Nutrition Analysis Meal Plan

For the Nutrition Analysis the total amount of daily calories I was given were 1600. It was a very difficult process to go through for trying to make a healthy meal plan. I first put in the foods that I normally ate in the cafeteria, but that quickly made me go over. I then tried to add a few more healthy items however, I still went over the calorie limit. So I had to remove a couple things and added even healthier food items onto the plan. I stayed under the calorie limit, but my sodium and fat levels were still pretty high. I also didn’t have enough grain in the plan as well so I had to try and figure out how to add grain into the mix without going over in calories.
This whole process was very tedious and frustrating. It was a challenge to make a plan that would contain at least 15 out of 29 oks on the report. I thought the choices that I chose were pretty healthy, but the food tracker said otherwise. I had to receive help from a friend and fellow classmate in order to complete the nutrition analysis with the requirements needed. There were many challenges faced. Such as, what foods to choose from. I got so frustrated during the process because of the constant rise of the calorie count even with …show more content…
I would probably have to change some items out every now and then. I could see myself eating like this because it has all the stuff I would like to eat. However, it would be difficult to always eat like this especially being a college student on the meal plan where you have no choice but to eat the cafeteria food which isn’t always the healthiest choices. It’s easy to just eat all the unhealthy foods when they are laid out in front of you so easily than to eat the healthy food. But I believe it is possible task to do. Two changes I would change to my daily diet are not eating ice cream every day sometimes twice a day. I would also change not eating pizza for lunch every day, and maybe for every other day