Diet Review Diet

In my Diet Journal, I recorded all the food I ate over the weekend with the best accuracy I could attempt to do. But one of the factors that made my food diary inaccurate was that I couldn’t find every detail and percentage of fat, carbohydrates, and proteins in everything I ate. Also, all of the amounts and servings were approximations, not exact amounts. I was able to record everything I ate, but accuracy may have been affected by estimations and sources. The calorie intake I had over the three day period ranged from 1900-2500 calories. This was over my 1800 BMR, due to the food choices and fluctuation in diet.

As I began this project I saw no purpose of keeping track of all these different things. I proceeded through the project and started to keep track of my intake, macronutrient range, fat breakdown and stage of change reports and I found it quite helpful to keep track of all those things. This project made me ensure that I was on the right path to becoming a healthy human being. I did not realize how unhealthy my eating habits were until this project made me examine that, which was a good thing. I still find it hard to maintain a strict healthy diet while being at college. Sometimes I am forced to deviate from my healthy diet, but this project helps me get back on track.

An ideal candidate for the use of this system according to the 3 Week Diet review is somebody who is interested to lose a huge amount of weight for just 21 days. This program is for you even if you are young or old. It does not matter if you are of different ethnicity you will learn something from this program. Even if you are a vegetarian or not you will still get the same results. However, there is a need to follow the suggestions and program faithfully. The problem with people who diet is that they start with enthusiasm but fail to stay excited about sticking with it.

Both of my parents are overweight and with that does come unhealthy eating. A couple of months ago my mother and I decided we wanted to get into better shape. We signed up for a gym membership with a personal trainer who took our Body Mass Index(BMI). I was not worried, I had been on a swim team for 14 years, including Las Positas, but when I got the results back it recommends I lose seventeen pounds. After we read through it, the trainer and I went through my daily diet and he told me the foods I should cut out. He, along with the first article, suggested to avoid rappers. So, the past couple of weeks I have been paying more attention to what I put in my body. It is difficult though because for example say I am at my friends house and I am starving but everyone is eating chips or candy, I have to just sit there. Like I said in my introductory letter, I am going away to college next year so the second article, “Taking Local on the Road” was also very interesting. I agree that Americans as a whole are unhealthy but in the past couple of years I think that we have become more conscious of it because of programs such as Michelle Obama’s MyPlate, or even this book, Food Matters, spread awareness. Maybe it is just because we are growing up but I believe a lot of my friends, including myself, have started taking pride in our body

A balanced diet is an essential part of healthful living. Unfortunately, knowing whether your diet is balanced can become difficult. Through the use of an online meal planner, Vitabot, I was able to easily keep track of my macronutrient intake and calorie count along with my consumption of essential vitamins and minerals. With this information, I was able to clearly identify where in my diet I can improve, what I might be deficient in, and how healthy my diet really is.

What could be better way to achieve the health goals than a comprehensive plan with expert consultation, low calorie food recommendations, strict exercise plans, and various advanced online tools to plan & track the meals?

At the age of fourteen, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) which is an imbalance of reproductive hormones, in short. PCOS makes it very difficult to use insulin to convert carbohydrates into energy. A common characteristic of PCOS is obesity. Even then, eight years ago, I knew I needed to maintain of lifestyle of healthy eating and daily physical activity. But, during a self-assessment period, I realized I would eat unhealthy meals multiple times per week. My choices were your typical “hot and ready” meals, fast-food items, or just unhealthy snacks supplemented for lunch or dinner. With the stresses of school and work, quick-grabs were very convenient and oddly satisfying. These environments not only limited physical activity, but required prolonged sitting. Consequently, a lifestyle of inactivity resulted. I knew that too much stress, too much eating, and not enough exercise would soon lead to a sedentary lifestyle, but I did not have the discipline, interest, or time to make the necessary changes. I thought I reached the point of no return when I began eating just because I had access to it or in response to stress. Guilty and ashamed, I realized I was not eating because I was hungry, but because of stress and availability. Overtime, I recognized I

According to Suzanna Johnson, in the past twenty years, America has transformed into an overweight nation. One factor includes the easy access to fast food restaurants and the accessibility to healthy options being limited due to more expensive prices. Families are also eating out more due to more modern roles women have taken (i.e. Working outside of home). Less time is put towards meal planning resulting in 42 percent of a family’s food budget going towards eating out. “Your tax dollars are actually helping to create this obesogenic environment,” says

There are many tools that can help you with your weight loss journey for example, take a tip sheet with you when you go out to eat, this will help guide you with your food choices and keep you on track.

Without telling a lie, since I was 20 years old, I have been dieting. In my childhood, I was a little bit overweight because I consumed a lot of food. Everybody always informed my mom about my weight, but she did not pay attention because she thought that it was normal, and she always answered: "Oh she is a child she cannot be on a diet." In my adolescence when I first started menstruating, I lost a lot of pounds. When I was in high school, I was pretty stable in my weight, but in college, that is where the real problem started. I had no control of my eating habits, and I ate regularly. In the morning, I used to take a full breakfast, and within two hours I have consumed a snack. As a result, I gained a bunch of extra pounds. One day I was checking my weight, and I was surprised to find that I weighed 153 pounds, but these did not motivate me to start exercising or eating healthy meals. We had our summer vacation, and when I came back to school, one of my classmates asked, “What I was doing during this time because I was looking like a pig.” I was shocked, because I could not imagine how fat I was. Since that time I started eating balanced diet food and exercising. My aim of making this drastic change was not to have the ideal measurements that everyone dreams of, but to control my diabetes disease and improve health. After exercising on a daily basis, I lost 28 pounds.

track your diet. As described, food track does help people to eat healthy and educate them on

The exploration of the government sponsored website, choosemyplate.gov was enlightening and informational. This webpage gives detailed information on the appropriate diet for someone who is conscious about health and wellness. The diet that is suggested is based on one that is conducive to someone who is a risk for heart disease. The suggestions made by the website emphasis the importance of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and protein. The ‘choose my plate’ logo suggest that half of the daily calorie intake should come from fruits and vegetables. The website strives to be a user friendly as a government sponsored website can be; super tracker is an option allowing for users to track their calorie intake (eating) and output (exercise). This allows for anyone with access to the internet to track their net intake of nutrients. There are many reports that will analyze what nutrients are being neglected or over eaten. While these report options are a great tool for use. The input method is

The main problem that I run into with consumption is portion control and managing caloric intake. I personally have difficulties with portion control when I by an item that contains more than one portion. I will forget that it is not a single serving and continue to eat the entire product in one sitting. A way that I manage this problem is by buying individually packaged items. By doing this I am able to consume a healthier amount of the food product and can better manage what I eat. I also have problems managing my caloric intake by forgetting to log food that I have eaten in my food journal. I have remedied this problem by setting an alarm on my phone that sends an alert during each meal that I eat with a reminder to track my food. Overconsumption

As for “mindless eating” I believe this approach would be a novel. There are points about making the decisions to using a bigger plate so you think you have eaten more food then you did (Wansink, Just, & Payne, 2009). I also think the way products are packaged can cause people to overeat. I agree that our surroundings can cause us to eat too much too. For example, if your in a restaurant that serves a certain amount of food and items on a plate. That is all a person would eat. Now if you go to a carnival where they have concession stands everywhere and each one has different food items, you may find yourself buying a lot of food, eating it, and after all the food is not good for you.

Heather, I completely understand what you are talking about and I tend to do the exact same thing. Every so often I tend to get the urge to look up on information about different food that my family can try out, and anything easy we can do together daily like family exercise to make all of us a little healthier. But we never can stick to any healthy diet plan or the exercise because we always desire to eat unhealthy food like chip, French fries, and a lot of time sweet snack. But the biggest reason is that we become too lazy to follow the diet plan because it always so hard to cook healthy food for my family since everyone is too picky with what type of food they can eat or want to eat.