5 Ways to Lose Weight Eating Ghanaian Food
Let me tell you about my friend Akua. She loves banku. Loves it. But last year, a "fitness influencer" on Instagram told her banku was the enemy. So she quit. She started eating lettuce and drinking green smoothies. Two weeks later, she was miserable, broke from buying imported "diet foods," and back at the chop bar ordering extra shito.
Here is the truth they don't tell you: You can lose weight without saying goodbye to fufu, kenkey, or your mother's groundnut soup. The problem is rarely the food itself. It is how we eat it, when we eat it, and what we add to it.
Here are five practical ways to shed the kilos while keeping your plate proudly Ghanaian.
1. Shrink the Banku, Not the Soup
The main issue with fufu, banku, and kenkey is not that they are evil. It is the portion size...
