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| Author | Topic: Help: whiteheads in the early stages of the diet !!! |
| Azure 09-18-2002 02:51 PM | Miss Wai: I had three small white heads on my face this afternoon. I almost wanted to cry. I have been following your diet very strictly since Sunday morning. Is this normal? Am I not supposed see any results for about two weeks? Let me give you run down of what I have been eating: - Lots of fruits (organic only) through out the day always followed by some walnuts, pecans, or Brazil nuts that I shell by hand. I spend about an hour every day opening nuts before I go to sleep so I can eat them the next day. - Then for lunch I was having a tomato, avocado, cucumber, and red onion salad covered with extra virgin olive oil. All the vegetables are also organic. - After the salad I eat about 5 pieces of really fresh raw tuna. - Then for the rest of the day I just eat fruits and nuts. I even cut out dried fruits from this diet because I am not really sure if they are sun dried. - I drink plenty of water between meals - Poland Spring. - I excercise, but never directly after meals. - I have not put anything else in my mouth except some organic toothpaste. Please tell me if I am doing something wrong. This diet takes so much effort and I can't tolerate even a single pimple. What can I do to make it better? I have a friend who is a male model and this guy eats and drinks everything you can imagine, drinks lots of alcohol everyday, smokes and does drugs, hardly sleeps, and he has the most perfect skin I have ever seen. I just can't stand it, I try so hard and I can't even accomplish normal skin. |
| Wai 09-19-2002 02:18 AM | quote:Yes, this is normal. The diet eliminates the excessive water retention in your skin, which eliminates the sebum canals from being pinched off, and thus the sebum / pus that was still trapped in those canals can now reach the surface of your skin. There is nothing wrong with that, it actually is a sign that your sebum canals are no longer pinched off quote:After the initial surfacing of trapped sebum / pus, your skin will improve until totally clear. quote:No, you haven't; it's perfect! quote:You're doing exactly the right thing, and everything goes as it should. quote:Then his skin produces little sebum, so that it does not matter whether they get pinched off temporarily; no pus will originate because there is no pressure from accumulated sebum; no over-activation of the propioni bacteria. quote:Yes, you can. So many people with far more severe acne than you did accomplish clear skin. You are doing perfectly well, just keep on doing what you do now. ![[Smile]](../smile.gif) |
| Ryan 09-22-2002 03:03 PM | Hi Wai Im now on my fifth day of the "sample Diet" my skin feels very smooth and soft. But im getting these pimples filled with white puss. Its gross. Is it normal to be getting these? ive had them since the 2nd and 3rd day. will they keep on coming or clear up in a few days? ok i have to admit that im still on my minocylin, im trying to wean myself off it, but im still scared of a skin flaring up. Im not eating raw animal food like egg yolk so i should be ok? if i do go off the minocyclin will my skin clear up in a few days? or will it take a while? because i have an important audition/interview to go to in 11 days time!. So that is why im soo worried about this. please help me out! Thanks once again for your time Wai.... P.s. Nice Pic!!! ![[Eek!]](../eek.gif) |
| Ryan 09-22-2002 03:04 PM | One other thing ..... do i have to eat salad, avocado's, tomatoes etc after every time i have fruit?Will i get acne if i dont? I have been having one salad a day. Is'nt that enough? Wai what do you do at family dinners, weddings etc? Ive got a family lunch today and we will all be seated around a table with cooked food....ARRRRGHhhh talk about a nightmare. Theyre gona think im anorexic or something when i refuse the food!! And if i go for the salad it will probably be saturated in vinegar, dressings etc. Do pumpkin and sunflower seeds have lots of fat in them? Sorry about all the questions.....thanks once again New Zealand boy ![[Confused]](../confused.gif) |
| Wai 09-22-2002 03:21 PM | quote:That your skin feels smooth and sof AND that you get 'surfacing pimples' (how else can you know that they are filled wiyth pus), is a strong indictaion that the diet works for you; less water is retained, and thus your skin will get soften, and, if there is still pus / sebum trapped in the skin, it will surface. So, it happens in you. If you continue the 100% strict diet, this will be gone way before these 2 weeks are over. quote:They will clear up in a few days. quote:that's okay, but makes it harder to maintain the diet quote:The mino has nothing to do with it quote:Well, then it is easy; don't take any munch food at all in the meantime, and you'll be safe. quote:no, you have to eat fat after every time you eat fruit, or you can add some oil (and sugar) to the orange juice that you drink (or to other fresh juices from the juice extractor) quote:Your acne may be partially caused by too much fluctuating blood sugar levels. Eating fat after sugars (fruits), prevents this. quote:I tell everybody about my eating habits; I'm proud to have to willpower to eat this way in order to have a beautiful skin. If you want a beautiful skin, you need to be proud; be proud of your willpower, and tell it like it is; be open and honest. So, what you have zits now; they will be gone soon, thanks to YOUR willpower. quote:Not if you are going to be honest. quote:If they contain bad dressings, don't touch them and search for something that is great for your skin. quote:the issue is: are they really raw? Pumkin seeds are 46% fat, and sunflower seeds contain 50% fat, which is good. |
| Claudia 10-11-2002 03:48 AM | Today is my 7th day on the diet. I have very light acne, and more during my menstrual cyle. I follow the diet 100%, but my acne is getting worse. I have lots of small pimples all over my face now, more than I've ever had. If the acne is getting worse for me, should I stop Wai? |
| Wai 10-11-2002 03:56 AM | Hi Claudia, It is quite normal to get whiteheads / small pimples in the early stages of the diet, because if you are doing the diet right, the sebum canals will no longer be pinched off, and thus the sebum and pus that was trapped in the skin can now surface. But, we first need to make sure that you are doing everything right. What do you eat exactly? and how much exactly? Did you carefully follow all the rules? (of the Sample Diet) The nuts that you eat, do you buy them in the shell? The fish that you eat; are you 100% sure that it has not been frozen? Do you remain physically active after having consumed fish / egg yolks? Are you sure not to use any salt / spices? |
| Claudia 10-11-2002 09:21 PM | Hi Wai, I believe I follow your diet 100%. This is what I do for my face and eat for your diet. -Cleanse my face with cucumber juice (I minced it with a knife), 2-3 times a day. And rinse it with Eldorado water. -drink Eldorado water -eat lots of fruits -eat cucumber-tomatoe-avacado-chives with extra virgin olive oil with some brazil nuts everytime after I have the fruits. -I order the brazil nuts online, the one that you give, so I shell them by hands. -I eat 2 egg yolk a day, usually after I have the fruits, salad, and nuts, and remain physical inactive everytime. -The amount that I eat is: : 2 bananas, 1 cantelope, 1 apple, 1 peach, 5-10 grapes, 20-25 brazil nuts, 1 cucumber, 1 tomatoe, 1 avacado, some chives, and 2 egg yolk. and it's been reasonably the same thing that I've been eating for the past 7 days. Let me know if i'm ok on this. |
| Wai 10-12-2002 12:28 PM | Sounds perfect! About your acne getting worse; that has not happened to a single person yet, so you would be the FIRST. So, I don't think that will be the case. I'm pretty sure that the diet will work in you too, especially BECAUSE of your initial break out; something is happening, and to me it seems that this can only be because all the accumulated stuff in your skin can now surface. (since nobody had their acne aggravated by the diet) In the ones that the diet did not sufficiently work, their acne did never get worse, it 'just' did not improve sufficiently. So hang in there! And keep us updated, okay? |
| Claudia 10-13-2002 08:38 PM | Hi Wai, I have another question. I do get tap water on my face every time I shower. And I do wear makeup. Does these 2 factors have a dramatic effect on succeeding the diet? Thanks, Claudia |
| Wai 10-14-2002 12:09 PM | Hi Claudia, If the make up is high quality make up, it wount affect your acne. If you don't let lots of water run over your face all the time; if you avoid it as much as possible, then the water will not be much of a problem either. |