Hello everyone,

It is coming up on my one year anniversary of “fruitarianism” or endeavoring to be a “high carb low fat vegan” if not a “high carb low fat RAW vegan.”

This has meant countless raw food ebooks purchased, hundreds of hilariously ridiculous fruitarian youtube videos watched, endless instragram pics of fruit scrolled through… haha you get the picture.

It has been a hard journey in a few ways. Having such a radically different diet from those around you and from what our culture tells us to eat can get tough at times.

Like you can’t go to restaurants basically. People don’t like that it turns out.

The other tough thing is that you only have the rantings and ravings of fruitarian youtubers who are often living for months on only bananas or oranges, and yelling at you to “GO FRUIT YOURSELF” while wearing a purple and leopard print pimp’s outfit (cough cough durianrider) to guide you.

When something goes wrong, or your tooth starts hurting because you haven’t yet learned how to thoroughly brush your teeth, which you need to do when you start eating so much fruit, it can be very scary even having your health in the hands of random youtubers sitting in their bathrooms.

There were times I felt very isolated. Like what have I done? Why have I fought so hard for my right not to meet my friends at a restaurant?

There were also times I wondered if I was I only doing this as some sort of bizarre eating disorder where you binge on 1,000 calorie smoothies in order to lose weight. And whether I should just turn back.

But for some reason I couldn’t. And now I”m here. About one year later. And it all seemed to work out.

Basically, I have settled into a raw till 4 lifestyle with a high emphasis on fruits but eating potatoes and starches for dinner.

This has mentally been sooooooo much easier than being fully raw. You still have your satisfying comfort foods.

One person who has inspired and helped me more than any other finding good foods is Will of Potato Strong. His comfort food recipes that have no oil in them are SO GOOD and make you feel totally satisfied and full. If you didn’t see my Facebook post about the interview I did with him through youtube, watch this video where he answered my questions about his plant based diet and his dramatic weight loss.

Will inspired me to watch the documentary Forks Over Knives  on netflix and now I’m reading the book Whole, the sequel to The China Study.

What I got from Forks Over Knives is there is yet another conspiracy at play in our society.

It mysteriously takes the form of the innocuous food pyramid on the back of cereal boxes everywhere.

That food pyramid always seemed suspicious to me. Turns out it is!!

The movie kind of implied that the government wants us to be sick so the drug companies and the insurance companies and the meat and dairy industry can thrive. If we simply ate a very low fat diet of whole plant foods so many of the diseases that cost us billions could be easily reversed. But that wouldn’t be a good thing for those depending on the billions. Even though it might allow our friends and family to be free of many of the most tragic and supposedly incurable diseases out there, like cancer and heart disease.

No one wants to tell you that your health could be being horribly damaged by the standard american diet that is recommended in the food pyramid.

Fruitarianism or eating solely fresh fruits and vegetables, and giving up starches, will take your health to the next level even.

This year I’ve done a few periods where I was fully raw. It is tricky to eat enough, but wow I felt amazing.

I experienced (just to recap):

1. my beauty skyrocketed. Like my face looked bizarrely more beautiful, like a renaissance painting.

2. my skin began to glow from within and completely cleared up. That was amazing.

3. weight literally melted off and my pants started falling down like a rapper’s.

4. when i ate enough, i was running everywhere. It was like I had a tank of gas that was filled up for the first time in my life and I could press pedal to the medal, and for the first time I had lift off.

5. Running became effortless. Like, no strain on the muscles. It was like I was flying.

6. You wake up with a buzz. Like your body is buzzing and ready to leap out of bed.

I encourage anyone who can to try fully raw. It’s awesome, but challenging.

Anyway, I agree that fruits and vegetables are the KEY to health.

I like to think of them as vitamins in pill form. The more you eat, the more you gain….in health.

That is why I am keeping on with my fruitarian diet…or aspiring to be as fruitarian as possible. While maintaing a first and foremost vegan, and second most, low fat no oil diet.

I love it now. I enjoy my smoothies now that I know the tricks (make sure this bananas are ripe (spotted like a leopard) and I love seeing the new fruit come into season. I love seeing my skin change the more fruit I eat.

I”m really glad I stumbled upon this.

I will try to share more of what I have learned because I am a convert now.

Isn’t it interesting how the story of The Garden of Eden makes so much sense. Animals and humans lived in harmony. They ate fruit. They lived in a tropical paradise. They were healthy and glowing. But then we were kicked out.

I feel like veganism is the key to get us back there.

In the bible, Jesus was born in a manger with the animals all around.

For the animals, for our health, vegan is the way, don’t you think?

 

 

 

 

Last night I had a lot of anxious dreams.

I usually don’t stay up at night thinking and stressing about things, but last night I did. I failed a test and that put my mind into a spin.

Right before I went to bed I started thinking about how there were pigs right now waiting to be slaughtered. I had this revelation. I can’t believe it’s real. I can’t believe it’s going to happen. I can’t believe it is happening right now!

I know it’s obvious, but I’m so removed from it…I guess in my half dream state I had forgot that this was oh so real. Murders were going on and would continue to go on now, tomorrow and the next day.

In my dream, when I finally fell asleep I dreamed I was being chased by people with guns who were shooting me and my friends. I eventually managed to get a gun, but I couldn’t figure out how to cock it or whatever. I eventually ended up having to shoot the attacker in self defense. It was the image from the cow slaughterhouse in ghosts in the machine, a steel bolt through the forehead.

This morning I was looking at Facebook and saw posts from Toronto Pig Save about how some guys in an SUV rolled down their windows and threw a piece of bacon at them while they were holding a vigil.

In a beautiful move, the activists buried the piece of bacon.

It reminded me of something I had to read in school a few times, the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone.

This princess is obsessed with giving her brother who rebelled against the state a proper burial. He was her brother and she loved him. But the king forbid it under penalty of death.

She buries him anyway knowing the price is death.

The activists gave that pig that people reduce to a joke and a piece of bacon a proper burial. They showed the dignity of every life, no matter how trivial it may seem to most to bury a piece of bacon.

I thought it was a beautiful act.

Sometimes at night when i am curled into my covers in my nest of pillows, I get an image of Esther the Wonder Pig in my mind, nestled into her couch with a pig smile on her face and a look of utter contentment. And I feel that I am feeling the exact same emotion, and I know we are the same.

When I look at pictures of Esther the Wonder Pig on Facebook, I often wonder about her. She looks so intelligent, but is so different than us. I wonder what goes on in her mind. And I marvel at the privilege we have to share our lives with other mysterious beings, with mysterious intelligences.

It really is a privilege to share our lives with animals, so much more connected to nature and to our roots and their instincts.

I think it is wonderful. Why do we abuse that. Why do we kill them. I don’t get it.

At lunch the other day, i ate with a vegetarian. We were talking about veganism, and she was saying how she doesn’t eat meat from animals that are smart unlike chickens and unless she knows they were local, sustainably and organically raised.

I struggled figuring out what to do. I wished I had been able to totally refute her in a non confrontational way, but I didn’t want to spend the whole lunch trying to get her to change her ways and understand the immorality of killing based on intelligence levels.

So I just put in a few good words where I could. It’s hard to confront. With her I realized she had just not seen the light yet. I tried to tell her about Toronto Pig Save and she was very receptive.

Is everyone like that? Could the world be changed just by bearing witness? Just by people finally seeing the light?

Or are their darker forces of evil at work. Are there people who hate animals. Who don’t understand animals and don’t respect them.

The anti-animal lovers of the world.

I am an animal lover and always have been. But some people don’t like animals. Maybe they are scared of them. Maybe they are not gentle personalities like I think I am. I think that gives me an edge with animals because I am calm and sensitive and I think they like that and sense I understand them. But some people have no interest in animals.

I don’t know, it is just troubling, is it not?

It is getting to me today.

Have you guys been struggling with thinking about animal rights at all lately? Please share. I’d love to hear what you are worried about lately.