Giving anything up for lent?

[jewel]

Does anyone else have plans to give anything up for Lent? Only a few days of freedom left here...

I'm giving up soda  

I'm also giving up peeing on more than 5 pregnancy tests in a cycle.

Of course, I'm hoping to give up this stupid, empty uterus.

[Cheesecake]

I'm hoping to give up the empty ute, but besides that, nothing. We don't do lent.

Sent from my phone, please disregard typos!

[ilovecandy]

Nope. I use to. I did pop one year. I am not giving up anything instead i wil try to add something. Like getting back on track with my workouts.

[G22]

Nope. I've never done lent. Don't plan to start.

[lola]

I was just thinking about this because a poster on ML just made a funny lent joke. Anyways.

I'm not sure if I am or not. I better get things figured out soon, huh?

[changedname]

When is shrove Tuesday? This week??? I have no plans to give anything up.

[discogranny]

I don't normally do a physical thing but generally something that makes me a better/nicer person. This time I am going to let this Lenten season be a season of getting myself back. I would like to use the next 40-ish days to basically not say no to plans and just really enjoy myself.

The last two years have been such a weird time for me as I feel like I have really lost a large portion of myself. My DH calls it my "FirstName sparkle." I am generally a very caring, outgoing, fun person but the constant "of course she got pregnant immediately!", "oh, I'm not drinking tonight" or "wow, I am not sure about planning a vacation that far in advance" because I am thinking about the "what if" of being pregnant/being mid-treatment cycle, etc. has really worn on me. I feel like the Lenten season lends itself to getting rid of these feelings of worry, guilt, jealousy and bitterness nicely.

[trufflefries]

I'm not Catholic but I still like the idea of sacrificing something so I'm going to be giving up eating out. I need to lose weight anyway and DH is doing a weight loss challenge at work so hopefully that will help keep me disciplined. Last year I tried to give up cursing...didn't go so well.

[changedname]

Feb 11, 2013 9:56:05 GMT -5 discogranny said:

I don't normally do a physical thing but generally something that makes me a better/nicer person. This time I am going to let this Lenten season be a season of getting myself back. I would like to use the next 40-ish days to basically not say no to plans and just really enjoy myself.

The last two years have been such a weird time for me as I feel like I have really lost a large portion of myself. My DH calls it my "FirstName sparkle." I am generally a very caring, outgoing, fun person but the constant "of course she got pregnant immediately!", "oh, I'm not drinking tonight" or "wow, I am not sure about planning a vacation that far in advance" because I am thinking about the "what if" of being pregnant/being mid-treatment cycle, etc. has really worn on me. I feel like the Lenten season lends itself to getting rid of these feelings of worry, guilt, jealousy and bitterness nicely.

  That's a really nice idea and good for you for recognizing the toll IF takes. After all you have been through recently , you definitely deserve to take some time.

[jewel]

Feb 11, 2013 13:02:02 GMT -5 trufflefries said:

I'm not Catholic but I still like the idea of sacrificing something so I'm going to be giving up eating out. I need to lose weight anyway and DH is doing a weight loss challenge at work so hopefully that will help keep me disciplined. Last year I tried to give up cursing...didn't go so well.

I'm not Catholic either, but I like to take the opportunity to make some sort of positive change in my life. One year I gave up "being lazy" which for me meant working out at least 3 times per week.

Disco - I can definitely relate. I think your Lent plan is beautiful.