Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday. Which is also the first day of Lent. Lent is forty weekdays starting with Ash Wednesday and ends the day before Easter, April 20.

Every year I give something up. One year it was pop.  I didn't start drinking it again until years later. I occasionally have a pop now, but it wasn't like it was in the past. I might have one once a week. I have also given up chips, cookies and chocolate. But I have always gone back to eating those regularly.

This year I'm giving up snacking in between meals.  When I lost all my weight back in the 2010, that is what helped me do it. The reason I'm doing that this year is because I find myself in the kitchen a lot eating chips or cookies for no reason. It is just a habit. I hope these next 40 days can break that mindless ending habit.