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[LiveLaughFart]

Starting tommorrow I'm going on an acne-free diet where I eat only salad everyday for 30days straight.
I'm going to use this to write down my experience and how I feel throughout the annoying journey of clear skin that I wish I didn't have to do but, I'm going to do it anyway because I want to be 100% clear so I can start working on my scars. And I'm going to be drinking lots of water throughout the day (which I already got in the habbit of doing).

I'm going to eat a salad made of:
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Dill Weed
Black Pepper
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Lemon (a small amount so I don't damage my teeth).
Sliced raw almonds
Avacadoes
Fresh ginger

No Fruit, nothing cooked or heated, no meat, just raw vegetables with some seasoning, and small amount of nuts.

I'm going to eat the same boring salad everyday for 30+ days, ending October 18, 2011.

Tommorrow is day 1.

Edited by Ugly skin disease, 11 November 2011 - 10:54 PM.

[LiveLaughFart]

I just ate the salad to see how it tastes, and it was very filling and satisfying and it tasted good even without the onions that I accadently left at the grocery store.

I thought I should describe the state of my skin before the first day to see how my skin changes after 30 days
Currently: I have zits all around my mouth, a HUGE pimple on my nose and another huge pimple on my temple. As well as a few blackheads here and there on my nose. My skin texture is very bumpy with tiny rough bumps all over my face.

I definately have moderate acne.

*I'm going to do this diet until I am 100% clear.

[captainsunshine]

Good for you. If you see your skin clearing up it'll be great, if not it may need tweaking:

1) Tomatoes, they are fruit, and some people might react to the citric acid.
2) Almonds, like me, you may have a nut intolerance that you're not aware of.

Personally, I'd add Spinach, Celery, and Broccoli to that list. Though raw Broccoli may be hard to handle, juiced Broccoli will go down a treat.

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captainsunshine, on 12 November 2011 - 08:10 AM, said:

Good for you. If you see your skin clearing up it'll be great, if not it may need tweaking:

1) Tomatoes, they are fruit, and some people might react to the citric acid.
2) Almonds, like me, you may have a nut intolerance that you're not aware of.

Personally, I'd add Spinach, Celery, and Broccoli to that list. Though raw Broccoli may be hard to handle, juiced Broccoli will go down a treat.

I thought this whole time that tomatoes were a vegetable, I used to think cucumbers were a vegetable too. But they aren't as sweet as fruits and not acidic. I know forsure I don't react to the items I listed except I can breakout if I eat too much nuts. The almonds I'm using are very thin sliced and I only add some into my salad just for a crunch.

I will eat spinach and brocoli etc. after this diet is over because the main thing of this diet is to eat a salad that tastes good and will satisfy me but won't break me out. Those vegetables you listed are healthy and don't break me out but I feel like I need to restrict myself, it's difficult to explain. But thanks for cheering me on, I thought someone would be saying "no don't do that, your killing your body." haha



So today is day one of this diet. The day before my diet, I ate bread and chocolate wafers so I'm expecting to get new breakouts within the next 7 days. I just ate my first salad of the day, and I find that it satisfied me very well, I better like it since it's going to be my only meal for the next 30+ days.

[captainsunshine]

Sounds good. I think people need to realise they aren't going to die by going on a restriction diet for a period. I did the Wai diet for just less than a fortnight, all I ate was cucumber, avocados and olive oil, plus a daily dose of egg yolk. I lost weight, but only because I kept up my fitness regime, that in mind I'd advise against anyone doing any extreme exercise during this period. A simple walk is enough.

[LiveLaughFart]

I need to start walking..I quit going to the gym because it made me breakout on my body, when I stopped going to the gym, the breakouts stopped.

So today is the second day of this diet and I'm going to switch my salad up by eating a salad made from carrots, red cabbage, and green cabbage instead of tomatoes and cucumbers. I'm going to make it cole slaw style.

I have new breakouts pop up but, that's expected. I don't expect my breakouts to stop appearing until 2 weeks of eating raw salad everyday. I have scabs on my face from pulling out 2 blackheads and from older pimples that are about to fall off.
My face looks terrible, broken out, and horrifying. But I know this is just a phase and it will pass.

I had a craving today for a raw vegan cheescake but, I told myself "no, not unless you want acne for the rest of your life." So I'm still being strong. I always keep myself occupied so I don't get hungry for some unhealthy crap that will destroy my skin.

[LiveLaughFart]

4th day...It's easy now. The cole slaw tasted great and fills me up. I had a craving yesterday for something sweet but, I made a tasty salad and forgot about it.

I also added some fresh coconut water to drink which makes me feel so refreshed. It tastes amazing too..
I just need to work on going to bed on time

[Ghost08]

Good luck :] I love salad SO MUCH but I would have a hard time doing this.

[LiveLaughFart]

I'm so madd i ate rice today. Im so upset at myself...I cried after I ate that rice because now I'm gonna get more breakouts. Diet is just so hard, I wish I didn't take pleasure from eating and that I could just eat for survival.
Ughh....am i ever going to be clear????? My skin is so ugly i can't take it anymore.

[LiveLaughFart]

I'm going to try this diet again...except I'm going to be a strict raw vegan and only eat raw fruits and vegetables for the next 2 months...It's going to start tommorrow and attempt to stay on it for 2 months to get rid of acne...I know it will work but I'm struggling to stay on this diet.

I really want to start fresh tommorrow and see if I can do it again. I'm just so upset at myself for eating sweet potatoes and 3 boiled eggs for dinner. It seems healthy but, I'm sure it will cause acne since I'm extremly sensitive.

[LiveLaughFart]

I'm actually going to star t tommorrow. Today I want to eat all the good food i can before I start my diet so I can get ready.
My permanent diet will be: raw fresh fruits, raw fresh veggies, and cooked antibiotic/hormone free grass fed meat.

But my temporary diet will be: raw fresh fruit, and raw veggies.

The raw vegan diet cleared me once in my life and it will clear me again.

I noticed that my pimples/zits last about 2 weeks and it takes within one week to get pimples from eating bad food.

So I think that my acne can actually go away in 2 weeks, except the last time I did the raw vegan diet my face broke out terribly in rashes and all over my face for the first month, and then after a month and a half it died down and after 2 months I was clear. I really want to do it again and I'm going to take pre-cautions because my diets fail after 5 days.

I composited a group of pictures on the internet of people with clear skin to keep me motivated. I took a pile of pictures of myself when I had clear skin to motivate me. I look at pictures of my mom's skin to motivate me not to eat unhealthy. If I crave something, I just mentally tell myself "No, don't." over and over again, because eating healthy is all in your mind, you have to have motivation.

I also wrote down a list of all the times people told me I was ugly, so when I feel like I crave cooked food, I can just look at the list and feel motivated to prove them wrong.

Or for another motivation, I can just look in the mirror, that's motivation enough.

[Gutterflower]

I hope you find what you are looking for from this diet, because you seem as though you are thoroughly torturing yourself with it. I know that food can be a huge trigger but please don't make your life miserable in the process. Food should be enjoyed, even if it has the potential to break you out.

[LiveLaughFart]

Gutterflower, on 20 November 2011 - 07:10 PM, said:

I hope you find what you are looking for from this diet, because you seem as though you are thoroughly torturing yourself with it. I know that food can be a huge trigger but please don't make your life miserable in the process. Food should be enjoyed, even if it has the potential to break you out.

I definately feel tortured sometimes because the food on my diet is very bland..and makes me depressed sometimes. But I would rather have clear skin than eat good tasting food. My Mom has terrible skin and she's in her 40s, I don't want to end up having my acne as bad as her. And my brother has pitted scars, so my face has the potential to get really bad. I jsut want to stop the cycle before it gets to be real bad.

Today I ate:
Sugar cookies, lemon cake bread, chicken, rice, and spinach stew..in that order lol. The cookies and rice and stuff didn't really taste that good actually, I actually would have rather wanted to eat a salad.

I know my face wil break out within a week in zits, all around my mouth, and I'm predicting some will be on my jawline and on my nose, and maybe some on my forhead, that would be crazy if I get it right.

But anyway, the pimples usually last 2 weeks but, since I'm suddenly going raw, I'm sure alot of toxins will expell out of my body through my skin. I read that toxins are suppost to expell through your kidneys but, if your kidneys aren't working properly, toxins release through your skin-this could be something.

I have been eating badly for months, maybe since March...I used to be a strict raw vegan and during that time my face was clear so that diet really did work for me. I went off the diet because I thought "Oh, my skin is clear now, I can have some vegetable soup." WRONG, I actually broke out from it.

I hope to God I can get through 2 months of this diet without going crazy. I reallllly want to be clear.
I also took new steps into preventing acne, I stopped going to the gym because I noticed body pimples. I stopped letting shampoo and conditioner touch my body. I also stopped sleeping in clothing that has irritation factors, like buttons or zippers.

I'm taking a lot of steps to have clear skin and I know my journey ahead is going to be hard.

I'm just glad I can write down everything I'm feeling throughout the process so I can get through it and get out all my emotions, so I don't take my emotions out on food.



Tommorrow is day 1 of the rest of my life.
*Dramatic music*

[ohhhhhhnooooooo]

good luck! you should try talking with your dermatologist to fix your acne, it really helped me. Don't give up!

[ohsailor]

Good luck with your new diet. I hope that it does everything that you want it too. Please try not to torment yourself if you slip up - every day is a new day and things can be fixed.

But I would agree with the suggestion to see a dermatologist - they might be able to help you further with what you can do to prevent breakouts if you do happen to slip up on your diet so you won't get so upset..?

[hotburrito]

USD, good luck with your diet! Hopefully this isn't unwelcome advice, but have you considered maybe going a little easier on yourself from the outset so you won't end up crashing and eating things like sugar cookies? Like, instead of starting out just putting yourself on a salad everyday diet, maybe think about cutting sweets and dairy from your diet the first month, then slowly weeding things out until you feel like your mind and body are both "ready" for the all-salad diet. Because if you just go directly from eating "normally" to eating nothing but salads, then you may be setting yourself up for failure by doing something too radical... the most important thing about a diet is that it should be sustainable, after all.

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hotburrito, on 21 November 2011 - 04:18 AM, said:

USD, good luck with your diet! Hopefully this isn't unwelcome advice, but have you considered maybe going a little easier on yourself from the outset so you won't end up crashing and eating things like sugar cookies? Like, instead of starting out just putting yourself on a salad everyday diet, maybe think about cutting sweets and dairy from your diet the first month, then slowly weeding things out until you feel like your mind and body are both "ready" for the all-salad diet. Because if you just go directly from eating "normally" to eating nothing but salads, then you may be setting yourself up for failure by doing something too radical... the most important thing about a diet is that it should be sustainable, after all.

That's very true but, I get mad at myself for eating things like a sweet potatoe, and feel like "I'm gonna break out anyway so I might as well just eat sugar cookies." I usually do better if I go to the extreme/go cold turkey, so I can start out fresh.


It's day 1 and I c an already feel the withdrawals. I feel depressed already but, I'm sure the depression would go away after a few weeks of this diet.

I'm going to make a huge salad right now. Life is really short so I want to make the best of it and try to get clear skin as soon as possible.
I also am growing out my overplucked eyebrows since today..and I haven't worn makeup in like 4 months.

Topical solutions don't work for me so I avoid seeing a specialist, since all they will do is give me a topical solution.


I am mostly depressed because I'm scared of getting breakouts on my body, i don't want my body scarred up like my face, its bad enough that i have acne scars on my face..I don't want the skin on my body ruined too.
I'm also scared that using TCA permanently destroyed my ability to tan.
who knows... My skin has ruined my life, that's forsure. I probably won't live to be 30. But I keep on hoping, that one day my skin will look normal.

[LiveLaughFart]

It's the beginning of day 2 and I already quit my diet, what a surprise. I don't know why I'm so weak, I just saw the apple pie and the chinese takeout sitting so innocently in my fridge..I couldn't help my urge to devour it.

But another thing I noticed is suddely, my depression left and I feel alot better after eating that. Maybe it's the sugar? I noticed it the other day too, that when I ate the sugar cookies I felt good the rest of the day, until I regretted the decision.

I was thinking of taking accutane because I'm so tired of acne. When I eat healthy, I get so depressed and frustrated and angry.

[LiveLaughFart]

I am back and I'm on my third day of eating nothing but raw veggies, raw fruit, pepper, and olive oil.

And it's thanksgiving, and I decided not to go to my family party...

I'm really proud of myself for not going off my diet.

Tommorrow is day 4 then, day 5, hopefully I make it past day 5 so I know for sure I can do it for 2 months.

I went to sleep with hunger pains for some reason, my stomach felt like it needed food even though i ate salad for dinner.

Edited by Ugly skin disease, 24 November 2011 - 06:31 PM.