Change in Diet.?
During the hotter months I find I tend to go off my food a lot. Especially cooked meals and meat. Not wanting to eat much and often find myself favouring fruit.
Would this sort of diet be safely maintainable for any given length of time? Just an example below. I would have considered all fruit but the last time I tried that I managed to put myself off sweet fruits for a month. And I don’t think it’s very good for you anyway.
Bran flakes + raisins + prunes (semi skimmed milk)
Greek Yogurt + Banana + Strawberry + Peach + Pineapple
Wholegrain bread + beans
Apples as snack
Drinking mostly water.
Cranberry & Rasberry drink in the morning.
Other drinks are Grape & Pear, Tea (both regular and green)
How long could you stick to that diet without it causing any major problems to the body?
That diet is all carbohydrates and it would put your body in a state of stress within a day or two. The skimmed milk is most likely pasteurized / homogenized junk. The yogurt is loaded with sugar and especially with the fruit.
You could last quite a while, but you would be starving yourself slowly to death. Like most diets like that, your body would develop huge cravings and make it very difficult for you. That much carbs would cause your body to develop a lot of glucose in your blood and generate insulin spikes that would cause glucagon to be produced to deal with that and then the adrenals would fire, causing you to produce lots of cortisol. The lack of fat would cause your liver to produce bad bile and then your gallbladder would load up with viscous bile, crystalizing into gallstones and most likely start having gallbladder problems and some pain.
The commercially produced fruit juices would dehydrate you and the tea would contribute to the dehydration. You would have to drink a lot more water to compensate for that.
I would say only a few days on that and then you would start developing headaches and other problems.
To fix your diet concerns, I would seek out a Certified Nutritional Therapist that can test you and see what you are deficient in and then recommend a diet and supplements if necessary. Then you will know exactly what you need and not do a bunch of guesswork.
good luck