In my Lifetime Fitness Credit, I started out by going for daily walks with my mom, which allowed me to keep in shape, but wasn't terribly strenuous. I also vacuumed the house and did other chores, which helped. After a while, I started lifting weights and doing push-ups in the morning, which helped me build up my strength a bit more. I also danced, and the stretches I learned were very useful. When the weather started getting warmer, we started gardening, which gave me a lot of exercise and had me weeding and planting. We also went on hikes, which were very good for me. Lastly, in the summer, I began riding my bike around the neighborhood, which was wonderful exercise.

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I started by cooking in the kitchen with my mother, learning how to prepare many gluten-free recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. As time went on, I amassed a large number of recipes, which I put into a recipe binder. At the beginning of the course, we watched a Teaching Company Course entitled Nutrition Made Clear, which gave me a good understanding of diet, exercise and choosing good foods for my personal diet, and helped me to prepare my own person nutrition plan for a healthy life after I graduate high school. After we finished this course, we moved on to Medical Myths, Lies and Half- Truths, also by the Teaching Company, which was excellent and debunked some diet and medical myths that I thought were true (such as waiting for one hour after eating to go swimming; you can swim right after if you want). With each of these courses, I answered questions about each lecture, which I sent to my mentor, Nurse Practitioner Karen Cook, to be reviewed. To finish the course, I organized my recipe binder into a personal cookbook, which I can continue to use after this course is finished.

Mentor's Evaluation:

Jack sent me a summary of his cooking experiences, answers to nutrition related questions and a collection of kitchen-tested gluten-free recipes. He kindly gave me permission so his recipes could be shared with my patients who have Celiac disease. I feel he did very well on Medical Myths, Lies and Half-Truths as well. I reviewed lecture summaries and questions, as well as looked at recipes from Jack's gluten-free cook book, to assess his progress.