Fruit Salad

Rice at its best

Coconut Rice and Jollof Rice

Fried Peppered Chicken

Some Nigerian Dishes

Grilled Peppered Chicken

Boli(Roasted plantain) with Roasted Fish

Turkey

Peppered Beef and Jolof Rice

QUANTITY

We have talked about time and quality, the next thing is quantity. A lot of people, even I, say things like “I have gotten rid of a lot of junk yet I am not losing enough weight”. We always forget that no matter how right that food is for your body too much of it can do more harm than good. One thing I did not add in my previous story is that Khadija was given a measure from the hospital, she had to measure out every meal she took. It was painful and slow but she said she started seeing results in a month. I have done a lot of harmful and unguided dieting like skipping breakfast and dinner and fruit fast, but the fact was that I gave in to my bodily demands by eating as much as I wanted. The more you eat the more calories counting against you. Let’s be wise!

The Proper Way to Successful Dieting

I have known Khadija (not real name) for about four years now, and in those four years she has been a UK size 20. While she was studying for her Master’s degree in the UK she faced a lot of stress but never lost more than a kilogram or two. She worked out, this also didn’t help much.  Curiously, I saw her again yesterday after about a year and a half and she’s a size ten! What did she do?

Directly from the horse’s mouth “I followed a diet plan given to me from the hospital because when I came back home I was going through a lot of health challenges”. She had to completely cut off most carbohydrate diet for the first two months.  Breakfast for her was a small bowl of oat with full skimmed milk and no sugar, this she had with AN APPLE. She had to drink a lot of water before the next meal which was a little of whole grain wheat meal with lots of vegetables. She had fruit salad for dinner (she still emphasised quantity).

I was going to say “I have tried that” when she said she walks vigorously every evening in the last one year she had been on the regime. I can also do that!

In conclusion, we cannot really talk about healthy eating without making an effort to reduce our carbohydrate intake, increasing our fruits and veg intake, drinking reasonable quantity of water and consistent exercise no matter the type you choose.

Time and healthy eating (repeat)

Hello once again. I told you we are going the way of healthy eating in our subsequent posts, so lets go! I was travelling between two cities two weeks ago and there were these two very interesting women in the bus with me. The younger one was complaining to the older one about her husband's 'wickedness'. The problem is that this lady (the younger) is high above the average BMI and instead of her husband being helpful enough to help her cut down the weight, he contributes to it by coming home late at night with sumptuously irresistible meals. To make matters worse if she refuses to eat he begins to sulk thinking she doesn't appreciate him.

Well, since I was pretending to be very civil I did not tell them how my own husband 'helps' in this manner also. Before I married, eating any time after seven was a taboo and I think that helped me remain a delectable size 8. You can imagine what size I am today.

Therefore, talking about healthy eating, the timing for our eating is very important as the body's metabolism might not cooperate with you at past some particular hour. There, that is our first point on healthy eating- time yourself properly. Enjoy!

Healthy Eating

Hello friends, its been a long while. Not to worry, we'll try and catch up with new trends in the kitchen. The situation world over today is such that one should not gloss over issues of healthy eating, in order to live long we all need to eat healthy. I'll discuss this further in my next post, just keep reading.