The two-banana breakfast diet originated in Japan, according to Time.com. As fad diets go, this diet is not difficult to follow, unless you live in Japan. The diet's popularity caused banana shortages and price spikes when people of all ages in Japan started trying to shed excess pounds with this eating plan. Consult your physician before you try this diet for weight loss.
Diet Origin
This weight-loss plan suggests that you follow the regime developed by its inventor, Sumiko Watanabe, a pharmacist. She developed the diet for her husband, who reported a 38-lb. weight loss on one of Japan's largest social networking sites. The diet's following grew dramatically after a Japanese singer reported losing 15 lbs. in just six weeks.
Diet Guidelines
The two-banana diet has only a few restrictions and no calorie counting or exercise recommendations. The basic principle is eating only one or two bananas with room-temperature water for breakfast. Eat whatever you choose for lunch except desserts. The diet permits a mid-afternoon snack, but does not makes suggestions for calories or food group selections. The remaining guideline for this diet is that you must eat dinner by 8 p.m. The diet forbids after-dinner noshing and proposes that you be in bed before midnight.
Nutrition
Two small bananas with water puts your breakfast calorie total below 150 calories. The bananas provide 4 g of fiber and 38 g of carbohydrates, of which 20 g are sugar. You will also get 16 percent of your daily potassium requirement, 24 percent of the vitamin C and 10 percent of the magnesium requirement. Your two bananas will provide 2 g of protein.
Considerations
Your daily calorie intake, split between the remaining two daily meals, would be almost 1,000 calories per meal, for a 2,000-calorie diet. It is unlikely that the majority of people consume that many calories per meal consistently. The breakfast calorie reduction has the potential to help you lose weight, but it requires the elimination of valuable nutrients at each breakfast. With no guidelines for nutrient or calorie intake for the rest of the day, few people could successfully achieve healthy weight loss on this diet.
You might have difficulty staying on this diet unless you really love bananas. Even then, the repetitiveness might become overwhelming. The recommendation for a specific bedtime makes little sense, since the total number of hours of sleep is unknown.
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