How to Lose Weight Following the Dorm Room Diet

Based on the fact that every college student knows what the "Freshman 15" is, it seems appropriate that there would be a dorm room diet to try to help manage new college students. The dorm room diet is designed as a guide to help college students avoid those dreaded Freshman 15 and also learn healthy eating habits to help keep an extra spare tire off.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Daphne Oz's "The Dorm Room Diet" book/guide.

1. Take the time to read "The Dorm Room Diet." This diet isn't so much a single eating plan and diet as it is a specific guide about diet and lifestyle that is targeted mostly to young women just starting out in college.

2. Follow the 8 step program that is outlined in the book. The book is easily broken up into specific sections that go into everything from healthy eating to "danger zones" to the emotional triggers that cause comfort eating.

3. Really get into the program. The eight steps are: Get inspired, Get informed, Get Started, Get a Grip, Get Prepared, Get Moving, Get your vitamins, and get recharged.

4. If you can't follow the entire program, focus on some of the main points that are emphasized as the base of the dorm room diet: drink half your body weight in ounces of water each and every day, including one glass before every meal. Then eat something every three hours (fruits are great snacks), and never eat two hours before bed.

5. If you're going to college, you have a free gym membership. Use it three times a week to get into the good habits of consistently working out.

Tips & Warnings

• The dorm room diet isn't so much a diet as a great guide to getting through college life with your health. Follow it as much as possible.
• The author is female, and the dorm room diet is based more on the needs and experiences of women going to college as opposed to men.

Resources

• Dorm Room Diet
• Dorm Room Diet Planner
• Great Diet Website - Matches You with

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on 6/8/2009 i'm starting college in the fall, this will help me! thanks! 5*