Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

Content:

1. What is your essential question?

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

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

• Create a fitness plan, and stick to it. 

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

• Creating a fitness plan will help a person see what they have to do to reach their goal, and if they are willing to do it. 
• A fitness plan helps a person maintain consistency with their workouts, and are get the most out of their workouts, which is crucial to weight loss. 
• A fitness plan helps a person incorporate fitness into their daily lives. 

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

• Robert Stone (3rd Interview)
• The Importance of Fitness Programs
• The Importance of Working Out with Consistency
• Fitness Planning Guide

5. What do you plan to study next and why?

• I am going to study how to make a fitness plan, which incorporates both nutrition and workouts, so I can start taking everything I have learned about a healthy diet and exercising, and put it to good use. 

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

Content:

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.