I am finishing up college (I will be graduating in April :carrot:. Real salaries, come to me!!!) and it has been really hard. I don't live on campus so I didn't have to fight the temptation of the cafeteria, but there was still the supermarket right outside the door. And who wants to cook when you have finals/midterm/a social life? Frozen dinner and snacks are so much more faster (they go on my thighs faster too). Nice to know other people are in the same boat. :hug:

I'm in my first year of graduate school and yes, it is extremely hard to keep up with school work while trying to find time to eat healthily and get to the gym. But I still get up every morning to get in a workout. I want to walk across the stage at my goal weight.

My gown was tight for my last graduation ceremony I'll be damned if I have to repeat that horrid experience.

I'm a language major so my course load is, to me, not that bad. I also live at home so I don't really have to worry about food.

My biggest issues are that my sister loves eating out and I have a hard time getting myself to exercise regularly.

Actually, the most upsetting part for me has also just been feeling incomplete in myself at school. I haven't put myself out there the way I'd like to because I feel so overweight. I know it's silly and when I do put myself out there people usually respond very nicely but I still catch myself not jumping into conversations with my classmates and not going to clubs and stuff. :(

But now that I'm almost 30lbs down and I've been binge free for a few months I'm starting to feel a little more open.

My biggest problem the last couple weeks has been the fact that by the time I get home I am too lazy to cook. And my husband doesn't cook. So we keep eating out :( I've surprisingly somehow managed to maintain this past month or so.

Oh lordy,
How do you all stay in control of your stress? I find when I am stressed I make terrible food choices.

I came home this weekend to relax a bit with my family, ended up going to Home Depot with my mom, fixing our one toilet, throwing away a mouse that one of my pets killed (I have six cats and two large dogs), having tacos, being called up by my sister around midnight and told to lock down the house due to a creepy person outside trying to enter my neighbor's house, calling the police, being and then around 1:30am my kitten found an open space in the window (my room is the attic and does not have window screens) and decided to go be a Tomcat.

Don't even get me started on how far behind I am in my thesis work either. >.<

Oh I totally feel you on the stress eating Davi!!! If I can make myself go to the gym and do a long sweaty cardio workout helps ALOT with the stress cravings. It exhausts me and I feel a little less stressed.

The hard part is making myself to do it, when I'm stressed I do not want to expend energy, I want to veg on the couch and not think and eat things that are yummy.

Eating and naps. That's all that is on my mind now lol. It is terrible!

I'm hitting that wall too with midterms coming up! Im serious tho, try adding in a short workout, it can help alot

I find with exercise and school work, scheduling is key. I don't know about all of you, but I'm practically obsessive compulsive with a planner. If I pencil in a workout, I will do it. No matter what. Even though I've put on a fair amount of weight during my 2 (soon to be 3) years of law school, I haven't stopped exercising 4-6 days a week.

Now if only diet could be as easy...lol...I guess we all have our tough spots.

I'm a student too, agree that scheduling is the key - just need to schedule in a time to make a schedule ;)

hi everyone~

Special Education Grad student here. Working full time in a school as a para. Husband is in the Army and we live overseas and we're moving back to the states next summer but we have no idea where yet. Can you say stressed? I really need to find time to exercise for my mental health too. If exercise were a class I'd be at the gym all day, but it's not, so it's not a priority, but my body needs to be.

Hey all!
Glad to see we have some support going on from people of our own point of views!
I seriously understand the stress and not having time for ANYTHING.... I think my freshman year we came up with a saying (heard it from somewhere I think) That you only get to pick 2 out of 3: Social life, Sleep, or Education... Mostly I have to choose Education, hands down, because thats what Im here paying for, and then I struggle with choosing between Sleep of Social life... Social ususally wins....
I've found that sleep is a rare commodity here at school... I am lucky if I get 6 hours of sleep during the weekdays (usually closer to 4).... I don't know how I function half the time...
I mean seriously... I just took my midterm for my Senior Capstone class, and didn't sleep more than 6 hours in 3 days because of trying to finish other hw, do my other obligations, and also study for the dang midterm...
I usually take walks at night to relieve stress, as well as try to get my daily exercise in....