I was reading some blogs tonight and noticed a common thread - Lent. Lots of people, from different religious backgrounds, are participating in one of the more widely-practiced traditions of Lent - giving something up, something that will be hard to give up. So Troy asked me earlier this week what we should choose. Giving up vegetables or running, now that would be easy! But that would also defeat the whole purpose :) So we sat and tried to be realistic while still picking something that we would have to be dedicated to avoiding. So.... I settled on sweets and he settled on fried food. Not so easy for a girl with a sweet tooth and a guy raised on TexMex.
Usually, it is very difficult for us to be on different pages when one of us is attempting to change a habit, i.e. it isn't so easy to go for a run while your significant other sits on the couch eating queso and watching that episode of Grey's Anatomy that you missed last week. It is also hard to go to dinner and eat a house salad, hold the cheese, light dressing on the side, while your significant other orders a bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon. You get the point. So essentially, we are BOTH giving up fried food, and we are BOTH giving up sweets. Bye-bye Chick-fil-A chicken minis for breakfast. See ya later tortilla chips and flautas at any one of our favorite TexMex locations. Adios birthday cake tasting from any of the dozen birthdays we have coming up in the next 40 days. And those 4 BOXES of Girl Scout cookies that just arrived...ciao! Oh well though :) It is all in good spirit and we are actually looking forward to it. We have the 10k Rodeo Run next weekend (6 miles) so I am sure that the healthier eating habits will benefit us :)
I wonder what everyone else gave up for Lent...alcohol? Caffeine? Watching the Real Housewives?
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