Over the course of this class, I have learned quite a bit about what it takes to actually eat healthy and take care of my body. Coming into this class, I thought that I had already figured out most of what I had needed to know. Very quickly, I started to realize that there is a whole lot more to eating healthy than I had thought. Being as health conscious as I am, I immediately found the class very interesting, as it is one of the only classes that I have ever taken that can actually be applied to life on the daily. That is why I found the “My Diet Analysis” project to be extremely interesting. As I looked over the report that was generated, I realized that I had actually done a fairly decent job with the food I had been using for my training.
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For me, the numbers were not all that shocking to me. As someone who does meal prepping, I am very conscious of what I eat because it will effect my results in and out of the gym. So to begin with, I did pretty well when it came to vitamins and minerals. I was shocked to find out that my vitamin C came out to 352% of my daily value! Coming in at second is my vitamin B12 at 250%. I Believe that my high amount of vitamin B12 could be from my large consumption of animal products, such as milk. My third highest nutrient is no surprise at all. The number three spot goes to protein. At the time that I was doing this project, I was doing my best to lean down a little bit to prepare for bulking season. As I searched to lean down, I was very careful that I did not lose my muscle mass. In order to do this, I made sure that I consumed as much protein as I could whilst keeping calories as low as possible. This prevented me from going Catabolic. I managed to squeeze in 185% of my daily value for protein by consuming protein shakes, lean tilapia, and the leanest ground steak I could …show more content…
My BMI was calculated at 28.8 and I was placed in the activity level of “active”. I am a perfect example of a person who totally ignores the concept of a BMI due to the fact that it does not account for muscle mass. At 28.8, I believe that I am classified as “overweight”. Not too long after I completed the first half of this assignment, I went to my nutrition shop and did a body analysis to find out what my percent body fat was at. At 196 pounds, I was only at 15% body fat. So, overall, If someone lifts weights or has any kind of muscle at all, the BMI scale can pretty much be ignored entirely. I exercise on a very regimented program that I have tweaked and developed over the past year or so. I train five days a week for 2 hours each day. My style of training is called “powerbuilding”, so the kind of exercise that I do is a combination of muscle isolation lifts and heavy weight power lifting movements. My recommended daily intake for calories was 3,969 and I only was getting about 1900. Like I said earlier, during this time, I was doing my best to lean down a little bit. So, I dropped into a caloric deficit on purpose. Currently, I have bumped up my diet to 5 meals a day, so my caloric intake is much higher. But, I am still very careful that the food I am eating is very clean. I will continue this bulk until around new years, and then I will down cycle my calories again to shed some fat. It’s all a
For me, the numbers were not all that shocking to me. As someone who does meal prepping, I am very conscious of what I eat because it will effect my results in and out of the gym. So to begin with, I did pretty well when it came to vitamins and minerals. I was shocked to find out that my vitamin C came out to 352% of my daily value! Coming in at second is my vitamin B12 at 250%. I Believe that my high amount of vitamin B12 could be from my large consumption of animal products, such as milk. My third highest nutrient is no surprise at all. The number three spot goes to protein. At the time that I was doing this project, I was doing my best to lean down a little bit to prepare for bulking season. As I searched to lean down, I was very careful that I did not lose my muscle mass. In order to do this, I made sure that I consumed as much protein as I could whilst keeping calories as low as possible. This prevented me from going Catabolic. I managed to squeeze in 185% of my daily value for protein by consuming protein shakes, lean tilapia, and the leanest ground steak I could …show more content…
My BMI was calculated at 28.8 and I was placed in the activity level of “active”. I am a perfect example of a person who totally ignores the concept of a BMI due to the fact that it does not account for muscle mass. At 28.8, I believe that I am classified as “overweight”. Not too long after I completed the first half of this assignment, I went to my nutrition shop and did a body analysis to find out what my percent body fat was at. At 196 pounds, I was only at 15% body fat. So, overall, If someone lifts weights or has any kind of muscle at all, the BMI scale can pretty much be ignored entirely. I exercise on a very regimented program that I have tweaked and developed over the past year or so. I train five days a week for 2 hours each day. My style of training is called “powerbuilding”, so the kind of exercise that I do is a combination of muscle isolation lifts and heavy weight power lifting movements. My recommended daily intake for calories was 3,969 and I only was getting about 1900. Like I said earlier, during this time, I was doing my best to lean down a little bit. So, I dropped into a caloric deficit on purpose. Currently, I have bumped up my diet to 5 meals a day, so my caloric intake is much higher. But, I am still very careful that the food I am eating is very clean. I will continue this bulk until around new years, and then I will down cycle my calories again to shed some fat. It’s all a