March 29, 2024

I have been seeing a lot of info today on something called the morning banana diet.

What is the Morning Banana Diet?

The idea of the morning banana diet is that first thing in the morning you eat a banana and a glass of water and somehow miraculously you will lose weight. does this even make sense?

  • You can eat more than one, and in fact the inventor of the diet often ate four bananas in the morning, but don’t stuff yourself to the point of fullness or discomfort.
  • Eat only raw, uncooked, unfrozen bananas.
  • If other fruit is substituted, some variants require it be restricted to one type of fruit per meal.
Morning Banana Diet
Morning Banana Diet

Well first of all bananas are a fairly low water fruit and therefore have a lot more carbs then most other fruits for the same amount.

Actually triathaletes and other distance type athletes have been eating bananas for many many years to get energyt in the middle of a race.

Just because of this I have to doubt that eating a banana in the morning is going to spur loss.

Sorry to burst anyones bubble but the morning banana diet is probably more of a scam than anything as the real way to lose is to restrict your diet and get more exercise.

If you are looking for some real constructive ideas on getting healthier and losing in the process then you should probably sign up for the 21 day email fitness program on the top right of this page.

It will teach you a lot more than a banana and a glass of water as a form of loss.

6 thoughts on “Morning Banana Diet

  1. Banana is good to boost your potassium and for women when they are cranky it helps to level the hormones, but water and banana first thing in the morning sounds weird! first thing in the morning is a nice hot cup of tea or coffee!

  2. Lee asked for actual fact, so here’s fact: Bananas help people lose because they contain resistant starch, which ferments in your large intestine, creating by-products that block conversion of some carbohydrates into fuel, so replacing ordinary carbs with the resistant starch in bananas can boost fat burning. And banana fiber bulks up in your stomach, so you feel full for longer.

    Of course a healthy way to do the banana diet includes exercise. I like the science-based version at http://www.dolenutrition.com/bananadiet/bananadiet.htm

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