Saturday, Day 82, 100% Raw Fruitarian

It was a beautiful day today.






After Brunch i went out for a nature walk. Air, sunshine and exercise.






i had one of these for breakfast and one in the evening (about 1200 calories total).



This was the non-sweet fruit salad for Dinner. Those two dark green things are one zucchini and one cucumber. The spices in the background are curry, basil, oregano and red pepper. These were added to the sauce and to the salad (the red pepper was not in the salad).



The next picture is the sauce that i made prior to blending. i juiced the oranges and put that in the blender with the rest of the products





This was brunch. About 350 calories







This was the finished dinner product (sauce and salad combined). About 900 calories.






Grace and peace be multiplied.

todd

Day 82, 100% Fruitarian

Saturday, Day 82, 100% Raw Fruitarian. Very nice day today. i stayed home and it was quiet and peaceful. i love days like that. Very therapuedic. The temperature reached 80 degrees F today. i was able to take a nice walk in the first warm breezes of the year. It felt wonderful. i have many troubles, but today, i cast them all off. i ate well today. i took pictures of each meal and hopefully will post them tomorrow. This gives a visual for those that learn best that way. Here are todays meals.

Breakfast:
one watermelon.

Brunch (3 hrs later):
3 navel oranges, 4 honey tangerines.

Dinner:
Large non-sweet fruity salad with banana-mango dressing.

Later:
one watermelon.

exercise: 4 mile walk.


Grace and Peace be multiplied.


todd

Day 81, 100% Fruitarian

Friday, Day 81, 100% Raw Fruitarian. i rarely work on Fridays. i usually do food shopping early in the day and get home early. i am a Sabbath Keeper. So i use that day to prepare my heart and mind for rest on the Sabbath with my family. But today was different. i did my shopping yesterday morning and i had an early afternoon appointment. So i ate breakfast, but i missed lunch and had lunch as dinner. Overall i ate lighter than usual, but i feel very good. The fruit is becoming more and more of a great blessing to me each day and each week (and now each month). i am nearly three months into it and while its still very early (i am committed for one year), i can really experience many of its benefits. It is scheduled to be a very warm and nice day here tomorrow. i look forward to getting out in nature and breathing in the clean air after eating delicious melon in the morning. i look forward to prayer and bible study and contemplation of the things of Heaven. Fruitarianism is being used by the Lord to give me a greater appreciation of all these things.

Todays menu.

Breakfast:
one whole mini watermelon, one cantaloupe. One very satisfied man. Delicious.


Dinner:
Large non-sweet fruit salad with a most delicious mango-banana sauce.


exercise: 4 mile power walk, 80 pushups.

Have a great weekend!

Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you.


todd

Day 80, 100% Fruitarian

Thursday, Day 80, 100% Raw Fruitarian. Very busy today. i am hoping this is a sign of good things to come. In my line of work, the busier i am the better for business. i was driving all over, but i still ate well. i was able to stop home and eat lunch which really hit the spot. i am noticing that i am adding less as far as ingredients into my sauces. Its taking less to satisfy my taste buds. i am enjoying whole fruit more and more. Definitely becoming more attuned spiritually as i am more able to read situations and circumstances with more clarity, making better decisions and, i believe, hear the Holy Spirit as He guides me. i ate well today, alittle more avocado than usual (i keep thinking back to my blog of a few days ago when i sadly thought they would be history), in fact, i have a taste for them now. Well, on to today's menu.

Breakfast:
one watermelon, three navel oranges, one mango.

Lunch:
Non-sweet fruit salad with plantain-avocado sauce.

Dinner:
4 tangerines, 3 navel oranges.

Exercise: 100 pushups. The thing i am noticing about the pushups is, i am able to get them done with very little rest. i have been doing pushups since i was 12 years old as a workout on and off. i seek to have very good form when i do them (bad form only cheats yourself). Until very recently, like the last 3-4 weeks, i had not done them in about a year. So to get back into them is cool and like i said, they are not making rest as much between sets. Fruitarian power!


Grace and Peace be multiplied.


todd

Day 79 100% Fruitarian

Wednesday, Day 79, 100% Raw Fruitarian. Busy day today. Before i get into what i ate today, i want to relate a small detox experience. i wouldn't have mentioned it at all except it came to me that it may help someone so i decided to blog it. About a week ago, i awoke with a pain in the back of my mouth. It hurt very badly so that i could not open my mouth for a large spoonful of fruit. i looked into the mirror to investigate and i saw in the back of the right side of my mouth, a large lump. It looked like it was about to burst. Now, i know people who, when faced with such things automatically go into panic mode. Being that i really distrust hospitals, doctors and science for the most part, i literally would rather die than panic about such things. i ascribed it to detox and just kept on going. The pain got worse and worse over the next 3 days so that it almost felt like i had a very bad sore throat. The lump actually grew. Then over the next several days it began to slowly subside. As of the writing of this blog (its actually Thursday morning), its completely gone. No pain and its as if it never came at all. What i am learning is, in spite of being a raw vegan for 5 years, the Fruitarian diet is surely at altogether another level. In terms of all areas, spiritual, fitness, cleansing and detox. Its very thorough.

Ok...Wednesday's menu:

Breakfast:
one watermelon

Lunch:
Large non-sweet fruity salad with plantain sauce. The fruit salad contained: one tomato, one medium size zucchini, one apple, large chunk of a large papaya (i'd say 25% of it), 2 stalks of celery and half a cup of raisins. The sauce had: one very ripe plantain, 6-8oz of fresh squeezed oj, small pieces of the celery (the tops and leaves), half a cup of raisins, red pepper, curry and basil. (i also sprinkled the same spices on the salad itself with alittle cayenne, probably didn't need the cayenne).

Dinner:
3 tangerines, 3 navel oranges, mini papaya.

Exercise: none today.


Grace and peace be multiplied.

todd

Day 78, 100% Fruitarian

Tuesday, Day 78, 100% Fruitarian. i ate very well today. i learned also that when it comes to my own body, i still have alot to learn. A few days ago i posted a reaction i had from an avocado i had eaten. i thought that, because of how it was heavy on my stomach, that i would probably end up not using them as much in the future. Then came the situation where we found ourselves with more avocado then we anticipated. Being that i am one who thinks it nearly sacriligious to waste any fruit, found myself having one per day over the last three days. No issues, heaviness or other ill feelings to report. So how much i know...lol.

My meals today were as follows.

Breakfast:
1.5 watermelons.

Lunch:
Delicious neutral fruity salad with pineapple and papaya along with non-sweet fruits tomato, cucumber, celery and raisins. i made a sauce from pineapple and mango that was outstanding. It was so rich and creamy that i used it as a soup (i put red pepper in it) as it was a cold day. i added an avocado and a plantain to it ......totally Delicious.

Dinner:
3 honey tangerines, 2 navel oranges.


3 sets of pushups......thats all i have had time for recently.


Grace and Peace be multiplied.


todd

How Grace Helps in Diet

Grace is very important to the Christian. The Bible says in Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

So we need Grace even to be saved as a Christian. But this tells us very little about exactly what Grace is. What this verse does say, though, is that Grace is a gift. A gift is something that cannot be earned. This is what makes it a gift. So we know Grace is a gift from Christ.

Ok, but what IS Grace? The bible gives us the answers.

Romans 5:10 (Speaking of Christ) says,

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

So, if we are saved by Grace and we are saved by the life of Christ....then

Grace=Life of Christ.

So the very life of Christ Himself is grace. How does that help me? The Apostle Paul experienced how and in many places in the bible the Holy Spirit used his words to explain.

Galatians 1:15,16

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Here Grace is shown to have a purpose. To reveal Christ in the receiver of it. So the power for the believer to live a life of righteousness comes from Christ. This would include the area of diet.

1Thess 5:23

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are to be preserved blameless. This we of ourselves have no power to do. Most Christians understand they cannot save themselves. But for some reason when it comes to the area of diet, they start to think "i can take if from here".......of course this is a fallacy. Even if a person appeared to be successful in their dietary pursuits without the Grace of Christ, the glory would go to the person and not to Christ.

The True Christian wants the glory to go to Christ always. Our Saviour has limitless Power. In fact......He IS Power. If we trust Him to forgive us all our sins and cast them away as the prophet Micah says: (Micah 7:19)

19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Then why don't we trust Christ to give us grace to overcome in the area of diet? Perhaps its ignorance, perhaps its pride or something else. But with all the power of the universe available, it seems reasonable to tap into it.

So many are dying for lack of knowledge of Christ. The knowledge could be given by an example of a victorious Life more than any sermon. Grace allows that to happen.

Here are a couple more verses:

Jude 24

24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

Titus 2:11,12

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

John 15:3

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Friend, you have tried to eat right, but you keep falling. You are hooked on things that you know are not good for you nor bring glory to the Lord. Tell Christ your sin, let Him know how weak you are, He loves you and has abundant Grace available for you. He will keep you as He promised. You are guaranteed success so long as you come to Him and do not give up. One more verse......

John 6:37

37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.


Don't stop coming and you will never be cast out!!


Grace and peace be multiplied.


todd