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A woman from Australia says her almost all-fruit diet has led to her thin physique and all-around better health. Freelee the Banana Girl promotes her lifestyle on her YouTube channel, where she shares her health and fitness tips.
According the The Daily Mail, Freelee used to suffer from both anorexia and bulimia. She adopted a low fat, high carb, raw, vegan diet and ended up losing 40 pounds. She was also able to clear up her acne, and fight against her chronic fatigue syndrome, low thyroid, and bad digestion.
She does allow herself to eat cooked and heated food, but only after 4 p.m. She also apparently eats between 2,000 and 5,000 calories a day. Her meals are usually ‘mono meals,’ which means she eats large amounts of one fruit for a meal. This can mean two full pineapples, five mangoes, two liters of orange juice, or 20 bananas. Freelee once even posted a video proving that she can eat 51 bananas in just one day.
“There are so many people out there saying restrict your calories to lose weight but it’s not true,” she says in the video. “You need to smash in the carb calories. And that’s why I do videos like this; to show people.”
While the diet may have helped Freelee overcome some of her own dietary issues, consuming large amounts of one food each day leaves many essential nutrients out of the system.
(By Marissa Brassfield for CalorieLab)
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