• PUT AWAY THE CHOCOLATE •

Well, women especially - who have started to use these 40 days to give up chocolate or sweets and all things sugary/fatty. No cheese for a month and a half in the name of Jesus. Really?

I respect the use of anything in order to motivate yourself, but I do feel as though it’s almost always about fixing the outside rather than what we are like on the inside; as a person. We treat our bodies like show dogs, trying to look as appealing as we can to onlookers, but what price does this come at? 

I’d like to take a bad habit and cut it out of my life for 40 days. I think my need to doubt myself and to not trust others needs a more than sizeable kick.

I don’t think we realise how many bad things we say to ourselves, and to others, about ourselves. We are our own worst enemy and not being able to trust holds us back from trying new things as well as new possibilities. Doubting what other people say has brought me a lot of unwanted problems and I want to try something new this year by giving it up for lent. So, this Easter I am cleansing my mind of negative vibes and the barriers I put up against myself. Surely, actually feeling self-motivated and happy is so much better than just giving up chocolate for 40 days, only to fall back into the same routine of a bar a day from then on? Maybe, being happy will motivate you to have food in pleasurable amounts, rather than having to forbid yourself from eating it completely. Maybe feeling happy will not just change your diet or how you look, but it will change how you feel, and how others see you.

So give up all the bad foods you want for lent, but let that bar of chocolate take your negativity, self-doubt, unmotivated qualities with it.