, exercise more - Eat More Fish. Loose 10 pounds in 40 days. That should do it.

Giving up what I usually do:

beer
fast food
sweets

That will help me lose the holiday weight hopefully!

I'm on board. One more day and Fat Tuesday. After that, more fishing (good weather), and eating more fish, and working out = weight loss, better overall mental and physical health. I'm ready!

Giving up bad fast food and soda which will be pretty difficult since my job requires me to be on the road alot.

same nere smoked cowboy killers from the age of 14.
Smoked till i was 35, put the dam things down and walked away from them. Never looked back.
2 years latter picked up cope. 14 yrs later still dipping .It's much harder to quit than cigs were.

I smoked only a little bit in high school and College. Dipped and chewed tobacco since I was a teen. Played baseball and was always in the outdoors so i wasa exposed to it.
Stopped smoking the cigs in 1992 and hardly have had one since. Maybe a cigar every now & then also.
Stopped the chewing tobacco and snuff "cold turkey" about the time I got married in 02. I was coaching High School baseball and football and man it was hard to quit when I had all my coaching colleagues still doing it in front of me. I haven't had it since then, however.

I'm trying to lose some weight and will probably give up on the snacks and fast food as much as possible for Lent. Already lost 9 pounds in 3 weeks. I'll try to keep it up!!

Good luck to all you others during the lenten season.

You are right on! Been there..........

Giving up dipping and smoking..hope i can kick the habit

no more fast food or sweets; TaeBo at least 5 times a week...Oh the fun...not Catholic, but always nice to see if you can accomplish what you set your mind to...:D

March 1 tomorrow - down 6 lbs and have only had one glass of wine and one beer in a weak moment. Have stayed away from bread, taters, rice, and pasta. Feelin' good. Need to catch more fish to eat more fish....

Good luck to all. Any Progress Reports?

Down 12 lbs.