Easy Healthy Snacks

If you're out and about all day you're going to get hungry . Here are a few quick and healthy snacks you can pack to avoid attacking the vending machine or the Starbucks pastry window:) To keep hunger at bay, make sure you eat something with lean protein and healthy fat.

• All natural sugar free individually packaged applesauce.
• Healthy nuts like almonds or walnuts.
• If you have access to a fridge, fat free yogurts are great and so is low fat cheese.
• Carrots or other cut fruits and veggies

How To: Build a Living Room Gym!

In college you're short on cash and short on space, but that doesn't mean you have to skimp on a home gym. All you need to get a great workout at home is a little space and a few inexpensive pieces of fitness equipment. Home gyms are great since they are cheaper than paying gym dues every month and you can save time by just walking to your living room to work out.
Here's what you need:

• Three sets of dumbbells ( light, medium, heavy)
• exercise or yoga mat
• resistance bands
• stability ball

Extra credit

• BOSU ball
• exercise videos
• medicine ball

Cardio Calories

How many calories are you actually burning on those cardio machines in the gym? Can you be sure that when you get off the elliptical machine you can feel elated that you burned off last night's cheeseburger and fries? Well unless you enter in your own age, gender and body weight into your machine your calorie count will automatically be based on a 150 pound man. All you 150 pound men can rest easy (I have a feeling to weigh 150 most of you are still in high school), but unfortunately for everyone else you've probably been over estimating you calorie burn, bummer I know. So make sure you enter in your real weight and age when you get on the cardio machines then you can know last night's cheat meal is no big deal!