Hello All!

So after much bloating and restless sleep by eating waaaaaay to much gourmet raw food, gaining 7 pounds and my eczema worse than ever, i am going to try to do 80% fruits. I have done so for the past two days and feel great!!

However, I have a major sweet tooth (from SAD) and I eat a whole jar (10 oz) of dates, a day, with my fruit.

Is that bad?

Will I gain weight?

Any advice for someone new to becomming a fruitatarian??

Thanks Guys, Ciao!!

Love you,
Jamie

I am not a fruitarian but a jar of dates is not that too much sugar?
There are so many other fruits

I hear you. You CAN get frustrated if you want to...but just set small goals and keep them. Goals that you are PREPARED and MOTIVATED to do on a daily basis....rather than struggling with large goals that are onerous (been trying to work in that word all week!) LOL.

Practical advice:

1) Practice better food combining / simpler combinations (or NO combinations!)
2) Try not eating after dark for a better night's sleep.
3) Avoid foods that have been processed, dried, dehydrated or packaged for 1 month and see if that makes a difference.
4) Eat a MEASURED amount of fat in the form of fresh raw nuts or avocado with every meal.

-If you are EVER uncomfortable (in a difficult way) then you are setting your goals too high. If you've made a lifetime commitment to a healthy way of living.....then what's the hurry? The small stream cuts the grand canyon - given time and a lack of failure mentality.

-It seems to me that your desire to gorge on more processed sweets and fats is entirely normal at your transition period.

-If you are worried about gaining weight, get in good light exercise every day...and eat more / smaller meals (Perhaps 4-6 per day).

-Just some suggestions / thoughts. What do YOU think?

-David Z. Mason

You may also want to brush your teeth after eating.

David,

Great advice, I'm a new fruitarian too. Will remeber to pace myself sometimes.

-D

I am fruitarian and I eat dates. I go thru phases. Sometimes I feel its bad other times ,its good. I like them, why not? I like MEDJOOL..You can eat whatever you want as long as it keeps ou on this diet, then over time you will be attracted more to what is healthy

Do what you enjoy and what feels right....