I've been on a mostly raw diet for about three weeks now and starting this past weekend I just feel my health is getting horrible.
My symptoms are that I am extremely lethargic. I have been in bed from 9:30pm - 7:30am the past few days. I would get eczema, itchy skin before starting this diet but now it is just horrible. My face & scalp are extremely dry and looks like it is falling off. When I look in the mirror I look like I've aged 10 years. The eczema on my hands is also worse than normal.
I've read a lot about raw diets now and thought it should give me more energy and improve my skin. I'm pretty sure I'm eating enough as I eat when I'm hungry until I'm full. Are there any ideas what I could be doing wrong? I would really appreciate it as I just want to be healthy and have good health.
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Thanks for the tips. Yeah, it could be because I jumped into it. Odd though because I thought my skin was getting better for the first two weeks.
I did realise that eating bananas made my lips less dry so the other day I must have had about 10 bananas during the day. My face still looked flaky but my skin felt much better and the sight of it has improved these days. I've read that bananas are the only fruit to contain all the amino acids so perhaps I was lacking something. I will try out that website.
Unfortunately, even though my skin is slightly improving, I am getting stomach aches now. Hopefully this will pass soon and I can enjoy this diet more.
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Thank you all for your support. I will keep fighting on and hope that it will be worth it.
I think I will start using one of those websites tomorrow to track what I am eating and post it in a few days.
For coconut oil, do you mean pure coconut oil? Where can you buy that? I just went to the pharmacy and they weren't really aware of such a product so I bought this Inecto Leg & Body Scrub which contains pure coconut oil along with other ingredients.
Can you do dry brushing on your scalp? Because my scalp is the worst now. (I'm semi bald so I don't have hair in the way :)
I first went started raw food I was colder, and felt tired more than usual and I had headaches,
which I took cayenne pepper, Three weeks later I felt tremendously better and I lost ten pounds,
but the body sometime will get worse before it get better is my experience from going from a vegetarian to a raw foodist . I think it is just from eating processed food and your toxic, My suggestion is see a dermatologist or nauturopathic and see if they can suggest something to ease the problem . If I have minor health problems I usually just go to earthclinic.com for cool mother nature's cures...they all work great.