So today is the start of Lent. Now, mind you, I am not Catholic, I am Christian, but normally Catholics are the primary religion to practice and participate in the Lent traditions. My grandfather was Catholic, although not a practicing one, nonetheless still a Catholic. I have participated in the Lent traditions for quite some time now. Almost 11 years. I take pride in knowing I am giving something up for 40/41(leap year) and knowing that I don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday, and on Fridays.
In the past I have given up everything from soda, sweet tea, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Starbucks (see you can tell they are all food related, because I have always had problems with food). So this year, I was lost for ideas on what to give up. I started asking around to people who participate in Lent, and got a few ideas. I asked a co-worker what she was giving up and she said that years ago, when her and her husband were stationed in Germany, instead of giving something up, her church and priest asked that they pay something forward or start something new. Such as random acts of kidness or starting a new activity, etc. It gave me some great ideas.
I also started talking to my friend Chante who is also part of weight watchers. She is also not Catholic, but always participates in Lent if she has a friend that is participating. More like being a support system. We have both kind of been not exactly on track with WW lately, and trying to come up with something to help re-kickstart our weight loss. I have been overly addicted to hot wings lately, and her ice cream, so we are both giving those up for 41 days. We have also decided to start something, we have pledged to stay on plan for 41 days. To make sure of this, we are both putting 41 dollars (a dollar a day) in, and each day we stay on plan, we put a dollar in our individual pot. If we don't stay on plan, we have to put a dollar into the other person's pot. At the end of it, we are going to do something special with the money, like a pedicure or something. I am also giving up plenty of fish, the dating website I am on. And she has pledged to write a blog a day, which she says normally helps her stay on plan and stay accountable.
We have also gotten her husband in on it too. He is giving up chips, pledging to do pushups and situps each day, and we are all pledging to go to a local park each Sunday to run/walk together. I am very excited due to the fact I have a pretty nice support system helping in this whole Lent process.
So on to the best pickup line ever. See, I am 5'10, and I normally never date anyone shorter than me. Well this guy, I previously had talked about before on here, had approached me on plenty of fish wanting to date me. He was 5'8, and there was no way I was gonna date him. Well he one day messaged me and made me laugh asking me how my tall a** was doing, it made me laugh, so I gave him my number. When he finally messaged me he asked how I was doing. I said fine, what are you up to. He then used the best pickup line I can ever imagine. He said not much, just got home from buying my new step ladder. It made me laugh so hard because he needed a step ladder because I was so tall. It worked.
Anyway...I hope everyone is doing good losing weight. I wish everyone good fortune with their weight loss journey.
Until next time...
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