Buy Walking VideosThe Freshman Fifteen
Here is an interesting video from a college student about the Freshman Fifteen:
He takes you on a video tour of the student cafeteria at his school. The video pans over all the food and he says, “This is why I’m fat.”
I don’t like concepts like The Freshman Fifteen. It makes it seem like an inevitable outcome. Naming it like that makes it feel like it’s a natural part of growing up. I didn’t gain fifteen pounds when I started college. It took me three years to gain about twenty pounds, but I didn’t leave home to go to school. I was still living with my parents at the time. It wasn’t until I got married that my weight ballooned. Do I blame Mike for gaining that weight? No. Should students blame the cafeteria when they gain weight? Again, NO.
It’s not the food’s fault if I gain weight.
It’s possible to eat healthy and go to college. It’s possible to eat healthy and leave home for the first time. It’s possible to eat healthy and be a newlywed. Just like with every other aspect of my life, I need to be CONSCIOUS of what I’m eating, whether it’s in an attempt to avoid the Freshman Fifteen or the Middle Age Spread.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 am
I find it interesting that it is now called the Freshman Fifteen. In my college years (35 years ago) it was the Freshman Ten. I did gain ten pounds in college, but not as a freshman. Sometime when I was 19 or 20 I finished growing, but I kept right on eating just as much. By the time I was 21 I was ten pounds heavier.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
As a new college grad, I can say that you can eat healthier at school… but its waaaay more expensive. At my school, a small salad (that isnt even that great) costs five bucks. For the same price, you can get a huge portion of mac and cheese+fries. Most people are going to choose the unhealthy option, simply because it works out to be cheaper.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
In my college cafeteria it didn’t matter what you ate. You paid to get in and could eat anything you wanted…and as much. But there was a salad bar and a deli bar and milk/juice offered as well as soda. So, healthy could happen if you really tried.