Reflections

What have you learnt about your eating habits?
Through this performance task, I have learnt more about what kind of food I take in (previously I just eat when I'm hungry and do not observe what is taken in.) I'm quite surprised to have found out that I have been eating over the recommended daily required amount as I thought I was a healthy person (this may be due to the fact that I'm in competitive swimming thus needing more energy then normally required.) I also realised that I have been consuming too little vegetables and too much sodium. This is habits I would try to get rid off.


Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
Before this performance task, I thought my diet was a healthy one. However, after tracing 3 days of my diet, I realised that it was very messy and disorganized (some days I eat breakfast at 5.30am and sometimes at 7.30am. - there is a lot of difference in time-wise). Furthermore, I only consume vegetables at home (and only the ones I like - which is very little) and rarely out of home. Furthermore, the amount I consumed is more then the RDDA (one reason could be that I am a competitive swimmer, training from 6am to 8am and 4.30pm to 7.30pm daily.) However, the reason why I consider my diet unhealthy is that the meals are not balanced (one example is eating noodle soup - I will eat everything given except the spring onions or parsley.)


Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
The suggested nutritional tools were not useful as some of the food I've eaten were not able to be calculated. (one example is Vitamin C - they do not have Vitamin C in their list of food eaten). Although it did help me calculate the amount of nutrients (carbohydrates etc) I still had to do manual work finding out what Vitamin C contains and adding it to t he equation (my calculations could be incorrect for the analysis of the diet part...) As a result, I find that the nutritional tools are more trouble then help.


Why is your suggested 1-dish meal healthy?
My one dish meal would be healthy as it contains less oil and sodium in meals of the same kind (the fried stuff...). Furthermore, it would have more vegetables thus enabling one to make up the lack of vegetables they have in their diet when they consume it.