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September 1st, 2008, 11:30 PM
This month's issue of the Japanese diet magazine Fytte (http://fytte.kurasse.jp/) makes several references to the Morning Banana Diet (which I'll try to post later), but the main one is an interview with "girls" cartoon (manga) creator Yukari Ichijo (http://chorus.shueisha.co.jp/yukan/room/). Her manga have been the basis for television dramas in Japan.
Ms. Ichijo is 58 and is a self-confessed lifetime dieter, jumping from diet to diet (it must be working, because she isn't really that overweight). Lately she has been on the Morning Banana diet, and has lost 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) in a month.
Being the grizzled diet veteran that she is, Ms. Ichijo couldn't just do the Morning Banana as is, so she customized it a bit. Her version:
Breakfast. Two bananas with room temperature water.
Lunch. She alternates between:
A vegetable-heavy dish with brown rices
Bifun Chinese noodles (rice noodles) with fish sausage (a sort of wiener made from ground whitefish) and vegetables on top
Dinner. A meat dish with some vegetables, avoiding any carb-heavy food or processed carbs.
Her theory is that you should eat stuff that you want to eliminate from your body by noon, and after noon you should only eat stuff that you want to stay in your body, in the form of new muscle.
Ms. Ichijo is 58 and is a self-confessed lifetime dieter, jumping from diet to diet (it must be working, because she isn't really that overweight). Lately she has been on the Morning Banana diet, and has lost 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) in a month.
Being the grizzled diet veteran that she is, Ms. Ichijo couldn't just do the Morning Banana as is, so she customized it a bit. Her version:
Breakfast. Two bananas with room temperature water.
Lunch. She alternates between:
A vegetable-heavy dish with brown rices
Bifun Chinese noodles (rice noodles) with fish sausage (a sort of wiener made from ground whitefish) and vegetables on top
Dinner. A meat dish with some vegetables, avoiding any carb-heavy food or processed carbs.
Her theory is that you should eat stuff that you want to eliminate from your body by noon, and after noon you should only eat stuff that you want to stay in your body, in the form of new muscle.