[Serbrider]

Well... I'm determined to be different from the majority of college freshmen (at least... the ones I know). Instead of GAINING the Freshman 15... I will lose it.



Anyone with me?

[Ryler832]

I graduated a few years ago. I'll cheer you on from the sidelines

[graw]

I'm Irish, and just about to begin life at university. I think I'd be what you refer to as a "freshman" too; a first year.

I am so determined to lose the weight too. And I'm so aware that people put on weight in the first few months.

I'm delighted to find someone with the same goal.

GO TEAM

Do you have much to lose?

[Astrild]

I just started part-time, but I'm in the same boat. I think as long as I keep track of what I'm eating, I should be fine (in theory.) So far so good...

[Serbrider]

Well... from 220... 80 lbs... from here... around 70... possibly 80... depends on where my body prefers to be.

Nice to know there are others out there!!! We can do it!!!

[sgregg]

How about the Senior seventeen? Haha!! I'm just starting my senior year and it's time to let this weight go BEFORE I get into my career field.

[Serbrider]

Haha... you can be a senior, sophomore, junior, freshman, or on your fifth, eighth, twenty second, or whatever year.

[sgregg]

Well, let's not talk about how many years I've been going to college. Hahaha!!

[munstermommy]

Serbrider-I am done with undergrad and post grad but wanted to chime in . I did the Freshman 15 in REVERSE lol, but not necessarily by choice. I was playing soccer for my college and we trained LIKE CRAZY, more than anything I have ever done. It was great, although I was almost into the realm of "too skinny" since I didn't have time (or the thought really) of eating enough and correctly for all the working out I was doing. So I was insane, like a size 1 or 2. Only problem, when I stopped, I put on that 15 plus 5 more lol! It took me some time during college to figure out the "best" weight for me, and how I looked and felt best. You will work it out, and slow and steady for that reverse 15 is the way to go! Keep up the good work!

[celly123]

Good luck! I managed to dodge the 15 myself, but I promptly put on 19 pounds in the first 2 months of summer from sitting at my office job all day!

There are plenty of healthy food choices to be made but I think the key is squeezing in exercise!

good luck

[Aclai4067]

It can be done. I lost 40 lbs late freshman/early sophomore year. But I must admit, I really struggled and gained a lot junior/senior year. Keep your focus and don't put your health by the wayside when you get busy!

[misspear2012]

I'm 5 credit hrs away from seniordom and managed to fend off the freshman 15 successfully until last semester when I started taking language courses and realized the magic of Starbucks for studying...I'm not a freshman but I'll be getting my college ring soon and graduating and you can bet your sweet cheeks that my family is going to mob me with cameras and I wanna look like a sexy mofo when I walk across that stage! So, power to you sister, I'm right behind you!

[sontaikle]

good luck! you can do it!

I'm finished with both undergrad and grad school, but I managed to maintain my weight of 200 pounds through both. I think it had a little to do with staying home for college and being too cheap to buy food, and mostly to do with making time for exercise throughout my college years

[Kadkins16]

Good Luck!

I wish I would have that motivation my freshman year, now I'm stuck trying to lose 80 lbs my senior year.

[Serbrider]

Thanks guys. I'm excited... I felt my backbone today... for the first time in who knows how long. It's weird... and I know I've been told that liking to feel your bones is the "first step to anorexia/bulimia/other eating disorder". But... I disagree. I like my bones... and I want to be able to feel the ones that I feel on all my thin friends... (not that I go around feeling their bones... )

Today I ate a lot less than I meant to... I had a banana for breakfast, a mango and two avocadoes for a late lunch... and that's it. I was running around most of the day... and I'm starting to get disgusted with the food everyone else is eating, like pizza, hot dogs (ok... never liked hot dogs... but would at least eat them), etc etc. So... I just didn't eat... telling myself I would eat later. And I really meant it... I would eat later. But now it's 9:30 PM and I had to leave the football game early because I was very close to passing out due to no food in my system and not as much water as I needed.

Urgh... that's the ONLY part I hate about dieting. I begin to forget that I'm supposed to eat... and so I don't... and end up with like.. literally... 500-1000 calories for the day...

But then again... I have other days where I have like... 1500-2000... so maybe it's evening out? I dunno. I'm loving this raw fruits and veggies thing... and I've lost a lot of weight so far, I can both feel and see my collarbone (not well... but it's there... ), and I've lost inches all over me... so there are results... and I feel great (apart from my stupid depression or whatever it is... now that's just plain annoying now).

So yeah... I'll lose that freshman 15... class of 15... 15 lbs down. (technically though... I'm class of 14... I'm graduating a semester early)