Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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Japan's Morning Banana Diet
Good luck finding bananas in Japan! Last year, the newest fad diet emerged in Japan: the morning banana diet. Some celebrity lost a lot of weight through this method and started a huge craze. But nation-wide banana shortages? Wow.
This youtube video will describe the morning banana diet to you:
I was looking through other youtube videos. I disagreed with a lot of them, except this one:
The speaker is a registered dietitian. I apologize for being lazy and just posting the video, but this dietitian really hits everything I wanted to say.
I think this morning banana diet is similar to the Special K challenge. You are essentially replacing your breakfast with a healthy, well portion-sized meal. But your diet success will depend a lot on what you normally eat for breakfast and what you eat at the other meals of the day. If you normally eat cookies for breakfast and then replaced cookies with one banana, you will probably lose weight if you keep your other meals/snacks the same because bananas have less calories than cookies. But with these diets, just because you eat a healthy breakfast does not mean that you can eat whatever you want throughout the rest of the day.
For me...
1 banana for breakfast + [Tons of pizza, French fries, cheesecake the rest of the day] = probably weight gain
1 banana for breakfast + [Sensible, well-portion-sized lunch and dinner] = maintained weight, *maybe* weight loss depending on my calorie expenditureRemember that [calories in = calories out]! Bananas are not some kind of magical fruit. I wonder if the same kind of fad diet could have emerged with apples or oranges. Losing weight requires one to burn more calories that he consumes overall!
I had heard about this diet before, but didn't think about posting about it until patsy_choco told me several of her friends were on this diet and she wanted to know my opinion on it. I think it's funny... because I'm a real foodie. I would love to go to Japan! And when I do go to Japan one day, I sure won't be eating something as mediocre as bananas!
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i heard that just sniffing bananas can help you lose weight (if you are dieting properly)
every time you put "Japan" on your blog, I always have to zip over here. haha! I love how there's banana shortages just because people want to diet
I bought like 7 bananas yesterday so I could eat healthier foods for breakfast!
On the first youtube video- I remember seeing that "asa banana diet" book (the first book you see in the vid) in a bookstore- it was one of the books in the front of the store, since people bought it a lot. I just liked the cover.
Done right, I can see how people may think that this diet will help them lose weight. My main problem is that after they lose the weight, they'll start back with their unhealhty habits and gain it back. Not to mention eating a few bananas in the morning is not going to work off the hamburgers and fries and milkshakes and other crap they may eat throughout the day.
In my opinion, in order to truly lose weight, you have to make healthy lifestyle choices that you can keep up with even after you lose all the weight you want.
Drinking warm water in the morning makes me poop an hour or two later. It's great.
bananas are good to eat for breakfast if I ever have an early tennis match
I find when I eat bananas or startch for breakfast...I get hungry exactly 2 hours later.
I usually stick with seeds, nuts and fruit (anything BUT bananas) for breakfast.
LOL!! That's hilarious! Thanks for posting that! When you go to Japan, I guarantee you will love it....!! Honestly, when I traveled there, 2.5 weeks was not enough time to enjoy and take in everything... The food is absolutely delish!!
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This is a really funny post. And very informative.. I can't believe theres a banana shortage in Japan!!!! The people there are already really thin, aren't they?!
Can't bananas be substituted for another fruit? Or are the contents in bananas suppose to be better for weight loss? I've heard that you shouldn't eat that many bananas!!!!
Anyhow, thanks for the post Takecare!
Banana shortage?? Wow, that's intense! Your blogs are always so informative and interesting! Thanks for posting!
I remember in elementary school, a teacher was telling my class about a man who ate nothing but bananas, got potassium poisoning and died.
Death is usually a very successful method of weight loss.
I've heard fruits are very hard to come by in Japan since they obviously don't have much acreage for agriculture and the government doesn't subsidize foods like they do here. Aren't the fruits there ridiculously expensive?
I like my potassium with iodine.
ahahaha I came across this diet a few months back when I was doing some research for my thesis and could not help but laugh. Man that dietitian is a real trooper because she gave you the pg rated version of what I would of said if someone asked me for advice related to this absurd diet.
it didn't work for me, but it worked for some people on soompi forums =[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FelU33ndg8M
apparently "she lost 7.8 kilograms and actually grew 1.9 inches in bust after 158 days" coz of some other boob-voluminizing exercise she did.
http://en.asabanana.net/ i think this is very cute HAHA
seriously? eat as many bananas as I want?
I probably need 3 to fill me up and that's already more calories than my usual breakfast
My host mom did that. Back when I did a homestay in Japan, I noticed that all my host mom ate was a banana for breakfast. I asked her why and she said it was because she was on a diet.
Bananas are strangely filling, regardless that my stomach is a bottomless pit. D:
I would try it sometime, if only I stopped waking up during lunchtime... LOL
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I usually have 1/4 cup of lowfat cottage cheese with celery and raisons for breakfast.
I think switching to a banana would make me gain :/
Oh, Christ, I heard about this on The Doctors. Over course, I didn't believe it then because that show's a crock pot.
@Mcon - hahahah dying of bananas..... there was this dude dat died cuz he ate 2kgs of lychees .. it was one of the news headlines a few years back~
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@negativetwenty - I doubt the properties in bananas have helped these people lose weight. I think it'd be the same deal and hype if it was apples or oranges! Just sort of funny that there is such hype over just bananas lol. People in Japan are quite slim. And their average life spans are very high too. I think they generally just eat way less than Americans. I've heard of a lot of Americans losing weight when they move to japan, just b/c the general portion sizes are much smaller!
@mZdejavuZ - I would love to stay as long as possible, but I heard that it's quite pricey over there! Yea for sure 2.5 weeks doesn't sound like it would be enough!
@i_Nutrition - Oh yes, you're right -- it is quite pricey over there. So it's probably a good idea to save up before you go! Either way, I'm positive you will enjoy it very much!
hey cool info thanks!