Banana Toxicity?

Hi,

so a few weeks ago, my parents put me on a 'diet budget' - $40 per week.

I dunno about elsewhere, but in central WI, in late April, that's not a lot. So, I was eating a lot of bananas.

Like, maybe 15ish bananas a day?

I know that FreeLee can eat this many in, like, a meal - so maybe by this communities standards it's not a lot - but it was for me! Haha.

Anyhow, I was fine for maybe a week and a half - and then I started to just abhor bananas. They were all I had in the house to eat, and I would chose to just not eat at all and be hungry, rather than forcing myself to eat another banana. I was worried, I knew I wasn't getting enough calories - but honestly, in comparison with eating bananas I didnt care.

Also, a few days later, I got sicker than I have been in over 2 years. I was congested, my skin was really sensitive, my throat hurt, I was really tired, and I felt like I was going to throw up. I slept for 17 hours, woke up and felt good for a day, then woke up the next feeling like crap again.

I have been really enjoying and wanting greens recently, so daddy thinks I may have suffered some sort of toxicity or whatever from the bananas? (As greens are naturally very detoxing)

I have been fruitarian for a little over half a year now, too. - I've just been working on eating monomials & trying to get higher carbs.

I'm 16, 5'2, 103lbs, by the way (if that's important, idk)

I don't have an extremely active lifestyle, but I do yoga for a little over an hour every day, and I walk 20+ mins per day.

I know people have gone one 'banana island' and eaten nothing but bananas for a month+ ...so what did I do wrong? What happened here? Any ideas?

Thank you so much, in advance, for your responses!

-Kati

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Permalink Reply by Mark on May 19, 2012 at 1:59pm

OK. Sounds reasonable.

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Permalink Reply by IHaveALight - Chris on May 19, 2012 at 8:59am

I'll tell you straight up, if you think you're going to survive on 15 bananas a day because you only have $5 a day for food and then not eat at all when you don't feel like eating any more bananas you are bound for failure, very quickly. If that's the best you can do on 80/10/10 you better just let it go for now and get on the McDougle plan. I don't know if you can even afford that on $5 a day.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl on May 19, 2012 at 11:18am

I spend about $90-$100 a week, and I get my bananas very cheap, and most of my calories come from bananas. I hope to bring that down a little during the summer when I'll have stuff from my garden. You should figure out how much money the rest of your family is spending on their food. $40 is a dinner bill for 2 with drinks. But if this $40 is firm, and you really want to succeed, you've gotta get a job. Mow lawns, babysit, something. Find out your parents least favorite chores, and get them to pay you in food. Forty bucks is not enough.

On the banana issue... Bananas make me gag after eating more than 3 of them straight. I eat them in smoothies. I LOVE banana smoothies.

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Permalink Reply by IHaveALight - Chris on May 19, 2012 at 2:26pm

Yes, yes and yes.

If you want to step out and be independent from your family with your health and they're not giving you the financial support you need, then it's time for you to figure out how to independently support your own healthy habits. This lifestyle should be fairly easy for you to support if everything else is provided for you and you just need to make some extra cash for food. And banana smoothies are sooo much easier to get the bananas down, especially in the beginning.

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Permalink Reply by Whitedi ellen on May 19, 2012 at 2:22pm

That's a pretty good analysis ihavealight.....ahhh, what's wrong with the McDougle plan? get on it girly, that's a great plan.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on May 20, 2012 at 7:38pm

I'm sorry but that is not a good analysis. Where there is a will, there is always way. I know that may sound cliche, but it works any day, especially in May!

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Permalink Reply by Whitedi ellen on June 14, 2012 at 8:20pm

ha ha..."anyday, especially in May!" ha ha...I like that. You're a poet, did you know it?

No no you may have a point Mark....where there is a Will there is a way.....hmmm....where there is a Will there is a way. Yep maybe someone will leave her a Will. Cause for right now, she can't rub two nickels together.

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Permalink Reply by Kati Sharp on May 21, 2012 at 7:11am

Haha, thanks.

But I actually originally went fruitarian for spiritual reasons (I don't want to take the lives of plants to live), and eating rice/grains/whatever would=destroying the life of a baby plant.

I figure a lot of people on here will assume I'm dumb or think I'm being ridiculous, but my view isn't going to change.

Thank you for the suggestion though (:

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Permalink Reply by Jon Fergus on May 23, 2012 at 2:13am

I figure a lot of people on here will assume I'm dumb or think I'm being ridiculous, but my view isn't going to change.

Some may. I do not. In fact, I'm always overjoyed to come across another who came to veganism for spiritual and ethical reasons. There is nothing dumb or ridiculous about the desire to respect the sovereignty and right-to-live of animals and plants. I highly respect the ahimsa you are showing and hope you'll continue on that path.

While coming to veganism from a spiritual path, it's taken me a while to figure out the nuts and bolts of the nutrition aspect, and that's primarily the type of support people here specialize in (which isn't to say there's a lack of spiritual or ethical vegans here).

I now see these (the spiritual and the nutritional) as two sides of the vegan coin. Learning the former helps support the latter. :)