Importance Of My Nutrition Goals

Starting off this semester, I had an idea on what I wanted to accomplish in this class. With the goals I’d set for myself, I believe I had made a huge step in the right direction. My fitness goals were, to walk or ride my bike 3-5 miles every day and to lose 2-3 pounds every week by the end of the semester. For my nutrition goals, I wanted to only eat fast food on the weekend and to drink eight glasses of water every day by the end of the semester. Finally my stress management goals were to write down all the thoughts that caused worry or stress and after a stressful situation listen to ASMR videos to help relax. However, as the semester went on I noticed that several of these goals were not being met. It was a huge disappoint for myself, but at the end of the semester I realized that these goals

Drinking eight glasses of water a day was not a hard goal for me to achieve at all. To help fulfill this goal, I carried around a 74.4 ounce water jug with me. I would take small sips from it every so often, and by night time I had consumed the entire jug. On occasions where I did not have my jug, I would drink four 16.9 ounce water bottles. I stayed strong with this goal throughout the semester. Despite my success with that goal, I had a very hard time only eating out on the weekend. To help combat this issue, I tried to change the goal to eating out only two days of the week. This plan however fell through immediately. My family often time ate out during the week and it was hard to say no when I was offered (especially since I was not paying!). I also spent a lot of time with my fast food eating boyfriend; because of this I tried looking at the ‘healthier’ options that were offered by the restaurants. The healthier choices were just as bad, if not worst then what I would usually get. Overall, I think my nutritional goals were great goals, I just really need to try harder to succeed with not eating out so