It Has Been A MINUTE!

Wow! It's been a while since I posted. It's been a while since I thought a lot about this part of my life! So much has changed since my last post, where do I start?

I would no longer call myself a vegan, hippie, or child anymore. Let me go on.



I'm pregnant!!! My fetus is 3 months old and I'm starting to show and my life has changed so much since I got pregnant, since I found out, and it's only going to continue to change at a rapid rate with the growth and birth of our child. I wasn't planning on the pregnancy obviously at 18 years old with plans for college but my boyfriend and I are both so excited for him.

I also slipped off the wagon. I began struggling again with eating disorder tendencies last winter and began eating unhealthy food with enthusiasm this past summer. Non fruitarian food is freaking good! Icecream, cookies, french fries, pizza, vegan burgers. There's a reason those foods are pretty much universally loved. My hair thinned considerably this summer though too and I can't help but wonder if that wasn't affected at all by my poor diet in the previous months. Wanna see it somewhere around its worst?



Remember how long and thick and nice it was when I was eating lots of healthy living vegan nutrients!? Let me refresh your memory if not.



Since then I cut most of it off and it's looking thicker and better but it's nowhere near as nice as it used to be.

I've been trying hard to eat healthy and also lots of protiens, but admittedly there are still a lot of bad foods in my diet that shouldn't be there for the sake and health of my future kid. I've been thinking a lot lately about how amazing I felt all the time when i ate all raw vegan. It seems pretty normal to think back to a time in my life when I was healthier and happier than ever, at a time in my life when I wake up feeling like I got punched in the gut by a train every day. And also at a time when I'm making a fragile, impressionable little person in my belly and have greater nutritional requirements than I've ever had before. I really wish to teach my child how to live healthy, happy, and fruitfully too. I've been dreaming of going back to a high fruit diet - obviously though, this time including plenty of healthy fats and protiens due to, well, you know. My little person.

From here out this blog is going to be dedicated to the story and struggles of a 18 year old girl learning about pregnancy and childhood in a whole new way as I relearn the art of raw vegan fruitarian veganism.

Drug Of The Nation

Disclaimer: this post has little, if any, relevance to my blog.

Ok, so we can agree that caffeine is our societies "chosen drug", right? Everybody uses caffeine.

What if, one day in the future once weed has been legalized....lots more people start becoming open to it, and everyone starts smokin' it. Food production companies start putting it in prepared foods and stuff, and within however many generations, weed has saturated society, like caffeine has today.

Get what I'm saying?

The entire underlying fabric of our culture would change, with that simple change in substances we're putting in our body. Instead of being rushed, always busy, super competitive and always left feeling like there's something missing, we would instead be a loving, accepting, chill, thoughtful, friendly, (though maybe a little forgetful and aimless) society.

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The Teaching Of Buddha

❝Buddha first taught himself to avoid the sin of killing any living creature, he wished that all people might know the blessedness of a long life.

Buddha trained himself to avoid the sin of stealing, he wished that all people might have everything they needed.

Buddha trained himself to avoid ever committing adultery, he wished that all people might know the blessedness of a pure spirit and not suffer from insatiable desires.

Buddha, aiming at his ideal, trained himself to remain free from all deception, he wished all people to know the tranquility of mind that would follow in speaking the truth.

He trained himself to avoid double-talk; he wished that all people might know the joy of fellowship.

He trained himself to avoid abusing others, and then he wished that all might have the same serene mind that would follow by living in peace with others.

He kept himself free of idle talk, and then wished that all might know the blessedness of sympathetic understanding.

Buddha, aiming at his ideal, trained himself to keep free from greed, and by this virtuous deed he wished that all people might know the peacefulness that would go with this freedom.

He trained himself to avoid anger, and he wished that all people might love one another...❞ 

I love this excerpt from "The Teaching Of Buddha." I think it's a great reminder that if we see something wrong with the world, change yourself accordingly, and then you will become part of the solution. Like Gandhi's quote, "be the change you want to see in the world."

Veganism Saves Human Lives.

Have you heard mention of going how going vegan not only saves the lives of ythe animals that you chose not to eat (and you!) but those of starving children in developing countries as well? Are you intrigued by the idea, but don't really understand how it works?

Somebody asked me to explain this to them the other night, and I realized that there are probably more people out there who don't quite understand how exactly this plays out, so I wanted to share a simple version of the process, as I understand it, today.

See, the thing is, 150 tons of cereal grains and edible legumes fit for human consumption, fed to livestock results in less than 30 tons of meat. Obviously, we would be able to feed far more people if we fed the grains straight to people,rather than having them go through livestock.

In addition, many big companies exploit undeveloped countries such as Africa and Central American countries, by utilizing arable land there, to grow grain for livestock, which is then fed to Americans/developed countries. This, thereby, obviously creates a food deficit in Africa and the other less developed countries, as the grains that they could be eating are being used to feed cattle in America instead.

Thereby, eating meat supports the exploition and starvation caused by the meat industry in third world countries.

Will I Always Eat This Way?

A friend of mine asked me that last week. I didn't know, I don't know. How could I? Today is today, I don't know what will come tomorrow. I don't know what I will want tomorrow.

Maybe there will suddenly be a disease that wipes out everything but potatoes, corn and wheat worldwide. Though ideally I wouldn't be eating those things, they would keep me alive. Perhaps, I'll find out I have some disease and need to eat calf liver in order to stay alive and get enough B-12. Maybe, I'll just decide I don't want to do it anymore.

Maybe I'll decide something else is healthier, that I would be better off eating otherwise. I thought my diet was the greatest back when I was just starting out eating 'healthy' - brown rice and organic beef and things. I thought I couldn't get a lot better when I was vegan. Then I went raw, and that was the best. And now I'm here. Who knows where I'll be tomorrow?

So yes; at this point, ideally, I like to think that I will always eat this way. But in reality, things and conditions and realities and beliefs change every day, and I realize that. We need to be fluid, always learning and changing. We can't be so sure of ourselves, that we are sure everything else is wrong. To insist upon being stubbornly immovable and closed to any other ideas, to any other options would not encourage improvement or advancement at all, and I never want to be that girl, that person.

So, maybe I will always feel exactly how I do now, that fruit is the optimal diet for humans and for the world, and will spend the rest of my life perusing this style of eating, this philosophy, and this lifestyle. I believe in it whole-heartedly today, and for today - that's good enough.

Almost Fruitarian.

Dad was never entirely on board with my being fruitarian. He thinks it's too restrictive, he's afraid I'll become malnourished, whatever. He never just told me that I couldn't do it though. Maybe because he respects me and my ability to make my own decisions, maybe because he knows that I'm stubborn and that would make me that much more determined to do this.

I've always had a problem with him drinking coffee, though. And the manipulative bastard knows this (haha). So, he made a deal. If I added vegetables back to my diet, he would quit coffee. After some haggling (you could say) and some discussion... We arrived at a decision. He will quit coffee, I will add vegetables that do not cause the death of the plant back into my diet (things like kale leaves, herbs, etc).

As much as I would like to follow a 100% fruitarian diet, and I resent the fact that I am manipulated into giving this up, I certainly don't feel that greens will do an extensive amount of harm to my health, and I believe that to borrow a leaf from an arugula plant is far less destructive than to destroy the life of a coffee tree before it has even had a chance... Not to mention that Daddy will certainly be so much healthier without coffee in his life.

So I guess, though I am hesitant, it is a good trade, and it is something that, though it feels a little corrupt and wrong...I can be happy in, in a way.

So, a week from now, I will be 'almost fruitarian.'

I want to be clear though. I still believe fruit is the natural diet for humans. We are frugivores. I am being held in this limbo against my will. If you are in a position where you are free to switch to a diet of all fruit, do it. Do it, you frugivore!

Yup. I'm 15, and Fruitarian

I get the feeling, reading books and blogs and things, that most raw vegans and fruitarians are older people, who a lot of times spent so many years eating cooked food, and later got very sick from this, and happened hear about and switch over to a vegan, raw, or fruitarian diet, and this is how they were introduced to this way of life.

I really do think its so great that there are more and more people switching over to this diet - thanks to this, I found out about veganism, then raw veganism, then fruitarianism before I could do any real, serious damage to my body with the cooked foods I enjoyed so much.

I started out, when I was about 12 or 13, eating 'healthier' - no more white bread, eating only organic, grass-fed beef, and lots of brown rice and spices and such (daddy was very into eating 'healthy' in the late '80s, early '90s, before I was born, so he tried to help me out and point me in the right direction.) I also read many books that told me that eating this way, whole grains and organic meat, was good for you.

Then, I read a book called 'Skinny Bitch'. It discussed all the reasons that animal products were bad for you, the economy.. And it discussed how the animals were treated. After reading this book, I converted to veganism without a second thought; Daddy was fine with this, but all of my friends at school kept insisting that I was going to die from lack of calcium, I wasn't getting enough protein, etcetera. They tried talking my parents into making me eat meat, and then when that didn't work, they attempted to talk the guidance councillor into somehow forcing me to change back to a SAD.

One of the main antagonizors of this 'trying to help me' was my friend, Megan. Several months later, she began doing some reading, and actually, after a lot of research and experimenting, ended up becoming a raw vegan 6 months later. (She has a blog, too, if you'd like to check it out.) She actually just recently did an interview with the local newspaper about her diet, which I thought was reallly cool, because a lot of people do read the paper, and it would have educated many people in Ripon that such a diet existed, and maybe encourage them to learn more about it. I learned all about the raw vegan diet from her, but actually ended up becoming fruitarian before I ever tried raw veganism; now, this was the summer before 9th grade, I was 14. I switched for all the wrong reasons - thinking, 'woah, I'll never have to worry about getting fat if I eat this way!'

Because I was thinking this way, I actually ended up digressing to eating more vegetables a few months later, and then i started getting into raw recipes and using nuts and such as well. Now, it's a year later, I'm 15. My family has changed and started eating healthy*er* at least, because of me; they only eat grassfed beef and free range organic chicken, and we usually go to whole foods and another really amazing health food store in Madison called Willy St. Co-Op at least once a month. While dad always insists that he could never eat the way I do, he does absolutely support me and try to help me out and encourage me, and I love that he buys me all the raw food that I eat, even though it's so much more expensive than what he and the rest of the family eat.

Anyhow, several weeks ago, I started feeling really just... Depressed, tired, especially after eating nuts and stuff. I'm not sure what caused it, but I started thinking more about the fruitarian diet I experimented with just a little over a year ago. This time I purchased a few books, read a bunch of blogs, thinking..if I failed at it last year, why should I succeed this year?

And then, I came across a post by Mango the Raw Vegan Fruitarian, on his blog, about the return to Eden, and the way it was the only way to achieve true peace, and.. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I could remember reading, and it made so much sense to me.. I made the decision then, and haven't eaten a vegetable, seed, or nut since, and sincerely don't plan on going back to doing so, ever.

...and that's how I got here, today, starting this blog. Because I think it will be interesting for me, to look back on later in my life and also... I think it would be good to let people know that there really are young people out there taking responsibility for their health and their world, because I feel that the world gives us a bad name all to often. And at the same time, I want to do my part to try and inform my peers about fruitarianism, as I do believe that it is the direction we all must move toward, inevitably...