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WEIGHT WATCH 2

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By Leah Akoth

Previously I talked about the tips in general so for this part I’ll be telling you about foods that help and for those who prefer dieting I’ll have some you can try out.

1.     There’s no shortcut

When you want to loose weight you have to put your heart in it in order to push yourself and your body.

FOODS THAT HELP WITH WEIGHT LOSS

Most of these are things we see in the market and assume them

1.    TOMATOES

  Tomatoes contain a fat burning compound called 9-oxo-ODA. They also have beta-carotene and lycopene which help out with weight loss and smaller waists.

Eat raw tomatoes as a snack if you can it will go a long way to helping you.

2.    Grapefruit

You never see it but it’s always there. Grapefruit is a gold mine when it comes to weight loss. Eating half a grapefruit before every meal will help you burn around 3.5 pounds in 12 weeks. It activates fat burning hormones, gives you the sensation of feeling full and suppressing appetite so no more midnight munches.

3.    Spices

Most spices speed up your metabolism as well as make your food appetizing. Add turmeric, black pepper and many more to your food.

4.    Apple cider vinegar

This vinegar increases the rate at which carbs are being burnt by your body, speeds up metabolism and crushes cravings.

Take 1 spoonful of vinegar and add it to water. Drink it 30 min before you eat.

5.    Apples

6.    Pears

7.    Cinnamon

Stabilizes sugar levels and adds flavor to food so stir some into your coffee and get sweetness without adding calories

8.    Bananas

9.    Blueberries

Filled with anti-detoxans that help with weight loss

10. Oranges

11. Nuts

12. Sweet potato

13. Beans

14. Avocado

15. Mushrooms

16. Broccoli

17. Spinach

18. Green tea

19. Olive oil

Using olive oil in cooking is better than using vegetable oil because it has good fats

20. Eggs

21. Salmon

22. Chicken

23. Low fat Greek yogurt

Has twice as much protein as other yogurts and takes longer to leave your stomach. You burn more calories digesting protein than carbs.

24. Peanut butter

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Venessa, assessor on East African got Talent

Music, ,

Karanja Kimani

The East African got talent will be kicking off on 4th August 2019. It is a platform for the East African community that is Kenya Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda to showcase their talents including music, comedy, dancing and many more. This event saw the Bongo flava artiste from Tanzania Vanessa Mdee as part of the panel of the judges who will be on the bench alongside the other four three judges; Jeff Koinange from Kenya, Rwanda’s DJ Contact Makeda and Uganda’s Gaetano Kagwa.

Vanessa Mdee whose real name is Vanessa Hau Mdee, is a Tanzanian songwriter, activist, television presenter and radio personality. She is popularly known for her hit songs like; Cash madame, Kisela and Juu. Being the first ever MTV VJ, host of the Epic Bongo star and participating in Coke Studio Africa are the main reasons why Vanessa got the chance to be a judge in the whooping event.  



Ben C album launch

gospel, , ,

Brian Mureithi

Ben C performing during his album launch. Photo by Brian Sam

Ben C is a Kenyan gospel recording artist. He recently launched his album at Salvation Army Church in OTC, Nairobi on 21st July 2019. Though hyped, the event did not attract a huge audience as expected.

The event featured a few artists including: MC Hearts, DJ Billy, and DJ Colliter all from First Class Entertainment meaning that were it not for First Class Entertainment, the event would have been a flop. Big names in the gospel industry like: Mojji Shortbaba, DJ Mo, Size 8 ‘Reborn’ or even Bahati did not turn up to support their own leaving question marks on how supportive these gospel artists are to each other.

  • DJ Colliter performing at the Ben C Album lunch. Photo: Brian Sam
  • MC Hearts performing at the Ben C Album lunch. Photo: Brian Sam
  • MC Hearts performing at the Ben C Album lunch. Photo: Brian Sam
  • DJ Billy before performing at the Ben C Album lunch. Photo: Brian Sam

The album launch did not also attract a huge audience as expected as the upstairs was nearly empty and the downstairs was barely half full. The lighting in the event venue was also poorly done as our photographers had a really difficult time covering the event.

  • Ben C with one of the girls he's mentoring. Photo by Brian Sam

However, all was not wrong at the album launch as the star of the day, Ben C put on a really good show. With a few artists under him, He promised to nurture them to nationally level and actually gave his word in doing a collabo with one of them.

Performances from MC Hearts and DJ Billy also fired up the crowd but were left yearning for more. Speaking to some of the people who attended the event, one thing stood out. LAX Entertainment who were the official sponsors of the Ben C Album Launch did not deliver to the expectations of many.

  • LAX Entertainment crew at the Ben C Album Launch. Photo by Brian Sam
  • LAX Entertainment Crew at the Ben C Album Launch. Photo by Brian Sam

“I think LAX entertainment would have invited some high rating artists to brace the event. They should have also tried to get some good lighting for the stage. The sound was not also what I personally expected. For me, I’d give this event a three stars rating.”  

A fan replied.

All in all, Ben C still remains a gospel favorite for many and we all wish him all the best in this endeavor.

WEIGHT WATCH 1

Fitness, ,

By Leah Akoth

A woman working out
PHOTO courtesy:

The menu today is a tough one especially those who are doing it like yours truly.

WEIGHT LOSS

At one point you might feel like looking great and sexy as a girl so you look at yourself in the mirror and see areas you want to reduce. I have been trying all kinds of stuff to get a flat belly but sadly nothing is working the way I want it to but I’m still trying.

Loosing weight is surprisingly harder than gaining it. With fast food places everywhere and cravings we are in deep trouble. Most people prefer hitting the gym but fir some of us we can’t due to various issues

For the girls who don’t go to the gym this might work for you but you have to make extra efforts. These are the first steps to help you out.

LET’S START THE JOURNEY

1.    Drink a lot of water like 8 glasses in a day{it’s not easy but keep drinking}

2.    Just walk for 30 minutes everyday

3.    Stop with the white foods. If it’s white don’t eat it {rice, bread, cake} I love white stuff so I’m sweating here.

4.    Eat a lot of vegetables

5.    Eat lean protein like fish, chicken

6.    Fruits are your friend especially if you decide to go on a diet. Replace a meal with fruits

7.    You should eat 5 times in a day{weird….i know}

8.    Work out 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening. You can do a full body work out or you can mix it up with target area work out.

9.    Dance ladies dance. Dancing is fun but also effective in helping with weight loss.

10.   Avoid stress. fff

Ankara Affair.

Fashion, , , ,

Moraa Simpson

  • African princess look!
  • Ceremonious Look
  • For that traditional classy look
  • The her majesty look,

If there’s a group of people that always upheld their cultural heritage, this would definitely be my African people. From their foods and ceremonies to their beliefs not forgetting our dressing. Wait did I just say dressing? ooh yes I did I feel like the cultural dressing gave rise to the African dressings the Ankara’s to be more specific. The only difference is that the stylist just gave this Ankara designs a simple facelift to let them look somehow modernized and still not lose their cultural look.

Many a times you’ll meet this couples along the streets or in events dressed in a matching attire preferably one with an African touch. The world has come to accept our ways of dressing and our fashion sense that’s why you’ll not miss a touch of African culture in two of five white’s wardrobe, who could have thought we would one day turn out to be influencers with our cultural wear.

The wide range of Africana fabrics makes it even more easier to rock them over and over again without overdoing it. The wide range of these fabrics include the khanga, Ankara, kitenge, dashiki, kitenge, kente, and gele. This fabric was in the olden days handwoven.one thing that has overtime stood out for this fabrics is that there were those colours that are produced to fit a specific group of people. What do I mean? There are the super bright colours that would go so well with the ladies, some calm colours that go well with the gentlemen, some patterns that blend in both the bright colours and the calm ones to bring out the couple shade for the couples.

Couples have in the recent days stood out with this Ankara designs to weddings ,church, dinner parties which is so sweet to see public display of affection that speaks itself out even without questioning its excistence.some of the designs include a shirt for the man and a matching dress for the lady, a kimono for the lady and a shirt for the man, and the most uncommon one is both of wearing a full African attire ,which if not carefully looked it you may seem to overdo the look remember you’d not want to look like you are also being too much.

Remember to rock the African attire lets uphold our African culture in a modernized way, I still feel the African look is super beautiful and out of this world. WE ARE AFRICAN, AFRICAN IS WE, AFRICAN IS BEAUTIFUL.

Superbike frenzy!

Events,

Wanjiru Njoroge

The Nairobi Motor show is an annual event that is organized to bring together bike owners and bike lovers to bond over their love for these mean machines.

This year, the event was held at the Two Rivers mall along Limuru road in Ruaka, and despite the cold rainy weather, people would be seen streaming in the location excited to be part of the fun.

Some bikes were displayed for sale while others owned by bike enthusiastic biker who wanted to show their skills of being able to pimp their bikes. You could clearly see most people loved the vibe tires screeching, rubber burning, horns blaring and the icing to this show casing cake was the smoke emitting from the exhausters.

Despite all that and the event being really nice, I wouldn’t help but notice there was a poor choice of location, the venue is a mall and despite it being held at their field, walking around back in the mall I would see that not all shoppers were happy about the noise.

All in all the event was fun, and being a nerd that I am who is super into mean machines, it’s something I would recommend people to attend especially if you are into buying , selling or you just want to interact with other bike enthusiast

It’s the little things that keep a nerd like me happy.

Groove concert 2019

gospel, , , , ,

Brian Mureithi

Mojji Shortbaba perfoming at the Groove Concert 2019
 

The Groove concert 2019 was held on the 23rd June 2019 at the Citam church, Buruburu. It attracted a huge crowd from all over Nairobi.

Timeless Noel

The superstars- filled stage made it hard for anyone to afford missing out on the event.

Some of the main acts included: MojjiShortbaba, Timeless Noel, Jabidii, DJ Mo,Alemba, Daddy Owen, Ken the dj,Guardian Angel,Baraka Music, Desito, Mc Hearts, Hype Gad and many more.

Hype Gad with a friend

Groove networks is the biggest gospel event’s organizer in East and Central Africa. They have organized events that have attracted massive audiences. Some of these events include: Groove Awards, Groove Party and Groove concerts.

The main aim of this event was to give thanks to God for everything He has done for our country and to also thank everyone who made the “Groove awards 2019” a success.

DJ Mo

“I am so glad to be here today and to give my fans what they deserved. It’s a good show and I can’t seem to wait for next year. I’d also want to say ‘thank you’ to all my fans for voting for me.” Timeless Noel was nominated for six different categories and won three.

  • Desito

Generally, the Groove Thanksgiving Concert 2019 was a total success and would be rated 4/5stars.

Alemba(in red) with a friend.

For the love of jazz

Events, ,

Wanjiru Njoroge

The music can be heard blaring from a distance as I approach the scene it’s the Safaricom jazz festival event that is sponsored by Safaricom that was held at carnivore grounds. It’s a classy subtle and amazing event. It’s the perfect place to catch up with friends and family over amazing food and great music.

So as we get in into the event my squad is very excited on stage Two-time Grammy award winner Marcus Miller will headline the Safaricom International Jazz Festival they are playing a number from their album that talks about Africa and its beauty its infused with amazing melodies from the trumpet, the crowd is having fun and looks good dressed in Ankara the theme for this year.

Safaricom being the largest mobile service provider in Kenya always find a way of giving back to the community at the same time it mingles with their customers the tickets are quite affordable with regular tickets going for 1500 Kenyan shillings each and student’s tickets go for 500 Kenyan shillings, this ensures an inclusive nature that Safaricom aims at show casing in fact their slogan is Nawe kila wakati and even better they are to donate the proceedings to the ghetto classics  which is a community based program that aims to transform lives of over 650 children in Korogocho, Huruma, Dandora and Mukuru kwa Reuben, as well as students from Farasi Lane Primary School and Muthangari Primary School in Nairobi

The intricacy of the event is how it’s meant to be a family event they allow food from outside and encourages a picnic approach where family and friends come together and share a meal over great music. The most fascinating thing I noticed is how people from different races, age brackets , gender and economic classes all come together just for the love of jazz.

My squad is busy dancing and enjoying the day away, as I take a walk I can see tents some have food others drinks but what caught my eye was the ma soko tent, ma soko is an mobile application that was created to make online shopping easy, this is an amazing way to network with the customers and improve sales.

Safaricom being a cooperate also aims itself at giving back to the community and what better way to do so than hold such an event on international jazz day it’s a way of celebrating culture music, friendship and interactions on not only a local level but an international level. This s an amazing way to close the global bridge and unite the world on what better way than a language that is understood by all and that is the language of music.

The event is great way to network and build a better society, I would recommend that you should attend the next event and have an amazing time with friends, family or even a loved one trust me its value for your money.

Stilettos Of Hopelessness!!

Fashion, ,

Simpson Moraa

‘Resilience and hard work will get you everywhere but keep your dignity above all is the only advice id give any lady out there that wants to venture into modelling’. This were the words of Jedidiah Ondigi who is both a lawyer and a professional model when I sort to know her story throughout this journey.

By just looking at the beautiful ladies participating in beauty pageants you and I would assume that this could be the easiest things to do. I mean who can’t walk and smile right? But that’s definitely not my thought after talking to Jedidiah as She narrates how her journey has been.

For Jedidiah she started her journey a model while in high school at statehouse girls high and would participate in inter-house and inter-classes beauty pageants. But she decided to take it up seriously while at the university. When I sort to know whether she does it as a full time or leisure time activity she said “I wouldn’t call it leisure. Am both a lawyer and a model by profession. I just find a way to do both without interfering with either”

Well she has managed to participate in so many pageants among which are MR &MISS Kabarak 2013 which was for the lack of a better term her stepping stone in her modelling career and opportunities started to open up. Other beauty pageants she participated in are MR&MISS campuses Nakuru county where she won. Later she participated in Miss Culture Nakuru which she also came out victorious. She also participated in Miss red cross Nakuru and Miss tourism Nakuru she managed to be first runners up in both. This so far is what we would call the pick of her career.

She narrates that the journey has not been as easy as it may sound since this particular field is really corrupt.it is also a bit costly especially when you don’t have a source of income to get the clothes and attires not to mention the gowns to participate in competitions.it comes to a [point that even designers ask for sexual advances from various people in the industry. And on a 2% basis you’d find someone who is willing to help you in your journey contrary to the 98% that will need something in return. And I was left wondering so what next for the ladies that want to go into modelling?

She however works as a freelance model since in our country the modelling agencies are either too expensive or depends on who you know and worse comes to worse you are asked for sexual favours. This statement totally broke my heart and I wondered if the government is doing anything to support the said field and the response was even more saddening.

With a sad curve on her face she said ‘our government is in the least involved except for the few pageants they get to organise that are obviously rigged or all the money put out for these selfish human beings ‘When I thought I had heard it all then she said ‘as a country we have a long way to go’. With all these I was left wondering if the government cannot be on the front line to support our young youths to make it in fields of interest then unfortunately I feel like we are failing as a nation.

After listening to how fierce this lady is I was curious to know who she looks up to, and once again she didn’t disappoint. She looks up to Naomi Campbell, who is an English model, actress, and businesswoman. Recruited at the age of 15, established herself amongst the most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s] and was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press.However,In a few years to come she hopes to own one of the biggest modelling agencies in Kenya that will be out to protect models from the various challenges they face.