Losing Weight While In School

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Lunch break? Nobody got time for that!

Are you keeping fit during your college years? Have you lost weight in school? Are you exercising? Dieting? Or, just not enough time to eat? What's your secret?

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I have lost roughly 20lbs since starting nursing school. I was quickly reminded how I managed to stay so thin in high school and college the first go-round. Stress+anxiety+fear+GI issues=IBS overdrive. Test days are most exciting, there have been mornings I was sure I was going to be late to my exam no matter how early I got up to prepare. 

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When I was in school, I was very obese. To lose weight, we need to stay away from oily and junk food.

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

I ended nursing school a full 25 pounds lighter than when I started. I have since regained about half of that.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I put on 10 pounds over the course of my first year but that's okay because I was kind of underweight to start with. I'm now around 125 pounds and I look good, I think I may actually have put on muscle (from running around and lifting patients instead of sitting in a chair all day) rather than fat because all my clothes still fit and my stomach hasn't gotten any bigger.

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The end of my first year of nursing school I was 250+ pounds. Just graduated and I am somewhere in the mid to low 190's. Didn't have any time to exercise, it was all diet.

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Y'all crazy ... eat and study in the cafeteria is a thing 

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OMG, I'm gaining weight. I have no time to exercise i'm either studying, working, in class or sleeping. Any suggestions? I love walking but I'm so busy :-(. I'm a nursing student I graduate next year.

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Specializes in Programming / Strategist for allnurses.

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Specializes in Pharmacy Technician.

Yes

Nursing school has forced me to slow down. 

I quit my retail job and the  processed food consumption dropped. I work at a hospital and eat salads for lunch now.

Went to doctor for physical and need to cut down salt. Was told I had to exercise 30 minutes a day and monitor BP twice daily. 

Purely health reasons. I really want my BP to be textbook normal, like it was when I was healthier 

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