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.