<p>Don’t use the PCO as an excuse. My physician put me on birth control pills for PCO and 20 years ago the talked about “the wedge” to practically cure PCO. I believe that now it can be done laproscopically. Please check with your doctor. There are things that can help. Don’t use it as an excuse to eat. I know you probably crave carbs. EAT Protein. and lots of veggies. It really will help.</p>
<p>I’ve found that sometimes exercise can be detrimental in terms of pure weight loss. Because when I exercise, I am hungry afterwards, and it wouldn’t surprise me if I ate more calories than I burned and thus did worse than if I had just went to sleep or something. This kind of explains why I lost like 10 pounds when I just sat around the house for 1-2 weeks doing nothing (I don’t remember why I locked myself up); I was never hungry. I’m back to exercising now, but I really try to eat less after exercising. </p>
<p>And what seems to work is basic calorie count. Breakfast= cereal and banana (cereal is about 200 cals). Waffles with syrup=killer. I kind of just realized that. Lunch=sandwich or some fruit with soda (sandwich=500-700 calories?). Dinner I try to keep under 800. This equates to a personal pizza, a personal mac and cheese, and anything under that (Panera bread bowl) which are all quite filling. Add in some snacks (probably like 300?). This is a large day in terms of food for me. Sometimes I don’t have enough time for a sandwich because of work. But it still is less than 2000 calories. So, this “diet”, which rarely leaves me hungry, and playing a bit of basketball at work, working itself (caddying, which burns like 1500 calories), and doing crunches in front of TV at night, keeps me in a calorie deficit. And on days when I’m not in a calorie deficit, I try to avoid fat calories. Those are bad.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with calories from fat… this isn’t the 80s anymore. All you really need to worry about is getting enough protein/good fats/vitamins and limiting calories. Other than that, maybe glycemic index, I say maybe because it isn’t really proven that GI matters for fat loss in a caloric deficit. It isn’t even proven that eating “healthy” foods matters in a caloric deficit. I still watch GI during a cut, though, just in case.</p>
<p>College is what you make of it. If you obsess over your weight, constantly point out your flaws, don’t participate in social activities, thats your choice and it will show to others. Yes people may judge you for your weight, but many people will judge you for something.</p>
<p>I’ve lost 60+ pounds and people do treat me very differently. But I’m still judged, just for different things. And I choose not to associate with those people who feel the need to constantly obsess about my choices, they need lives of their own.</p>
<p>I can say that college kids don’t care as much. However I was overweight in HS, not college. Some people do still make “fat jokes” but they are stupid people who I didn’t enjoy being around. I like jokes concerning all types of people, but these jokes were just meant to be hurtful and not funny.</p>
<p>All of the heavier of people that I’ve met in college seem to be having a good time, just like everyone else. They’ve also seemed to have far more confidence than me, which I envy. (o:</p>
<p>Uh, Senior0991 maybe you should stop doing 40+ minutes of aerobics…that’s what causes the hunger pangs. I spend under 20 minutes doing anaerobic work (post-resistance) and never feel famished. Hell, any hunger I feel is quenched by a few cups of water.</p>
<p>Ok, this is the internet and everyone is 6’, 300 lbs @ 6 percent bf right?</p>
<p>guess what? I’ll put down 100 bucks that says NO ONE ON THIS SITE or anywhere else can build 20-30 lbs of DRY muscle (not fat, not water, no glycogen storage), with or without anabolics, in 2-3 months.</p>
<p>Its an easy 100 bucks, right? C’mon, prove me wrong.</p>
<p>All I ask for proof is a before and after DEXA scan to show your lean mass/bone mass/fatty mass, ec content. Whats a DEXA scan? Exactly. Of course, what do I know? This is the internet, where you guys are putting on 10 lbs of muscle a month…</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. On very strong doses of anabolics you can’t gain 20 lbs of muscle in 3 months. </p>
<p>You have 0 clue *** you are talking about (shalashaska64). Anyone with more than 2 years of strength training experience will be LUCKY to gain more than 10-16 lbs in a year of muscle, seriously. I really challenge anyone to prove me. 100 bucks, no joke.</p>
<p>muscle7 is right on for the most part.</p>
<p>I don’t think weight matters any more or any less in college than it does in high school. How weight affects you in college depends on the way you view yourself!</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - A Fat Rant.](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTJQIBI1oA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTJQIBI1oA)</p>
<p>haters to the left</p>
<p>Its been a few weeks since my open challenge! What? No one is cranking out pounds of muscles each week? Rofl.</p>
<p>^^lol cause you are right. It takes years unless you are on roids lol</p>
<p>Honestly people have no clue what a respectable amount of muscle gain is, naturally or unnaturally. A beginner, in his first year of training (notice I said HIS, women can expect probably half the #) can gain possibly around 20-30 lbs of MUSCLE (+fat,+glycogen,+water,+bone) under optimal conditions. Sadly, that number takes a dive every year after. After 20 years of lifting, a lifter will be pretty shocked to even put on five lbs lean tissue in a year. So when you hear stuff that promises 20 lbs in 3 weeks or 3 months…yeah right. For an intermediate trainee (natural), 10-20 lbs of mass in a year is VERY good progress.</p>