Nowadays, the topic of nutrition, healthy diets, and lifestyles has become more popular among people of all ages. Everybody strives to reach not only their ideal weight but the overall health of the body. While there is a variety of weekly planned diets accessible on the Internet, I made an effort to monitor what I ate during the past week and see what adjustments my nutrition needs.
During the entire week, I ate breakfast each day without skipping. This step is never hard for me since, without breakfast, my brain cannot function properly, and while someone’s day starts with coffee, mine begins with breakfast, which is usually oatmeal with fruits without sugar. This leads to another question about fruits, considering that my breakfast involved fruits, and I also ate an apple or a banana during my lunch break, for seven days, I ate more than one fruit. As for vegetables, I usually prefer any kind of soup for supper that includes potatoes, tomatoes, and other vegetables. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I had steamed broccoli with chicken breast, implying that I ate at least one vegetable a day during this week. I do not like soda, which means that this was not part of my diet that week. However, I am addicted to “junk food,” specifically chocolate bars. Though I made an effort not to eat any candy, I did eat three chocolate bars on separate days. Lastly, when it comes to the water, I drank around 70 ounces of water a day.
Ultimately, I would like to rate my nutrition for a week a six. Though I am proud that not drinking any soda and consuming a fair amount of vegetables and fruits went well, I believe it was necessary to lower the rating for consuming candy and not drinking enough water. Thus, I think cutting my sugar intake is one change I would like to implement. According to Vasey (2020), while there is good sugar, such as the one found in fruits and vegetables, “fake” sugar can lead to health issues. For example, sugar increases the risk of high blood pressure and diabetes (Malik, 2017). As a result, cutting sugar out of my diet seems like a reasonable step.
References
Malik, V. S. (2017). Sugar sweetened beverages and cardiometabolic health. Current Opinion in Cardiology, 32(5), 572-579.
Vasey, C. (2020). Good sugar, bad sugar: How to power your body and brain with healthy energy. Simon and Schuster.