Nutrition Interview
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FOOD LOG PAGE 5
Priscilla Jorge
Nutrition BIO2010
Amy Reidenbach
Sept 22, 2015
Food Log
Introduction/Purpose/Statement of Problem:
My objectives of completing a food log are to help me understand my consumption pattern and understand the several changes that can be made to help me attain my nutritional goals. It is necessary for me to complete a food log as this is the only way I can understand why I am still struggling to attain my nutritional goals.
Hypothesis statement: I do not eat enough carbohydrates or fat, but I consume excess protein.
Methods/Procedure:
I chose to conduct my dietary analysis on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I chose these three days as they are my off days, and I can make my preferred food choice, unlike the other days when I am restricted to the company's meals. From my consumption patterns, I learned that I oftenly consume lots of junks and fast foods. Most my meals comprise of junk foods and high sugar content. My chosen days are not examples of regular weekdays; these days are the days I am off from work thus I make my decisions about what to consume. I never kept track of what I ate as I only consumed what I preferred in the different instances. I always walked with my log and filled it at the end of every meal this thus helped me to document accurately all my meals.
Results/Data: My age is 21 and weight is 117 lb.
PART A:
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PART B:
From the two graphs drawn above, my calories consumption is below the required amount for a 21-year-old, this thus makes it necessary for me to increase calories consumption.
For my protein and fats intake, I consume a lot of proteins that the amount suggested. This thus implies that I need to cut down my protein consumption. My fats consumption, on the other hand, is an average of the proposed amount. Thus, my fat intake is okay.
Discussion or Analysis:
From the graphs and my food log, my consumption habit can be done some adjustments to ensure that I remain healthy. My calories intake is below the expected amount for a 21-year-old. This thus implies that I need to increase its intake for me to remain active without depriving my energy reservoirs. my intake of whole grains food further needs to increase to increase the caloric content. In some days, however, I am proud of my intakes as I manage to meet the expected amount. This thus implies that I can readily meet the proposed caloric content if I meet these few days calories amount.
My protein consumption, on the other hand, needs to be stabilized as the amount on average exceeds the proposed amount for a twenty-one-year-old. On some days, I consume a low amount of protein while, in others, I consume large amounts. This in turn affects my final intake amounts as a large amount of protein affect my caloric consumption (Fadiman, 2013). This, therefore, implies that I need to cut down some of my protein intakes to avoid affecting my caloric intake.
My fats consumption, on the other hand, is on average. My consumption amount is almost at per with the recommended amounts for a 21-year-old. This is a good sign as it means that I do not have accumulated fats in my body. Thus, I need to stabilize my fat intake to ensure that I do not consume the proposed amount or exceed it.
My food consumption pattern is not badly off but may need some few adjustments to ensure that I am within the proposed amounts. If I successfully managed to stabilize my caloric, protein and fat intake, there is a big opportunity for meeting my nutritional goals. This implies that I need to cut down my protein intake, increase my caloric intake and continue stabilizing my fats intake to ensure that I remain healthy (Casselland Gleaves, 2014). I was surprised by my high protein intake as I try and ensure the amount does not exceed the proposed amount.
My eating pattern is like a result of my jobs nature which requires me to take short meal breaks thus am fast to purchase the foods that are readily available. I, however, try to maintain a balanced diet whenever I can as I am concerned about my health. My food habits do change over the weekend as I get more time to analyze each food I intake. This thus allows me to feed more healthily on weekends than the weekdays. I try not to skip my meals as they tend to change my consumption rates thus I barely skip meals unless I have an emergency issue that I cannot leave unaddressed.
Financial strains, lack of time are some of the few things that affect my eating habits. During mid-months, I tend to eat foods without necessarily considering their composition due to financial strain. In some cases due to emergency issues that need immediate attention I tend to miss meals that further affect my intake rates as I end up overeating when I miss meals. The ratio between my consumption of highly processed and unprocessed food is a 7: 3. I tend to consume more highly processed food than the unprocessed ones thus the high ratio disparity. The first thing I would change about my diet is the high protein consumption as it affects my caloric consumption. This is an issue that I will readily change after analyzing and understanding my food log.
Conclusions:
My initial hypotheses were partially true as from the graph and food log; my carbohydrates consumption is low while my protein consumption is high. On the other hand, I was wrong about my fats consumption as from the graph, the amount is almost at per with the proposed amounts.
References
Young, L. (2012). “Food Log.” New York, NY, US: Columbia University Press.
Cassell, K and Gleaves, H. (2014) "Food Consumption Behavior Today” Facts on File library of health and living (3rd Ed.). Infobase Publishing.
Fadiman, A. (2013) “American Consumption Culture.”New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
comparison between calories consumed and calories proposed.
my consumptionwk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 1030.000000 1966.000000 990.000000 1895.000000 927.000000 1108.000000 880.000000 1489.000000 1431.000000 calories suggested
wk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000 2000.000000
calories consumed
comparison between fats and proteins consumed with that proposed.
consumed proteinswk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 65.000000 95.000000 111.000000 237.000000 115.000000 261.000000 43.000000 75.000000 64.000000 proposed amount
wk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 114.000000 consumed fats
wk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 42.000000 48.000000 19.000000 28.800000 38.000000 37.000000 12.000000 53.000000 57.000000 proposed amounts
wk 1 d 1 wk 1 d 2 wk 1 d 3 wk 2 d 1 wk 2 d 2 wk 2 d 3 wk 3 d 1 wk 3 d 2 wk 3 d 3 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000 48.000000
fats and proteins consumed in gramm