Is anyone a grad student?

Also PhD candidate here! I decided during one of my more stressful semester (we have to give a two hour research presentation to a committee if you pass you can continue to work towards your PhD, if you fail you have one more chance else you leave with a masters or nothing) would be a perfect time to overhall my habits exercise/ food/overall self care.

If I hadn't started making those changes during last summer, idk if I would have lasted through the fall trying to cram as much experiments in before Nov.

Because although I can't control always control my experiments, I can control how fast my pedals go on the spin bike, what I buy at the grocery store so I have access to healthy options.

I am a grad student! please add me I just joined!

Live in Massachusetts and I’m juggling school, looking for work, studying for comprehensive exams, finding a new apartment, and a new relationship! It’s a lot and I feel overwhelmed but I’d like to make my health a priority again. Lost 40 pounds on MFP rigg after undergrad and gained half of it back since then.

Wrapping up the MA and staring PhD in August - moving halfway around the world for it, a bit stressed about that. I've been juggling work and school for most of my 20s and quite liked it that way. Now switching to the famously intense US all-encompassing PhD thing is stressing me out and I'm worried that (along with the need to rebuild all my social networks, sort out housing and finances in a notoriously high cost area, etc,) will just lead to really bad health habits. On the other hand, there's sports facilities and exercise classes at the university that are leagues beyond what we have here, so I'm looking forwards to that as a motivator.

I had the opposite problem of most...I was in the best shape of my life in Grad school. I used exercise as a way of avoiding working on my thesis (and there was plenty of avoiding going on). Money was pretty tight and I had no car, so I rode my bike or walked to school and back (2 miles one way) each day. I was also in the middle of nowhere Iowa, so there wasn't much else going on to distract me from my focus of avoiding working on my degree. I did graduate, though, so I must have been putting in SOME work.

tk2222 wrote: »

WJS_jeepster wrote: »

I had the opposite problem of most...I was in the best shape of my life in Grad school. I used exercise as a way of avoiding working on my thesis (and there was plenty of avoiding going on). Money was pretty tight and I had no car, so I rode my bike or walked to school and back (2 miles one way) each day. I was also in the middle of nowhere Iowa, so there wasn't much else going on to distract me from my focus of avoiding working on my degree. I did graduate, though, so I must have been putting in SOME work.

Ha, I'm trying to make that my strategy - exercise instead of food for procrastination and stress release. It semi-works for me here, but in practice its usually either a good day with both exercise, healthy eating and good research productivity, or off days of not being able to be bothered to leave the house, re-reading the same page all day and eating chocolate spread out of a jar with the end of a pencil. Now if only I could spread those out...

Yeah - one thing that really helped was that I had to be in the "office" since I was teaching. I shared with 5 other grad students and there was a "no food in the office" rule. I didn't realize it at the time but I'm sure it helped a ton by blocking mindless study-eating.

Grad student 1.25 years to go, working FT. Man I'm tired and packing on the pounds.

Almost a grad student. Semi-retired and going back full time to get my PhD. School + full time mom + single mom + losing weight = not easy!!! I make a joke that every day I don't contemplate murdering someone is a good day. I had to stop at the DMV after class today, so today is a bust.

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Phd student!!! Hoping to lose the wait I gained in my first two years, and look good for conferences!

Lol, yeah, figuring out what to wear for my first US conference was a full blown crisis. (Jeans? Yes? No? No one knows. Finally one supervisor told me I can wear anything I want, I just need to wear it with the right shoes.)