healthy lifestyle
BLOG POST #1
I am a healthy lifestyle person writing in that perspective, I enjoy writing reading about nutrition, and as well watching videos, clips, movies of how many people change their lifestyle because they started being healthy, I was in that phase where I used to eat everything, what I did is I flipped my life, I used to be a person which I would eat everything it did not matter what I would eat I would always binge eat, and honestly it changed my life and I want to write about how it plays a big role. I am a person who lost 40kg because of an unhealthy lifestyle eating junk food did not matter what I would intake into my body. Being Healthy good it is very unpopular in the Uae nowadays, most people love going to new trending place, as we all know how Dubai is very know for a city where new places keep opening up frequently, the commercials nowadays are especially growing for food every day and that is when people just start wanting to try something new. people now eat junk food like KFC, McDonald’s, and many more because it is cheaper and more convenient it is easy to wrap, take and go, but looking for a healthy place so you can easily find for example around Dubai is very hard and loss of time.
I will be focusing on how to make everyone understand what they are intaking into their body and how bad it is, and how good it is to be healthy, and what difference they will feel in their body. a healthy lifestyle is not just eating healthy is being physically active, in Dubai, there are many social media about being active especially on Instagram as well events on Facebook, but unfortunately, there are not many participants in sports activities I would love to have more people get more involved into sports, it is not only sports, being around for instants with friends playing some games with movements already that’s something good, but that is very rare to have. The social media platform that they have for healthy food is very overpriced that is why everyone chooses to eat unhealthily it’s cheaper and gets you full fast. In the advertisement, I would mainly focus on the people in the gym, why people in the gym because people who go to the gym mostly eat healthy and are active all the time I will mainly focus on them.
BLOG POST #2
My general media niche is about a healthy lifestyle in the group age of 20-24 in the Uae, that will be the second year of university students, I have chosen this age category is because adult teenagers who just finished school don’t think about getting in shape they are just happy that they graduated and they will be just thinking where they will be going to college or university and where they will spending they’re summer at, but after the first year when they are all settled where they are studying and living, they will start to look after they’re body and feel the disappointment I am not saying everyone mostly because they are already into studying and used to it, it’s not new for them anymore as the first year.
I will be mostly putting my focus on social media groups of the people that are trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, what struggle they are going through, what circumstances can they be facing throughout their journey. The struggle that they can be facing through their journey is especially in the Uae how everything goes overpriced especially with healthy food, any normal person who does not look after what to eat will eat something quick and easy to take like a KFC wrap which is fast and not expensive but for a healthy person, they’re always charging extra for example me and my friend last week went to Hamptons in Jumeriah island she also likes healthy food we ordered two coffee with almond milk and even extra charge for almond milk everywhere in Dubai is extremely high they charge 7 Aed because I asked for almost milk low calories I think that it’s crazy to charge more for healthy food.
the perspective that I want to bring to my research is to help people the are going through eating healthy and their problems and what bumps they are going through their process and how I can support and help. I am as well going to try and observe how they react to situations for example in food courts in Dubai everyone is used to eat only fast food, barely anyone will order any salad and I want to know how would this particular group of person/people react that everyone around them eats unhealthy food. I would try to find a solution for the media niche problems and as well of the particular group, and how they are struggling of having a healthy lifestyle and what they are going through. In the research, I will be adding some research via of course scholarly research, and I would want to have a questionnaire of how many people have a healthy lifestyle and how many don’t, I would as well compare and I would also want to see the deferent answers in women and men, I would also well want to have some live interviews of they’re thought of being healthy.
I am going to be writing about Viktoria zavadovskaya, this woman Is an independent and a very strong woman, she was in the national team of Russia for ski cross. This woman quit the team and started her blog on Instagram . She started talking about her daily lifestyle since she already had many followers after competing in the Winter Olympics that was in Korea in the year of 2018, she had won a silver medal in the championship in the world, she is as well master sport of ski cross.
After her successful blogging journey, she had opened her ski school which all her teammates were jealous of her that she started everything on her own, she became an influencer to many people including me, I am her number one idol she makes me want to have a healthy day.
in her usual blogs, she tells funny stories, what she did, what training she had, and many more.
blog post # 3
The selected crowd of an audience that I am going to be approaching is the age category group of 20-24, the location I am going to be mainly concerned about is the Uae. In this research why I have chosen this age of category and to be precise in the Uae is because, in this age category, of 20-24 they are starting to realize and understand that they need to start looking after there self, both female and males, they have already become more independent and as well realizing about how other people look at them. My contribution in this research that I would want to introduce is that I want people to see the food differently and the aim is healthy and good food than junk food, Not only about healthy what you intake in your body but also about being more active in your daily lifestyle as much as possible, as everyone knows in Dubai everything here it’s mainly built for cars. If you want to walk somewhere nice, you would have to drive there and the effort of getting there is pointless that’s how some people think.
the methods of observation and as well auto ethnography will be very direct as I will be as well observing how many people in the Uae eat unhealthily and as well healthy, I will be conducting information from university students of female and male genders from both sides, why I have chosen university students as I have written in my first blogs it is because the students in that age category started to realize and take care of themselves than before university they were only excited that they had graduated school of to summer vacation with family and friends, but now they have started to take of themselves. I will be conducting surveys university and not in the university only, but as well the age category of 20-24. healthy lifestyle is very important for young adults not only young adults I feel it is very recommended, by doctors as well not to intake junk change the junk food into healthy yes I can agree with everyone that junk food is way cheaper than healthy food, but what can you do being healthy and looking after a healthy lifestyle needs a lot of attention I am also going to have a small debatable discussion of how healthy food is more expensive than junk.
I want to attract more audiences to start eating healthy change their mind set and becoming a more healthy lifestyle. I want everyone to feel better and become new versions of themselves I want to as well start an Instagram account of helping people and influencing them.
schedule of research timeline
Week 4 : striating to understand and as well take notes of what I s waiting for me in my observations.
Week 5: going to structure my surveys out and start to create my instagram account about healthy lifestyle.
Week 6: will be submitting my research pitch project.
Week 7 : will have some interviews female and male.
Week 8/9: will start working on my report with all my information that I have gained over the weeks of observation that I had.
Week 10: finalizing and submitting my DA report that I have conducted.
BCM – 241 Project Pitch Submission
In the age category of 20-24, the location I will be focusing on is Dubai, the analytical basis is that the main reason that being a healthy person is very important especially in these age categories and as well it is becoming very high on trend being active as well being healthy at the same time. In the research I will need to understand how the influencer clarifies having a healthy lifestyle, anyhow the ideas will have a big spin, because of my contribution to the study that I have chosen to write about, I have chosen to talk about a healthy lifestyle in the age category of 20-24 in the Uae. I am introducing how to change people’s lifestyle of being active and eating healthy daily.
The process of becoming Healthy is very challenging especially in the Uae how everything is overpriced if you chose to eat healthily and look after what you eat every day and the activity like sport, membership. People in the age of 20-24 university students find it very difficult to have a stable schedule to eat healthily and have a daily routine for example to go to the gym, since in the university everyone eats in food courts anything that they desire after class because they are tired and do not think about anything else since all they’re peers are going and they gather up and go for lunch together and do not think, how many calories is it grilled or Fried just simple small things like that, after time they start to realize the effect they are getting on they’re body the unfit and unhealthy. I believe that students should start to be more dependent and choose wisely what to eat and, it’s very hard to find especially in Dubai, affordable and healthy. I want to talk about why is it important to be healthy and how is beneficial, I have gone through that phase where I was unhealthy and fat, and when I started to lose weight and become more healthy, it changed me and how I started to think as well.
my main audience will be students that are in their 1st year of the university even 2nd year as well, why I have chosen that category is because students before that year do not think about being healthy they are still experiencing university life and are still getting to know the classes and professors meeting new friends planning to go out, they are not interested of being healthy at that stage.
I will be asking many questions daily to students in the university but I will have some out of the university as well, I will also be active on my Instagram account I will be having a healthy lifestyle, and how it is important of being active on the social media platform. I will be observing students in the university, I will be gathering the information as well.
I will be creating an Instagram account, that will be helping and give students advice and motivate them to do more activities like now the 30-day challenge is happening maybe motivate them to join, and as well start eating healthy food, I want people to know what food is good and what food is bad to eat. I will have many stories and posts on my Instagram talking about a healthy lifestyle. The ethnographical analysis of healthy lifestyle, I am going to try to as well have a chance to attract more people to start their journey with me since I am in it and I have already attracted many students in the university, I believe I can be very beneficial and help people come to their needs as well as of what I have done. I want to inspire my audience that I will be getting through this semester.
For the research, I will be having 1 influencer the name is Viktoria
zavadovskaya. In ethnography, by researching and exploring my media niche I am going to be able, to understand and as well go deep in changing people lifestyles, I know already how but I want to dig even better and deeper to get more insights into having a healthy lifestyle through an influencer from Viktoria, to make my project a success. I will try and develop an audience throughout the semester as well as create content to grab attention.
Week 5: going to observe about healthy lifestyle in the Uae , and as well start thinking how I will be creating my instagram account about healthy lifestyle.
Week 6: will be submitting my research pitch project and as well beginning to create my instagram page.
Week 7 : I will go more deeper into my observation daily university students.
Week 8/9: will start working on my report with all my information that I have gained over the weeks of observation that I had.
Week 10: finalizing and submitting my Da that I have conducted.
final Story telling
I always suffered, I suffered from weight gain and weight loss. It was a constant algorithm I had to face every morning waking up and to be honest with you, I was over it… I was over the fact that I had to wake up every morning and see someone right in front of me who was fat, I wasn’t content over the fact that I looked horrible in my eyes. At the time, to cope I found a habit of binge eating chocolate, candy, chips; you name it, I ate it. It is not my fault, I was raised in a household that didn’t know the basics of healthy eating, therefore it consumed me.
My peace was eating, as I’ve struggled within myself when it came to binge eating. I got sad and would seek comfort within the food I ate, as I could never have someone to console when it came to my issues. Body image has always been a downfall to me as I’ve never really admired what I saw. Insecurity has taken a toll on me and I felt helpless as I wasn’t able to help myself get through this dark phase of mine. I locked myself in my room and would deny any outdoor encounters with people as I didn’t want anyone seeing me in my worst state.
As a girl who grew up in a very unhealthy family, it effected me mentally and physically because , one day I went to my first day of school, I had gained a lot of weight over the summer time, my class mates had made fun of me and bullied me that I have gained weight , they also as well called me names like “pig” made funny noises and I would run to the bathroom lock my self and cry my eyes out until one day my friend Victoria had visited me from Russia she had came for a vacation , when I had came back from school , and she had realized that my eyes are red my face became swollen , “Victoria Zavadovskaya” is a founder of her own ski school club that is located in Moscow, her ski school club is called after her family name and she wants it to pass along to her family , Victoria is a very smart and confident women she had always fought for her success , when she has a goal she makes it happen no matter of the circumstances or bumps she has through her journey of success , “Victoria Zavadovskay” has been in the Winter Olympics that was in Korea in the year of 2018 , she had because an influencer after her being in the public competing infront of the whole world in the section of skiing that is called ski-cross.
I was very demotivated of how unfit and unhealthy I had became over the years with my unhealthy family , “Victoria Zavadvskay” had motivated me to join her group of “Zavadovskaya club” I had considered to join it was very challenging for me to take that risk since, I am so unhealthy I have not done any sports in many years, and as well I felt very and insecure of my body especially, I saw how Victoria trains here clients on instagram I was very chocked of the progress they have made, especially they content that she had on her social media platform I was very impressed and what motivated me is the audience that Victoria has on her instagram how her fans support her and even the clients that she trains giver her that motivation that she needs, helping everyone that she trains can be very complex especially that Victoria does not only train adults she trains as well kins of a very young age , it’s a very hard job it’s not only a job I believe is it as as well a hobby that she needs to motivate many people every day , on her instagram what was very inspiring to me is the comments she is getting is very compassionate and manful, especially for me the support that she’s receiving on her posts , the active support that is being collected by her fans are very exciting , it also encourages me to start my journey as fast I can her public audience is very impressive , as a result of the community that “ Victoria Zavadovskaya” is receiving is very appealing there is this one profile that had approached her on instagram mutual times she is a client of Viktoria her name is “yula” she is a very independent , she she loves traveling all the time with Victoria group “yula” its a client of “Zavadovskay ski club” by joining her group she had changed her life in a positive way she had started thinking positive doing things differently , Yula had always somehow went to the gym “here and there” she was ready in a kind of way , but she did not have here mind set , “Yula” was going with the flow she was never motivated she didn’t have here ideal life, now after seeing here progress over the year “Yula” is very inspired and she became inspiring to other people as well, how “Victorya “ had changed her life and how as well Yula now knows what she is doing in here life and what mind set she was. “ Victoria zavadovskaya” had also a very important person joining her program training and tours, Skolkovo executive MBA alumni, CEO of Newman Business consulting he is the leader of Skolkovo Triathlon team, CO founder of the international sport project “IRON-STAR” Triathlon. “Victoria” had many Businesses, CEO’S and as well Founders going her training and tours as well she had “Angelina Strechina” join “Victoria” tours, in 2016 “Angelina Strechina” had played one of the main roles in the short horror movie by “Evgeny Puzyrevsky” “Mom is always nearby” where her partner in the film was “Alexandra Kharitonova” role in “Olga Cuevas” drama on the district, produced by the popular Russian actor “Daniel Kozlovsky”. “Victoria Zavadovskaya” is a very talented and inspiring instructor, owner of a ski school, and as well a Wonderfull influencer that helps to put people back on the track of a successful life, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well and being very productive, she is doing an amazing job, she had helped me.
I’ve decided to put my foot down and get myself back together as I was so sick and tired of looking unattractive in my eyes, I wanted to be fit and healthy. A positive lifestyle is truly what I admired to find my peace that I longed for and grasp it with dear life till I’m content within myself; spiritually, mentally as well as physically.
8 months ago was when it all started, I killed myself in the gym and made sure my diet was clean, I worked so hard to have the mindset and body I have today, in order to establish this, I made the decision to take a gap year as my mental health seemed more important than my studies, as I wasn’t able to study and pursue my education with a negative mindset. The decision I made was hard, the time and dedication I put into renewing myself was all worth it. As I was able to get out of my dark times.
My highest that I weighed was 90 kilograms, I was so depressed as I was stuck in this endless nightmare that would never end, it was like walking on an endless road that never seemed to finish. After finding my peace, I would proudly like to state that I now weigh 58 kilograms, I’ve lost 40 plus kilograms in the span of 8 months. The issue within myself is that once I find a habit, I could never stop. I’ll go to the ends of the worlds to finish what I started and never give up on it. My bad habits were binge eating, however, now my good habits are binge eating appropriately as well as binge working out. If you’re wondering where I am 90% of the time, you should already know, I’m in the gym torturing my body, only to come out of it feeling fresh and healthy as an individual.
sources :
https://www.instagram.com/victoria_zava/
contextual essay
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is very difficult to keep up, for my DA I have come up with an idea to ethnographically research the online healthy lifestyle field. I have always wanted to be healthy all my teenage years, I would just never get the opportunity to and the strength to press “start” and go on my journey, ounce corona had started I had pressed “start” for that to be a successful journey and to do it the right way I had to take a gap year of university, why is that? I had to go on a calorie deficit, it was horrible the process to get used to it, requires a lot of stress, power, and time and of course patience is believing that you can do it and not having a negative impact on yourself, that also requires you changing your interest in life your hobbies, the people who you used to hang out, because you would always have anger stress till you get the rhythm and so that you can control your self how to act in a situation when for example everyone is eating and you are on a diet and usually when all your friends go out they usually eat somewhere and you have to look at all that and be patient so you don’t break. This made me get a vivid image of how to be healthy in a situation like that and how to control my hunger and what is good to eat and as well what is bad to intake in your body I have learned a lot about nutrition on my journey of being on a calorie deficit, the community that was on Instagram were very supportive for me especially talking about “Victoria Zavadovskya” is a very talented influencer and she is an owner of her ski club that she had opened and she attracted mainly clients because of her hard achievement that she had accomplished throughout her journey of becoming an influencer and owner of a ski school the name of her school is “ Zavadovskaya club” Victoria was also participating in the winter Olympics in 2018 that was in Korea I have decided to explore more about her get to know what kind of people she attracts in her blogs as well.
I have chosen to talk about in my story is “Olga” the name on Instagram is @olga_efimo she is one a client of “Victoria” she always has the passion of learning, ounce “Olga” just started she did not have that motivation she would always have some sports but Olga was never determined to have a goal she would do what she wanted and eat freely, it had changed her she started being more on time everywhere being more sure about any situation in life, she is an owner of a fashion brand and she always had problems with having the perfect body and since she started going to classes with ‘“Zavadovskaya ski club” she changed Olga started to have a fresh brain and she also started to have goals of success that will help her in her journey in fashion and her body goals. In my story I have also talked about 2 other business people that are very famous in Moscow that have joined also training and traveling with Victoria are leader of Skolkovo Triathlon team, CO founder of the international sport project “IRON-STAR” Triathlon and also Angelina Strechina had played one of the main roles in the short horror movie by “Evgeny Puzyrevsky” “Mom is always nearby” where her partner in the film was “Alexandra Kharitonova” role in “Olga Cuevas” drama on the district, produced by the popular Russian actor “Daniel Kozlovsky”
“Victoria” had helped them keep their minds straight she had different attention to them they needed to be focus on their jobs she would always make time for them to train them because they always have their hands full on their plates, they like going to “Victoria” since any place they would go everyone would treat them differently, they are so grateful to be part of her team she always helps them Victoria tries her best to motivate everyone, that they have a goal of themselves and as well victory always makes tours to travel she does not make her training boring she trains everyone so that they are ready to go on a ski slope on the Alps, “ Zavadovskaya ski club” is not only winter season she also prepares her clients for a winter season by fitness workouts.
After conducting my research on my instagram influencer , I realized that I have so much related to Victoria Zavadovskya her lifestyle in being active and she is always trying be better at everything for a better result and if that does not work she will get there same as me I will try my best to have the result that I want even if I fail I will try to get the rest done I always have this say in my head “without failing there is no success” so it is okay to fail that mean you are in the right track , as of Victoria had many bad paths through her journey to build her legacy she wanted to give up many time she failed she got up Victorya kept her head up and she went to the maximum to succeed and she always believed her self and same it is for me when I was loosing weight I wanted to give up , so many times I did not look back I kept my head in the game , and I continued , the main thing is that I did not give up no matter what , I and Manny time I was about to break I did not I kept looking and Victoria the made helped me achieve my goal . I have decided to write my creative story since I can relate to Victoria life as she is having a healthy lifestyle and influencing a lot of people, and so do I, I always try to make people join a healthy lifestyle journey and I have mutual people start their healthy lifestyle journey because of me.
During the story, we analyze the obstacles she faces, how she went through so much with her skiing career how she opened her ski school and how hard it was to do it on her own without any help, and why she had decided and dedicated her self to do it for a living. This ethnography should be an inspiration to start a healthy lifestyle, it helped me that is for sure, it demonstrates that you are never alone and even if you are, the digital influencer may seem to have the perfect image life, the also deal with daily struggles since they are just like us a human being. I assume the process of diving deep into every influencer and their fans really helped me discover how many people are going through that phase right now, and there are some people who have been trying to stay healthy for years and can not do it correctly, but the positive is way more than the negative. It helped me to be more inspired by how many people need the help of being heathy a training program because I am really interested of one day to open my own training school and I look at Victoria success and I am trying to follow her path. But based on what everyone sees online it is not always real you can easily get fooled into glamorizing a healthy lifestyle that does not even exist. Reflecting back on this ethnographic journey, one thing I would have done differently is trying to help others who are really needing help put myself more out there since I was in that journey, it would have been great for me to explore the field more and since I want to one day be an influencer and as well have my own training school.
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