Blogging the healing journey and beyond...'s Journal (original) (raw)

9:15a

The hardest (or slowest...) part is over - its been two weeks as of yesterday and I'm still going strong on mostly fruit. I did go to a raw food potluck on Saturday and sampled most of the dishes there, but I feel fine about it and it hasn't seemed to affect the fruit diet. I had originally thought I needed all the support I could get, but it seems inner changes are exponentionally more powerful. So this third week there will still be some weak moments, but nothing like the first two. After that the momentum is strong enough to sail through anything that comes up.

I was feeling good for a couple days but the past few I have been tired and my body is resistant when I tell it to do things. But when I'm insistent it still complies with the same strength it always has. Still have bumps on my hands, but the tongue is clearing up. My wife commented the other day that I'm looking kind of scrawny and unattractive. She was half joking with me, but it is true. Losing retained water and excess fat makes you look deflated. But I feel lighter and my muscles are still able to do the work they have always done. I'm taking it easy right now, letting the body catabolize and not doing much to promote building. When this is over I will grow into a natural shape and all will be fine.

I've been doing lots of reading online lately and there are plenty of articles written by people who have shied away from their healing process because it was too difficult. When I am feeling weak I have found it is difficult to read these. They write about their experiences and rationalize their perceived failure by saying it is not possible to sustain such a diet (it does not provide enough nutrients, etc.). I myself have gone back and forth with cravings, I understand how hard it is. But if we let the ego have control and scare us into the fears about malnutrition, we are setting ourselves back unnecesarily. Of course, everyone has their own path but if you've come far enough to consider it then you have the strength to release your fears. Education is key, and support is complementary. Living examples are good too, so here are a couple long term thriving fruitarians:

http://www.webspawner.com/users/fruitbatanne/
http://fruitarianfitness.com/

The first one is a woman who has raised her two children on only fruit and herself ate only fruit even nursing the children until they self-weaned. She currently has been on an orange juice diet for alost three weeks and is still keeping up a good milk supply for her youngest.
The second one is a man who is a bodybuilder and runs a fitness website from right here in the Dallas area!

So let's keep at it and welcome in this next step in our evolution with divine joy!