Food in Namibia - not losing any weight

I think most people know that I'm a very picky eater and have some very strange ideas about food. If I don't like the smell or texture, I probably won't even try it. Here I thought that I would lose weight during my trip but the food for the most part has been very, very good. I've amazed myself with some of the things I've been eating. Now, I won't go as far as trying the grubs that are suppost to be a delicacy. Namibia is very much a meat loving country. At the volunteer lodge, they have a veggie meal on Mon/Wed & Fri but all other nights are meat nights. The don't use beef too much. Here I though I was eating ground beef in the shepherds pie or lasagne only to find out it was wild meat. I've had Kudu, Oryx, Springbox and Zebra. Didn't care for the Zebra (a bit fatty) but loved the other 3. They usually have a rice or pasta dish but one night it was melipot which is ground up corn and it looks a bit like mashed potatos. Unfortunately most of the salads were tomatoes & cucumbers. Tomatos are still one of the veggies that I will only eat cooked. Where's the lettuce? By the 3rd week I was saying I die to have a hunk of iceberg lettuce. Mom would be proud that I was even eating most of the cooked veggies. My one disappointment was not having a nightly dessert. Dessert is my favorite part of the meal. Luckily they sold chocolate bars and I picked up a few boxes of cookies when I was in town so I could have a bit for my sweet tooth. I'm hoping that any weight I may have gained will be lost during my time in East Africa. Volunteer breakfast was just coffee/tea and cereal (Corn Flakes or All Bran). The toaster was broken for the 1st 2 weeks. Charlie was so nice to pick me up a bag of granola and a carton of o.j. for me when he went to town so I could have my daily glass of o.j. Lunch was usually sandwiches, a pasta salad or soup with great homemade bread/buns. Since the volunteer numbers were constantly changing, so times we had loads left over and othe times I don't think we all got a full plate so I picked up some chips and pretzels in town. Braai's are very popular for Namibians. They are BBQs and they usually do up a shishkabob of meat, fat, onions, peppers. I was asked one night why I didn't eat the fat cubes since I guess the locals think that's the best part. I think that's gross and think that most of use figured it was just for the flavouring during the cooking process. My family knows I cut off every little bit of fat off of any meat including bacon.