Blog Day 8

Food Journal Reflection

When I was looking back over my food on the app, the first thing that I noticed was that I tend to eat foods that contain mostly carbohydrates. I also noticed that I do not eat enough protein. I know that protein is really important, and I thought that I was eating better now that I was making my own lunches now that I was in school. Before I was in school I was eating a lot of microwave dinners. Which I know is really unhealthy. When I started school I was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrots, cherries, celery with peanut butter. To me I thought that I was eating healthy, but it looks like I am going to have to eat more protein. I found out that I am pretty active, I walk my dog very morning from anywhere to 20-45 minutes in the morning at a medium pace. I feel that I would be a pretty good model for my students, I feel that I don’t really eat fast food that often (which is huge right now), I am snacking on fruits and vegetables. I am showing them that just because you don’t run or do sports, just getting out and walking your dog every day is a great way to get out and active, but most importantly they are getting outside.

The goal that I set for myself was to drink more water. Normally during the summer I am outside with a camelback/water bladder where I drink one of those a day. But because I was working and in school I noticed that I was drinking way less water. I was only drinking about 24 ounces a day. So my goal was to drink two of those water bottles a day, or two 1 liter bottles a day. I took until today for me to be able to drink two 1 liter water bottles a day. So over all I don’t think I did really well on my goal. There were many things that hindered my goal; the first being I had to pee all the time. Though I have heard and try to live by the saying “clear pee is happy pee.” The second thing that hindered my goal was that water had a really boring taste. So the way helped this was I have had cucumbers, different fruits to flavor my water, and even crystal light. One way I could help my students reach their goals is by getting their in small steps, and make sure they are setting challenging but reachable goals.

I feel that this food journal is a great way for children to see what they are eating. I feel that it would be more effective than tell children to eat differently. Many of them are not going to want to do that, because it is something they have to do or are being told to do. Having them write the food they eat down can be a great way for them to visually see what they are eating. You could make this into an interdisciplinary activity, in science you could have them test the different foods to show what it looks like as they break down in the human stomach. Or for math you could have them add the different calories they eat for each meal. There are so many ways one could incorporate this into many different lessons.