Tracking My Goals

It is often hard for me to maintain a healthy diet. Although I have took several classes that outline the benefits of eating healthy, I often find myself setting a healthy eating goal and relapsing the next day. My goals first consisted of me getting a balanced diet for three months. This goal began to fail after two days. I had visited family members during the thanksgiving holiday and ate several unhealthy foods. I then set a small goal of consuming only healthy foods for a week. I wrote down the foods I would eat each day, within that week, and their proportion size. This goal last for three days, and failed due to financial issues. Foods that were easy to prepare became my best friend. However, when I became pregnant, I began to gain excuses weight. My doctor informed on the importance it was to eat a balanced diet. He also taught me the effects unhealthy foods could have on the baby, as well as me while being pregnant. Eating healthy then became a struggle, due to me having a loss of appetite. Now that I am not pregnant anymore, and have gained my appetite back, it was not evident to me the different foods and calories I consume in a day. Completing a dietary analysis has allowed me to gain insight on the foods I eat, my normal calorie intake, and the amount of calories recommended.

The eating habits that Americans have are either healthy or unhealthy. The healthy individuals are probably the ones that work out, eat the right foods, and watch their daily consumption. While the unhealthy ones are probably, just eating whatever is in their face at the time, drive everywhere, and don’t watch their daily intake. Because of this fact, it is easy to see why obesity is becoming a huge part in the nation. The authors are trying to prove that “Americans eat everywhere, all day long-an average of five meals a day, including snacks” (2012, p. 621). Many people don’t think they are actually eating a lot because their proportion size is smaller than a normal meal but if someone were to look back in the past they would find that the size would be much smaller. There are many consequences that come from being obese, the authors only use one but it is one that really puts a prospective on things. “Obesity already reduces the current life expectancy in the United States by four to nine months…Obesity rates among children and teens could knock off as many as five years from todays average of 77 ” (2012, p. 620). Knowing this statistic helps the reader, look at their own life and think about what they could do better. The authors helps the reader to become aware of how bad eating habits can affect the rest of someone

He goes on to explain how it is not their fault but it is American’s duties to reengineer themselves to rethink what they feed themselves and their families. Wansink continue to try and push more towards Americans resetting their goals by telling them, “We can move from mindless overeating to mindless better eating” (Wansink 209). Reengineering one’s mindless margin takes more than just thinking about eating healthy, it takes doing it without thinking. Training the body to do more than just not crave the things that are bad but to eat the things that are good mindlessly. Wansink wants Americans to pick 3 things to change in their diets. He wants them to break old habits of overeating and change little by little to achieve something if anything in their daily

Society talks about food as if the only reason for people to eat is to become obese, and they say that if you eat too much, you are in the risk of being fat. “Being fat is one of those illnesses that people do not want to have.” Even although some of the risks of being fat

I was able to download the PDF of the 2010 dietary guidelines and my diet is way off. First of all I do not watch what I eat. I just know that when I am hungry that I eat. And 95% of the time it eat something specific to what I have a taste for. Then I eat alot of it because its so good. But then I wont eat another meal again till the next day. I will a few snacks here and there if I feel hungry through out the rest of the day. I would have to say yes and no to benefiting from tools designed to evaluate and track the quality of your diet over time. I say yes because I need a plan. I need something that would guide me on calorie counting, when to eat, what to eat, how much is too much and how much is enough. I was thinking about getting

Keeping track of your diet can help you prevent a lot of health risks and keep your body up and healthy. Even skipping a simple meal can result in something damaging to your body. This activity helped me learn a lot about my body and what I should be in taking and what I shouldn’t be taking. One of my biggest strengths when is comes to my eating habits is staying persistent with what I eating and how much I eat. For example, I eat breakfast every single morning whereas some people skip breakfast one day then eat breakfast the next. Another strength would be the number of calories I intake daily, although they are under the average amount I’m supposed to be intaking I do keep it at the same level almost every other day. One last strength I have when it comes to my eating habits is I don’t eat unhealthy, yes I do eat some unhealthy things here and there, but I don’t overload myself with unhealthy fattening foods. Although I do have strengths they still aren’t at the best they can be. To improve them I’m going to start keeping a food journal to keep track of all the foods I’m eating daily. This will help me come to an agreement and can stabilize my eating habits to the point where I’m satisfied with what I’m eating and my overall well-being. Keeping track of my diet was so helpful because it made me realize that even the slightest deficiency can

Americans are among the heaviest people on earth. Not only are we getting fatter, but we're doing it at a younger age. It is estimated that as many as one in five Americans is obese, a condition defined as being more than 30 percent above the ideal weight based on height. In the United States, obesity prevalence doubled among adults between 1980 and 2004 (Ogden, et al., 2007). By understanding the magnitude, causes, and impact of obesity has on our society we can find ways to control this widespread phenomenon. Health Promotion strategies offer a promising avenue for mitigating this problem.

The goal of my study was easy to measure to the quantitative data set that could give me a definitive marker of my progress in respects to the target. The target caloric intake was set at 2200 calories per day, based upon my research on various health publications and websites. I was able to measure my daily intake with the use of the smartphone application My Fitness Pal. I could put in the food items that I consumed to generate data reports about my daily and weekly intake. This was very convenient for keeping myself accountable to progress.

This seven day journey recording my every move was not an easy one to say the least; Feeling guilty was on the agenda most days. Recording a food journal and tracking my physical activity for seven consecutive days has opened my eyes in many ways. To start off, I am an 18 year old female in college who eats what I crave but tries to eat heathy. I exercise whenever my heart desires which is not often, but I am a full time nanny who loves a 7 month old and a 2 year old. Pushing a stroller containing a tiny human weighing around 20 pounds is my daily activity, going on walks to the park is our favorite activity during the day, if we can make it without melting on the sidewalk before we arrive at the swings. My diet consists of poultry and water,

This has been my third week and I have had difficulties keeping up with my plan due to the overload of school work and my two jobs. And because of this I have not had a chance to keep track of my meals and the time in which I have them. There has been days through this week in which I have not had dinner and when I do it was late at night and I did not think of the portion or type of food I was having. In fact going to the gym was also an issue.

ake a Break- Taking a break from your work may be seen as a bad idea to some, but doing so can increase your productivity for the day which in turn increases your overall work performance. Breaks from your work can be as simple as getting up from your chair and walking outside of the office for a few minutes to get some fresh air, maybe have a glass of water. When returning to your work, you'll feel refreshed and ready to continue what you were doing. It's important to set aside some time for yourself , not only in short breaks in the work place, but for your personal life as well. Allowing time for family, and friends, will not only keep your stress down and allow you to work at a better capacity, but also allows you knowledge of when work should be completed as you'll know what days you'll not be working, which allows a schedule to be set up and you can focus on your work by putting in more hours the days you do work to meet objective deadlines.

According to my “My Plate Daily Checklist” I am supposed to be consuming 2600 calories daily. This includes 2 cups of fruits. 3.5 cups of vegies, 9 oz. of grains, 6.5 oz. of protein and 3 cups of dairy. For the most part I am under in most categories of food due to my own personal schedule and my lack of time to really fit everything into one 24-hour day. I am also not drinking enough water thus implying I am dehydrated most of time which I can tell because my lips are always so dry. I rarely consume the 8 glass recommended amount of daily water. I for the most part drink water and milk so my beverage choice shouldn’t really affect my health negatively. I can eat more vegetables to further improve my health thus increasing my likelihood of longevity. Through commitment I can be successful in the goal I am setting for myself.

Chapter 6 discusses about the strategies to promote behavior changes. From the food management tools, behavior change strategies, and re-constructing cognitive thinking. One of the strategies in making dietary change is to keep a journal. Having a journal would teach a client to record their food and activity, so it would be easy to measure and monitor their progress. However, keeping a journal also not easy to follow and the tracking usually declines after few weeks (144). Personally, I found that keeping a food journal is really hard to follow through. I got really motivated for the first two weeks and feel off the wagon really soon. One of the factor which cause my lack of motivation in tracking of my food is being forgetful. And at the

In 2017 my personal goal is to remeber to always be myself. To do that first I will not try to be something i’m not. For example I won’t follow others I will be who I am. Next, I will try to look like myself not like other people. An example would be to not want the clothing the others have just because it’s what they are wearing. Lastly I will not try so hard to fit in with the others. For instance I have friends but just because some people don’t like me I don’t need to try so hard to be there friend and be accepted by their group.

The obesity rate in the United States has increased dramatically in the last decade, because the population is resorting to fast food and prepackaged meals for quick and cheap preparation. More people are consuming their meals and snacks on the run in their vehicle, or in front of the T.V. They are not getting very much satisfaction from the food they are consuming on a daily basis. That’s why they are consuming more because everything they eat is always on the go. Obesity in adults can be a result of many factors; such as poor diet, lack of exercise, stress and genetics. The public does not realize the effect