Crabbed wrote:
I've had a really bad
experience with fruitarian diet and with
fruit and aloe vera juice diet. After 4 days of keeping them I started to feel very tired and hungry, and I felt like I was about to faint all the time. Moreover, fruits contain much sugar and I've heard that many people gain weight on this diet. So I suppose its a bad idea, fruits are good for health of course but you can't get enough nutrients by eating only them.
You probably weren't getting enough calories to begin with. Fruits and veggies are low calorie foods so you'd have to eat a ton of them to get the base 1,200 calories your body needs for normal functions. You also need to eat a lot of greens to get your minerals. Fruits alone can cause nutrient deficiency. At the end of the day it's a very difficult diet to follow and not sustainable for most people.
You don't gain weight from eating fruit. yes it has sugars but it also has a lot of fibre and is water rich. Bananas for example are 75% water and 25% carbs. I've been eating massive amounts of fruit sugar getting anywhere from 2400 to 4000 calories a day and I'm pretty lean. You might say I have a fast metabolism but I started off close to 50 Lbs overweight and dropped most if on high carb low fat vegan diet.
I'm not suggesting this is the only way. I love to eat and I can't be satisfied with small portion plates so this lifestyle worked well for me. The best advice I can give you is to find what works for you and stick to it. There's also room variability. Lately I've been doing high carb low fat vegan diet on most days then I'll do a 1 day low carb cheat day (lots of meat, lots of fat). I'm guessing the low carb cheat days prompt a different hormone response and I'm able to drop more weight that way.