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Okay so this might be a silly question but I just had to ask.

Brown rice is healthier than white rice,yes. Is it sold locally in the market? I mean I've seen it in supermarkets at outrageous prices for a small amount so I was wondering if local markets sell it and if so,what 'local' name is it sold under.

And if anyone has eaten it please comment about the taste and possible recipes, e.g. can one make jollof brown rice?

I have 2 dimples on my lower back just above my bum. Occasionally, the left one hurts badly. Attempts to massage it lead to me ending up on the other side of the room without remembering how I got there. Anyway I react by reducing my sugar intake but right now my sugar intake is really little as in I take my tea without sugar and only use a cube or two with cereal or garri. So I was puzzled when the pain started up. What could be the cause?

Romeo,I'm still waiting for your reply.

MyPeace:
@Ejadamen
Are you sure you are not having PCOS.  Pls google it for more info.

This post got me thinking. I looked it up but then dismissed it. The common symptom is irregular or no period and my period was very regular until i got married. Then it regularized and went haywire again after MC. I'm actually feeling all the body signs of a period coming but it's late so maybe a test? I never know when i ovulate because i don't know how to detect it. If the test comes out -ve then i'll buy an ovulation kit.

@ modath I meant how do you cook the fish. I have no objection to fish in other ways. I love smoked and dried fish. It's just that I use iced fish to substitute meat and was wondering how you use it apart from frying that is. Anyways I shall continue to adjust. I've decided to go chicken next week

26/07/2010
B - 3 slices of whole wheat bread,cheese and a mug of hot chocolate
L - moinmoin and garri
D - spaghetti,stew,dodo,a pc of fish
Water - 2L

Exercise - nil

27/07/2010
B - spaghetti,stew,a pc of fish
Snack - a bowl of cereal
L - moinmoin and garri
D - indomie,dodo and a pc of fish
Water - 4L

Exercise - 10 mins warm up(dancing), circuit training 15mins,skips 200

Modath how do you eat the fish?

fried fish

@ Delphia,I cannot presume to know how you feel but all you can do now is take heart and be positive. Anybody can abuse you,belittle you or try to bring you down but the one thing they can never take from you is your attitude. Strive to be positive. Draw nearer to God. pray for yourself and your husband for an attitude change. If your words are not reaching him,the God who made him will make him hear. God is all you need to get through his phase of your life with calm,peace and dignity. i pray that you find all you are looking for in God. take care and god bless.


Update
CD - 35
DPO -
Waiting and waiting.

Modath doh!

Ehen! The last time I exercised was last week Wednesday. After some weight lifting in the gym, I had some wonderful pains on Thursday, an allergy rash on Friday and the weekend became history. Doesn't look like I'll exercise today but i will exercise tomorrow. Food logs for the days I missed were not written down so I will write today's own later.

No one said anything about my healthy pancake idea.

I have a nutrition question to ask. I LOVE fish and I buy it as often as I can. I know the correct way to eat it is smoked,baked or grilled. now back to Naija setting. I buy iced fish most of the time and the only way I can work with it is if I fry it. Note that I fry it as lightly as possible so that it comes out looking boiled,not the dry,hard things from deep frying. Any other suggestion of how I might take the fish. I don't have oven so ruled out.

Romeo,I increased to 2 sets of 15 reps per exercise. But just so i understand you correctly. I have divided my body into arms,stomach and legs. Is this okay? Squats for legs, sit ups and leg raises for tummy and press ups for arms. Could you suggest other exercises for these 3 parts as I only know these for these parts.
Also are you saying that I should do arms say on Monday,tummy on Wednesday and legs on Friday? Usually when I do strength training, I exercise all 3 parts in one day. please clarify.

Yogurt and banana

Water

Hi Romeo, i have some questions.
I was at the gym 2 days ago and had a discussion with the strength trainer there. Note that I have been going there to lift weights. I would do 1 set of 15 reps,5 exercises on a multigym. He earlier advised me to increase to 2 sets. I'm not sure of the weight I lift. i lift about 5 of the iron bars. Now,in my discussion with him yesterday, he told me to reduce lifting weights because my "wings" have opened. He said I should reduce exercises that train the biceps and concentrate on my tummy. I know I cannot spot reduce so I'm at a loss.
I was operating under the impression that I needed cardio and strength training. At home I would do squats,press ups and sit ups to strength train and a CD or walk for cardio. Can't swim yet with all the rain. I began going to the gym to lift the little i could and tone my muscles. Now is the trainer right? My biceps are not bulking or anything and I have a suspicion that it's making the men uncomfortable watching a woman lift weights 3 times a week. I'm considering going back to what I was doing at home Help!

Today
B - 2.5 boiled small sweet potato with egg and tomato sauce(1 egg)
L - 3 servings of rice and beans with stew and a pc of meat
Snack - 1 doughnut
D - 1 roll of wheat bread,stew,a pc of meat,a glass of skim milk
Snack - 1 doughnut
Water - 2.5L
Exercise - nil

Ok,I officially hate starcomms
20/7
B- 2 rolls of wheat bread + large mug of lipton tea,skim milk,1 cube of sugar(turns out I didn't need the sugar)
L - 1 serving of eba with efr riro and 2 pcs of fish
Snack - 2 servings of cereal(I was starving!)
D - plantain porridge(mix of ripe and unripe) with smoked fish
Water - 2.5L
Exercise - walking 45mins

21/7
B - 3 bananas,plantain porrigde with smoked fish
L - 3 bananas,bowl of oatmeal and a pc of meat
D - 2 shoots of boiled plantain(1 unripe,1 ripe) with stew and 2 pcs of meat.
Water - 2L
Exercise - gym, 2 sets of 15 reps, 5 exercises on multigym, 50 bench sit ups


@ modath ITA with you on the gym thing. Somehow I'm not doing my home exercises as I should.
@ Romeo,please look at my exercises!

@ modath,yes i use starcomms. Been really frustrating. What is their problem,do you know?

Pancakes.

Beans and rice with efo riro and fish

Today's log
B- 2 servings of beans with a bowl of garri
L- 2 servings of rice and efo riro and 2 pcs of fish
D- 1 serving of beans,1 serving of rice,efo riro,1 pc of fish
Water - 3.5L

Exercise - 60 mins in gym(10 mins warm up walking round a football field,5 mins on stationary bike, 45 mins lifting weights i.e. 16 reps of 15 sets on various sections of a multigym equipment)

@ masido, congrats o!

Hi peeps. My ISP has been messing up seriously.

16/7/2010
B- 2 rolls of wheat bread + lipton tea with skim milk,no sugar
L- 2 boiled unripe plantain,stew,a pc of fish
D - 1 meatpie,1 doughnut,3 bananas
Water - 2L
Exercise - nil

17/7/2010
B - 7 4" bananas(as soon as i got home from gym)
     1 roll of wheat bread and stew
L - beans and garri
D - pounded yam and efo riro with a large pc of fish
Water - 2L
Exercise - went to the gym and spent 30mins doing aerobics and 45 mins weight lifting.
Weighed myself,lost 1kg since last week

18/7/2010
Did not write but it was a day of sinful eating

19/7/2010
Went to the gym today again to lift weights and weigh myself,still weigh 94kg but will be careful with what I eat. Morale is high. I'll fill up today's log later.

@ Sammy please don't be demoralized,you just have to motivate yourself. Read the article modath posted. It was eye opening By the way you try on that stationary cycle,I did it at the gym today and lasted just 5 mins. I hate that machine Good luck.

modath:
Hello my good Fiful,hope y'all doing great.was trawling the net found this-

http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/.

Hope you like it,i did.

Yesterday,14/07/10, i walked for an hour,had lipton tea and milk with cucumber for breakfast cos i was in a bit of a hurry,but had moin-moin,fried rice and and roasted chicken for lunch,had rice,beans and boiled egg for dinner.

Today i didn't do my workout in the A.M,so am [hoping] to do 30 mins brisk walking in the evening,had rice in the morning,and i just had my lunch of mashed beans,going to do wheat meal/amala/eba with vegetable soup and turkey for dinner.

I don't ever log water cos it is like air to me,cant live without it.one other thing is that though i was never a junk food person,the only way am having any is if i get don't pay for it.moreover there are lots of options,like am craving for shawarma for the past two days, i will just have it without the mayo when i go for it on saturday.

Thought I was the only one who gets craving attacks. Mine is usually pastries either cake or meat pie or pancake. Haven't has any in a while now. But now that I think about it I guess I can make my own healthy pancake(i.e using wheat flour,skim milk,egg whites,very little sugar and olive oil to fry). Does that make sense?

Today's log
B - 1 roll of wheat bread and a bowl of oatmeal with skim milk
L - one 120g indomie(can't wait for the carton to finish), mixed veggies(carrot,green beans and pepper),1 boiled egg white
D - will be 1/2 boiled unripe plantain shoots and egg sauce
Water - taken 2L,will take 50cl before I sleep so 2.5L
Exercise - it rained heavily today so I couldn't get to do the walking I had planned. Did some light dancing though for like 10mins.

13/7/2010
B - dodo(4 shoots or tub ^{whatever it's called}),a bowl of oatmeal with skim milk
L - sweet potato porridge(2 medium sized potatoes,green beans,1 egg), 1 pc of fish
D - 1 round slice of boiled yam & veg sauce
Water - 2L

Exercise - nil(was unbelievably sore )

14/7/2010
B - 2 rolls of wheat bread,veg sauce,mug of lipton tea with skim milk no sugar
L - 2 servings of beans,1 boiled ripe plantain shoot
Snack - 2 carrots
D - 2 servings of rice, 1.5 serving of mixed vegetables(carrot,green beans,green pepper), stew, 1 pc of fish, 3 thin slices of dodo
Water - 3L

Exercise - walking 40mins, squats 60, press ups 60, leg raises 70, sit ups 40

Welcome Dere. Could we get your height in meters? You are tall!

@ Sammy and modath,hi!

Will put in logs later,not with my book now.

Today's log
B - 1 roll of wheat bread and a bowl of oatmeal
Snack - 3 handfuls of chinchin
L - 2 servings of beans and a handful of garri
D - 1 serving of wheatmeal,ogbonno soup and 2 pcs of fish
Water - 2L(cold day)

Exercise - walking 54mins

i knew lil' Kim dresses outrageously but

yes o! beard. I did not even know until my hubby pointed it out. Maybe you'll grow one The food on that page was but how man go do now? na to look,lick my mouth and close eye.

Hi all
@my peace, it is well.

Update
CD - 21
DPO - no physical signs that I can tell by,not even discharge.

@ Arlington,no wonder you wanted to lick your screen Don't eat too much o! Enjoy. About the hair,don't fret. I grew a beard the last time I was pregnant.

I have noticed that tamme has avoided this question, are you a chef? Both mine and someone else who asked much earlier in the thread.

Fhemmmy:
I have no idea how i keep ending up on this thread. . . . .

It's obvious, you like food

Arlington:
Wetin carry me reach here now!!!
@ Tamme please 2 questions how do you cook your owo that it looks brown mine comes out looking like stew and what type of peper did you use for the ewa agoyin please help a sister out before I lick my computer screen I am almost there!!!!

Arlington don't lick your screen o.

Aaaahh! Thanks.

Ok Tamme are you a professional cook or you just love cooking?