Banana's friend or foe ?
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Just make sure you weight them. I estimated mine to be "medium" bananas (about 100 calories), but it turns out that I've been eating medium-large or large bananas (150-200 calories).0
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I love bananas and eat them whenever I feel like it. As long as I hit my protein and calorie targets for the day I don't care what the rest of it is made up of... as long as it's mostly real food.0
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bananas are my friend! I love them so much. Sometimes two a day and I still lose weight.0
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Bananas are sooooo good. If they're bad for me, oh well. We're all just slowly dying anyway.0
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They may be high in calories, but for a good reason " They keep you filled for a long while! "0
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High calorie? How is 110-120 considered high calories? Thats a perfect sized snack.
I agree that it's not a vast amount, but I think that it does seem high calorie compared to most other fruits. 120 is fine, if you're eating it because you particularly like bananas, but it's high if you're not so keen and are looking for something to make up your fruit and veg portions. Fine for something you want to eat, high for something you should eat.
Bananas aren't a favourite of mine, but when I do buy them I usually buy small ones. And then only if there are green-skinned ones available.0 -
I have a banana with wheat toast and organic peanut butter pretty much every morning. They are kinda high in carbs and sugars so for low carbers they don't eat them much. But It hasen't hurt my weight loss any.
good luck
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I don't believe I've ever gained weight while eating too many bananas. Donuts, cake and cookies? Yeah.0
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I use 1 frozen banana in my Chocolate Protein shake it is so good! Frozen banana will thicken smoothies or protein shakes. A Banana is high in carbs but not high in calories.0
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They look pretty friendly to me. This must be their friend. Not their foe.
Bananas are not bad for you!0 -
Well I just ate two pretty large navel oranges as a snack and that's 150 calories or so... even just a little over. Good snack for meeeee!0
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i ate 4 sometimes 5 bananas a day and had no trouble losing the weight
i fit them into my diary though.0 -
BEST friend!
I eat 1 or 2 every day and i'm slimming down. I just try make sure that whatever i eat it fits into my goal for the day (or weekly average)0 -
Am I missing something? MFP says a medium banana is 105 calories. That doesn't seem like a lot of calories to me. I eat 2-3 a day and find them to be a great filling snack. Maybe I'm doing it wrong! LOL
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I like to eat them once in awhile. Or half of one to keep from having a carb/sugar rush.
However, I found out that eating just a banana before a workout left me alarmingly dizzy the rest of the day, so won't do that again! Other people think they're a great pre-workout food though. Everyone is different.0 -
I have a banana and a teaspoon of organic peanut butter nearly every day for breakfast, and I'm losing weight!
I don't have coffee in the morning ever, instead I get my energy from natural fruit sugar, and feel great!
Bananas are also supposed to help with muscle soreness!
Bananas are great, just count them into your daily calories and it should be fine!
I always look forward to them in the morning, favourite breakfast!
I think the whole 'bananas are too high calorie' comes from the whole background of crazy calorie restricting, and the 'bad food' vs 'good food' rules of yo-yo dieting --- which is unhealthy!0 -
Unnecessary apostrophe's, friend or foe?
if a peanut butter and banana sammich was good enough for Elvis, it should be good enough for everybody!
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I eat a banana almost every single day. Just one though. Banana's are much better than a bag of chips, lol. I totally love banana's. They are amazing. I wouldn't worry about it ;-)0
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Bananas make it difficult to stay under calories. I had a 156g banana this morning which was 143 calories. Yikes!0
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bananas are my favorite! I do stick to usually one a day, but sometimes at night my husband makes this sweet chocolate/peanut butter/banana smoothie where I get another half, but 1 a day is good for me. Not too many calories in my book. I think its worth it!0
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