Weekly Challenge

The weekly challenge that I had the most difficult time in was go meatless for a week. I always enjoy eating meat and never stop eating it more than two consecutive days in my life. Eating protein from animal is a habit that I don’t think I can ever stop, even for a whole week. For this challenge, I was managed to not eat meat for three straight days, and my diet was consist of fruits, salads, eggs, and tofu. During the three days, I was always hungry no matter how much food I ate. The craving of meat was overwhelming after the first day. On the fourth day, I finally gave up and ate a burger for lunch. My craving for meat was extremely strong and it was the most convenience food to purchase since In-and-Out Burger was in walk able distance from my work place. After I ate the burger, I continued to eat meat at dinner and gave up on the challenge. On the other hand, the weekly challenge that I had the easiest time with and still able to maintain is creating a grocery shopping list and sticking to buy only those items on it. I like this challenge the most because it had help me to plan out all my healthy meals for the coming …show more content…
I realized before that I need to eat healthier. At this period of time, I’m learning more than I expected in this class. Learning about the type of fat in foods, benefits of dietary fibers, and the affect of having a deficiency or excess of vitamins and minerals in the body are all very useful. Whenever I eat something, I now more conscious about how each food impacts my body and contributes to the recommended dietary intakes. The message I will take away from this class is eating in moderation is the key in having a healthy diet and you don’t have to completely avoid eating a certain type of food in order to lose weight. I’m very confident that I will use the information I’ve learned and apply them to my daily