Transitioning to a Healthier Diet: Frugivore
While the end goal may be the same for everyone interested in a frugivorous, or fruit based diet, some people will want to make the changes overnight while others will prefer to take a more gradual approach. Choose the speed of your transition that best suits you. If you are having trouble with too much change at once, your best option may be a transition phase where you slowly, over weeks, months, or years make small changes. It is important to strive for progress, not perfection. There is no need to beat yourself up over a regression during your transition.
Fruit is not as calorie dense as grains, beans, meat, dairy, or oils so a higher volume of fruit is needed to meet your daily caloric needs. This may be difficult at first because your stomach is likely used to eating low volumes of calorie dense food. It is not accustomed to large volumes and will need time to get used to this extra mass. In time you will, depending on your height and activity level, be able to eat six to ten bananas in a sitting. It might be hard for you to imagine fitting more than two bananas in, but in time your body will adjust and you will have no problems.
If your goal is to become frugivorous and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one frugivorous meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more frugivorous meal a week or even have one frugivorous meal every day of the week. I recommend starting with fruit for breakfast.
The next step would be to choose one vegan day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently vegan, such as Monday. This way you always know which day it will be and you can be prepared instead of reaching the end of the week and realizing you have gone all week without a vegan day.
From here you can add another frugivorous day or two in the week. It might be best to stagger them throughout the week as it might be hard to do two or three frugivorous days in a row. For example, you can do Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding days until, before you realize it, you are fully frugivorous.
Fruit is not as calorie dense as grains, beans, meat, dairy, or oils so a higher volume of fruit is needed to meet your daily caloric needs. This may be difficult at first because your stomach is likely used to eating low volumes of calorie dense food. It is not accustomed to large volumes and will need time to get used to this extra mass. In time you will, depending on your height and activity level, be able to eat six to ten bananas in a sitting. It might be hard for you to imagine fitting more than two bananas in, but in time your body will adjust and you will have no problems.
If your goal is to become frugivorous and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one frugivorous meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more frugivorous meal a week or even have one frugivorous meal every day of the week. I recommend starting with fruit for breakfast.
The next step would be to choose one vegan day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently vegan, such as Monday. This way you always know which day it will be and you can be prepared instead of reaching the end of the week and realizing you have gone all week without a vegan day.
From here you can add another frugivorous day or two in the week. It might be best to stagger them throughout the week as it might be hard to do two or three frugivorous days in a row. For example, you can do Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding days until, before you realize it, you are fully frugivorous.