Any Raw Vegan or Fruitarians?

I'm vegetarian. WTF is a fruitarian? Are there really people that ONLY eat fruit?

raw vegan i could understand but someone who eats only fruit?!?!? they will have real blood sugar problems, i would guess?

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.

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.

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.

OP:
This approach is just another way to fuel your eating disorder.

I eat a predominantly raw, 80/10/10 diet. Feel free to add Could do with like minded friends!

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!

I just ate a raw apple, wonder if that counts for anything.:ohwell: