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United States4024 Posts
So last year i finished my 1st year of college, going for 2nd year now when school starts back up pretty soon. During this time, i couldn't help notice all the people that have put on so much weight after their first year. I feel like if i can notice THEIR weight gains, they definitly put on at least 10lbs+
During high school, i never really gave a crap about what I ate, i ate whenever i want, and whatever i wanted all the time and never put on any pounds at all. However, during college, my habits would come and bite me in the ass.
In the beginning of the school year, i'd be fascinated with the amount/variety of food offered at the school. (My school's cafeteria is apparently much better than others). As a result my old home diet of
-Cereal for breakfast
-Cheeseburger/fries or a sandwhich for lunch
-Rice and home made food
Snack:fruits, and some chips
Turned into
-Breakfast: 2 boxes of cereal + milk + 1 cheese bagel with cream cheese
-Lunch: A quesedilla with chip/soda
-Dinner pasta with white sauce with chips/soda
Snacks include: cookies, chocolate/yogourt flavored pretzles, gummie worms...etc.
In addition with these high calorie fat foods i ate during college, i also attended quite a few parties 1st semester, and drinking tons of alcohol. Almost drinking hard 1-2 times a weak every weak for like a good month before i cut back...lol.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for me to notice my weight gains.
The most i think i've ever put on was an increase of about 10-15lbs(how stereotypical ._.)., and thats WITH me running cross country. On a side note though, even though i gained lbs in college, it was also the first time i started lifting.
However, as soon as i notice such a gain in weight, and a protrusion in my belly i quickly cut back and started watching what i eat. I also stopped going to all parties 2nd semester because i realized that wasn't really my thing, plus i lost my 5k scholarship by .01 GPA -_-....
So now i'm back at home, and after 1st year college, i've put on a total of 5lbs, but i believe its mostly muscle cuz it' also when i started lifting, and i lost my small developing gut that i had from college.
I'm trying to keep my good habits of running 5-6days a week, and lifting 3-4times a week when school starts back up, with eating healthy as well. I also began looking at nutrition information as much as possible now, i try to avoid processed foods as much as possible, i also try not eating high fructose corn syrup if it's labled 1st or 2nd in the ingredients, unless its ketchup or steaksauce. I hope to keep my good habits..
How much weight have u put on after high school?
 
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Since I've left highschool, I've gained about 15 kilos. It's been almost 5 years though.
I attribute it to alcohol and my love for junk food!
Maybe one day I'll care enough to trim down a bit lol
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I've put on about 30 pounds since graduation (15 months ago). Thankfully, it's mostly muscle. There's so much time to go to the gym in college! Take advantage of it while you can, working 50+ hours a week this summer has shown me just how little time there's going to be after school.
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I have plans.
When I'm stressed out, go play some ITG or Pump it Up.
That'll control my fat for a while =P
(During highschool senior year, I think I gained about 10 pounds... and lost most of them during Summer when I played over 150+ rounds of Pump it Up, mostly lvl 17+)
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I moved to Sweden to do a masters, managed to lose 6-7 kilos even though I eat regularly in large amounts...
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Funny how I lost weight my freshman year of college.
Combination of stress, bad eating habit, sleeping habit, etc.
I hope I gain them through weight lifting though 
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I weighed about 135 lbs in high school, then probably 120-125 during university, then back up to 135 now. Always been a lean/skinny guy, but man during university never had a "regular eating habit." Didn't really have the time or energy to hit the gym (~35 hours classes a week + ~35 hours off-campus studying time + part time job). Now that I'm done university though, back into regular hours and I think I'll aim to go up to 140-145 to be in the healthy range for my height.
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Turned into
-Breakfast: 2 boxes of BACON+ BACON+ 1 BACON bagel with BACON and cheese
-Lunch: A BACON PACK with chip/soda
-Dinner BACON with MORE BACON with chips/soda
fixed that for you, that was my diet last quarter
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im about to enter my 1st year of college and im on my school's meal plan. ive started to weightlifting and dieting (1 month into it) and im pretty scared about the school food heh.
make sure you're eating good (complex) carbs and staying away from bad (simple carbs). bad carbs like white bread, white rice, sugars, white potatoes, are fast digesting and cause an insulin spike and put your body in a fat-storing mode. also conflicts with hgh production i think, but im not too sure on that. a time when it's ok to eat bad carbs is after your workout though.
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On August 11 2011 22:28 don_kyuhote wrote:Funny how I lost weight my freshman year of college. Combination of stress, bad eating habit, sleeping habit, etc. I hope I gain them through weight lifting though
This is me. When I get very nervous, I literally can't eat.
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United States24799 Posts
I didn't gain any noticeable weight as an undergrad... the dining hall closed at 7pm on weekends and I wasn't close to any food alternatives... also I tended to eat the same as I did at home.
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When I and my peers first got to university in 2006 a great many of them ballooned. One girl I know gained probably 15-20 lbs. in the first 4 months. When I saw her in January I basically bluntly told her that she'd gained weight - I'm kind of honest like that. By second year she'd [green]lost it all[/greed], and she said my comments were an influencing factor. She's finished school now and back living at home, and she's never looked better.
For me personally I had trouble gaining weight in high school. I played hockey 20 hours per week. Come university I stopped hockey and only worked out sparingly, so I went from about 185 lbs. to 205-210 lbs. by about the same time, although at 6' 2" it distributes pretty well. In the same January that I saw that girl, I started going to the YMCA 3 times per week, doing a full body circuit. I went down to about 189 lbs, my ideal weight ever since, and I looked darn good. One of my old hockey mates saw me in February of 2008 at the gym, and I overheard him say I looked really fit.
Since then I've fluctuated between 190 lbs. to about 205 lbs, always cutting back whenever I broke the 200 barrier. I seem to lose a bit of weight whenever I live at school and gain it when I'm at home. Food costs money, and I'm a poor student.
Right now I'm sitting at 204, but I've been working out around 3 times per week all summer long. I'm more muscular than I ever was, and I've upped my weights. I wish I was a bit leaner (I was leaner and 190 lbs. in May, but I was pretty scrawny then - I hardly ate for about a week because I had an acute depressive episode.) I'm adding cardio to my in-between days to compensate - I biked 100km in two days just this week.
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I'm about to finish up orientation... and in the last two days I've probably eaten more than I would in a week at home @_@
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I gained around 30 pounds since my high school graduation, so 30 pounds in around 13-14months.
Been working out so its not fat! Gotta love college for the freedom.
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It's been a roller coaster for me... I actually lost weight in my first year because I was so stressed with dealing with work and commuting to school. TBH my diet in high school wasn't so great either, so I guess when my first year of college came around I was able to cut back completely on all the unhealthy snacks i would have, and instead opt for the nice tasty avocado smoothies in the area as a snack. But then I also did a daily ritual of cardio while watching anime so that really helped as well... if only I knew the importance of lifting back then..
Then I took a semester off and my body literally went to shit. I didn't want to take a semester off so I was pretty depressed and drank a lot on my own and abandoned my usual running routine. As much as you guys say cardio sucks, it's still beneficial to people who don't do any exercise at all. I must've gained like 15 lbs over those few months, and felt horrible. When I got back to school, I thought I would get back to my usual routine but I didn't and stagnated in my weight for the entire semester.
Only now, after a good visit to the TL health and fitness thread have I fixed the way I eat and exercise. I think I've lost about 2-3 good healthy pounds so far, and excitingly enough I think I've put on more muscle as well, especially in the core area which is awesome.
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I know more people that have lost weight than gained weight. I dunno how people gain weight here, you gotta walk everywhere and it's pretty far from the residential colleges to main campus, it's a lot of walking. You gotta really over eat to put on pounds, I dunno, not really a problem I guess, everyone I see in classes aren't really over weight either.
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FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
I gained nearly 35 pounds last year. First semester this was due in part to muscle mass, but after Christmas I got lazy and stopped exercising. Also eating five or six meals a day probably didn't help. 125 to 160 for 5'8'' is pretty silly.
Thankfully summer helped. Back to muscle!
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On August 11 2011 23:39 Count9 wrote:
I know more people that have lost weight than gained weight. I dunno how people gain weight here, you gotta walk everywhere and it's pretty far from the residential colleges to main campus, it's a lot of walking. You gotta really over eat to put on pounds, I dunno, not really a problem I guess, everyone I see in classes aren't really over weight either.
You are from China. Whole different ball of wax.
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After reading the responses, I'm too ashamed to say how much weight I gained over 6 years of college. Needless to say, it was a lot.
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I went from 147 when I graduated high school to 147 three years later. Pretty drastic change, I know. I attribute it to the fact that I don't stuff my face when I eat and that I rock climb and/or run 3 times a week when it isn't freezing cold or raining.
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