Random question: Did you gain the "freshman 15"?
 

No.

Don't be lazy and go and work out. Don't expect to drink 10 beers a night and stay the same weight, unless you do something about the extra intake. Of course, maybe girls have a harder time keeping it off. I don't know.

Nope... I also lost the freshman 15! :D I definitely got skinnier, but I think it was because I wasn't on drill team anymore, so I lost a lot of the muscle that I had. I didn't care though, because I went down 2 sizes. :p

I actually lost weight my Freshman. Wasn't really a good thing. :(

No, but I did gain the "I'm out of college and now I have a desk job" 10.

I didn't really change sizes but I got a lot less toned. Since freshman year I've lost about 30 pounds though.

NO!

Played BaseBall at College!

School Food Was Not That Bad, Well, The Ravioli actually was Damn Good! Of Course as Soon as Told The Dietician how good it was, they dropped it!!!!!!

Did Have a FOOD FIGHT ONE TIME THO!;)

They Blamed Me for That along with a Panty Raid on the Girls Dorm I did not start!:D

I gained more than the freshmen 15. But I gained my second and third year. And after being our for three years I have finally started to loose the wait again.


I guess getting a divorce and getting out of your comfort zone will make you do that.


My advice to freshmen. Don't be lazy workout you will do better in life!

My advice to freshmen. Don't be lazy workout you will do better in life! [/B][/QUOTE]

No, Worry About GPA! Fat can go Bad Grades dont!:(

Since When Did College Food Become So Good?

Hell, I did a Tour of SD State Pen and they ate better than I did and I paid for it at College!

Guard I was with leaned over and said, Clean All of Your Plate! We Have To and We Make the Inmates clean their Plates.!

Hell Asked If I could have Seconds, was bettr Food than I was eating at the College! I paid for the college food!:mad:

No, Worry About GPA! Fat can go Bad Grades dont!:(

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I had bad grades. B/C of my first two years I think I ended up with about a 2.6. Now three yrs out of college making over 50K getting a $600/month raise in May.

I can only imagine how much better I would have done if I would have not gained the weight....b/c if I was working out I would have been more focused at school

Yes, I gained the "freshman 15" - mostly from eating late (past 11pm). Those late night runs to White Castle, eating pizza, etc. all in the name of "studying" added up. Lost most during the summer home though.

Now, like RedRoseSAI, I'm battling the "I sit on my butt for 8-10 hours a day at work" pounds :(

When I graduated from high school I barely weighed 100 pounds...I gained a couple pounds but didn't put on any real weight (40 pounds) until I was a senior and got married. I've lost about 35 of those pounds and wish I would have kept all my old clothes!!!

I didn't gain much the first year but gained a bit my soph/jr. year from living in the house, eating late, going out and not exercising as much as I should have.

I lost about 25 lbs after I graduated putting me about what I was when I was in high school.

I gained about 30 my freshman year. Went to Weight Watchers during the summer and lost 40. Gained 30 my sophomore year. Went to Weight Watchers during the summer and lost 35. Never went home for the summer again and it was all downhill from there...

"Working out" has become really common now but nobody did that when I was in school. Aerobics classes started to get common shortly after I graduated and then gyms started popping up everywhere. They did have an IM building with some workout stuff, but only the super jocks went there.

The food wasn't great, but the bad thing about it was that it wasn't healthy either. The first thing you encountered when you walked in the cafeteria was the desserts, while you waited in line for your entrees. There was a salad bar, but I don't think I ever saw a piece of fruit the entire time I was in school. Everything was high fat, deep fried, calorie laden. They didn't even offer skim milk. When there was nothing decent in the cafeteria, you used your meal card at the snack shop on campus and got nachos. Pizza's were $5 delivered.

Sing it sista.

I lost 45 pounds my freshman year and into that summer, and in not the most healthy of ways. I've kept that off pretty much, but also did gain the "desk job 10 pounds"

Yeah, I gained the Freshman 15 and then some. Lost most of it when I went home that summer...

Then had the yo yo dieting problem

Now I am older and a hell of a lot more wiser

I did. Main reasons being wanting to keep up my grades, having a car and doing anything sportslike (in high school I was on the swim team and varsity tennis team). Overall, I truly believe that cars are the biggest reason why people tend to be on the heavier side in the States, cos most people walk in Europe. I've never eaten fast food either.

You sound just like me. I gained 15+ lbs. freshman year. Lost it when I had mono. Gained it back, lost it, lost too much, gained the weight I wanted, and gained too much. Now I am about the same weight as I was senior year of high school which is good for my height.

In order to avoid the freshman 15 tell your cousin to stay active and to avoid alcohol and eating too much junk.

I lost weight my first year, too. It was a combination of not liking the yucky cafeteria food and having an anxiety disorder that upset my stomach, so I didn't eat a lot. I lived on Rice Krispies. Looking back, I know that I was waaaaaaaaay too skinny, but I didn't really fill out until I turned 20.

yeah i lost about 10 pounds freshmen year and then I gained about 25 last year but i worked out a lot so it was mostly muscle

Today I am going to gain the Thanksgiving 10. :D

Thankfully I don't have this problem...I can't stand turkey :D!

Yes, and then some.

But then I discovered triathlons, and the weight came off then some. I weigh less now than I did in 8th grade. It's awesome. I'm planning on running my first marathon in March, Half-Ironman plans for the summer, and then next year will be my first Iron distance triathlon. I just took some time away from exercise freshman year, but now the workout bug is back with an attitude.

My body didn't develop until after my first year of college in addition to gaining weight. I went from barely a hundred pounds my senior year HS to almost 125 by my sophomore year.

I'd like to think that growing my boobs and ass had a lot to do with it. It was the Freshman 30 for me. :p

I lost about 70 lbs my freshman year. Lived on campus and walked everywhere. Also, began to understand my metabolism. Didnt eat all the time and figured out that I really didnt need to.

Stayed at about 160 till a few years ago then the weight slowly crept up to 185 (desk job). A year ago I made a concentrated effort to lose the weight. I am now down to 155. I'll drop another 5 lbs and then focus on strength training and cut back on the cardio.

I got mono my freshman year and lost 20 pounds. Not a fun way to lose weight.
By the end of college I'd gained all of that back, plus an extra 10 or 15 pounds, and now I weigh about 15 pounds more than that, but I'm working on it.

I agree with this 100%. I don't know if it's just a USA/Rest-of-World, thing though. I'd say it's more city vs suburban. It's a proven fact that people living in American suburbs are heavier than their counterparts in more urbanized areas, simply because city dwellers walk more often.

I gained the fresman 25, but lost it all that summer and then some (not really sure how, maybe just not eating the school's unhealthy food). Didn't gain any back until the I'm married and have a desk job 15 kicked in. Now working on taking it off and - somehow it's harder this time around...

I didn't gain weight till my sophomore year. I lost it my junior year-- lots of exercise. Sadly I have gained the graduate school 15.

Would have been nice to since I am a bean pole. But no can't say I did the food wasn't that great to cause me to gain.

I gained the freshman, sophmore, and junior 30!!! :eek:

I played water polo 5 days a week and did aerobics 3 times a week while in high school and was very fit.. college came and the pounds came with it.. late night, coffee with sugar/cream, pizza, burgers, etc. and the fact that i wasnt working out anymore...

this year (senior year) i finally got my act together and decided that since i would be graduating in May I would loose all the weight i gained here and leave it here when i graduated. I so far have been able to loose 15 of the 30... i work out 5 days a week after work or school ..sometimes its difficult to fit it into my schedule.. but it really has done wonders for my overall stress levels..

:)

I agree. Like many people, I lost weight my freshman year, but gained a lot of it back when I got a car my senior year and moved off campus. I did a lot of walking before I got my car and almost none after.

I lost weight. Mainly cuz I was a broke college student living in a private residence and not cooking.

But now I'm back to normal since I go back home every other weekend and eat as much of my mom's home cooked meals to last me for the entire week :D