Help For Students

As I've been researching for my website I cam across tips for staying healthy in college. This opened the idea of instead of just having why eating should be implementing on campus and how TCU can make it happen, I also want to have some healthy tips for students to refer to. Here are some tips I came across from the article below:

Tips for preventing weight gain for freshmen
(and everyone else) from Dr. Gayle Timmerman

1. Establish an exercise routine and schedule it into your day. It’s even better if you can find a buddy to hold you accountable for showing up. Exercise is key to preventing weight gain, though it’s less helpful at losing weight once the pounds have added up.
2. Plan study snacks ahead of time. Studying is a high-risk time for students, so have a plan. Ask yourself the question, “What can I snack on that will have a small calorie impact and still get me through?”
3. When eating out, share a meal or box half the meal to take home. Large restaurant portions contribute to weight gain. Plan to eat half and offer the other half to a friend or box it up and get it out of your visual sight.
4. Try eating in your dorm room. Cereal, cereal bars, replacement meals like a Lean Cuisine and other foods that don’t require extensive preparation can mean the difference between a restaurant binge and a sensible diet.
5. Get your five fruits and vegetables. Skip the fried okra and French fries and pick up an apple in the cafeteria line.
6. Watch out for sodas and other sugar-filled drinks. Sodas, energy drinks and coffee drinks can put you on the fast track to weight gain. They add calories to the diet without easing hunger.
7. Monitor your weight. Timmerman suggests you weigh in once a week to catch any weight gain early. It’s a lot easier to deal with the weight when you’ve gained five pounds than when you’ve gained 15.