Any Raw Vegan or Fruitarians?

jennaandthemoon
jennaandthemoon Posts: 28
in Food and Nutrition
I'm absolutely loving the raw vegan lifestyle, I eat endless amounts of fruit and vegetables with little bits of nuts and seeds here and there, and it feels AMAZING. I dont even crave other foods, this is the lifestyle for me.

Anyone else into raw veganism and/or fruitarianism?????

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  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    I sure hope you are supplementing or you are going to be malnourished in some areas and it will eventually make you very sick.

    I am speaking from personal experience.

    You are not giving your body balanced nutrition in no shape, form or fashion.
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?
  • jennaandthemoon
    jennaandthemoon Posts: 28
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

    Yes there is. Look up "freelee the banana girl" on google.
  • dodochoga
    dodochoga Posts: 33
    raw vegan i could understand but someone who eats only fruit?!?!? they will have real blood sugar problems, i would guess?
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

    Yes there is. Look up "freelee the banana girl" on google.

    She is a crazy woman with an eating disorder..............
  • jennaandthemoon
    jennaandthemoon Posts: 28
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

    Yes there is. Look up "freelee the banana girl" on google.

    She is a crazy woman with an eating disorder..............


    Haha, I do agree with you there. She is a bit insane if she is constantly thinking about food and getting mad at people that dont agree with her. But I still do feel really good just eating mostly fruits veggies and nuts. But yeah freelee is a little insane.
  • RawIndian
    RawIndian Posts: 90 Member
    Yes I am raw vegan and more than 90% of my calories come from raw food (salads & fruits).

    And yes I am absolutely loving each and every minute of it.
  • Rocbola
    Rocbola Posts: 1,998 Member
    Those who think that fruitarians only eat fruit have not done their research. 80/10/10 fruitarians eat MASSIVE salads. Greens are a major, major part of the diet.
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

    Yes there is. Look up "freelee the banana girl" on google.

    Freelee does not only eat fruit. She is a "high carb low fat raw vegan", and eats cooked foods.
    Mouthfull, but yeah. She doesn't only eat fruit. She's pretty open about it.
  • Dedshot
    Dedshot Posts: 145
    OP, is it a good idea to be so restrictive with your food while in recovery for an eating disorder? I don't mean to pry but I remember one of your threads regarding this from not too long ago. From experience, going from one thing to the next - veganism, vegetarianism, et cetera - were just other ways for me to control what I was eating. This was years ago I was doing any of this, for the record. I guess I'm just curious as to what's making you want mostly raw foods other than the "feel good" from eating them.
  • Nati19cap
    Nati19cap Posts: 1 Member
    I'm actually interested in this lifestyle. I don't believe a fruitarian ONLY eats fruit. The 80/10/10 plan (which can be implemented into any diet such as vegan, raw vegan, vegetarian, omnivorous) is a formula where you consume 80% carbohydrates, 10% Protein, and 10% fats. Fruitarians get their 80% of carbs from fruits.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,089 Member
    I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

    It means you only things that you can consume without killing the plant (e.g., you can take an apple or a grape or a blueberry off the tree, vine, or bush and the plant is fine -- it's actually part of the plant's propagation "strategy" for animals to take the fruits and spread the seeds). So in addition to things we normally think of as fruits, it also includes thinks we think of as vegetables, like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, avocados, squash, olives, etc. Corn should be OK, too, I think. Essentially, anything that bears seeds should be fair game. Plus the seeds themselves, and nuts, so fruitarians shouldn't _theoretically_ have any nutrition supplement needs that vegans in general don't face (I think).

    I don't understand the logic of it as a dietary choice absent an ethical belief that it's wrong to kill any living thing, even a plant (as you do when you eat certain vegetables, where you're actually eating the plant itself and not the fruit, e.g., root vegetables, and things that are basically the stalk and leaves, too, I believe. I'm not sure what the thinking is about lettuces and other greens, herbs, etc. that you can harvest repeatedly through the growing season without killing the plant, but my impression is that a strict fruitarian wouldn't eat them, because it does injure the plant, even if it recovers fairly easily.)

    As a dietary choice, without the ethical component, it just seems like one of the endless ways that people come up with to restrict their food choices, either out of faddism or orthorexia or because it often creates a calorie deficit without having to actually count the calories.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    OP:
    This approach is just another way to fuel your eating disorder.
  • Fenrissa
    Fenrissa Posts: 116
    OP:
    This approach is just another way to fuel your eating disorder.
  • johloz
    johloz Posts: 176 Member
    OP - You are definitely not eating raw vegan. You're not even eating vegetarian -- otherwise why are you logging tuna and chicken into your diary?

    Please don't encourage a dangerous diet saying you are on it and feel amazing when it actuality you are not even following that diet. Eating a bunch of fruit all at once (something I enjoy doing regularly) and being raw vegan are NOT the same thing. If you were actually raw vegan, you probably would probably be feeling like crap and posting this from the toilet.
  • HoneydewLouu
    HoneydewLouu Posts: 18 Member
    I eat a predominantly raw, 80/10/10 diet. Feel free to add :) Could do with like minded friends!
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,207 Member
    I eat a predominantly raw, 80/10/10 diet. Feel free to add :) Could do with like minded friends!
    But the OP eats tuna, chicken and milk............one day was mostly raw, yesterday, but protein was at 20g's and fat at 7g's......and at 1100 calories which is dangerously low with that diet to meet nutritional needs I would have to agree there's a basic problem with the OP's relationship with food and herself, which from what I've seen so far is par for the course in this diet.
  • Amisha136
    Amisha136 Posts: 38 Member
    YES! I just started last week and I love it... I'm doing Raw till 4 which is helping me a lot with staying committed... I love eating plenty!
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,207 Member
    I just ate a raw apple, wonder if that counts for anything.:ohwell:
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I just ate a raw apple, wonder if that counts for anything.:ohwell:

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  • randilyn0923
    randilyn0923 Posts: 8 Member
    I recently switched to the "Raw till 4" lifestyle which offers a little more freedom. In the long run I'd like to go 100% raw, but it's a work in progress. It's nice to know I have some other people out there that are raw or raw till 4! It helps : )
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I recently switched to the "Raw till 4" lifestyle which offers a little more freedom. In the long run I'd like to go 100% raw, but it's a work in progress. It's nice to know I have some other people out there that are raw or raw till 4! It helps : )

    What happens after 4??
  • Rocbola
    Rocbola Posts: 1,998 Member
    I recently switched to the "Raw till 4" lifestyle which offers a little more freedom. In the long run I'd like to go 100% raw, but it's a work in progress. It's nice to know I have some other people out there that are raw or raw till 4! It helps : )

    What happens after 4??
    You turn into a pumpkin.

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