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[fayde]

So generally, I like the idea of Lent and would like to give something up this year. I have a few options, but am not sure what to give up. So help me out here:

Poll Lent 2008

Comments

[birdfigment]

I was torn between options two and three. I think either would be good because they would give you an incentive to take care of your body. I originally voted for exercise because I thought that you'd enjoy it and it's something you're close to doing anyway. But I guess if you really want to stretch yourself, it'd be more of a challenge to go vegetarian. (I base that assumption on what I think your current eating & exercise regimens are.)

[chesh]

I guess I'm more on the side of exercise than going veggie for lent, because going veggie means either you and Cam go veggie or that there's more than one meal getting cooked at least some nights for dinner. Honestly, the short-order cook issue was a lot of why I said "screw it" after seven years, because I wanted us both to eat well without having to cook two meals every night. (Not to say you can't or shouldn't do it, just to remind you of one of the potentially more annoying considerations.)

If you do decide to exercise daily, remember to set aside a couple days a week for an easier workout so that your body has time to recover.

[spacebug]

I voted for vegetarian, just 'cause it's how I became one back when I was about 15.

I suggest you

[kaulis]

give up eating the meat of beaked animals, such as birds, squids, octopuses, and platypuses. Whether or not you want to include terrapins in that category is a judgment call.

[sinister_dr_x]

In the tradition of Mardi Gras of going hog wild the night before, and then Lent actually ending, it would make more sense to go vegetarian. If you did the 30 minutes of exercise, then before Lent we would go crazy wild not exercising?

I guess I just think of Lent as not doing something for 40 days, rather than doing something for 40 days. The 40 days symbolizes the time that Jesus was in the desert not giving into the devil. I think maybe this year the devil is meat. Although "the devil is in the details," so maybe you should give up details for 40 days and just be really vague.