Any UK students?
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maria0elisa
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As MFP seems to be dominated by older Americans with kids.... any younger brits out there?!
I know from my first couple years that it's SO hard to combine student life with losing/maintaining weight but so happy I've now discovered MFP as a great tool to guard against putting on too much!
I know from my first couple years that it's SO hard to combine student life with losing/maintaining weight but so happy I've now discovered MFP as a great tool to guard against putting on too much!
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Yep! I'm 18 and hopefully starting uni next year, so I'll have more control over what I eat and how much exercise I can do!0
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oh hey, great! You looking forward to it? Yeah it is nice to have your own routine and to get to eat what you want without parents being nosy ha.HauntedNemophilist wrote: »Yep! I'm 18 and hopefully starting uni next year, so I'll have more control over what I eat and how much exercise I can do!
However, the summer after A levels and when I first started uni I kind of lost weight the unhealthy way by skipping meals and exercising every day, which wasn't sustainable!
I ended up putting it all back on again in 2nd year!
So that's why I like the balanced mfp strategy nowadays
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Hey! I'm 19 and studying in London, I definitely think my eating habits and workouts have improved since moving away from home (surprisingly!). It's nice to see other UK students on MFP too
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I'm 21 studying at UOB right now - yeah watching how you eat is definately hard when you see everyone else binging on virtually everything0
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I'm 36 but am doing a Masters degree full time0
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I've just left Durham Uni, but still think of myself as a student! Now studying Sport and Exercise Nutrition part time!0
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I'm 24 (for another 34 days!), trainee barrister 0
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well done reaching out to the Brits - uni is a time when some people don't eat particularly well (I've a son and daughter both at university) so its great to see someone making an effort to contact fellow UK members. Good luck with the weight loss everyone (and the studies....!)0
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I'm 24 (for another 34 days!), trainee barrister
hey!! oh great i'll add you Wow must be so hard to think about healthy eating with such a stressful career, so big kudos to you for being on here! I'm thinking about law as a possible path after graduating but yeah, I'm worried about the high-stress lifestyle! 0 -
aw thanks very much that's kind of you to say. Yeah, I totally agree... I'm kind of torn because on one hand, uni is the time to have fun & cut loose, and I although i gained some weight, I had an amazing couple of years partying & trying new things.... but on the other I think it's a shame that uni encourages kind of institutionalised bad habits with regard to food & alcohol and you're kind of set off on the wrong foot with freshers' week which makes you think that kind of crazy lifestyle is normal. I actually began to miss the routine of going to school after a whilewell done reaching out to the Brits - uni is a time when some people don't eat particularly well (I've a son and daughter both at university) so its great to see someone making an effort to contact fellow UK members. Good luck with the weight loss everyone (and the studies....!)
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Hey, I'm 20 and I'm starting my nursing degree in September. The only thing I'm not looking forward to is trying to maintain my weight loss and healthy eating while doing 37.5 hours a week + self study! Add me if you like 0
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You don't have to be young to be a full-time student you know!
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Yeah 18 at college studying public servies (waste of time haha) and training/preparing to join the royal marines should have starting basic this month but been put back due to a slight knee injury unfortunately.0
