Is this detox?

[Guest guest]

Short version: I'm feeling depressed again.

 

Long version: I've decided to expand the vegan diet to include much more

live/raw foods. I'm also juicing daily with carrot, celery and wheatgrass.

Just started adding wheatgrass three days ago.

 

For the past few days, except for an evening meal, everything has been raw

and/or live.

 

For breakfast I've had a mixture of fruits and nuts - not dried, but fresh.

 

Lunch has been a huge salad with lettuce, cabbage, carrot, dandelion,

scallion, tomato, mushroom, along with various nuts and seeds, such as

walnuts, almonds, pumpkin and sunflower. I top it off with a very little

bit of Italian dressing. Everything is certified organic, including the

dressing.

 

The evening meal is either a stir-fry or a light pasta dish, but no heavy

sauces or frying things beyond recognition.

 

Now, over the past few days I've dropped a few pounds (yay!), gotten

headaches which seem to be now subsiding, a runny nose which is also now

subsiding; but now all of a sudden - DEPRESSION! This I need like a hole in

the head. I'm also feeling like all I want to do is eat steak, cake, junk

food, and just anything that doesn't outrun me!

 

Those feelings are not unknown to me, unfortunately. I've lived my life by

them and that's why I started this new lifestyle at 250!

 

So, is this revisited depression a symptom of detox, like the headaches and

the runny nose? Or is it something else? Is it my body saying I'm not

taking in enough calories and my mind is translating it into other images?

 

Now, something else happened. We went out the day before yesterday and

yesterday to do some shopping. I don't do well with " store air " and I

always react. Plus I'm a bit hypoglycemic and when we go on these jaunts I

usually end up eating when I get home - a longer wait than I should have. I

noticed that one days on a shopping jaunt was OK. But two days in a row and

I end up like this: depressed.

 

What's the scoop?

 

Rose