Location

Phoenix, AZ

Birthday:

July 24

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've been battling weight my entire life, and up till about 6 years ago, I lived on hotdogs, Hamburger Helper, and McDonalds types of foods. I kept getting fatter and fatter, but because so many people I knew ate the way I did, I didn't understand what was happening to me. So, I had the typical mentality and said "I know, I'll eat a low fat diet" I started buying boneless skinless chicken breasts, ground turkey, and frozen vegetables. I didn't really know how to prepare any fresh ones. Then the life changing experience happened for me. These chicken breasts I bought tasted really strange, so went looking for the expiration on the package to see if they were bad. The only weird thing I found was the sentence "Chicken with Breast meat" I wondered what that was, and so I turned to Google for an answer. The answer was so disgusting that I immediately stopped eating any "chicken with breast meat." Then I was hooked on learning about my food. I picked a vegetable every day and learned about it's healthy properties, and as I was eating salad instead of a burger I would say to myself "this is medicine for my heart" or "This will help my asthma." After a year of this, and lots of my own research and reading, I became a vegetarian. I still thought vegans were crazy though. But I kept researching and researching, and I began learning about the animal issues, political issues, and false health claims even in the dairy industries. I became more open minded toward a vegan lifestyle, but I had no idea how to actually do it, and I don't know anyone that's a vegetarian, let alone a vegan. I was walking through Whole Foods one day and picked up Ani Phyo's Raw Food Kitchen. I remember thinking it was really extreme at the time, but I have come to love it as one of my favorite cookbooks. I have several more now. This also changed me. I have spent the last year researching the raw food lifestyle, and the more I learn and look at the big picture, the more I realize that it makes perfect sense. It's so simple and perfect and aligned with the way that every other species eats on the planet: by turning to nature. I started to think about how other species aren't plagued with disease like us, and how no other animals cook their foods, and no other animals count calories, or eat the lactation of another animal, and realized it's the other way around. It makes no sense that humans would need any of those things if the millions of other species on the planet don't need them either! So I have been battling with the regular struggles of food addiction. I'm an emotional eater, I like to drink and party on the weekends, and in those types of social situations, my raw food philosophies get thrown out the window because no one I know supports me. So I went looking for my own support out here on the web and found 30BaD after watching several of Durianrider's videos on YouTube. I'm really looking forward to learning the tricks of the trade. How to stick with it and over come food addictions and social situations where there's pressure to eat poor food choices. I like that 30BaD advocates a simple raw food lifestyle rather than lots of difficult-to-make gourmet raw food recipes, and I'm looking forward to what I can learn from the members here. I have some where around the ball park of 70 pounds to lose, and I know this is the way. I have already lost 15 eating so much raw food despite my outbursts of junk food binging. When I eat raw I feel so healthy, vibrant, and content. I can tell my natural instincts are being satisfied now. I'm learning to listen to my body, and I love it. But I know this journal will be hard to make alone, so I'm here!

What is your gender? PLEASE NOTE: To enhance the community experience, profile pics of yourself are *REQUIRED* to gain membership. Membership will be declined otherwise.

female

Please tell us about your dietary inclinations:

I really want to be LFRV and just need some guidance

Are you Connected?

yes married

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

My favorite book is the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, for sure. I don't watch much on the TV, but I do like LOST, and Firefly a whole lot. I'm a graphic and web designer for a living and I absolutely love what I do. I like creating art and letting my inner thoughts guide me along the way. I also enjoy education and learning, and I'm always trying to find new stuff to learn about.

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

I am a busy mom and wife, I work full time, I'm going to school full time, and I need help to figure out how to reach my dietary goals despite a limited budget on both money and time. I am very good on my own and I don't slip into the cooked food world ever, but I almost never make it through social situations, and then it's a mess for days. I'm trying to find my confidence to stick to my food beliefs, and actually stick to them! So I need support, and lots of tips from people who have made it past this part.

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