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the fruitarian dream lives!

About a year and a half ago, I attempted to make a sudden and drastic dietary shift into a fruitarian lifestyle. What that entails is eating primarily fresh, organic fruits along with some nuts, seeds and greens. I've felt caleld to that lifestyle and way of eating for a while and that was going to be my beta test. I had been drinking coffee, eating sugar and fast food, dairy, wheat, improper food combining, you name it. I noticed that when I wasn't at work, in front of a computer (the idiot box of our time), I had no problem living that way and loving it. At work, it was much tougher to fight cravings and my energy was easily sapped. Maybe because I was sitting there for long periods without much to do? Maybe something about the energy wavelength in front of computers and television sets just seems to nudge me in the wrong directions.

The experiment was actually going along beautifully, despite many alarmist warnings around me ranging from "you can't possible get enough nutrients from fresh fruit!" (which cracks me up, as they eat their Lean Cuisine, virtually devoid of nutritional value) to "you shouldn't eat fruit when you've been diagnosed with Candidiasis!" But if Candida can only thrive in an acid environment, and fruit creates an alkaine environment....eh?

My rookie mistake was being too gung ho by adding cleansing supplements as well, which was way too much detoxing and when I felt things getting intense I freaked, thought it was the candida thign again bailed. But before that, I was enjoying the most amazing transformation I'd ever experienced! My energy was through the roof and steady, needed about 5-6 hours of sleep before I was ready to bound out of bed, was pooping about 4 to 5 times per day (and after a couple of weeks, it didn't smell like anything!), no body odor so no need for even natural deodorant, weight loss, no bloating or pms symptoms, glowing skin, clear eyes, sharp mind...it was fabulous! In hindsight, the detox overload was simply due to adding unnecessary supplements to an already cleansing diet. But I lost my way after that and have now found my way back again!

I just found some wonderful online blogs and sites done by other crazy fruitarian types who, like me, started out intrigued by raw living but found that to be complicated, poorly digested and a bit draining. It's the preponderence of nuts and fats from complicated recipes meant to duplicate the cooked foods we're used to. But my vision is of a simple life; picking breakfast and snacks and meals from my own orchard and garden, festive but simple salads, young coconuts, raw cocao treats. And it seems this is the way lots of other people out there are living too.

I just saw a book that I will buy soon, by Dr. Douglas M. Graham, called the 80/10/10 diet. It looks to be all about eating 80% fruits, 10% protein (raw vegan style) and 10% fats (like avocados). Sounds like exactly what my spirit and body have been longing for and what I've been finding my way into naturally.

As I was sitting at home yesterday, enjoying a mellow Sunday of reading, doing laundry (man, I love hanging my stuff up to dry!), chilling with my boys (kitties) and cleaning, I found that eating a gorgeous array of fruit throughout the day was more than satisfying. I had started out the day with something from a smoothie place, then later had some coffee and a croissant as a "treat"...but my energy went splat! So the rest of the day was life giving, juicy ripe fruits. And my energy came back.

So now I don't fear candida, I don't fear detox overload, I don't fear "falling off the wagon". I'm just joyfully reunited with the drive to live as a healthy, happy fruitarian chickadee.

For anyone interested in following that, I have a blog specifically about that at:
http://theforestfaery.livejournal.com/

Interestingly enough, in typical absent minded professor fashion, I ate one spicy tuna roll this weekend, forgetting all about the fact that the raw fish is still "meat" in my world, but I indulged. Didn't taste good, despite being fresh and good quality sushi, and it didn't feel good. MAJOR acid reaction from the miscombined element and my energy plummeted. Interesting. Once upon a time, I thought of sushi as healthy.