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<p>In regards to pop-tarts… I’ve never had them in college. I think I just prefer bagels to pop-tarts.</p>
<p>Most college campuses have a gym that is open to students; go there. I know Notre Dame has one.</p>
<p>Some advice that’s been touched on but really needs to be repeated: make sure you eat enough! Focus on nutrition, yes, but some people need to start focusing just on eating enough during the day. I know I’ve been swamped since getting here, and I don’t think I get through more than half a meal a day just because there’s always stuff to be done.</p>
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<li> Never eat past 8-9PM</li>
<li> Don’t bring snacks to your dorm </li>
<li> Walk to class when possible</li>
<li> Try to eat breakfast</li>
<li> Exercise</li>
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<p>If you do these things, you won’t get the freshman 15.</p>
<p>don’t take the free chocolate cake that you<em>of</em>eh is advertising</p>
<p>also, pop-tarts are delicious…especially the wildberry ones</p>
<p>lmao at the shoc collar… i might need one of those</p>
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<p>These are heavy on calories and carbs.</p>
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<p>U of M has several of these. All free. I plan on going once the weather gets too cold to run outside.</p>
<p>Meh, I’m training for a half-marathon as of now. All that running plus the NEED to have a relatively good diet (you try running 13 miles on a diet of sugar and pizza) means that I run 3x a week AND eat healthier. It’s good to have some goal like that to train for, where the emphasis is on performance and fitness and not just on losing weight. </p>
<p>And anyone here who starts going on about ‘carb loading’ and how they read that eating a zillion bagels is the perfect marathon diet will get a smack. No, bad armchair athletes, bad.</p>
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<p>For me it’s the other way round. A lifetime on the lips, just a moment on the hips.</p>
<p>The secret is to cook for yourself. That way you are selective about you eat, because you have to work for what you eat! Nevertheless, I’m still a pretty big eater.</p>
<p>RUN when you can. Like I mean, every minute you’re walking, you’re wasting time. You save time (and burn calories) by running. So if you have to make an errand to the bookstore, run there! Whenever you eat at the dining hall, run there! The only problem that prevents me from totally replacing my walking legs with running legs is sweating (so I walk to parties, for example).</p>
<p>And I go to the gym less than I really should – sometimes I didn’t go to the gym for 2 weeks or more. Yet I managed to go from 194 to 152 pounds this way, after 4 months at college.</p>
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<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>RUN to class. Whenever you can. Run from classroom to classroom. Run in the hallways. Don’t walk-climb stairs – run-climb them. Run on your way back home. Run from building to building. When you walk, you’re being a slowpoke. Run. This way, you will make it such a habit that in time running will be such a second nature to you that you will not be able to resist the urge to run even when you’re just running(!) routine errands.</p>
<p>Hey now starships thats not nice…a piece of chocolate cake or 7 never hurt anyone.</p>
<p>I’ve recently decided to go vegetarian. I’ve never really been a big meat eater anyway, and after reading about what they do to animals it really just turned me off-lol. I thought about going vegan but I think it may be too hard to avoid milk, cheese, and eggs (since many things are made with them). Some people think you don’t get all your nutrients when you cut out meat, but that isn’t true- you just get them from other sources.
To, me, the main thing, even if you want to eat meat, is to READ THE LABELS of the things you buy. We shovel too much crap into our systems hence, why we feel like crap. If you read a label and can’t recognize half of the things they list (or can’t even pronounce them-lol) then you probably shouldn’t be eating it. Natural is much better, and works better with your body.
Caffeine is also bad. You can get addicted to it and depend on it to wake you up. Try more fruits or natural juice.
I’m lucky enough to be starting down this eating path going to San Francisco State University where there is a variety of organic food stores and places on campus along with the city itself very much catered to this lifestyle choice. It may be harder for people in other cities.</p>
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<p>Only students ignorant of science would say this.</p>
<p>Simply because it has a weird name, doesn’t mean it’s “crap”. Do you know what table sugar’s technical name is? It’s β-D-fructofuranosyl-(2→1)-α-D-glucopyranoside. Some compounds don’t have common names (because they were invented) but they are perfectly tasty and have no ill effects in moderation.</p>
<p>Would you recognise half the metabolites that come off your cells’ acetyl-CoA pathways? Obviously, this means your cells are producing lots of “crap”.</p>
<p>I don’t get “natural food” nuts. Natural doesn’t mean better. The cyanide in almonds is quite natural. The ricin poison in castor beans (we use castor beans for castor oil, and discard the ricin) is quite natural. Doesn’t make those ingredients more “healthy”. At the same time, we know how sweet reception works. (You need an acidic/protic region, a basic region and a lipophilic region spaced correctly apart to activate the receptor – sugar fulfills all 3 requirements but it’s not the “perfect” substrate.). This allows us to engineer sweeteners, and because biochemistry allows us to determine what the sweetener will be metabolised into, we can make sweeteners that have no ill effects (as long as you are reasonable of course). The “natural” movement is promoted by people who don’t know how nature works.</p>
<p>It’s really disgusting what the typical college kid does to their body. Low nutritional/quality food, irregular meal times. </p>
<p>I try my best to eat good and on-time. I also work out 4 times / week (each workout consists of a half mile run, and 30-40 minutes of weights)</p>
<p>It’s your body, your life.</p>
<p>Eat to live, don’t live to eat.</p>
<p>Don’t feel compelled to get food everytime you go out (around campus) with your friends.
Drink a lot of water - it really helps you maintain your weight and it’s good for your skin too.
Try to eat fish once a week, it has a lot of oils that are actually good for your body.
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<p>I’ll put up more stuff if I can, my mom is always nagging me about this stuff.</p>
<p>Someone posted something in this forum somewhere about looking at a menu if it is available and deciding what to eat before you get to the dining hall. I agree with this. If I didn’t already know I’d end up grabbing some of everything and overeating, but I am doing a GREAT job with portion control by picking my entree before I get downstairs, and giving myself enough leeway to decide on two side dishes when I get there. :P</p>
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<p>Talking about fish, they’re very healthy for you b/c they’re often low in fat if cooked properly and they contain lots of protein. Also, some fish (like salmon) contain Omega 3 oils, which have apparently been proven to enhance brain function, which may mean that you may be able to think more clearly. I think brown eggs also have this, but I doubt that colleges would use them b/c they cost a premium over white eggs.</p>
<p>Also, I find that fat free milk is an amazing beverage. It does a wonderful job of quenching thirst. Because I’d like to convert to vegetarianism (I don’t eat much meat anymore), I have 3 cups of it - one per meal - and that gives me about 27g of protein, which is more than 1/2 of the requirement.</p>
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<p>At UMich, I always start with the salad bar, because veggies are good for you. Some people ruin the purpose of the salad by drowning their stuff with ranch and thousand island, but pay attention to those dressing labels - they sometimes offer lite and fat free, but if they don’t go light on the dressing or just resort to salt and pepper.</p>
<p>But yes I do love UMich’s dining menus on-line. So convenient!</p>
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<p>Our RAs and peer advisors harp on this so much that I’m surprised that freshmen still go out to eat so much, and when they eat in the dorm, they eat all kinds of junk (french toast drowned in maple syrup, hamburgers and fries, anyone?). But then again I’ve always been a strange health nut.</p>
<p>Yeah, and never eat canned tuna because it has mercury.
Same with tilapia, its ALL farm raised, and farm raised tilapia eat fish poop, which i’m pretty sure you dont want to eat too.</p>
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<p>Yea the last time I went to Costco they put up a government advisory telling people to limit tuna consumption.</p>
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<p>But fish poop gets metabolised you know … there are amazing things called “digestive enzymes” and “livers” … and things like “catabolic enzymes”.</p>