Hi guys!

I am back from Japan and China.

It was a very interesting experience and so fun to hang out with my family who I went with.

There was one point of tension on the trip though. My fruitarianism.

So yeah, if you don’t know, I have been experimenting with fruitarianism, or low fat raw veganism, or basically eating ONLY fruits and vegetables.

When I left for my vacation, I had been a fruitarian for about 3 weeks.

I had been experiencing amazing benefits. My fitness had magically jumped to a whole new level. It was like I was a different person. I could do pushups easily. My strength, without strength training at all, was like…someone else’s strength. I was suddenly fitter…no doubt about it. It was incredible.

At my dance class, it was like I was the most popular one there. All of a sudden people were like “how DOES she do that!” It was awesome.

My skin had also cleared up. I had no breakouts.

I had also lost a lot of weight. My shorts were falling off…quite literally. (a humorous experience).

People were whistling at me on the street.

I also had more energy. Like instead of feeling exhausted after my dance classes, I was like, I think I’ll walk back today. And I would speed walk.

I was also beginning to enjoy eating fruits and vegetables.

For example, peaches are in season. I was eating like 15 ripe peaches a day. Plus some plums and apricots and nectarines (also in season).

You feel like you are enjoying summer when you eat that many ripe peaches. You feel a connection TO summer.

However it’s not all peaches and summertime.

Let’s face it, although there are a lot of great benefits of being a fruitarian, there is a high, very high, excruciatingly high, some might say, cost.

You have to give up ALL food. Except fruits and vegetables, which most people rarely eat anyway.

It’s hard in the beginning. There’s a lot to learn suprisingly. I had to learn how to track my calories in order to get ENOUGH calories. You have to learn to eat literally laughable quantities of fruits. (for example i took a ridiculous bag of 10 bananas and ten oranges on the plane to China). You have to learn how to always have huge quantities of fresh fruit at the ready. You have to learn what a ripe fruit is because you soon learn it’s impossible to eat large volumes of unripe fruits. You have to learn how to fit in so much eating in one day. You have to learn how to deal with people thinking you’re crazy. (Vegetarians and vegans are pretty used to that though).

Probably hardest of all is giving up your love for food as you know it.

It really is like breaking up with someone you love. You know it’s for the best, but it’s hard to accept sometimes. It’s hard to move on.

Slowly, however, the feelings of loss become more vague and distant. And when one door closes another door opens. A new life opens for you. A different one.

Fruitarians believe that a fruit based diet is our natural diet, meaning, the diet humans are designed to eat.

Because of how well eating this way has worked for me, I think I agree.

I believe a vegan diet (specifically a vegan diet of only fruits and vegetables (and some nuts and seeds) ) IS our natural diet.

If you are a vegan, and you are interested in taking a wild ride into unprecedented levels of health I suggest you try Low Fat Raw Veganism or 80/10/10/

On my vacation I stopped being full on fruitarian but I was still vegan. Now that I am home I am so excited to have access to so much fruit. I’m doing this for the indefinite future.

Would you ever try fruitarianism as a further step into veganism? Your thoughts?