A 'mono meal' is simply when you eat only one type of food and you don't combine any food.
Examples of monomeals are:
- eating nothing but bananas for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
- eating nothing but mangoes for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
- eating nothing but watermelon for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I understand that, for people who are used to eating meals that involve a lot of ingredients and love fancy food preparations, the idea of eating nothing but pineapple might seem boring and bland, but to me the idea of eating all the pineapple I want (without limitations) is pure heaven! Plus eating a meal that mother nature spent a lot of time and energy creating for you is so fulfilling!
Eating monomeals has a lot of benefits for your health;
- first of all it is the most simple way to eat, if you don't have any time to prepare a huge lunch just grab a watermelon or a bunch of bananas!
- Monomeals are the easiest meals to digest.
- You can find out very easily which foods work for you and which doesn't. Your body reacts to certain foods. When you only eat juicy oranges and you feel healthy, energized and happy you know these really work for you!
- Your body will tell you when you've had enough. You wont overeat. Since you are paying attention to the taste and the texture of what you are eating. This means that your body will let you know whenever you have had enough. This will do so by causing your taste buds to shift in a way that will cause the delicious food you're eating to become tasteless and unappealing, making it impossible to overeat (awesome!!)
I really love monomeals, for the previous reasons mentioned, but too because I often can't choose which of my favorite fruits to eat during the day. Now I don't have to choose and it really makes life so simple. In the morning I eat 4 bananas, as a snack 1 pineapple or watermelon, for lunch I often grab a few mangoes and again as a snack 2 avocados.
Hope I made you guys a bit curious and you're gonna try eating a monomeal in the near furture!
Love,
Sanne
Hi there!
ReplyDeleteI've got a question. I would love to go vegan, but I'm not doing it for practical reasons. But the idea of monomeals just sounds so good to me! I know vegan food consist of different nutrients than normal food, but is it possible to eat a monomeal for lunch and/or breakfast and eating not vegan the rest of the day? Or will it make me gain weight or something because of the amount of sugar and carbs? I would love to take as much vegan things in my lifestyle, but I don't know if it is possible to do it that way..
Thankyou!
Sanne