After 1 Solid Year Of Eating Only Mono Meals...

I can honestly say that I have never enjoyed food more than I do today. It doesn't matter whether I'm eating some tomatoes, an avocado, or a peach, it's an experience of appreciation and enjoyment the likes of which I never experienced in the past.

I don't know what to believe in when it comes to "God" and "The Afterlife", but I find that at every meal now I am wanting to say "Thank You" to someone or something for the food that I'm about to eat.

The foods that I eat today even looks better to me than the food that I used to eat in the past. (A "bunch" of grapes looks far more beautiful and artistic to me than a fancy wedding cake does.) How did I overlook this beauty in the past?

It was my New Year's resolution for 2010 to try eating only mono meals for a year and even though the year is going to be over in just a few hours I have no desire to stop eating this way tomorrow and binge on salads, green smoothies, and zuchinni pasta as soon as I wake up tomorrow. lol. Just like the vegan diet and the raw food diet the mono diet is something that I just can't imagine ever wanting to quit doing. I will continue until I no longer want to eat this way, if that day ever comes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that food combining (especially the kind of food combining that most of the people on this forum practice) is "bad for you", but generally speaking I fell that the more time and energy that I spend on preparing the meals that I eat the more time and energy my body will have to spend on digesting them and I would prefer to keep things as simple as possible.

A vegan diet is the most important thing, a raw vegan diet is optimal, and a raw vegan mono diet is something that I really hope that everyone reading this will at least try for an extended period of time at some point in the future, because for me personally it has totally enhanced the experience of eating for me and I simply don't want to go back to eating any other way.

My own personal New Year's resolution for 2011 is an hour or yoga every morning and 2 liters of water during that hour.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Randall on January 1, 2011 at 5:57am

Awesome post! Unfortunately, in my current cirsumstances, I couldn't afford to have only mono meals. Or if I did, I would have to have quite a few meals during the day, some being significantly smaller than others because of not having enough of a certain fruit. For example, persimmons (non-organic) are two (small) for four dollars (US), and organic mangoes can be 2.99 each, whether they be small or big. Someday though, it sounds like an excellent goal to work towards for me.

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Permalink Reply by Anemone on January 1, 2011 at 6:23am

Good to hear your story, good job on sticking to your new years resulution! That's admirable.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer - Mighty miss Vegan on January 1, 2011 at 6:44am

Great post, good luck with your 2011 goal :)

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Permalink Reply by Sultana on January 1, 2011 at 6:51am

What a great post!

I've never gone that long only on mono meals, but it sounds really tempting after reading your experience.

It's like you've metamorphosed back into the truest version of yourself, which is so seductive to contemplate.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.

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Permalink Reply by Owen fox! on January 3, 2011 at 10:45pm

u know what, i REALLY LOVE the people on this forum, on this website i mean! dont they generally rock? kind, open, grateful.... i love these things...

thanku everyone!

peace n love and happy new year!! :D

Owen

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Permalink Reply by Janel Holt on January 1, 2011 at 2:18pm

Wow! That's awesome. I'm just starting Banana Island on January 1st, 2011. I've done random mono fruit days, but never consecutively. I just may have to add that to my list of things to try in 2011. :)

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Permalink Reply by Elena Sendler on January 2, 2011 at 6:31am

I agree completely!!

Even dough I keep falling of the LFRV due to the wish of losing weight and as a result I undereat, I still eat mono meals when I'm following the 811, which is most of the time.

Except for the salads it's natural for me to eat mono meals I don't even think of combining. If I eat a pineapple I have no desire to finish if with an orange, I just eat more pineapple.

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Permalink Reply by todd on January 2, 2011 at 6:58am

Thanks for the report! You've spurred some questions from me... Do you eat greens? If so, when? Or, what is a typical menu for the day that includes greens? Do you eat other veggies? If so, does that mean you have a meal of tomatoes and don't have any greens that day?

Mono mealing fruit makes sense and is something I do at least once every day, always at breakfast, but to get more greens in my diet I usually resort to at least one green smoothie a day, usually at lunch.. I usually eat greens or salad after a mono fruit meal in the evening, and can't really imagine having a meal of just romaine for dinner and nothing else, since I'd still be hungry... Unless I tried to get all my calories at breakfast and lunch and then just greens for dinner might be possible, but I can't imagine that being as enjoyable... I usually want at least one other veggie with my greens too... Often tomatoes or bell peppers...

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Permalink Reply by Ted Carr AKA Ted Carb on January 2, 2011 at 7:19am

way to go man. i am following your footsteps, so keep going!

how many dif foods do u eat each day? how long do u wait before u eat a dif food?

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Permalink Reply by Don Stewart on January 2, 2011 at 8:19am

What a wonderful post to read for me this morning, thanks so very much.

Also, really like your simple healthy 2011 New Years resolution.

I'm starting out on banana island for 10 days to kick start my New Years resolution of not putting one bite of cooked food in my mouth this year. I can eat cooked food next year If I wish but not this year. Takes some of the stress off.

I read in AA they say something like I will not drink today maybe tomarrow but not today...Helps them do it one day at a time. So I'll do it one year at a time. See how I feel.:)

Thanks again for the cool post and Happy New Year to you!

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Permalink Reply by Lucas on January 2, 2011 at 8:47am

I am paraphrasing here but I have listened to Doug Grahmn speak in his lectures about the same thing. He says he is completely free to eat what ever he wants, he just chooses to eat a raw vegan diet. Will he be a raw vegan tomorrow, who knows he says, that is too far away to think about but more than likely he will be.