Wow is it hot out today… well over 100 with the heat index! Summer is definitely upon us.
So, I’ve befriended the fruitarian guy who lives in my building, who I spoke about in a previous post. The guy is super-fit and strong (not gross body-builder strong, but a lean muscular and flexible strong). We’ve become friends and have been hanging out the past couple of nights. He’s given me some good advice and is helping me stick to my diet plan… he told me to text him anytime I feel like cheating on my diet. Plus he’s kept my mind off crap food by providing good mental stimulation. It turns out he is super-smart and interesting. (Smarter than me even! LOL). 
So I’ve done really good on my plan for the past couple of days. I’m on day 3 of being vegan and sticking to only fruits, veggies, a few nuts and seeds, with only some organic cooked potato slices for my only cooked meal. I feel absolutely amazing except for the noticeable detox/cleansing taking place. (All that cheese/dairy I ate for the past week or two has to come out of my system somehow!) My body feels absolutely amazing – I am much more limber, fluid, flexible and energetic already. I haven’t checked my weight yet but I will tomorrow.
My mood and frame of mind continue to stay high and upbeat; thank GOD last week’s confusion and misery has passed!
So, my California trip is looking to take place the very first week of July. So I have about 2 weeks to really get settled into a good routine with my “not cheating” plan. Usually if I stick to something for about a week, it becomes a habit and cravings fade. With my positive frame of mind, new ideas, and my friend’s help, I have no doubt I’ll make the final change into total raw low fat vegan/fruitarian and stick with it indefinitely. I discovered yesterday that the potato slices I’ve been eating have citric acid in them, which is very acidic for the body – meaning: BAD. So as of today I am cutting them out and going 100% raw.
Today, due to detox/cleansing, I have had absolutely no appetite so far, so truth be told I’ve eaten pretty much nothing. However, I am planning on a dinner of plenty of fresh mango and romaine. I have several ripe mangoes to cut up. I also bought a large seedless organic watermelon (grown in Cali) yesterday that’s in my fridge. I’m planning to do a mono day of only watermelon later this week. We’ll see how that goes…!
In non-diet related news, I got my car’s title in the mail today. It turns out I had finished paying it off and didn’t even notice! (They took payments directly out of my bank account so I never had to send anything in). I’m really excited because I’ve never officially owned a car. I’m contemplating maybe – a big maybe – buying a new car soon. My current one has 171,000 miles on it and is still running quite well. But with all the road-tripping I’m planning to do soon, I don’t know…
By the way, I’ve had a couple people on this site accuse me of being arrogant because of my current diet and health convictions. I want to apologize if I come off this way. Please know that I do not in any way think I know even a fraction of everything or that I’m “all that” because of the way I eat. I’m simply excited to be feeling so well, getting such good results and have such a good frame of mind these days that sometimes I come off too overwhelmingly. There are several of you out there who oppose my beliefs and eating plan; that’s OK. It’s not going to come close to changing my mind, however.
It boils down to this: back when I was still eating grains – I had skin and digestive problems. Back when I ate meat – I was helping harm the environment, contributing to animal abuse and mucking up my digestive track with putrid rotting food. Back when I was eating lots of raw veggies, I was getting lots of digestive issues (won’t go into details). When I eat dairy, I get bloated, have digestive problems and am consuming the bodily fluids of another species plus the very bad casein proteins. Back when I was eating processed food, I was very overweight, miserable and had all sorts of aches and pains.
The truth is, eating mostly fruit means I’m not: harming animals, messing up my digestion, gaining weight or keeping excess weight on, toxifying my body any further, putting any harmful chemicals into my body (unless I eat non-organic fruit, which may contain pesticides), hurting the environment, contributing to the greedy evil food corporations, or eating foods not meant for the human body to digest or thrive on.
So how can I not be doing the right thing? 
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I have nothing against ur healthy diet plan. Whatever as long as ur happy and healthy
I love watermelon. I am so jealous u got hold of some and that they’re from Cali as well.. but on the same page..just wanted to add to your long list of why not eat meat, diary, vege etc…
If the mangoes, pineapples, bananas, exotic, tropical fruits are imported/air flown.. that’s not very good for the environment either. The move is to buy seasonal and buy local. Hmmmm, I feel that’s a serious challenge as I really don’t think I can last on only apples and pears some seasons.
Cheers!
That is true, Amanda, however, the meat industry is the #1 cause for high methane emissions which contribute towards global warming and a bad environment. So as long as I’m not contributing towards that, I feel as though I’m doing at least a small part in helping.
i just want to say you go girl!!
Keep it up!!
You’re doing 811 right? I’ve done it in the past and it works so well for me in the summer. Make sure you’re getting enough greens in though! They’re key for protein, minerals and omega-3s.
Good luck and eat up!
I think what you’re doing is fine and something no one else should berate you for. Though, I also hope you still respect other people’s decisions to eat meat. There’s many who don’t see anything wrong with it.
I’m glad Amanda brought this up – I do respect what you have done in regard to environmentally sound eating habits, but I think agriculture sustainability is really important too – resource conservation is crucial, and the petroleum used to fly in products that could be obtained locally is incredible. And just on a personal note – frankly I think locally grown stuff tastes way better than stuff flown from afar. If you buy strawberries locally, they’re allowed to ripen longer because they don’t have to be shipped – California strawberries (I live on the East coast) are like a different fruit by comparison.
I don’t mean to sound sanctimonious or condescending – believe me, I’m the worst of sinners, I love me some grapes from Chile in the wintertime.
roro: thanks!
Kathryn: yes, I’ve been doing 811 except for the days I cheat. Summertime is perfect – it’s been so hot that all I mostly want anyway is fresh juicy fruit!
Stephanie: Yes, I totally respect other people’s wishes to eat meat. I don’t preach or shun someone because they eat meat! However, because they may not know this (and I didn’t until becoming enlightened) – I do share with meat-eaters what I know about how long it takes to digest meat, what it does to your insides, and how it’s contributing to animal cruelty. I tell them once and drop it (unless they seem interested for more information).
ste. ded.: You are right, the few locally-grown veggies/greens I’ve tried are WAY better than store-bought. Unfortunately I live in a place where local fruit consists mainly of strawberries. So I’m kinda out of luck here. I am considering relocating at some point in the future to a place that has tons of local-grown fruit. For now I have to rely on Whole Foods, which does ship stuff in from other countries. On that note, yes, the ideal fruit diet would be fruit grown in your own orchard and greens grown in your own garden. But I have to work with what I’m given here…
That sounds good in my mind, then!
Although I eat meat, I think it’s great that you’ve seen so many improvements in your health. Something must be working.
Rian I have a question, as a longtime fan:: are you planning to post photos of yourself as you get lower in weight? Will us fans ever get to really see before and after photos? I’m dying to see the change already. 20+ pounds is a big difference!
Jill, yes, I am planning to start posting photos when I get down in the 140’s. I don’t have a photo of me at my highest weight, but I have one of my face and upper body when I was in the high 170’s, which is good enough. I will also start doing stuff like videos and/or video blogs when I get lower in weight.
Thanks for being a ‘fan’!
Not to sound too critical but now you don’t eat potatoes because of some acid? They ARE healthy. This acid is only in the peel(?) and if you peel that off they are one of the healthiest foods ever! Don’t stop eating them.
Have you ever thought about the fact that all your exotic fruits are transported from overseas and how much harm that does to the environment? And that they really get pestered with all sorts of toxins in the air during the transport? You don’t care about that as well so don’t care about the toxin in potatoe peeling.
Yes fusionfatale, I believe we covered that already… see above. LOL. Anyway, I’m going 100% raw, and one can’t eat raw potatoes!
Rian don’t bother replying to the ignorant dumbasses who don’t bother to read the blog or your posts. No offense intended towards them or anything but you shouldn’t have to explain yourself 50 times to them.
LOL Jill, true, true.
God, Rian, I called you “arrogant” because you called me “brainwashed” just because I didn’t agree with you (and I said my opinion nicely, it was not offensive in any way).
I would never call anyone “arrogant” based solely on their diet and eating habbits, that is absurd (it doesn’t even make sense)and I can not believe that you are misleding your readers like this… “arrogant because of my current diet”.
I enjoy reading about other people’s diets (even if I don’t agree with with them) and I liked your blog… until now. Honestly, you seem like you just want everybody to agree with you completely, but that is simply not possible – then why give us the chance to say our opinions?
Once again, Rian, you are not arrogant because of your diet, you are arrogant when you assume that everybody who does not agree with you is brainwshed.
Hi Stephanie
I’m vegan but interested in frutiarianism so I’ll be following your blogging on it. I’m suprised than many friutarians report high energy and stamina although it does go in the face of conventional knowledge. I know that juice fasts are great ways of cleaning out our system and should probably do at least this myself. Anyhow I’m subscribing to your feed and wish you well for your dietary adventures.
Ali
rada: Huh? There are plenty of people who disagree with me. I don’t mind. You are taking things way too personally here. Lighten up!
By the way, I never said you personally were brainwashed. But yes, I do believe many people are brainwashed when it comes to food. Just my opinion, doesn’t mean I’m arrogant.
I also bought a large seedless organic watermelon (grown in Cali)
i’m sorry but seedless is not organic nomatter where it is grown. organic are stuff which have not been genetically changed. a seedless watermelon (or grapes) is like a frankenstein version of it (which is gross).
^ in which case, kristenc, basically none of the food we eat can ever be called organic, and it’s all “frankenstein” versions. Agriculture IS, more or less, the systematic genetic modification of food: farmers have chosen plant specimens with genetic mutations that are advantageous to humans – wheat that doesn’t fall off the stem before it can be harvested; big, sweet fruit; fruit, like watermelon and grapes, with few or no seed, etc. Wild almonds are poisonous – all almonds once were. Does that make the non-poisonous domestic almond we now have a “frankenstein” version of the original?
Moreover, even if we’re talking about genetic modification of food in a lab, why is that “gross”? A lot of people seem to have this knee-jerk pseudoscience-based aversion to GMOs – really, by allowing us to adapt food to different climates, increase yield, and increase plant resiliency, genetic modification by selective breeding has saved literally millions, if not billions, of lives (Google Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution). I think opposing further research – and denouncing the products as “frankenfood” – is smallminded and potentially threatening to life on Earth.
Do you think that fruitarian guy might be up for an interview on my blog? – http://mangodurian.blogspot.com/2008/02/list-of-interviews-with-fruitarians.html ?? Does he really eat 100% fruit, or does he include greens and other raw stuff?
Of course, I’d love to interview you too, once you have gotten there, which I’m sue you will..
peace,
mango.
Hi there,
I enjoy reading your blog. I’m always amazed at how incredible I feel when I do fresh fruit/veggie juice fasts – or just eat fruits and veggies. Also, I wanted to set the record straight regarding the comment that “local strawberries ripen longer since they don’t have to be shipped.” That’s not true – strawberries are picked when they’re ripe since they don’t ripen after they are picked. I actually work for the California Strawberry Commission and get to learn cool facts like that!
Jodi
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