So is it generally asssumed to be universal that people gain weight when/after they finish college? Is it something related to leaving college (like, not knowing how to cook), or is it just "I am no longer 22 with the metabolism of a hummingbird" we are talking about?

I didn't start gaining weight until my late-20s.

Is it something related to leaving college (like, not knowing how to cook), or is it just "I am no longer 22 with the metabolism of a hummingbird" we are talking about?

For me it was suddenly spending eight hours a day sitting behind a desk. At college I took some form of phys ed. nearly every semester as an undergrad, and I was walking several miles a day just getting from my dorm/apartment to classes. And there was a fair bit of walking from class to class, too. Going out in the evening usually involved walking, too, since I didn't get a car until grad school.

my hips dropped in my late 20s/early 30s. my ribcage got bigger. My hair got thinner. My metabolism slowed. I started sleeping more normally, stopped smoking and binge drinking.

TiVo cut off the end of the 4400 for me, can anybody recap the alst couple minutes? Thanks

In the past year (ie-since college), I've no idea how much weight I've put on (I don't think I want to know), but I've definately put on inches, so there was a pretty clear dividing line, but I blame that largely on the less walking, no krav, and eating at home less, but I don't know how representative that is.

I need to buy a new bathroom scale.

And check out screen times for Batman Begins.

I definitely underwent a metabolism change around 25. I had 4 post-college years of being able to eat decently and not changing weight at all before the Flab Fairy found out where I lived.

Hello. I am bored, yet I must work. Does this seem fair?

The only thing that will make today remotely bearable is that I have a pile of new CDs I'm importing into iTunes, and that I'll be burning more episodes of Samurai Champloo.

Bribery: only thing getting me to work these days.

Kalshane, if it helps any, I'd have thought you were about 215/220 just by looking at you. You're a tall guy with broad shoulders.

Thanks. A lot of people are really surprised when I tell them what I weigh. Last time I was weighed I was 260. According to the chart thingies, I'm supposed to weigh 185, which I think is absurd. I figure if I can get down to around 220, I'll probably look close to what people think of as "185" and that's good enough for me.

And therefore not a sister to whom I should say "sing it, sister."

Heh. Afraid not.

So is it generally asssumed to be universal that people gain weight when/after they finish college? Is it something related to leaving college (like, not knowing how to cook), or is it just "I am no longer 22 with the metabolism of a hummingbird" we are talking about?

For me (I'm pretty sure I've told this story before, apologies to those for whom it is a repeat) it was around 21 because I went from a job where I was on my feet everyday for 8 hours at a time (and until shortly before that walking over a mile to the bus every day) to a job that involved me sitting at a desk for hours on end with very little sleep due to wacky scheduling with little to do but surf the internet and raid for the vending machine for snacks and caffine while waiting for reports to print. During my Saturday hell shifts (Midnight to 4am, followed by a 7am to 7pm shift at our corporate office an hour away, followed by another Midnight to 4am shift, meaning I was effectively working for 28 hours straight but only on the clock for 20 of it.) I typically went through the better part of a case of Pepsi just to stay awake. Needless to say, my weight went up fairly rapidly.

When I was 23-24 I finally got into going into my martial arts classes for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, I got down to 230 and while I still had a gut, I was in pretty good shape. Then I took a hard fall in class, threw my hip out of wack, gained the weight back and then some while I was recovering and just haven't been able to get back into exercising regularly since. Every time I go back to martial arts, within a month something happens that causes me to miss a week or two and then the laziness takes over again.

Is it something related to leaving college (like, not knowing how to cook), or is it just "I am no longer 22 with the metabolism of a hummingbird" we are talking about?

For me it was suddenly spending eight hours a day sitting behind a desk.

Yes, this. I was way more active in college, what with the walking to class, walking to the dining hall, walking everywhere. And then moving home and suddenly driving everywhere combined with a desk job. Pfah.

I look at pictures of me in high school and I have a great body! (bad hair and questionable fashion choices). And I was so sure I was fat. It's been a combination of things. I exercise less, although now I live in a great neighborhood for walking. I probably eat more (of everything including bad stuff). And a couple of years ago I gained appx 25-30 lbs in three or so months due to a medication and I've never lost that.

Plus I eat worse than I did then. So I'm stuffing myself with empty calories.