mserica, this thread will help, it’s already began to make you think about what you’re eating.
Haha yes pb, it is definitely motivational. Besides cleaning my desk (2 days and going strong) I have decided that to go with the name change of the thread, I am also going to get healthy. I wrote this up this morning.
1) What are your goals?
- increase calcium
- Eat more fruit
2) Reasons for being at current state
- I haven’t been drinking much milk because I cbb and sometimes it makes me feel sick. I probably do have an intake of calcium every day, between eating cheese and green veggies that contain calcium, but I don’t think it’s enough to make up the recommended amount.
- After meals I generally cbb to eat fruit, probably because I’m full or because it will make me thirsty. I don’t find that fruit does anything for hunger so I will hardly ever choose it as a snack. At school I used to have it with my recess every day, but after school I got lazy because I had to make a conscious effort to eat it.
3) Why I want to …
- I want to increase my calcium intake now so that I don’t have problems later (lack of calcium during younger years causes big problems later) and so that I get into good habits now. Family history says I should start thinking about it before it’s too late.
- Because now that I am not at school I can go whole days without eating fruit. Eating it makes me feel more healthy.
4) How I plan to …
- Start by drinking ½ a glass of plain milk every day, probably with breakfast, and see how that goes. At least this way I know I am getting some from of calcium every day, and a bit extra than I normally would. Later I will have a look at the real amount of calcium needed every day and see where to go from there.
- Bring fruit to uni and eat it while I am there. Finish at least 1 meal a day with fruit, if not 2 or 3.
5) Subjects being studied at MQ (for potential studdybuddy purposes)
find me first
6) Academic goals
To know I have done the best I could on any assignment or test
7) How I plan to get reach goals
Give myself enough time to do things. Firstly, I need to do as much work as I can in lectures so I don’t waste time catching up at home. Next, I have to stay up to date with my notes so I have enough time to study before exams. If I haven’t done anything and I know I should, I will force myself to do even 10 mins of work. Finally, I have to give myself enough time to do assignments. Unfortunately, I am a last minute person and I work fairly well under a little pressure. This will not change. So rather than trying to do assignments in advance, I will try to do background research and plan in advance. This will give me time to work effectively under pressure to do the actual assignment (read: I have tried and tried to finish assignments before the due date but it doesn’t work so I give up).
To kick it off, today:
Breakfast: toast with cinnamon sugar, ½ glass milk
Lunch: stirfry with rice, beef, capsicum, onion
Dinner: bruschetta. breville sandwich with avocado, cheese, tomato, onion, chicken. Kiwi fruit.
Snacks: mandarin, chocolate, peanuts.
Additions due to this thread: ½ glass milk, kiwi fruit
Study:
Willingly listened to 40 mins of 1 ilecture. After lunch, didn’t feel like doing anything but had limited time and felt guilty so forced myself to listen to a bit of another.
