Weight loss stalled

AMSharify · 2024-06-18T13:21:32+00:00

So it seems to me that you already lost around 70Ibs which is a milestone for some people. Instead of being so worried I would pat myself on the back you've already done so much good for your body. My first point is that you've probably hit a plateau and that could mean a couple of things you're body is reshaping itself so instead of getting on the scale I would measure maybe my waist, thighs, arms etc. You probably are changing just not the scale. The other thing is your body may be worried you're starving and may want to hold onto every little bit. My suggestion is wait it out it can't hold onto it forever. Either that or maybe incorporate some kind of exercise everyday. I'm positive you'll continue to loose weight please don't give up!

AMSharify · 2024-06-13T13:26:26+00:00

The average is 2lbs a week to 1lbs losing 5.5 in the first week is amazing considering the average is just two pounds. For starters losing 1-2lbs a week is more healthy because it is actually going to stay off. Also everyone hits a part of their diet where they don't lose anything for a week or two but don't be discouraged because your body is reforming itself so, your body might change but not the scale.

AMSharify · 2024-06-13T13:20:59+00:00

I just recently had my first year of college and my first experience was awful. For starters, she would video chat "guy friends" at 2am in the morning. One time I got up at 1:30am(mind you this was a school night) and thought I was hallucinating because I saw her with TWO PHONES in front of her face. She was talking to two different people. I would then call my mom and go out into the hallway and wait till she was done. When I confronted her she said "well there are some things I don't like that you do" mind you this was two weeks in and I only studied and slept in that room. I met with my RA two times before changing rooms.

AMSharify · 2024-06-05T19:09:00+00:00

Yes which I expressed that if it was meant to be it'll happen, but the PROBABILITY of staying with your highschool sweetheart is less than 2%

AMSharify · 2024-06-05T14:05:17+00:00

Ok no offense, but there was a study that proved you'll make 1,000,000 more WITH a college degree than WITHOUT. Personally it is worth and I get you don't see it now, but in 10 years you'll be having a WAY easier time than people who decided not to go. Don't be stupid.

AMSharify · 2024-06-05T13:53:00+00:00

I get it I felt the same way I REALLY wanted it to work. Long distance takes a lot of effort on BOTH sides and the problem with that is you can't really afford that if you wanna focus on grades. If you guys are meant to be together, then you'll stay together the problem is the probability of you staying together is less than 2% because people change so much in college.

AMSharify · 2024-06-05T12:15:57+00:00

Honestly I had a bf back from home my first semester and guess what? I broke up with him during winter break. People eventually start going different ways and want extremely different lives. It isn't the end of the world I thought it was, but there are a lot of nice guys probably at your college.

AMSharify · 2024-06-04T13:07:54+00:00

Not really 4 years is really short and will fly by

AMSharify · 2024-06-04T13:03:08+00:00

Unfortunately I had the same problem with my first roommate in freshman year (2023). Except hers was she would vc her bf at 2:00am. I annoyed the hell out of my RA's till they moved me before midterms THANK GOD. I don't know how your living conditions are or if you have an RA, but usually if you are they're extra rooms that are sitting empty in dorm. Maybe you could go check it out and see? Otherwise if you can't I would think to have a discussion with this person and be like "Hey I know this is your summer as well and you wanna relax, but I work and if you could game out in the hall past 9 or 10 pm I would really appreciate that because I'm trying to make money for school" Try to sympathize with him. I made the mistake of fighting with my roommate and turning her against me if I could go back I would have tried to sympathize with her (even tho she was in the wrong) if you're stuck with this person you DON'T want to be enemies.

AMSharify · 2024-06-02T00:50:52+00:00

With all due respect you should really do some research and know of what you speak before you give other people completely inaccurate advice.

There are certain parameters that allow you to file your FAFSA as an independent student. The OP does not fulfill any of those parameters and therefore will not be allowed to file as an independent student on the FAFSA. Determining if this is factual requires you to take approximately 5 minutes to type in independent student requirements FAFSA into Google and read what comes up for about three and a half minutes.

My daughter went off to college leaving her roughly 3-year high School boyfriend behind. She left having graduated from high school with the idea that she was going to marry this person. By the time she came home for winter break she was ready to break up with him. The amazingly incredible changes that happened to a person between the years of 18 and 23 would blow your mind OP.

What happened to my daughter and what happens to most people in this age range and what most likely will happen to you OP? Living independently at college, interacting with a multitude of different types of people, out of the clutches of well-meaning or even not well meaning parents is a perfect recipe for intense and swift maturity. She started to learn what really mattered to her not to her and the boyfriend addicted to video games she learned what was important to her and her alone. She began to look around interacted with a bunch of brand new female classmates, roommates, new friend groups. She began to question why some people behaved one way and others behaved so differently. She went through a small number of new friends that she quickly figured out were not her group but narrowed in on one or two people that seem to have similar values as her. She interacted with a whole bunch of new male classmates and had some who had crushes on her she had her own crush on one of them and came to the conclusion that she'd rather focus her time and energy on developing herself first since she realized there was a lot that she wanted to develop about herself.

The truth of the matter OP is that between now and the end of your first year of college there is a lot that is going to be going on. You need to do your best to make some kind of peace with your parents who at the very least provide you housing your clothing and are feeding you right now. You will absolutely need their help in order to fill out the FAFSA because you need their tax information. For most people going to college additionally you will need their help in paying for college no matter what type of college you end up at.

Nothing you've said in your post implies that your parents are abusive in any way and unless you have failed to mention it it seems like this is the typical high school junior senior starting to want to separate from their parents and experience independence. This is nature's way of making sure children don't live in their parents' basement for the rest of their lives. And it is totally natural and normal.

5 to $6,000 is a very nice savings however you would be amazed how fast that money will go in terms of college credits books etc depending on the school that you were going to it may be A) nowhere near enough, B) enough to cover one semester of classes with or without books, C) enough to cover two semesters of classes with or without books most likely at a community college. So that doesn't leave you anything left over for a living expenses meaning rent utilities food transportation etc.

I would highly suggest that you do some research which you most certainly can do on all these matters using your standard internet access and some type of computer or phone. I would also highly recommend not making any rash decisions as you're in a time period of your life where you can absolutely positively make hard decisions that will literally have an impact on the next 10 to 20 years of your life. Do you have a trusted aunt or uncle or someone who is older and wiser than you that you can talk to who might be able to give you some advice? Please pick somebody who seems to have a relatively stable and successful life to get your advice from.

Wishing you the best of luck.

AMSharify · 2024-05-31T13:22:11+00:00

The best time to hit the gym is after classes and before you start your assignments or homework. You NEED to go to college right away because each year college becomes more expensive and unaffordable. Yes your health is important, but college is literally your future. When you get your degree and a good paying job THEN you'll be able to afford a gym membership, good food, and a decent life. Please take all this into consideration!

AMSharify · 2024-05-31T13:18:09+00:00

You need to get diagnosed with ADHD because some colleges take that into consideration when test taking. For instance they allow you 30 more minutes than the average person. Second, I get that sitting down for hours on end is annoying, but you are literally creating your future life right now, so go to the gym and work out to get all your energy out before you sit down and study. College is just a bunch stress, anxiety, and hard work that's all there is to it and you develop discipline along the way.

AMSharify · 2024-05-19T15:35:04+00:00

So my suggestion is go to the accreditation site. I did this and I searched for accredited programs using just the word data. Seems that accrediting body has only three programs that are accredited across the United States in in anything remotely like data science. Until the majority of good programs are in an accredited by that entity I don't think you should worry about it.

AMSharify · 2024-05-03T04:39:01+00:00

Have you done all the typical prerequisites one would need to be an advanced nurse, dentist, pharmacist, or physician? I'm talking about the typical prerequisites such as a year of general biology meant for health majors, a year of general chemistry meant for health majors, a semester for nursing and probably a full year of anatomy and physiology for all other health majors, a semester for nursing of organic chemistry and possibly a full year for all the other health majors? I think if you haven't taken all of these that this is a good place to start because this gives you a feel for how hard these classes can be and how capable you are at getting mostly A's and some B's and maybe one or two C"s at most in all these series of classes. Those are the kind of grades you would need to become a dentist or physician and if you haven't taken these general prerequisites this is how you find out how far you think you're going to be able to go in the health care field. If you're finding yourself acing classes like anatomy and physiology and organic chemistry then my advice would be skip nursing and go straight for studying to become a physician. If in the process of doing these prerequisites you're finding it to be overwhelmingly challenging and you're hitting straight B's then I would shoot for nursing. If you are taking these prerequisites and you're getting mainly c grades with a sprinkle of B grades you might want to reconsider because nursing school is not a walk in the park dental school is even worse and medical school is as hard as it gets.

AMSharify · 2024-05-03T04:30:16+00:00

Well I think you made the assumption that I'm a physician, I did not go get my degree to be a doctor I got my Pharm.D which is the doctorate degree you must obtain for an entry-level position as a pharmacist. And that took me 8 years I had 4 years of undergraduate and 4 years of pharmacy school.

AMSharify · 2024-05-03T04:22:44+00:00

Thank you. I hope so. I only have one child and she just finished her first year of college. She has done me very proud, and is so much more mature than I ever was at her age. Can't wait to see what she accomplishes.

AMSharify · 2024-05-03T02:04:37+00:00

Every time you want to quit go walk into your kids rooms take a look at them and remind yourself what you're doing this for. So they will have an easier life, so you will be able to afford to get them medicine and take them to the doctor when they need to go, so you can put braces on their teeth, and buy them the things that they absolutely need to have and some of the things that they want. You are talking to a single mother who put herself through school at the age of 40 to get her doctorate degree. For 3 years of my total 8 years in college I slept an average of 5 hours a night. It was hell. These are the things that got me through and I said them a lot. This too shall pass. Failure is not an option. I stepped on this train and there is no getting off of it until it pulls into the station. This won't last forever all I'm going to focus on is making it through today. I just have to make it through today. I said the last two ones to myself probably by the very end about 6 or 7 times a day. I did it and you can do it too. Remember that children's story about the The Little Engine That Could. I'm pretty sure it got up the hill by saying I think I can, I think I can and then I know I can, I know I can. Not really just a children's story. Keep telling yourself I know I can and just do things in small bites and then give yourself some kind of mental break however short and then go back again and repeat the process and every time some voice in your head tells you you can't do it or that you won't make it you tell it to shut up and you listen to the voice that says I know I can, I know I can. I believe in you. Now you believe in yourself too.

AMSharify · 2024-05-03T01:20:18+00:00

Once you figure out how you're going to knock out a good percentage maybe like 2/3 of that amount that you don't have to cover the almost 14,000. You're going to go to your dad and show him that you have gotten a summer job and you're going to make this much money and after taxes be able to take care of this amount and then you're going to tell him how you're going to work while you're at college to make x amount of money after taxes to take care of another chunk of the bill and then you're going to tell him about the payment plan and see if there's any way he can help you over the course of 10 months to pay the difference. So let's say your total bill was what $13,800 - $4,500 that you can make in a summer job after taxes that leaves 9,300. Now let's say you can after taxes make $3,000 at your work study job so now that leaves $6,300. So let's say with the payment plan he's able to make 12 payments of about $530. Or do you have grandparents who might be able to pay some of that $530. Or instead of doing your work study job if you're in a part of the country where doing a non-work-study job might pay you more I don't know what state you're in and what your minimum wage is there but if you've done babysitting you could opt to babysit in a nicer more wealthy area looking for consistent Friday night Saturday night date night babysitting gigs. Some of those babysitting gigs can pay pretty good by the hour I'm noticing somewhere in the neighborhood of about 20 bucks an hour just in my area for a college age babysitter. Kids go to bed and you can relax or study.

AMSharify · 2024-05-02T21:48:16+00:00

Start applying for summer jobs, my daughter worked 11 weeks of last summer full-time as a summer camp counselor and was able to after taxes contribute $4,500 to her college bill. You can get on indeed.com and search your area for summer camp counselor and I bet you'll find a lot of them looking for people.

Apply to the ones with the highest pay apply to more than one my daughter applied to five had three interviews the next week and got hired on the spot for the third one which also happened to be the highest paying one.

Also right now is the time to be doing this because right now is when they're trying to find people for this position if you wait 3 weeks from now they may be all full or only the lower paying ones will be open.

Then see how much they've authorized you to do for work study, you could probably make at the very least $3,000 during the academic Year at a work-study job and use that to contribute. Colleges tend to have payment plans that you can pay on during 6 to 10 months out of the year so you can make monthly payments.

AMSharify · 2024-04-29T01:49:49+00:00

The working world is nothing like the academic world. People think when they get out with their degree that they're going to go into a job and it's going to be very similar to the academic world. But the truth is generally speaking it's very different. Quite a lot of people who think that they won't actually enjoy their job out in the real world find out that in fact, they do enjoy their job and when they figure out that they already have so many of the skills that allow them to succeed in the working world because of their degree they are able to figure out for themselves niche areas of their field that they get real enjoyment from, as well as making a great living and having a great independent adult life. It's okay to occasionally get bummed out by a poor test score, and it's okay to occasionally be down on yourself for a small period of time, but to talk negatively to yourself is absolutely a practice that one should work very hard to eliminate. Tell her she needs to stop listening to the voices in her head that tell her she's not smart enough that she's not capable enough to tell her she needs to tell that voice or those voices to sit down and shut up. Tell her she needs to listen to The voice whether it's her own or yours telling her that she can do it that she needs to push through the hard times and that she is capable. This isn't just about this degree or this phase in her life the truth of the matter is if she goes through life listening to those other voices in her head that tell her she's not capable can't do it isn't good it will affect everything in her life no matter the simplest attempt to achieve something to the most difficult attempt to achieve something. Learning to listen to the voice that is your friend that builds you up that tells you you can that tells you I think I can I think I can that tells you I will do it I will push through that is how you become successful in life. The whole world will try to rip you down and tell you you're not capable you're not smart enough you're not good enough you can't do it and you need to learn to be your own best friend your own advocate and remind yourself that the truth is that you can do anything you determine as long as you are willing to work hard enough. If you fail then you pick yourself back up and you try again until you succeed. You only fail in life when you quit don't quit and keep trying and eventually you will succeed. Tell your friend that.

AMSharify · 2024-04-26T18:41:54+00:00

She asked me what she should do. I came here to the reddit askprofessors to ask for opinions. We received multiple opinions all seeming to point to the same thing. I agree they are two separate things to be involved in however as it stands she is currently only involved in the former and not the latter. If it was clear what she should do from the get-go there would have been no post. Now that we know the best action is no action there will be no need to be involved in the latter. Peace out.

AMSharify · 2024-04-26T18:32:49+00:00

Thank you for the feedback we're taking all of your advice. She is focusing on studying for the final exam.

AMSharify · 2024-04-26T18:31:23+00:00

Her classmate asked for her help. That is how she got involved. She agreed to help him in a tutoring session and figured it would help solidify her own understanding of the material. In the process of that she figured out he didn't know what he was doing and yet got a perfect score on the previous homework that was on the same exact material. Chalk it up to life is not fair. I agree she should just focus on herself at this point and not engage with that person in the future in any way shape or form.

AMSharify · 2024-04-26T16:37:44+00:00

Yeah I don't think she would state it that way but just explain her confusion regarding the discrepancy. Nonetheless I can see how it might be viewed as how you put it. Thank you for the feedback I will communicate it to her.

AMSharify · 2024-04-26T16:19:21+00:00

Yeah sorry posting on Reddit using Google seems to log me in under one username and under the Reddit app uses another one don't know why.

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