For me, college was just the perfect storm for weight gain - like a Hurricane of food! I started college around 175 lbs, super fit, 6-pack and all. I got a meal pass where I could eat as much as I wanted. Then I started working for campus vending where I got all kinds of free food. Especially during the Spring/Summer semesters, there were lot of pastry-like snacks like cinnabuns, Danish rolls, muffins, etc that would need to be cleared out. Plus, even the chips would pass expiration fairly often. If that wasn't enough, I had a 50%-off campus discount for all the fast-food joints on campus, which I used on a near-daily basis. You can imagine I blew up like a balloon. I gained about 20 lbs each year in college, graduating a good 80 lbs heavier than when I started. Then came the desk job, then the family life. I gained more weight than my wife during our first pregnancy. I went from around 250 when we got married to 300 after a couple years. I'm now exactly double my pre-college weight at 350 lbs. I have friends that complain about their "dad bods" but they have nothing on my "husband heft." At only 26, I'm starting to realize that my lifestyle over the last 8 years is not sustainable and needs to change.

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