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This project was harder then first anticipated. Now to explain the issues I had with this particular assignment. I am going to explain why I chose the limits that I did. I went with a basic 2000 calorie diet for someone of my height and weight. Which is about five foot eight and one hundred and fifty pounds. Now my diet is a little different then other peoples because of the problems I have with my body. With Crohn's I tend to be a little slimmer and a little more limited in my diet, so I figured that would be a good starting block. I was roughly eighty-percent wrong.
The first menu I made was of what I would have ordered myself from an all day menu of eating at the restaurant Arby's. The menu was over five hundred calories over my limit and my other objectives were all over the place. Some were over their limits, some were severely under their limits and I really needed some work. So I scrapped that particular menu.
After three failed menus I went back and referred to the Rubric to try and remember which parts of the nutritional facts I needed to have displayed for my chart. I had remembered that I had written down the formulas in class on the back of the guide for the project and started to get to work on what I needed to get done. After that I went to attempt to do the charts on Open Offices version of Excel, which I believe it called View Point or something to that effect. It was at this point I was made aware of how long it has been since I had used any form of the program and how different the two were. It literally took me like 4 hours to get these graphs up like this. On top of that, I was having technical problems that day due to my family computer dieing on my and my external hard drive reformatting itse...

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...ery hard to do up a daily menu from a single restaurant. It is mildly amusing yes to see how close I can get to all my limits and does feel good when you complete, or mostly complete in this case, however, hard very, very hard to get to that point. Two I did actually have a decent idea coming off the gate for what I needed in my menu. If I had gone for a two thousand five hundred calorie diet I probably would have not had such a hard time getting everything together considering I was fairly close with the first menu I had just made up of what I would have normally ordered for a full days worth of meals. Regardless of how hard it was or how I could have made the assignment easier on myself. It was fun, I did enjoy it and I, honestly, I might do it again and a two thousand five hundred calorie diet just for fun to see how much easier it would have been on myself.

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