Introduction
Maintaining proper diet and fitness levels is a critical component in ensuring a better lifestyle. Frequent analysis and evaluation of one’s eating and exercise habits is important because it allows one to design an intervention strategy to return to healthy living. This work is a personal reflection on dietary and fitness level, which is designed to help the learner to develop an intervention strategy. The intervention strategy will be designed based on the area where there are weaknesses in ensuring proper diet and workouts.
PART ONE
My Average Food Intake
My dietary intake is highly dependent on a number of things. First, my work schedule is significantly high. As a student, the workload and demand for this course can be overpowering. I invest a lot of time in learning and grasping as much as possible. I use a lot of time in libraries and discussion groups in an effort to complete my assignments in time and to keep up with daily academic demands. I know that I am a workaholic and I tend to treasure reading more than eating and exercising.
I wake up before 5 a.m. and refresh myself to ready for the day’s work. Once I am ready, I take a cup of coffee or tea. Essentially, the coffee or tea is made up of three quarter glass of milk and the rest is water. One teaspoon of instant coffee or instant tea coupled with two and half teaspoonful of table sugar. This is taken with four slices of white bread on a daily basis. I also interchange smearing margarine on the slices of bread and taking two fried eggs. These additives are taken interchangeably such that when the fried eggs are taken one morning, the next morning I use margarine on the slices of bread. This is the habit for every weekday from Monday through Friday. On ...
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