ducaysa
09-16-2008, 06:22 PM
I'm 26 years old and have just moved to Asheville, NC from Arcata, CA.
I am actually on a juice fast right now, day 16 and have 5 days left to go. I found out about the raw food diet because I was researching the appropriate way to break my juice fast (all vegies and some apples). I read a lot about people's experiences and am very inspired.
I have battled with Psoriasis for 8 years now and this is the reason why I went on the juice fast. I was using a spray called Skin Cap which apparently has a very high steroid content. I started getting sick, bruises, brain fog, very fast weight gain (gained 20lbs of fat while training for 1/2 marathon!), thinning of the skin etc. I was overdosing on steroids, my medicine was making me sick. I decided to go on the juice fast to clean my system of the toxic overload.
It's been said that when breaking the fast, you ought to spend as many days breaking the fast as you were on the fast. This means at least 21 days of eating raw food. When I pieced all this together, I decided I ought to try to change my entire lifestyle with the hopes of shedding the extra weight but most importantly, to enable my body to heal itself of the Psoriasis.
No doubt, I'm a little terrified and think I will need a lot of support and hope to find that here.
I am actually on a juice fast right now, day 16 and have 5 days left to go. I found out about the raw food diet because I was researching the appropriate way to break my juice fast (all vegies and some apples). I read a lot about people's experiences and am very inspired.
I have battled with Psoriasis for 8 years now and this is the reason why I went on the juice fast. I was using a spray called Skin Cap which apparently has a very high steroid content. I started getting sick, bruises, brain fog, very fast weight gain (gained 20lbs of fat while training for 1/2 marathon!), thinning of the skin etc. I was overdosing on steroids, my medicine was making me sick. I decided to go on the juice fast to clean my system of the toxic overload.
It's been said that when breaking the fast, you ought to spend as many days breaking the fast as you were on the fast. This means at least 21 days of eating raw food. When I pieced all this together, I decided I ought to try to change my entire lifestyle with the hopes of shedding the extra weight but most importantly, to enable my body to heal itself of the Psoriasis.
No doubt, I'm a little terrified and think I will need a lot of support and hope to find that here.