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You have now had the experience of doing the Day 1 food journal using the My Plate meal plan approach. Please review my comments before you do this Day 2 food record. If you have any questions about my comments please reply back to me. I am happy to clarify my comments.
The purpose of doing a second food record using MyFitnessPal (food tracker app) or NutriCalcPlus (NCP) is:
to give you a more accurate picture of what you’re eating and drinking (dietary intake) so you can determine if it’s too much or too little based on your personal weight and health goals as well as factoring in your activity level. A diet and activity log can help identify if you are eating too much or even too little of less nutritious foods as you learned doing the first journal. Eating too much of less nutritious foods and beverages typically results in not meeting your calorie and vitamin and mineral needs. This can result in negative health effects, such as, feeling tired, difficulty concentrating, and being more vulnerable to getting sick as well as other potential health issues, and not eating less nutritious foods may indicate you are being overly strict with food rules which can be unhealthy, The My Plate meal plan does not provide specific details on your macronutrient and micronutrient intake. A food and activity tracker such as My Fitness Pal or the e-text’s NCP diet analysis tool DO provide a detailed breakdown of nutrient intake. I require you to report the following nutrients: macronutrients should be reported in percentages, saturated fat grams, sodium milligrams, sugar grams, fiber grams and calcium %. In MyFitness Pal this information is found in the “Nutrition” > Nutrients and “Macros” section. In NCP it is found in the Nutrients Report. More info below.
to experience the use of a food and activity tracking app as a tool that was chosen to provide convenience, and easy access to analysis of your dietary intake. MyFitness Pal just happens to be a popular one, but there are many available that some of you may already be using. You may use another app, but it will need to provide the nutrient information that is required for this assignment as indicated on the journal template and mentioned above. Your subscription to the McGraw Hill etext also includes a diet analysis app called Nutri Calc Plus. Many of you used it for the MyPlate Food Journal assignment. It is a very user-friendly diet analysis tool. A benefit of using this one is it does provide the information regarding your progress in meeting My Plate Plan goals AND nutrient information. MyFitness Pal does not report progress with My Plate meal plan goals, but I wish it did. However, NCP does not have an app and so some of you likely prefer using an app vs online access only.
to help you identify factors that influence your diet decisions such as how often you eat, where you eat, physical hunger and fullness, mood and or emotions you are in while eating and making food decisions, and others factors that influence your food choices as discussed in Chapter 1.1 (What Influences Your Food Choices?). It also requires you to specify your physical hunger and fullness using the Hunger/Satiety Scale that was introduced to you in chapter 1.
is to help you identify your personal assessment of doing the food journal and identifying your food behaviors.
Complete a 4-question subjective survey. The survey is listed as a separate item in this module.
As you go about your day to day activities, this assignment may help you better understand if your diet is an obstacle to your healthy eating goals or supports not just your health goals, but additional goals you have set for yourself including academic and other wellness goals. The food journal template provides you the experience of using 3 different approaches to weight management and meeting nutritional goals.
1) calorie counting (MyFitnessPal, NCP),
2) meal plan (My Plate)
3) mindful eating (Intuitive eating using hunger and satiety cues as discussed in chapter 1).
You may find that you prefer one approach to another OR, you may like taking a little from each approach and adapting aspects from each to meet your own personal diet approach. It is completely up to you, but it needs to support BOTH your physical and mental health needs.