Any college kids out there?

I don't think it was the stress of college that caused me to gain weight.... I think it was the drinking and pledging a sorority and just generally living that lifestyle.
My freshman year I started drinking (never had before) and didn't realize that I would get intense fried food cravings. There were nights I would pretty much inhale a 2ft cheese steak and wake up the next morning next to the wrapper.... An awkward morning lol.
After pledging a sorority I had gained 50 pounds from the time I started college. Currently I'm 20 pounds less than that, but I still think I'm holding on to some of that excess fat I gained almost 5 years ago.

However, I can see stress having a factor in it. Sometimes I would just sit in the cafeteria all day because I didn't feel like walking back to my house, so I'd eat college cafeteria food all day. Not good. There was also a chick-fil-a in my college that was open until 2am.

So it is a total pain to lose weight in college, but the summer after my freshman year I dropped the 50 pounds pretty quickly by just cutting out late night eating, binge drinking, and binge eating. Of course when the next semester came I gained back 30 pounds of it, but was happy I was under 200 and haven't gone up above it since.

i'll be a junior in the fall, college dieting is soooo tough!!!

For me I found that a kind of competition on losing weight helped me a lot because I'm competitive with almost everything. Most of the girls in my sorority house had a weight problem and we decided to play "biggest loser" that summer. Every week we had to put a dollar in a jar and at the end of the summer whoever had lost the most weight would win the jar. The only issues I can see looking back on it was some of us were so competitive we would attempt to sabotage each other's diets by bringing in cakes and beer to the house and setting it on the counter. Also towards the end, we got a little rough about it. Binge/purge, starving ourselves and taking diet pills.

I would not go back to doing that type of competition. However, I do think that having a buddy or two to lose weight with really helps. My mom is also trying to lose weight currently and it's been a great motivation to keep me going even if I hit walls. And I know she is not going to be throwing up on purpose

Do you have a gym at your college? My college had a really nice two story gym that was included in tuition, I just didn't take advantage of it when I had the chance... and it was literally right across from my dorm room. It was just getting the motivation and energy to do it. I regret partying so much my first two years at college for a multitude of reasons. It's hard to go to the gym when you're hungover and tired from drinking until 3am :-\
I also felt self conscious going there at times because all of the athletes were in there and seemed to know what they were doing, especially compared to me.

Yeah that's the attitude I have now with any gym. I do prefer in home workouts though just because my work schedule is evil retail scheduling. I've been working on Insanity. Unfortunately I fell off of a horse last weekend and have bruised ribs and a messed up shoulder... but I'm going to try and get back into it, just maybe not put the pushups so hard.
It's hard to do those types of workouts in a dorm room though, at least mine was super small. Everybody needs to find what works for them. Sometimes when I felt up to it I'd jog around campus and that was a good workout as well.

College is pretty stressful for me. Studying all the time was something that I didn't enjoy doing. This lead to me eating, even though I was nowhere near hungry. Well, I have summer classes to take starting June 6. Time to find the strength to endure another stressful semester.

I'm a first year college student and binging in the dining hall was/is a huge temptation for me. Hoping to get my act together.

Feel free to add me, I need more MFP friends!