Nigerian food is generally filled with starch and too much fat. Which has a lot of calories. If you don't know what calories mean then you need to google it.

Imagine someone eating 3 wraps of pounded yam and egusi soup and wash it down with coke. That is more than 1200 calories before the end of the day you have already surpassed your calorie needs. The average amount of calories eaten per day by a man should be 2,500 calories and for women 2,000 calories.

You see the thing is Nigerian food is not bad but the way we eat it is bad.

Instead of eating 3 wraps of pounded yam why not reduce it to two or even one and use okro soup or bitterleaf soup which has less calories than egusi soup and then wash it down with water instead of coke.

The best way to loose weight with Nigerian food is to eat more foods rich in protein like beans,moi moi, akara and cut down on starchy carbohydrates. If you want to eat carbohydrates go for complex carbohydrates like ofada rice or any unpolished rice, sweet potato, Quaker oats.

If you eating rice and beans let the beans be more than the rice. A high protein diet will make you fuller and less likely to overeat.

and also lots of vegetables and fruits.

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