Ask the Patch Pros: Avoiding Freshman 15 and Shedding Those Unwanted Pounds

Of all the goals you may be setting for the next several months, weighing 800 pounds probably isn't one of them.

With school starting up, you're right to fear the freshman 15, which, unfortunately, doesn't strike only freshmen. As households become more structured with school starting, and as good weather turns to bad, putting on a few extra pounds is easy -- too easy.

Or maybe those extra pounds are already surrounding your hips, given all the grilling opportunities of the summer.

Either way, our Patch Pros are here to answer how to: get rid of weight, avoid gaining weight and keep off the weight you lose.

Our Pros this week are:

• Carver Nebbe, MD, Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Thielen Student Health Center in Ames.
• Ben Gray, fitness coach at in Ankeny.
• Amber Cahill, owner of in Ankeny.
• JoAnn Daehler-Miller, dietitian at Student Health in Iowa City.
• Rob Higareda, Les Mills Bodypump and Bodycombat instructor at in Iowa City.
• Adam Rees, owner of Grit Gym in Iowa City.
• Megan Brittain, club manager, Anytime Fitness in Waukee.

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