My Eating Plan

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My Eating Plan

Abstract

The food pyramid can change a family’s life in one week. As you read you will how one family has come together to eat healthier, do fun physical activity as a family, and how they learned that just eating healthier made a big different in one person that is ill.

My Eating Plan

The three day eating plan that I entered at the beginning of class showed that I wasn’t getting the nutrition’s needed for my height and weight. The food that I entered, the pyramid showed for day one that my milk intake was 83%, meat and beans intake was 89.0%, vegetables intake was 80%, fruits intake was 0%, and gains intake was 35%. For day 2 milk intakes was 73%, meat and beans intake was 0%, vegetables intake was 176%, fruits intake was 0%, and grains intake was 138%. For day 3 milk intakes was 0%, meat and beans intake was 71%, vegetables intake was 12%, fruits intake was 0%, and grains intake was 33%. I wasn’t eating right and didn’t even know it. With my illness it is important to eat right in order to live a longer healthier life. I found that I needed more of each food group, but I was lacking fruit and dairy the most.

I have worked out my food plan for the week as I did this last week, and I am allowed 1800 calories a day. The 1800 calories a day will help me eating right and losing the extra weight that I have on me. I must also have at least 150 minutes per week of physical activity. I should have been taken in 1800 calories a day to head towards a healthier weight, but was only taken in about 954. I was only getting about 30 minutes of physical activity per week, and need 150 minutes of physical activity.

My daily intake should be six oz. in grain, two and a half cups of vegetables, one and a half cups of fruit, three cups of milk, and five oz. of meat and beans. I was little over half in calories on the three day eating plan. I was eating what I thought was right, but I am seeing that I was very wrong. My physical activity should be 150...