Wouldn’t have survived college if it weren’t for vending machine burritos and those greasy twisty donuts! Mmmm. Then again, the fact that they didn’t totally destroy my digestive tract is a miracle – especially since I took a lot longer than 4 years to get out.
But was it due to malnutrition? Or let’s say, lots of bad food? Or because of stress. Because if unintended, and if you were of a healthy weight before that, losing seven kilograms is pretty extreme. Not in the time span, that’d be normal, but if you were of normal weight before…
What I am aiming at (personal story time): I lost like a quarter of my body weight in the course of two years (still in school, though – and no worries, I was overweight, so losing that much wasn’t unhealthy, just the way I lost it). I still ate fast food etc, but just much less than before, counting calories (inlcuding being sick in between and just not being able to eat anything other than clear soup for the better of a week). So I lost weight pretty fast, but in a very bad way. Like, I ate a pack of crisps and maybe an apple and that was my calorie intake for one day. Much too little to keep my body healthy. Sill lost fat, but also most of my muscle tissue, which I’ve been trying to increase for the past five years. About after two years I finally regained on muscles what I had lost in the other years, but it’s hard work to even keep them.
Moral of the story: don’t (even involuntarily) diet without knowing the basics of nutrition and your minimum intake.
kdmw
I also lost like 15 pounds during my first year of university. I was eating reasonably healthy food, just not enough. I also made myself anemic!
CoMa
Oh that sounds bad!!
For me it didn’t go that far (thankfully – or at least that’s what I remember, it has been about 10-8 years since then), but I do hope you’re back healthier now!
A friend of mine always had phases of healthy eating, but ate much too little for her body height and weight, so she always suffered phases of binge eating sweet things (because the body craved energy, fast, and sweets provide that), so instead of losing any weight, she just gained more, until she got professional support. Eating too little, even if one intends to lose weight is just plain unhealthy. And as in my case, I mostly lost healthy parts of my body (muscles) :/
Annika
I lost 30 pounds in my freshman year, unintentionally at first, because I kept forgetting to eat and didn’t have anyone to remind me. But then people started complimenting my appearance a lot, being nicer, asking if I’ve been working out, people saying I was more attractive, and I suddenly felt insecure about how I looked before, even though I never did when I was at a higher weight. I went from the high end of healthy bmi to the low end of healthy bmi. I’ve never gained the weight back; I’m in my junior year now.
CoMa
As long as you’re in the healthy range, everything’s fine 🙂 (And as long as your diet’s healthy now) – though it can be stressful for the body (especially with not eating enough), losing weight like that – but everyone’s different and it all depends on metabolism etc. too.
I can understand feeling more confident with the compliments, I felt like that too – at least they gave me a small confidence boost. Didn’t help with deeper issues, but supported me a bit while losing those 25-28 kg (about 55-60 pounds, I think). Sport, especially running, helped me gain more confidence though, though I personally still don’t really look my weight (unproportional fat distribution)
monkyvirus
I lost a ton of weight because my dorm room was freezing. I ate 5 meals a day and I went around picking as high calorie food as possible. I have never been so skinny in my life. My parents were pretty alarmed that Christmas…
Though I had that Bridget Jones moment where you hit your ideal body (“wow I’m thin!”) and everyone around you is like “what happened are you OK?” That was a wake up call. I went back to normal once I moved somewhere with functional heating.
Having known people like Dorothy during my time in college, she’s going to get a whole lot worse before things get better, and it kind of hurts to know she’ll probably be incredibly resistant to anyone who tries to help her 🙁
Most definitely, and Dorothy’s going to hit it hard if she keeps this up. I’m not the biggest fan of her as a character, but it’s still going to suck to see her crash :/
I doubt studies would have an effect on Dorothy right now. She’s right about being in a spiral, but what she’s doing will only accelerate the process.
My friend who’s having a similar breakdown had to go back home awhile ago, and at best may return to school after Thanksgiving. We’ll see. It’s hard to watch, but seeing some of the same warning signs in Dorothy shows this situation is all too real.
Apparently getting a new computer and new browser means my comments end up in moderation again here and at It’s Walky even though I’m using the same name and email address as before.
i realize this is a joke fun comic on the internet but there are vending machines right next to my school’s exercise room and i’ve approached that area multiple times with the intention of working out but bought a honey bun instead. i don’t know whether i should feel called out or spied on
Or just to make money. It can happen that someone thinks “Oh, now that I’ve run half an hour I can eat something of that.”
I thankfully work in a totally different way. Anytime I work out (and may it be just a little), I lose appetite for unhealthy stuff, sweets, salty snacks etc.
On the other hand, if I don’t work out and have a lot of stress (emotional or something else) and/or am inactive for some time, I can tend to stuff my face like there’s no tomorrow. Even if I’m not really hungry, I just have the appetite. Not that healthy, I know.
Ha, my dorm (well, technically the dorm next door, but our cards allowed access to it, so) had an exercise room at the end of an underused basement hallway. It was often empty, which was nice because I hate people.
empty gyms are so nice. 🙂 nobody doing curls in the squat rack, or making disturbing grunts, or adjusting equipment that makes horrible screeching noises…
…or training on the machine you want to use, and once they leave, they don’t clear up their weights, so you have to carry the double of your own weight off the machine, because they’re too lazy and don’t imagine someone off smaller statute would like to use the same machine as well (I’m talking of a leg press, btw, but it usually happens with all kinds of machines I’m trying to use in my gym). At least now I’m strong enough to do that, a few years ago, I had to ask other people whether they could help me clear the weights off.
It only just occurred to me to wonder if the Mutant Frosted Honey Bun was a Frosted Honey Bun that was a mutant, or a Honey Bun that was frosted with Mutant.
I’m really happy for Joyce in panel three, that right now she’s at a place where she can admit that to another person (even if Dorothy’s already in the know so it’s not as big a step) while staying mostly calm.
While it’s perfectly possibly to live a good life without jogging in the morning, it’s clearly something Dorothy enjoys, takes pride in and is part of a healthy routine. Skipping it for studying… is possible once in awhile while cramming for an exam or something, but in her case I fear it’s part of an overreaction to her bad grades. “MUST STUDY ALL THE TIME, NO PLAY”.
On the other hand, Dorothy DID take time to movie-cuddle with Joyce and Walky some nights ago, so this might be seen as a decent compromise. Still, I’m worried about her.
I love Joyce’s whiny-little-kid-puppy-eyes in the first panel. “Wanna have Dorothy-time NOW”. Sorry Joyce, not even that works right now.
I’m a weird mixture of Dorothy and Walky when it comes to academic practice – generally taking it easy, naturally curious and interested in my subject, overperforming most of the time, unused to failure. What’s happening to Dorothy is too, too real. I can see that in my future, maybe it’s happening right now and I’m in some denial about it idk. I still have enough awareness about myself to know I’ll be okay but.. it’s a strange foggy state of not feeling like you’re in control, and unlike Dotty, I think I’m reacting with paralysis and inability to act. We’ll get through it though, the Dorothys of the world usually do. It’s hard is all.
paralysis fucking sucks. :/ hopefully you, like Dorothy, have a therapist to talk to about it?
it’s been a long time since I’ve had to try to study. I never did get the hang of it, and I’m not sure how much that was an adhd thing or a dissociative or anxiety thing.
126 thoughts on “Jogging”
CandidCanid
Joyce’s family must be so poor by now if she’s been down that hallway a million times. Those vending machine snacks are not fucking cheap.
Doctor_Who
Yeah, much better buying that stuff in bulk. Last you all semester at a fraction of the price.
Aletheia
Only for people with good self-control…. 😛
TheKelliestKelly
You mean, lasts you all week with a multiple of the indigestion
Jess
#college
StClair
they’re kids, they’re indestructible.
right up until they aren’t.
Needfuldoer
And isn’t college for finding that limit?
Vinny
Wouldn’t have survived college if it weren’t for vending machine burritos and those greasy twisty donuts! Mmmm. Then again, the fact that they didn’t totally destroy my digestive tract is a miracle – especially since I took a lot longer than 4 years to get out.
Ozzi
Dam straight. I would never had survived without the milk in Elliot Block. Nearest shop was a 40 min round hike once Campus shop was closed.
Ana Chronistic
“Giant Mutant FROSTED Honey Buns!”
Ana Chronistic
of COURSE that’s the alt-text tho
butts
i think
we were all
gonna make that joke
Doctor_Who
It’s okay, I did the same, had it CTRL-C’d and everything. Pure luck led me to check the alt text first.
Lingo
I’m half surprised it wasn’t tagged.
tim gueguen
I thought Kellogs recalled them after they almost ate someone in Newark.
butts
Now in Mutant Frosted™
Kernanator
It’s amazing how easily your eyes can just slide over something in plain sight.
Doctor_Who
AKA the Dina Principle.
Delicious Taffy
…You sure that’s the term you wanna use?
Alex Denton
For maybe 10 min I was convinced you wrote “AKA the Dina Pineapple”. I was so confused XD
Need more coffee …
HeySo
Coffee- now in Dina Pineapple flavor.
For that subtle, surprising fruit taste!
CrazyJ
Inattentional blindness is the other name for it.
hof1991
Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9aUseqgCiY
It’s why eyewitnesses are so useless.
Remmington Steele
Firemen call it “scripted behaviour” (IIRC). People go to a shop, stand in a queue, ignore the fire on the shelves to the right.
Passchendaele
Joyce’s powers of perception are amazing
tbf
Studying instead of exercising and vending machine food: the two sides of the freshman fifteen.t
Agemegos
I lost seven kilograms in first year.
CoMa
But was it due to malnutrition? Or let’s say, lots of bad food? Or because of stress. Because if unintended, and if you were of a healthy weight before that, losing seven kilograms is pretty extreme. Not in the time span, that’d be normal, but if you were of normal weight before…
What I am aiming at (personal story time): I lost like a quarter of my body weight in the course of two years (still in school, though – and no worries, I was overweight, so losing that much wasn’t unhealthy, just the way I lost it). I still ate fast food etc, but just much less than before, counting calories (inlcuding being sick in between and just not being able to eat anything other than clear soup for the better of a week). So I lost weight pretty fast, but in a very bad way. Like, I ate a pack of crisps and maybe an apple and that was my calorie intake for one day. Much too little to keep my body healthy. Sill lost fat, but also most of my muscle tissue, which I’ve been trying to increase for the past five years. About after two years I finally regained on muscles what I had lost in the other years, but it’s hard work to even keep them.
Moral of the story: don’t (even involuntarily) diet without knowing the basics of nutrition and your minimum intake.
kdmw
I also lost like 15 pounds during my first year of university. I was eating reasonably healthy food, just not enough. I also made myself anemic!
CoMa
Oh that sounds bad!!
For me it didn’t go that far (thankfully – or at least that’s what I remember, it has been about 10-8 years since then), but I do hope you’re back healthier now!
A friend of mine always had phases of healthy eating, but ate much too little for her body height and weight, so she always suffered phases of binge eating sweet things (because the body craved energy, fast, and sweets provide that), so instead of losing any weight, she just gained more, until she got professional support. Eating too little, even if one intends to lose weight is just plain unhealthy. And as in my case, I mostly lost healthy parts of my body (muscles) :/
Annika
I lost 30 pounds in my freshman year, unintentionally at first, because I kept forgetting to eat and didn’t have anyone to remind me. But then people started complimenting my appearance a lot, being nicer, asking if I’ve been working out, people saying I was more attractive, and I suddenly felt insecure about how I looked before, even though I never did when I was at a higher weight. I went from the high end of healthy bmi to the low end of healthy bmi. I’ve never gained the weight back; I’m in my junior year now.
CoMa
As long as you’re in the healthy range, everything’s fine 🙂 (And as long as your diet’s healthy now) – though it can be stressful for the body (especially with not eating enough), losing weight like that – but everyone’s different and it all depends on metabolism etc. too.
I can understand feeling more confident with the compliments, I felt like that too – at least they gave me a small confidence boost. Didn’t help with deeper issues, but supported me a bit while losing those 25-28 kg (about 55-60 pounds, I think). Sport, especially running, helped me gain more confidence though, though I personally still don’t really look my weight (unproportional fat distribution)
monkyvirus
I lost a ton of weight because my dorm room was freezing. I ate 5 meals a day and I went around picking as high calorie food as possible. I have never been so skinny in my life. My parents were pretty alarmed that Christmas…
Though I had that Bridget Jones moment where you hit your ideal body (“wow I’m thin!”) and everyone around you is like “what happened are you OK?” That was a wake up call. I went back to normal once I moved somewhere with functional heating.
Cody Connelly
Having known people like Dorothy during my time in college, she’s going to get a whole lot worse before things get better, and it kind of hurts to know she’ll probably be incredibly resistant to anyone who tries to help her 🙁
Doctor_Who
Freshman burnout is real.
Cody Connelly
Most definitely, and Dorothy’s going to hit it hard if she keeps this up. I’m not the biggest fan of her as a character, but it’s still going to suck to see her crash :/
Bagge
🙁
Deanatay
Walky, your GF needs a TON of chill, STAT!
DanLovatClark
Quick, someone wave a study about exercise being correlated to academic performance in front of Dorothy before she implodes.
Or at least a study about studying all the time not working. Girl needs a break like woah.
Solenoid
Or a study about the myriad effects of sleep deprivation. If she’s doing this every night, it’d go a long way to explaining the grades spiral.
Northamptonian
I doubt studies would have an effect on Dorothy right now. She’s right about being in a spiral, but what she’s doing will only accelerate the process.
My friend who’s having a similar breakdown had to go back home awhile ago, and at best may return to school after Thanksgiving. We’ll see. It’s hard to watch, but seeing some of the same warning signs in Dorothy shows this situation is all too real.
Keulen
Something tells me Dorothy’s been up all night studying.
Reltzik
Well it’s 5 AM and past the equinox, so she hasn’t been up all night YET.
Keulen
Apparently getting a new computer and new browser means my comments end up in moderation again here and at It’s Walky even though I’m using the same name and email address as before.
Needfuldoer
That can also happen if you include more than two hyperlinks, or use way too much repetition.
Sunny
You mean like saying “like” a lot like I’m doing like right now?
Sunny
Well, that didn’t end up moderated, guess I need to repeat more before it happens.
No I’m not going to test it further.
Needfuldoer
Nah, it has to be the same text repeated over and over again.
I made a reference to the typewriter scene in The Shining somewhere around here, it got swallowed up by the auto-filter.
4,000 spiders
i realize this is a joke fun comic on the internet but there are vending machines right next to my school’s exercise room and i’ve approached that area multiple times with the intention of working out but bought a honey bun instead. i don’t know whether i should feel called out or spied on
TheKelliestKelly
Both! How could you be called out if you were not first spied upon?
ǝ snow ʍousɐ
Good logic! Have an internet
TheKelliestKelly
Oh sweet! A whole Internet! Thank you 🙂
Tacos
Yeah it’s like that at my college too. Vending machines right next to the gym. Plus the cafeteria is the building right across from it also.
Needfuldoer
They’re for exercising your willpower.
CoMa
Or just to make money. It can happen that someone thinks “Oh, now that I’ve run half an hour I can eat something of that.”
I thankfully work in a totally different way. Anytime I work out (and may it be just a little), I lose appetite for unhealthy stuff, sweets, salty snacks etc.
On the other hand, if I don’t work out and have a lot of stress (emotional or something else) and/or am inactive for some time, I can tend to stuff my face like there’s no tomorrow. Even if I’m not really hungry, I just have the appetite. Not that healthy, I know.
Yumi
Ha, my dorm (well, technically the dorm next door, but our cards allowed access to it, so) had an exercise room at the end of an underused basement hallway. It was often empty, which was nice because I hate people.
Inahc
empty gyms are so nice. 🙂 nobody doing curls in the squat rack, or making disturbing grunts, or adjusting equipment that makes horrible screeching noises…
CoMa
…or training on the machine you want to use, and once they leave, they don’t clear up their weights, so you have to carry the double of your own weight off the machine, because they’re too lazy and don’t imagine someone off smaller statute would like to use the same machine as well (I’m talking of a leg press, btw, but it usually happens with all kinds of machines I’m trying to use in my gym). At least now I’m strong enough to do that, a few years ago, I had to ask other people whether they could help me clear the weights off.
Architex
Dorothy’s been up all night. Oh damn I feel that.
Stephen Bierce
*plays The Great Luke Ski’s “Candybars” on the hacked Muzak*
Kamino Neko
It only just occurred to me to wonder if the Mutant Frosted Honey Bun was a Frosted Honey Bun that was a mutant, or a Honey Bun that was frosted with Mutant.
Dellaran
Yes.
Cass
I’m really happy for Joyce in panel three, that right now she’s at a place where she can admit that to another person (even if Dorothy’s already in the know so it’s not as big a step) while staying mostly calm.
And for saying “yet”.
John
Uh, Dorothy, pretty sure the reason Joyce wants to go jogging with you is not the “jogging” part…
Bagge
Oh, Dorothy 🙁
While it’s perfectly possibly to live a good life without jogging in the morning, it’s clearly something Dorothy enjoys, takes pride in and is part of a healthy routine. Skipping it for studying… is possible once in awhile while cramming for an exam or something, but in her case I fear it’s part of an overreaction to her bad grades. “MUST STUDY ALL THE TIME, NO PLAY”.
On the other hand, Dorothy DID take time to movie-cuddle with Joyce and Walky some nights ago, so this might be seen as a decent compromise. Still, I’m worried about her.
I love Joyce’s whiny-little-kid-puppy-eyes in the first panel. “Wanna have Dorothy-time NOW”. Sorry Joyce, not even that works right now.
Badgermole
I’m a weird mixture of Dorothy and Walky when it comes to academic practice – generally taking it easy, naturally curious and interested in my subject, overperforming most of the time, unused to failure. What’s happening to Dorothy is too, too real. I can see that in my future, maybe it’s happening right now and I’m in some denial about it idk. I still have enough awareness about myself to know I’ll be okay but.. it’s a strange foggy state of not feeling like you’re in control, and unlike Dotty, I think I’m reacting with paralysis and inability to act. We’ll get through it though, the Dorothys of the world usually do. It’s hard is all.
Inahc
paralysis fucking sucks. :/ hopefully you, like Dorothy, have a therapist to talk to about it?
it’s been a long time since I’ve had to try to study. I never did get the hang of it, and I’m not sure how much that was an adhd thing or a dissociative or anxiety thing.
Delicious Taffy
That hallway is home to a different form of predatory scumminess.
DarkoNeko
uh, that’s a nice basement facility there.
newllend(henryvolt)
Jackpot !
Deadjolras