excellent Sweepea....thats great news...im sure Frangi will be very interested to hear that,as would anyone else who suffers psoriasis!!

ahh Carmie...interesting isnt it..different reactions your digestion will give you...after different combinations whether eating raw then cooked,then fruit on top of that...im glad it digested well hon...for me it would be a less that optimal combination(something i would call a combo abombo for me,lol!!

rest your digestion til you dont have the pressure anymore..as your body is already stressed trying to digest ...then it will need rest time,when food has digested...and this is when you need to rehydrate then wait at least 15 -20 mins before you eat anything again!
see how you go x

I didn’t have time to post this the other day, so I will quickly mention it now.

I drink around between 250ml to 750ml of carrot, orange, lemon, turmeric and ginger juice every work day. Often more at the weekend.

On the days that I only have 250ml, I will also have 250ml – 500ml of some other juice, (i.e.) carrot, beetroot & ginger or spinach, celery & cucumber.

My psoriasis started to clear almost immediately but it took around 4 - 5 months for it to completely vanish ~ now there is no sign that it was ever there.

During this time I was also using the Raw Pleasure coconut oil on my skin (including the psoriasis patches) after a shower. I stopped using the coconut oil in June because I ran out of it.

Although the coconut oil seemed to really benefit my psoriasis, it was obviously the juice that cured the psoriasis. The reason I can be so sure is because my husband did not actually use the coconut oil but his life-long eczema healed up too. When we started to juice daily in February 2008, he had chronic eczema on his hands and that has completely vanished.

Green smoothies helped my psoriasis too, but I don't drink them daily.


 

Hi Sweetpea,
Ohhh the orange juice, I just cannot eat oranges - o-o-o-h-h-h- how i L-O-V-E them, i see them and drool over them but if i do eat them i immediately get a skin re-action.               I do wonder if there is something that i am missing, but i will keep on keeping on, as things are not getting worse and my not psoraisis skin shows improvements, it is clearer, the spots on it are fading and it is much smoother and softer.
I have heard that Tumeric is very good for skin, did you find a raw source, or, are you buying it in its unprocessed form and adding it to your smoothies?
I'll check out the coconut oil, i might have some at home from another raw supplier, I guess raw coconut oil is raw coconut oil (?). 
When you first started juicing in Feb. did you 'turn raw' then as well, or did you just add juices to your existing diet? I am almost all raw, i have my flop days and my great days but generally i am pretty well on raw foods. 
catch you later
((()))
frangipanni

Yes, I sometimes get the same problem after cooked food, depending on the food.

I am fine with things like baked sweet potato and baked jacket potato. But I normally get bad pains after eating a lot of meat - which I never do these days - my Thai takeaway above only consists of two small satay sticks. And I get a lot of pain after eating commercial supermarket bread or pastry.

I normally drink a large glass of the juice I mentioned in my previous posting and lay on my bed doing Reiki on my stomach until the pain subsides, swearing never to be so idiotic again…..(until the next time of course)

I am getting better. After my last pain due to eating a salad sandwich made with supermarket bread, I swore I would never to be so idiotic again and (touch wood) I haven’t yet repeated my mistake.

I really highly suggest learning Reiki.

I have never used it for its proper purpose (healing others) but it comes in very useful for calming pets, small children, revitalizing pot plants, helps you get to sleep, reduces stomach and head pains (particularly good for hangover headaches) and general meditation and relaxation. My husband even Reikied the washing machine after it started playing up and it’s been fine ever since!

I am 38 years old.

I have been drinking heavily (to overcome the inconceivably ingrained sadness and utterly soul wrenching grief from the death of my parents) since I was ten years old.

I have not yet recovered or even fully come to terms with their death and my early bereavement. And (I am almost afraid to say) I have very little patience and a very short shift with anyone who suggests I should have.

Whilst this may sound harsh, it has been my coping mechanism from do-gooder Christians and airy-fairy New Agers, for a number of years. So please don’t judge me harshly for mentioning it 


My definition of a healthy day use to be:  half a packet of cigarettes, a couple of no-doze tablets, a can of coke or several cups of coffee and a McDonald’s breakfast.

So if I can turn things around……………………believe me, ANYONE CAN!

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Dearest frangipanni

Opps I have f***** up there.

I am so very, very sorry, there has been no misunderstanding.

Last night I had that one bottle of wine that I mentioned.

Now that I am not drinking very much, that one bottle went to my head. I got very emotional and blabbered about crap for no reason at all.

I was feeling extremely angry and upset but not at you.

My anger and emotions must have spilled into my writing. Whilst I was on this site, my husband asked me to listen to a channeling on pregnancy termination, thinking it would help me come to terms with the one I had. Sadly he hadn’t listed to the recording all the way through and they were actually saying the opposite of what he thought. So instead of helping me come to terms with my experience, it had me absolutely sobbing my heart out and feeling I had done something evil.

So I was trying to answer you when I was crying my eyes out and half tipsy.

Please accept my apologies, I am such a dill sometimes. 

 

Hi ladies,

I'm glad you have found my little journal welcoming enough to feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and feelings.

Sweetpea, it has been nice to find out a bit more about you, and hope you have been able to work through some of the emotions that were bought up in your writings from a few nights ago. I feel we have quite a bit in common regarding our past (and sometimes present) over-indulging.

It's been such a while since i've written as i have stumbled on the path to rawdom, and my knees were fairly scratched up...lol!
Since my last journal entry I have been eating cooked foods freely. Being sick for more than 3 days in a row, and trying to figure out what raw food I could eat to make me feel better just got a bit much. I was scared of feeling sick no-matter what raw food I ate, so i started filling myself up with cooked food again. I woke up a week ago tomorrow and ate gluten free toast, i had a soy coffee out while i was doing grocery shopping, then a wrap with egg, salad and mayo for lunch. for dinner that night i ended up making a chicken, bacon and mushroom pasta. That was the start of my relapse i suppose i will call it, but my knees have almost healed, and tomorrow i will get up and keep heading down that path which i feel so drawn to.
Although i have been fairly comfortable in a way, i have been a bit distressed over the last week about the lack of self control i have had - not just with food, but with alcohol. I am finding i am just stuffing myself full of food, and have had not a care in the world about having 2, 3 or even 4 drinks every night! I feel i am like a rollercoaster sometimes - such high highs and such low lows. all or nothing. i used to say that i have an addictive personality. i don't know that that is exactly true, but i do find that i get addicted to things rather easliy.
When i first went raw - which wasn't that long ago mind you, i went cold turkey - dived straight into the deep end. I wonder could that have been my downfall? I felt soooo good raw though. hmmm...will have to think about it.
Someone else on this forum very recently wrote something that i could definitely relate to..."and the reality is...when i eat all raw ...i tend to remove all things and people not  raw from my life...". I did not want to use names as i have not spoken to this person (is this breaking rules?) So sorry if i am, i just felt that this was such a problem of mine also. I was so into my passion for raw food that everything else had to take a back seat - mainly my husband - and this was not fair to anyone. I guess in a way when i reverted back to cooked last week i felt like i dropped a barrier that was up between myself and others around me.
I don't know many people around this area at all, and no-one i know eats raw, so i have not been able to really talk to anyone else who has had the same experience.
All i ever heard is how worried people are about me and doing damage to my body ( ) (yeah what the?! lol) and 'where are you getting your protein'?...all that some people could see were 2 times i became sick while on raw for only a couple of months - once was because i ate a massive bowl full of sprouted 4 bean salad and stacks of sprouted chickpea hommus, and last week, where i was in a terrible state (which only happened after i ate cooked food so you tell me what it sounds like my body likes better).....I have been quite in-tune with my body and felt that everything was balanced, and I certainly didn't feel deficient in anything. One person I know said she was 'glad I was getting something substantial into me'. I think that cooked foodists think that rawies starve, just nibbling on a lettuce leaf here and there.....
So yes, after taking some time out i have been able to sit back and reflect, and am happy to start skipping *la-la-la-la-la* along the path again and see where it takes me. I have learned a bit being able to look back at myself and can see some areas where i can improve what i had been doing - relationship-wise and time management-wise, and have my raw living being less of a burden (  ) on myself and on those around me.
Will start daily updates again on meals eaten and how coming back to raw is affecting me - expecting a bit of detox after my shocking behaviour..... 
Love to all, may be counting on you for support!