All throughout my life I have never had to watch my weight or worry about my eating habits. I have always been able to eat all kinds of different foods unhealthy or healthy it never mattered because of my high metabolism. I never stopped to think of the effects or the problems I could obtain over time if I kept eating the same way. However, after being deeply affected by this semester by my own food journal, The Food Inc. movie, and The Eater Reader I now have a better sense of wisdom and better understanding of the types of foods I was putting into my body, and have stopped drinking carbonation but with the lack of time I will not be able to give up my eating habits up.
My life from when I was real little to now I’ve always been able to eat and drink all types of food with no restrictions. However, I have always been skinny and have struggled to add the extra pounds over the years. Throughout the years I’ve tried and tried to eat everything insight to put weight on, but no matter how much food, junk food, soda, corn, and meat I put into my body I gradually would only gain one pound and end of losing it all in the same week. I am now aware of why my body is the way it is through experience and expert advice. I have a high metabolism causing my body to burn of fatty food faster than the normal person. After becoming more aware of my body I began to drink protein shakes as extra calories to over compensate for my high metabolism.
However, I am very active and hardly ever slow down to taste my food but, throughout the years I have become more understanding of how “there is a strong genetic component to weight”, meaning from the minute we are born we have set points of where are metabolism will be. (Martin 65) In “You Are What You. .ire changing my entire daily diet. I would have to have time and money to be able to change my ways, but with the limited time I will not be able to fully change the types of unhealthy eating habits I have obtained. I have come to the conclusion that even though I have been deeply influenced and have gained a better understanding of my eating habits I still will be unable to change the way I eat.
I am a very active person with limited time to set down read labels and become educated of what I’m about to put inside of me. Although, I have become more educated upon the situation I do not have the resources to and time to be able to make a dramatic change in the types of foods I eat. However, if our society as a whole wants to change and turn this around we must become more educated and put time in effort into change ourselves because nobody is to blame but the people.
