diet. I always get questions on why I am eating certain foods and now I know how to answer because I understand why they are good for me, not just that they are because I heard or read that they are.I have also become a better health consumer. My only real expense as far as my fitness is concerned is my gym membership. This I still have but I think it is used more efficiently now. With sleeping habits improved, eating habits altered and improved, this has helped me get more from the gym and more from my investment. Another important part of this class that we discussed in detail was mental stability. Being mentally strong is a key asset to working on healthy lifestyles. For me I feel like better rest has allowed me to cope with outside factors like stress and sickness in much better ways. But as far as being a better health consumer, I have made the biggest improvement with selection of food products. Not that I ate out a lot or everyday, but I do not eat out much at all now. I go to the store and buy certain foods like oatmeal for breakfast and chicken stir fry with vegetables for dinner. This has not only improved my diet but saved me a considerable amount of money and made me a better consumer. When I do eat out I eat at different places and I am eating different foods. The single biggest thing that I would say has made me a better consumer is with supplements. For about six months I was taking a protein supplement twice a day. When we began our discussion on nutrition it came up in class and then I researched it some more on my own. Come to find out I did not even need an excess amount of protein in my diet to begin with because I was getting it from the foods I was eating. Secondly, the powder I was using was an incomplete source of protein and therefore was doing basically nothing for me. This saved me about forty dollars every couple of months and made me a much smarter consumer.Overall I have learned how to be...
