How did the fruitarian diet go? I can't imagine only eating fruit and the occasional vegetable.
There are a few varies versions of the Fruitarian diet. There is the 80-10-10 version (carbs = 80%; protein = 10%; fats = 10%). Essentially eating just fruit and lettuce and cucumbers, you would hit these ratios, because even fruits have trace amounts of fats and proteins.
Another version is something called 30 Bananas were people are eating 30 bananas a day and nothing else! (Tried it - lasted one day. Don't like bananas much). The inventor of this diet us a hard core, high level cyclist (road bikes) seemingly like a class 2 or 3 level professional (not Lance Armstrong level, but good enough to empress me). He is an Ozzy and goes by the handle DurrianRider, his first name is Harley can't recall his last name. He has an interesting youtube channel, also.
If you are so inclined, google his ex girl friend "Freely the banana girl", I think she goes by. Take a look at her before and after pictures on google. She too has a channel on youtube.
Highly recommend caution if you might react like me. For some reason eating this makes me feel so good it triggers my mania - BIG TIME! I concluded for myself all the fruit sugar impacted my neuro chemicals?
So, if one has bipolar (like me) be careful. Extrapolating from my reaction, if one has any psychosis (I don't have this), I would highly recommend against thIs diet. But, if one has depression I highly recommend you consider this diet to see how you respond. I speculate all the fructose and glucose from fruit might be helping elevate one's mood.
Each year there is an annual fruitarian convention. If you Google and look at these people's pictures - not one over weight person in their group.
Be advised, however, the late Steve Jobs was fruitarian for much of his life and he died from pancreatic cancer in his early fifties. From the diet perhaps? And, the actor who was portraying Steve Jobs in an upcoming movie tried this diet (character acting) and ended up in the emergency room with pancreatic pain. Psychosomatic? Clever publicity stunts for the movie? A genuine reaction?
You ate this every day? Is this the only thing you ate throughout the day? I obsess about my diet constantly, but I have real trouble getting rid of junk food, chips, biscuits etc. Sometimes I feel like I have no control over the food I eat.
Yes.
Keep watching my thread, and I'll address some aspects of your post indirectly so you can see my opinion on part of your diet. I don't want to commingle some of my points for clarity and redundancy prevention purposes.
Every single day here is what I ate for three months (with a little cheating - which I'll explain) - 1 pound, organic grass fed beef; butter; 4 eggs covered in Epic brand duck fat; and, one whole stick of Kerrigold butter (shout out to SS members from Ireland).
Hated those foods, but here is what else I found with this diet. It 100% stopped my fibromyalgia and joint pain! Plus, my testosterone levels skyrocketed, as mentioned. I told my rheumatologist about my response. He had another patient eating this way and obtain relief from their fibromyalgia pain too.
So, if one has body pain maybe try this diet?
Another downside is this diet messed up my sleep. A theory is one needs carbs for serotonin production and I wasn't getting enough serotonin perhaps? Lack of sleep is often a huge read flag going into mania with my bipolar, but not the case here.
I cheated by periodically eating two high fat, plant foods - avocados and nuts.
How did the fruitarian diet go? I can't imagine only eating fruit and the occasional vegetable.
I addressed some of this already before seeing your post. But, will add this. I read lots of annectodal stories for all these diets and plenty of long term fruitarians seem mental unstable to my eye. Not judging - I have my own issues. I mentioned DurianRider and he seems really unstable to me in his youtube videos. Correlation is not causation? Pre-existing issue unrelated to this diet? I have no clue.
But, I have seen enough on this diet that my educated guess is it's related.
Some experts suspect lack of omega three fats can adversely impact mental health. So, I would think maybe eat fruitarian and supplement with omega 3 fish oil would be wise.