While working through the case study, we were asked to calculate the number of calories in Elizabeth’s lunch versus Charonda’s lunch. After converting all the nutritional information over to calories, we were able to see that Elizabeth’s’ meal had a total of 792 calories. Charonda’s meal had a total of 606 calories. Both were high but Charonda made slightly better choices than Elizabeth. They also did not follow their own advice to keep their lunch light. When looking at their intake, although they were high in caloric value, they didn’t go over the suggested daily caloric value of 2,000 cal/day but they are limiting what they are able to consume the rest of their day if calories are of concern to them. As we mentioned in the beginning
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If Elizabeth wanted to reduce her caloric intake only by modifying the amount of sugar she was consuming as means to lose weight, she would need to cut out 31.25 teaspoons of sugar. Elizabeth’s plan to remove sugar completely from her diet is a little extreme and quite the undertaking on her part. When I removed most of the sugar in my diet it took a lot of getting used to it. Prior to having to monitor sugar intake, I didn’t pay any attention at all to how much sugar was added to things and how much I was consuming in a day. Now that I can get physically ill from it, one of the first things I do when I consider eating something processed is look right at the sugar values. Most things, even with low sugar values, aren’t worth it for me and don’t have enough of a nutritional value to consider eating. Another issue I noted with Elizabeth deciding to eliminate sugar from her diet was the consistency of it. If Elizabeth cuts out sugar completely and loses 20 pounds, and then goes back to eating how she was previously, she will gain the weight right back. I’ve been told by my nutritionist and physician that whatever I do to lose weight form this point forward (because my body is pretty much done losing weight form the surgery), I must be committed to do that that for the rest of my life if I want to maintain that additional loss. So, for example, if …show more content…
According to the Centers for Disease Control, obese individuals have a higher likelihood of developing additional comorbid conditions such as: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, arthritis, an increased risk for some cancers, sleep apnea, mental illnesses, and consistent body pain. The human body wasn’t built to support that much extra weight, so the higher our BMI, the more strain all our body systems is taking on to support itself. I would encourage Elizabeth to meet with a nutritionist to review her dietary intakes as well as her activity level throughout the day to see if there are things she can start to change. Elizabeth must be willing to commit to these changes as she doesn’t have one of those “magical” metabolisms some of us wish we had. Elizabeth will likely have to be careful on her food intake for the rest of her life if she is one of those individuals diagnosed with obesity and/or knows she doesn’t have the metabolic rates of
If Elizabeth wanted to reduce her caloric intake only by modifying the amount of sugar she was consuming as means to lose weight, she would need to cut out 31.25 teaspoons of sugar. Elizabeth’s plan to remove sugar completely from her diet is a little extreme and quite the undertaking on her part. When I removed most of the sugar in my diet it took a lot of getting used to it. Prior to having to monitor sugar intake, I didn’t pay any attention at all to how much sugar was added to things and how much I was consuming in a day. Now that I can get physically ill from it, one of the first things I do when I consider eating something processed is look right at the sugar values. Most things, even with low sugar values, aren’t worth it for me and don’t have enough of a nutritional value to consider eating. Another issue I noted with Elizabeth deciding to eliminate sugar from her diet was the consistency of it. If Elizabeth cuts out sugar completely and loses 20 pounds, and then goes back to eating how she was previously, she will gain the weight right back. I’ve been told by my nutritionist and physician that whatever I do to lose weight form this point forward (because my body is pretty much done losing weight form the surgery), I must be committed to do that that for the rest of my life if I want to maintain that additional loss. So, for example, if …show more content…
According to the Centers for Disease Control, obese individuals have a higher likelihood of developing additional comorbid conditions such as: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, arthritis, an increased risk for some cancers, sleep apnea, mental illnesses, and consistent body pain. The human body wasn’t built to support that much extra weight, so the higher our BMI, the more strain all our body systems is taking on to support itself. I would encourage Elizabeth to meet with a nutritionist to review her dietary intakes as well as her activity level throughout the day to see if there are things she can start to change. Elizabeth must be willing to commit to these changes as she doesn’t have one of those “magical” metabolisms some of us wish we had. Elizabeth will likely have to be careful on her food intake for the rest of her life if she is one of those individuals diagnosed with obesity and/or knows she doesn’t have the metabolic rates of