Have you tried the Fruitarian diet?

Question

I'm 5'5, and I weigh 155lbs, I'd like to lose 20lbs. and I'm thinking of the fruitarian diet, where you only eat fruit, as much as you need, but only eat fruit...is the fruitarian diet safe and how much weight can you lose...?

Answer 1

In the long run you will probably end up gaining more weight than you would see come off in the short term.

Fruit is good for you, However eating ONLY fruit will cause you to miss out on valuable nutrients and vitamins in other foods. You would certainly have a problem getting protien.

An all fruit diet is even worse health wise than vegan or vegetarian diets.

All balanced diet is the best option- there really is no substitute.

Any diet where you initially restrict your choices will force you to forgo certain foods that you are used to have readily available. As a result you will initially consume less and lose weight. In the long run you will just gain the weigth back as just like sugar in fruit (natural sugars are better for you than refined sugars, but there are lots of fruits that have a high glycemic load) your body craves other substances.

You need to learn about real nutrition to make these decisions for yourself and eat healthy because you understand what you are doing and why certain things are good for you and why some are bad for you.

A good book to start would be Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating.

Answer 2

Personally, I don't believe cutting out all but one food type is completely healthy at all because you might end up missing out on certain vital nutrients. Plus, no one knows the long term effects of deprivation diets. One thing you might try is cutting out everything in your diet that contains high fructose corn syrup. It's in almost everything these days. I cut out regular soda drinks and lost 5 pounds almost instantly. I didn't eat fast food for a whole month - lost 5 pounds instantly. Started eating more veggies, and fewer starches, lost another 5 pounds. Began doing 20 minutes of Yoga a night (with a tape), lost another 5 pounds. Being more sensible about what you eat and watching portion sizes combined with good old fashioned exercise is definitely the way to go. I don't believe in any specific "diet" because the second you go off it - you'll gain the weight back.

Answer 3

It is neither safe, practical nor healthy. It's expensive (all that fresh fruit), and your intestines will protest after a day or two of all that fibre. Like the raw diet, it's a nice philosophical idealistic stance, but not workable. You will feel euphoric for the first few days or even weeks, as your body chemistry is out of balance, and feel really well--until you get really, really ill from the lack of essential enzymes.
Try a vegetarian diet (pref ovolactoveg) and a little more exercise.

Answer 4

That kind of diet cannot be good for you. You will end up with diarrhea, you have no complex carbohydrates or protein and you need those to survive. Fruit is high in sugar so you will experience sugar highs and the eventual crashes. Plus you will eventually hate fruit, you have eaten so much of it.

Answer 5

would you not get diarrhoea if all you ate was fruit?