Natalie Ismert
English 1000
12 October, 2016
Journal Entry 2
After furthering exploration over the topic, I discovered a book that would relate to what I am seeking through my main question. We’ve all heard of the “freshman 15” and at Mizzou some will even call it the “Mizzou 22”. Before starting my freshman year I was always so worried about this rumor and didn’t know exactly what to think about it. I’d think to myself “my family won’t even be able to recognize me when I come back for thanksgiving break”. I was terrified of this happening and didn’t think there was any way for me to control it. I thought it was inevitable.
It turns out, gaining weight in college is not something that you have to just watch happen. Believe it or not you do control this 100%. I was shocked and amazed to find this out. It’s not easy to be thrown into a world where you’re broke and by yourself. They’re so many other stresses on your mind that you often choose not to let nutrition be one of those. It takes time to get used to it all and the busyness of the college world, but with focus, determination, and motivation you really can accomplish all the things you want to.
The book I found to use for this paper is called “Eating Disorders”. I do not plan on reading the whole book or using all the information in the book, but there are specific chapters that relate to my topic perfectly. “Myth of the ‘Freshman 15’”, “Intuitive Eating”, and “Body Image” are just a few I would focus on when going through this fact filled book. I think that this source can help to add new ideas to my topic exploratory questions while challenging the question at the same time. I think it fits in with the idea of how colleges tend to make it hard for students to live a healthy life and also questions that by saying that the typical claim about gaining weight in college is a myth.
How can Mizzou create a healthy environment for students to be able to easily maintain a healthy and nutritious lifestyle? Restating my main exploratory question I would like to challenge that question with a question that can be branched off of this source. This source not only gives some information on college health and how that is completely different than health outside of college, but also brings in other perspectives and allows us to ask questions like “Is nutrition a personal problem and a personal problem only or does the university play a role in this?”. I think that this question would be answered differently by many people, but I would say that the university itself plays a huge role because you can’t choose to better yourself if the environment around you isn’t supporting that.
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