Day seven yes it has finally come this is the last day and I am thrilled to be
done with this week but you know it wasn't that bad it was totally fine I
feel like at some points I thought this day would never come
like one day like two I was like oh no but as I went along you know the days
went by pretty quickly didn't really bother me like too terribly much but
yeah so this morning I am going to kind of like try to eat through some of this
fruit that I have so this pineapple yep I've got this on day one and haven't
even opened it yet.
Yes, yes yes
Very fresh tasting nice light bright kind of flavor not super sweet but like
sweet enough for me so happy with that I can see myself making these smoothies
even like when I'm off like this diet just there they're good I don't know if
I want them like in the morning it's in the morning I want like hot things um I
think I'd rather a cup of coffee you know well it definitely would rather a
cup of coffee but yeah I think smoothies are really good especially like hot day
like today it's been like brutal this is good I like these smoothies I think that is
a cheap way to get fruit less than ten dollars and you have like a ton of
smoothies it's also like a good way to get rid of fruit that's going bad if I
just like "Oh no bananas are going bad" I just would like to throw them in the
freezer and then you throw them in a smoothie you know it makes a lot of
practical sense also I'm going to be eating and durian
oh yeah just saved like two little pieces there's not much left but it's
been like a whole week on this diet and I feel like I deserve
a treat
I feel like I finally get it and it's just kind of satisfying these
nutritional needs that I have right now like this is what I want this is what I
want like all the time never was like that before
I like Durian before and now I really like it it's time for lunch and I'm
going to make another salad I'm doing that not because I really want it but
because it's the easiest thing to do right now with what I have available to
me if I have a choice of eating like anything I would go and I get some more
of those like zucchini noodles and put some sauce on it but I ate all that of
these sugar snap peas sound really good right now because they're more like a
vegetable and I really don't want anything too terribly sweet right now so
I'm gonna put that in there some peppers and some tomatoes that might put a
little extra lemon in this it's my taste buds kind of bored so this very well
might be the last meal that I have today I'm probably gonna still pick at
whatever I have left here I guess melon left I got that mango
is it getting
boring watching me eat essentially the same thing every day but kinda like
switch it around a little bit because you know eating it is fairly boring I'm
trying to keep things exciting but it's difficult you know there's only so many
things that I'm able to work with here and although it may be boring to watch it
it is boring to eat but not as boring as I would imagine I wonder if it's like it
might just be because I'm like I'm doing this like I'm like I'm motivated to do
this week so I'm prepared for it to be boring but I think part of it all is
also that like fruit is
at least the ones I've been eating you know they're fairly mild on the system
so I'm not getting sick of it like I would if I were to eat like two pieces
of cake or something you know if you eat like a piece of cake every day you're
gonna get sick of that cake real fast because it's like so heavy and so rich
it's got such a strong flavor to it I'm craving other things for sure like I
would love to eat something else but having another bowl of salad is not
killing me right now having another smoothie in the morning or like a fruit
salad or whatever I've never like really dreaded the fact that I was eating it so
time for a conclusion to this week on being a fruitarian now my intent going
into this was to be as unbiased as possible I and this channel is not about
fruitarianism this channel is not about raw food this channel is not about
health this channel is for entertainment and travel and documenting fruit so odd
that was something that I wanted to do I feel like there's a lot of information
out there about fruitarianism and this sort of thing that is coming with an
agenda I don't really have an opinion either for or against fruitarianism .
I think like as far as like health stuff goes I'm not the person to talk to I'm
not a doctor I have no medical background I'm not the sort of person to
talk to about that I think that if you are actually considering being a
fruitarian then number one go talk to a doctor about it and see if it's going to
work for you I didn't feel the need to talk to a doctor or anything so I didn't
because because it's just like a short period of time but if I were to do this
for a long period of time then I definitely would do that whether or not
this is a healthy diet it is very restrictive you're only able
to eat so many things so if you're not doing it properly then you're gonna run
into some trouble but first let's talk about some of the positives about
fruitarianism number one you feel full and this was I know I've said it a few times
already this week but this was shocking to me the first two days were the most
difficult days that I felt like my body was like adjusting and then once I kinda
like got into it my body was like okay so we're just eating fruit now you got
it I felt like I felt a change in me I
would eat fruit and I could go out for like five six hours not really eat
anything and be totally fine second it makes you feel lighter like although you
feel full it doesn't really weight you down as much earlier today I did some
stretching and usually with my my normal diet
I would eat lunch and then wait maybe like two hours before I would do any
stretching but with this and I ate lunch and then I stretched after like 20
minutes it's like greatly different like even
though I still felt like fruit in my body it was not it's not like heavy
doesn't make me feel like gross 3 this one I'm not too sure I'm a little
skeptical about it but I I'm kind of noticing it is that I feel like my skin
is nicer does that feel as oily as it normally would be which is something
I've heard people that do like raw food and.. and you know such sorts of diets
talking about I wish that like I did a like extreme closeup of my pores or
something sure you loved that and saw like what it looked like and you know
then and now but I don't know does it look those look better to you and the
fourth and final thing that is good about being fruitarian it's pretty easy
because everything's raw I don't have to cook anything you just take like
whatever fruit you want you cut it up you put in a bowl if you are going
out or something just carry some bananas with you there were a few more difficult
things I did like making the sauce and the dressing and stuff like
that and even that was not like terrible I don't have to worry about like
cleaning any pots and pans like I would if I were cooking
they were like a few obviously like my cutting board has been like washed like
30 times but other than that I'm not really creating as much in that sense
okay negatives number one it's expensive I totally get why people practice
fruitarianism in Bali if you go to Bali it's fruitarianism like everywhere that's
because you can get the kind of nutrients that you need cheaply you can
get coconuts you can get Durian, you can get all that for just like you know
pennies but here in New York City that is not the case I don't have the tally
right now but I will put it here for a week of food that's what it cost me I
think if you're doing this in Borneo this would be a dollar or two you know
wouldn't be that much but for this week it cost me a lot of money 2 the social
aspect this has definitely affected my social life I've had friends call me and
asked if I wanted to hang out because they were having like all my friends
doing albo or do the coffee videos they were like oh we just like made this
special fruit butter they took fresh raspberries and they
mixed it into butter and they were gonna make like pancakes maybe we want to
share it with you so are you free today and it's like well I'm free but I can't
eat that instead I stained it and the few times that I did go out with friends
there was a lot of situations where like I would be sitting and they would be
eating which is you know fine but you know you're kind of missing out then you
know you're not you're not able to kind of share that restaurant experience with
each other they're telling you about their food and you're like oh that's
great well this water is good I think the very militant kind of fruitarian
that I was and even like what I do is not extreme as you can get it's almost
impossible to eat out next and this is maybe just a personal
preference but the food's cold it's always cold
it's either room temperature or cold or frozen that is hard for me you know I so
much of food that I like is the the warmth of it there's something
comforting to it just the fact that I can't have a cup of tea was killing me
like it's not even a matter of feeling full or anything it's just the sensation
of having that nice warm cup of tea I'm sure that's something that eventually
you would get used to where you wouldn't want hot things all the time if you're
like really motivated about it I'm sure but personally for me that kind of drove
me crazy number four it's repetitive I was eating like the same few things over
and over and over again I tried to mix it up as much as I could I went into
like different fruit markets to get different things and this is coming from
weird fruit Explorer here I've had so many different types of fruit
believe me I've got my sources I went I found stuff I found a durian like I they
I did all that here in New York City we have a lot of different markets there's
a lot of different types of fruits that you can have you could find but even
with that kind of variety it was very difficult five and this is my biggest
problem with fruitarianism and I guess I could say with also like raw food or you
might have a problem with being a vegetarian for this reason when you have
a restricted diet it restricts you, you can't eat as much as other people can
and when you're someone like me who loves traveling loves exploring loves
trying the things from other cultures you don't get that you don't get the
full experience some of my favorite memories of traveling have to do with
food and the idea of like losing those memories because of our
restriction is.. is kind of sad to me I feel like just as simple as like sitting
on the side of the road in India and watching the rickshaws go by and
drinking a cup of tea while everybody else is drinking a cup of tea around me
that was like one of my favorite memories of being in India and not to be
able to do that I feel is kind of sad to me I I would hate to like lose that
experience I'm sure I can get others experiences that come from you know
eating fruit I guess I could sit on the corner with those people and eat a
banana but I kind of like wanted to share the experience of like what
they're doing and they were drinking tea so I wanted to drink tea with them
almost all the countries that I visited have been very difficult as far as being
a vegetarian if I had to limit myself even more when I was traveling this
would be very very hard for me I would feel like I was losing so much of the
experience if having other types of food is not as important to you as having
your diet then you know do you I think what makes the most sense to me would be
to take a certain kind of diet that you really want like if you really want to
be like a fruitarian but not to be super militant about it to kind of like do
what you feel is right for you like if you were out with friends to be like
well you know why I'm gonna be vegan now I'm gonna have some hot veggie burger
because I'm out right now when I'm with friends I want to have a good time I
feel like that makes sense I feel like you should be able to change your
opinion and open your mind to other situations depending on the situation
you were in I think you don't just have to listen to your body but you also have
to listen to life you have to say to yourself like
okay am i living the best life I have if I limit myself in this way
so I'm actually glad that I did this I think that going forward I'm going to
take a few of these things that I've learned and apply them to my.. my life I'm
going to maybe eat more of a fruit based or a raw meal before I do exercises I'm
gonna eat a lot more dates I might make that some of those dishes
again like maybe the zucchini noodles I probably heat up the sauce but like that
was pretty good in the beginning I felt some hesitance
towards a lot of this and now I feel a lot more open about it
I'm not going to continue being fruitarian but I feel like I do
understand it a little bit more now and really happy for this experience and I
hope you've enjoyed watching me document this experience as I have and I will see
you next time