help needed with odd side effects

[mayakc]

i've just started on RAW. went from vegetarian diet to 2 weeks of vegan/gluten free/80% raw, and now this past week have been 100% raw .
mostly i feel fantastic, have tons of energy, bright shiny eyes and have lost 5 pounds. BUT..funny side effects that i can only assume are related:

- majorly chapped/swollen/cracked lips, which i've never had. i've been drinking tons of water. could it be all the lemon/orange/tomatoes i'm eating? vit deficiency? herpes virus? yeast infection? and on that note..

- earlier this week i felt like i had a UTI; painful abdomen, hurt to pee. now it feels like a yeast infection. i never get these. why now?

- also a bit of weight loss is great but i can't lose much more, and i especially cant lose it in my face or arms. hips and butt is ok though! how can i be careful about the weight loss? eating lots of avos, bananas, olve oil, coconut, nuts, seeds.

thanks all!

[nadien alexandra]

eat when you are hungry.

dont count calories.

eat lots of fruit. then eat more.

try dates (make sure they are raw). they are full of good calories.
bananas too.


i think the cracked lip thing could be due to citrus. i tend to eat a lot of pineapple, and it starts to burn my lips! they get cracked and sore!

Oh but I LOVE it.


Maybe the burning pee, yeast thing, is part of detox. Perhaps you HAD a yeast overgrowth (candida and the like) and your body is experiencing something you already had, but now because it is being pushed OUT, you are experiencing it FULLY.

this is what I can postulate from my personal and limited experience.

As always, wait it out, keep eating raw. its not necessary to consume TONS OF FAT like avo and oil, just consume LOTS OF calories.
The bad body fat will go away, maybe you'll get a little thin, but if you're eating ENOUGH, the good body weight will appear.

[bootzey]

Try a B complex supplement for your lips and drink lemon juice in water. that should aid your UTI.

[modernmonkey]

I had stingy lips when I first went raw. I thinking it was accustomising to all the fruit.