Lent

I've never given anything up for lent. I'm not hugely religious...more spiritual if anything. However this year my boyfriend and I decided to give up not one, but four vices - sweets, chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks - for forty days and forty nights. We're about 2 weeks into it and, to be honest, it's not been too difficult so far. I'm not a huge fan of sweets and fizzy drinks - they are more my boyfriend's vices - and I don't eat chocolate that often, but when I do I absolutely feast on it! So far I've had no real cravings but I'm sure that won't last long. Crisps is the main thing I have craved, especially when I eat sandwiches as I love putting crisps inside them to give them a bit of a crunch!
I'd love it if giving up these unhealthy foods helped me lose some weight, but I just seem to be replacing them with other junk food like chips and pizza! I have come to realise that there is no particular unhealthy food which I eat too much of; it's just a combination of all unhealthy foods! Next year I think I'll add takeaways to the list...or maybe I should just see if I survive this year first!

**What have you given up for Lent?**

Thanks for reading,

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