{"id":4487,"date":"2009-10-05T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T01:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2011-08-16T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T13:50:08","slug":"avoid-gaining-the-freshman-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/10\/05\/avoid-gaining-the-freshman-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Gaining the Freshman 15!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4488\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"freshman-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/freshman-15.jpg\" alt=\"freshman-15\" width=\"158\" height=\"107\" \/>Going to college usually means a complete change in your life routine. \u00a0A change in your schedule, your eating habits, your responsibilities, no more high school athletics, squeezing in studying, a bit of partying and the fine art of laundry. It also usually means that you gain some weight, commonly known as the &#8216;freshman 15&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips on how to prevent it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Fruits and Vegetables.<\/strong> Dorm food isn&#8217;t healthy but you don&#8217;t have to pig out either. \u00a0Watching your portions and filling up on the salad bar is a great alternative, as long as you leave the bacon, cheese, croutons and loads of dressing out of the equation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Rec Center.<\/strong> When you get out of college, you&#8217;ll have to pay lots of money for a gym membership that is half the facility that you have just a few steps away. \u00a0Take advantage of all they have to offer and make some new friends while doing it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Cut down on drinking.<\/strong> Liquor can help to pile the pounds on &#8211; especially when combined with late night eating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Walk everywhere. <\/strong> Think of all the calories you will burn if you spend half of everyday walking to class, friends, meetings and the rec center!<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) College grilled cheese.<\/strong> I grew up in a healthy house and I just couldn&#8217;t stomach some of the greasy food days in the dorm but didn&#8217;t always want salad either. \u00a0I made a college grilled cheese and although not the best alternative, I&#8217;m sure I came out ahead of those who ate the cafeteria food.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toast 2 pieces of bread.<\/li>\n<li>Put in microwave with a piece of cheese in the middle &#8211; 13 seconds later, you have a (greasy-free, butter-free) grilled cheese sandwich!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few examples of how you can battle the &#8216;Freshman 15&#8217;! \u00a0Good Luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to college usually means a complete change in your life routine. \u00a0A change in your schedule, your eating habits, your responsibilities, no more high school athletics, squeezing in studying, a bit of partying and the fine art of laundry. It also usually means that you gain some weight, commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,622,12,23,9,225,621,8,93,623,21],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-college-weight-gain","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-tips","tag-freshman-15","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-unhealthy-eating-habits","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}