Banana Diet Experiment

Recently OtakuUpdate showed me a youtube video of this girl who tried out the banana diet. Apparently this diet was so popular in Japan last year that it was almost impossible to buy a banana in Japan when the book regarding the diet came out. Here are the rules to the banana diet:

1. Eat banana and drink room temperature water for breakfast. (you can have as many as you want until you are 80% full)
2. You can eat whatever lunch, snack, and dinner you want but only until 80% full
3. Eat your last meal before 8pm
4. No eating 4 hours before sleep time
5. Sleep by 12am
6. No consumption of dairy products or alcohol during the diet period.

I did some research online and found that the science behind losing weight through eating banana might come from the fact that bananas "are said to improve digestion and boost metabolism. Another possibility is that bananas are high in resistant starch, which is a type of fiber that can promote the feeling of fullness and may block the absorption of some carbohydrates." (From Everyday Diet)

Since the rules to this diet is so simple and there are so many positive response to this diet, I went and bought some bananas today and will start the diet starting Saturday as an experiment. Everyday I will go through a checklist and record my weight changes and if I break any of the above rules. And at the end of every week I will record my measurement changes.

If anyone is interested in trying this out or if you have tried it out, please comment on how this worked or is working out for you! Hope this works! :)

Source of Banana Diet info in this post: http://www.everydiet.org/diet/banana-diet