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Swallow math: the fist rule

How to keep eba, amala and pounded yam — and still lose weight.

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Coach (Founder)

Founder & lived-experience coach

A fist-size wrap of eba is roughly 300+ calories. Most of us eat two or three without noticing, before we count the soup.

More soup vegetables, less swallow — same satisfaction.
More soup vegetables, less swallow — same satisfaction.

The fist rule

  • •Make ONE wrap the size of your fist before you sit down.
  • •Dish your soup from the bottom of the pot — the oil floats on top.
  • •Ask for extra vegetables and one more piece of protein instead of a second wrap.
  • •Eat slowly. Put the morsel down between bites.

What helped me

Weigh your swallow for one week and you’ll never need to again.

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