Lawyer ditches corporate life to be a 'fruitarian'

This former London lawyer has ditched the corporate party lifestyle that made her miserable and now leads a ‘fruitarian’ life.

Alice Copilet worked as a corporate lawyer in London for six-years before embarking on her new lifestyle sees, which sees the 35-year-old dry fast for days at a time.

To onlookers, Alice had the perfect life; a successful career, lots of great friends, attractive boyfriends and a busy social life that saw her party hard every weekend and indulge in restaurant cooked meals rich in meat and dairy.

Behind her smiles, Alice was miserable and felt lonely and trapped in her career and found her comedowns and hangovers increasingly difficult to manage.

“I’ve always been a very confident, happy-go-lucky, easy going, life of the party sort of person and never had problems making friends or having fun but there was a rift inside me and when I was alone, I felt miserable, scared and panicked,” Alice said.

“I always needed to go out and be with people, I always had to have plans, to know that I had something on later, I had to fill my life with things because I was terrified of what would come up if I just stopped and sat alone in silence.”

Fed up of feeling this way, she decided to go on a meditation retreat in February 2012 for 10 days, where she was surprised to find she enjoyed the delicious vegan food on offer there and left with a great sense of clarity.

After doing a vegan challenge the following January, Alice committed to a plant-based lifestyle. Six months later, she discovered raw veganism and fruitarianism on YouTube and now claims she hasn’t drunk water for over two-years preferring to ‘eat’ her water instead.

Having always loved all fruits, Alice was instantly attracted to this way of life and decided to become fruitarian herself after seeing how at peace other fruitarians on social media were.

“I’ve always loved fruit – growing up in Romania, where the summers are really hot, I remember eating and enjoying so much amazing fruit: watermelons, cherries, peaches, grapes, I used to practically live in the giant mulberry tree outside my grandparents’ house when the fruit was ripe and bursting with juiciness,” she said.

In October 2018, Alice moved to Koh Pha-ngan, Thailand, with her partner, Toby, in order to explore the abundance of high quality delicious exotic fruits readily available over there.

She now follows a 95 per cent fruitarian lifestyle which she combines with intermittent dry fasting where she consumes no food or liquids for hours and days at a time.

Alice hasn’t drunk water since December 2016, preferring to eat her water through fruit and juices instead.

Alice has been practicing intermittent dry fasting for two-years now, fasting daily for 16 to 24 hours, weekly for 24 to 36 hours and once a month she dry fasts for two-days at a time. She said her regime has given her a heightened connection with nature and more energy than she has ever had.

Her diet is largely fruit based, with 95 per cent of it consisting of high-water content fruits such as; mangoes, watermelons, papaya, oranges, tangerines and mandarins.

The rest of her diet is comprised of salads, the occasional vegetable soup or curry but she never eats grains, tofu, soy, beans or lentils and is mindful of keeping her salt intake at a minimum.

Alice eats low-fat and adds no oil or additional fat to her foods other than those which occur naturally in her favourite fruit, durian which is 20 per cent fat, or tahini, but admits she did struggle with cravings at the outset.

“The process of intermittent dry fasting and then rehydrating with high water content fruits like melons, citrus, grapes and berries, a process I call eating our water is how the body will rehydrate at a cellular level. Drinking water slows down the detox,” she explained.

“It took me many years of trial and error to finally get to where I am today.”

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