Dropping the pounds
Maria Schmitt
Issue date: 12/4/08 Section: Focus
When junior Hilary Lewis stopped eating Saga, Inc. food this semester, she lost 15 pounds.
Oddly, she said, she has barely exercised at all this semester, unlike last year when she ran three to four times a week.
"Now, I eat what I want because I pay for it," Lewis said.
She said she thinks students stuff themselves in Saga because the food is unfulfilling.
In addition to not liking Saga food, Lewis is forced to make more of her own meals this semester because of her meal plan choice.
A resident of Mauck Hall, Lewis purchased the block 150-meal plan.
"It was weird because after eating in Saga for the first two weeks of school I had only nine meals per week left," she said.
Fewer trips to Saga, however, have kept her slimmer, despite the fact that she can't work out as much as she wants to.
Senior Nancy Hankel joined Weight Watchers with her mom this past June. While she originally joined at a branch in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz., she now attends weekly meetings at the club's Jonesville branch.
Hankel successfully completed the program during her sophomore and junior years of high school but gained back all the weight she lost once she came to college.
So far this time around, she has lost seven pounds.
"This is probably the hardest thing I've done since I've been at school," Hankel said. "No matter where you go, you have to make your own food choices."
Hankel is on the Kappa Kappa Gamma house meal plan and eats in Saga on Mondays and sometimes for Sunday brunch.
"No matter where I go, I am at the mercy of other people's food," she said.
All Weight Watchers program participants create goals for themselves and attend weekly meetings. They lose weight by counting food points - every item of food has a specific number of points - working their way down to eating fewer and fewer calories each day.
Hankel said she does have an ultimate weight loss goal, but her main goal is to learn healthy eating habits for when she graduates in May and begins buying all her own food.
Oddly, she said, she has barely exercised at all this semester, unlike last year when she ran three to four times a week.
"Now, I eat what I want because I pay for it," Lewis said.
She said she thinks students stuff themselves in Saga because the food is unfulfilling.
In addition to not liking Saga food, Lewis is forced to make more of her own meals this semester because of her meal plan choice.
A resident of Mauck Hall, Lewis purchased the block 150-meal plan.
"It was weird because after eating in Saga for the first two weeks of school I had only nine meals per week left," she said.
Fewer trips to Saga, however, have kept her slimmer, despite the fact that she can't work out as much as she wants to.
Senior Nancy Hankel joined Weight Watchers with her mom this past June. While she originally joined at a branch in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz., she now attends weekly meetings at the club's Jonesville branch.
Hankel successfully completed the program during her sophomore and junior years of high school but gained back all the weight she lost once she came to college.
So far this time around, she has lost seven pounds.
"This is probably the hardest thing I've done since I've been at school," Hankel said. "No matter where you go, you have to make your own food choices."
Hankel is on the Kappa Kappa Gamma house meal plan and eats in Saga on Mondays and sometimes for Sunday brunch.
"No matter where I go, I am at the mercy of other people's food," she said.
All Weight Watchers program participants create goals for themselves and attend weekly meetings. They lose weight by counting food points - every item of food has a specific number of points - working their way down to eating fewer and fewer calories each day.
Hankel said she does have an ultimate weight loss goal, but her main goal is to learn healthy eating habits for when she graduates in May and begins buying all her own food.
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