I began the week on a very strong not on my new goal of not eating anything after dinner, and it actually seemed quite easy. The last couple days though, I have been very busy and didn’t eat dinner until about 10pm and I feel like that completely defeats the purpose of my goal. My goal is so that I am not eating pointless calories late at night, but here I am eating dinner at around 10 at night for the past 2-3 nights, not helping me at all.
On another note, I have been doing pretty good on just eating healthy foods when I do decide to snack. I had a set back this week with my family party and did snack on some cake and desserts, but other than that I would say that I am doing a good job. My favorite healthy food to snack on is actually apples because I very much enjoy the taste. I do not like vegetables which does make it a little bit harder for me to reach my goal of healthy foods.
Another thing that I am going to work on will be having healthier foods at dinner time. Dinner time has been used as my “cheating” times because I don’t watch what I eat when I am having meals, and I am going to start with making my dinner healthier. I think that this is the most important meal when it comes to eating healthy because there is very little time to actually burn calories after I eat dinner. After lunch I am on my feet almost the entire day and burning so many more calories compared to dinner.
One thing that chapter 10 talks about is being physically active and how important that is for your body. This is very important to my goal because I am strictly talking about eating healthy, but physical activity is something that is also needed when it comes to achieving goals of being healthy.
Another thing it talks about that was very interesting to me was posture and how important it is to everyone. I have truly never thought about posture and how that is important, but it is very clear that it is basically a workout. It can help with so many different things especially when you are not able to get up and work out during the day while you are at work.
Chapter 10 is also about how one must become physical active and what they should do. One thing is setting goals, and this was very important for me. If I am not setting goals then I am getting nowhere, and goals are something that just motivate you greatly. When it comes to physical activity goals are needed because it is not very easy to visibly see yourself losing weight.
Chapter 11 talked about cardiovascular diseases and this was something that was extremely interesting to me. I have truly never looked into diseases like this and how common they are among all of us. These diseases can be deadly but they can also be cured if the right steps are taken. 4 of the key ones include hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and stroke. Stroke was the only one that was something that I have heard about before reading this chapter.
Diabetes is also something that was brought up, and I truly never knew that type two diabetes was more common that type 1. I actually thought that type 2 was a lot worse than type 1 and I was very unaware of the facts behind diabetes until I read this chapter. I believe that this is something that I should look more into especially because it is so common in the US, and it is only becoming more common.
Finally chapter 11 talked about cancer. This is something that I was very well known about but it is something that I want to talk about because of how serious it is. It talks about how to prevent cancer, but truly the only way to prevent it is to get tested and make sure that you do not have it. My father had cancer while my mother passed away of it and it is something that every should take very seriously and get tested for before it is way too late.
Chapter 12 talks about your immune system and how that works. It is something that is great when you actually know how it works. There are so many little pieces that people never knew existed. If you asked someone they would probably just say “blood is pumped from the heart to the rest of the body,” but it is so much deeper than that and it should be known how the things inside your body work. This chapter went into great depth on how blood is pumped throughout your body and I am glad that I now understand it a lot more.
Secondly, the chapter discusses infections and how common they are. One bacterial infection that is very common is pneumonia. It is something that people get, and it could very much so be deadly if it is not treated right when it is found. It leads to inflaming of the lungs, and could cause you to completely stop breathing. There are several bacterial infections that could become very severe if they are not treated.
Finally chapter 12 is HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. These are things that are very easily avoidable, but at the same time hard to avoid for anyone who is sexually actively. The most common way to rodent sexually transmitted diseases is wearing a condom and using the proper protection by making sure that you are only having sex with a women you are dating and completely trust. Sex is something that people do for fun, and this could turn into people getting diseases and spreading them around.
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