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03.10.02, 00:55
Becoming a fruitarian is a relatively slow process. It's very
difficult to change overnight from, for example, a
vegetarian diet to a
pure fruit diet. Fruits are very cleansing,
and if one tries to change too fast, the body might respond
in a negative way. Depending
on the present diet and the individual, the
transition can take from 2 months to 2 years. One way to
go is to set up small goals
week by week and month by month. It's
easier to achieve these smaller goals one at the time than
trying to achieve the main goal
at once.
Examples of these smaller goals can be
eating only fruit for breakfast for, say, 2 or 3 weeks, and
then increasing the fruit diet to
both breakfast and lunch and having a
cooked meal at supper. This may continue for a month or
two or perhaps a shorter period
depending on the reactions of the body. The
next step could be having whole fruit days once or twice a
week. When the longing
for "ordinary" food begin to cease, more and
more fruit days can be had per week. Soon there seems to
be no point in eating
cooked food at all, because you will be tired
every time you eat it, and you will also have to drink water
in order to remain the
fluid balance. So now you might have come
to a stage where only raw food is good enough for you (with
all the enzymes
"living"). You will be well aware of how your
body responds to different types of food. At this stage you
might eat vegetables
and nuts and seeds as well as fruits, but
soon you will discover that ripe fruits are easier to digest
than vegetables because all the
starch in the fruits has turned to glucose,
which is not the case with vegetables. (Starch is made up
of glucose molecules that have
to be separated from each other by
enzymes. When they are separated the body can pick the
molecules up and use them for
energy).
Another way of achieving a pure fruit diet,
that perhaps is more "strict" is to first become a
vegetarian, then proceed to vegan,
then to raw food and after that to a fruit-
nut-seed-diet before entering the fruitarian stage (see
What do Fruitarians Eat?). This way
may take a while longer, but the body will
more easily keep up the pace, and so will your mind.
As an alterative to the first way described,
you can start with one fruit day per week and eat as
before the rest of the week. After a
couple of weeks you then have 2 fruit days
and so forth...
There are many alternatives, and you will
find the way that suits you the best. It's fun to experiment
a little and see how be body
reacts. If, for example, you have eaten only
fruit for a week and then eat something cooked, you can
expect a headache and
tiredness. This is a good way of convincing
yourself that the fruit diet is the best.
If you are tempted to become fruitarian
quickly, you could try this: eat only one cooked meal per
day, let's say supper. Decide on
a breakfast, say 3 grapefruits or 4 apples,
and eat this every morning for 2 weeks. This will create a
habit and thus make things
easier. Likewise should the lunch be
decided, for example 3 avocados, some tomatoes and
olives or 5 bananas or whatever. Do
not overstep these "rules". It will be a great
feeling after the two weeks knowing you're able to keep
your spirit up. You will
probably have a huge desire for "ordinary"
food in the evenings and that is your body's old eating
habits that are struggling to
survive and they cry out in desperation.
What you should do is not to reject these desires, but to
give the body what it wants, and
in great amounts. If for example you get a
desire for mashed potatoes, then eat mashed potatoes for
several days in large
amounts until you're tired of it. Hopefully,
you won't get the desire back. Eventually the fruits purify
the body and the desires will
come more seldom; nevertheless, there is
nothing wrong to give in to them, because if you don't, they
might grow and grow until
it makes you feel bad, and that's not the
point; on the contrary, the point is to feel well all the time!
