I met with my nutrition consultant, Maria Winkworth, on Thursday November 4th. Overall, I thought the counseling experience was very useful as it was a good reality check to what food groups I am missing in my diet that are crucial to my health. The consultation made me realize that I should also try to exercise more to benefit my overall lifestyle. Despite my picky eating habits, together Maria and I were able to compromise on reachable goals that I could achieve. I realized that since being at college I have eaten very few servings of fruit. I had filled the form out at the beginning of the semester and since then my eating habits have not really changed. At home, I ate multiple servings of fruit daily. Because I prefer berries and I find
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From nutrition class, I have learned the importance of having protein in the diet and this counseling appointment made me realize that I do not consume nearly enough. At home, having protein daily was not an issue because my mom always made fish and seafood for dinner. Fish and seafood are not something I would find in the dinning halls and I do not eat meat or nuts so Maria and I talked about other possible sources of protein I could find to eat. I do like eggs and peanut butter so I decided it was reasonable to have at least one serving of protein a day. I decided I would have an omelet with vegetables for breakfast or a hardboiled egg in my wrap at least once a day. I also do like peanut butter so I could either have an apple or banana with peanut butter as a snack or I could have a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Since I am already planning on getting a smoothie to fulfill my fruit needs, I decided that I could pick a smoothie that also had protein in it. I know of one smoothie that has peanut butter, bananas, and protein powder so that could achieve one of my servings of protein and fruit in one drink. This goal seems like something that I can continue after this session because protein is necessary for my diet and eating it is a reasonable
From nutrition class, I have learned the importance of having protein in the diet and this counseling appointment made me realize that I do not consume nearly enough. At home, having protein daily was not an issue because my mom always made fish and seafood for dinner. Fish and seafood are not something I would find in the dinning halls and I do not eat meat or nuts so Maria and I talked about other possible sources of protein I could find to eat. I do like eggs and peanut butter so I decided it was reasonable to have at least one serving of protein a day. I decided I would have an omelet with vegetables for breakfast or a hardboiled egg in my wrap at least once a day. I also do like peanut butter so I could either have an apple or banana with peanut butter as a snack or I could have a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Since I am already planning on getting a smoothie to fulfill my fruit needs, I decided that I could pick a smoothie that also had protein in it. I know of one smoothie that has peanut butter, bananas, and protein powder so that could achieve one of my servings of protein and fruit in one drink. This goal seems like something that I can continue after this session because protein is necessary for my diet and eating it is a reasonable