"Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature." - Dalai Lama
Week 7
What is the biggest challenge to maintaining or establishing a
healthy and balanced lifestyle in college? Why? What is your plan
to deal with it?
The hardest part to maintaing a healthy lifestyle is the food and time. The food in the cafe is always unhealthy. They serve pizza and fries everyday but it is hard to turn down those two choices. Also the time is hard. Sometimes you don't have time to go to the gym or get out so its hard to balance a lifestyle. But i could deal with it by finding time to work out and also eat healthier food.
Well for one, it's hard to eat healthy, atleast for me. I'm a very lazy person too, so it's very hard for me to get up and go work out. If I do want some physical activity I will usually go play basketball or throw a football. I'm planning on going to the gym atleast once a day to either play basketball or toss the ole pigskin around. I also don't find myself really needing to eat healthy. I'm 6'7" and nothing but skin and bone. So I don't really feel the need to lose weight when I would much rather gain a couple extra pounds
The biggest challenge I think students and myself face in maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the cafeteria food and wanting to go out and party all the time. You finally have all the independence you could ask for so you want to be able to use it. Well with that comes responsibility and sometimes we dont realize that. With soccer it is easy for me to stay in shape but once my season ends I hopefully wont get lazy and will hit up the gym and not party too much. We have to be able to balance sleep into our schedule to live a healthy life.
Maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle in college can be difficult because many times we don't think of the effects of food, exercise,and sleep, on our bodies. Eating in the cafeteria every day has its benefits, but with all the options available I usually don't consider the healthier items first. I gravitate towards the more apetizing foods instead. Exercise isn't a huge deal to me right now because I have soccer, but when the season ends I'll have to schedule some time for fitness. My sleep schedule has be alright so far, but I know there will be long nights and little sleep in my future due to exams and social events.
In order to deal with these matters I plan to eat smaller proportions and recognize that I don't need a dessert at every meal. Looking back to high school, at lunch I never really ate very much, so I'm going to try to stick to my simple sandwich, fruit, and something small for that meal. As for exercisse, I'm going to try to make it to the gym 3-4 times a week when soccer is over and make a workout plan to follow. Where sleep is concerned I'm going to make it a goal to get 6 hours of sleep at least 5 days of the week.
I think it is difficult for college students to eat a nutritionally balanced meal because it is just so much easier and more convenient to grab that bag of potato chips and soda when you're having a last minute cram session than going and manually making a salad. Time and laziness is our biggest hindrance. I know I have a problem with sticking with things, and I give up on eating healthy rather quickly. I will always choose taste over health value. Whenever my mom pushes me to eat healthier, I always quote Gabriel Iglesias: "If I die tomorrow, I'd like to go knowing I had a heck of a piece of chocolate cake the night before." While he does bring up a valid point in this, I also know in the back of my mind that the reason for his death tomorrow just might be too many of those cake slices. And who really wants to exercise? I know I don't. I despise being sweaty and hot. Plus, the gym is across campus (and it'd be exercising to walk there), so I just say I don't have time. Convenience is key in all of this. Choosing salad over pizza shouldn't be a choice, but a habit. Making myself not have that choice, and making myself skip that sugary snack in between my afternoon classes are the first step to leading a healthier life.
I think it can be very difficult to always be healthy at college. When you wake up late to class, you can't always grab some breakfast. I along with eveeryone else at college knows about the whole freshmen 15 and it would be so easy to gain that if not more with the dining hall being a buffet. I was expecting this so from the first meal I ate here i always amde sure it was pretty healthy with fruit and/or salad with it. I also started going to the gym almost every morning and grabbing some fruit and a bowl of cheerios and skim milk right after.
Maintaining a well balanced and healthy lifestyle can be very difficult in college. Eating healthy food, exercising, and getting plenty of sleep are all factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle. The dining hall always provides the salad bar filled with vegetables and fruit. There is also water, milk, and juice to choose from for a beverage. Although the dining hall provides healthy food choices, it also contains more unhealthy food than healthy. The unhealthy food always draws my attention before the salad bar does. Not to mention that the dessert section is the first thing you see when walking in and out of getting food. After eating from the dining hall, the last thing I want to do is exercise. I always feel gross after eating so if I exercise it has to be before Dulany. Sleeping is also a big problem with me. I never find myself getting enough sleep. I usually set an alarm to wake up two hours before class starts but I go to sleep so late that I end up sleeping through the alarm. Then with classes, studying, practice and the certain hours that food is available, I find it hard to get a good exercise in. As much as a challenge it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it can be done. I've always been one of those healthy freaks. I watch what I eat and if I eat junk food I feel like I have to workout. College has been tough though. Even though I go to the gym everyday, my dorm room is stocked with junk food and snacks. I'm even eating junk as I type right now. My plan for college is too continue to go to the gym everyday, cut back on the snacks, and to go to bed earlier. Instead of studying and doing homework late at night, I will try to do it throughout the week.
The challenge of maintaining a healthy balenced lifestyle in college is that we don't don't have our parents telling us what is right or wrong, and we buy our own food. So in result of that, all we buy is junk, When comes junk food, comes the "FRESHMAN 15". But my roomate and I actually eat kind of healthy. Right now, our refrigerator consists of water, juice,grapes, apples,yogart and some food from home.
So in reality maintaining a healthy life in college isn't that hard. It's more along the lines of being responible of your body. As long as we try to eat healthy and workout we will all be fine.
A healthy lifestyle in college is one that leads to a lot of learning, and hard work. One of the biggest challenges to doing this is the distractions. Everyone has their own individual things that distract them from what they are supposed to be doing, whether it be their friends, or a video game that they really like to play. If you finish your work before giving into the distraction, you will be far more likely to succeed in your goal of living a healthy lifestyle in College.
Also, another challenge to living a healthy lifestyle in college is finding the motivation to do the work that is necessary to continue your career in college. You must do the homework, and study. Try to do extra problems outside of the class, and never be afraid to study ahead if you can. It will keep you from falling behind. However, finding the motivation is sometimes difficult. A good way to find motivation is know that you will probably have to figure out how to learn things on your own, and run ahead of the class so as to not fall behind. Also, you are paying a lot of money to go to school, so don't waste it, and if you aren't paying so much money, keep it that way by working hard. Money is sometimes a good way to motivate some people.
The last thing that makes living a healthy lifestyle in college challenging is that most people are finally able to make their own decisions, and they feel they are free. Thus, they are more easily distracted, and find it harder to motivate themselves, because they don't have someone guiding them to the right path. If someone went a year or 2 out of Highschool before going to college, and didn't live with their parents, they might be more focused, however the challenge would then be how much you remember from High School.
For me, the biggest challenge to maintaining a healthy lifestyle is eating. I'm a meal skipper. If I'm really bogged down with homework, I'll just lose track of time and end up skipping lunch. It's not that big of a deal; though, because I have a big box full of food in my room. I'm vegetarian; so I usually tend to eat healthier foods than others do. I'm a stickler for Swiss Rolls. Other than that, eating properly isn't a problem. Getting adequate exercise is a problem as well. I'm not too lazy to, I'm just too busy. I usually work out about twice a week. I'm constantly busy with work, schoolwork, and other things that it can get difficult to catch some downtime. I would kill for a day where I can just sit in one of the library's comfy chairs and read. That would be the perfect day. Sometimes, it's hard to sleep because I won't be able to turn my thoughts off and I'll just think about all the things I'll need to do the following day, all of the loose ends. The way to deal with the problems of trying to attain a healthy lifestyle is to listen to the body. If I've been doing homework all day and subsequently forgot to eat lunch, my body will let me know. They key is to listen to my body before I become light-headed and start thinking slowly. If you notice you begin to get out of breath walking up some stairs, then it's probably time to start hitting they gym. Taking care of oneself is common sense, for the most part.
The biggest challenge to maintaining a healthy lifestyle in college is food, time and/or sleep, or at least the lack there of. I find it really hard to find time to study, eat, sleep, have fun, etc. all in one day, and stay up extremely too late every night, and then have to do it all over again the next day. Being in college, you have so many more opportunities to be independent, and therefore you have to be the deciding factor for yourself because no one is going to stop you from not doing your homework, or not going out that night, it is all based upon you. Also, it is hard with a busy lifestyle to find time to exercise. I know walking up the stairs to 3rd floor St. Clair is quite a workout, but that only happens 3 days a week. The way to deal with these issues, is to simply prioritize. If it isn't that important, don't do it. My biggest problem with prioritizing, is that i think everything is so important, and I don't want not be able to do all of it, when I want to do that day. With this said, I need to focus on timing of each event, and maybe spend a little less time with friends, and a little more with my books, or even sleeping. Taking care of my body by sleeping and eating properly is very important, otherwise I won't be able to hang out with my friends anymore!
Maintaining a healhy and balanced lifestyle in college can be tough. In my expirence, I get stumped with so much work that I hardley have time to do things that are active, such as excersizing. When I do finally have time to hit the gym, I lack the motivatio to do so. I just want to rest and relax on my free time.
Another unhealthy factor in college is the food. Dulany hall is full off fatty foods that are packed with bulk carbs. I try to eat salad as much as I can, but it gets old. I'm not sure how i plan to deal with these problems. I guess I'll just have to go with the flow.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is very important to me however i take it forgranted and dont think about it. I am always so busy with school, studying and doing homework i will miss many lunches and dinners which i know are not good for me at all. However i dont realize how late it is till about 11pm every night. When i want to eat this late i know that is a terrible way to stay healthy.
Also whenever i do go to Dulany to eat it is full of fried foods that are very unhealthy for you. To stay healthy and in shape in college you really need to try to work out on a daily basis.
The biggest challenge in establishing a healthy lifestyle in college has to do with food. It’s much easier to run to the vending machine for a quick snack than it is going to get fruit or another healthy alternative. With the dining hall being buffet style, many students use that as a reason to overeat, simply because they can. A problem I face is skipping breakfast. I’d rather use that extra twenty minutes in the morning sleeping, rather that waking up early to go eat. I’ll either end up fining something small in my room, or just waiting until lunch to eat and skipping that meal altogether. Another issue I have to deal with is finding time to go to the gym. My schedule is packed with class, club meetings, studying, and homework, that I can barely find time to sleep, much less going to work out. I need to plan ahead of time when I am going to go to the gym, so I know to work the rest of my afternoon around that. Trying to maintain a healthy sleep schedule is also an important part of staying healthy. Your body needs sleep to repair itself. If I don’t give myself enough time to sleep, it won’t have the ability to do that. Staying up late studying isn’t helpful, so I need to find more time earlier in the day, rather than staying up all night to try and finish an assignment at the last minute.
I am currently playing for the soccer team, so I would say that I do enough excersie throughout the day. But the thing that is really hard is to eat healthy, and that does not benefit me at all, because the food is a very imporant thing to be able to practice any sport. Sometimes at nights there is no place to eat, so I have to eat just junk food.
The most challenging part of living a healthy and balanced lifestyle is having all of this unhealthy food in the cafeteria and having little time to go to the gym to work out. I mainly get the same food at the cafe everyday but it is not the healthiest. It does not help that the fruit is left out for days and is not fresh anymore. All I can really do is get some veggies and drink some apple juice, but I don't always want to eat the same things everyday. For the gym, I just have to find more time. Maybe do my homework right when I get back to the dorms and/or go to the gym when I get back to the gym. Either way I need to just find the right time do these things while still getting to all of my other plans
Being apart of the soccer program here is a definite bonus when it comes to avoiding that freshman fifteen. Staying in shape would be a priority for me without soccer, the most challenging part is the diet. What can I say I love sugar, have my whole life. I always my veggies in but man let me tell you, saying no the unlimited amount of ice cream can really be hard sometimes. Most of the time I just tell myself that I will run it off at practice, but I know that it doesn't really matter, it's still unhealthy. I need to start eating healthier in general. Snacking when i'm bored is also a HUGE problem/habit I have. My brain just automatically thinks it's hungry when I get bored. Instead of eating some ice cubes or celery, I usually go for mac & cheese or candy. I think about eating healthy a lot, so I think that is one of my big goals this year, to eat healthier, and of course stay in shape.
The hardest part to maintaing a healthy lifestyle is the food and time. The food in the cafe is always unhealthy. They serve pizza and fries everyday but it is hard to turn down those two choices. Also the time is hard. Sometimes you don't have time to go to the gym or get out so its hard to balance a lifestyle. But i could deal with it by finding time to work out and also eat healthier food.
ReplyDeleteWell for one, it's hard to eat healthy, atleast for me. I'm a very lazy person too, so it's very hard for me to get up and go work out. If I do want some physical activity I will usually go play basketball or throw a football. I'm planning on going to the gym atleast once a day to either play basketball or toss the ole pigskin around. I also don't find myself really needing to eat healthy. I'm 6'7" and nothing but skin and bone. So I don't really feel the need to lose weight when I would much rather gain a couple extra pounds
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge I think students and myself face in maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the cafeteria food and wanting to go out and party all the time. You finally have all the independence you could ask for so you want to be able to use it. Well with that comes responsibility and sometimes we dont realize that. With soccer it is easy for me to stay in shape but once my season ends I hopefully wont get lazy and will hit up the gym and not party too much. We have to be able to balance sleep into our schedule to live a healthy life.
ReplyDeleteMaintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle in college can be difficult because many times we don't think of the effects of food, exercise,and sleep, on our bodies. Eating in the cafeteria every day has its benefits, but with all the options available I usually don't consider the healthier items first. I gravitate towards the more apetizing foods instead. Exercise isn't a huge deal to me right now because I have soccer, but when the season ends I'll have to schedule some time for fitness. My sleep schedule has be alright so far, but I know there will be long nights and little sleep in my future due to exams and social events.
ReplyDeleteIn order to deal with these matters I plan to eat smaller proportions and recognize that I don't need a dessert at every meal. Looking back to high school, at lunch I never really ate very much, so I'm going to try to stick to my simple sandwich, fruit, and something small for that meal. As for exercisse, I'm going to try to make it to the gym 3-4 times a week when soccer is over and make a workout plan to follow. Where sleep is concerned I'm going to make it a goal to get 6 hours of sleep at least 5 days of the week.
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DeleteI think it is difficult for college students to eat a nutritionally balanced meal because it is just so much easier and more convenient to grab that bag of potato chips and soda when you're having a last minute cram session than going and manually making a salad. Time and laziness is our biggest hindrance.
ReplyDeleteI know I have a problem with sticking with things, and I give up on eating healthy rather quickly. I will always choose taste over health value. Whenever my mom pushes me to eat healthier, I always quote Gabriel Iglesias: "If I die tomorrow, I'd like to go knowing I had a heck of a piece of chocolate cake the night before." While he does bring up a valid point in this, I also know in the back of my mind that the reason for his death tomorrow just might be too many of those cake slices.
And who really wants to exercise? I know I don't. I despise being sweaty and hot. Plus, the gym is across campus (and it'd be exercising to walk there), so I just say I don't have time. Convenience is key in all of this.
Choosing salad over pizza shouldn't be a choice, but a habit. Making myself not have that choice, and making myself skip that sugary snack in between my afternoon classes are the first step to leading a healthier life.
I think it can be very difficult to always be healthy at college. When you wake up late to class, you can't always grab some breakfast. I along with eveeryone else at college knows about the whole freshmen 15 and it would be so easy to gain that if not more with the dining hall being a buffet. I was expecting this so from the first meal I ate here i always amde sure it was pretty healthy with fruit and/or salad with it. I also started going to the gym almost every morning and grabbing some fruit and a bowl of cheerios and skim milk right after.
ReplyDeleteMaintaining a well balanced and healthy lifestyle can be very difficult in college. Eating healthy food, exercising, and getting plenty of sleep are all factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle. The dining hall always provides the salad bar filled with vegetables and fruit. There is also water, milk, and juice to choose from for a beverage. Although the dining hall provides healthy food choices, it also contains more unhealthy food than healthy. The unhealthy food always draws my attention before the salad bar does. Not to mention that the dessert section is the first thing you see when walking in and out of getting food. After eating from the dining hall, the last thing I want to do is exercise. I always feel gross after eating so if I exercise it has to be before Dulany. Sleeping is also a big problem with me. I never find myself getting enough sleep. I usually set an alarm to wake up two hours before class starts but I go to sleep so late that I end up sleeping through the alarm. Then with classes, studying, practice and the certain hours that food is available, I find it hard to get a good exercise in.
ReplyDeleteAs much as a challenge it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it can be done. I've always been one of those healthy freaks. I watch what I eat and if I eat junk food I feel like I have to workout. College has been tough though. Even though I go to the gym everyday, my dorm room is stocked with junk food and snacks. I'm even eating junk as I type right now.
My plan for college is too continue to go to the gym everyday, cut back on the snacks, and to go to bed earlier. Instead of studying and doing homework late at night, I will try to do it throughout the week.
The challenge of maintaining a healthy balenced lifestyle in college is that we don't don't have our parents telling us what is right or wrong, and we buy our own food. So in result of that, all we buy is junk, When comes junk food, comes the "FRESHMAN 15". But my roomate and I actually eat kind of healthy. Right now, our refrigerator consists of water, juice,grapes, apples,yogart and some food from home.
ReplyDeleteSo in reality maintaining a healthy life in college isn't that hard. It's more along the lines of being responible of your body. As long as we try to eat healthy and workout we will all be fine.
A healthy lifestyle in college is one that leads to a lot of learning, and hard work. One of the biggest challenges to doing this is the distractions. Everyone has their own individual things that distract them from what they are supposed to be doing, whether it be their friends, or a video game that they really like to play. If you finish your work before giving into the distraction, you will be far more likely to succeed in your goal of living a healthy lifestyle in College.
ReplyDeleteAlso, another challenge to living a healthy lifestyle in college is finding the motivation to do the work that is necessary to continue your career in college. You must do the homework, and study. Try to do extra problems outside of the class, and never be afraid to study ahead if you can. It will keep you from falling behind. However, finding the motivation is sometimes difficult. A good way to find motivation is know that you will probably have to figure out how to learn things on your own, and run ahead of the class so as to not fall behind. Also, you are paying a lot of money to go to school, so don't waste it, and if you aren't paying so much money, keep it that way by working hard. Money is sometimes a good way to motivate some people.
The last thing that makes living a healthy lifestyle in college challenging is that most people are finally able to make their own decisions, and they feel they are free. Thus, they are more easily distracted, and find it harder to motivate themselves, because they don't have someone guiding them to the right path. If someone went a year or 2 out of Highschool before going to college, and didn't live with their parents, they might be more focused, however the challenge would then be how much you remember from High School.
For me, the biggest challenge to maintaining a healthy lifestyle is eating. I'm a meal skipper. If I'm really bogged down with homework, I'll just lose track of time and end up skipping lunch. It's not that big of a deal; though, because I have a big box full of food in my room. I'm vegetarian; so I usually tend to eat healthier foods than others do. I'm a stickler for Swiss Rolls. Other than that, eating properly isn't a problem.
ReplyDeleteGetting adequate exercise is a problem as well. I'm not too lazy to, I'm just too busy. I usually work out about twice a week. I'm constantly busy with work, schoolwork, and other things that it can get difficult to catch some downtime. I would kill for a day where I can just sit in one of the library's comfy chairs and read. That would be the perfect day. Sometimes, it's hard to sleep because I won't be able to turn my thoughts off and I'll just think about all the things I'll need to do the following day, all of the loose ends.
The way to deal with the problems of trying to attain a healthy lifestyle is to listen to the body. If I've been doing homework all day and subsequently forgot to eat lunch, my body will let me know. They key is to listen to my body before I become light-headed and start thinking slowly. If you notice you begin to get out of breath walking up some stairs, then it's probably time to start hitting they gym. Taking care of oneself is common sense, for the most part.
The biggest challenge to maintaining a healthy lifestyle in college is food, time and/or sleep, or at least the lack there of. I find it really hard to find time to study, eat, sleep, have fun, etc. all in one day, and stay up extremely too late every night, and then have to do it all over again the next day. Being in college, you have so many more opportunities to be independent, and therefore you have to be the deciding factor for yourself because no one is going to stop you from not doing your homework, or not going out that night, it is all based upon you. Also, it is hard with a busy lifestyle to find time to exercise. I know walking up the stairs to 3rd floor St. Clair is quite a workout, but that only happens 3 days a week.
ReplyDeleteThe way to deal with these issues, is to simply prioritize. If it isn't that important, don't do it. My biggest problem with prioritizing, is that i think everything is so important, and I don't want not be able to do all of it, when I want to do that day. With this said, I need to focus on timing of each event, and maybe spend a little less time with friends, and a little more with my books, or even sleeping. Taking care of my body by sleeping and eating properly is very important, otherwise I won't be able to hang out with my friends anymore!
Maintaining a healhy and balanced lifestyle in college can be tough. In my expirence, I get stumped with so much work that I hardley have time to do things that are active, such as excersizing. When I do finally have time to hit the gym, I lack the motivatio to do so. I just want to rest and relax on my free time.
ReplyDeleteAnother unhealthy factor in college is the food. Dulany hall is full off fatty foods that are packed with bulk carbs. I try to eat salad as much as I can, but it gets old. I'm not sure how i plan to deal with these problems. I guess I'll just have to go with the flow.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is very important to me however i take it forgranted and dont think about it. I am always so busy with school, studying and doing homework i will miss many lunches and dinners which i know are not good for me at all. However i dont realize how late it is till about 11pm every night. When i want to eat this late i know that is a terrible way to stay healthy.
ReplyDeleteAlso whenever i do go to Dulany to eat it is full of fried foods that are very unhealthy for you. To stay healthy and in shape in college you really need to try to work out on a daily basis.
The biggest challenge in establishing a healthy lifestyle in college has to do with food. It’s much easier to run to the vending machine for a quick snack than it is going to get fruit or another healthy alternative. With the dining hall being buffet style, many students use that as a reason to overeat, simply because they can. A problem I face is skipping breakfast. I’d rather use that extra twenty minutes in the morning sleeping, rather that waking up early to go eat. I’ll either end up fining something small in my room, or just waiting until lunch to eat and skipping that meal altogether.
ReplyDeleteAnother issue I have to deal with is finding time to go to the gym. My schedule is packed with class, club meetings, studying, and homework, that I can barely find time to sleep, much less going to work out. I need to plan ahead of time when I am going to go to the gym, so I know to work the rest of my afternoon around that. Trying to maintain a healthy sleep schedule is also an important part of staying healthy. Your body needs sleep to repair itself. If I don’t give myself enough time to sleep, it won’t have the ability to do that. Staying up late studying isn’t helpful, so I need to find more time earlier in the day, rather than staying up all night to try and finish an assignment at the last minute.
I am currently playing for the soccer team, so I would say that I do enough excersie throughout the day. But the thing that is really hard is to eat healthy, and that does not benefit me at all, because the food is a very imporant thing to be able to practice any sport. Sometimes at nights there is no place to eat, so I have to eat just junk food.
ReplyDeleteThe most challenging part of living a healthy and balanced lifestyle is having all of this unhealthy food in the cafeteria and having little time to go to the gym to work out. I mainly get the same food at the cafe everyday but it is not the healthiest. It does not help that the fruit is left out for days and is not fresh anymore. All I can really do is get some veggies and drink some apple juice, but I don't always want to eat the same things everyday. For the gym, I just have to find more time. Maybe do my homework right when I get back to the dorms and/or go to the gym when I get back to the gym. Either way I need to just find the right time do these things while still getting to all of my other plans
ReplyDeleteBeing apart of the soccer program here is a definite bonus when it comes to avoiding that freshman fifteen. Staying in shape would be a priority for me without soccer, the most challenging part is the diet. What can I say I love sugar, have my whole life. I always my veggies in but man let me tell you, saying no the unlimited amount of ice cream can really be hard sometimes. Most of the time I just tell myself that I will run it off at practice, but I know that it doesn't really matter, it's still unhealthy. I need to start eating healthier in general. Snacking when i'm bored is also a HUGE problem/habit I have. My brain just automatically thinks it's hungry when I get bored. Instead of eating some ice cubes or celery, I usually go for mac & cheese or candy. I think about eating healthy a lot, so I think that is one of my big goals this year, to eat healthier, and of course stay in shape.
ReplyDelete