Weight And Activity Analysis

I had no idea that what I included in my diet was so important and provided a significant impact to my wellbeing. After doing the first part of this Analysis project, I was surprised to see the many areas that I can improve on. I created 3 specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound goals to help me improve on receiving the right amount and variety of nutrients in my diet. My goals are to drink 8 glasses of water a day, have fruits and vegetables every meal adding to a total of about 4-6 cups, and to have a different breakfast every day. For 30 days, I attempted to implement daily each of my 3 goals.

According to my three day diet analysis it seems like my eating habits are poor. Not necessarily that I am consuming too many bad foods but I am not getting the all around nutrients that I need on a daily basis. Sometimes not eating enough. Or ot finding time to eat at all is a big issue in this. Due to my job and the lack of time I have at home it is hard for me to get the nutrients I need on a daily basis. With the target that is shown of six oz. of grains two and a half cups of vegetables, two cups of fruits, two cups of dairy and five and a half oz. of protein foods I fell short in most of the areas that were targeted for me. My biggest two areas of consumption was refined grains and protein.

According to my calculations, I have a BMI of 27.6 which puts me in the category of being overweight. A person my age and height should have and ideal weight ranging from 160lbs to 175lbs. Many risk factors that are associated with being overweight includes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, osteoarthritis, and sleep apnea. I consider myself a healthy overweight person because BMI cannot dictated everyone healthy state such as body builders; I perform similar workouts to body builders so I am at my BMI goal.

Since I was a little kid I had trouble with obesity, and controlling it. I wasn’t super active or athletic, except for in the summer when I swam for my summer league swim team, I didn’t like fruit or vegetables all that much, and I loved to eat junk food. And with my family, I didn’t feel like change was necessary in order to achieve success in life, so I didn’t really try to be physically fit,

The recommended units of alcohol men and women should drink in a week is no more than 14 units. These 14 units needs to be spread out throughout the week, making sure that you have at least two to three alcohol-free days. Both men and women have now got the same recommended amount due to increase of cancer risk. It is though that men should not regularly drink more than three to four units of alcohol a day, if they do every single day, this means they are having between 21 units and 28 units a week, which is more than the recommended units a man should intake in a week by 7-14 units. For women it is recommended that they should not regularly drink more than 2-3 units of alcohol a day. If they intake, this amount of units in a week this means that they will intake between 14-21 units a week. This means that they would be in taking more than the recommended amount by 7 units. It is recommended that if a person is

Recently I have been motivated by my friend Adrian’s life changing decision of putting behind his desire of just letting go and being determined to live a healthy life. I have always had an active life and enjoy playing sports but figured that it wouldn’t be enough and I am currently on a diet which has cut down on my calorie and sugar level intake. Nowadays I take the time to read nutrition labels and measure portion sizes which make a great difference. Every now and then I have a break and consume foods that are not healthy but I now I am doing better now. It is a constant struggle to not get tempted into a delicious looking pizza or some perfectly rounded donuts but I stay motivated to achieve my

I grew up overweight, amidst incessant teasing and judging glances so frequent they felt normal. I knew I was unhealthy. I wanted to improve, and I did try to work out and eat right a lot of times - but to no avail. It never worked. In hindsight, it is clear my failures were because I prioritized health below everything - academics, a social life - you name it. Moving to the US for college, leaving behind a support structure for a foreign culture, I knew I had a fresh start that I could make the most of if I so tried.

You are required to measure and record body weight before, during and after 60 minutes of physical activity, to examine changes in body weight over the duration of exercise. No water is to be consumed during the physical activity and it is important that all students have the same clothing items for each weigh

Overall my diet was not healthy and did not consume enough nutrients. Based on the Dietary Guidelines for intakes, my diet was not moderate at all. I consumed above average recommended intakes. For Saturated Fat I consumed 10% calories, the daily recommendations must be < 2300mg. As for Sugar I consumed 54g, which is too much for what I was consuming. For Cholesterol I consumed 318mg, which is 19g above recommended intake, which was 106%. For my consumption of protein, I consumed more than what was recommended by

Make sure you are avoiding simple carbohydrates and taking in healthy ones, such as healthy grains. Now is not the time to be snacking on your favorie salty food.

All of the sample population claimed to drink on average about 2.5 times a week. This volunteers were also all students from the University of Ulster student accommodation building. Although we don’t know why all volunteers were picked from this location, we can elude this to the fact it was convenient. Any volunteer who decided he/she didn’t want to participate could terminate their involvement at any moment. Due to all of this information that was provided about the sample used in the study, and how they went through collecting the data, we can infer that the collection, analysis, and processing were described in detail. I believe that the researchers could have used a larger sample size, as well as evenly distributed the sample size of men and women. None of these stated factors would skew the data too much, but it would make it more accurate. These data findings pertain to the initial research question of the difference in performance the day after drinking and the day after not drinking. It also described thoroughly the reasons why this experiment was carried out so well, or not to raise

Grains – 8 ounces eaten – target 8 ounces – adequate amount overall, but I’m eating more refined grains than whole grains

I made the choice to lower my sugar intakes because many of my family members suffered from diabetes and I wanted to lower my risk of developing diabetes. I stop drinking juice because I know most juices contain a lot of sugar, I stop eating candy, cookies, cereal and I lower my chocolate portions. One roadblock was the cravings, I was always thinking about the sweets that I was not longer eating and the marketing for sweets is everywhere tv and social media, what I did was I stop buying candy, cookies, and juices since I didn’t have it at home I couldn’t really do anything about it and eventually I stop craving them. Another road block was that around the time of the month I would crave chocolate day and night and I allowed myself to have a small piece and that was

Help keep yourself on track by making eating right as easy as possible. Keeping junk food

I am a twenty-year-old female that I have a healthy lifestyle for a young, college girl. As much as I would like to eat healthy and exercise everyday, sometimes I just get so busy I just cannot find the time. In college there is also something you have to do or should be doing so there is barely anytime to just sit around and do nothing. I would say that overall my eating habits are not that unhealthy. My eating habits include lots of grilled foods. I am a big fan of grilled chicken and many nights I will just throw together a grilled chicken salad. I am also a big vegetable eater. I enjoy pretty much any vegetable including: butter beans, squash, boiled corn, and much more. It is not very hard for me to eat healthy meals, but the snacks are when I run into trouble. I start eating unhealthy late at night when I am up late studying. I will become tired and think I am hungry and I will eat a sweet late and night and drink caffeine when I should not do that. I am pretty consistent on exercising, unless it is finals week or I have two or three tests that week and just have to spend my free time studying. I joined a gym in Hattiesburg and that motivates me to go almost every day. I usually try to go to the gym at least five days a week and I make myself stay for at least an hour. I have drunk alcohol before, but I am not a heavy drinker. I am in a sorority so if we have a sorority functions that I will usually consume alcohol while attending them. We usually only