As I dive into inquiry I am both intimidated and excited. Setting a topic of fitness is less about my passion and more about the accountability that I wish to come from this project. I want to become passionate about it, to the place where it is a natural part of my day. I always have the typical new years resolution of “getting in shape”, but last a total of three weeks and then life gets in the way, or to be more exact, any and all excuses get in the way. I am the person that will decide to work out for the summer and then once school starts the progress goes down the drain.

So, a new term comes with a new opportunity. If I make eating healthier and working out more consistantly a part of my homework, that will make me do it more…right?

Through this project I will explore different apps that can help to maintain a healthier lifestyle, I will be more conscious about what I put in my body and I will hopefully end this exploration with a healthier body and healthier mindset when it comes to working out. I want it to be something I enjoy doing and it to not feel like another thing added to my endless list of things to do. My dad has always maintained a fit life-style through sports and the gym; it’s what calms him down after a frustrating day at work. I’m envious of it. Maybe just maybe, at some point that can be me, or at least something like that.

Modern society has become a place of uber-fit Instagram influencers, people who have negative relationships with food and exercise, and the people in the middle that are trying to find a definition of what is healthy within modern society. With the added trends of keto, plant-based, paleo and juice cleanses, juxtaposed with the highly marketed fast food industry, people are left in a gray area of what is healthy? With all of these societal pressures to look a certain way, eat a certain way and work out a certain way, how does one help curate a positive relationship with exercise?