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April 8th, 2009, 06:57 AM
This whole thing is kind of spooky to me.
Let me explain: Summer 2008 I was somewhere between 225 and 230 pounds. (broad shouldered 6'0" male 36yrs).
My snoring was stressing my marriage, nothing I tried fixed it, so I decided to lose weight as I often read that could help and I never snored when I was younger (fitter)
The only fresh fruit I can eat is citrus, melon, and bananas, all others must be cooked or processed or I will have a reaction that makes my throat close up.
In August I changed my diet, somewhat. I started eating more fruit. I stopped drinking anything but water and black coffee (difficult transition from 15 years of cream and sugar). I cut out chips, fries, chocolate completely. I mostly stopped snacking at night. I got a WII Fit and started tracking my progress and doing some of the workouts on it. In September I joined Karate, twice weekly workouts there.
For years I didn't eat breakfast. So now I started eating reduced lunches (instead of stuffing myself) often consisting of fruit. Mostly bananas because they were convenient.
Over time I started having a banana when I got to the office each day. Then another perhaps with an orange and a very small lunch, no-dressing salad or low-calorie soup, something like that. For snacks I turned to rice cakes or perhaps a fruit salad with melon and fresh pineapple. And I cut my portions at supper down to where I was satisfied but not really (over)full like I used to eat. On the road (business travel) I took rigid care to eat only low-fat, healthy type foods. At home, dinners were generally well balanced, but indiscriminant as to content, lasagna one day, stir fry the next, roast beef with mashed potatos and gravy, souvlaki with rice pitas and hummus... just a variety. Only I didn't pig out like I used to, just ate until I was satisfied, and wrapped up the rest, even when eating out in a restaurant.
Does all this sound familiar?
What's weird is, I never even heard of the "morning banana diet" until today. Yet, I've been essentially on it, for 7 months!
Near as I can tell, without knowing it, I've hit almost exactly on what the morning banana diet says to do in almost every respect. Except that I exercise strenuously 2-4 hours per week at Karate.
So, what's happened to me, in seven months?
I know exactly what my weight has done -- the Wii Fit keeps a graph for me. I weigh myself every morning at the same time in the same-weight clothes.
The results are, I'm now hovering between 189 and 190 pounds. The veins are back on my arms and shoulders. I don't snore. I haven't used my athsma inhaler (had one for 25 years) in a month and a half, even at Karate. My GERD (10+ years) seems to be gone, even though I've been off my prescription gastric acid inhibitor for 2 months and haven't touched my Gaviscon for even longer. My blood pressure is down from 140/90 to 125/80. I'm like some weird diet ad. My serious, chronic back pain issues are lessened, but still present, though I now see the chiropractor less -- he surely deserves much of that credit along with the simple physics of the weight loss.
It's so very weird for me now, to see this diet being advanced by people, when it's so incredibly close to mirroring what I've been doing, to great success I believe. Only, I believe firmly in the exercise component, and plan to add weight lifting twice a week to my regime.
One last thing -- the Wii keeps me informed, I know that eating a lot, late at night, puts immediate weight on the next day. The after 8pm component turns out to be important.
Now, I'm maintaining with what feels like no effort really at all. I don't feel deprived. I like black coffee now (plus its way more convenient), I don't crave pop. Potato chips are a bit hard, and I'll have a single handful sometimes in the late afternoon, and I try to solve the craving with multigrain nacho chips to help a bit with that. However I don't miss chocolate. I love being more fit!
And I'm not the least bit sick of bananas, oddly enough. As long as they aren't overripe.
I read online this was published in October on Japanese television. But I've been on it, by accident, since August. Does that make me one of the longest users of it? Even though I only found it today by accident while looking for info on organic vs regular bananas.
It's all very creepy... But in a good way.
Cheers
iX
Let me explain: Summer 2008 I was somewhere between 225 and 230 pounds. (broad shouldered 6'0" male 36yrs).
My snoring was stressing my marriage, nothing I tried fixed it, so I decided to lose weight as I often read that could help and I never snored when I was younger (fitter)
The only fresh fruit I can eat is citrus, melon, and bananas, all others must be cooked or processed or I will have a reaction that makes my throat close up.
In August I changed my diet, somewhat. I started eating more fruit. I stopped drinking anything but water and black coffee (difficult transition from 15 years of cream and sugar). I cut out chips, fries, chocolate completely. I mostly stopped snacking at night. I got a WII Fit and started tracking my progress and doing some of the workouts on it. In September I joined Karate, twice weekly workouts there.
For years I didn't eat breakfast. So now I started eating reduced lunches (instead of stuffing myself) often consisting of fruit. Mostly bananas because they were convenient.
Over time I started having a banana when I got to the office each day. Then another perhaps with an orange and a very small lunch, no-dressing salad or low-calorie soup, something like that. For snacks I turned to rice cakes or perhaps a fruit salad with melon and fresh pineapple. And I cut my portions at supper down to where I was satisfied but not really (over)full like I used to eat. On the road (business travel) I took rigid care to eat only low-fat, healthy type foods. At home, dinners were generally well balanced, but indiscriminant as to content, lasagna one day, stir fry the next, roast beef with mashed potatos and gravy, souvlaki with rice pitas and hummus... just a variety. Only I didn't pig out like I used to, just ate until I was satisfied, and wrapped up the rest, even when eating out in a restaurant.
Does all this sound familiar?
What's weird is, I never even heard of the "morning banana diet" until today. Yet, I've been essentially on it, for 7 months!
Near as I can tell, without knowing it, I've hit almost exactly on what the morning banana diet says to do in almost every respect. Except that I exercise strenuously 2-4 hours per week at Karate.
So, what's happened to me, in seven months?
I know exactly what my weight has done -- the Wii Fit keeps a graph for me. I weigh myself every morning at the same time in the same-weight clothes.
The results are, I'm now hovering between 189 and 190 pounds. The veins are back on my arms and shoulders. I don't snore. I haven't used my athsma inhaler (had one for 25 years) in a month and a half, even at Karate. My GERD (10+ years) seems to be gone, even though I've been off my prescription gastric acid inhibitor for 2 months and haven't touched my Gaviscon for even longer. My blood pressure is down from 140/90 to 125/80. I'm like some weird diet ad. My serious, chronic back pain issues are lessened, but still present, though I now see the chiropractor less -- he surely deserves much of that credit along with the simple physics of the weight loss.
It's so very weird for me now, to see this diet being advanced by people, when it's so incredibly close to mirroring what I've been doing, to great success I believe. Only, I believe firmly in the exercise component, and plan to add weight lifting twice a week to my regime.
One last thing -- the Wii keeps me informed, I know that eating a lot, late at night, puts immediate weight on the next day. The after 8pm component turns out to be important.
Now, I'm maintaining with what feels like no effort really at all. I don't feel deprived. I like black coffee now (plus its way more convenient), I don't crave pop. Potato chips are a bit hard, and I'll have a single handful sometimes in the late afternoon, and I try to solve the craving with multigrain nacho chips to help a bit with that. However I don't miss chocolate. I love being more fit!
And I'm not the least bit sick of bananas, oddly enough. As long as they aren't overripe.
I read online this was published in October on Japanese television. But I've been on it, by accident, since August. Does that make me one of the longest users of it? Even though I only found it today by accident while looking for info on organic vs regular bananas.
It's all very creepy... But in a good way.
Cheers
iX