Week One and Two: Give up booze.
Week Three: Additionally give up the refined sugar.
Week Four: Go vegan (diet wise).
Week Five: Additionally give up wheat products.
Week Six: Additionally give up caffeine. (Yes, by this point it’s all about herbal tea, fruits and veggies, rice, legumes.)
I know that given how much I subsist on tea, biscuits and chocolate for most of the year, this little ‘vacation from vice’ that I do annually is probably all that’s been standing between me and a massive coronary for years . . . but that said, the ‘Lenten Fast’ can never go fast enough.
