There's a new diet fad sweeping through Japan: the Morning Banana Diet, where you eat only bananas for breakfast, then anything you want for lunch and dinner ... and it's making bananas a scarce commodity!
Keiko Akai is very annoyed. The attractive 21-year-old university student has been planning to do a banana diet for some time now, but she can't get started — and not for lack of trying. "I keep going to OK Store, my local supermarket every single day," she says. "In fact, I've just been there. There are no bananas on the shelves, and it's been like that for a month."
Akai has never weighed more than 100 pounds, and is so slim that her waist is swimming in Zara's smallest size XS skirt. She doesn't need to lose any weight. But Japanese girls obsessed with diets tend to jump at any trendy new ones, so, when Akai heard about a popular actress who'd lost 26 pounds through the Morning Banana Diet, she had to try it. And the dearth of bananas as her local supermarket, and many others, is testimony to the popularity of the new dieting fad.
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More seriously, I'm on a diet right now : it involves veggies, normal size balanced meals and... hunger! Banana diet is BS.
I have a BMI of 24.9, which puts me on the flabbier side of "normal". It has not turned me into a weak dessicated skeleton of a man, as it surely should have by now, if this diet was anything other than bull crap.
What amazes me though is that people actually believe it. With ALL of that information out there about how to properly lose weight, people still fall for something as stupid as this.
Regards,
Angie