i was actually extremely healthy! i worked out all the time, played intramural sports, and ate very healthfully…i didn’t have anything else to do at the time, which made it easy 🙂

I was a pretty healthy college student. I didn’t eat the healthiest I guess, but it wasn’t terrible. And no drinking. i went to a small Christian school where there was no alcohol on campus, and my friends didn’t drink, so I just never got into it. I had no sense of portion control, etc, but I was on the tennis team and a ton of intermural sports, so I was active enough that it didn’t matter

I wish I lived a little like a real college student some days though! Love the Debbie Cake 🙂

The first half year I went a little wild but then I don’t know what happened but I had gotten SO much healthier. I have not consumed much alcohol since. I actually have gotten to dislike it. Shocking, I know.

i was pretty healthy — I’m much more healthier now, but all things considered, I worked out, ate healthy most of the time and didn’t drink EVERY weekend — actually, probably only once a month (still not a big drinker)!

I am in my fourth year of college right now and I’m WAY healthier then I was my first couple of years. I partied all the time and ate SO MUCH JUNK. It wasn’t until half way through my second year of college that I started eating healthy!

Right now I don’t feel like a typical college student. I work three jobs and run and train for races. Since I work A LOT and go running in the morning I NEVER go out on weeknights anymore and only rarely on weekends. And, when I do (like last weekend) it really makes me feel gross to be so unhealthy because my body is used to healthy foods!

Sounds like most of us were over served. The binge drinking I did my freshman year was insane. I don’t know how my liver survived. By sophmore year I wised up and realized that the beer gut was not sexy or healthy. I stopped drinking completely for a few months and started working out more. Unfortunately, I didn’t find a good balance and fell back into an eating disorder.

College seemed to fuel my disorder because it was so easy to isolate myself. My family was in another state and I just stopped socializing. There really wasn’t anyone to monitor me.

I drank a lot. I went from one extreme to eating a lot of junk to eating a lot of diet food (sugar free, fat free, etc). After I graduated, that’s when I got on the healthy eating band wagon. When I was out of that college atmosphere. I still drank like a fish but I started cooking a lot more.

I was a pretty healthy University student – I was very health conscious throughout my university years … but I drank on the weekends 🙂

I was the most unhealthiest University student around!! Currently I am in the process of trying to pick up the pieces of my life, well what’s left of it and it’s been hard and a slow process, but I’m getting there everyday.
I know you don’t really like it when people advertise their blogs on your blog, but if you visit mine and read “The Reason” – you’ll see just how healthy I was. Not fun. It’s weird because being a student and in university you spend so much time challenging yourself academically and wanting to prove your smarts to your professors – you in turn end up doing and making a lot of STUPID choices, how does that make sense? haha.

I most regret not using our AMAZING and FREE gym while at college. I was just to intimidated to go 🙁 At the time it was really new and supposedly was like, the biggest best gym for a student body (e.g. not athletes only) this side of the Mississippi. Go Cougs! (WSU Cougs :))

I was semi-healthy in college.

I partied WAY too hard at the beginning of my freshman year: kissed a few too many boys 😉 and ate way too many 3am slices of pizza/White Castle burgers. Things changed after an especially terrible hangover and I took a step back from drinking and going out 3 nights a week. I have some regrets — I kissed a few too many frogs and made an idiot of myself a handful of times — but I wasn’t all that bad now that I think about it. I needed to come out of my shell!

Then, I met this brilliant guy that made me want to work harder and generally be a better person…and in a few weeks we’ll be celebrating our 8th anniversary/2nd wedding anniversary 🙂

I went from being healthy and fit in highschool (I played field hockey for years, and would go to pilates classes before school started, and step aerobics after) to being unhealthy for freshman year, and then back to my normal habits for my second year, and now my final.

I totally just got carried away with the fun of freshman year, and I don’t regret it at all! I was too intimidated to join a big city gym, and I didn’t know how common it was for students to work out, so I figured I would wait and see if it was “normal”. Not surprisingly, no one really worked out, so apart from the occasional run, I didn’t either. I also got overly excited about food I hadn’t had since I was growing up, I didn’t have access to any organic or natural supermarkets like I was used to at home, and cooking seemed like it would take up too much time…that I could be spending at a bar. Oh, and I also got a boyfriend, which is like an automatic 5 pound weight gain.

Then, I ended up in the hospital, (sadly, for an ongoing and unresolved issue) which made me feel super out of control and sad about my body. It wasn’t food/alcohol related, but I felt so powerless that I committed to getting back to my healthy habits, because at least then I could do everything possible to keep healthy. Alcohol is the biggest downfall, but I feel like it’s automatically easier in the last year because everyone has more studying, and going to clubs is less of a novelty.

I’m a college student right now and am actually very healthy and work out daily. The 5 roommates I live with are NOT healthy though, and they don’t understand my lifestyle so it can be hard to live with them.

I was so similar to you in college- I have NO idea how I went out that much or that often and still never missed class, got great grades, and was involved in tons of clubs and activities. I basically slept less than 6 hours every night, varied between eating healthy or eating unhealthy and then not eating enough, and sporadic exercise plans. I think it was definitely an accepted way of life in college and I never gave it too much thought until I was OUT of college! Worked heard and played hard and it’s fun to relive those days once in awhile a few times a year now- how did we do it every weekend!?

Purdue (where I went to grad school) was HUGE too…I never got used to it after spending my undergrad at College of Charleston, which is pretty small and integrated with the city.

I lived it up in college…it was like that Dave Matthews song “Too Much” lol– I ate too much, I drank too much…and like you, after I graduated, I calmed down in a major way!

That pic of you and your hub is so cute!

I was NOT a healthy student. I vacillated between eating very, very little to having alchol-induced pizza binges for the better part of 4 years. I was always a runner, but my running kind of lacked during college, too. I was just sort of going through the motions of it.

I loved, loved, loved college and did very well, but I cringe at my unhealthy habits now. It was so important to me to maintain a size 1 that I really thought deprivation was key. No wonder I had so many of those pizza binges!

I think it took graduating and living on my own (and acquiring a wonderful, supportive boyfriend) to make me realize the error of my ways. We’re young when we’re in college! How can we expect to have our acts totally ‘together’ when we’re 20?!

I was a so-so student when it came to being healthy. I remember eating salads and sandwiches but also drank too much and ate too much pizza. And weekend brunches in the cafeteria were always over the top. I lost nearly 20 pounds after college by just making my own meals.

I drank a LOT in college but I also workout out pretty hard. I’ve always been a play hard, work harder kind of girl. 🙂

I don’t think you could trump my drinking 😉 I based my studies around 1$beer nights and ladies nights! I also worked out and rode my bike EVERYWHERE and never drove. I still enjoy some nights out, but I know more and respect my body on a whole different level than I did at 21! I know when to say no, which is not a skill I had in college!

You looked so cute in that pic of you the hubby.
College–aaahh college…I was super unhealthy. I played soccer in college but that didn’t stop me from gaining 30+ pounds from eating crap and drinking. After two years of playing soccer overweight, I injured my knee and had to take a year off. I started waitressing on my free time since I moved off campus and that’s when the weight started to fall off. However, I was dating a musician (who was also from a huge Irish Catholic family) so ALL we did was drink. We both worked at restaurants that had bars, so we’d meet up and drink all night after the bar closed. It was BAD. And when we weren’t working at night, he was playing somewhere, which meant we were drinking. We dated for 2 years, and as much as I loved him, I knew we had to break up. I couldn’t live like that anymore.

My life is 100% different now (100% better!)
I had an Awesome time in college. I don’t regret a second of it. But I’m so happy not to be living like that anymore!

I had a strange college experience. I went to a state school and stayed home with my parents. So I didn’t drink or party much until AFTER college. I loved those days and don’t regret them too much!

I was NOT healthy.

Pizza twice a week, $2 Chow Mein every weekend after the bar, beer, beer…and also some beer. 😉

UGH. I actually tried to workout and in my Senior year I was a little bit healthier. But…yeah, for the most part it was pretty gross what I ate/drank.

But I had the BEST TIME so no regrets! Never again though! 🙂

I was somewhere in the middle of the road.

I walked pretty much everywhere I could, but I didn’t really work-out much. I did do water aerobics my senior years when I was teaching swim lessons at the YWCA since they were free and right before I had work anyway, but that was the extent of my working out in college.

I drank some, but I didn’t like beer which was generally the only option at house parties so I didn’t do a whole lot of drinking.

Once I had an apartment, I cooked for myself more often than not; however, there was usually some kind of highly processed convenience foods involved. (Hamburger Helper, Tuna Helper, canned soup, Kraft Mac n Cheese.)

It wasn’t until I graduated and started my (very) sedentary office job that I really started putting on the pounds. I don’t regret any of it, but I’m definitely much happier having found a healthier more balanced lifestyle.

I wish I was anywhere near UCF. I would love to come see you speak!

i’m a sophomore in college and i’m very proud of my healthy habits… i still go out to parties and most of my friends drink, but i don’t feel compelled to do it with them and i have the personality to carry myself without the “tipsy confidence” that alcohol can give. plus, i’m underage, and it’s just not worth it to me to risk the consequences of getting caught. once i turn 21 next january i’ll probably enjoy some drinks every now and then, but for now i’m proud to be the “healthy one” and i like to encourage my friends to come eat dinner at my apartment since i cook every night, or come workout with me.

I’m in college now (At the University of Iowa) and I really try to eat healthy, although it can be REALLY tough sometimes when my friends want to eat out often and the temptations with the chips and queso and oreos….I feel really accomplished when I eat an orange instead. But that’s not to say that I do that all the time…!!! 🙂 Working out is another story, I belong to the gym on campus so I will pack my gym bag and take it to classes with me and go directly after so I don’t have an excuse to be lazy at my apartment. Then when the weather is nice, I have no excuse to get outside and run because there are so many fun places to run in the Iowa City area. Downtown there are a TON of bars and I frequent them on the weekends…haha. But I figure that if I workout regularly & eat healthy a majority of the time it’s okay!

I gained about forty pounds in college, so no I definitely wasn’t healthy! I didn’t start drinking until after college though, since I didn’t turn 21 until after.

But I used my freedom to eat whatever, whenever. Plus I was going to school and working weird hours so I would eat multiple times a day.

I’m so glad to have lost over 90 pounds since then!

I just wrote a post yesterday on how to be a healthy college student :). I’m still an undergrad, took me awhile to figure out what I want to do. I believe living a healthy lifestyle as a college student is important. It’s definately hard to eat the right stuff sometimes just because you’re always on the go and you have deadlines to meet. Living healthy have been a part of my life since the beginning of 2009. I love to make my own food, not only because I love to cook but it’s cheaper than eating out PLUS I know what I’m putting in my body. Don’t get me wrong I allow myself to have “bad” foods/drinks once in awhile … it helps me keep sane 🙂

I had a BLAST during college – I just graduated last May! I feel like I lived it up those four years and now that that time is over, I’m okay with it! I sowed my wild oats, if you will. Not that I was out of control or anything during college (well…not my junior or senior years at least…), but if I hadn’t experienced all college had to offer at the time, I would have always wondered about the experiences I missed out on. Plus, after college it’s called alcoholism. 🙂

Oh but Mardi Gras (I’m from St. Louis and we do it up big here) is Saturday so I’ll be reverting back to my college ways in 48 hrs – temporarily. 😉

I was relatively healthy starting in sophomore year, when I went to the gym a lot. However, I think I went TOO much and didn’t work out the right way (all I used was the elliptical, no weights or yoga, etc), and stopped eating all sweets so I slimmed down to a toothpick. Junior year I started doing yoga, sleeping more, and running more, and I developed better eating habits that I carry with me today. 🙂 I will never be as in shape as I was my last year in college though, I was a machine. 😉

I didn’t drink a lot in college at all, and I drink even less now. I wasn’t really thinking about eating healthy then either – I thought about it a lot less.

I consider myself a very healthy college student and work out multiple days per week. I find that living a healthy lifestyle grants me more energy to tackle my coursework.

Well, I’m currently in college and trying to live the healthiest life I can. I like standing out from the the majority of students that have party first, school second as their motto.

*Cute pic of you and the husband!*

That’s a tough question! I was so bad in university – I would bring a lunch, but then eat poutine from the cafeteria AND my lunch. I wouldn’t exercise. I saw how other girls ate and just assumed I could do that too – unfortunately, they were busy bodies and snacked a little throughout the day, whereas I was lazy and ate a lot.

In the past 3 years I’ve done a complete overhaul of my eating habits, I exercise, I drink in moderation (though there’s the occasional night I drink someone under the table), and I’m very happy.

Would I change anything? I think I want to change how I was in university (and the consecutive years after that when my husband and I were first together and I started to eat HIS portion sizes), but I’m not sure I would have known how to change in a healthy way. I’m sure I would have cut corners and just restricted what I ate, ultimately leading to a fail. Now, I know about balance and I’m working on moderation. I still flub up once in a while, but it’s nice to actually know about healthy foods, and eat them!

My husband is even trying things with me and I can’t believe how far we’ve come. I’m happy that I’ve learned all of this with the help of books and blogs. I’m sure if I went by word of mouth back in the day, I would have a very weird view about food right now.

K

i went out every thursday, friday, and saturday. I also LOVED me some Burger King and chinese buffets…my bloated face and body paid for my sins. I had fun but looking back, I wish I had better exercise habits!

Gahhhh – I want to go to the event so badly but I’m in WPB and that is a long drive for a worknight 🙁 Boo! BTW: I really really really like your hair in that pic. It is full of volume!

I was a super unhealthy college student…what’s worse is that I thought I was being healthy by going vegetarian. Let me tell you, there are still plenty of unhealthy vegetarian friendly foods (insert all booze, french fries and nachos etc.)

P.S. I’m new to the blog, and have to say I have never found something so inspiring! I love it. I’m am working extremely hard to get my diet and health back on track, and I look to your blog daily for inspiration. Thanks!

I have def. always tried to be a healthy college student. I strive for my ability to eat healthy and the fact that I enjoy it but there are times when it goes out the window but isn’t that true with everyone. I love all types of beer, I love having fun, and I love pizza and late night snacks after a night of drinking with friends. I go to a college were there is not much of a party scene so I am lucky in that sense. I don’t think I regret not having more fun but sometimes I wish I let loose more often because I”M IN COLLEGE haha what an excuse.