My Diet

To me, my diet is very important not only because I want to be healthy and live a healthy life, but because I am also an athlete. If I want to perform my best, then I have to eat healthy, or at least mostly healthy. I do not perceive my diet as something that would help me work harder or study harder. I think of all food as some sort of fuel and as long as I’m getting fuel, I will be able to work and study as I normally do every day. I do see my diet as something that helps me with other activities though, like I mentioned earlier, I am an athlete and I need food, and good, healthy food to help me perform at the best of my abilities. It is also important when I’m doing just about any other physical activity like running, lifting weights, or skiing. Without a good diet, I would probably not be able to do these activities to my full capabilities. One dietary change I would make would be to have more healthy food in my room. It is kind of hard to have that much healthy food in a dorm room because there are not really many places to store it all. Most of the foods that can be stored outside of a fridge are unhealthy or on-the-go food. I also don’t have a car to be able to go shopping whenever I need to, to be able to stock up on healthy food. Because of this, I have to deal with what the BRC has in store for me. Even when I’m there I try to eat healthy but not eating a lot of the deserts and always having fruit every time I go. The change that I would have to make, and that I will make next year, to be able to have the diet that I want and need would be to live off campus and have a car. Living off campus would allow me to make and store my own food a lot easier and having a car would allow me to get to the store and buy food and ingredients a lot easier.