I've heard cutting out soda can make an immense difference! Just remember to NEVER starve yourself. u w u

It really does suck that you're stuck on a meal plan, though, I've heard it causes a lot of students to gain weight.

I wish you the best of luck though! I really want to drop a few, too, so maybe we can share advice??

Yeah! I'm going for around 1500 calories, which was a good regimen for me last year. About 500per meal seems pretty reasonable, especially if I start cutting out soda and sweetened iced tea and desserts. I gotta start heading to the gym, more than anything, though.
And yeah, it's really bad. The salad bar is always disappointing, and the lettuce is almost always bitter and soggy. The meals are either fried, pasta-heavy, or generally off-putting since they try to ad too much finesse to their preparations. Like, if you want to serve raviolis, you dont have to add zuchinni and lobster paste and shit like that to the sauce. They really do things inefficiently.
And You have such a cute body, though! I think you look wonderful, but if you still want to lose weight, then I support it! I wish I lived with you guys, since your food is always so incredibly healthy AND tasty.

That sounds reasonable! I might start hitting the gym once we move too! Ren says they have a lot of fun classes you can take? So besides getting in better shape, I'd love to take yoga and stuff like that.

EUGH I know exactly what you mean. Is there no possible way for you to cook for yourself? Some healthy meals are SO easy. I taught a buddy of mine to cook a ton of different meals with the same veggies and a hot plate.

Weh weh, thanks! I really appreciate that! I just reaally want to be able to fit back into my old pants. I put on a ton of weight since high school and I want to feel like I'm in my comfortable zone again, if that makes sense?? LIKE, I feel the same way about you, you're super good-lookin' BUT it's like a personal comfort thing for the person themselves and all.

I WISH YOU LIVED HERE. Come cook with us. Like. Fly over here three times a day for every meal. That's possible, right??

I can agree, school meal plans are always so hard to eat decently. Our schools cafeteria is buffet style so you can imagine how much worse it is in addition to the fried foods, shittons of pasta, and never ending pizza area. The soda machines are on the moment breakfast begins and I learned from a young age; Soda is NOT breakfast appropriate. Yet theres always many people drinking Dew with their eggs, so gross. I do have to admit i drink soda like fish to water; yet cut down and lost a good amount of weight.

I'm hoping if i make it to FF I'm not as pudgy either lol, but who knows.

Yeah, We;ve got the buffet style too, so it's a really big temptation. It just really sucks they dont have simple, healthy options like plain old grilled chicken, or veggie wraps that are more than soggy, old grilled zucchini.
Fortunaely, I was waiting till at least lunch, but really, any soda is bad at any point in time during the day. Another bad one for me was drinking flavored milk the last few weeks almost daily.
And are you going to FF?? I'll look forward to seeing you there!

i'm going try really hard to go there. I didn't reserve admission so lets see how that turns out D:

yeah, i'll have to run into ya if so c:

Is it bad I read all your journals in your voice now? UGH.

Also not being on a meal plan this year has caused me to loose like ten pounds. I gained a lot last semester because I was stressed and drinking coffee/soda 24/7. ); If you had a kitchen I'd say just go off the meal plan!! But yeah. If you're into tracking what you eat, myfitnesspal is a good app. You can scan in barcodes of food and it pulls up the nutrition like BAM!

hahah IS IT BAD I READ YOUR COMMENTS IN YOUR VOICE NOW.
Yeahhhh I wish it were possible to go off the meal plan, but without pots and pans, or a convenient public kitchen, its useless.
Ive been using FitDay which is basically just a food journal, but I like using the website because I can prescribe my next meal, and the inability to add or remove from it keeps me from eating too much else during that meal.

Yuuup. Food journals with numbers are what keep me in check. If not, I'll eat a dozen donuts and not bat an eye. Blagh!

Less sugar, Water/Tea for drinks, and exercise.

It's really a simple formula, and once you make it your habit it'll literally become easy to lose weight. Looking back at myself in high school, I didn't realize just how much weight I lost on that program (and I still ate the hell out of sugar). I was a total twig in the course of one year, when at the start I had a gut that prevented me from being able to see my wang.

I promise, it's like magic. I just really really wish I could help you in person.

Yeah, I know for a fact I havent been drinking a lot of water the last few weeks. I hope drinking more of it will help me slim down. The biggest challenge is finding time for excersize, since my schedule doesnt lend itself to much outside of what I already do.
And what program were you on? I know you've told me before about your impressive weight loss, but I didnt know you had a program.
And it would certainly be good to have you here to kick me and get me to do some in-room excersizes here and there. :\ I know you would be a really good motivator for me.

Sorry :C Program is an official sounding word. I didn't have anything official. I just followed those rules. The main things I changed about my diet were that I only drank water, and I only ate when I was hungry (I had a problem with overeating). The exorcise came from having JROTC and a PE class every semester. I made sure that I had no choice but to work out every day. And before I went to bed I would do some sort of exercise.

The trick to working out in your room is to give yourself a trigger. I used to put the TV on. Every time a commercial came on, I would work out. I also had a playlist in my iPod. Whenever a certain genre or artist would come on, I would work out. Little nickle&dime stuff will really make a difference. Especially when it comes to conditioning your habits to prefer physical activity. I got to the point where I couldn't sleep unless I did some sort of work out before I got into bed.