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Food:
2 servings salmon
3 servings zucchini and onion
Lotsss of Almond butter
2 Avocados
Seltzer water
Supplements:
3000-5000 ? taurine powder
b-complex
1000 mg emergen C
Health:
Ran for 15 minutes.. walked for 15 minutes.. cleaned for 2 hours
Acne: one below right bottom lip kinda hurts.. 2 small bumps on each side of chin dwindling but they don't hurt.. they arnt white heads.. just bumps? no more sugar in any form for me till these go away!! then I can see if it was the chocolate or tomatoes.. Iv also cut back on salt.. havnt used any all day
are you the one who posted recently that you are going on an antibiotic and trying to kill candida at the same time?
chocolate is the biggest break out culprit for me, just fyi.
Yah as the days move on (past the last breakout) I'm starting to think that it may have been the chocolate.. However my mom is allergic to tomatoes so I may also be allergic and get minor acne from it but I'm not sure because I haven't been tested for tomatoes yet..
Chocolate is just so good.. even dark chocolate like 85% taste like heaven to me 
But im off of it now 
*sigh*
Food:
2 servings salmon
2 servings zucchini and onion
Lotsss of Almond butter
2 Avocados
Seltzer water
Decaf coffee
3 cups of tea
Sugar free gum
Supplements:
3000-5000 ? taurine powder
b-complex
1000 mg emergen C
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Walked for 30 minutes
Acne:
Everything seems to be fading away/drying out. There is a new reddish one up by the right side of my nose. Still a few dwindling on my chin..
Food:
2 serving salmon
2 servings zucchini and onion
Almond butter
2 Avocados
Seltzer water
Cooked spinach
4 pieces of gum
Tea
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
1000 mg emergen C
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Ran for 30 minutes
Acne:
Nothing new..face is a little itchy but iv had makeup on for like 7 hours now.. Nothing hurts on my chin anymore
Mood:
Extremely content.. Which is weird since I just got my period.. The acupuncture is the best thing I have invested in in a longggggggg time.. I didn't even have cramps today 
Which is a first...
Food:
2 serving salmon
2 servings zucchini and onion
Almond butter
2 Avocados
Seltzer water
Walnuts
Tea
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
1000 mg emergen C
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Walked for 30 minutes
Acne:
Everything has died down on chin. 2 small white heads on jaw one on left one right...not bad and didn't bother me. Pimple by nose n right cheek went away without ever appearing. A hairdresser scratched my face on my left cheek and there is something aggravated there now.
Mood:
Excited for acupuncture tomorrow.!!!!!
Food:
2 small servings salmon
1 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
1 Avocado
Seltzer water
Walnuts
Tea
Starbucks espresso shot and water (had to study and sty up till 3 :/ )
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
1000 mg emergen C
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Swam
Acupuncture
Yoga class for an hour and on my own for 15 minutes
Acne:
It's actually doing really well.. Nothing new on chin.. Can't even believe how clear it looks.. Still scaring but that takes a long time to go away. Not sure if it's the diet, taurine, acupuncture, or red and blue lights I have been using.. But I think all of them combined are helping. My forehead is now 100% and wonderful looking!
*Acupuncture is helping with my stress and helping me deal with school
*Diet is helping with health and not aggravating my messed up digestive system since all I eat is fish
*Taurine and b-complex seem to be helping but I would have to stop taking the supplements to really test it.. Which I might do when im 100% clear
*Red/infrared light is healing my skin and closing my pores
*Blue light is killing acne possibly.. Only use it for 2 minutes.
Mood:
Happy about skin but stressed about school
Food:
2 servings salmon
1 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
1 Avocado
Seltzer water
Walnuts
Coffee (made me breakout)
Flax seeds
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
1000 mg emergen C
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Ran for 25 minutes
Swam
Got sun by the pool
Acne:
Nothing new.. Face is looking good.. Of course I still have a couple dieing down but no cysts or anything that is really bothering me or I think people are 'staring at' when I go out. I am actually happy with my skin not 100% but it's SOOOO much better then before.. And someone called me pretty today For the first time in a while.
New update for later in the day.. I drank some coffee and had a bad reaction.. I have a new pimple or group surfacing on the right side.. They hurt.. I always mess up right when im clear!! I don't know why I can't learn!!!!!!
Mood:
I've been in a really great mood.. Just happy about life in general. When acne calms down= happiness. But I have to say it's not just about the acne.. It's about your thought process/exercise and what you eat. When I stopped thinking about my acne it seemed to go away more. Which was also the time that I stated acupuncture. I feel more balanced and excited about life in general. If you would of known me or I had a log going back a few months it would of been really depressing. My whole chin was inflamed and my forehead. I looked like a monster.. So right now me feeling normal about my skin is craziness..
Hey biology - glad to hear you're doing so well. I agree, not thinking about acne is one of the biggest things that helps to clear it. It helps you avoid picking at things you shouldn't and mood plays a big part in acne I've found. Even now that I'm clear, I'm still in the habit of only briefly looking in mirrors, because I used to be so obsessively checking my skin over.
On a side note, since the taurine may be working for you (and what you're describing with the drying out sounds pretty familiar) maybe we have some similarities in what we can tolerate. I've found that fatty foods like pizza, burgers etc don't cause breakouts, but anything with a significant sugar content does. What taurine does is linked to helping you manage sugar, so the fact that its effective at all possibly indicates something wrong with our baseline sugar processing.
About the bumps under the skin - I got some of those early on too, that stayed for a week or so but never broke through the skin. I'd never had them before, not sure if yours are the same, but I thought they might have been a transitional stage before all the formations stopped.
Lastly, if you're looking for something to add to your (already hefty ) regimen, I can recommend drinking watered down Apple Cider Vinegar. I've been trying it for the last few weeks (I stopped experimenting for ages and am starting again aiming on clearing my arms) and have found that it actually helped my face go from 95% clear to just about 100%. I was drinking it leading up to a formal event I had and it really paid off. Also seems to have reduced the slight general redness that I hadn't been able to shake. If you're interested, I've been diluting a small amount in a large glass of water, basically going by ear. If you mix it right it's kind of like apple juice with an acid tang to it. Up to you if you want to try it, just thought I'd give the heads up
Good luck,
Pan
Hey biology - glad to hear you're doing so well. I agree, not thinking about acne is one of the biggest things that helps to clear it. It helps you avoid picking at things you shouldn't and mood plays a big part in acne I've found. Even now that I'm clear, I'm still in the habit of only briefly looking in mirrors, because I used to be so obsessively checking my skin over.
On a side note, since the taurine may be working for you (and what you're describing with the drying out sounds pretty familiar) maybe we have some similarities in what we can tolerate. I've found that fatty foods like pizza, burgers etc don't cause breakouts, but anything with a significant sugar content does. What taurine does is linked to helping you manage sugar, so the fact that its effective at all possibly indicates something wrong with our baseline sugar processing.
About the bumps under the skin - I got some of those early on too, that stayed for a week or so but never broke through the skin. I'd never had them before, not sure if yours are the same, but I thought they might have been a transitional stage before all the formations stopped.
Lastly, if you're looking for something to add to your (already hefty ) regimen, I can recommend drinking watered down Apple Cider Vinegar. I've been trying it for the last few weeks (I stopped experimenting for ages and am starting again aiming on clearing my arms) and have found that it actually helped my face go from 95% clear to just about 100%. I was drinking it leading up to a formal event I had and it really paid off. Also seems to have reduced the slight general redness that I hadn't been able to shake. If you're interested, I've been diluting a small amount in a large glass of water, basically going by ear. If you mix it right it's kind of like apple juice with an acid tang to it. Up to you if you want to try it, just thought I'd give the heads up
Good luck,
Pan
Thanks for the info! Yah throughout this whole thing I am finding that I am veryy sensitive to everything!! Even minor things like folders coffee will cause a minor breakout. That's so weird that you say that about the small bumps.. I had them everywhere on my left side and not on the right and wasn't sure what was causing them. And it's weird because every morning they aren't there and sometimes by the end of the day they are there. I just woke up so they aren't there right now and I think they are actually going away. I don't remember seeing them when I looked in the mirror last night. I will go get some organic apple cider vinegar soon. I actually had some but returned it because I tried it before and remember how weird it tasted. How much apple cider vinegar a day do you drink? And can you tolerate more glucose/fructose or CHO(carbohydrates) in your diet now? I have high faith that my acupuncturist is going to fix what ever is wrong with me and I will one day be able to tolerate some about of sugar again.
May as well put in this post..
So far since I started this diet I found out I am sensitive to
1) Organic carrots or any carrot
2) Dark chocolate
3) Coffee
4) Salt (possibly)
5) Tomatoes (possibly)
All 3 made me have a slight setback breakout.
Food:
2 servings salmon
1 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
Spinach
Seltzer water
Walnuts
Flax seeds
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Ran for 20 minutes
Swam
Acne:
Right side of my chin hurts from the surfacing coffee pimple.. Other then that looking good
Mood:
Really hungryyyyyyyyy
Hey - I drink one glass of water/acv a day. It's a fairly big glass, but only a dash or two of ACV. Not sure exactly how much that measures. Funny, I had my suspicions about tomatoes at one stage. Never really managed to rule them in or out.
As for the sugars, I find i'm relatively tolerant now. I ate a medium sized chocolatey dessert thing a few nights back and it might have given me like one neck pimple (or that might have been the copious amounts of alcohol 
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Hey - I drink one glass of water/acv a day. It's a fairly big glass, but only a dash or two of ACV. Not sure exactly how much that measures. Funny, I had my suspicions about tomatoes at one stage. Never really managed to rule them in or out.
As for the sugars, I find i'm relatively tolerant now. I ate a medium sized chocolatey dessert thing a few nights back and it might have given me like one neck pimple (or that might have been the copious amounts of alcohol
OO well thanks for the info!! I am seeing improvements everyday I finaly feel NORMAL again.. and not embarrassed about my skin.. I'm not sre i it's the taurine.. acupuncture.. red/blue light.. strict diet or what.. But my skin is looking so much better!! I Haveee to put some edited pix on here so ppl will believe me.
Food:
2 servings salmon
1 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
Spinach
Seltzer water
Walnuts
Flax seeds
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
Yoga
Swam
Acne:
Chin is clear again besides scars.. upped the taurine last night since I saw the breakout coming in and it went down.. NO NEW PIMPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Food:
half pond of salmon
mahi mahi
2 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
Seltzer water
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Probiotics
Health:
Yoga
Acne:
Left side of cheek has one minor pimple but it's not a cyst or anything.. Chin is looking amazing. Forehead amazing .. there is one tiny little dot right in the middle but it's barely noticeable..
Mood:
Really happy about the progress I have made.. I don't feel ugly around my friends anymore.. I still don't feel perfect without makeup on but I know my scars will take a long time to heal.. Any one know how to get rid of scars? I heard lemon juice works..
What kind of scars are we talking? Red/dark marks left over from spot or ice-picks or what?
I have red marks all along my chin.. A few red marks on my checks.. A couple deep pores on each side of check like half inch away from mouth.. I have been thinking about derma rolling just on that like small section of my check and on my chin. My chin doesn't have any indentations but it's just very discolored.
Food:
salmon
2 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
Walnuts
Avocado
Seltzer water
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Probiotics
Health:
Ran a mile
Acne:
One new pimple on upper right side by eye kinda..never get pimples there so kinda weird .. Now that I think of it I used a new hair product so that is probably the cause if it. One on forehead turned into whitehead.. and is healing now
I don't think I can help with the deep pores - I have 3 or so on my left cheek I've never been able to do much about. I have found that exfoliating with a baking soda/water paste and then toning with an ACV/water mix (at about 1 part acv in 2 parts water) gets rid of dark/red marks over a bit of time.
Food:
salmon
2 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
Walnuts
Avocado
Seltzer water
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Health:
walked for 30 minutes
Acne:
one on right cheek and forehead are now on the out phase.. chin still pretty dry.. there is a bump that doesnt hurt under my right lip and 2 more that arnt that bad like one inch from that on right side .. I almost dont consider them pimples because they are not the usual type that I get.. they are just small bumps
I don't think I can help with the deep pores - I have 3 or so on my left cheek I've never been able to do much about. I have found that exfoliating with a baking soda/water paste and then toning with an ACV/water mix (at about 1 part acv in 2 parts water) gets rid of dark/red marks over a bit of time.
Hmmm.. I guess ill wait till im 100% clear so I don't try to fade my marks for nothin.. But TY for the advice! I seem to get a little thirsty when I take the taurine.. and do the tips of your fingers prune up ever?
Yeah I did occasionally feel a little dry - usually while it was drying out the stuff on my face. I went through a period of being super thirsty a while back, not sure what that was about either. I use a moisterising body wash now which stops me being itchy and/or dry, but I think most of the side effects like that are minor and go away after a bit
Food:
salmon
2 serving of zucchini and onion
Almond butter
a few walnuts
2 avacodos
Seltzer water
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
mg/ca and vitamin D-3
Probiotics
Health:
Power yoga
Ran half a mile
Walked 30 minutes
Acupuncture
Acne:
Nothing new or crazy.. ones on right cheek turned into mini whiteheads that I popped.. forehead one is gone now..just a little red dot.. Still a few little bumps on the side of my cheeks.. they come and go it's so weird
Mood:
feeling like my old self again.. I don't find myself thinking about my skin anymore when I talk to people.. Had friends over last night and bearly had any makeup on.. Just a little on my chin
Food:
salmon
2 serving spinach
Almond butter
a few walnuts
half avacado
Seltzer water
Sugar free red bull (half a can)
Supplements:
3000-5000 taurine powder and pills
b-complex 50
Health:
Ran a little over a mile
Swam some laps in the pool
Hottub
Acne:
I have a cyst that finally has popped up blow the right side of my mouth... It has been lingering as a red mark for a while and today I drank some sugar free red bull and that made it angry! Not to big of deal.. Great compared to what im use to!! Went out tonight and got a complement that I was 'hot'. woahhhhhh normally people just talk about my acne!
Mood:
Acupuncture has made my life so much btter.. I am happy