My reasons for changing over to a vegan diet happened over 26 years ago. It was about prevention rather than cure. At a younger age I would see family members be fit and well and when they became a certain age they would become sick. This got me thinking that this would also be my destination. I didn’t really know what to do until I started to research the coalitions between healthy living and disease. I started to read a lot of fitness and nutrition books and then I decided to get in shape. I lost 50 lbs in 8 weeks and this was over 20 years ago and I promised myself that I will remain that way, which I did at almost 60 years old.

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Many of my friends and family suggested to me that I should go to school for nutrition because what I accomplished by myself was amazing. That’s exactly what I did and I learned a lot about nutrition. Me going back to school lead me into following a vegan diet because all the different type of dietary lifestyles we were taught a vegan diet resonated with me. After becoming a vegan I researched a raw vegan diet through a few Facebook groups and I was always up to a challenge to try something new so this is what I did. I followed that for about 3 years. It was a great diet but I was looking for something very simple rather than preparing foods through dehydrating and the majority of the raw vegan diet was heavily based on nuts and seeds if it wasn’t just an ordinary salad but that would be boring every day.

 

Me becoming a fruitarian was something that accidentally happened. I didn’t know anything about being a fruitarian I just naturally progressed into eating only fruits because it was less time consuming. All I had to do was just eat with no preparation. This worked for me because of my busy lifestyle. Regarding how the Orvel Douglas Fruit Feast Challenge came around was that I was just posting about what I eat and also exercising but many could not understand how comes I would have so much energy so I decided to create a challenge for the whole month so that everyone could understand what I was feeling. After the very first challenge that I created back in 2016, I was receiving messages from people that their disease disappeared. Because I didn’t have anything to cure this was remarkable hearing this. After all the challenges which I conduct bi-monthly, many ailments were just disappearing so I documented all these reversals. Saying all that it wasn’t a fluke but real results from real people. This showed me a simple diet of high-water fruits is very powerful.