This is a really interesting post. I've been a fruitarian/raw vegan for about 2 months now and I can really tell the difference, but it's a challenge. Let me explain.
Cooked food/meat works like a stimulant on us, similair as coffee, it boosts us but at the same time it really slows down the system, I found that my mind is really really clear now on the fruitarian diet and I have crazy ideas. I'm much more connected to source, more focus and much more energy. The thing is however that we're addicted to sugary foods/meat/carbs... I still struggle craving cooked foods and sometimes it can be really hard, but when you resist the temptation (usually in the evenings), the next day you feel incredible and so powerful.
Cooked food is basically a drug to numb our emotions when we don't want to face reality and the present moment, I used to be a big eater and I would always stuff myself with food, but only so I could escape the pain I was feeling at the time.
It's the hardest challenge in the world, but it's turning my life around, sometimes it's so hard you want to pull your hair out.
I do intermittent fasting + raw vegan fruitarian diet (I fast for 18hours, eat for 6hours), here are the benefits I noticted after 2 months:
Insane energy.
Motivation.
No more stress and anxiety.
Much much more present to the moment.
Acne is gone after like 3 years, my skin is just healing itself naturally.
More strenght in the gym + I dropped almost all the fat, but kept the muscle mass.
You should try it, but know that it's gonna be painful and hard at times.
Thank you for sharing your experience on this! :) it took me a good 20-24 months to get over the cooked food cravings. After experiencing that, I definitely gotta agree with you—just like a vast majority of all fruitarians will agree—that cooked food is absolutely a drug that we use to numb negative (as well as positive!) emotions.
A short while after I began eating just fruit, I ran into the book Mucusless Diet Healing System, by Arnold Ehret and THAT short book just blew my mind. It goes down as one of the most inspiring books I ever read. It’s short, and I read it in 2 days lol. In his book, he shares a lot of his experiences and observations, and he also attempts to theorize these things. He didn’t have all of the answers, and seeing that he wrote this stuff over 100 years ago made me realize that his information (and many others who say the same thing) have been deliberately ignored for the sake of profiting off others’ addictions.