Calorie Intake Project
Description:
The goal of this project is to enhance your awareness of what you are eating and how many calories you are consuming daily. A fast fix for hunger is not always the best for our bodies. Think of our bodies as a car. Cars need gas/electricity to fuel their engine to properly run. Well, we need food to fuel our body. If you put the wrong type of gas in your car, you are sure to have problems with the engine. The same thing with our bodies -- if we load up with high fatty processed foods as well as increased sugars and salt we will not properly function.
For this project, we were asked to calculate our daily intake of food along with the total number of calories consumed for everything you put into your body (good and bad).
Reflection:
For me, it has been a very eventful week. Before we started the week, my eating habits had been fairly good. I’ve already started working on healthy eating habits but definitely have room to improve. With this project, I was able to get back on track and move it up a notch by making the effort to count my calories and track my food for 7 days. I also included exercise four times this week.
It has been an exuberant week and I am excited and proud to share my progress. During this week, I have broken previous barriers that were preventing me from tracking and continuing my efforts to eat healthy daily.
I hope to continue eating nutritious and I’ll continue to refine my diet as I go along. I have discontinued eating red meat and pork and will dial down the amount of dairy in my diet as well. These changes will help me eventually transition to a full vegan diet. My plan is not to jump into a full vegan diet but ease into it and create a healthy plan as I move forward.
I think one of the biggest realization I had this week was that the bigger my desire to eat healthy, the bigger my motivation grew. Realizing this will continue to help me to manage my expectations and ease into my healthy living plans. However, I know that it’s my lifestyle choices that will make the difference.
The incredible thing is that like every new habit, the majority of the sacrifices are at the beginning. Once the bad habits have transitioned to better habits, the learned good habits become the structure of one’s life.
Lastly, while researching I found the following on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, “[c]ompared with people who consume a diet with only small amounts of fruits and vegetables, those who eat more generous amounts as part of a healthful diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers,” Nothing could be more true.
To review my paper, please click here: My Calorie Intake Project.
The goal of this project is to enhance your awareness of what you are eating and how many calories you are consuming daily. A fast fix for hunger is not always the best for our bodies. Think of our bodies as a car. Cars need gas/electricity to fuel their engine to properly run. Well, we need food to fuel our body. If you put the wrong type of gas in your car, you are sure to have problems with the engine. The same thing with our bodies -- if we load up with high fatty processed foods as well as increased sugars and salt we will not properly function.
For this project, we were asked to calculate our daily intake of food along with the total number of calories consumed for everything you put into your body (good and bad).
Reflection:
For me, it has been a very eventful week. Before we started the week, my eating habits had been fairly good. I’ve already started working on healthy eating habits but definitely have room to improve. With this project, I was able to get back on track and move it up a notch by making the effort to count my calories and track my food for 7 days. I also included exercise four times this week.
It has been an exuberant week and I am excited and proud to share my progress. During this week, I have broken previous barriers that were preventing me from tracking and continuing my efforts to eat healthy daily.
I hope to continue eating nutritious and I’ll continue to refine my diet as I go along. I have discontinued eating red meat and pork and will dial down the amount of dairy in my diet as well. These changes will help me eventually transition to a full vegan diet. My plan is not to jump into a full vegan diet but ease into it and create a healthy plan as I move forward.
I think one of the biggest realization I had this week was that the bigger my desire to eat healthy, the bigger my motivation grew. Realizing this will continue to help me to manage my expectations and ease into my healthy living plans. However, I know that it’s my lifestyle choices that will make the difference.
The incredible thing is that like every new habit, the majority of the sacrifices are at the beginning. Once the bad habits have transitioned to better habits, the learned good habits become the structure of one’s life.
Lastly, while researching I found the following on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, “[c]ompared with people who consume a diet with only small amounts of fruits and vegetables, those who eat more generous amounts as part of a healthful diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers,” Nothing could be more true.
To review my paper, please click here: My Calorie Intake Project.