Hey, pretty new to this so if I botch this up or annoy anyone for asking somthing that might have been answered already, I apologize in advance. I am currently a college student in my third year and am having problems with weight. I started school at 5’7 180 pounds and right now im currently 5’7 245. I have a problem with having a conventional diet because the dorm rooms do not have stoves and we are not allowed to have the portable electric ones in our rooms. I really want to return to my old weight but I do not know how I would go about doing that at the moment. Help from all would be appreciated.
Eat less, exercise more?
Seems simple, right?
No really though, stop drinking beer and eating shit for food. Then, get on a treadmill.
lol, no I understand but I dont drink and I diet decently. My only problem is finding a diet that I can follow to the T and that doesnt require using a stove. As for working out, I am the type of person that once I start working out I stay on the game plan. I run and work out every day, alternating workouts. My main focus is finding a diet that I can follow.
Here JB’s brother sums up all you need to know in this 2 part article:
I’m in the same boat; I find it a lot better than when I’m at home actually. Take as much food from the cafeteria as you can.
Can you get a microwave in your room? A blender? Little less than half of my meals are oatmeal w/ protein and almonds mixed in.
First I’d like to thank those who have posted and have started to point me to the right direction. I do have a microwave and a blender which I use for protien shakes and oatmeals. I also heard about velocity dieting and wasnt sure about it. Any ideas as to using this to jumpstart my dieting and how to use it proprerly for someone in my situation?
[quote]Phoenix_Reborn wrote:
I also heard about velocity dieting and wasnt sure about it. Any ideas as to using this to jumpstart my dieting and how to use it proprerly for someone in my situation?[/quote]
With your kind of weight gain the v-diet is NOT for you. You just need to start making better food choices and the pounds will start coming off. For you I would focus on just eating healthy low fat foods 100% of the time before I’d get honed in on a particular diet. Once you’ve plateaued from simply eating right and exercising is when you can start to look for a diet.
As a rule of thumb, just stay away from carbs unless you’ve just worked out. Meaning no breads, pastas etc. Other than that, veggies and lean meats are your new best friend.
Cut the beer, pizza, desserts at the caff., all that crap. Clean and natural foods will get you on your way.
only thing i get from my cafeteria are sandwiches (double serving of turkey, mustard, lettuce, tomatoes). its not that great but it beats all the other foods they have. otherwise i just eat oatmeal, whey, and cottage cheese. it gets old but im used to it now.
Sorry, but how many kcals have you been eating in a day?
[quote]Phoenix_Reborn wrote:
lol, no I understand but I dont drink and I diet decently. My only problem is finding a diet that I can follow to the T and that doesnt require using a stove. As for working out, I am the type of person that once I start working out I stay on the game plan. I run and work out every day, alternating workouts. My main focus is finding a diet that I can follow.[/quote]surely you know which foods are healthy and which aren’t. you can follow any diet, it’s just up to you to do it.
i still get in at least 3000kcals a day. im only 5’6 so i gain weight at about 3300-3500.
I’m in college too, sophomore, and I have found a whole lot of good ways to eat healthy and stay in shape. Right now I’m on the Get Shredded Diet, and I have no problem finding good things to eat. I’ll do the best I can to help you out.
#1, find out how much you’re eating a day. Jumping from 180 to 245 doesn’t happen when you’re just eating turkey sandwiches. Either you eat a whole lot of turkey sandwiches, or you’re just plain fooling yourself. You’re the only one that really knows what you eat.
#2, BIG HELP: download or buy Tom Venuto’s “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.” It’s not a specific diet, but it clearly and elaborately lays out what is good for you, what isn’t, and why. Get it, and read every single word WITHOUT SKIPPING ANYTHING. It’ll take a day or two to get through but trust me, you’ll be 1000x better off when you’re done.
The whole point of it is for you to make lifestyle changes and understand how nutrition and excercise work. Once you read this stuff, you can go to the cafeteria and know exactly what you can eat. Worked wonders for me.
#3, use. the. microwave. Last year when I was in the dorms, it was a lifesaver. Even now that I’m living off campus, all I do is use the microwave to make my food. The only thing I cook on the stove is rice and eggs. Buy a few bags of frozen pre-cooked chicken, some wheat pasta, potatoes, oatmeal, and even eggs.
You can poach eggs in the microwave (sounds gross but still tastes fine), cook pasta in a bowl of water, make baked potatoes, oatmeal, and heat up the frozen chicken. You can microwave beans, frozen veggies, and just about anything you can think of.
Like I said, I still use the microwave to cook everything. You can also get a tub of Meal Replacement Powder (MRP) and subsitute a meal very easily that way.
Final words: GET BFFM BY TOM VENUTO, this is bar none the biggest tip. Get frozen ready-to-eat foods and heat them up in the microwave. For God’s sake, exercise. Eating turkey sandwiches doesn’t make you gain 65 lbs.