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Old 04-08-2007, 12:01 AM
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I gave up drinking for Lent this year. It is now Easter Sunday. I'm having a beer.

What did you give up (if anything)?


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Old 04-08-2007, 01:19 AM
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I'm not Catholic. However, my co-worker gave up "Dos XX". Yes that's right, he gave up a "brand" of beer. Rather ridiculous IMO.
Old 04-08-2007, 01:40 AM
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I am not catholic, but i gave up sex, drugs and alcohol... it is rather easy to do it here in iraq.

Thats why they call this place rehab.
Old 04-08-2007, 08:30 AM
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I'm not catholic, but I gave up beer and junk food. So far I've lost 22 lbs in 2 months. I eat the same as I always do during the regular meals, I just leave out the junk.
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^what?? how fat are you where you can just drop 22 lbs like that!?

i gave up having butt sex with lonely truckers...gotta be good during lent.
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229 lbs, but I am 6' 2"

I weigh 207 now. I just drop weight fast..
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Originally Posted by 1320FEVER
I'm not catholic, but I gave up beer and junk food. So far I've lost 22 lbs in 2 months. I eat the same as I always do during the regular meals, I just leave out the junk.
I went from drinking 3-4 sodas per day to drinking 3-4 sodas per week back in January. By the scale, I've dropped a solid 7 lbs, but I've also been lifting again, so I've lost more fat than that. I'm already down a complete pants size and can tell an obvious difference in the mirror. Plus, I just feel a whole lot better.


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Old 04-08-2007, 12:25 PM
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i gave up sex?
Old 04-08-2007, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by THE_SUPRA
^what?? how fat are you where you can just drop 22 lbs like that!?

i gave up having butt sex with lonely truckers...gotta be good during lent.
I lost 20 lbs in 19 days in January. Walk about 2 miles a day and eat 300 calories a day. It'll fly off.
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Not a damn thing. I started out giving up Skoal and it lasted like two weeks.
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Originally Posted by chupr0kabra
I went from drinking 3-4 sodas per day to drinking 3-4 sodas per week back in January. By the scale, I've dropped a solid 7 lbs, but I've also been lifting again, so I've lost more fat than that. I'm already down a complete pants size and can tell an obvious difference in the mirror. Plus, I just feel a whole lot better.


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Nothin' wrong with converting fat to muscle. Thats what its all about.
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Originally Posted by 1320FEVER
Nothin' wrong with converting fat to muscle. Thats what its all about.
I'm an expert at turning muscle to fat!!!
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I gave up cussing, and to signify the end of lent: ****!
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Originally Posted by TheBlurLS1
I lost 20 lbs in 19 days in January. Walk about 2 miles a day and eat 300 calories a day. It'll fly off.
What do you eat that you only take in 300 calories in a whole day?

I also gave up coke, im not catholic but my gf is so i did it to support her, but yesterday i drank 3 cans in like 10 minutes! i feel a whole lot better now that i dont drink it as much, it taste like syrup to me now. i also cut back on junk/fast food. ive noticed some improvemnt, but nothing radical. maybe dropped 5lbs and some of my clothes do fit better, but im not where i want to be. WHAT THE ****! i work out occasionally an ive been taking vitamins and diet pills but its not working so great i think ima have to either work out A LOT more or get serious with the diet! Well that was unexpected
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Fast food, and cheeseburgers from anywhere.
Lost a few pounds. Had some Sonic on the road back from the ranch and it was tasty, but I couldn't eat a lot of it.

I basically lived on Dr. Pepper, which the wife gave up on top of fast food.

I am going to go to Beck's Prime soon. That will be great.


Nice work btw, Obsession.
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I gave up soda.
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speeding...well, mostly
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Originally Posted by osvaldo
What do you eat that you only take in 300 calories in a whole day?
Lean Quizines. No breakfast, eat one at lunch, and don't eat dinner lol. It sucked for about 3 days then I was never really hungry again. If it got to be too much I'd eat an orange or some light butter popcorn for dinner. I also was drinking nothing but water and "diet rite" pure zero cola.

I went from 220 to 200 this way (around 19 days), then realized it probably wasn't the best thing for me. Since then I have been eating like I always had, with a little less and little better foods on most days, even drinking coke ocassionally. Now I'm down to about 193 or so, but I don't even consider myself dieting.

My clothes definatly fit better. I got to where Large shirts were getting tight and convinced myself I had to do something lol. The problem started when I started co-op'ing as an engineer. We'd go out to lunch every single day to Chili's, Applebee's, BWW's, etc.

It's hard to get motivated when you're not on the prowl for women anymore.
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I gave up on giving up.




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