Video: The Freshman 15
"For the life of me I cannot remember / What made me think that Easy Mac was a healthy midnight snack." This lamentation over typical college junk food and more in The Freshman 15, College Humor's spoof of the Verve Pipe's The Freshmen. If you gained the Freshman 15, relive the magic with this music video. If you're just starting college, beware. Watch the video after the jump.
The Freshman 15
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11 Comments:
beer and mystery meat did it for me.
redfish at 12:29PM on 09/15/09
I gained 20. It totally sneaked up on me though. It doesn't seem like much when the pounds are gained 5 a year... but then suddenly bam! I was a senior and 20 lbs heavier and totally did not notice because of all the elastic pants I'd been wearing.... College is terrible for the health.
LHSK12 at 12:39PM on 09/15/09
I was so paranoid about the Freshman 15, that I actually lost weight. Not in any healthy manner either.
syd888 at 12:56PM on 09/15/09
i feel like the guys gain it more easily, i lost about 6 pounds freshmen year, i hated the food and played so much basketball, but then gained 15 after i started cooking for myself and had to study more....
all you do is sit and study and eat, i miss my basketballl =[
disneydreamscometrue at 1:15PM on 09/15/09
Maybe I have the opposite take on this, but as a guy that paid his own way through college and lived off campus, I probably lost fifteen pounds. The lowest point came when I had a mayonnaise sandwich for dinner and breadcrumbs drizzled with Ranch dressing for desert. Oh, the shame. Luckily soon afterwards, I got my own personal chef. His name was Boyardee, but it beat the hell out of breadcrumbs...
Justin From BK at 1:21PM on 09/15/09
ditto that syd888
awesome video, I like the shout out to Natty Ice
leighana at 3:55PM on 09/15/09
I lost weight as well, by being more physically active, and actually the food was better than what I ate at home. I did go through several unhealthy depressed binging periods, but they were leveled out by not eating periods. On the whole, I think college is a period of 'experimentation' (not as a euphemism, just in terms of finding yoruself) and I think it isn't that everyone gains weight, but most people 'change weight.'
HeartofGlass at 7:50PM on 09/15/09
I'm in my senior year now, and I'm 10 lb heavier than I was as a freshman...but! I was actually TOO thin entering university and after cooking a lot of great food for myself and biking around a hilly city, I put on a tiny bit of feminine curve and some serious leg muscles, so I think it compensates.
It's actually pretty easy to avoid the freshman 15, especially now that meal plans trying harder and harder now to accomodate healthy diets (instead of just mass producing burgers and grilled cheese). I imagine though that even 7-8 years ago, with a forced meal plan, it would have been way more difficult.
katrina at 7:55PM on 09/15/09
it is HARD not to gain weight in college. Especially with a meal plan. I don't know what ya'll are talking about. Luckily I cook for myself now, but I probably gained 30 lbs once college started.
It is so difficult for new freshman. If you give a baby a cookie or a carrot, they will choose the cookie. Worst thing I did Freshman year was buy a thing of Pillsbury Cookie dough and eat the whole thing raw. There is no one to hold you accountable... a blessing and a curse.
krr07a at 4:02AM on 09/16/09
I've gained five pounds in the three and some years I've been at college, and some of that was my body just finishing up it's growing and whatnot. But I have seen some fall to the Freshman 15. Just not me.
But, I eat healthy at the dining halls, keep healthy snacks on hand, and eat vegetarian when I'm at my apartment.
And I also haven't fallen into spending too much time with Mr. Booze. That's a definite diet breaker.
Narwhal at 8:29AM on 09/16/09
Oh yeah. The lack of accountability. It really did me in. I ate whatever and didn't exercise at all.
wunami at 8:36AM on 09/17/09