College Student Lose Weight

How to lose weight as a college student?

Eat granola...or wheat chips, ... stop eating potatoe chips, doritios, fritos, cheetos,....stay away from anything made by frito lay.

No soda, no carbonated bevorages,..... and no coffee, and no energy drinks.... College students like you are notoruis for these drinks....... Carbonated bevorages... are bad for your bones, and make you fat... they spike your blood sugar....and will cause athritis..after years ,and years... of sucking them down...and you also dont want cancer or diabetes....so i would suggest you stop drinking them.

Coffee.... no coffee.... all that milk and sugar you put in it... or get with it ...is making you fat
it also acts as an appetite surpressent.....A lot of folks try to substitute it for breakfast.... Which is bad.... because your slowing your metabolism down when you skip meals

Drink , Tea, Juice, and water


No weed, No cigs, and No Beer....
esp beer..... beer is an apputitie stimulant.... its just like soda.. ... Beer slows down your metabolism... greatly.......

It is something that sumos... wrestlers drink with thier meals...... because.... it slows digestion... when food sits in your stomach...for a long period of time...and you go to sleep... it is converted to fat.

Edit: Well i guess you can have your coffee...as long as you dont substitute it for breakfast

If you want to loose weight.... Breakfast is the most important meal..... A large breakfast will boost/speed up your metabolism....and you will not be as hungry in the evening

Eat a Massive Breakfast
Snacks: Fruit...
Average lunch
Snacks: Fruit, lots of fruit
Small/smaller dinner

Start carrying a water bottle.... drink 64 ounces... or more every day

College student lose weight?

Although exercise can help a bit for weight loss, dieting is more effective than exercise.

To avoid regaining lost weight you must not lose any more than 10 lbs a month. After you reach your target weight you need to go on a maintenance diet for the rest of your life.

Supper needs to be abolished as supper calories are even more fattening than dinner calories as you don't burn them up with most of the day behind you. Breakfast calories are the least fattening followed by lunch calories as you burn them up with most of the day ahead of you.

It is probably better not to have any snacks as they are all extra calories. Very low calorie snacks such as raw fruit are OK but not dried fruit as that can be fattening in large amounts.

Reducing your intake of fats and calories will help but your calorie intake should never drop below 1,200 calories per day if you want to be healthy.

Reducing your intake of junk sugar will help. Foods or drinks such as coke and other soft drinks, desserts, sweets, cakes, cookies or biscuits must be eliminated or substantially reduced. Cereals must be restricted to those that contain less than 15% total sugars and junk sugar loaded foods such as pizzas must be avoided. Junk sugar bowls must be abolished. Oatmeal, oat bran, wheat bran and wheat germ are good cereals that can help for weight loss.

Junk sugar health hazards are discussed in a web search for "sugar health hazards".

The natural sugars in fruit and vegetables are OK as they metabolise to glucose slowly due to their high fiber content so they have a low to medium GI value. Fruit and vegetables are low in calories and are not fattening. Most fruit and vegetables are metabolism boosting foods and that helps for weight loss. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are exceptions and can be fattening.

Very high fiber foods such as wheat germ and wheat bran can also help for weight loss.

Fattening combinations that you need to avoid include combinations of protein foods (such as eggs, meat, poultry, sea food, cheese and nuts) with starchy carbohydrates (such as bread, cereals, pasta, rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn).

How can a college student lose weight?

Just like anyone else does in college or not, consume less calories by eating healthy and exercise more.


Avoid any white bread products, fats like butter and oil, mayo. No fried foods. No sugar sodas, juices or snacks. Limit pasta products unless you use whole wheat pasta. Only eat 100% wheat bread products not just wheat or wheat looking breads. Limit cheese and use reduced fat cheeses when you do have it.

Exercise at the least 3 days a week for 45 minutes where you are short of breath enough that its a difficult to talk. I walk on the treadmil 7 days a week 40 minutes 3.7 speed 7.0 incline to burn 469 calories each day.

You can eat snacks just lower calorie ones. I like to have a Smart Ones sundae every week. I have a fudsicle every day, baked cheetos, 100 calorie pack cookies or hostess cakes.

This site is free. You can use their diet or turn it off and enter your own food. They give you a plan and when you reach your calorie, fat, carb etc limits you are done eating and stay within that, exercise and you will lose weight. http://www.sparkpeople.com/ Total support and education on losing weight.

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I lost 20 lbs in college. I just took the group exercise classes. 3 days I focused on cardio classes, took 2 strength classes, and each class had a stretching component to it. (they had a guide for what type of classes to take in the gym brochure.)

For more detail: you should lift 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps so that you're struggling on the last rep with good form. You should work your quads, hams, gluts, lower back, abs, chest, back, shoulder, biceps, and triceps. In pretty much that order (bis/tris should be last, since they're a small group). Squats, lunges, deadlifts, planks, pushups/bench press, overhead press, bent over rows/pull ups should have you covered for all parts of your body. You should be in and out within an hour if you stick with what I said.

As for food: Rainbow diet. Try to eat colorful food everyday. Center your meals around produce, with protein and carbs there as a side. Salad, grilled chicken, and some brown rice would be a good meal. Snack on a handful of nuts and fruit. Eat protein (eggs) and fruit for breakfast. Have leftovers for lunch. You can make awesome salads with every member of the rainbow represented, or eat a different color (red peppers, carrots, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower) everyday. I ate at the dorms, so when there I made awesome salads (since all the prep work was done), but when I moved out, then I did 1 color per day. Of course, changing it up with sauteed or steamed veggies for variety also helped (also, both are quick cooking methods). I also kept junk food on the weekends.

Going to the gym right after class (brain break) was useful, study for 1-2 hours, then dinner break was a good way for me to fit in my schedule (and get lots of sleep, since I like sleeping in).

College student needs to lose weight.?

To be honest, you don't need things like protein supplements and etc. You're already on the right track. Just maintain a balanced diet, eat smaller meals - but eat healthy snacks in between - and keep working out.

Make sure, in your work outs, that you do a combo of aerobic activities to lose the weight, strength training to build muscle, and stretching so you don't hurt yourself.

You are doing the right things already. Keep doing them.

Most universities have athletic trainers and personal trainers in their PE or athletic departments, and those people are often available for consultation with students, so that's worth asking about. Most unis also have actual one credit PE classes, which can be a great way to try something new, and gain skills under the advice of a coach who knows what they're doing.

Tips for a college student to lose weight?

Eat a healthy diet of about 1500 calories a day - you do need to learn to count calories to some degree, and there are tons of sites that will help you with that, as well as the labels on foods. Start keeping a record everyday of what you eat, because we all usually tend to consume more calories than we think we do. Eliminate ALL junk food, sodas, pop, sweets, fried foods, fast foods, fruit juices, and processed foods. Everyday eat a healthy diet of fruit, veggies, a few nuts, lean meat and fish, whole grain breads and cereals, low fat dairy products. Go for a brisk 45 minute walk twice a day if you can, everyday. Climb lots of stairs. Drink plenty of water. If at all possible start a weight lifting/strength training program at a gym and get some instruction from the gym trainer. It will work. Here are a few sites that may help.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie...
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workout...
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-strengthen-chest-muscles-with-wall-pushups.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/wotw2.htm

College Student Losing Weight?

I've always had a similar problem with the gym...I didn't really know how to use the equipment! Just last week, I finally took the plunge and joined Curves, and so far I love it. They actually teach you how to use all the machines, encourage you, and the best part is that you can get an awesome strength and cardio workout in just 30 minutes. I just started, so I can't say what results I'll get, but it is easy to stay motivated there so far.

What I can tell you is that I've seen definite results from keeping a daily record of all my calories on thedailyplate.com. So far, in about 4 months, I've lost 25 pounds. The website is free to join, and you enter in your height, weight, gender and your weight loss goal, with 2 lbs a week being the most. It gives you a recommended daily calorie goal and then you can search for the foods you eat and put them on "your plate" for the day. It automatically adds up all the calories, fat, etc. Oh, and I know that it can be difficult to keep track of calories in foods you eat in a restaurant. However, you can approximate it by entering in the calories in the different ingredients in the dish you are eating. What I found was that I had been eating WAY more calories than I should have been. Keeping religious track of my calories was eye-opening in a way that I never imagined it would be. But it has been the only way that I could succeed in losing weight. I think I tricked myself into thinking things like, "Its just one candy bar," or "Its just a bowl of cereal, so it doesn't really count." The truth is, most things we ingest have calories, so it all counts! I had to keep track of it all to understand just how much I'd been taking in!

I wish you the very best of luck with your goal. Remember, sometimes the weight will come off fast, sometimes you'll hit a plateau for a while that can be frustrating. Don't give up! You are doing something that will make you healthier and feel better about yourself!