Throughout my life I have always had a problem with my food choices. In my adolescence years I had an overweight problem and was teased heavily for it. Junk food and sodas was pretty much all I consumed. I wasn’t physically active, I wasn’t involved in any extra outside of school activities, and I didn’t go outside much. Most times I would turn to food to comfort me in my pain, and I really couldn’t control how much I would eat. I would sit and eat whole bags of chips while playing a video game or watching a movie and drink a whole case of sodas. The amount of calories I was in taking was enormous, and since I wasn’t burning any off, it was all turning straight to fat. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories, if you consume 500 extra calories
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For example a bag of chips has a serving size of 12-14 chips for total of 80 calories. How many people actually count how many chips they eat per serving? You sit down and start eating and next thing half the bag is gone and you have consumed 4 servings, so as the bag says, and that’s 320 calories just from chips. Not to mention the burger and cola you had with it. Calories can easily sneak up on the consumer and have to be monitored. With more than a third of Americans considered obese, it 's no surprise that the country has the highest calorie intake of any other in the world. America consumes up to 3770 calories a day, with normal activity one should only consume about 2000. That 1770 calories that Americans are over consuming and turning straight into fat. With the higher intake of calories come higher risk for heart disease and strokes. CHD is caused by built up of LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) - the bad cholesterol in our body. This usually occurs when you take high calorie foods or food with high amount of saturated &/or trans-fats or have a sedentary life …show more content…
Every year about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 525,000 are a first heart attack and 210,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack (CDC). The numbers are real and its sad think that people are dying everyday over something as simple as eating the wrong foods. When I graduated high school I gained a lot of weight, and was very lethargic. I was always tired and just never felt good. I then saw a picture of myself and knew that something had to change. I was at the time consuming a large glass of chocolate milk and pop-tart every night before going to bed. These dead calories in took in every night built up on my body and really made me gain weight fast. That’s when I knew that I had to make a change with my diet and my way of living. When I first started off I was working out 3-4 times a week in the evenings. After working out I would do some type of cardio, either running the field or laps around the track. My diet changing was the big difference maker. I started eating breakfast every morning egg whites, toast, and orange juice. Waking up and getting your metabolism running is a huge factor in controlling and losing
For example a bag of chips has a serving size of 12-14 chips for total of 80 calories. How many people actually count how many chips they eat per serving? You sit down and start eating and next thing half the bag is gone and you have consumed 4 servings, so as the bag says, and that’s 320 calories just from chips. Not to mention the burger and cola you had with it. Calories can easily sneak up on the consumer and have to be monitored. With more than a third of Americans considered obese, it 's no surprise that the country has the highest calorie intake of any other in the world. America consumes up to 3770 calories a day, with normal activity one should only consume about 2000. That 1770 calories that Americans are over consuming and turning straight into fat. With the higher intake of calories come higher risk for heart disease and strokes. CHD is caused by built up of LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) - the bad cholesterol in our body. This usually occurs when you take high calorie foods or food with high amount of saturated &/or trans-fats or have a sedentary life …show more content…
Every year about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 525,000 are a first heart attack and 210,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack (CDC). The numbers are real and its sad think that people are dying everyday over something as simple as eating the wrong foods. When I graduated high school I gained a lot of weight, and was very lethargic. I was always tired and just never felt good. I then saw a picture of myself and knew that something had to change. I was at the time consuming a large glass of chocolate milk and pop-tart every night before going to bed. These dead calories in took in every night built up on my body and really made me gain weight fast. That’s when I knew that I had to make a change with my diet and my way of living. When I first started off I was working out 3-4 times a week in the evenings. After working out I would do some type of cardio, either running the field or laps around the track. My diet changing was the big difference maker. I started eating breakfast every morning egg whites, toast, and orange juice. Waking up and getting your metabolism running is a huge factor in controlling and losing