Tough to Lose Weight

If you're keeping up with my website, you've read about Hallie Kinman in my fitness article and her struggle to lose weight in college.

I can definitely tell that I've gained some weight since coming to Wartburg, and I always gain about the same each year but I lose it during the summer when I'm more active and eat healthier. However, I'd rather keep up better habits during the school year. With a wedding coming up that I'm in, I'd rather look a little better than I do.

I'd definitely be exercising, but commitments to work, school work, friends and family keep me very tied up. I also have a cold right now which has made it difficult to even want to exercise. All I can do is try to think about making healthy choices when I eat, which is also really tough to do. I'd love to try a diet, but as Margaret Empie said, college students don't have time to sit and count calories and develop a meal plan. It's just not realistic unless you have help that's been tailored to you and your food access.

I hope that I can start to shed some pounds at the beginning of this summer and hopefully see a change from the upcoming wedding I'm in to my sister's wedding in late June. Hopefully those college pounds won't come back in my last semester here at school which ends in December. As stated in a previous post, I definitely blame the winter weather for a lack of fitness and healthy habits.