I totally agree with all of you stating that diet and acne are related but does that mean that all you can eat is veggies, fruit, and fish? During the day I get so tired and feel like I NEED carbs or sugar. Can everyone give some foods that they eat on a daily basis that does not aggrevate their skin. THANKS!

Is the original cherrios okay to eat? They are so plain but i absolutely love them! Also when you all say to put herbs on the asparagus and green beans.. do I just find that at the grocery store? Is there a specific name? Its sad to say but u guys have to give me these recipes like your givning it to a dummy.. dont give me much credit on cooking.

Heres what I had today:

*Grapes
*Cherrios
*Peanut butter & slice of whole what bread (i know bad but i need to take my accutane with something fatty)
*Salad with tomatos, red onions, carrots, sunflower seeds, and low fat italian (i want to use olive oil but will that taste good? what else can you put with that?)
*Raw Carrots
*Apple
*Crackers & Turkey (probably a no no)
*Pretzels

And like 7 bottles of water

I also incorporate fruits like watermelon, strawberries, oranges, pinneapple... etc and veggies like asparagus, green beans, corn... etc. The meat I eat is fish and chicken (but trying to eat less) The no coffee thing is killing me and i must always give into it

Anyways Im trying! Hopefully the cravings will go away and my body stops feeling so weak and tired all the time... although it is probably also due to the accutane medications...

I am quite new to this diet stuff.. and actually just started visiting this part of the boards, so i appreciate all of your help

There alot of people on this site that have rediciously strict diets and still breakout. I think its not as much what we eat, but our OWN bodys ability to break some items down. Thats why some people can eat junk all day and never have a zit, and paranoid people can eat and drink food worse than prison inmates and still have acne.

Conditions that suggest Digestive Enzyme Need:

Digestion IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Infections Yeast / Candida Infection
Nutrients Vitamin A Requirement
90% of all dietary retinol is in the form retinyl palmitate which requires action by pancreatic enzymes before it can be absorbed.
Skin-Hair-Nails Eczema

I'm double posting cos i just found this page, recommending a candida controlling diet (which is for during & after your course of pills to fight it)

Keep fresh fruit to a minimum (does fruit cause you to get acne?)
No carton or bottled fruit juices
No sugar, honey or artificial sweeteners (does sugar & honey cause you to get acne?)
No cow's milk or cow's milk products including cheese and butter (dairy = acne?)
No wheat or wheat products (wheat = acne?)
Only occasional tea and no coffee. (coffee = acne?)
Keep carbohydrates low for the first 3 months (high carbs = acne?)

So doesn't this all sound like what a lot of people on here are saying causes their acne? And there strict diets remove these things? In the candida thread on here, people were taking supplements to control the candida & eating fairly normally - most likely swapping white bread for whole wheat and just eating a slightly better diet? Avoiding a lot of sugar (but no all) and yeast etc.

Yeah, Many of us probably have a candida imbalance from all the antibiotics we were given in addition to our diets. I took antibiotics for over 10 years. And it could be a factor as to why a low carb diet like Atkins clears some people's skin. But Sugar/glucose can cause acne in many ways, i.e. hormones, inflammation and candida.

The damp climate in the UK and underlying nutritional deficiencies - especially zinc and the anti-stress B vitamins - may play a role in a recurring infection in teens, so a good multisupplement* to correct any deficiency will help. The biggest culprits are dietary sugars and carbohydrates, which it thrives on. To clear an infection, you need to starve it - so get your daughter to cut out fermented drinks (including alcohol) and fungi, especially mushrooms. She should also cut back on tea, coffee, and diet drinks and aim for 8 glasses of pure water a day to flush out the bowel.

welll what the hell man. sucks i have to be so strict on my diet to get clear skin. why US. i KNOW diet is important to health and especially skin- but how come there are so many people out there that eat pizza and chocolate and every crap food in the book- probably never seen a veggie in their life- and yet they have perfect skin? whyyyyyyyyyyy. how is that fair. none of my friends have good diets yet they have perfect skin. i dont understand it.