Dieting

[SummerMcLovin]

I'm tall so "spread out the fat" fairly well since I do eat and drink more than is needed. You can see me both being kind of thin and eating way too much here.

I was a little overweight as a kid but not so much later in high school, but put on a bit of weight again in first year of uni. Too much booze, cheese and bacon would probably be the reason for that.
A while after I moved out of halls and into a flat (and especially towards the end of the academic year) I decided not to buy fresh meat because it was expensive - a tin of chickpeas, beans or lentils costing about 50p instead of a pack of chicken for about £3 to do the same number of meals can be significant over a few months - which was pretty slimming despite drinking just as much. Buy/learn to make a decent sauce and you'll not notice what is in it.
I was feeling kind of down at the start of this year (my third at uni) until the end of the summer so wasn't doing an awful lot of getting out my chair, but also didn't eat an awful lot (especially over the summer, when I essentially lived off of ham, yoghurts, bread and crisps... and that giant burger) so they balanced each other out.

My advice would be to talk to your mum to help out with the cooking a couple of times a week while you are at home rather than trying it when you've moved out and it is so easy to be lazy. Don't know if you paid attention in Home Economics (if you did it, and whatever it is called in your silly education system) but that should give you at least a basic grasp of things.
Even just actively walking about is better than sitting at your computer all day, other exercise is up to you.
As stated by others, portion sizes, eating only at meals, cooking healthier things in healthier ways are all good tips.

Also Tibbles is probably more right about the water thing than I realise, I drank upwards of five litres a day back when I had a sink in my room in halls and still have more than two these days.

Girls like men that cook

This is also relevant. Take note.
Also from the above photo, they like big stacks of meat

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