<p>So I'm 5ft 11in and currently about 158lbs and considered normal weight by my high school peers and don't appear physically obese in any way. I was wondering how Cal students found time to work out and keep in shape with their busy schedules.</p>
<p>2 options</p>
<h1>1: eat well and work out at RSF</h1>
<h1>2: immediately diet and let all the walking/moving around burn your carbs</h1>
<p>Live @ Foothill or Clark Kerr.</p>
<p>Just kidding, although living farther from campus adds to the activity it takes to get from place to place. Like calfootball2012 says, just monitor yourself and not overindulge in the not-so-healthy but convenient options available (i.e. late night @ Crossroads).</p>
<p>Cal doesn’t really enable the Freshman 15. You’ll probably see the Freshman 5, and if you’ve got REALLY poor dietary patterns you might see the Freshman 10, but the exercise you’ll get just walking/biking to and from class here is…underappreciated.</p>
<p>To my knowledge, I am the only person I know who gained ~15lbs during my Freshman year, and that was because I was trying very hard to gain considerably more.</p>
<p>Don’t drink too much soda. Freshman and sophomore year I drank too much soda, and consequently went from weighing about 120 in high school to 138 at the end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>Avoid the food at the International House dining hall.</p>
<p>I seriously tried to gain weight and ended up the EXACT same weight I was when I left.</p>
<p>Food isn’t good tasting enough/nutritionally bad enough for you to gain too much weight.
Just watch out for late night CR and beware of instant noodles.</p>
<p>I gained about 15 pounds. Then lost them all after I moved away the dorms.</p>
<p>I lived in Clark Kerr and walked to campus nearly everyday and back. I lost 10 lbs.</p>
<p>I only gain weight when people suggest food to me, such as “Do you want to go get some pizza and ice cream?”</p>
<p>Most of the time I’m content with oatmeal & bananas for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch w/ small salad, and steak/pasta/ whatever entr</p>
<p>Lay off the alcohol, done and done. No need to be drinking every single weekend.</p>
<p>Also it’s not that difficult to find time to go to the gym a few times a week.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice you guys!</p>
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I think ihouse food may have caused me to lose weight.</p>
<p>just get to the gym regularly and you’ll be fine. go for 1 to 2 hours 3 times/week and play basketball, lift weights, etc.</p>
<p>I actually ended up losing 60lb my freshman year without trying.</p>
<p>Why? Well, I eventually got tired of needing to wait for a bus to get everywhere, so I got a bike. Once I had that, I really used it instead of changing my ways to not have to go anywhere. Hilly campus + few miles of biking per day = weight loss, even if you eat a lot.</p>
<p>I gained 5-lbs living in the dorms and lost 20-lbs when I moved back home and started commuting and cooking for myself. I graduated two weeks ago-- weighing 15-lbs lighter than I did at my high school graduation. Just make smart choices about what you eat and choose to walk when you can. It’s not rocket science lol.</p>
<p>I lost 2 pounds during my freshman year while living in Unit 1, eating constantly, and running out of meal points mid-semester.</p>
<p>Yeah…I think I’m weird.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Here’s another good piece of advice: Use the stairs, especially if you live on the 3rd floor and below in the dorms. You’ll be doing some degree of cardio, and less people will get ****ed off at you for using the elevator just to go up to the 1st floor.</p>
<p>Run away from the people trying to get you to save the whales.</p>
<p>@eyeheartphysics: I have yet to encounter a single activist with that agenda. This is not a viable method of weight control.</p>
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