Dear Gelfling,
Sounds like a healing crisis/cleansing reaction to me.
I would read one of Victoria Boutenko's books charting her journey. I'm not sure which one it is, I think it might be Raw Family - I dont think her books are too expensive either as they're only small.
I'm sure it's a cleansing reaction you're having. When I turned all raw for 3 months last year, 100% from being fully not, I had a cold for 4 weeks. I also felt fluey for some of it. But I knew it was the cleansing crisis/reaction so just went with it. I figured if I could just get through the day, I knew I would get better and feel a high at some point and sure enough I did. Those were the best 3 months I've ever had!!! So productive, exhilirating. Changed my life really.
Last week after having not eaten much raw since Sept last year (when I finished the 3 months) I started doing 100% Victoria Boutenko's smoothies, and I thought I was going to get the flu those first two days, I felt terrible and hoped it would pass. Thank God it did and on the third day onwards and since I felt absolutely brilliant (I don't mean to sound sickening - well, I should'nt as I said I had a cold for 4 weeks straight, I never get colds when I first began).
In her books even though she and her husband had eaten junk for many years and were in a really sorry state of affairs with some life-threatening and some near life-threatening problems, they're healing crises only lasted I think it was two days. So,....juust stick with it and know that you'll turn around.
ALso read in as many places you can about people's experiences. Thebestdayever.com was a goldmine for me but I really think rawfood.com would be great too. I only found here rawfoodchat.com today, so hopefully it's grand too.
All the best
