Essay On My Fitness Pal

For the Nutrition tracker, I decided to use the website My Fitness Pal. I used this site because I have already been using it to track my consumption for the last few weeks as I try to increase my overall health. In my opinion, my diet this week was very disappointing with respect to my diet goals. My diet was severely lacking with respect to its completeness. For the most part I had no real fruits or vegetables, the only consumption of those food groups came as a topping on my burger or other main entrees. In addition to the lack of fruits, my lack of dairy was another letdown. During this week, I never drank much milk or any other primary source of calcium to fit my requirements. This is something that needs to change to help prevent osteoporosis later in life. Lastly, I was not …show more content…
According to the fitness tracker on MFP, I was below on vegetables, fruits and dairy. These can be easily fixed in my opinion, by consuming milk. I plan to drink milk for breakfast multiple times during the week to add more calcium and dairy to my diet. The Next changes are going to be more difficult to make. I do not personally enjoy fruits or vegetables. One solution I read about was the process of juicing vegetables and fruits. I have tried V8 and Naked brand smoothies drink and have enjoyed them. This is one way I can help myself to “meet the target’. This activity was very beneficial when looking at my diet. It really opened my eyes to my lack of fruits and vegetables and made me see how many nutrients I was missing out on. This activity, in addition to showing what I did wrong, also helped me see the path to improvement by just making small changes in my everyday diet. Unfortunately, in order to meet the My Plate guidelines, I need to increase dairy, fruits, and vegetable consumption by large amounts. This might be hard but luckily this diary reflection helped me see an easy way to improve my diet and nutrition