The Banana Diet

The Banana Diet is a weight loss diet that was popular in Japan in 2008. It is an amazingly simple diet if you need to lose weight naturally. Bananas are high in fiber and aids weight loss, also high in potassium and increase the process of digestion.

The first time I heard about this I was like wow! The beautiful thing is I LOVE BANANAS and I thought this should be put to good use. I was actually enjoying my bananas, it was fun and beneficial…yes it worked for me and I think you should give it a try. Here are the simple rules for the simple and easy to follow BANANA DIET

 

Eat a banana for breakfast

• You can eat more than one, and in fact the inventor of the diet often ate four small bananas in the morning. Don’t stuff yourself to the point of fullness or discomfort.
• Eat only raw, uncooked, unfrozen bananas.
• Other fruit may be substituted.
• If other fruit is substituted, then be restricted to one type of fruit per meal.
• If you are still hungry 15 or 30 minutes after your banana, you can eat other food and half hours later, about 200 calories worth.

Eat normally for lunch and dinner

• Dinner must be eaten by 8 p.m. at the latest (6 p.m. is better).
• There are no explicit limits on the types of food you can eat for lunch and dinner, or the amount. But try to cut the amount of you eat and find substitutions for fried foods.
• However, you should not eat a dessert with dinner or any of your meals.
• At all meals you should eat only until you’re satisfied but not full or stuffed.

 

Drink only water
 

 

• The only beverage allowed at most meals is water.
• The water must be at room temperature, not chilled or hot.
• The water should be drunk in small sips and not used to wash down food.
• There is no quota of water to drink, and you should not drink it in excess.
• Outside of meals non-caloric beverages like tea, coffee, and diet soda are generally allowed but somewhat frowned upon, and in general water is encouraged as much as possible; frequent consumption of milk products is discouraged.
• On social occasions you may drink wine.

You may eat any afternoon snack

• A sweet snack of chocolate, cookies, or the like is allowed at about 3 p.m.
• Ice cream, a donut, or potato chips are not recommended.
• Some substitute fresh fruit for their snack, but if you want sweets you should not deny yourself.
• If you are hungry after dinner, you may have a second snack of fresh fruit, but this should not be a habit.

Go to bed early
 

 

• Go to bed by midnight. If you can manage to go to bed earlier, better.
• Try to aim for a four-hour period between your last meal or snack and bedtime (which is why 8:00 p.m. is the latest you should eat dinner).

Exercise only if you want to
 

 

• Put no pressure on yourself to exercise.
• If you want to exercise, go ahead: the test is to do what puts the least stress on you.
• But try to get some walking in every day if possible (but again, don’t force yourself if it stresses you out).

I love natural foods and its best when you lose weight the natural way. It makes you healthy and at the same time you achieve your goals.
 

Stay Healthy.

 
 

Source: Morning Banana Diet