Mowgli blogger: a girl went to live in the jungle and grows her own food

Mowgli blogger: a girl went to live in the jungle and grows her own food

On the fruit and vegetable diet Leanne Ratcliffe managed to lose weight by 18 kg.

Interval fasting, intuitive eating, good old-fashioned diets – these and dozens, and maybe hundreds more ways to lose weight are talked about every day on TV and in social networks. Nutritionists write books, bloggers share their menus, doctors analyze the most common mistakes. In the vastness of the Internet there are many amazing stories of weight loss. One of them is about Australian Leanne Ratcliffe.

From Leanne Ratcliffe to Banana Girl Freely.

Leanne Ratcliffe, also known by the nickname Freely, Banana Girl, was born in the Australian city of Brisbane. In her youth, the girl suffered from bulimia and anorexia, in addition, she had a drug problem. By the age of 21, Leanne was on the verge of suicide. Her life changed thanks to a yoga teacher: upbeat and happy, she was able to inspire Ratcliffe to work on herself. “She knows she saved my life that day,” Leanne writes in one of the posts. Thus began her journey of “healing”.

Gradually, the girl managed to overcome diseases, give up drugs and alcohol and switch to a plant-based diet. She changed many places of work: from McDonald’s to a strip club. But nowhere did she feel happy. The urban rhythm depressed Leanne, and she decided to make radical changes in life.

In 2018, the girl together with a young man moved to South America. They settled in a small wooden house in the middle of the jungles of Ecuador. Then she also started accounts on Instagram and YouTube to share her unusual experience. That’s how Banana Girl Freely came to be.

Now the Banana Girl is followed on Instagram by almost 300 thousand people from all over the world. Freely and her young man Robin lead a reclusive lifestyle, practically do not wear clothes and try to minimize the production of waste, polluting the environment. During her life in the jungle, the blogger has switched to eating fruits and vegetables that she grows herself. Thanks to such an unusual diet, the girl lost 18 kg.

Banana Girl Diet

Not so long ago, the blogger started an account in TikTok, where she shares her daily diet. The main rule: eat vegetables and fruits, subjected to heat treatment only after 16:00. In a day Banana Girl eats half a watermelon, up to 15 bananas, from which she makes ice cream, mangoes, papaya, vegetable salad and Turkish figs.

In total, the eco-blogger consumes about 2,500 kcal per day. In her account Freely writes that she has been following this diet for 14 years and feels great, which is confirmed by medical tests. Leanne Ratcliffe described her daily diet in more detail in her books. There she also shared the recipes of her favorite dishes.

Leanne Ratcliffe’s story motivates thousands of people around the world to stop eating meat and pay more attention to the environment. Freely herself is slowly but surely moving towards her goal: to produce no non-organic waste at all.