Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

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Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The first question should be your essential question and the other 19 must help you answer your essential question. Once you have possible answers, you may want to ask questions to help you get a more in-depth understanding of your answers.

1. What is the best way for an overweight teenager to reach a healthy weight?
2. What do you consider a healthy diet?
3. What nutrients are necessary for an active lifestyle?
4. How should a person with medical conditions, as a result from obesity (diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol), eat and exercise?
5. What is your take on the food pyramid?
6. What are some similarities and differences between vegetarian diets, and "normal" (diet that includes meat product) diets?
7. How important is sleep in relation to fitness? Is it true that sleep deprivation is linked to obesity?
8. Why is flexibility a main component of fitness?
9. What is a healthy caloric intake?
10. What is the difference between calories and calories from fat?
11. What are short term and long term benefits of having a healthy diet?
12. What are short term and long term benefits of living an active lifestyle?
13. What are some obstacles that may be encountered when changing to a fit lifestyle?
14. How beneficial is a fitness plan, for a person trying to reach a healthy weight?
15. Can you give me an example of a good fitness/nutritional plan?
16. How many days should a person workout, in a week?
17. Does spending time in a sauna, help a person lose weight?
18. Why is drinking water important? 
19. What is essential in each workout? 
20. How should one mentally prepare for making such a big change in their life?
21. Do you have any other tips for me?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

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1. What is your essential question?

• What is the best way for an overweight teenager to reach a healthy weight?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?

• The best way for an overweight teenager to reach a healthy weight, is to make being active and healthy a lifestyle. 

3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

• Losing weight is a long process. Someone who is 50lbs overweight will take more than six months to reach their goal weight, if they keep a strict diet and exercise regimen. If the person reverts to their old lifestyle, then they will regain weight. 
• Fad diets and/or "quick fix" plans set people up for failure. 
• Teenagers with diseases like type 2 diabetes, that resulted from the excess in weight, will be able to tame their diseases and live longer.  

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• Healthy Weight Loss & Dieting Tips
• Why Fitness is a Lifestyle Not a Diet
• Mrs. Michelle Burton: Interview 1

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why? (You would say "I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing ____________"?)

• I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing research on how to adapt to a different setting, in this case lifestyle, easier. I would also like to contact a personal trainer, nutritionist, or therapist to see how one would deal with such big changes, both physically and emotionally, in their life. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.

• I plan on making a fitness plan for one week, and following it. The fitness plan includes an exercise regimen and nutritional meal guidelines to follow. The goal is to lose 1-2 pounds at the end of the
  week, which is a healthy amount of weight to lose each week, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and my summer mentor Valerie Flloyd. 

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

• There are more than 30 hours in one week, however, I will only take in account 5 hours each day. 2 hours for each workout, 1 hour of planning, and 2 hours for making/preparing my meals. I will include one rest day, as every good fitness plan should, and taking away the two hours for that workout, I will end up with a total of 33 hours. 

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?

• This relates to my essential question because it relates to an answer for my essential question, which is to "make a fitness plan, and stick to it" therefore, I shall use this independent component as a way to see the efficiency of my answer. 

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL
(a) Statement saying: “I, Jocelyn Delgado, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component: Supreme 90 Day Fitness, Healthy Food List For Beginners, Healthy Nutrition Guidelines
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours): Log.
(d) Explanation of what you completed: I completed the Supreme 90 Day workout, which helped me experience a different kind of training, and proof that you don't need big equipment to get good results. Also, I changed my eating plan until I found what was best for me, and improved on my eating habits.

INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.

Additional Posts: One, Two, Three

 

APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. : This component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because I experienced that exercise without a healthy diet doesn't work, I had to research what a healthy diet was and apply it to myself, this helped me realize that the nutrition aspect is more time consuming than the physical aspect, it showed me that it is possible to workout almost everyday and keep a healthy diet, it showed me that it is harder (as a teenager) to change to a more nutritious diet (see additional post one), and I learned that some injuries may occur but there are other ways to continue being physically active (see additional post three). This component helped lead me to my first answer, which is, a combination of exercise, and a low calorie, nutritious diet. I experienced working out, but failing to see results because my eating habits were low, and I experienced a beneficial change in my body when I was following both exercise and nutritional plan.  This component also led me to my second answer, making fitness a lifestyle. The last 30 days were very easy because healthy eating and exercise became part of my daily life; it is a habit now. The experience showed me that incorporating exercise and good nutrition into a person's schedule is the best way to reach one's fitness endeavors. I have read that in multiple articles, but I never understood how it was possible until I completed the last 40 days or so of my Independent Component. 

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute Presentation

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Rough Draft of 30 Minute Presentation

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

Post 10 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The first question should be your essential question and the other nine must be about the foundation of your essential question or help you answer your essential question.

1. What is the best way an overweight teenager can reach a healthy weight?
2. What are all the possible weight loss methods?
3. How can we best calculate what is a healthy weight range for a person?
4. Would you recommend any nutritional supplements? Why or why not?
5. Is metabolism related to weight loss? How can we increase its rate?
6. What kind of diet should the person consume? 
7. What kind of exercises would you recommend?
8. Would there be a difference in diet and or training based on gender? Why?
9. Would a person go through emotional obstacles apart from physical obstacles?
10. What is the best way for a teenager to stay motivated throughout the weight loss process?
11. Are there any other tips you would like to give me?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours check

1. Where are you doing your Mentorship? I don't have one. 

• Places I have tried getting a Mentorship at:

1. 24 Hour Fitness
2. The Vitamin Shoppe
3. Curves
4. Zumba
5. YMCA
6. Boys & Girls Club
7. LA Fitness

2. Who is your contact? N/A
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)? 0
4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did. N/A
5. Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.