Personal Diet Analysis Assignment

While working on my personal diet analysis assignment and recording my meals for an entire week, I learned so many things that I previously had not been aware of. One of those things being that my diet is nowhere close to being considered balanced. There was not one day that I ate the “perfect” amount of each food group. This assignment has truly opened my eyes and made me desire having a more well balanced diet.

The amount of grains I consumed in that seven day period were acceptable for only three of the days. I went over the amount of grains I should eat on day one, five, and seven. I went over the necessary amount on day five. When examining my vegetable intake I only ate the right amount two out of the seven days. All of the other days I was considered “under” which surprised me because I feel like I eat a lot of greens. Looking at my fruit and dairy intake was the worst of all. I was considered under on all seven days! The amount of protein I ate in those seven days went up and down. I was over on protein consumption two of the days and under on four. Only one day was my intake an ok amount. I was over six days on oil intake and under on the 1 remaining day.

I tried to base my diet off of a 2,000 calorie plan. On day one I went over and on day two I stayed under 2,000 calories. The other days I was pretty close to the limit but did not exceed it. I also learned that on average I exceeded my daily limit on added sugars and saturated fat. My average consumption of added sugars was 97 grams and 10% calories of saturated fat. Since I was over on my daily limit on added sugars, I was also high on my intake on empty calories. The same concept applies to my intake on solid fats since saturated fats are solid fats. My average status on sodium was also too high with a consumption of a whopping 3,359