Lent status report

We’re not quite halfway because of the Sundays therein, but close enough.

This year I gave up red meat and alcohol, and I haven’t had any problem. In fact, it’s been so easy that if I continue on a consumption/denial path for next year, I need to go full vegan (as I would have this year had I prepared myself better). After Easter I shall welcome the opportunity to reintroduce these two things constructively and hold the line on any excess, however slight. I have a ten-drink-per-week limit (with a few rules) that works well as a system for me if I just make the slightest effort to follow it.

When I came out of my Lent of lacto-ovo vegetarianism last year I said I’d moderate red meat, and then I didn’t. I’m thinking more seriously and farther in advance about it this time. What if I gave myself, say, 24 red meat meals per year, with a maximum of 3 in a single month permitted? That’d be enough to have a steak or a really great pizza once in a while, but it wouldn’t be so many that I’d be in danger of pissing them away on fast food or something. I could even sneak an Anaheim Chili feast in there once in a while.

Did you give up anything for Lent? How’s it going?

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