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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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Good people
Now i need serious help.... I have been struggling to shed off some 5kg i put on in Dec/Jan festivals and it just wont go!
Anyone with a crash programme on loosing weight that does not include the gym? i can do the walking and jogging but i am not disciplined enough for the gym (I have tried this before and it didnt work)
Diet is also highly welcome. I must add i have a problem with anemia (I get anemic very quickly especially when i start on those sorts of programmes so the diet needs to cater for that too).
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/6/2010 Posts: 741 Location: Nairobi
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The trick is to increase your activity and get rid of junk food if any.
I had my baby in August 2008 and i was 68 Kgs. By November of the same year (approximately 3 months later) i was 95kgs. this is because i used to eat a lot and do absolutely nothing apart from breastfeeding.
I waited until my baby was 1 year before embarking on a weight loss campaign. My appetite went down, so i didn't eat as much as i used to and i increased my activity. Cleaned the house everyday, washed clothes, run around with the baby and i walked a lot. Now i am 60 kgs and sexy as ever.
Increase your activities. When in town walk a lot instead of taking a cab or matatu for reasonable distances, take walks over the weekend(not slow leisure walks but fast walks), take up household chores like mopping, washing and dusting, avoid fatty foods and junks. Eat brown bread instead of white, eat lots of fruits & vegetables, drink loads and loads of water, avoid sodas, beer and other fizzy drink if you have to drink drink water or freshly squeezed juice. Reduce your sugar intake.
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/6/2008 Posts: 632
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@Wendz Whats your email add? might just have the answer for you... The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/16/2009 Posts: 257
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Try the herbal drug slimtrim from beta healthcare.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 7,081 Location: Kenya
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...I and bibi tried the gym and just like you couldn't get the time. So slowly we are equiping our home gym with simple items (at least one item every month)...since we have attended gym we know how to use the equipment...also good for your kids...if you have a daughter she will really help mother shed off those extra kgs... ...work out vigorously under those bed sheets too...
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/7/2010 Posts: 282 Location: Nairobi
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I fully support @chepkel. Just do normal exercises (as described by @chepkel above), avoid fats and sugars very much and try the diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. You will not only lose weight, but become healthy too.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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Thanks for all your input. Keep more tips coming. I will copy paste and preferably stick them in my bedroom so that i can see them every morning when i wake up! the fats must go! My problem is also eating habits. while i do not eat lots of food, i sometimes skip lunch which makes me eat alot in the evening.... I think thats also a killer! @magigi Where are you shopping for those home gym items? @chep I think i need to do alot of that. prob is, am also studying so whenever i have free time like weekends, i find myself glued in books.... @Ric dees wendz545@gmail.com - Your help will find me sitting pretty right there!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 7,081 Location: Kenya
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@Wendz ...Nakumatt have a whole range of them...exrcise balls, rollers, adjustable sit up board etc. Nairobi sports house too. Talk first to those gym instructors and explain to them where you want to shed weight (very important as you may not want your bum to go!!!)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/2/2009 Posts: 2,458 Location: Nairobi
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December is a good/bad month..
I personally added some layers naskia zinaitwa 'tyres'... been faithful at the gym for some time now.. four months.. slow but sure..na ikienda i hope Dec sitarudisha hii kitambi. hopefully wen all is done and done (situps) and the fat is all gone away.. there will be some six pack left...
but wheeeeeeen?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/24/2008 Posts: 781
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1.Make time for a hearty breakfast.Include proteins and fats (peanut/diary butter,avocados-avoid margarine) and complex carbohydrates(e.g brown bread,ngwashe,nduma etc. 2.10.00am eat some light snack eg. 3 slices of brown bread with peanut butter.This helps keep your metabolism high. 3.1.00pm Eat a balanced diet,make sure the serving portions equal the size of your fists.Remember to avoid processed foods and simple carbs. 4)4.00pm Take a light snack,maybe some peanuts(roasted),ngwashe or any slow sugar releasing food. 5)8.00pm Take a light meal,remember to include lots of greens and fruits and very little starch and fats. 6)Happy weight loss.But remember you will soon hit a plateau soon and exercise is a must to progress further. The utimate goal of investing is to buy low sell high;if we re-write this core equation in psychology terms it becomes buy fear sell greed.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/9/2008 Posts: 2,824
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hi big sis Wendz. Live like the cats (lions, leopards, etc) and you will for ever be just the right weight. You see they don't touch cereals and grass....then borrow a little from the maasais....supu ya muteta now and then....you are sawa thereafter baaby!! When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 7,081 Location: Kenya
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...is your program a fattening or weight reducing one...
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/28/2009 Posts: 290
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Exercise,esp jogging will do the trick.Discipline and patience required.And,dnt knw bout this-coz have just come across it,but they say chocolate milk si mbaya pia..see this http://health.yahoo.com/...the-chocolate-milk-diet/For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/6/2010 Posts: 741 Location: Nairobi
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@Sheep, Peanut butter and Peanuts???!!!!!! Kataa hiyo like the plague. Speaking from experience. peanuts and any of its by products will make you fat fat fat fat and more fat. Kwanza in the wrong places.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/11/2007 Posts: 1,680 Location: nairobi
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my best friend(my mum) does some stuff that i find really funny like greens(mikengeria na makuno!) all the time, kidogo jogging, rope skipping and other stuff that make her really happy... i also know she is proud of having the most stubborn kids..sometime we sit and come up with stuff that scares the hell out of her...i bet that plays a major role in her youthful look...
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/8/2007 Posts: 885
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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@chep and sheep
Peanut - eat or not eat? I know i can get good supply if you say it will help otherwise, i can keep a good distance
@magigi hehehehehe... si uliona in another thread we have a plan B if the bum takes a walk? The "matresses" as guka called them..... but will avoid anything that will tamper with what's important...
@Ja-Kom Milk? We have never been enemies... will add that to my diet.
@mlefu Mikingeria tutatoa wapi? If your mom can skip, I surely should be able to! I just need a some jostling..
@Kingfisher...
hehehehehehe... now you call yourself a brother but me thinks umenitupa kabisa..... sasa, if i stick to red meat si nitapata gout? Those cats lifestyle, does it come with the running all over the mara, climbing trees and roof tops and the long distance walking of the maasais and building houses(their women do)? Ngai fafa, hii magoti na magongo itaruhusu hiyo lifestyle kweli?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/12/2009 Posts: 925
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....tread mill....walk half an hour in the morning,half hour in the evening,i mean brisk walk. ....check your diet.i was once 110,sasa niko 97 na december nitakuwa 110 tena. ....and there is no rush ,go easy on yourself.consolation is that there is another lady who lives in our house who has lost like 11kgs in less than a year and now looks hot like an iron box.i can take her for dinner minus her jacket. goodluck wendz and dont expect results in a month !!
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/9/2008 Posts: 537
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excercise and watch what u eat...sheeps sample diet is appropriate..so for excercise combine cardivascular(aerobics,treadmill,bike etc) with light weight training...dont try loosing fat in particular areas as thats not how the body works..whats your diet like btw?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/1/2009 Posts: 2,436
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@Wendz...skipping a meal (in your case lunch) is never the right way of doing it because you will land on the next meal so hungrily your weight loss plan will be thrown outta the window. Rather, small healthy snacks (say fruits/ veggies)at regular intervals would do the trick.
Can u do swimming? Swimming is one of the best exercises & weight-reduction ways known because it exercises all the muscles simultaneously and you burn fat faster than a Toyo VX burns fuel.
Diet-wise, whose smarter now: pips living in slums/ semi formal regions or us midoro class pips? See typical meals in a day :
Middle class pips Breakfast: bacon, sausage,fried eggs Lunch: kuku fry, chapo Supper: nyam chom & Ugali (processed flour)washed down with soda (procssed sugar) Exercise: walk from car park to off causes panting, breathelessness
Ghetto fabulous pips:
B/fast: Boiled maize/strungi or/uji Lunch: Githeri plain, nt even fried. Takes sugarcane as well during lunch hr(few dental issues) Supper: Ugali (from posho mill so not processed thus all nutrients still intact),& sukuma
Exercise: Intensive,by default!
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