Gender

Female

Location

North Port, FL

Birthday:

April 12

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 am somewhat new to the HCRV lifestyle, but certainly not to the quest for healthy living. I have been a vegetarian for over two years, and a vegan for almost as long. I became vegetarian/vegan for health AND ethical reasons (more ethical than health, originally). Around the same time that I began doing this, however, I developed an eating disorder (anorexia). Although this was largely due to psychological reasons, it was also, in a relatively small part, due to the fact that I have a naturally high metabolism and also began running (up to 4 miles over the summer before I started high school), which boosted it. Unlike some individuals with eating disorders, I wasn't out to loose weight--I was trying to eat "as healthily as possible." Over the next year, my eating disorder progressed until I was down to an extremely unhealthy weight, and my parents were forced to send me to an inpatient treatment facility. When I first arrived, they wouldn't even take me in because of my dangerously low heart rate (in the low thirties, and dipping into the twenties), and sent me to the hospital where I could be closely monitored with equipment, etc., and where I was tube-fed (and/or fed orally) a large amount of calories and forced to lie in a hospital bed all day. The doctors actually thought that I was hiding food somehow because of how little I was gaining weight on a 3000, 4000, and even 5000-calorie diet (I'm 5'4''). Once I was finally allowed back at the facility, the doctor and nutritionist struggled to force enough food into me to get my weight up, and they were somewhat frustrated with my stubbornness when it came to veganism and healthy eating (these were seen as part of the eating disorder). It took another three or four gruelling months to get me up to my ideal weight. I left treatment with a 3000+ calorie prescription and a meal plan with SAD food ratios (a certain amount of servings of each food group each meal and snack). However, I found this difficult: I was almost always sickly full, my digestive system was terribly upset, and I felt horrible overall. In my search for a better eating pattern, I eventually transitioned toward a more raw lifestyle, and soon came upon fruitarianism, which I immediately embraced. I absolutely love eating this way. It has helped me to overcome my struggle with eating enough for my body to thrive (so, I am now able to maintain my [healthy] weight). I feel much less full, and hardly ever sick to my stomach like I once did. I love the simplicity of it, the logic of it all, the way it makes my body feel (energetic, whole, natural), and--of course--the fact that this diet (not as in weight-loss diet, as in lifestyle) is composed mainly of fruit: my absolute favorite kind of food! I am so, so grateful for finding HFRV. I don't know how I could live without it.

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'm HCRV already

Are you Connected?

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

I love reading books, pretty much any books I can get my hands on, as long as they interest me (but I especially like literary fiction). I couldn't pick a favorite if you asked me. This kind of goes with that territory, but I also enjoy learning as much as I can. Other key pieces and passions include running, exercising in general, nature (incl. caring for and connecting with nature), singing, creativity and imagination, and the little things.

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

How to find the best fruit, for the least amount of money? (;

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 we are The Borg and resistance is fruitile