Maintaining a single-ingredient diet requires a significant increase in caloric intake to prevent weight loss, potentially involving consuming large quantities of foods like plantains.

“so I all of a sudden had to go okay if I want to stay at it's 180 pounds about if I want to stay you know at least at 175 I'm going to have to up my choric intake oh my gosh that it became so much food you were Force feeding yourself I was force feeding myself yes so one day for example I'm like okay I'm trying to do some rough math in my head of you know calories I'm going okay we're going to need amount of plantains get them there and it's just it's a mountain you know”