Is banana bad for you if you're trying to lose weight?

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  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    I have a banana every day. 115 lbs down and goin strong.
  • BramageOMG
    BramageOMG Posts: 319 Member
    edited October 2014
    What's the purpose of the low carb diet? I ate the carbs MFP gave me and the weight just flew off....
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    Christo516 wrote: »
    Bananas are not bad for you. They have potasium and are good for you if eaten at the right time. (right after a workout) .

    Bananas are good for us when eaten at any time of the day…
  • Mariachicat
    Mariachicat Posts: 311 Member
    Ever since I've increased banana consumption, I've lost 31 lbs.
  • johnnylakis
    johnnylakis Posts: 812 Member
    I am happy someone finally asked this. You should never eat a yellow banana, it must have brown spots before you eat it. A yellow banana is pure starch and will bind you. A brown spot banana is fully ripe, is pure carb, is full of vitamins and will fill you up. Now you know!
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  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    What I learned about bananas this week; the guy in front of me at checkout had green bananas and was 90 years old. He is an optimist, true story.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    johnnylakis wrote: »
    I am happy someone finally asked this. You should never eat a yellow banana, it must have brown spots before you eat it. A yellow banana is pure starch and will bind you. A brown spot banana is fully ripe, is pure carb, is full of vitamins and will fill you up. Now you know!
    Now we know what? That you don't know?
    This thread is getting sillier and sillier :D
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    pretty sure the OP isn't checking for answers; June of '13 they probably moved on.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    johnnylakis wrote: »
    I am happy someone finally asked this. You should never eat a yellow banana, it must have brown spots before you eat it. A yellow banana is pure starch and will bind you. A brown spot banana is fully ripe, is pure carb, is full of vitamins and will fill you up. Now you know!

    Am not sure if you are serious.

    Surely not, as that is just silly - a banana doesn't magically change properties just because it is bit riper than it used to be.


  • EricMurano
    EricMurano Posts: 825 Member
    I feel like every time someone asks 'is food X bad for you?' that I need to ask them what their diet philosophy is. If you're low carb or you subscribe to the 'sweet poison' idea then it's bad. If you are IIFYM then the answer is no, unless you have no calories left in the day.
  • daisyverma
    daisyverma Posts: 234 Member
    edited October 2014
    I sometimes half a banana with someone. that way I still get some potassium and reduce the sugar/carb

    I also get organic bananas, which really are a few cents more, and I find those ones are quite small compared to the the 'regular' bananas.

    Also best to eat them when they are just turning yellow. As they ripen, they become much sweeter
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    johnnylakis wrote: »
    I am happy someone finally asked this. You should never eat a yellow banana, it must have brown spots before you eat it. A yellow banana is pure starch and will bind you. A brown spot banana is fully ripe, is pure carb, is full of vitamins and will fill you up. Now you know!
    Now we know what? That you don't know?

    We know that post was pure awesome, and 100% truth. Seriously.

    Because brown spots. ;)
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    daisyverma wrote: »
    Also best to eat them when they are just turning yellow. As they ripen, they become much sweeter
    Do tell.

    Why?

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