Instructions 1. Calculate your weight based on the BMI formula and the Hamwi method (page 7): Analyze where you are on the BMI and Hamwi scale in terms of health- provide documentation and references to support your position. 2. Keep a food Diary for one week of everything that goes into your digestive system or body, i.e. everything you eat, drink or drug (prescription, over the counter medication or recreation.): After ingestion keep track of how you feel both physically and emotionally. 3. Analyze your weekly food, liquid and drug intake by food groups and nutrients. 4. Estimate the quantity of what you are ingesting but it is better to use the package information of quantity, calories and nutrients or measure the quantity rather than estimate. People usually underestimate how much they are actually eating or drinking and underestimate the calories they are consuming so it is important to learn just how much you are actually consuming. You can later use this exercise with patients so you need to learn it now. 5. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses in your weekly intake of nutrients and drugs.: Is there any interactive effect with the diet and the drugs? 6. Analyze how you felt, where you were, what you were doing, why you ingested what you did and when you ingested the food, liquids or drugs. 7. Are there other medical conditions you presently experience that contribute to your diet, nutrient or drug intake? 8. Is there a cultural influence to your diet choices that may negatively affect your health? If yes what are they and what can you do to change that? 9. Develop a diet plan for yourself that best suits your actual dietary needs based on height, weight, BMI, culture, activity level, health and drug use. 10. Explain how you plan to implement the change and what obstacles you will have to overcome to meet his goal. 11. Describe how this exercise helped you learn more about why, what, how, where and when people eat and how this influences what they ingest. 12. The report itself should be 5-8 pages in length in APA format, typed (word processed) double spaced.