I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT AND HAVE NO MONEY!

Portion control! Eat less of what you normally eat. Stick to drinking water and make sure each meal has a protein, carb, and a fruit or veg. Like Sourmash said. Utilize that pool!! You can burn a crap load of calories doing laps in a pool. Go jogging in the mornings.

does your college have a gym...if so use it..if not the great outdoors can be your gym

I thrive on pretzels from the Dollar Tree, veggies from Aldi (go ahead and eat a ton of veggies), black coffee to curb my appetite in between cycles of thermogenics (a.k.a. 4 weeks of not spending above my means), and water, water, water! Tuna is cheap and lean protein, my morning yogurt from either Aldi or Bottom Dollar runs me about 39 cents a day. Nothing, right? You really are limitless in your healthy and low-cost options. I'm a big girl and I can easily feed myself on about $25 a week without feeling like I'm starving myself. I spent 6 figures on 2 degrees so money is sometimes an issue so I totally get it. But you can do it... Good luck!!!

ADD PROTEIN- which can be found in beans-eggs- and meat- yogurt- some ceral- so take stock of what you have on hand looking towards the protein and then walk, jog, weight lift do whatever you would normally do for exercise- good luck-

I NEED protein to stay/feel fuller- I add chicken, tuna etc to my salads, tyr to make certain my cereal has it in it- or I eat egg substitute so I can have the equivlent to 2 or 3 eggs and not send my cholestral or calories thru the roof- eat less move more- tried and true method for losing weight--:happy:

Eat whatever you have at a deficit and log it so you don't lose track.

Weather permitting exercise outside - walk, run, hike, stairs. If it's raining out - go up and down your appartment stairs.

For strength use your dumbell - you tube some exercises.

Also do push ups, sit ups, planks, squats, lunges, walking lunges, bicycle crunches, tricep dips, mountain climbers, jumping jacks, burpees etc. There are tons of exercises that you don't need any equipment for.

Invest in a skipping rope. It's cheap and great cardio.

Make efficient eating a fun game!
buy some herbs and spices (pepper, cumin, oregano) to up the tastiness of food.
Eggs, tuna, chicken - all can be cheap. High in protein, low in fat and carbs.
Fruit helps sweet tooths.
Cinnamon helps up tastiness of apples, and microwaving them gives you a nice baked apple dessert in no time.

I've got a 10lb weight. I've got the outdoors. And for a few weeks more I have a swimming pool.

I also have a hard time feeling full on fruits & vegg without eating a ton of it! And I don't have money for healthy food for another couple of weeks. Then I am heading down to the farmers market for some purple potatoes. But for the next couple of weeks I am grocery food budgeted out.

I know I'm not making it easy, but I am a broke college student, and I'm moving into a new apartment so my money is tied up.

Help me? What would you do?

do you have ANY money? if you do i suggest you buy eggs, beans, maybe splurge on a chicken breast, (shredded or block whichever is cheaper) cheese, tuna in a can, tortillas. you can make a bunch of different meals with these things.

Broke graduate student here... dried beans and lentils, frozen veggies, eggs, fish (frozen or fresh), oatmeal, spices (to make those frozen veggies and dried beans taste yummy)... these are the main staples in my diet. If I'm really careful and in a bind, I can get by on $20/week spent on food.

edited to add: canned tuna. Forgot about that one.

It's been a while since college, but here's what I do when things are super tight. Frozen vegies and fruits, in college steamed in a rival hot pot with a spoon of Miso Paste. I bought a LOT of RIPE bananas on sale and when I got home I peeled and froze them and used them to make smoothies, "ice cream", cheap breakfast muffins, etc. I also worked in fast food and asked the manager if I could take home the left overs at the end of the night. Pre packaged salads were my favorite and were just going in the garbage if I didn't take them.

There is a website called hillbilly housewife that has some interresting ideas to accomodate Cheap meals, though they aren't necessarily balanced. BUT, armed with this knowledge and putting it together with some other stuff, you might be able to find what works best for you.

I did a lot of shopping from the clearance racks for shampoo and free up more grocery money. I also walked with my head down on the search for quarters that people dropped. Every once in a while it was a dollar!

Oh...and I walked or roller skated everywhere. (yeah, stop laughing at my age!)