I could never eat just fruit. I'll take my hat off to anyone who does though, because they've obviously got really strong will-power.
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I could never eat just fruit. I'll take my hat off to anyone who does though, because they've obviously got really strong will-power.
It takes a ton of inspiration to eat all fruits. I did it for some time. The high/energy was phenominal. My eyes were always sparkling, my skin was always glowing. The biggest problem was weight loss. I was afraid to do it long term.
It's all about balance in life ... it's hard to be sociable on a "fruit only" lifestyle. I'm always going to social events ... and wow, not that I'm vegan, I never enjoyed food so much in my life! I had a vegan blueberry pie over the weekend and after eating that, I could never go back to raw food or fruitarian only. EDIT: Unless I had an endless supply of durian ;)
And I feel just as good as I did when I was a raw foodist -- even better because I'm more grounded :)
(That's just me though ...)
I understand what you are saying Healthy, the body does lose a ton of weight on fruit, mostly water first as the body begins to lose it's acidity and return to it's natural alkaline state.
Then the body begins to take itself apart to remove and detoxify the tissues that are degraded. So that is why you see people getting thin, it isn't without dangers of course, any detox can cause cause issues especially if you have health issues to get past.
After the bad materials are removed the body then uses the material from the fruit to rebuild a better you and you put weight back on and it normalizes.
I don't eat a strictly fruitarian diet, I am about 80 - 90% raw and the majority of the raw food is fruit of some description.
Like Arnold Ehret I consider each food on it's own merits and try not worry too much about whether it is cooked or not. I try to find what works best for me and if it isn't working then I change it :)
I do believe in fasting though, a 5 day water fast can do wonders for the body.
Don't necessarily follow everything Raw Gurus tell you, they are not you and cannot possibly tell you what is best for you, however they can point you in the right direction.
Whatever you chose to do, just do it with a happy heart :D
Thanks for all the info Zero. Everything you said made a lot of sense, including not following everything raw gurus tell you.
One of my favorite books is "Raw Knowledge" by Paul Nisson because at the end there are at least 25 interviews with different long-time raw foodists, all who have taken a different approach.
I may go back to it someday ... including dry fasting, which really did a lot for my body.
Have you come acrss this website? http://www.newstarget.com/ unfortunately as I'm still on dial-up, I can't access the trailers to the various cds.
Eve, that's a great site -- thanks a million!
yes, a very good site! i've just read a 'big pharma' article, and also gone through the macrophotography of processed meat....not nice at all!
I don't know if anyone said this already as I didn't read every single post but here is a guy that has been fruitarian for a long time. Here is a link to his site.
http://z12.invisionfree.com/FLF/inde...showtopic=2557
He also used to post on www.veganbodybuilding.com
I don't know if he still does.
I have been watching some of Richard Blackman's video's on Utube. The guy is amazing. He is a strict fruitarian and he has lots of good advice.
He is so right when he says that people are out of touch with their own bodies. We need to learn more about our bodies and how we treat them. We often listen to strangers about different techniques for doing raw. They don't know us or our bodies!!! As we transition and detox we can better hear what our bodies are calling for and feed it thusly.
I know. And look at his body. He is so healthy and fit. Doesn't look like his teeth are falling out either!! ;)
I wish that he would like a book about his adventure in fruitarianism!!
A good article:
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/...ruitarians.htm
Gives a great reminder that being heathly isn't just about your diet, it's about your lifestyle as a whole.
Thanks for the link. Good article.
fruitarians can also eat seeds, beans and nuts and anything where the plant doesn't die.
It really depends on your personal feelings about it and your definition of fruitarianism, as many different ones have been coined.
Generally though, fruitarians don't consider beans part of a strict fruitarian diet, some don't eat nuts, others don't eat seeds, other than those that are in the fruit they are eating at the time.
Some say that fruitarianism is just eating fruit, others say that a high fruit diet of around 75% or more fruit is a fruitarian diet.
Fruitarians tend to at least be focused on eating primarily fresh whole fruit in it's ripened and natural state. :D
After reading nearly all of this thread, I think I'm going to go fruitarian. But first I'm going raw vegan from July 1st until September 1st - after that I'll go fruitarian.
Well eating a raw, mostly fruit diet, I could see getting away without drinking water. Most fruits are like 95% water, so you get lots of water each time you eat food!
is the guy making some kind of statement by not drinking water? like, saying it's bad for you or something? :confused:
ooooooh i see. thanks :)
Not really an environmentally practical diet for those of us in the UK.
We'd be mostly living on a diet of apples and pears (the only easy grow volume staples).
Not that practical really. Any mass espousal of the diet would cause problems.
I am sure that a fruitarian diet works well in Australia, for instance, since my bro-in-law is one. He grows all his own food. He has about 30 different fruits all year round.
I disagree, you wouldn't have to live on apples and pears, I don't.
You could do it if you wanted to though, there are mass amounts of berries, and various other fruit like figs and a plethora of other fruit trees like peach and apricot for example that are suitable to the UK, you can grow melons here too in the summer.
Fruit that I can't get here in the UK I get from as close as possible, spain, france etc.
Is your current diet 100% grown here in the UK?
Ok impractical for the masses, however I am not advocating it for the masses. I eat a high fruit diet because it works for me, I have grown berries here and had a couple peach trees and an apple tree before I went to live in the USA, you just have to take care of them and have the time of course. Dwarf trees are good because they produce a good amount.
It was easier living in Colorado to grow that stuff because of the heat, now I am back in the UK I eat slightly less fruit than I would have in Colorado because I don't always want to buy the imported stuff too often.
I suppose it will be easier again when I move somewhere warmer again one day :)
I hope it continues work for you then.
Growing one's own fruit for an exclusively fruit diet in the UK is very, very hard. Luckily, we have imported fruit should we wish to buy it.
I enjoyed a diet of fruit when in Oz and thought it would be good to be able to live like that.
I like my greens and potatoes though...
Peas, Pears, Unity.
I eat a leafy greens myself and an amount of vegetables including the root variety etc, my diet tends to be somewhere around 70% fruit, which also includes non sweet fruit of course like peppers, cucumbers etc.
Must be nice to escape to Oz and enjoy all the tasty fruit!
I really like peas actually, every once in a while I get a craving for them.
Nice one. We (Organic Roundabout in Brighton) grew some fantastic organic peppers and cucumbers in polytunnels from old varieties from the Henry Doubleday Inst. They were unbelievably nice. Crystal apple cucumbers rule. Sadly the venture was discontinued.
These days I am lucky enough to go to Southern California from time to time.
My friends' kids' school has three massive orange trees and two large peach trees in the playground. Unfortunately most of the children live on a diet of sugar and animal fats.. I just help myself if ever I'm there.
I have HAD to have beetroot a lot recently..cravings for food should be carefully headed I think.