Lent

[chocolate chick]

I feel better from not eating the chocolate. When lent is over I might try and be a bit more leanient with the amount I eat.

[salsa]

I found today really hard, I was up last night till the wee small hours first partying, then on here. Had about 3 hours sleep and then had to go to work. I would usually supplement this with about 3 cans of full fat coke throughout the day to keep me awake. Today I couldn't do that. I struggled for about an hour, and then remembered we have a coffee machine, so i was drinking quadruple expresso's and the caffeine kicked in so i was dandy.

[loulou]

I can't drink coffee. It gives me instant headache.

[salsa]

I needed it today, otherwsie i never touch it.

[loulou]

I drink peppermint tea all day.

[salsa]

I am not a big flavoured tea girl.

[loulou]

I only like peppermint. I don't like the fruity ones.

[sillyyank03]

I love flavoured teas - even moreso now since I gave up drinking hot chocolate for Lent. I have never tried peppermint tea though.

[loulou]

Peppermint tea is so refreshing. I highly recommend it.

[chocolate chick]

I find it makes me thirsty. The fruit teas can be quite nice if you pop a bit of Splenda or the like in it.

[salsa]

Ive never had peppermint tea, im a PG tips girl.

[coffeecreams.tk]

Just for final clarification, if anyone is still unsure:

Lent is the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday (this year on 9th February and 27th March respectively), and is 46 days long, as stated by sillyyank.  It is, as said, to represent the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert, and is set in the run-up to Easter to help calm and prepare for the Easter celebration.  The reason for the difference in nuber of days between the actual length (46 days) and the symbolic length (40 days) is because Lent was devised during a historical period when Sundays were feast days.  Thus, because Sundays would have been the one day everyone ate well, Lent was "suspended" on the six Sundays during Lent, so to make sure that the actual period of abstinence wasn't lost an extra 6 days were added to the period.
This means, then, that on all of the Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday you may consume/do what you have given up, just for the day, and it doesn't matter, because those days don't count.

I hope that clears it all up.

[salsa]

Basically, it means im going without for AGES!!!

[chocolate chick]

Just for final clarification, if anyone is still unsure:

Lent is the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday (this year on 9th February and 27th March respectively), and is 46 days long, as stated by sillyyank.  It is, as said, to represent the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert, and is set in the run-up to Easter to help calm and prepare for the Easter celebration.  The reason for the difference in nuber of days between the actual length (46 days) and the symbolic length (40 days) is because Lent was devised during a historical period when Sundays were feast days.  Thus, because Sundays would have been the one day everyone ate well, Lent was "suspended" on the six Sundays during Lent, so to make sure that the actual period of abstinence wasn't lost an extra 6 days were added to the period.
This means, then, that on all of the Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday you may consume/do what you have given up, just for the day, and it doesn't matter, because those days don't count.

I hope that clears it all up.

Yes you can on a sunday but I know that myself and a few others are including sundays as well. If I start having choc on a sunday I will pig out on it too much.

[salsa]

I stick to it aswell, because I know I couldnt go on and off. Its all or nothing.