Hi to all those wanting to lose a little!

In 2006 I managed to lose 2 stone by following Paul McKenna.

I didn't exclude any foods - I did eat healthily, but was very aware of what I ate. If you exclude foods you will put on weight as soon as you start eating them again.

I can recommend this 100%. If you think about it - it's not the food that is the problem it is our state of mind.

Food is a habit. As Lent approaches try and change a habit. If you come in from work and dive into the fridge - stop. Do something different. My husband and I stopped eating cheese and drinking alcohol for Lent. It had become a habit to have a glass of wine after work - not very much, but every day the same. Also I do have a weakness for cheese! It is stopping the habit as much as the food. Have a think about it. Just to choose something different for 40 days can't be that hard.

Give it a try. I found it worked. Sally

I agree, after a while it does become habit to eat healthier. I hope I can keep it up! I've more or less excluded wine (any alcohol!) and cheese from my diet, two big vices of mine. Was hard at first but feel a lot better for it. Absolutely love cheese and very occasionally have the odd small quantity of it but go for strong ones so don't need to much of it.

I gave up alcohol for Lent a couple of years ago, and found it a good discipline -- I too had got into the habit of drinking to unwind in the evenings. (And I was a student, so often went out and drank rather too much!)

Not sure what to give up this Lent. I'm considering chocolate but that would be a real challenge for me..!

Ali

Already gave up chocolate for new year - managed it last year for lent, this year considering either potatoes or bread, thinking bread will be less of a challenge as don't eat it every day anyway

I'm giving up chocolate and bread - don't tend to eat chocolate anyway as been on Slimming World for a while. Have given up bread as I felt grim last week when I had a couple of slices of homemade brown bread for the first time in ages. Has put me off for life I think!

I am going to try and give up Bread. I have a terrible relationship with it. I am just so obsessed. Bread rules my life and I need to break free. It will be hard. I have been known to eye up my Birds bread and to even consider stealing from them