Can anyone please give me real & practical ways of slimming?especially with D type of food we have in africa??
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In Ghana where I lived they use too much cooking oil (palm oil) to make all dishes.  If you do that, cut that out first and just steam or cook your vegetables, rice, or yams.  That way you can be slimmer as your food contains less calories.\n\nEat lots of fresh vegetables, they are abundant in Africa, and some fresh fruit.  Eat 4 smaller meals per day, not huge meals at the beginning or the end of the day.  \n\nIf you can find them, start substituting meat with soya or fish products, they are generally less fattening and easier on your stomach.  \n\nMany african diets are very healty naturally, but they are meant for high labour intensive lives, so they contain lots of fat.  Now that many Africans are urbanising and having office jobs, it's better to substitute diets with less fats, and smaller meals, and filling vegetables in stead of meat products.  \n\nI find the ivorian and the ethiopian cuisines the best in terms of healthy diets in Africa.  Ivorians have a french influence in cooking vegetables, and ethiopians have a thousand years old food culture with the sour injera bread added with several cooked sauces, vegetable mashes, or meat dishes that you simply eat with the bread.\n\nAnd avoid drinking coca cola or fanta, they have too much sugar, drink water or fresh juices.
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Cut all processed food and watch the weight fly off! In other words, shop only on the outer rim of the Supermarket :). Eat veggies, fruit, unprocessed meat, low fat dairy. Stay AWAY from white sugar, white flour, corn syrup. If you can't hunt it or gather it, don't eat it! I lost 30 lbs eating this way. You would be amazed how much better you feel once you cut out sugar and white flour! You will have much more energy. Substitute your sugar intake with Stevia (300X sweeter than sugar) and no calories or carbs! It is natural and does not raise the glycemic index. Good LUCK!!
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This one works for me. Cut out the dairy, don't use oil or fat when cooking, make sure you eat a big variety of things, eat only small amounts of oil rich foods (nuts, seeds, olives etc), eat lots and lots of fruit and veg and whole grains (brown rice, wholemeal pasta and bread) so you don't get hungry, and regularly do some exercise. It is important that you eat a wide variety of different things.
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Go Natural.......\n\nPersonally I think 100% Hoodia in tablets is best! \n\nCheck with your doctor before starting any weight loss program.\n\nI tried many diet pills/shakes/bars with no or little results. \n\nThan I tried Hoodia and......\nHoodia has worked for me...and with no side effects. \n\nFor all you doubters, here is the prior feedback for another Answers user who followed my advice:\n\nAsker's Rating: *****\nvery good comment i lost 2 lbs in a week\ni think i can almost get in my leather dress, i can hit the town in no time \n\n\n**** VERY IMPORTANT NOT TO GET RIPPED OFF --- \n\n#1. Be sure you are buying pure Hoodia...look for the import certificate on the website. No matter the price, if they do not display this, you really do NOT know what you are getting!\n\n#2. Be sure it is 100% Hoodia & not mixed w/other herbs, etc.!!\n\n#3. Keep in mind it stops your hunger pangs…you MUST remember to break your habit to always eat at certain times.\n\n#4. Drink a full 8oz. glass of water with it!\n\nHoodia (HOOD-ee-uh) gordonii - A genus of 10 to 20 species from southwestern Africa. \nHoodia gordonii is the stoneage wonder plant found throughout the dry arid regions of the South western African continent now on the verge of making history in the fight against obesity. It is a genus belonging to the Asclepiadaceae family which consists of approximately 20 species. Used to stop hunger, quench thirst, and provide energy among other things since prehistoric times, Hoodia gordonii was first discovered by the San tribesmen and women to get through the most difficult of times. \n\nYou can read a good article about how it works at:\n\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-diet-capsules.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-gordonii-diet-use.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info\nhttp://hoodia-research.blogspot.com
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Drink 6-8 glasses of  2 tbsp. lemonjuice\n                      2 tbsp. maple syrup\n                      and a pinch of cayanne\na day. I was able to do this for one month. It was awesome. It is the perfect cleanser, you get lots of energy, clarity, and the vanity part 20 lbs. less weight.\nyou have to want to do this. you have to commit. The results are wonderful. I was NEVER hungry, still had friends over and cooked for them and WATCHED. They were so amazed by me. Speed walk 3 miles, listen to good music. Be good to yourself. Good luck\nI do it once a yr. Maybe we should do it together.
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Trim spa or Hoodia....anything that will control your appetite
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There is only one way to do it and that is to burn up more calories than you take in.  Now that is the clinical answer but in practical terms, what works best is to do three things:\n\n1. Decide you are going to make a permanent lifestyle change as it relates to food. \n\nThat is, understand that the only purpose of food is to keep you alive.  Not to consume it like it will all be gone tomorrow.  Trust me, it will be there.  Enjoy the taste of the food but don't make a meal out of every portion.  For instance a half cup of rice is a serving. A half a plate of rice is about 6 servings. Then all the crap goes on top. That's too much for a single meal.   Which is typical of what Americans eat.\n\n2. Listen to your stomach.  When it's comfortable, get up from the table.\n\nMost times when you eat, you'll make that big breath sound after your stomach has had enough.  Usually it's an inhale through your nose.  If you listen, you'll hear yourself do it.  Never mind there is more food left on the plate.  Your stomach just told you it's good to go.  Try to listen.\n\nAnd most important is number 3.\n\n3. Portion size.\n\nAll you can eat buffets for 5.95 or whatever they cost in your town sounds like a great idea but the damage you can do to your girlish figure and later on your health is incredible.  No one should eat so much food in a sitting until they can hardly breathe anymore.  A buffet in my opinion is equivalent to the trough pigs lay in to eat.  They don't stop eating until the lining of their stomachs begin to bleed.\n\nEven now commercials are beginning to show up on the tube for Pepso Bismal for children. WTF?  A formation for children?  Kids never eat that much or at least they never did in when I was a kid.  Now if you walk around in any Wal-Mart Superstore, every other kid is at least chunky and some are obese. \n\nPoint is, you can lose weight if you just stop playing the role of a Hoover Vac in your kitchen and get control of the portion sizes and follow the serving sizes of foods.  Most foods put the size on the package so just read it.  Stay away from foods with little to no fiber.  Fiber helps you to feel full and helps move waste out of your body. Foods with NO fiber tend to hang around in your system too long.\n\nHope this helps. Give yourself a year to see a difference.  You will I promise.\n\n-J
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You don't want to be doing that this is the way;\n1 Eat breakfast\n2 Eat lunch\n3 Eat Dinner\nfinish eating by 8pm\nStart again next morning\nDon't eat between meal unless it s fruit, no bananas fattening !\nno sweets biscuits ,cakes, ice cream cut the drink right down  Cook each night cut down on bread increase you veg intake stick to fish and chicken grill instead of fry steam instead of boil decrease salt increase water intake. Walk every where get a bike  exercise cut out smoking.\nthis will work keep that in mind\nYou look good in your photo! \nJoin the thin
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Salad... but load it up with mushrooms, egg, lean ham or turkey, low-fat/non-fat cheese, sprouts, etc... No croutons.  Then use a light dressing like a balsamic vinegarette which you can make yourself... mustard, a dash of Splenda, salt, olive oil, and pepper blended well makes a good dressing too.  Fruit, unfortunately, has sugars in it.  Granted, they are better for you than pure cane sugar, to get your body off of the sugar addiction try eating more vegetables (raw, roasted, grilled), chicken with no sauce (just rub with seasoning), seafood, and beef. Then slowly allow yourself FRESH fruit, and you will see a major difference with your cravings. I'm completely off sugar now, and couldn't be happier with my health or weight!
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Why do you want centre? do at home.\nExercise daily at morning and if possible evening too.\nAvoid spicy, fatty, stale bakery food.\nAvoid tea, coffee and alcohole too.\nUse green vegitables and salads in both the meals minimising junk food.\nIf hungry eat only sprouts. It is the best remedy to loose weight.
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In the short term you could try to cut down on the amounts of carbs and sugar that you keep in the house.\n\nI once knew a lady who was mad keen on bread. When she went on a diet she asked her neighbour to keep her bread for her, and post two slices through the letterbox every morning!\n\nI've known husbands to keep crisps and chocolate bars for kids packed lunches in the boot of their cars. They dished them out every morning so that the wives wouldn't be tempted by them when at home.
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Any cheesy stuff. Too much of red meat.\n\nAvoid having too much of butter , cheese and spicy stuff.\nHave plenty of water, fresh fruits & veggies.\n\nAnything with lots of fibre content will do a lot of good to ur system
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Eat a lot!\nEvery meal eat more than enough!
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Go with a proven product.\n\nCheck with your doctor before starting any weight loss program.\n\nAnyone who attempts to lose weight by reducing calorie consumption experiences feelings of hunger and fatigue. Hoodia diet pills attempt to reduce those feelings, making it easier to stick to a low calorie diet and therefore lose weight. As with any weight loss plan, only people who are in good health should use hoodia diet pills and they should be used in conjunction with appropriate diet and exercise. Because thirst is suppressed as well as appetite, it is important to remember to drink plenty of water. Most experts recommend eight 8 ounce glasses per day to maintain proper hydration. Other than thirst suppression, there are no known side effects associated with hoodia diet pills and they are probably a much better choice than diet pills containing stimulants.\n\nI tried Hoodia and......\nHoodia has worked for me...and with no side effects. \n\nFor all you doubters, here is the prior feedback for another Answers user who followed my advice:\n\nAsker's Rating: *****\nvery good comment i lost 2 lbs in a week\ni think i can almost get in my leather dress, i can hit the town in no time \n\n\n**** VERY IMPORTANT NOT TO GET RIPPED OFF --- \n\n#1. Be sure you are buying pure Hoodia...look for the import certificate on the website. No matter the price, if they do not display this, you really do NOT know what you are getting!\n\n#2. Be sure it is 100% Hoodia & not mixed w/other herbs, etc.!!\n\n#3. Keep in mind it stops your hunger pangs…you MUST remember to break your habit to always eat at certain times.\n\n#4. Drink a full 8oz. glass of water with it!\n\nHoodia (HOOD-ee-uh) gordonii - A genus of 10 to 20 species from southwestern Africa. \nHoodia gordonii is the stoneage wonder plant found throughout the dry arid regions of the South western African continent now on the verge of making history in the fight against obesity. It is a genus belonging to the Asclepiadaceae family which consists of approximately 20 species. Used to stop hunger, quench thirst, and provide energy among other things since prehistoric times, Hoodia gordonii was first discovered by the San tribesmen and women to get through the most difficult of times. \n\nYou can read a good article about how it works at:\n\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-diet-capsules.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info/hoodia-gordonii-diet-use.htm\nhttp://www.hoodia-diets.info\nhttp://hoodia-research.blogspot.com
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I suggest you drink slim fast with every meal. A generic brand works just as well, and is less expensive. Trust me, this works because it's like eating two meals at once. My boyfriend was trying to bulk up last year around this time, and this method was very successful for him. He gained a little over 20 pounds in about 2 months.
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- Do not finish your food when you start to feel you are full.\n- Eat at least 6 times a day.\n- Do not eat anything before you go to bed.\n- Drink water.\n- Walk 1 hour per day before eating breakfast.\n- Do not use elevator.\n- Do not have someone do something for you, do it by yourself.\n- Be patient. Do not give up if you don't see any changes in a month. Don't see this as a temporary program, this must be your lifestyle. You must associate this with your personality.\n- People associate pain with 'applying a diet' and pleasure with 'delicious foot'. You must associate pain with 'becoming overweight with these delicious foot' and pleasure with 'becoming an attractive person with this program'.\n- Do not go to shopping with an empty stomach.\n- Do not exaggerate. Do not starve to lose weight, just apply the program.\n- Make sure noone in your family brings junk food into the house.\n- Don't listen to your friends advice if they contradict with the program. Don't eat something you shouldn't because your friends want you to.\n- Learn from people who achieved what you want to achieve.\n- Don't just try, commit yourself. Give yourself no other option.
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To have a "naturally slim" body shape, do what's natural for human bodies!\n\n1) Eat only when you're hungry, and stop when you're full. For example, have only one helping instead of two.\n\n2) Eat lots of veggies and fewer processed foods. Make a homemade snack for yourself and your friends instead of running to the gas station for cola and candy. You'll save money, too!\n\n3) Our bodies are designed to move. Walk whenever you can. Ride your bike!