Week Twelve: The End and the New Beginning

These past weeks have been successful and unsuccessful. On the bright side, my mother, my mentor, took me to the Mediterranean resturant. My expections we're exceed by the quality and taste of the food. The resturant is named the Beirut and is located in Peachstreet City, Georgia. The resturant had a variety of Lebanese cuisine. The menu extended from kabobs to Turkish coffee. On the bad side, I continued to the diet, but after going to the resturant realized that I have done almost everything incorrect. This left me with guilt and other internal thoughts and feelings. Next week, I will continue working on the TED presentation.

Week 10: Surprise!

This week has been a very difficult week for me to incorporate my 20 time project and every thing else that a teenager is responsible for. For instance, this week I increased my exercise since I had two games this weekend. A game is 50 minutes and a practice is 90 minutes, so in total I exercised for 190 minutes this week, and this includes one practice and two games. This amount of exercise is enough for the requirement for the diet. My eating patterns have also been decent this week. I have eaten seafood more than twice this week which is okay according to my diet. My fruits and vegetables have been constant for the past week, so there is no change in my intake of vegetables and fruits compared to weeks before. Next week I plan to still go to the Mediterranean restaurant with my family, and continue my regularity of keeping up with my diet. Right now, I am working on the same situation I had a few weeks ago. This conflict allows me to be hungry for non important meals or snacks and to be full during important meals. Right now I have no exact way of how to fix this or how it came. Next week I will hopefully come to a conclusion of how to fix my situation. Most importantly, I have big news. I have decide to not put a deadline on this diet. When I do the TED talk in a few weeks, hopefully I will still be continuing my project.

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

-Malcolm X

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Week Nine: Catching Along

This past week I have had a lot of homework which equals a lot a stress. With all of this stress, I still managed to stay on my diet. I had seafood two out seven days this week which is a requirement of this diet. I had vegetables all seven days which is also a another requirement. I had fruit for at least a day, so I need to increase my fruit intake. I had grain and dairy all seven days which is okay with the diet restrictions. The only problem I had this week was the snacks in between meals. When I get home from school, I am starving, and want a snack. Usually I have two bagels which fill me up. Since  I am full, I eat a average portion of dinner. Since I am full after dinner, when I wake up the next morning I am still full from the night before, so I eat a small breakfast. Then I am hungry at lunch, and then the cycle repeats itself daily. I did not have this problem before the diet, so I suspect this could be a side effect caused by me. Next week, I will continue my diet, and research some healthy light snacks that can be improved by my diet.

"You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation."

-Janelle Monae

Week Eight

This week a combination  of good and bad has happened. To start on the positive side, I accomplish one of the main requirements of the diet. Exercise plays a big part in the diet. This week I exercised at a total of 7 hours and thirty minutes. This amount of exercise exceeds the weekly health requirement. My mentor this week looked more into the diet requirements, and different recipes, so I can have a more resourceful experience. She also visited a Mediterranean restaurant close to her workplace, and she plans on taking me and my sister, so I can have a experience of authentic Mediterranean food.

The negative part of this week includes my inconsistency of the food requirements of the diet. With all of this exercise due to lacrosse, my time has been very limited. This is why I have been thinking of changing my topic. Diets require a lot of work, and a lot of work involves a lot of time.  With there only being a more than a month left of this project, I have decide finish what I started, so I can show growth which is one of the points of this project. With these many errors, I will try to stay consistent in this diet with the help of my mentor to complete and show growth in project.

Next week I will continue the diet, and try to prevent the use of unnecessary foods that are not include in the diet. Next week I plan on meeting and/or exceeding last weeks exercise goals. Next week,  my mentor, my mom, and I will look up more recipes and ways to discipline yourself in diets.

"Only do what your heart tells you to do."

-Princess Diana

Week Seven

This week I have started the Mediterranean diet. I started on Ash Wednesday, so my diet can feed into Lent. I did the day after have to cheat a little. On that Thursday, I had a macaroni and cheese from KFC which sells processed mac and cheese. Although I had this little incident, I managed to stay on the right track with every meal before and after this mistake. I also created a meal plan for the next week that I can follow without any mistakes. Next week, I will create a new meal plan for the next week and continue deeper research on the diet. My mom will also help me this following week by helping me prepare, decide, and watch my food choices.

Here is a quote for you and I, so we can get through this week together:

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

-Malcolm X

Week 6

This past week i didn't get much done because of the academic conflict. I had no time to create a meal plan, but I saw a few plans to go by until I finally create the whole plan. I have also decide to start on Ash Wednesday, so my diet will feed into Lent.  Next week, I will start the diet on Wednesday, and will continue to make a plan for the days to come.

"Poetry is the possibility of  language."

-from the Love Jones (1997)

Week 5: Ready to Start

This week I confirmed by new diet by doing a in depth research of the consequences and advantages of the diet. My new diet is the Mediterranean diet. This diet includes the food choices of people by the Mediterranean area. The diet includes all food groups, but it limits the common bad food groups. fruits and vegetables are required daily. Dairy is limited by only having 2 to 4 ounces a week, and red meat is limited to once a week. The meat source of this diet includes seafood. Seafood can be eaten all week. Whole-wheat grains and exercise are at the bottom of the Mediterranean diet which means they are the most important. This diet was voted the best and safest by the U.S Health magazine. Next week, I plan and promise to make a good diet plan with my mentor, my mom