Hi, just wanted to encourage you and everyone else who's trying to go raw to keep going.
As for me, I've had good days and bad days (today was one), battling cravings arisen due to influences of the media, proximity to cooked foods, and unconscious living. For the past couple of weeks I've been slipping on and off the diet, and I'm paying for it now. Weight is still stable, I think, but my skin has been itchy and painful pimples have popped out on my face. My elimination habit has changed as well (not a good sign). The condition of my skin was basically flawless during the mid-summer 'til beginning of fall. So, yeah, your diet does matter. The effect of a slip-up is immediate, at least for me.
Just found out that my fortified soymilk has too much added sugar in it (probably why I haven't been feeling great drinking my green smoothies). So I'll have to find an alternative.
I now know how difficult it is for people to quit smoking and drugs! I think that I need to join some sort of Cooked Foodist/Non-Vegans Anonymous. I don't think that I can really be somewhere between 0% and 100% raw vegan and not suffer cravings if I still let myself indulge once in a while.
I'm drinking a green smoothie now (made of spring mix, tomatoe, and orange), hoping to clear my system or something.