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College Health Anonymous
So I'm decently aware of basic health choices. I've been a body-builder turned into someone trying to simply get lean. I'm finding normal advice to eating healthy is worthless for a college lifestyle.

I don't have easy transportation anywhere and live on campus. I can't get regular fruit and vegetables all the time and find myself living off ham and cheese sandwhiches and cereal. My food courts serve pizza and fried chicken. Any advice for healthy eating on a low budget in my lifestyle?

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>> Anonymous
Your college food service does not offer you any healthy options at all? I find this... dubious.
>> Anonymous
The fucking grocery store.
>> Anonymous
Ramen, multivitamins, milk and cereal, repeat.
>> Hymn
>>9757
Tuuuuuunnnaaaaaaaa. It comes in a can with a pulltab and tastes delicious.
>> Anonymous
>>9775

Fuck canned tuna, the pouches are where it's at.
>> Anonymous
OP here.

I know it seems hard to believe, but its really true. The only healthy thing I can eat is salads, and I've driven myself sick eating nothing but that.

I know simple responses like "the grocery store" seems obvious, but I can't cook anything, I can't grill anything (so any "meat" is pretty much unhealthy). I'm looking for some advice. There's many nights I find myself lacking the foods I know I need.
>> Anonymous
What shitty ass school is this you go to?

Anyways, your answer is already in this thread: eat tuna, and lots of it. It's great clean protein. It's cheap. You don't have to cook it, they do that when they put it in the can/pouch. It has dolphins in it for extra oomph. What's not to like?
>> Anonymous
rice and spaghetti sauce.
>> Anonymous
how healthy is ramen? it feels like it couldn't be that good for you
>> Anonymous
>>10010

Ramen are terrible. Don't even look at them, their photons will make you fatter.
>> Anonymous
>>10010
Ramen's perfectly healthy, if a little heavy on the sodium. Good source of carbohydrates.
>> Anonymous
For those of us collegefags who are trying to lose weight...should we completely steer away from the pizza, burgers, or random Taco Bell outings as well?
>> Anonymous
First off, schools are terrible at providing fruits. They should have veggies though, even if it is formerly frozen. If they don't then you may have some legal recourse.
Anyway, try to find 'filling' meals. Get some vitamins and use that to offset what your diet will, inevitably, lack.
Avoid cheeses. Avoid greases. Avoid white bread and go with wheat when you can. When they have a pizza, eat half, as well as any veggie sides you can eat, and then wait. Try to make sure you can avoid eating all of it.
Vitamins really did a lot for me to stay 'somewhat' healthy in college.
>> Anonymous
>>10039

Tonight's nominees for questions with the most obvious answer in the universe...
>> Anonymous
>>10039
Moderation. Give yourself a treat once per week and you'll be fine as long as the rest of your diet is good.
>> Anonymous
>>10039
Certainly stay away from Taco Bell.

Also, transfer to a college located in a major city, and find one of those stereotypical streets full of grocers that you see in all the movies.
>> Anonymous
>>10039
For the most part. Don't think about it in the short term but the long term. Save the Taco Hell, pizza, and butgers as a treat for keeping to healthy practices. When you go out, have the healthy option. When pizza is the only option, have the veggie pizza, btw.
BTW, fast food CAN be healthy. There are options. For example, Sirloin burgers can be better than normal burgers. Grilled chicken over fried. Avoid mayo and sauces. When you get a salad, don't get Ceasar and ranch. Get italian or wine and vinegar.
>> Anonymous
Don't forget that in addition to what you eat, what you drink is important to monitor as well.

Don't drink soda or energy drinks (even the diet ones are questionable). Drink lots of water. It will fill you up and keep you from eating bad foods, all while keeping your metabolism and digestion going strong. Milk is great for you too; calcium, vitamins, and positive fats are all contained in milk.
>> Anonymous
>>10014
>>10033
Opposing opinions. I'm curious also, so we need moar answers.
>> Anonymous
I think the thing that gets people in college is actually the drinking and hard living, not the crappy food. At that age, you can cope with eating pizza all the time so long as you don't go overboard with the alcohol. Anecdotal evidence: i eat like crap and stay slim while my sister tries to diet yet drinks a lot and gets fat.
>> Anonymous
>>9763
if they dont offer healthy food, complain in one of those comment cards for moar fruit and veggies and shit
>> Anonymous
Goddamn fucking faggots. If you can't take the time to stop and prepare a decent healthy meal for yourself, you don't have the motivation and dedication to be healthy. gtfo.
>> Anonymous
i work at a grocery store so i have some experience eating things with zero preparation for lunch. meals you can do with no real preparation, made out of foods that dont spoil, basically narrow down to combos of fruits and nuts with peanut butter. apples, pears, oranges and bananas are great snacks and if you eat them with natural peanut butter (peanuts and salt the only ingredients) that bumps the caloric content up to acceptable levels for an actual meal. if you can get a real whole grain bread with no preservatives you could make peanut butter sandiwches with that.

if you have a fridge you have more options - natural no-preservative lunch meat (smoked turkey is good) with hummus or flavored hummus, greek style yogurt

buy a protein supplement that tastes good like muscle milk and have some with your fruit+nut meals since they lack protein

im guessing your willpower sucks and you wont do any of this but i hope it helps someone
>> Anonymous
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>>9785

OP, do you have access to a microwave/fridge? If you do, you can buy some broccoli/carrots and cook them with those Ziploc steam bags. They're really handy.
>> Anonymous
>>10062
Ramen's high in carbohydrates but low in most other nutritional value. It makes for a good staple if you're poor. Pair it with multivitamins and a couple of sources of protein, some nuts or legumes or milk and you're good to go. It can be a little fatty but it's not really excessive.
>> Anonymous
>>10123
this is retarded, ramen is straight up bad for you, it's a high-glycemic carbohydrate source and will fuck up your insulin sensitivity. REAL food is not expensive - a jar of natural peanut butter is 1.69 at trader joe's and has enough calories for an active man to live off of for a whole day, and these calories are made up of fat, carbs and protein rather than shitty processed flour. a half gallon of organic whole milk is another thousand-ish calories with a shitload of protein, you could actually gain weight eating those every day with a multi vite and i guarantee you'll look better than if you'r on a fucking ramen diet
>> Anonymous
well, if you can do sandwiches you have multiple options...

tuna sandwiches. I fucking love tuna. Avocado is fatty but supposedly good for you. Tomato is good, alone or with avocado, add salt and basil. Basil's good on anything.

Really, anything you can possibly think of can be made into a sandwich. Bread is actually a very blank palate, wheat breads tend to be sweeter and compliment things with more salt or things that are very sweet while potato is a bit more cloying and goes better with savory tastes.
>> Anonymous
on your own: peanut butter, tuna, pre-packaged salads, oatmeal, etc.

veggie burritos from local taco stands
veggie wrap from subway
just get veggie at any fast food place.

and save alcohol for the weekends.
other than that WATER!
>> Anonymous
Anyone know how healthy black olives are? I usually eat at least one salad a day and the only thing I ever top it with are black olives.
>> Anonymous
OP here

to the poster who complained about being lazy...

There are places in college where the nearest grocer is several miles away and there's not easy transportation. Also, I can't afford to get a taxi let alone shop at groceries every damn day. Not all of us are trust fund kids who can buy whatever they want in college.

Actually, I don't drink or smoke, so that is a huge boon to my health but I still have problems. I do have a microwave, and I can make chefboyardee and things, but it never seems that that's healthy. I'm interested in eating celery as apparently it takes more calories to digest than are in it?
>> Anonymous
>>10039
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Eat, dronk and be merry.

Just don't be a lazy cunt, get some exercise.

To all the fags on her spouting all this scary nonsense about college kids having to watch hat they eat: FUUUCK YOOOOUU!!!

When youre young you literally only have a few years to eat all the shite that you want to before you hit your mid-twenties when you need to start giving a fuck. So eat everything(balance your diet obviously) you want to in college and just enjoy the fuck out of student life.
>> Anonymous
>>10838
Hey, I was all for enjoying food and whatnot until I actually gained the freshman 15. Shit, I thought that was just an urban legend...