What exercise to do

The Lovely Muffin

Thank you for all your replies, I haven't read them all yet as I am off to bed (should have been there ages ago, but was stuck doing homework). I will read through each one throughly when I get a chance over the next few days.

B-Builder wrote: »

If an when you move closer to college will this enable you to go home for lunch or will you still be stuck on campus for lunch? Do you have any friends who live close to college to whose place you could go for lunch? Is there not a salad bar available in the college canteen?

It depends on where I move to, I am looking for somewhere in the same area my college is in, but there aren't many places.

B-Builder wrote: »

I would be great if you could go home for lunch, but if that is not an option, then I would be having a word with the student union or the powers that be in the college about not being allowed to bring in your own food, given the fare which is available to you in the campus canteen. There is no way I would accept being practically forced to eat junk food for a number of years while I was in college.

I will be speaking to my class/year tutor (and she will take it from there). Unfortunately, the caterers in our college are private as last year, everyone wanted private caterers so when enough people became interested the college got the private caterers, while the food is good and mostly home-made, it is expensive (costing nearly €5-€6 per day:() and it's doubtful the caterers will go/change their rules just to suit a small number of students.

B-Builder wrote: »

I reckon that you would find your concentration and overall energy levels would be better if you could eat more wholesome foods, as well as being able to keep fit and healthy.

I totally agree. I find regardless of how much I study, I tend to forget everything very quickly, and I put it down to tiredness, all the commuting, stress + the food. I do take Vivioptal vitamins daily.

B-Builder wrote: »

Worst case scenario you will just have to do your best to eat healthy wholesome foods at the times you have control over your diet and choose the healthiest option available when in college.

Again, I agree.

keane2097 wrote: »

This is the most important thing to have been mentioned on the thread IMO.

It is absolutely outrageous to not be allowed bring a packed lunch to college. I doubt it's even legal.

I doubt there is anything that can be done though.

keane2097

Bring lunch in a lunchbox with your own food in it.

When they tell you you're not allowed eat it tell them to go and fcuk themselves.

There is absolutely no way they can get away with not allowing you to bring your own food to school with you.

Just don't accept it.

Mellor

Roger Marbles wrote: »

Again I would disagree. The main thing is doing it in a healthy way that promotes long-terms sustained weight loss with beneficial health outcomes.

And how would you go about doing that without a fundamental basis in calories in vrs out??

Nobody is suggesting anything that is unhealthy, like crash dieting or similar.