"Hey I have a question - what supplements do you take, i.e. vitamins, etc, to make this no fruit diet healthy?"I thought this was the kind of question that everyone would like to see the answer for so I'm making it into a post.
There are no vitamins/essential nutrients that fruit has that cannot be found in vegetables, proteins and fats. So, the bigger issue is just missing eating fruits. If you can't fathom living without any fruit, just look at a carb counter and figure out which ones have the lowest carbs, eat a proper serving size (i.e. half an apple, not a whole one) and eat them infrequently. Blueberries are one I will use in flax seed muffin recipes and it only takes 4-5 per muffin to be quite a treat! Of course, if you don't like veggies, like I don't, be sure to take a good multi-vitamin too.
Other supplements we take? Mostly we take Chromium Picolinate (500 mcg, 2 caps twice a day)per doctors orders. It helps your body be more sensitive to insulin, to use it better, etc. We also take Vit. D as we were tested and were very low. Fish oil in the evenings. We take prescription Metformin, which is an oral diabetes medication, which also works to help your body make the most of the insulin you do have, which helps stabilize your blood sugars. Plus a good multi-vitamin. I think that rounds it out.
