Transition

With Fruitarianism, as well as all other aspects of life, give yourself some slack and don't be too hard on yourself. Spiritual things do take discipline, however, it's not healthy to feel guilty about not living up to your high ideals. Keep striving to better yourself.

More than likely, if your path is fruitarianism, it will be a process for you to attain it 100% and to maintain it 100%. It probably won't happen overnight. Even after you've maintained it for sometime, you might find yourself slipping back to cooked food once in a while. I will say that any cooked food at all will keep your addictions alive. Even occasional cooked food in small amounts will compromise your health noticeably. Since people (especially Americans) eat for all kinds of reasons, you might fall back into eating some cooked food on occasion. If you do, then it's done. Start anew. Don't beat yourself up over it.

Fruit will not shield you from the harshness in the world. In fact, it'll magnify it. The fruitarian path is so much easier (especially in the beginning) if you stay out of the hustle and bustle of mainstream life. Keep away from big cities as much as possible. Have as much solitude and quiet in your life as you possibly can. Be in nature as much as possible. Do work and play that you love.

We have found that really making a firm commitment to doing fruit 100% of the time has made a big difference in our success. It's partially your mental attitude that'll ensure your success. It's like any other achievement in that if you know you'll succeed, then you'll succeed. If you have doubts and failures already in your mind, then you'll fail.

During transition, when you travel, visit relatives or go out with friends, you might consider eating salads because they're easy to get anywhere. You might have much more difficulty finding edible fruit. If you do intend to eat salads during transition, when you go out or are traveling, take along some some salad "beefers" with you: almonds, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, avocado, etc..

You can make the extra effort to pack fruit along with you. These days, they sell a fabulous assortment of coolers which makes taking fruit along easier than ever. Putting fruit attractively in nice, neat, organized containers makes it far more appealing to eat. I would suggest buying a number of different size coolers so that you'll have a cooler to match your needs for a particular excursion.

There are some other things you can do to add some variety to your eating especially during transition. You can make smoothies with some fruit juice (for example: fresh squeezed, organic orange juice) and add fresh or frozen fruit to it and blend it up. With smoothies you always want to add a banana for thickness and creaminess and then add any other fruit you desire. Dates can be added for sweetness if you want. Fresh fruit is always much better than using frozen fruit. Frozen fruit will make it colder which is also less natural.

Another thing that can help you out while traveling or if you can't seem to get good avocados in order to get your necessary fat is trail mix. You can make your own, adding any mixture of dried fruit, nuts and coconut. Dried fruit alone is also an easy "take along" food. Dried bananas are great when you don't have any ripe bananas available for consumption.

Almond milk is another raw food you can make to drink and even add to smoothies.