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Person Health Reflection
Personal Health Reflection
Submitted by:
Alexis Heard
Columbus State University: KINS 5135U Program Design in Kinesiology
Dr. Gregory Palevo
January 28, 2022
Personal Health Reflection
The overall health and lifestyle for myself is a very touchy and all over the place story. Lets’ start from the present lifestyle and health I have now. At this moment in life, I find myself becoming overall healthy again. My lifestyle is changing because I am seeing so many of my associates and family members die from this Southern Lifestyle we were raised on. I tend to find myself in a new form of looking at life and the way that I live life. I am a mother to a growing young man that I want to know that you can be healthy outside of the general scale of the world. I find myself participating in more adult sports and getting more involved in the community as a leader and role model. Mountains have become my favorite “sport” so to speak. Just going up there with my son and friends to hike them and see the world. I see myself eating more healthier as in less fried foods and more grilled and greens. My overall health on the medical charts so that I healthy but not at a healthy weight for my age and height. The weight that is standard for someone of my age and height is what I weighed my freshman year in high school when I was an all-out athlete with no kids and life issues to deal with. I don’t see me ever being that small again no matter how much I work out and eat healthy. That is not in my genetics to stay that small all of my life. I come from a big-boned family and many of them are at the healthiest they have ever been in their lives.
Childhood
During my childhood I was a multi-athlete from the time I was three and a half years old all the way up until my senior year of high school. I was always the biggest or tallest female of the bunch, so of course I was picked on and things yet respected because I played sports. I was considered healthy and in the right weight during those times. I have always been academically smart, but I was also a top athlete in every sport that I played. To me when I was a child it was the unhealthiest time of my life. I never really had time for a proper meal, it would also be the time that I would eat one large plate and survive off it for the next day to come. My overall health then was not too good either. I stayed in the hospital sick because I was sleep deprived, my muscle was straining because I wasn’t eating the correct things, it was always fast food or no food at all. Snacking was my go-to meal throughout the day most times, especially when I was playing two or more sports at a time. I dealt with asthma, athletic asthma, bronchitis, eating disorders, anxiety, depression and so much more. To compare my health now to back when I was growing up, I would say I have come a long way. My grandfather passes of cancer, my great grandma passed in her sleep (non-health related and was the healthiest and shortest in the family), my uncle passed of liver cirrhosis, my great-grandfather passed away of unknown health conditions, my mother had high blood pressure and diabetes, and the list goes on. Of course, as Black Americans living in the south, we are prone to more of these diseases that others, but I can say that out of my 27 years of living the most severe thing I have been diagnosed with is bronchitis, anemia, and low blood pressure, also being diagnosed as overweight borderline obese because of my weight not comparing to what the standards for my age and height should be. Overall, my health is immaculate, I eat healthy, snack health, exercise daily and I meditate. Now my mental health is where the challenge comes in and that hasn’t changed a lot since I was younger, but that is a topic and discussion of another time.
The Affects
My personal lifestyle has a huge impact on my health because the lifestyle that I created will either keep me alive and well or kill me off earlier than planned. When I changed the way things were did in my life a few years ago it really happened because of a mental change that switched in me, but now I am living my life because I know that I have an unfinished purpose on this place we call earth. My lifestyle consists of healthy eating, trying to exercise at least twice a day when I have some free time, learning to take mental breaks so I do not overwhelm myself, and try to be as active as I can with my son. I am also teaching him the importance of eating healthy and exercising instead of being on the compute or the game for hours. He will eat healthy with me, but he will not exercise with me unless it has to do with the season of sports he is in. With him playing sports I like to teach him time management because a healthy life comes not just from eating properly and exercising, but it also comes from the type of mental lifestyle you have as well. I have been there where he is and I didn’t have anyone who took the time to understand that things can be overwhelming for children as well, so I make sure that I am in a good space so that he can been in a good space as well. For example, when we plan dinner, we plan out everything from what we are going to be doing before dinner all the way until its time to go to bed. We try to include exercise, a nice “lay it out” talk to discuss our day and any problems, and we even plan what shows we will watch during this time or if we are going to jump or the trampoline or something during this time. We take our dog for a neighborhood walk twice out the week and we try to walk from the bus stop at least twice out the week as well. My personal lifestyle change is the reason I am still here to this day and even though I am still working on things have made my health better. My bronchitis rarely flares up, my mental health is getting better, my exercise routines are getting better, my eating habits improve daily and so much more.