Animal Lovers, I Want You!: To Tell Me About Yourself

Hi guys,

Good Morning!!

Today I wanted to thank so many of you for commenting on my facebook and blog and supporting me from afar. It is a really great feeling to receive your comments and connect with you. I also realize how …it is not always so easy to leave a comment or like something. It takes a bunch of time to log in on a blog and on facebook there is the chance everyone you know and wish you weren’t friends with will see your every move. Inspired by you all, I have started liking and commenting more on other people’s pages. I’ve been inspired to ditch my worries of what my friends might think. At this rate, I might even share my blog on my own personal facebook page–something I haven’t done ever!!

I have been thinking about who reads my blog. I decided I want to share some more about myself today. You guys have been commenting and interacting with my so much, I feel like I should interact with you guys a little more, person to person.

So I had this idea. I was recently listening to this interview that was saying how the most attractive thing you can do in life is appreciate your individuality. Instead of trying to change yourself in any way, simply start trying to brainstorm how your flaws could be seen as things that make you even more unique and special and alluring. This is how to be attractive and cool and stand out in a crowd…in a good way.

I kind of wanted to try it on my blog. I thought I would list some of my flaws but then try to figure out how that makes me…me. That way you might get to know both sides of me…my bad and my good…but be ultimately allured and entranced by me–lol jk.

Anyway here goes.

Flaw 1.  I am often shy, quiet, and timid. 

I do perceive this as a flaw a lot of times. People are always annoyingly pointing out that I’m quiet. I’m always like WHY am I getting so nervous about speaking to this person, why did I freeze up, why can’t I be myself in public!

But you know who is also shy and awkward? The heroes of young adult novels. Kristen Stewart/ Bella of Twilight come to mind. And you know what…that’s kind of cool. They are gawky, awkward, disarming, genuine, flawed people. So that’s kind of how I like to think of myself.

awkward, but cool, amiright?

Flaw 2. I’ve always felt like a much larger than average person. 

Body image has often been a big problem for me in my life. Especially in high school, I felt like a large giant compared to these perfect model-esque teens that you see in all the magazines, catalogs, media. You feel like boys only go for the thin peeps.

But here’s the flipside. I’ve always felt large, strong, thick and powerful. I’ve always felt powerful. I’ve never felt like a delicate girl who was wearing a tiara and into disney princesses. I identified more with athletes, with tomboys, with martial arts stars.

That’s cool.

Flaw 3. I’m very sensitive. 

Oh yes, people are always telling me I’m too sensitive. I read into people’s tones of voice. I easily break into tears when talking about something that means a lot to me.

Ok, people, I have an artistic temperament. I’m an artiste. I feel! I have deep emotions. I love. It allows me to empathize with animals. It allows me to empathize with people. C’mon, this one’s…dare i say it…my gift.

Ok guys, 3 flaws is enough I think for this experiment.

I wonder, if any of you feel bold enough to try this exercise. This way I can get to know who you are. Put a flaw to a name, if you will. All you lovely people who like and comment on facebook, and on the blog, let me inside you…or does that sounds weird. 

Anyway, choose a FLAW. A real flaw that annoys you about yourself. And then tell me how you can see it as a profoundly alluring quality, as I’m sure it is. 

I greatly look forward to hearing your flaws!

STILL Fruitarian! : Benefits I Have Experienced on a Fruitarian, Low Fat Raw Vegan Diet

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?