Here are some banana diet tips and a warning. First off, the banana diet CAN help you to lose a lot of weight. But some people don’t do it right and when you do it wrong, it gets UGLY. So read this now to get things straight so you can enjoy losing weight on this really effective diet.
Banana Diet Tips and Warning
1. Warning: The banana diet has nothing to do with eating bananas as your main meal.
You’d be crazy if you ate bananas as your meals. Uh, you need protein and fats as well for your diet. If you ate nothing but bananas, you’d so many nutrient, mineral, and vitamin deficiencies. Besides, this would be pure torture to eat only bananas.
I know you’re more intelligent than that, but I just wanted to be sure for those who get a little too aggressive with their dieting tactics.
2. Tips – There are 2 ways to do this diet and a combination way
You can eat 2 bananas, 3 separate times a day as snacks between meals. You can eat 2 bananas with your meals… 1 before and 1 after each meal (I don’t advise this way). OR… you can do a combo in which you eat 1 banana with each of 3 meals and 1 banana 3 different times as a snack.
If I was to choose, I’d either do the first or third way… probably the 3rd way. Why? First, you need to use bananas as snacks. By using them just at your meals, you’d be opening up some problems when it comes time to snack between meals. So it’s vital to use them as snacks.
Also, it’s important to have them with meals because the live enzymes bananas contain help you to digest your foods better. Good digestive health is critically important for long term weight loss progress.
Simply put- you eat nothing but fruits the whole day. You may substitute your diet with juices or dry fruits, but the basic idea is to eat nothing but fruits. The concept of an all fruit diet basically came into the picture with the advent of detoxification diets, since fruits are know to have many vitamins and minerals they have been often included in many detox programs.
Does an all fruit diet help in losing weight?
No. Over the short term, a fruit diet does make you lose weight, mainly because you are starving your body of essentials cabs and proteins, but in the long run the effects of such a diet have no significant benefits. The reason being is that fruits have a high sugar content which eventually gets converted and stored as fat, thus the whole purpose of the weight loss diet is gone.
Can a fruit diet prove to be harmful?
Yes. If you go on such a diet for a long period of time the effects can be really disastrous. Even though fruits are know to have various vitamins and minerals, they do not provide a complete meal. A correct diet is one which includes various sources of proteins, carbs and fats- as these are all required by our body to function properly.
Then how often should a person eat fruits in day?
A good recommendation would be replace one ‘snack of the day’ completely with fruits. This ensures that the individual gets the necessary vitamins plus also helps in keeping his weight under check.
If I am on a detox diet, how long should I stay on only fruits?
Well the for the purpose of detoxification, fruits can really help in healing the body. Regarding how long you should stay on the diet, really depends on the kind of problem you are getting detoxed for. Though the maximum recommended time for any detox diet should not last more than 10 days, you should consult your doctor for more information.
