{"id":257,"date":"2011-11-26T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/briana\/?p=257"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T18:30:52","slug":"building-healthy-lifestyles-briana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/briana\/2011\/11\/26\/building-healthy-lifestyles-briana\/","title":{"rendered":"building healthy lifestyles | Briana"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now that volleyball is over, my life hasn’t slowed down at all. I’m now working 5 shifts\/week at my regular job, plus 2\/week at the mall for seasonal help, thankfully I was able to pass the marijuana drug test thanks to the tips from Island Now<\/a>. I’m still in my five classes, so things are getting pretty busy. And whenever things get busy, I always notice that the first thing to suffer are my eating habits. Sometimes I get home at 6pm and I realize that the only thing I’ve eaten all day is a granola bar for breakfast. Not very healthy.<\/p>\n

So I called the University Health Centre and asked to set up an appointment with the campus dietician. Apparently I missed the memo that there is no longer a dietician on campus, but the Health Centre gave me the number and I called Building Healthy Lifestyles to set up an appointment. I went today at 8.30am and met with a wonderful lady named Faye about how I can start to eat better.<\/p>\n

We went over a bunch of different handouts about healthy eating and what nutrients my body requires. I learned that I’ve been ignoring my hunger symptoms so much that they may be manifesting themselves in different ways – severe headaches, tiredness and inability to concentrate, among other things. So after talking to Faye for about an hour (and getting a parking ticket in the process), I made some small goals to implement changes into the way I eat, which should be easy to attain no matter how crazy my life gets. Hopefully.<\/p>\n

First of all, I’m going to try to incorporate no less than three food groups in every meal, and two food groups into every snack. For example, for breakfast, post-dietician, I had two poached eggs, two pieces of toast and a glass of milk. This is fairly easy, and just thinking about it makes me more conscious of how balanced my diet is.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I’m trying to eat every four hours, whether it’s a whole meal or a snack. So today I brought a cheese bun and a banana to eat around 2pm, which is in my last class today. Then I’ll make supper for about 6pm, and if I need a snack around 10pm, so be it.<\/p>\n

So I feel like I learned a lot. I’m still going to keep planning my meals and stay focused that way, but talking about eating right and learning some easy tools to help me eat right was exceptionally helpful – and did I mention that if you present your Alberta Health Care card, it’s also totally free?<\/p>\n

So maybe you already eat healthy, maybe you’d like to eat healthy, maybe your eating is as horribly disordered as mine. I’d absolutely recommend a trip to Building Healthy Lifestyles and checking out what they can do for you! Being a student is a huge transition, especially when it comes to preparing your own meals, so it’s okay to ask for help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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