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Hi,

I'm trying raw food since January 3rd and so far things are going well. I'm 20 years old and pretty healthy in my standards (not overweight at all, even some people think I might need more weight)

I haven't heard about the raw food diet since this time but I saw what Steve Pavlina (stevepavlina.com) is doing and read about it on different sources on the Internet and was inspired to do the same.

I come from a SAD diet with lots of dairy and some meat but I was considered a healthy eater (no junk food, ever). I do lots of sports, especially running, but I have problems with tight hamstrings that prevent me from running since 3 months (hoping the raw food diet could help here).

So far I'm having very good days as well as lower ones, but everything looks fine. The first two weeks were sometimes bad with sore troath and stuff but it passed.

A lot of people say that the transition should be gradual, but being an all of nothing kind of guy I decided to go a 100%. I even went for the low fat version of the diet.

I have no major cravings and so far I'm loving it. Don't know, maybe my emotions weren't so attached to food at the beginning.

Of course I read lot of things telling that I'll get deficient in this or this vitamin or nutriment, but I believe in those who tried and succeed.

However, I have a question. Being a student with no steady income, I try to cut on fancy food and since I read that lots of fatty raw food is not better than the SAD diet, I decided not to by any fatty raw food.

I had a couple avocados in the beginning but since the second week, I haven't bought a fatty fruit nor eaten any nuts or seeds.

So, the diet recommends 10% from fat, but I must get even less than that, maybe only 5% or maybe even less, I don't really know. I want to know if this is recommended or not. I read that eating no fat at all is very bad for ones body and it does damage to lots of things.

Now, someone posted on stevepavlina's forum that signs of Omega-3 deficiency are dry skin and urinating very often. Well, I have both. Very dry skin on my hand since the second week of going raw and I urinate often also, sometimes every hour.

Now, I'm used to get dry skin in winter and this could be normal or just from detox and the urine thing could come from the fact that I probably consume much more water since there is plenty in fruits and vegetables.

So, do you people think that not eating any fat is good or bad. Depending on your answers, I may introduce more avocados in my diet.

Thanks in advance. (sorry for the long post, I'm very verbose even if English is not my first spoken language)