I gained about 3 kilos (approximately 6 pounds) during my college years. I'm in my final months of grad school now, and I've lost those 3 kilos in the last year.

But the weight came on quickly, I must say. Cafeteria meals, pizza, fried food,... Easy accessible foods are a blessing for a student's hungry stomach, but not for his or her health...

I was too poor and stressed out to eat in college. Most of the time I forgot to eat or just grabbed a vending machine item. I had just moved to the US, just learned to drive a car, and was completely alone in a very vigorous course of study. I was woefully unhealthy.

I'm graduating in May and I've gained 25 lbs. since starting college. But I'm at a healthier 120 now, than the unhealthy 95 lbs I was when I started.

We would go to the dining hall, get a meal of something (sometimes casserole, sometimes just toast) and then later we would say "OH I only had toast for dinner" or "Dinner was gross" and then we'd break out the KD or Pop Tarts. So we ate two dinners.

If you're gonna skip dinner and go for the KD, you actually have to SKIP DINNER!

between the spring semester of my senior year of high school and the fall semester of my freshman year of college i gained almost 30 pounds . . . NOT good! i would've been happy with the freshman 15!

I actually lost when I went to college. I think being out of my parents' house got rid of a lot of the issues that were causing me to binge... and w/ a room mate there all the time I really couldn't binge like I used to.

I gained about 13 pounds because my cafeteria was all-you-care-to-eat. Enough said. And that was just last year. But now, I've lost about 10 of those pounds so I'm gained total 3 since high school, which is okay

I lost over 30 pounds. I was walking around all day and the cafeteria food made me sick. Then I started on the pill and gained back 10, but it was OK 'cause I was a little too skinny.

Try freshman 20. And at 4'11, it reeeeeally showed.

not so much the food itself - while sometimes gross, the cafeteria did offer good options. The problem was the suitemates that wold order pizza at 2 in the morning because we were studying for a test or pretend every couple of weeks that someone was having a birthday so the main office would send us cake.

i stayed the same. after hearing so much about kids gaining weight at college and seeing girls developing buddha bellies, i proactively decided i did NOT want that.

also, i think a lot of college kids make an effort to eat healthfully at the dining hall. its actually all of the drinking and the entire lifestyle that goes with it that leads to weight gain (lots of snacking with the drinking, late nights, sleeping in the next day and not bothering to exercise, etc)

Freshman year I gained about 7-8 pounds, which was a lot for my 5'4" frame, basically just from eating at the cafeteria and not playing sports. Luckily I lost it pretty easily over the summer, and had my own kitchen for the rest of college. Then when I went abroad to Ireland for a semester, I gained about 12 pounds and didn't lose it quite as quickly. I finished up college at about the weight I started, and have been the same since. Once I realized that I had to work out since I wasn't playing sports anymore, I was able to keep my weight on track.

And I agree with marygrace -- the whole drinking atmosphere can play a big part in gaining too!

I gained more like the freshman 30.... then the sophomore 15... it kept going up... all gone now though!

i gained about 5-10 then freaked out and lost about 30. haha. so i guess it worked out

I had just gotten my wisdom teeth before coming to college, so I had lost 5 lbs right before classes started. I ended the year back to my normal weight, so I gained 5 lbs, but it was just bringing me back to my normal weight.

Maybe a few pounds but not 15.

I def gained the freshman 15! I was 115lbs (Im 5'7)when I started (maybe a little less) and when my second semester started I found out I was 130lbs! Well, my diet was poor, I was eating gyros, burgers with fries, cookies almost everyday for dinner. I wasnt very active, unless walking to and from class is considered a sport.

My friends and I desperately wanted to lose the exra lbs so we went on a baby food diet, eating only baby food - yea that didnt last very long! lol After college I weighted about 132 which was fine, 115lbs was way too skinny for me anyway but when I started my job - a desk job - within 4 months I was 140lbs! After joining a gym and reading about nutrition and stuff Im 130lb again.

Nope, I did not gain the Freshman 15 -- more like the Freshman 30. Good times.

I lost 15 lbs. AFTER college, I gained that back.

I wish I could go back to college. I didn't have to work out then, I just walked everywhere and took the stairs.

Nope. I was a duel athlete in college and my track coaches were on me pretty hard about my size. IMO too hard by having unreal expectations for my body before it was mature enough to realistically be at such a low bmi.

"dual" ha ha, boy it is early

i gained about 10-15 pounds first year because i wasn't taking care of myself. i had it all gone tho by the time second year came around.

I practically gained the freshman fifteen in one semester! not a good thing! i lost all but five pounds the following semester which wasnt bad since that left me at 102...yet after seven years im at 115 i wish i could get to 110 but the scale doesnt seem to budge despite my healthy eating and excercise! i blame college food for that :s

I actually lost weight in college. And I was small to begin with. But living in a sorority house really puts the pressure on you to look thin. I got dangerously skinny for awhile.

I gained about 30 pounds from freshman year to junior year. Then during my senior year and grad school lost all of it!

I gained the freshmen 30 but lost it by the next year. I blame it on alcohol, pizza, marie callendar, chik-fil-A and the greek restaurant that was nearby.

caterpillar - chic fil a was my downfall too! and icees. and cafeteria food. and alcohol. and everything about the way I ate in college. oh, youth.

I gained 10-15 AFTER college because I went from always being on the go, walking all around campus, to sitting at a desk all day. I probably needed the first 5 (I was rather underweight from living off granola bars and easy mac) but the rest of it needs to GO!

To be quite honest, I didn't really weigh myself in high school, and I'm glad I don't know what I weighed. All I knew was I was a good couple inches taller than my friends (and fellow cheerleaders), so I would always weigh more. I didn't really start weighing myself until my sophmore year in college. And even then that was ONLY in the weight room at our sports complex before working out! I didn't buy a scale until I was out of college. Now I'm kinda obsessed and want to hop on it every day! I try to limit myself to once a week though. But I am definitely a good 15 lbs (AT LEAST) chubbier than when I graduated high school. That's just a judgement based on clothes I can no longer wear!

First Semester- Lost 10 lbs
2nd Semester- Regained it

2nd yr (when I was legal to drink)- gained 10-15 lbs, even tho I wasn't that big of a drinker!

3rd yr- lost 48 lbs so far, back to a healthy weight, and still going strong.

I lost weight, but I began to lose weight while I was still in highschool, so the weight loss was not necessarily related to college. I also lived at home while going to college, so my daily lifestyle did not change much.

I lost all of the "fat" on my body and was really lean for the first two years of college, then I moved to another city and commuted and it didn't work out well because I ended up getting back all of that "fat" and more. I am still working hard to get that lean muscle back, but it is slowly coming back!

I maintained my weight throughout college but then gained 10-15 after college because I became less active. Luckily that is all gone now and I'm in the best shape of my life!

i gained the freshman 15, but then proceeded to gain the university 30 over my 5 years
i've lost it all and more though, because i've realized that shawarma, chips, chocolate, and root beer doesn't constitute a healthy meal, no matter how stressed out you are!

I gained about 10 pounds my freshman year of college, which is a lot for my tiny 5'1" frame, but it wasn't from eating too much or unhealthily at the dining hall, it was definitely from all the drinking and eating pizza and fast-food at 3 in the morning after getting home from the bars.

Fortunately i lost of the weight plus a few extra pounds my junior year when i became super involved in bikram yoga.

I actually lost about 15 pounds through four years of college, but it all came back in law school! Way to much stress plus sitting reading in the library for hours and hours was not helpful at all.

Haha, eeliabethc. I gained a bunch of weight in law school too, but pretty much everyone in my class did. I've been out for a few months now and I am finally back my normal weight. All of the stress from taking the bar exam made me lose 12 pounds in 2 months.

I didn't really gain anything my first year, but put on maybe 10 pounds by the end of college. In law school I totally stressed myself out and lost 30 pounds--about half of that was not needed.

My campus was pretty huge, so walking went WAY up, and I started to get healthy.

Ok, I lost weight when I started my undergrad, but once I started my grad program 4 years later, I gained it all back...plus some. It sucks!

Nope, my freshman year I lost 15 lbs...beginning at 5'9" 145 lbs to 5'9" 130 lbs. I was so teeny for my body frame, but I was also extremely busy and overwhelmed the whole year having class spanned out from 8am - 10pm my first semester (yea, bad idea on my part). I was also a commuter student (never had the 'luxury' of living on campus) so I was kind of a loner for a while and didn't want to eat in the lounge by myself, haha.

i actually lost about 20 pounds, my freshman year, but now i'm slowly gaining it back. gotta get back to the gym.

In high school I did ballet everyday and went to the gym super regularly, while also cutting out carbs and eating more fruits and veg. College = no ballet, no gym, no time for real meals. I gained like 20 lbs and lost a huge amount of muscle. It sucked.

how about the sophomore sixteen? yikes!

Nope, but I gained the senior 20, thanks to boozing it up and hitting up Micky D's for cheesburgers and fries 3x a week .. hehe. I lost it during law school, law.

I gained 40 lbs (I blame beer & pizza) between high school graduation and spring semester freshman year of college. Lost 20 of it over the next 3 years, and then lost another 35 after graduating college, getting a job, and moving out on my own. Now at 5'8 and 125 lbs everyone tells me I am too skinny...but I'll take that any day over ever getting so big again!

I lost weight the first semester. I think like 10-15 lbs, but the next semester I gained tons of weight because I ate out of stress. It was bad, bad, bad. I'm back to my normal weight now, but when I look at pictures of myself from the semester I gained weight, I cringe.

I gained 25 lbs...ugh. Still trying to work it all off! And I graduated 2 years ago. Booooo.

I went from consistently being around 110 pounds all through high school, and dropped to the upper nineties/lower 100s in college. I assume I just lost my baby fat, because my eating habits didn't really change.

Freshman 15, sophomore 15, junior 15... or maybe freshman/sophomore/junior 10s...either way, by the end of my third year I was definitely 30 lbs more than when I graduated high school.