joannabanana

erin, i mostly follow 80/10/10 but i still eat some cooked veggies at dinner. i used to have terrible thrush outbreaks before i started lowering my fat intake and eating more fruit. i haven't had thrush since i started. i followed the diet pretty strictly for about 4 months, but personally, i have more energy when i still include fat in my diet everyday.

about caloric needs- for the first week i used fitday.com just to see if i was eating enough and to see what my ratio of carbs, lipids, and fat were. after that, i became good at estimating how much of my diet is from fat and vice versa.

besides the diet, i also get a lot of sleep- usually 8-10 hours a night and i like being outside as much as possible.

raw soybeans are a worse problem than cooked ones, kt! people usually don't eat them unless they have fermented because they contain a lot of toxins. i'm not sure how good fermented soy milk would taste though. eeekkk.

here's an article on the negative effects of soy:

http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm

valeria, after i wash my face at night, i blot tea tree oil on my face with a cotton ball, and then put a coin-sized amount of jojoba oil on my hand and rub that into my face. the combination works really well and i rarely get dry skin.