What have you given up for Lent?

Takeaways. Nearly broke yesterday after feeling depressed but toughed it through

Any other ex-catholics who maintain lots of the culture? I even go to confession sometimes, it's basically a minimalist type of drop-in therapy

Eating meats

What the Church mandates.

Lent has very specific prescriptions, you can't just stop drinking soda and think you're done filthy lapsed lazy Americans.

Where can I see that prescriptions?

I've given up cheating on my wife with ugly and loud black transsexuals

It's all theater though. Once you've kneeled before darkness and tasted her sweet nectar, there is no going back. I pray I don't give my wife an STD but it's inevitable at this point. The depravity and risk is what does it for me in the first place; I can't remove the danger because the danger is the specific aspect I'm looking for. Every repulsive fuck is a dance with death and the collapse of my marriage and family. No condom. No hygiene. No love. No future.

All that remains is the cold embrace of death

Can someone give me a QR on the effective point of lent to a non Christ cuck?

Doing regular fasting Wednesdays and Fridays. Took one off because I was sick. Eating like a fat bastard Sundays so I don't get sick again. I like Luke better.

periodically depriving yourself of something allows you appreciate that thing's place in your life and resets the hedonic treadmill of constantly needing an upgrade

stoics did tons of this negative visualisation stuff and they were mad happy brah

It's a start on good discipline

Alcohol.
This is by far the longest I've gone without a drink in like 6 years. I feel better already.

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things that I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.

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is this real life

How can you give up masturbation? Anyone please tell me a magical method

Lapsed read here but not him. You have one large meal a day and one small meal, no eggs, no milk, no meat. It's where the fish on Fridays thing comes from, and you're meant to do that every Friday and for hardcore people they do it all of Lent. In Lent, most people only do it Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, if they practise at all, though some of the very lapsed still do it for those days like how some apostate Mormons keep wearing the underwear. Some people do a total fast on those days because they do an ordinary fast the rest of Lent. You're also meant to totally fast before Communion, so your best time to catch the traditionalists or hardcore believers is the earliest Mass on Sunday.

Stop touching yourself.

Isn't one.

nofapsolideo.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/how-i-did-70-days-of-nofap-on-hardmode-without-breaking-a-sweat-after-7-years-of-failure/

Read this though. Avoid temptation. Resist temptation when you must, but the best is to avoid it to begin with so you don't have anything to resist.

I don't know anymore myself.

There is no reason to stop. Don't fall for internet bro-science

Thank you I thought it was just no meat on Fridays. I fucked up last Friday. People think religion should meet their needs so this "thousands year old tradition" it's not in validity nowadays. And it's totally the other way around, religion is not what you think it should be, it is what it is. So this spread like fire and I got infected with their self made vision of religion. Right now I'm trying to cure myself.
About the Eucharistic fast nobody nowadays takes it seriously at least where I live
>bro that's from like the past century, update yourself!

First post, best post. Would've have written the same if you hadn't beat me to it.

some people have a real problem though. read some of the goon/edging threads that pop up on trash or gif - these guys jack off for like 8 hours a day and give themselves ED and extreme social anxiety

i wouldn't be surprised if genuine 12-step programs for porn addiction become popular over the next decade.

imagine how retarded anti-alcohol groups were in the 1900s or whatever. that's nofap today - damaged people looking at a problem but without the framework to describe or deal with it

Thanks. Magnificent read. The scientific facts convinced me a little more. Fuck biology, let's ascend
>It’s important to know that these sexual ‘cues’ result in the release of endorphins into your system, which makes you feel interested, aroused, and warm and fuzzy, but also shuts down your prefrontal cortex (the higher, more rational part of your brain) which is telling you that you shouldn’t fap. For this reason, you need to block out the sexual thought or mental image immediately

hows that different from browsing Yea Forums for 8 hours a day or working for 8 hours?

Fap and smoking
Tried to get rid of alchool but I drink at every meal so whatever

constant posting is probably just normal depression, constant working offers some utility

jacking off that long
a) is potentially genuinely neurologically addictive
b) physically damages your body
c) removes the possibility of healthy romantic/sexual life
d) is totally non-productive

i grant that addiction is difficult to define, and you can have an unhealthy relationship with the internet generally or your job

what are you basing this off of?

Fap

Unironicly real lent is just bread and maybe some olive oil everyting else has been added as cope for people who can't handle it.

Pray the rosary.

no fap lent

talking to nofap people, imagining how it affects their lives versus the experience of a 'normal' NEET or a workaholic

my personal experience is pretty moderate and normal

hope