My daughter is heading to a college with amazing free cafeterias - any advice?

[Anonymous]

OP, your daughter will eat cake or Captain Crunch cereal for dinner at college some nights, and you won't know anything about it.

Let her make her own food decisions and deal with the consequences. You've inputting your ideas, now it's time to back off. She's an adult.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dining Hall OJ is delicious with cheap vodka when you're in college.

Come sit next to me, and let's continue to trash the hopefully troll OP who is a nightmare.

I guess OP's shaming might lead the daughter to drink the lower-calorie Crystal Light and Vodka.

Guys, can I sit on your op-trashing bench with you? I’ll provide the rum and we can use dining hall Coke! Don’t worry OP, we’ll make sure it’s Diet Coke.

Diet Sprite with Absolut Mandarin is another good one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My freshman year first semester I lost 15 lbs immediately by eating salad bar and just not planning very well. Then I discovered partying, late night study pizza combined with ill fated “mom sent me cookies” and the pounds packed on.

Just tell her to be cognizant of all the “other food” - not really the dining hall but the beer, pizza, etc. get a mini fridge and stick with fruit, veggies, yogurt. I always had cereal, milk and some emergency soup on hand.

Get in the habit of going to the gym.

She will be fine. And if she gains, likely by second semester she will figure it out.

And the food is never really that good,..after 2 months the novelty will wear off.

In my experience, those that packed on the 10-20 pounds RARELY got skinny again. Look at any sorority or fraternity - - you can tell the upperclassman by fuller faces. It's soooooo much easier to gain 10-20 than it is to lose 10-20.

So would you prefer a child who is 10-20 pounds heavier at age 20 than they were at age 18, or a child with an eating disorder at age 20 that they didn't have at age 18?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dafuq? Orange juice isn't healthy? In what universe?

Tang, I agree with you. Fresh-squeezed OJ? What weird ideas you have.

Where have you been? In dialysis?

[Anonymous]

OP, if the worst thing your kid does in college is drink orange juice every day, you're incredibly lucky.

[Anonymous]

Burnett's orange vodka and diet sunkist .. man, the good old days.

[Anonymous]

Worst post ever. Leave her alone. But she will probably get fat

[Anonymous]

Most late teens gain 15 to 20 pounds because they have literally zero comprehension of nutrition or how to even estimate their calorie intake. You really think kids go into college hoping or not caring they gain 15 or 20 pounds? Get real, teenagers are insecure, superficial as hell and obsessed with their appearance. The weight gain is accidental because nobody taught them nutrition -- and it can be a source of serious depression.

Understanding nutrition != anorexic

Understanding nutrition just means grabbing more sensible choices, cardio, avoiding (some, not all) garbage empty calories esp. late night snacking, and knowing how to ballpark calorie intake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most late teens gain 15 to 20 pounds because they have literally zero comprehension of nutrition or how to even estimate their calorie intake. You really think kids go into college hoping or not caring they gain 15 or 20 pounds? Get real, teenagers are insecure, superficial as hell and obsessed with their appearance. The weight gain is accidental because nobody taught them nutrition -- and it can be a source of serious depression.

Understanding nutrition != anorexic

Understanding nutrition just means grabbing more sensible choices, cardio, avoiding (some, not all) garbage empty calories esp. late night snacking, and knowing how to ballpark calorie intake.

The time to teach is when your kids are younger, not harass them as they enter adulthood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My freshman year first semester I lost 15 lbs immediately by eating salad bar and just not planning very well. Then I discovered partying, late night study pizza combined with ill fated “mom sent me cookies” and the pounds packed on.

Just tell her to be cognizant of all the “other food” - not really the dining hall but the beer, pizza, etc. get a mini fridge and stick with fruit, veggies, yogurt. I always had cereal, milk and some emergency soup on hand.

Get in the habit of going to the gym.

She will be fine. And if she gains, likely by second semester she will figure it out.

And the food is never really that good,..after 2 months the novelty will wear off.

In my experience, those that packed on the 10-20 pounds RARELY got skinny again. Look at any sorority or fraternity - - you can tell the upperclassman by fuller faces. It's soooooo much easier to gain 10-20 than it is to lose 10-20.

Well then you have a really bizarre experience. A lot of freshman gain weight and everyone I know lost it.

[Anonymous]

What student is in the dorm for college in July? So weird . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dafuq? Orange juice isn't healthy? In what universe?

Tang, I agree with you. Fresh-squeezed OJ? What weird ideas you have.

The same people who think a banana is unhealthy (check out the post in recents).

CRAZY.

Also, OP, a glass of fresh squeezed oj is perfectly fine.

[Anonymous]

I gained 15+ at college and had started at the edge of plump. The dorm food sucked, with no healthy choices (this was the 90s) esp for someone who didn't eat meat. and no, it was not free either. I gained it from bagels, beer and yogurt pretzels.

But by junior year I developed (caught? It was rampant) an eating disorder..I went from a high of 138# to a low of 94#s.what drove these extremes, however, was not lack of knowledge about nutrtion, as I had grown up with a mother who constantly judged food, weight and would always comment in what and how much I was eating.both gaining and losing was a way to say f-u among other things...

[Anonymous]

no actually. It's not the free food in the cafeteria and the freshly squeezed orange juice that will add the freshman 5 or 10. It's the junk food and snacking in absence of healthy lowfat cooked meals. So the fact that there is a free cafeteria may be helpful to avoid gaining lots of weight.

[Anonymous]

I’m not going to lie, if my kid came home fat I’d be upset but I’d also keep it to myself.