<p>S2 moved off campus his soph. year. Now a jr., he is twenty-five pounds lighter than when he arrived at college as a freshman. His method of keeping it off is simple. He only eats two meals a day. It’s a pretty good walk from his off campus house to class and he says sleep is way more important than breakfast,lol.</p>
<p>In his case the weight loss was good. He was a lineman on the football team all thru h.s. and had really put on too many pounds his senior yr. He’s dropped from 226 to 200 lbs. at 6 ’ tall.</p>
<p>My daughter lost weight in the first 10 weeks but then was very stressed and unhappy from January on and gained about 15 pounds over the next six months. We turned it into a “teaching moment” in that she had never had to worry about her weight before. Over the summer she met with a nutritionist who worked with her likes and dislikes and her lifestyle (dorm living, little time for cooking, etc.) and started making sure she exercised daily. She rode her bike everywhere at school but it wasn’t enough to offset the increase in calories. She dropped about 5 pounds over the summer and now that she is off campus she is still following what she learned from the nutritionist and has to bike further to classes so more weight is coming off slowly. </p>
<p>It took her 6 months to gain the weight so we’re looking at about 1 year to lose it. She’s not crazy about what she eats and drinks, just more aware. It was a revelation to her that she could drop $1 on the table of the bake sale and leave the cupcake. There can be one or two bake sales everyday on campus for some organization, if you “give and take” from each one, on go the pounds!</p>