Tracking+Your+Food+Intake



A useful tool to check that you are eating well and exercising regularly is a food and exercise tracker. Tracking your food intake lets you look at what you eat in a week. You can work out your calories/kilojoules, whether you are eating your "5+ a day", or areas where you may be eating nutritionally deficient foods too often and make changes for the next week.

Here is an example of a food tracker that you might want to use or you can make up your own.



Your Challenge!!!

Track your food and exercise for a week. Work out how many calories you eat everyday and for the whole week. Now work out how much exercise you do and how many calories you burned this week. You also burn calories just sitting and doing nothing. This is called your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Click on the link below to work out what your BMR is.

__[]__ Add your BMR to the amount of calories you burned from exercise this week. Compare the total to your food calories. Did you burn more than you ate? If you did where did those extra calories come from? Was it from eating nutritionally sound food or was it from eating "junk food"?

Write a reflective journal about your food eating habits. Do you have nutritionally sound eating habits or are there areas of your food that you could improve? Are you eating enough fruit and vegetables? How often are you eating fast foods or treat foods?

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Why not get adventurous and grab a digital camera to help you document your reflective journal? To assist with presenting your progress back to an audience try Keynote or PowerPoint to present.
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References:

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