OUTSIDE of the Box: Clark College Winter '13
Yesterday, I delivered back-to-back lectures for Health 100: Food and Your Health. This time at the snazzy newest Clark College campus – Columbia Tech Center. What can I say, I get around.
Over the course of two weeks, I delivered six lectures to more than 125, Health 100: Food and Your Health students and a lecture for Health 104: Weight and Your Health, 30 students.
My goal was to arm the students with some grocery shopping motivation, kitchen basics, and of course, show them how simple it is to whip up fresh, real food that is enjoyable. Here’s what Veronica says about the experience: “…It fills the gap between theory and practice, allowing students to apply the content they learn in class to advance their health – in a most delicious way.”At the end of each class, I asked if they (students) could prepare the dishes that I demonstrated to them. They all answered yes they could and promised they would.
So, I OFFICIALLY helped more than 150 students step OUTSIDE of the processed food box. Doing what I love, loving what I do!
Thanks to the Health Department of Clark College for calling on me to do this fun, but important work. Extra-special thanks to Veronica Brock, Erin Staples, and Kristen Myklebust for having me in their classes.
Here’s a look-see at the delicious fun!
Lecture 1: Weight and Your Health/
February 4th
Lecture 2 : Food and Your Health/
February 13th
Lecture 3 and 4: Food and Your Health/
February 14th
Lecture 5: Food and Your Health/
February 19th
Lecture 6 and 7: Food and Your Health/
February 21st
Chrisetta Mosley
I am a product – and now a survivor – of childhood obesity. As a child, my family always told me that my extra weight was merely baby fat and I’d eventually grow out of it. I never did. Instead, my childhood is filled with memories of not being able to ride a bike, flattening its training wheels from being over the recommended weight, and avoiding P.E. classes by any means necessary. For years, I wore my fatness like a wounded soldier wears a Purple Heart - with pride. I owned the look. I dressed it up. I worked the room. There wasn't a skinny girl who intimidated me. I made sure my hair was laid just right. Nails polished. Outfits coordinated to the tee. Accessories to compliment every outfit. But everyone has a breaking point, and mine came in the spring of 2004 when I tipped the scale at nearly 400 pounds 388 to be exact. I was MISERABLE trapped inside of that body. I no longer wore my Purple Heart with pride. Rather, I was ashamed and frightened. Ashamed that I had allowed food to become my everything – frightened I would die because of it. Drastic times called for drastic measures... Today, I’m bound and determined to live a better, healthier, active lifestyle. I realize I’m no longer a passenger in my life, I’m the driver. I’m overcoming my inhibitions and I’m slowly but surely saying farewell to my old childhood nemesis, obesity. For once and for all, Farewell Fatso!