Gender

Female

Location

Cincinnati, OH

Birthday:

February 13

Our community would be delighted to know you better. Please tell us more about yourself and what brought you to the Frugivore Diet. Detailed responses will only be accepted (feel free to reapply with more detail if at first not approved as a member).

I have been a vegetarian for at least 5 years now, although I've lost track of exactly how long it has been. It decided to take it a step further back in February 2011 and went vegan. I went vegan for animal rights reasons, health, & for the environment. My reasons were three-fold, although the main one was because I didn't want to contribute to animal cruelty. I felt amazing as a vegan. I believe it has helped me quit smoking, which I did in April 2011. I truly believe this healthy lifestyle helped me to conquer my addiction. It feels great to be doing what I know is right and also be reaping the health benefits. I got very interested in natural health as a result of this and as I studied information on the topic, I started coming across info. on raw foods. I flirted with the idea of trying raw foods but wasn't ready yet. Then at the beginning of October 2011, I just knew it was the time. I felt completely comfortable in my vegan lifestyle and my intuition was telling to take it a step further. The first week of October I started a raw vegan cleanse. It was to be an experiment, as I was curious how eating only raw foods would effect me. I also wanted to cleanse my body. After a week on raw foods, I felt so incredible I didn't want to forfeit the benefits. I extended my raw food diet to go throughout the month of October. However, over the holidays I went back to just eating a regular vegan diet, although I continued to eat more fruits than I had before. Then in 2012 when it became summer again, amidst trying to lose a little weight I naturally gravitated back toward raw foods subconsciously. I was feeling great once again and decided to adopt a high raw vegan lifestyle. I wasn't be 100% raw but I'd say about 80%. Then last fall, I started feeling a bit off and tried adding some starches and grains to my diet, which was fine until around the holidays I started to miss that light feeling that being raw gives. I saw that FullyRaw Kristina was doing a raw food challenge starting in January. Right on the day after Christmas, I decided to get in on the challenge and am now on raw foods again and interested to see how it goes.

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female

Please tell us about your dietary inclinations:

I'm HCRV already

Are you Connected?

yes i am

My favourite books/movies/authors/pastimes are...

Books: Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin, The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone, Fight Club & Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Movies: Fight Club, American Beauty, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Requiem For A Dream, The Breakfast Club, Grandma's Boy, Stepbrothers, pretty much anything by Kevin Smith or Adam Sandler Pastimes: yoga, preparing raw vegan food, walking, traveling, reading, the internet, meditation....I'm always looking for ways to grow as a person, be as healthy as possible, make the world a better place, and find my way closer to enlightenment.

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https://www.youtube.com/user/persephone213?feature=mhee

The Frugivore started this site to bring together frugivores across the Globe! Let us know what high fruit assistance do you need?

I could use more LFRV recipes as well as ideas for fitting in at social situations. I also would like to meet and/or converse with other raw vegans.

The Frugivore Diet is a fruit-based vegan internet community which promotes a high carb fruit based vegan lifestyle free of any animal products. Our forum does not tolerate encouragement of anything contrary to this. Nor do we allow endorsement of non-vegan items or practises which involve the imprisonment, exploitation, abuse or murder of sentient beings. We also require our members to post with proper netiquette. Therefore, please indicate your intention:

I will comply because I like totally agree with all this