I committed to give up all obvious sugar except birthday cakes, which ended up being more like “give up obvious sugar except offered” – there were 3 non-birthday occasions where I caved in. I’m still happy with the result: Before this lent, I often found myself in the situation that I saw some sweets, knew that I actually don’t like them that much, but ate them anyway. At least during the days since end of lent (2 days earlier for me because I went to Italy and the traditional and only breakfast available seems to be cookies and jam), I was able to resist precisely these situations, and I hope it won’t take too much effort to keep it that way.
I learned from this experience that commitments are very effective for me personally (as opposed to “generally a good thing”) and I want to do this more regularly than just once a year.
I committed to give up all obvious sugar except birthday cakes, which ended up being more like “give up obvious sugar except offered” – there were 3 non-birthday occasions where I caved in. I’m still happy with the result: Before this lent, I often found myself in the situation that I saw some sweets, knew that I actually don’t like them that much, but ate them anyway. At least during the days since end of lent (2 days earlier for me because I went to Italy and the traditional and only breakfast available seems to be cookies and jam), I was able to resist precisely these situations, and I hope it won’t take too much effort to keep it that way.
I learned from this experience that commitments are very effective for me personally (as opposed to “generally a good thing”) and I want to do this more regularly than just once a year.