GLOW - A Fulfilling Event

It was a very fulfilling day to be able to give back to the community today! The event ‘GLOW’ was a day of encouraging and pampering women from several homeless shelters in South Dallas. These women were recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, prostitution, physical and mental abuse, have been in jail or prison and are working to get their lives back together.

The highlight of the day was writing on an APPLE and COLOR MY PLATE QUIZ. Everyone who came was asked to write one good thing about themselves and their favorite healthy food. People got to thinking. Writing one good thing about themselves helped them change their attitude towards themselves and writing their favorite healthy food  helped them to  think how they could make a right food choice. I encouraged them to always remember what they wrote, so when  they go out for grocery shopping they could make a better choice.

CHOOSE MY PLATE QUIZ was a fun thing to do! They were shown the picture of new plate method of eating for three seconds and after that they were asked to color the paper plate and write the names of the food groups. Who so ever was closest got the ’10 SIMPLE STEPS' booklet from SCAN/ADA. People just loved it! In addition to that everyone got handouts on “CHOOSE MY PLATE” method of eating.



Look at the Sugar..

Another big hit was SUGAR IN MY DRINK.  Everyone was just amazed to see how much sugar is present in thick shakes that are available in different restaurants. Some of them were as high as 168 grams of sugar and about 1100 calories in one shake. People were amazed to see the amount of empty calories that they were taking and pledged not to take it anymore. I hope this activity will have a long lasting impact on their minds. I also emphasized on replacing these shakes with low fat milk and water.

Winner of Color My Plate Quiz

Another Winner of Color My Plate getting '10 Simple Steps'

Person who colored the best!

My Special thanks to people who organized the GLOW event, Dallas Dietetic Association for all the updates, American Dietetic Association, (SCAN) Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition and choosemyplate.gov.

Link: www.choosemyplate.gov.

With the time that we have we can choose to make right choices in life and make a difference, one person at a time.