Want to loose some weight? Read this

Trying to loose weight? Good for you. you're on the right path. Here's a meal plan you can adopt that won't make you feel like you are starving yourself as it contains 3 meals and 2 snacks.
please note however that the first thing is to know where you are, where youre going and how long it will take you to get there. that way you know how many calories to budget for your daily consumption.
Also, please note that while a balanced, healthy diet is great, you need to combine it with a healthy lifestyle, (sleep and rest properly), exercise best suited for your health state and lifestyle, and regular detoxification.
please study the food pyramid below and adopt it to suit you.
Xoxo
Olubunmi
 

BREAKFAST
3 servings grains
1 serving fruit
1 serving protein
1 serving dairy
SNACK
1 serving fruit
LUNCH
4 servings grains
1 serving fruit
2 servings vegetables
1 serving protein
1 serving dairy
1 serving fat (if not at dinner)
SNACK
1 serving vegetables
DINNER
2 servings grains
1 serving vegetables
2 servings protein
1 serving fat (if not at lunch)

What is a Serving?

The Food Guide Pyramid shows you how many servings from each major food group you should eat each day. How much is a serving? Read this to see how much food counts as a serving in each food group.

Preschool children need the same variety but may eat smaller servings. Preschoolers need two cups of milk or two servings of other milk products each day.

Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta

• 1 slice of bread OR
• ½ cup of cooked cereal, rice, or pasta OR
• 1 ounce of ready-to-eat cereal

Vegetables

• ½ cup of cooked or chopped raw vegetables OR
• ¾ cup of vegetable juice OR
• 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables

Fruits

• 1 apple, banana, or orange OR
• ¾ cup of fruit juice OR
• ½ cup of chopped, cooked, or canned fruit

Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, and Nuts

• 2 to 3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish.

You can use other foods in place of meat. Eating one of these foods is the same as eating 1 ounce of meat:

• ½ cup of cooked dry beans OR
• 1 egg OR
• 2 tablespoon of peanut butter

Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese

• 1 cup of milk
• 1 ½ to 2 ounces of cheese
• 1 cup of yogurt

Taken from "Tickle Your Appetite," Team Nutrition's Education Kit for Child Care. A program of the Food and Nutrition Services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FNS-307; July 1998.

Lupita Nyogo is new lancome girl

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Arin's Introduction

Over the weekend, Arin had her introduction at Eleyele ibadan and i was contracted to make her look beautiful. In her words "please i want to look gorgeous o, my husband's people are coming from lagos and i want to make a good impression"
And this was what she got. I hope you think it's gorgeous.

If you like it, you can book your own events too. please call 07031609253 or add bb pin 7bb0af73.

till next time,

stay beeyoutiful

xoxo
Olubunmi

Makeup tutorial: Ombre lips

Ombre is a french word meaning shaded or graduated in tone. So ombre lips mean to apply your lip colour in a graduated manner. either from top to bottom or from outside to inside. today i'm doing an ombre lip design that is easy and very wearable. enjoy the pictures.

Step 1:

apply a dark coloured lip liner along your natural lip line. (if you have big lips, you can disguise them by lining inside your lip line)

Make the lip liner thicker at the corners of your mouth

use a lip brush to blend the liner

pick a very light lip colour

apply it in generous quantity 

apply the lip colour to the center of your lips only

blend both lips together

here's what it should look like

You can use any colour but make sure your lip liner is a deeper shade of your lipstick colour.

Try it and send me pictures will you?

Till next time,

stay beeyoutiful!

xoxo 

Olubunmi

Beauty in your garden: Aloevera as a face primer

Hi people. Remember in my last post I said I was going to write more about how I used aloe Vera for my bride, Ronke?  Here's the full gist.
I lost my eye primer (more like it was stolen) and Ronke's wedding was impromptu,  so I needed a quick fix. I decided to do a research online about homemade primers.
I discovered a lot of articles about Aloe Vera mixed with concealer and moisturizer. I found this particular one that talked about using aloe Vera alone as a face primer. I tried this on my face after cleansing, toning and moisturizing, and the effect was surprising.
It felt like using a silicone based, mattifying primer only this one was devoid of chemicals and didn't make my face feel dry and taught but just nicely matte.
I decided to try it on Ronke and I did, I loved the result. She initially wanted a touch up before reception but later realized it was absolutely unnecessary.
Of course I'm still going to be using my store bought eye and face primers but I recommend this to anyone who has sensitive or acne prone skin and is looking for a natural fix.
That's it for now.
Till next time,
Stay beeyoutiful!

that's me with aloevera as my primer. For Ronke's pictures, read my blog post on Ronke's wedding in Ife

PS.

i used aloevera mixed with lemonlite oil vanishing moisturizer (available at Bee's Signatures) and a little bit of black opal cocealer as an eye primer for Ronke.

Ronke: 14th June 2014

Hiya. How are you doing?  This weekend I took a trip to the ancient city of Ile Ife for Ronke's white wedding. I got a BBM invite from her on Thursday just 2 days before the wedding and on acceptance I got to know that her makeup artist who was supposed to come with her from Abuja couldn't for health reasons. I would otherwise have declined because it was such short notice and I had to travel out of ibadan but I didn't have much to do that morning and I just felt I should oblige.  So I did.
Ronke was so calm and just grateful I was able to come at such short notice. She had been my Facebook friend for years but was scared to contract me cause she was afraid my fees would be out of her reach! (Dear bride,  contact me let me know your budget, if it works for me, I'll let you know, if not, we can still work something out)
So back to our gist. She was calm but worried about her hair which was poorly fixed and styled by a stylist resident in ife. I finished her makeup and graciously helped restyle her hair. Apart from the fact that it would reflect badly on my own makeup pictures, I didn't like that she was sad on her big day.
Here's the final look and products used:
I worked on her brows which she had left to grow,  prepared her face by cleansing and toning with clean and clear cleanser and toner, used lemon lite even tone moisturizer.  After that I primed her face with pure Aloe Vera gel. (Fantastic mattifying yet sleek primer. I'll write on it in a bit).
I applied Revlon liquid colorstay foundation in cappuccino using a stippling brush.
For her eyes I used a mixture of Aloe Vera and moisturizer as a primer then used a pearly bronzy brown from my d'cleo bridal palette on her lids, I used dark pink on the crease, and ivory in the inner corners of the eyes. On the outer V I used the darker brown in the Zaron eyebrow kit and the lighter one to blend the whole look together.  Then used the ivory right under the brow as highlights.
On her cheeks I used a deep pink black opal blush while I used ginger to set the cheek contour.
For her lips, I lined and filled in with a light pink SHE pencil cause she has dark lips, then I used loreal natural pink lipstick and topped it up with a pink beauty rush gloss.
The whole look was set with Maybelline clear smooth powder.
Here's wishing her a happy married life.

Palm oil?

Most African foods makes use of palm oil in preparing their soup or stew and even frying. It is considered a necessity in almost every Kitchen.

Palm oil and palm kernel oil are high in calories and saturated fat. One table-spoon of palm oil has 120 calories. So you can imagine that when cooking especially making soup. Palm oil contain saturated fat of 6.7g, polyunsaturated fat 1.3g and monounsaturated fat 5g. All making up 13.6g. Due to the high fat and calories content in palm oil, avoid using Palm Oil when not necessary maybe frying and the likes, and if you must, use only a small quantity. Remember, for any meal you prepare to eat, just by adding one tablespoon of palm oil, you have added 120 calories already.

So watch out on this. Likewise look out for the list of ingredient when you buy branded product such as plantain chips and the likes as most makers use palm oil.

Great advise for people trying to lose weight with African food or want to live a healthy lifestyle with African diet is to cut their consumption of palm oil but rather make use of extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil when cooking as it has been scientifically proven to burn fat. Olive oil seems to be readily more available in our market than coconut oil.

So, enjoy cooking and eating healthy with low-fat oil.
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The Easiest Way to Burn 600 EXTRA Calories a Week And you won’t even work up a sweat

What if you could work off that slice of pizza without doing a single squat? Good news: You can. You can burn more than 40 calories per hour just by standing, according to a new study at the University of Chester in the U.K.

In a small study of 10 office workers, researchers asked the volunteers to stand up while working for at least three hours each day for a week. They found that standing raised their heart rates just enough that they burned an extra 0.7 calories per minute, or 42 calories per hour. It might not seem like much, but standing for three extra hours a day during the work week adds up to 630 calories burned!

So aside from hiding your chair, how can you log more standing hours? First, ask your company if they’ll allow you to buy or build a standing desk. If not, you can always try these simple tweaks to get off your butt for at least three hours every day and stand up for your health:

Stand up while watching your favorite fall show. It’s more suspenseful that way anyway, we swear.

Give up your seat on the bus or train. Good karma and good glutes.

Browse your iPad while standing up. It’s portable for a reason—get off the couch.

Grab a high-top table at a restaurant. Bonus: They usually have less of a wait, too.

Eat breakfast standing at the kitchen counter. You’re in a hurry anyway, aren’t you?

Take phone calls standing up. And at home, walk around while talking.

Chop produce at home (while standing) instead of buying pre-cut veggies. Plus, these are way cheaper than the already-cut packages.

Stand up to do mundane chores (like paying bills/answering emails/etc.). Chances are you’ll be even more efficient.  

 culled from http://www.womenshealthmag.com

FOTD: Sultry spring time look

Hi folks thanks for stopping by. I wore a muted sultry spring look yesterday and I got a lot of oohs and ahhs. So i decided to do a blog post on it. Here are the products i used and the techniques as well. If you would like to see a video of it, please send me a mail or make a comment via www.beessignature.blogspot.com.
Products used:
Moisturizer: extra virgin coconut oil (yes I've got combination skin but coconut oil seeps into the skin so no fear of shine. It's fab and on sale at our studio)
Face primer: milk of magnesia
Foundation: Revlon colorstay for combination to oily skin, cappuccino
Set with Zarina loose powder nz25
Highlights: black opal stick foundation,  nutmeg ser with Ben nye banana powder
Contours: Revlon colorstay in mocha and black opal stick foundation in carob set with contour kit
Brows: jordana twist up pencil and zaron brow kit
Eyelid: zaron browkit
Crease: red shadow in sleek limited edition palette, zaron brow kit dark brown
Outer v: black matte sleek shadow
Lip: island beauty pink soufflé
Mascara: NYC volume max
Liner: maybelline collosal kajal
Setting powder: milani mineral

I started with my brows, then went on to do my foundation,  highlighting and contouring.  I eft the Ben nye powder to set on my highlights while working on my eyes. This will also serve as a catcher for loose shadow fall offs.
To get a sharp edge, I used plaster ri set out an edge at the outer corner of my eye.
I started with the red color in my crease as the transition color then put the brown over it and on my eyelid. Lastly I put the black at the outer edge and blended all together.  I actually did not use a primer. Just damp brushes.
I lined with my kajal and added my mascara. At this point, I dusted of the Ben nye powder
I used my foundation as a base for my lips, the added a bit of the pink soufflé I iwanted a nude effect and I think I nailed it.
Lastly I set the whole look with my milani powder.
And that's it!
Like I said earlier, if you want a video tutorial just Holla and I'll
Make it happen.
Xoxo