all fruit fast?

[ldmurphy]

Can anyone comment on the "all fruit fast"? It has been mentioned throughout this site as a good way to jumpstart loss. And I love fruit and have not had any for 5 weeks. Since the "good season" is getting near the end, would love to hear what others have to say about it before I decide to jump on it.

[SandyDown]

Fruit fast is not part of Atkins diet and it will upset your ketosis/ glycaemic index. you'd have to start again with induction after completing.

If you are following your own plan (i.e. not Atkins as it shows on your profile) then I can't see the harm, how long do you intend ondoing it for? you will be losing weight but on the low calorie basis not ketosis basis, you may put on some of the weight back when going back to eating normal food. Anyway if you want to go ahead with it be selective as to what type of fruit you are eating, berries and melons are always good and have low glycaemic index. As much as I love bananas per a gram they have same amount of carbs as a potatoe !! so best be avoided.


In general the more watery the fruit the less calories.

Btw: you know you’ll be running to the toilet every few minutes when you do the fruit fast ?

[CVH]

I think a better way would be to mix pure fructose with pure glucose in powder form and then blend them with some 100% natural grape juice with no added sugar.

[cs_carver]

I can't say I've seen it mentioned all that much. Fat fast, yes. Fruit fast, not here. It's already too late on the east coast for the good berries, and they're the better fruits for LC.

Good luck.

[neverwhere]

I've never heard of the fruit fast??? I love fruit, but if I start eating grapes and stuff on a regular basis I start craving sweets. So I mostly stick to blueberries and strawberries.

Do you need a jumpstart? Maybe just adding some fruit in to your diet will help?

[ElleH]

Actually Dr A mention the "all fruit diet" and an "all pasta diet" in the blue 1992 version of DANDR--I'm OOT and don't have it with me, or I'd give you the page number. He mentions them as a reversal diet, which is a way to allow resuming induction to startle the body and cause it to possibly drop some weight quickly, like it did when you first started the diet.

The all-fruit diet or the all-pasta diet does not really fit his criteria for the reversal diet, which is high in complex carbs and low to no fat, but his next words were, I believe, "but for 3 days, why not?"

He cautions that this is not haphazard eating, but simply going from one diet to another in a deliberate fashion, and must be just as rigid and controlled as the induction diet.

This is all from memory, so if someone has the blue book from 1992 and wants to verify, please do so! :) I believe it's the in the concordance (for some the proper word for that section has completely escaped me!) under "reversal diet."

[+35-65]

I've heard of it and heard positive things about it. I am struggling with fruit enough as it is, so it would be disasterous for me. I've done an all veggie fast and that was very cleansing for me physically and emotionally. The sugar in fruit is just too triggering for me.

Since fruits and veggies have more carbs than some foods, it doesn't really fit in well with a LC lifestyle, so if that is your true objective, there are better kick-starts. (And sometimes you need to go through a plateau. Your body might be telling you something. Don't be too impatient.) But in general, I am of the personal opinion that fruits and veggies are very healthy and someone would be very hard pressed to convince me otherwise. So, a fruit fast will provide your body with great nutrients and won't make you unhealthy, but it might not fit in with your true weight-loss and health objectives.

[mike_d]

Many of those fad diets are listed here, but a juice fast is not an eating plan:

http://www.faddiet.com/grapfruitjui.html

Jay Robb has a "fruit flush" plan that uses his protein powder-- I use the product, but I wouldn't try that plan.