'I eat 10 bananas a day'
25 year-old Loni Jane Anthony, who is 26 weeks pregnant, eats an average of 10 bananas a day, sticking purely to raw fruit and vegetables.
Loni documents her extreme diet on her blog, Aleven:11, and on instagram where she posts frequent selfies showing off her thin body to some 100,000 followers.
Revealing her typical daily diet to an Australian news website, Loni says her breakfast often consists of ‘a big smoothie with at least five bananas, but usually more than five because organic bananas are smaller, and about a litre of filtered water.'
The mum-to-be adds ‘I also always have oranges in the morning being pregnant. I'm obsessed with eating oranges.’
Lunch for Loni is usually a ‘mono meal’ – consisting of just one type of fruit, which, Loni claims, is ‘really good for digestion and goes straight through you.’
'Lunch will be at least five or six mangoes. I might then have a salad later depending on how active I am that day’
‘At the moment it's mangoes I'm hooked on so my meal for lunch will be at least five or six mangoes. I might then have a salad later depending on how active I am that day,’ she says.
Then she treats herself to a ‘huge salad’ for dinner when she has her first cooked food of the day: ‘If I decide to have something cooked I'll have it on the side like at the moment my crispy no-fat potatoes are divine.’
When her story was published on www.news.com.au, Loni came under fire for promoting such an extreme, restrictive diet as healthy.
One commenter wrote: ‘While healthy living is important the promotion of extreme diets and frutarianism is outright dangerous and irresponsible.’
Others expressed concern over whether her baby would get the nutrients it needs for healthy growth, writing: ‘It's all very well for you to want to go on this weird diet, but nutritionally I can't see much there to help your baby grow.’
But Loni insists the diet has ‘saved her life,’ having once been an excessive party girl.
'It wasn’t for weight loss or for a quick fix. I was internally really sick; I was killing myself slowly. If I’d kept living that lifestyle I would have ended up with a disease like cancer or early aging. So giving up that food was really quite simple for me,' she said.
‘People don't want to hear about it because they're in their comfort zones of eating junk and don't want to feel guilty'
Having changed her lifestyle, Loni claims she now wants to ‘inspire’ other young women and show them that 'getting super-drunk and taking heaps of drugs and having no self-respect' isn't the way forward.
When asked if she receives criticism for her lifestyle, Loni says: ‘People do get a little bit uncomfortable. They don't want to hear about because they're in their comfort zones of eating junk and they don't want to be around someone who makes them feel guilty.
‘Not that I'd ever deliberately make anyone feel guilty. I'm not a preacher,’ she added.
The controversial low-fat vegan eating plan, known as the ’80/10/10’ diet was created by Dr Douglas M.Graham and is popular among some athletes.
It takes its name from its recommended dietary intake: 80 per cent fruits and vegetables, ten per cent protein and ten per cent fat.
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