My classes were about a 20-minute walk from my dorm room, but since I went to school in Vermont, it was so unbelievably cold, that I just took the shuttle buses. I wish I had learned how to dress in layers, so I could've been warm enough to walk to class — that would have been at least 40 minutes of walking a day.
There was a gym right in my dorm room, with machines and classes, but I wasn't active growing up, so that was so foreign to me. It wasn't until my senior year that my roommate invited me to a yoga class that I started exercising regularly.
I instantly fell in love with yoga because it offered me this amazing new freedom of feeling strong and confident in my body. Yoga was my gateway drug to the world of fitness, and ultimately turned me on to running, which is what helped me lose the weight a few years after graduating college.