http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.html times health forum thread - Don't exclude foods! Except Lent! Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:51:48 +0000 http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlI 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 http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlMon, 04 Feb 2008 17:51:48 +0000http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlI'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!http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlMon, 04 Feb 2008 16:58:18 +0000http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlAlready 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 anywayhttp://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlMon, 04 Feb 2008 13:07:32 +0000http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlI 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...http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlSat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:47 +0000http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlI 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....http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlSat, 02 Feb 2008 17:47:10 +0000http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlHi 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 div...http://www.timeshealth.co.uk/5_459_0.htmlSat, 02 Feb 2008 17:31:47 +0000