I want to lose weight in my first year at college? Help?

I know it's too late to lose the weight BEFORE college which would have been ideal but...Okay, I've gained weight because I'm a notorious binge-restrict dieter. My question is- do you think it's feasible that I could lose weight in my very first year of college? I'm a calorie counter, and I'm worried it'll be too hard to count calories in a cafeteria setting. I also want to start running again like I used to. Of course I care about my grades and I would not want to sacrifice them. So... any advice or ideas?Forgot to mention, I'm roughly 140 lbs now ..... :O120 is the weight I like to stay around

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You'll be walking quite a lot on campus, getting to and from the dorm and your various classes. That will help a lot. Not only will it use up a few extra calories, but more importantly it will help regulate your appetite. Decide ahead of time what constitutes a decent breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Different people have different ideas about what should be their big, medium, and small meals of the day. Myself, I like the saying, "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a merchant, and dinner like a pauper." If you start your day with toast, juice, coffee, and an egg, the slow-burning protein will last you until lunch time."What'll I do if I eat a small meal in the cafeteria and get hungry before the next one?"Well, you can stash away some healthy snacks, but there aren't that many that keep well and are still good for you. It might be better for you to accept the feeling of being a little bit hungry, since you do know where your next meal is coming from.If you keep fruit like apples around, don't just pick one up and gnaw into it. Cut it into nice wedges, peel them, and eat them mindfully. (You'll need a paring knife from home.)Don't try to live on a thousand calories a day. You can't keep that up for long. Instead, get hold of one of those programs that help you track everything you eat, figure out how many calories you'd need to maintain your current weight, and then subtract 100 calories a day. By calorie count alone, that would let you lose a pound a week. Of course you'll hit plateaus, but that's just your metabolism readjusting. Keep on keeping on.The advantage of this gradual system is that you can be a stealth dieter. As near as everyone else can tell, you're eating normally, although you never pig out. I don't know why, but when people around you realize you're dieting, they chime in with suggestions, some of which can actually sabotage your efforts.Losing even the first five pounds makes you feel lighter on your feet, and more flexible in your movements. Pound by pound, as your skin gradually shrinks, you'll feel better and better. Soon the results will begin to show. Twelve to fifteen pounds is about one dress size down.It will feel strange at first, eating regular meals and neither "dieting" nor "bingeing". For some reason, when you have to pay attention to everything you eat, it may be harder to resist snacking, because you're actually thinking about your food, not just mindlessly shoveling it in. But you'll get accustomed to the feeling of satisfaction rather than the feeling of "I'm stuffed!" If the cafeteria portions of certain foods are bigger than you like, it's okay to leave some on the plate.There's another saying I can leave you with: "The first bite and the last bite are the ones that taste the best. You can do without some of the ones in the middle."

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• Go to the gym
• When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together.If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, whichwill lead to increase of weight, or muscle growunderneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet withoutexercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. Fordiet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no foodafter 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending onyour initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. Ifyou don't eat wheat then you don't eat all those sticky, fatty goeycakes, you don't eat junk food, and you don't eat biscuits. But yourdiet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have tocalculate points or to buy special meals or plans. For exercising,start with walking, and then switch to running/jogging. Running is themost efficient and calorie-burn exercise ever. If you are overweight alot, walk first or you may have health complications (heart attack,disjointed bones and so on). Weight lifting is a good means to targetyour problem areas for men and women. It's not necessarily to become abodybuilder or even join a gym - a couple of dumbbells will help youto target your problem areas (stomach, butt, legs, arms, chest).