How to Become a Fruitarian!

Becoming a fruitarian is a relatively slow process. It's very difficult to change overnight from, for example, a vegetarian diet to a pure fruit diet. Fruits are very cleansing, and if one tries to change too fast, the body might respond in a negative way. Depending on the present diet and the individual, the transition can take from 2 months to 2 years. One way to go is to set up small goals week by week and month by month. It's easier to achieve these smaller goals one at the time than trying to achieve the main goal at once.

Examples of these smaller goals can be eating only fruit for breakfast for, say, 2 or 3 weeks, and then increasing the fruit diet to both breakfast and lunch and having a cooked meal at supper. This may continue for a month or two or perhaps a shorter period depending on the reactions of the body. The next step could be having whole fruit days once or twice a week. When the longing for "ordinary" food begin to cease, more and more fruit days can be had per week. Soon there seems to be no point in eating cooked food at all, because you will be tired every time you eat it, and you will also have to drink water in order to remain the fluid balance. So now you might have come to a stage where only raw food is good enough for you (with all the enzymes "living"). You will be well aware of how your body responds to different types of food. At this stage you might eat vegetables and nuts and seeds as well as fruits, but soon you will discover that ripe fruits are easier to digest than vegetables because all the starch in the fruits has turned to glucose, which is not the case with vegetables. (Starch is made up of glucose molecules that have to be separated from each other by enzymes. When they are separated the body can pick the molecules up and use them for energy).

Another way of achieving a pure fruit diet, that perhaps is more "strict" is to first become a vegetarian, then proceed to vegan, then to raw food and after that to a fruit-nut-seed-diet before entering the fruitarian stage (see What do Fruitarians Eat?). This way may take a while longer, but the body will more easily keep up the pace, and so will your mind.

As an alterative to the first way described, you can start with one fruit day per week and eat as before the rest of the week. After a couple of weeks you then have 2 fruit days and so forth...

There are many alternatives, and you will find the way that suits you the best. It's fun to experiment a little and see how be body reacts. If, for example, you have eaten only fruit for a week and then eat something cooked, you can expect a headache and tiredness. This is a good way of convincing yourself that the fruit diet is the best.

If you are tempted to become fruitarian quickly, you could try this: eat only one cooked meal per day, let's say supper. Decide on a breakfast, say 3 grapefruits or 4 apples, and eat this every morning for 2 weeks. This will create a habit and thus make things easier. Likewise should the lunch be decided, for example 3 avocados, some tomatoes and olives or 5 bananas or whatever. Do not overstep these "rules". It will be a great feeling after the two weeks knowing you're able to keep your spirit up. You will probably have a huge desire for "ordinary" food in the evenings and that is your body's old eating habits that are struggling to survive and they cry out in desperation. What you should do is not to reject these desires, but to give the body what it wants, and in great amounts. If for example you get a desire for mashed potatoes, then eat mashed potatoes for several days in large amounts until you're tired of it. Hopefully, you won't get the desire back. Eventually the fruits purify the body and the desires will come more seldom; nevertheless, there is nothing wrong to give in to them, because if you don't, they might grow and grow until it makes you feel bad, and that's not the point; on the contrary, the point is to feel well all the time!