Yeah, fruit's alkalizing effects are great in hot climates, but rough in cold ones. I used to cook my fruit into compotes during the colder months. I used frozen fruit reduced down in a pot with vanilla beans, a fat (I love coconut cream), warming spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger etc. and sweetened with dark maple syrup. Two of my favorites were mangos and cream and peaches and cream. Cherries made a pretty heavenly compote, too. For that one I used coconut oil instead of cream.I have dipped my toes in veganism. Not for moral reasons but for health reasons- The whole high carb low fat plant based idea definitely intrigued me. I tried a starch based diet with some added fruit and didn't like it after the first week or so. I was eating lots of grains though and could see fruit based maybe going better because fruit is awesome (but usually expensive). Fruit tends to be cooling for me because of the fluids unless i'm getting lots of exercise or sun. Either way I don't see the point of eliminating entire food groups or macronutrients unless there is a really good reason to do so. I have tried restricting fat, starch, meat, dairy etc and it has never felt right and my metabolism always declined. It just makes it harder to follow in the long term. I think part of it is wanting what you can't have and feeling anxiety around eating. Part of it may be depriving my body of certain nutrients.
The fact that your health has improved is a good sign that means your diet is probaly working really well for you. I wonder if maybe you had an egg or milk allergy or something hurting your metabolism. I don't usually do well with certain foods like milk and potatoes but cheese and sprouted wheat bread feel fine. Different things certainly work for different people.
But yeah, fruit isn't cheap and I can understand why you're not motivated to eat a plant-based diet. I'm motivated for ethical reasons, first and foremost, but even if it weren't for that, I still wouldn't consume animal protein, or at least, only small amounts of it because of the extreme pain it causes where the worst of my compression fractures are.
Yep! Dairy was the biggest culprit. I journaled my experience while dairy-based Peating in a very long-winded log, but basically...dairy caused a chronic facial rash, swelling of my throat whenever I consumed any, a burning gut and a nasty bacterial overgrowth (confirmed by an overpriced Genova stool test) that required 6 months on high doses of minocycline. I'm still dealing with negative effects from the mino.
