Comments on: My trip to banana island… http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/ Go FRUIT yourself! Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1706 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:12:20 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1706 Freelee, I’m inspired by your transformation and by this more simple, natural way of eating. I’ve joined 30BaD (VeganPhoenix) and hope to be friends. You’re 100% rawsome. Thanks for what you do.

]]> By: freelee http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1636 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:47:35 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1636 Ooh just saw this sorry Brian! Mamey island feast eh? Sounds yummo! Grapes are good but bananas truly are queen for mono island. By the way my confidence video
was not made because of what you said to me! I’ve been wanting to make it for ages x

]]> By: Brian http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1498 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:17:07 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1498 Awesome! I would totally do this but I do not have enough of one fruit at any given moment to do so, and my mom would worry too much (she is already freaked out about vegan, let alone raw, let along LFRV, let *alone* doing one fruit or a fast)…but in the future I am so doing a MAMEY ISLAND FEAST! Or orange juice. Seems like people do that one for a bit always, like in the summer. Or grapes, grapes would be good. Anyway, love ya Freelee!

]]> By: Jay http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1496 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:57:36 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1496 Hi Marla,
Banana Island is excellent for beginners. You don’t really need to be worried about sugar content, just calorie content.
To succeed you need to be getting enough calories (think 2500-3000 a day). Bananas are pretty much the cheapest and easiest way to get those calories in! One banana is worth about 100 calories so aim for 30 a day. If you don’t, you will want to eat all sorts of junk foods to make up for the difference between what you’re getting and what the body needs.
If you find yourself craving other foods, you need to eat more. Simple. Take care and enjoy your mono island!

]]> By: Marla http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1277 Wed, 04 May 2011 11:18:50 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1277 To understand why I want to go on the island, I should first tell you that my situation is probably very close to yours, as I have a Candida overgrowth that my doctor can’t seem to handle. My dermatologist (I have had severe acne problems for 4 or 5 years now, with cysts and scars) prescribed accutane to me for 7 months. Of course he didn’t tell me I had the choice of going on a diet and improve my skin. Not only did this destroy my health, but I still have problems with my cystic acne.

My Candida is either bad or worse and it’s taken hold of me! I cannot focus more than 2 minutes on a task, my mind wonders off into wherever, sometimes I realize I don’t even think of something in particular. It’s like my mind STOPS working! I don’t even want to think about the leaky gut syndrome and of course I have vaginal itchiness. My boyfriend is a saint for having put up with me all this time.

On to the point: I REALLY want to go on the islaaaaand, but I’m not sure if I should start off with bananas, given the high sugar content. If you think it’s not a problem, then I will be off on the trip. If you had started off with bananas on your first mono week too, I wouldn’t have written to you right now.

My question is: is there any reason why you started off with cantaloupe? I would do this too, but they aren’t in season here where I live, nothing is much, we just have some apples grown in solars but that’s about it concerning fruit, until next month or so. I can start off eating apples if why you started off with cantaloupes was because of the high sugar content of bananas. If not, I’d go straight to bananas!

THANK YOU for being here and supporting all of us newbies. THANK YOU for taking the time to read this comment, and THANK YOU for taking the time to answer it, as well. Thank you.

PS: I’m sorry for the length of this comment. Also, I’m sorry for any writing mistakes that might have occurred, as English is not my primary language.

HUGS!

]]> By: freelee http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1201 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:00:50 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1201 It’s all about getting sufficient calories from fruit, exercising, enjoying the sunshine, staying hydrated and being patient with your skin. It will get better trust me, I used to have acne.
Come onto 30bananasaday.com and we will help you out!

]]> By: Henrik http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-1150 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:45:35 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-1150 hey!
Thanks for an inspiring blog post. Been trying to go with 80/10/10 for 1.5 months, and my skin haven’t been as bad as this in a looong time.. I don’t know what I might be doing wrong with 80/10/10, might be that I’m not monomealing, or certain kind of fruits make me allergic? After getting “off the wagon” during a 2-day binge in heavy food and alcohol, now, I’m going to do this bananathing you’re talking about. I love bananas, and I can easily live on bananas.. Long before reading about mono dieting I heard about a man they called “banana man” in his home town, who lived for years on bananas, and he was really strong and healthy.. I think this is what I’ve been looking for when it comes to food.. Going back to standard food is not an option, it feels meaningless every time I take a plunge back into those habits..

]]> By: natosha http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-830 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:46:06 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-830 is there calorie restrictions been enjoying like tons fruit without calorie watching, did before butnow just enjoying alot. i want to also try the banana island would having alot be bad for me i want t keep my weight same and enjoy 30 banans or more if hungry a day but i do work out like not alot like 12 minutes but not like too hard will it still be ok for me?

]]> By: solarliving http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-806 Wed, 12 May 2010 02:44:30 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-806 Wow : D

So at least 3500 calories. Good to know. For a few days I did mainly bananas, oranges, and pineapple. My skin cleared up even more than it was. Fruit is so powerful~

]]> By: freelee http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/2009/11/14/my-trip-to-banana-island/#comment-801 Wed, 12 May 2010 02:00:58 +0000 http://sweetjuicyfreelee.com/?p=1049#comment-801 hey babe :-) ) I would eat generally between 25-40 at the time, 25 was NOT enough though and I ended up being ravenous.

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