Reflection Paper

Shenita Dawson

HLTH 640

Shenita’s Personal Reflection Paper

The influences in my past that shaped my view of the food I have eaten in and eat now would be my influential family members and cultural background. Growing up as a child me and my siblings where use to having a hot cooked meal every day except for on Friday and Saturday nights in which we ate out at fast foods restaurants that is what I am accustomed to so It has influence me to do the same pattern with my family. As for my weight I have always been the person who could eat any food and never gain a pound this is the reason why I really never took my eating habits seriously. My current health status is in good standing even though some things run in my family such as high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma etc I have been fortunate not to experience any of these situations.

My unhealthy eating habits would be that I love to snack all day on snacks and eat one big meal at dinner time. I don’t believe that I give my body the proper proportion of nutrients that it is suppose to be getting but when I do eat I try to make sure that I have some what all the nutrients that I need in that meal that I eat. I need to make sure that this is happening on a daily basis as well that is what I’m working on to improve in my health life. My healthy eating habit would be that I love vegetables I could eat them all day long without any meat if need so. My habits developed by me knowing that I could eat whatever and not have any health issues nor gain any weight.

Emotions that I have dealt with in my past that contributed to the formation of my eating habits would be that I was always the smallest of my peers and people would always tell me I need to eat and get some weight on my bones so I believed that if I ate enough of whatever then I would begin to gain weight. This was the biggest reason why I never watch what I ate nor did I really care for my health in my past but now as I’m getting older I’m wanting to...