Make your life colorful...

Ever wonder how you can spice up your life with color? Well one way is to try something new, that includes food. Sometimes something so simple as vegetables can help your creative mind let loose. Personally I love to experiment with different vegetables and spices in order to make a new dish, sometimes I will add eggs, or some meat to give myself some protein but other times, like last night, I like to enjoy something light and comforting.

 All the ingredients I used. Bell Pepper, Carrots, Cabbage, Celery and some other weird looking vegetable that reminds me of apples. Garlic Pepper, Korean Hot Sauce and Grapeseed Oil.

Chop it all up and add it into your pan until the veggies are nice and crispy.


I love to play around with dishes like these, especially when there is a lot of produce at my house that hasn't been used up. My family isn't a hige fan of vegetables or really anything healthy for that matter so I like to make the most of every ingredient and put it to good use.

All the vegetables give your body plenty of great nutrients to make it feel good, it adds in major bonus points to your health, the Korean Hot Sauce is SPICY! I am terribly when it comes to spicy foods but I try my best to add it in to some of my main dishes because they help give your metabolism a boost. The grapeseed oil was used to help it all cook and mix well together, this oil is considered a good fat since it comes from a more clean environment. I definitely challenge YOU to try something NEW today, but here is the real challenge... you must create it yourself from foods you already have lying around. Good Luck

Third Interview Questions

1.) What is the best way a young adult female can obtain an 18-20% body fat?
2.)How exactly do you start at fat loss program with a client?
3.) What types of workouts are the most effective when you want to loose body fat?
4.) Which, if any, diet do you believe would be the most helpful when trying to remove body fat?
5.)Why do you think it is so difficult for people to generally loose weight?
6.)Would you say that genetics plays a role in fat loss? How, or why not?
7.)What is your biggest success story?
8.) How do you make sure that your client follows a diet that you have set for them?
9.) How do you go about explaining to your clients what is best for them, even when they believe that their method is better?
10.) What got you interested in helping people get healthy?
11.) Do you take your own advice and apply it to your daily life?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
With Dr. Torres Cancino, a chiropractor with his own practice in Ontario.
2.   Who is your contact?
Dr. Torres Cancino
3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?  
52 hours
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
The doctor has showed me some really neat stuff about how the human body works, he has demonstrated alignments and what they do to the patient. I have also done some work around the office such as filing and computer work.

Senior Project, The Holiday

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.   What did you over the break with your senior project?
Over my break I have worked with my weights in order to start on a strength training routine, I have also included a nightly stretching routine and a daily cardio routine. It's really fun to see how the 3 work together to give me more endurance as well as making me feel better about myself than I usually do around the holiday season. All the sweets can get to you but I decided to go into the holiday parties with a certain state of mind, "No cakes, cookies, donuts or ice cream of any kind" This allows a little wiggle room for pie, or maybe some candy although I just don't feel the urge to reach for it.



2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
I learned that, personally, it is much easier for me to say NO to certain foods rather than for me to say ONLY IN MODERATION. I just can't do moderation, either I eat it or I don't and knowing this about myself has helped me keep myself in check. The source of what I learned was my own personal experience as well as constant trial and error.






3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
I would definitively speak to a personal trainer, someone who really knows what they are doing when setting aside a workout plan for their clients. In this new year I am determined to find a gym that fits me and my lifestyle, there I hope to find a trainer who takes their health and career seriously. I won't hire them for my own personal benefit because what is the fun in that, I'd rather do my own research and practice it myself, but I will interview the folks around the gym to get a different perspective on the different ways they see young females loose body fat.

Experimenting with Weights.

This past month has been difficult for me in the sense that I was not allowed to "workout". I had surgery done earlier this month and was immobile for a week, after that I tried incorporating some physical activity back into my daily routine but was scolded by my family to take it easy. After a few days of trying different things and realizing that my core would not be strong enough to help me perform the moves correctly and effectively I decided to set the Pilates and yoga workouts aside. I however am not one to sit still, I decided to start on some strength training. Using weights does require me to use my core but it's not enough to make me feel any serious pain. I decided to play around with my 8lb weights and add in more reps and sets as the days go on, I have noticed my arms have gotten much stronger and the muscle is definitely there. Alongside the weights I also do some cardio, whether its going for long walks or dancing along to Just Dance for 40 minutes in my living room, I know it's not much but I definitely work up a sweat. It has been 4 weeks since my surgery and I definitely feel like I am starting to get back to my old self, physically. My strength and flexibility has slowly but surely come back and I am very much excited to get back into my workout routines.

For now all I can say is that no matter what happens to you there is always something you can do to keep yourself in shape, it can be taking care of your diet, doing some weights, walking/hiking, anything counts as long as you work up a sweat, don't let yourself make an excuse to not take care of your health.

ESHA vs MyPlate

For my independent component I am taking a Nutrition course up at Cal Poly, with my final just around the corner I have learned a lot of information on the functions of our body and the way it reacts to food due to its chemical properties. My professor assigned for us to study our own food diet to see if we were consuming all the nutrients we need for our body as well as seeing if we meet the recommended requirements. We used 2 different software for this study, we used ESHA which recollected 3 days worth of food intake, and MyPlate which only did a 24 recall. Not only was ESHA more extensive in the details of our health but it was also much more accurate due to the fact that it had more data to work with. However to obtain this software you need to pay, MyPlate gave similar overall results but it could be jeopardize through the person and whether that day was a very "normal" eating day for them.

This study was really amazing because it helped you realize what foods you need to start incorporating into your diet in order for you completely get a full range of nuitrients.

I suggest for you to try out MyPlate's site, it is completely free and it will be really neat to see how your food intake is now.  https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/foodtracker.aspx

Be as accurate as possible and find new ways to improve your diet!

P.S just because it's the holidays doesn't mean you have an excuse to stuff your face and sit on the couch all day, a common mistake done at this time of the year. Take care of yourself and get up and move.

EQ

1."I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."

2. 
a.What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?
     This EQ is not specific, it does not mention who is trying to loose weight. Age and gender are very important factors and this can change the depth of the research dramatically. It is providing a framework of studies and it can be debated therefore allowing you to make a stance.
b.What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?
      This EQ has got me stuck, a criminal conviction is general however the law is written therefore no matter the crime there needs to be a secure way to convict someone, it may be helpful to be specific on the kind of crime we are dealing with though.
c. What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?
       What customer are they referring too? It can be researched in some level and you can argue whether the answers are reasonable and why or why not.
d. How can an Anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?
     Best treat chronic pain in what part of the body? It may be different if it's internal or external pain. This EQ can be debated and it also allows you to research in great depth.


3.What is the most important factor for a young adult female to consider when trying to obtain a low body fat percentage?
 *Honestly I think my EQ is very specific the way it is and it follows the rule of 3 but I tried wording it in a different way just to give it a shot.*
Current EQ: What is the best technique for a young adult female to obtain a low body fat percentage?