Gracie Diet Tip: Lose Weight by Eating Bananas

by Rorion Gracie filed under Tools and Tips
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A meal of only bananas (or any other single fruit) will help you lose weight.

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  • Nornirelad

    how many bananas am i allowed at any one time?

    • Nicholas charalambous

      as many as it takes to fill you up

      • uk george

        as many as it takes to get you 80% full

  • Browntortoise

    this is bannanas man !

  • KJ

    Bananas & hot tea… An incredible breakfast!!!

  • paul turner

    i cant believe lads are asking completely unqualified people for nutritional advice.Would you ask a state registered dietician for advice about fighting,the gracie diet is marketing,that is all.

    • http://twitter.com/wlgracie West London Gracie

      well i think the fact that Rorion has been on this diet from the day he was born qualifies him quite nicely to recommend good nutritional options for people. Let alone the health of his kids and every other member of his family. So yes, if your qualified dietician had been getting in fights every day of his life, i would probably go and visit him at his dietician’s office and ask him for some advice based on his experience. yes i would… Rather than consult someone who only learned fighting principles from a book without having ever been in one (which describes most medical related professions these days anyway…)

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Laures/100000597284243 Charles Laures

        I agree 100%. Most “qualified” dieticians are qualified by a myriad of academic titles. But that doesnt mean they know the truth about nutrition. While the dieticians advice is based on scientific theories Rorion’s science however is based on personal experience. The fact that Helio Gracie was able to live strongly even still doing Jiujitsu past the age of 90 is a powerful proof that the diet works! It may not be perfect and I am pretty sure that Rorion is still continuing to improve it but the diet at present is a powerful method to make anyone healthy. If anyone wants to live to a ripe old age and still practice Jiujitsu, then follow the diet, it has been proven effective. And about Rorion being a master of Jiujitsu not nutrition and so must be consulted on aspects about the fighting art and not nutrition, that is absurd. Rorion has a higher belt and more experience in the diet than in fighting. Rorion has been practicing the diet since day one of his earthlife. He started Jiujitsu a few year later. So you see, he is more expert in nutrition than he is in Jiujitsu.

        • LizaL

          Great point! People don’t realize that using a diet and testing it on yourself and is the greatest scientific practice you can do. Judge by results not by theories! Many so-called nutritional experts and even doctors are overweight and unfit. Rorion and the other Gracies who use this diet are in absolutely peak health.

    • Britt Hoffmann

      Given that any state’s regulations on health and nutrition for our kids diets with school lunches and all are completely unhealthy, I’d say that discredits any “state registered” nutritionists opinion. The USDA is a joke and any advice our government, state schools or universities have to offer is garbage. The Gracie family has devoted their entire way of life to health and quality of life. What’s more is they aren’t claiming their diet is the end all be all to dieting. In fact they state up front it may not work for everyone. I think the proof is in the pudding. Every Gracie I’ve met, seen on TV or Internet, or read about is extremely healthy and could fight for hours if they had to. Helio was sparring well into his 90s. I recently went to a seminar by Rickson and the guy is still like a Greek God. If this family can use their great minds to revolutionize a martial art and creat ways to manipulate another’s body to control another man in a human chess match, I’m pretty sure they can figure out a diet that helps them maximize enrgy and efficiency. Bottom line, these guys are ligit!

    • Naturalstateorganics

      I wouldn’t ask a State registered dietician anything, what they read a few books and now they are qualified. I would rather go with something that has been tested. Obviously the State guidelines create obese children.

  • Guest

    Some people here seem to think you need to be qualified to give dietary advice and recommendations. You do not. You only have to be qualified to write a diet that is specific to an individuals needs and goals. The Gracie Diet is a recommendation for becoming overall healthier. They do not tell you that you must eat this way or else.

  • Gallcobair

    It clearly states in the Gracie Diet book that the diet IS NOT medicaly proven, but the testimonials are very possitive.
    As the diet is based around food combinations I dont see any danger in following it, but im not a doctor of any kind.
    The point is that this is just another option for anyone who is interested in changing the state of their health, regardless of there goal (ie. apperence, sport or medical problems etc).
    As the old saying goes, “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!”

    gallcobair@live.co.uk

  • Alfred tinker

    my family has diabetes. mom dad grandparents aunts uncles etc. i am prone to it. what are my chances of getting it if i go on gracie diet.
    i love the way the gracies keep themselves in shape, by exercise and diet. why would u ask a dietician. they are like doctors they have to follow government guidelines. they don’t know much about healing and how to heal through foods.
    anyway, how dagerous is this diet for me. and others who have a bad history of family with diabetes.

  • mgq

    Hey, I just made the Ryron’s smoothie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNV8lub5ag check out the 2 min video. It took me in reality 20 min to make it. Can anyone tell me why I’m being so slow cutting the cantaloupe?

  • Carli

    I´m not a doctor either, but you don´t need to be one to realize the Gracie Diet really works! It is just common sense! Regardless of whether the food combination theory is true or not, the Gracie Diet makes you:
    1) Eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.
    2) Have a wide variety of food.
    3) Drink a lot of water.
    4) Eat fresh and natural food.
    You don´t have to be a genius to realize this is a great diet.
    By the way, I´m totally convinced about the food combination theory. Try it for a week, and then break the carb rule, you will feel the difference!
    If you have a long diabetes history in your family, ask your doctor.

  • Johnnyp302003

    The word diet is so often misused, diet refers to your eating habits, not something you do to lose weight. If folks worried more about how they eat and not so much what you eat, then the obesity problems wouldn’t be so bad in the country.

  • Arhzon

    I don’t do the Gracie Diet anymore, but when I did it, I had a banana and melon smoothie almost every day, and I lost 9 pounds (out of about 185) in a month. After six months, with my regular healthy exercise that I was doing before, I reached 165, which was a total of 22 pounds. The diet makes you feel great, and the combinations of foods mainly just weed out junk anyway, so you don’t have to give up a lot of the foods you love, just sometimes modify them a bit. Although I don’t follow it anymore, I definitely believe in and support it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693757770 Daniel Christensen

      any reason you do not follow anymore?

  • Dan

    How many bananas are too many? I read that you can get dangerous amounts of potasium by eating too many bananas and other rich potasium food. I have been eating 4-6 bananas for lunch and sometimes more per a day. Bananas are such a convenient food especially at work and on the road. I feel great afterwards, however am I doing any harm?

    • http://www.facebook.com/#!/knickerlessnick Blood_of_orian

      just eat as many as it takes to get 80% and then dont eat them again for at least 24 hours.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693757770 Daniel Christensen

    I am a newbie to the Gracie Diet and I am excited. Been about two weeks of transition and I already feel great.  Today I am having 4 Mangos for brekky…

    love it

  • Tonyd13440

    The Gracie Diet is the real deal, I train Jiu Jitsu and fight MMA, and I can honestly say this diet makes me feel better physically and mentally than I’ve ever felt in my life. You have nothing to lose by trying it and everything to gain..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Durianrider-Vegano/608626426 Durianrider Vegano

    Look up the ’50 bananas a day’. Thats my gal, she is living proof.

  • Graff artist

    If more people realized the crap that animals are fead and all of the hormones and growth stimulants, they wouldnt eat it. America is the only country on the planet where it is legal to use these drugs on animals meant for human consumption. The gracie diet will help you live a longer much healthier life. What is the leading cause of death among adults? Heart attacks. Why? Hardening of the arteries (Blockage) What causes this? Cholesterol mostly and the highest concentration of cholesterol comes from meat, PERIOD. Meat is just bad all around, I dont care if it is beef or poultry. It will kill you eventually. There are many different extremely good all veggie dishes that people will enjoy. My being a vegetarian has helped me easily control my weight and my health has GREATLY improved. Do I use the gracie diet? A lot of it yes, I’m not a juicer though. I dont like smoothies or drinking some of the vegetable juices but I do eat the friuts and the vegetables whole & mostly raw. I do like to steam or sautee some of them. It is a great diet though. Most people don’t realize that it isn’t in a doctors best interest (their back pockets) to tell you these things. They would rather put you on drugs or some other type of weight loss product that they get kick backs on.

  • http://www.vanslykefitness.com Adam

    Just remember, people fear what they do not understand. I support this program, if for no other reason than at the most simplistic concept, this diet support whole foods. For the naysayers, try to disprove the health effects of whole foods versus processed foods.

  • Jeff

    I am in a Master of Science Program in Exercise and Fitness at USSA.  We cover nutrition in just about every class and have entire semesters based on nutrition and dieting.  I have also tried many diets over the years to see which diet or more properly, eating plan did the best; Atkins, P90X, Insanity, Jillian Michaels, Warrior.  For me, I found the Warrior diet to be the best.  I have not tried the Gracie diet, but in principle it’s very similar to common sense and Warrior diet. 

    There’s also some new research which shows that minimizing the acidity in food helps promote health and lessen the risks for most cancers.  The Gracie Diet clearly works to minimize acidity in your diet.  

    I have not done the Gracie diet myself, but it follows many of the same principles as Warrior Diet.  Maybe I will guinea pig myself again and try to hybrid the two.

  • Jcreencia7

    I’m a student of BJJ myself and hold the Gracies in such high regard, but seriously, this notion of “food combining” is predicated on nothing more than a speculation and personal anecdote. Many of the comments made concerning the diet are blatantly incorrect- a grotesque ignorance of nutrition and physiology. It bewilders me that people are so inclined to adhere to a regimen like this because it has the Gracie name behind it. By all means, it is not a dangerous diet in any respect, but the “theories” behind the food combinations are ludicrous and not necessarily optimal for health and body composition. 

    • disc order

      actually there is some empirical data around food combinations. for instance cooking red meat produces heterocyclic amines a known cancer causing carcinogen but is neutralized by adding rosemary and some other antioxident spices. don’t believe me, read every science and medical journal. while these methods are surely not lab tested to prove results it appears to anecdotaly work with his own family and students, and for competitions

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683937850 Mark T Rex Acquaviva

        A cancer causing carcinogen? Isn’t that a bit redundant?

    • LizaL

      The Gracie’s are among the fittest people on the planet. Books like “Fit for Life” (based on food combining) have saved millions from obesity and illness. Look at the site 30 bananas a day to see hundreds of cases of people who have benefited by eating like this. Look at animals we are most genetically close to – apes and gorillas – what do they eat? What the Gracie diet teaches is not antiquated ignorance – it is age-old wisdom. It is science. You only have to try it to see how much better you instantly feel and how much more energy you get. It is not just some untested theory!

      • LizaL

        Sorry was typing fast – I said look at “30 bananas a day” – it is a website that shows the benefits of eating high quantities of fruit at a time.

  • C0405234

    I go to Gracie Barra and I have been eating a lot of bananas

  • Marc Dos Santos

    >A meal of only bananas (or any other single fruit) will help you lose >weight.

    This is simply insane.

    Im all for eating whole foods and cutting out additives, refined sugars and all the rest but these gimmick diets are never balanced.

    And just because it worked for one man and his metabolism doenst meake it a good diet.
     Micheal Phelps is the best swimmer in the history of his sport and he would take 10,000 calories a day and stuff himself with Big Macs.
    Just because it worrks for him doesnt make it a good diet.

    Balance is the key to good nutrition (along with avoiding the things I mentioned above). And things like ‘Eat 18 oranges in one sitting’ is the hallmark of gimmick diets.

    Over 30 years of watching people try the Grapefruit Diet or single food diet shows that people will believe anything.

    Im not saying dont eat healthy but think balance rather than the obscene gorging of one food.

    • Angela Etzkorn

      So eating two meals a day of special k for two weeks makes perfect sense to everyone but the idea of consuming a meal of bananas is ludicrous? And no one said to gorge yourself on bananas. Try a meal of a couple of bananas from someone who has done it as a breakfast for years it is satisfying energizing.

  • Biddog11l

    This is the raw vegan way!  Durianrder, freelee, Michael Arnstein all do the same thing.  I have been eating 30 bananas a days since march 29, 2012. it is the best!!!

    • LizaL

      Agreed!! Durianrder, freelee,are living examples (outside of BJJ) that shows this stuff works.

  • ALMP

    I ate 4 hard boiled eggs this morning. I will be eating again around 1230p.  I had 2 cups of blk coffee. (plus 4 cups of water)  I am weening myself for this life changing experience.  (following the phase part of the book) lol

    Any advice anyone can give.

  • guest

    A meal of only bananas?  You’re asking for a blood sugar and insulin spike, which might confuse your appetite and result in acne, weight gain etc.

    • Nicholas

       My uncle had bad acne for the first 20 years of his life and was given pills by doctors to take every day and they did not really do much to help. ever since he has been on the gracie diet which has involved having around 3-5 bananas in a smoothie his acne has cleared up without any tablets.
      Yet people will happily pig out on chocolate which isnt even good sugar compared to lets say… fruit, such as…. oh yeah! bananas!
      As for appetite learn to not snack inbetween meals and drink water/coconut water. ive been doing it for 2 years and it been the best 2 years of my life.

    • LizaL

      Check out the website called “30 bananas a day” to see how many people have LOST weight, cleared up acne and balanced out insulin levels. on high banana-only meals on a regular basis.Since humans are a predominantly fruit-eating species like their closest relatives gorillas, apes and monkeys, it is absurd to think that eating fruit is in any way bad for you. Think about it. Also read “Fit for Life” or “*80-10-10″. Both are available on amazon. It is not just the Gracies who are saying this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/familiavalecamara Família Vale Camara

    QUANTAS VEZES NA SEMANA?

    • http://www.facebook.com/marcio.sousa.359 Márcio Sousa

      Acho que você terá que substituir uma das refeições principais do dia, por uma refeição somente de bananas!

    • Robson

      Tenho seguido as orientações do livro, mantendo o espaço entre as refeições em quatro horas e meia e mina última refeição é de um só tipo de fruta: venho perdendo 1kg por semana, há 04 semanas. Recomendo!

  • Poopy Pants

    I eat a meal of prunes when I want to lose weight.

    Seriously, does the heavily fruit based diet ever cause too good of a digestion?

  • http://twitter.com/InformalGreetin Informal Greeting

    Being allergic to bananas I am limited in how much I could follow the Gracie diet. No, I’m not a doctor but my wife is. She fully endorses the diet, it accomplishes exactly what she wants her patients to do- eat whole natural foods, stay away from excess saturated fat, eat lots of fruit and vegetables of different colors, and being balanced in macronutrients. Whether there is any validity to the food combinations or not the diet as a whole will get you where you need to go and the combinations will prevent you from over eating in any one particular area which ensures a more rounded diet.

  • Feno

    Is your doctor as healthy and active as Rorion????

  • jackson torres

    this deffinetly is better than a doctor want to get the graciediet book but cant yet

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