Snacks

[Heather S.]

Can you eat a mid-morning snack (in between breakfast and lunch) or are you just supposed to drink water until lunch?

[Mango]

Can you eat a mid-morning snack (in between breakfast and lunch) or are you just supposed to drink water until lunch?

Hi, Heather. You need to just have the banana(s) and water for "breakfast," but if you let 30 minutes pass after that and you are still hungry, you can eat something else. The example that is given in the original book was that at the start of the diet Hamachi (who is a man) ate four bananas for breakfast at 6:00 a.m. (he wakes up early), and then at 8:30 a.m. he ate a "o-nigiri," which is a fistfull of rice with some fish and nori seaweed wrapper.

Here's an o-nigiri (two, actually) in a bento box for scale to show how much food it is.

http://morningbanana.com/images/onigiri-bento.jpg

Photo (CC) mismisimos (http://flickr.com/photos/mismisimos/1179184868/sizes/o/)

Then he worked until noon for lunch. As he got more used to the diet his banana consumption dropped to two or three and he didn't eat the o-nigiri. During maintenance, he ate two bananas and added an o-nigiri when he was hungry, about twice a week.

I figure an o-nigiri might be about 200 calories, maybe more, but they are really filling. Someone came up with the idea of a bowl of popcorn as a similarly filling snack. Or it could be bread of some sort.

[Kyon]

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f386/PoppyBrown/Onigiri.jpg
This onigiri I made is filled with teriyaki veggie chicken. The notebook is one of the small pocket sized ones, so the onigiri wasn't too big but was filling. I kept the nori seperate so it didn't get soggy.

[Kyo1gackt]

usually for my snacks I eat toast, fruit, crackers and cheese, or a bun of some sort.

[LeighA]

Glad to hear that snacks are okay I wasn't sure bananas would take me all the way to lunch time. Would a small bowl of oatmeal or grits be okay?

[shyningwaterfal3]

We have been conditioned to think starve yourself when we hear diet. I glad this diet is straight forward and say to eat. It makes it easier to start and stick to it.