Ugandans and the weight loss struggle…
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Loading... - Bupe Ramadhani
- 17 Feb 2023
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They hit aerobic classes, then halted everything.
Hustle after hustle: In Uganda, we are guilty of every crime, but we plead innocent to just one crime; ‘inability to try’. We try everything. We try boutiques. We try vanilla farming. We shall try snail-farming. If tomorrow a report was produced that there is gold in potholes, there would be a pothole rush. We are in for everything.
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The old man in the hat thinks we are lazy, but not too lazy so as not to try. What have we not tried as Ugandans? We even tried COWE! Remember my friends? We went into an okra frenzy. Now we have entered full swing in Hass. Hass has become the new pine.
For this same reason, ‘weight positive’ Ugandans have taken this trial journey to ‘weight loss’. Weight loss is the new struggle. Well, it is always the new struggle at the start of every year. 2023 could be the year when the struggle bears some fruit.
1.Team foodie
The problem with Team Weight Loss is that Ugandans have cool ways of getting away with things. In Uganda, we do not have a food problem, we do not eat too much, we are just foodies. The Team that punches its way into Komamboga, the team that flexes at Kyadondo, is all united by one spirit; “the foodie spirit.” And that my friends is where all the problems start.
What exactly do you people mean when you say you are foodies? Is your hobby food? Your passion food? The first element of the struggle is to drop this foodie frenzy. No more identifying as foodies. I am talking to my banker friends. For some rare reason, every bank teller is a foodie. It is one area where Ugandan banks have scored. Banks revolutionised the snack business. If banks closed tomorrow, Uganda would flood with food. Read More…
