Fending off The Freshman Fifteen...

For those in college, or those quickly approaching it, beware!!! The Freshman Fifteen - the bane of college calorie counters everywhere - is ready to take a new group of victims on campuses nationwide this fall!

For those who have felt the pain of the 15lbs of cafeteria food, hanging out in the dorm, not having your highschool extracurriculars, and just being too darned lazy to get out and about, join me in losing that weight! :) As an upcoming junior in college, i'm still waging war against the last 10lbs - who's with me?!?

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August 4th, 2008

To anyone just seeing this topic, please know that you're still welcome to join us! There are voluntary weigh-ins each Wednesday if you're interested. Whether you're headed to college, in it, or leaving it we're happy to have you! :D

Wow Megan you have almost all the exact same measurements as me! I'm a 31 bust, 25 waist, and 35 hips. My thighs are 20 though...hehe I've got a big bottom half - I'm a classic pear shape!

Heather I'm so happy for you!!! It's really nice to feel confident in yourself and have something that makes people look at your body. I think it was a wonderful reward and it's also motivating! 

It's less than a week before I leave for school! I hope to eat healthy before then and keep it up once I get there! :)

 

 

Heather, yeah, that's a good way to look at it!  :)

So I was having super bad chocolate cravings, and I attributed it to TTOM, but I think it may have also been because I wasn't running as much as I have been.  This is my theory: running releases endorphins, and so does chocolate, so my body was used to having endorphins from running, and so not running as much is why I started having bad chocolate cravings.

Thanks, Lea :) How is yours doing? All healed up now? I'm thinking maybe the beginning of September (2-3weeks). I'm nervous about the heal time and all, lol.

Carrie - That's a good point. If you're looking for something decent to satisfy a craving, I'd suggest Hershey's 60cal sticks in double dark chocolate :D Delicious, full of antioxidants, and they're so rich that you won't want more than 1 or 2. Freeze them to make them last longer! ;)

 

Heather, I actually bought those a few days ago, and they're great!  I like how they're long sticks because it seems to make them last longer.  I bought special dark chocolate and mint milk chocolate...even if I have one of each it's only 120 calories! :D

So I just went on a run and I must have sweated a lot because I lost a whole pound between before and after my run, lol.  Or maybe the water weight from TTOM is FINALLY deciding to go away...either way, even though I know it was only water weight, I was still happy to see that number on the scale start going back down again!  Hopefully it keeps going that way.

Hey guys! I'm back! YEEEEHAW!

Haha a longer post will follow. I'm going to try and catch up on everything I've missed!

Hey Julie!  Welcome back!!!! :D

I've gained two pounds. I blame TTOM.

weigh-in today = 154 so same as last week but since seemingly I'm usually a pound heavier on saturday than I am on monday I'm fairly happy and know that I'm maintaining and that this is really working :)

Welcome back Julie! :)

Megan~ keep up the excersize :) I know the scale is kinda of like a best friend/enemy all wrapped into one little box but like everyones been saying you'll see your workouts with a tape measure :) And you'll feel a bunch healthier. Also you should know that people who don't excersize near enough (aka me) really are quite amazed that you can and like to work out! so keep it up!

Congrats Heather! way to make your goal :)

Original Post by mattywright:

I've gained two pounds. I blame TTOM.

You only get to use that excuse if I magically start losing weight after binge drinking!!! :)

Whoo I just ran a half an hour (2.5 miles ish) and it was fuuuuuuun :P.

I think I have a runner's high right now...or else I just always act retarded.  Actually, that's probably the more likely conclusion.

Ughhh guys I'm having the worst week ever. Someone PLEASE remind me that two days is not the end of the world.

Ok yesterday I was doing great, I had a perfect 1200 calories by about 7 pm which left me poised perfectly for a late night (ish) snack of a 300 cal bowl of pumpkin oatmeal with raisins. YUM. That would have given me exactly 1500 calories of nutritious good for you foods. And then what happens? I get a phone call - these older guys I'm friends with want to take me to a NICE restauraunt before college. I can't say no, so I say yes thinking, "Ok I'll order a salad" Which I do. But we get appetizers to split and I do a little bit of mindless munching, eat an entire ahi tuna salad (5 slices of tuna, a handful of greens - at least I was good, no dressing) and bites of desert. I feel absolutely GROSS. 

Today I knew I was taking my boyfriend out to dinner for his birthday at a nice place. Knowing I had messed up the night before, I decided to eat really low cals all day so I could eat desert and not feel guilty about it come nighttime. I wake up and have my bowl of kashi golean crunch (286 cals with milk) and a half cup of blueberries (43 cals). Instead of my normal lunch of half a whole wheat bagel (150 cals) with half a cup of tuna salad (193 cals) I decided to save and instead have a bottle of V8 splash to get some nutrition and fill me up for only 140 cals. It filled me up at first, but by two hours later I was STARVING. So I grabbed a fruit cup. Still doing good. It's about a half cup of honey dew, canteloupe, and grape. Then I have to stop by my friend's going away party. I go and am still starving from not really having a lunch, so I had an ungodly number of vegetable crudites (no dip, thank god) and a TON of grapes. I was still saying to myself, "Yeah I'm gorging myself but it's only veggies". Then he pulled out the cookies. I had 2 and felt horrible but I was STILL hungry. Then I go to the boyfriends for birthday festivities. There was singing and there was cake! So I give in. I had a smallish piece but I still had a piece. It was fairly light and had cool whip type icing instead of the creamy trans fatty kind, so I guess that was ok. And this is ALL before dinner. Dinner comes along and I didn't do TOO terribly considering. We split one appetizer of mussels in a red sauce (not butter). Then we got two rolls of sushi and split them. One was a special roll with shrimp tempura, spicy tuna, and eel (bad). And the other was yellowtail and cucumber (good). Since it was half and half I guess it wasn't too bad. THEN came desert. We split a giant piece of (flourless) chocolate mousse cake. I'm not sure if the "no flour" thing made it any better, but the waitress told us that when she was reading us the entrees. Anyway so I got home and my stomach was bloated out like an African babies. I felt totally unsexy and bloated. After the BF left I did a Jillian Michaels workout and sweated and now I'm feeling a LITTLE better - but tomorrow's my uncle's birthday party! Ughhh more food!.

So here's my plan:

Wake up half an hour early and do a Jillian Michaels DVD - burn an extra 211 cals)

Breakfast:

1 cup kashi golean crunch (200 cals)

1 cup skim milk (half on cereal half to drink - 86 cals)

1/2 cup blueberries (43 cals)

Go to work - which gets logged as 2 hours 3.5 mph walk, 4 hours light standing - burns 886 calories over 6 hours)

Lunch:

1/2 wheat bagel (150 cals)

1/2 cup tuna salad (193 cals)

mid afternoon snack

1 bottle V8 splash (140 cals)

second snack:

1 large banana (121 cals)

Then I'll go to the party and try to keep it as light as possible. I'll have like 570 calories to spare to make it to 1500 so I shouldn't do SO badly. Ughh I'm feeling terrible. I can't imagine anyone reading all that but I had to tell my story to make myself accountable. I think I'm just feeling extra bad because I'm leaving for school on Wednesday, and if my last days at home are bad where I have complete control over what I eat I'll probably be a lot worse off when school starts. Anyway, wish me luck getting back on the wagon - I have lots of restauraunt meals coming my way!

 

Carrie - Lmao, agreed @ your response to Matty :P and good run!!!

Julie - Welcome back :D I'm so excited to see you again! You'll have to tell us how everything has been going. We've missed you :)

Michelle - WTG on maintaining the 154!!! That's great :D I've heard a lot of the "maintenance is harder than losing"... which IDK if I agree with. I think it depends on your approach entirely... my maintenance has basically just been "Eat 1200cal during the week, be able to have a few drinks or a treat on the weekends" and that has been working pretty well :) Saturday I had 3 screwdriver (about 850cal... YIKES!) but all of that saving up during the week means I only went up .5lbs and that's really just water retention :) Are you using any particular method?

Lea - I know how destructive that feels... I did the same thing to myself at outback for my little sister's birthday and with the dairy queen cake >_< Its really really hard, but you just have to pick yourself back up, and keep pushing. Give it 2 weeks max, and you'll be back where you were. Maybe sooner than that as much as you exercise :) It can't be changed now - all there is left to do is fix it! Its not worth losing all of your progress over 2 days. /hug - Try putting on a pair of your old pre-weightloss pants to remind yourself that there really has been a lot of progress. I do that occasionally when I get down. It helps me want to keep on pushing :)

 

Umm so Matt, you are officially allowed to use that as an excuse now.  I got pretty drunk last night and when I got on the scale this morning...145.4!!  That's a whole three pounds lower than yesterday.  It's probably mostly because I'm dehydrated though.  I'm hoping a little of it stays off!! :)  I didn't do too terribly with the alcohol calories - all I drank was rum and diet coke.  I'm sure that's still horrible when you have like four or five shots, but it makes me feel better at least, lol.

Lea I eat that same exact thing for breakfast every day - Kashi Golean Crunch with blueberries! :)  I know how you feel, I've been having a super tough time lately too...but like Heather said, you just have to get right back to it.  Try looking at those days as mental health days that will make it easier for you to stick to your goal in the future.  And really, two days will not make that much of a difference in the long run!  I forget - are you still trying to lose, or just maintaining now?

Hey guys - do vodka, rum, whiskey, gin, etc. all have the same amount of calories per shot? 

I'm somewhere in between losing and maintaining. I'm eating at a defecit and concentrating on strength training in hopes of toning, but if I lose more weight it'll just be a plus. If 115 is where my body wants to stay...that's alright by me. 

Okay then you really shouldn't worry about it!  Since you're not focusing 100% on losing weight, you should be able to have a day off now and then :).

Ok guys I'm leaving tomorrow! Soooo excited.

It'll be a bad day of eating though

first I'll go out to breakfast with the boyfriend. I'm planning on 2 eggs over easy with 2 pieces of wheat toast dry and a side of fresh fruit. Not bad at all.

Lunch I don' tknow, I hope we can pack stuff and not just eat a reststop. If I do have to go to a reststop I'l just do my best.

Dinner we're going to this restauraunt www.brownsugarcafe.com It looks REALLY good and actually like I can get something healthy! It'll still be a restauraunt meal though so definitely high in cals. Ughhh tomorrow will defintiely be a bad day, hopefully thursday is better - that's when I'm moving in.

Lea have fuuunnnn!!!!!  I'm sure you will.  I'm excited for you! :)

So I changed my goal a little bit again.  I still want to weigh 145 by move in on September 19th, but I changed my long term goal to "be healthy and truly happy with my body."  I still want to keep losing after I go back to school, but I know I'm going to have a million other things to worry about, and I want to focus more on eating healthy and making time for the gym.  Also, I'm not sure what my ideal weight will actually be.  I think 135 might be pushing it a little.  Maybe 140, which was actually my original goal.  I don't want to put a time limit on it either - like I said, I want to focus more on eating right and exercising.  I'll probably still log my food and count calories while I'm trying to lose though.  

Where is everybody?? :)

oiiii i've been so busy lately its ridiculous. with packing and whatnot i feel like im not ready for saturday. i've been in a really good mood lately. i've been going out to eat everyday. breakfast to say goodbye to this person. dinner date. lunch date here. ughhh. but overall my weight has been stable!! yay!!

Megan, that's awesome!  That must mean that you're making pretty good decisions when you go out to eat.  Congrats on that :).  Good luck with moving in and everything.  You're going to have so much fun...I'm excited for you too! :)  I still have three weeks and two days left ugghh...

WEIGH IN:

This morning I was 146.6!  That's down 2.8 pounds from last week (but only down 1.4 pounds from three weeks ago).  I'm starting to lose again, yay!  That's the lowest weight I've seen on a scale except for last Sunday morning when I was way dehydrated after drinking, lol.  Only 1.6 pounds to go to make my goal before school.  Maybe I could even get down to 143 - then I will have lost a whole 15 pounds! :)