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Dieting

For my first project, I chose to observe my friends’ weight loss plans. My friends Tracy Montgomery and Shane Cassidy are both 29 years old and are getting married in February. They have tried many different types of diets to lose weight and get in shape for the big day, so I chose to observe the types of diets they try and record their weight. Both Shane and Tracy live very busy lives and don’t have time to exercise. They have tried diet pills, the Hollywood diet (you cannot eat for 2 days and you drink the Hollywood drink which has some sort of laxative in it), and have joined a gym in the hopes that since they were paying money to join, it would force them to go to the gym and work out, but nothing has worked out for them yet. Over the past four months I have observed Tracy and Shane’s new diet plans and results to see if they will be successful.

Both Shane’s and Tracy’s diets are known as “quick diets”. These types of diets never last long unless you take them seriously and have great determination. By limiting certain foods from your diet and then suddenly eating them again, the weight you lost is quickly added back on. I believe that Tracy’s diet will be more successful. By limiting all fatty and greasy fo


From the 3 months that I had to record Tracy and Shanes diet plans, the results were very close. Shane lost a total of 10 pounds and Tracy lost a total of 11 pounds. I believe that Shane’s diet is healthier than Tracy’s because first of all Tracy lost too much weight in the first month, which is very unhealthy and secondly because her food intake was minimal. Tracy was only eating noodles, breads, beans, and potatoes. Eating carbohydrates are important for energy, but she was excluding protein and vitamins from other foods, which are also very important to include in a diet. Shane on the other hand lacked the energy needed by excluding carbohydrates, but had more of a variety of foods to eat. He had the protein and vitamins in his diet that Tracy lacked in hers.

Tracy’s diet is the exact opposite of Shane’s. Instead of cutting out carbohydrates in her diet, the only thing she ate was carbohydrates. Tracy decided to go on an all carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrates are combinations of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O). The basic formula: CnH2nOn. All carbohydrates are made up of one or more molecules of simple sugars. Monosaccharides or one-molecule sugars, those commonly found in food are: glucose, fructose, and galactose, disaccharides which are two monosaccharides linked together, and polysaccharides (complex carbohydrates) are made up of simple sugars (monosaccharides) or their derivatives linked together in different ways. To utilize carbohydrates for energy, your body converts them to glucose. All carbohydrate foods, such as potatoes, broccoli, apples, grapes, sugar, honey, have the same ultimate destination: they become glucose, fuel for the body.

Tracy started her all carbohydrate diet weighing 145 pounds, within the first month she lost a total of 13 pounds. In the second month she lost 4 pounds and the third month she gained 6 pounds. The first mon

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