That period where your skin gets real bad after looking/feeling good for a week or two...

July 24, 2002

Do you all know what I'm talking about? Your skin's been acting

great for a while, and you just sorta know that this means you

have a real bad period to look forward to coming up in the

not-too-distant future.. Are there any suggestions for

minimizing the rebound period? I've stopped eating bad foods,

and am trying to get more sleep, but each morning now I'm waking

up redder and more swollen And I had close to a month where

my skin was doing great.. (which has never happened before)

which means this will probably be a REALLY bad one..

Adam

July 24, 2002

Do you all know what I'm talking about? Your skin's been acting

great for a while, and you just sorta know that this means you

have a real bad period to look forward to coming up in the

not-too-distant future.. Are there any suggestions for

minimizing the rebound period? I've stopped eating bad foods,

and am trying to get more sleep, but each morning now I'm waking

up redder and more swollen And I had close to a month where

my skin was doing great.. (which has never happened before)

which means this will probably be a REALLY bad one..

Adam

July 24, 2002

Adam,Adam,Adam... What are we gonna do with you? Do I have to fly up

to Rochester and tickle you? Put on a clown nose and make funny faces

until you laugh?

We've all been there at some time -- the bad-skin days, preceded by

the good-skin days. The blissful remission following on the heels of

the period we wish it was fashionable to wear a bag over one's head,

only to have the dreaded cycle repeat itself. Hey, you're not alone!!

Sometimes 'bad behavior' such as excessive drinking or eating

the 'wrong foods' can have an almost instantaneously disasterous

effect on our appearance. But a lot of the time (and this is one of

my pet theories) we may engage in 'bad behavior' for a good length of

time before the effects of said behavior explode onto our faces.

By 'bad behavior' I don't just mean obvious detrimental habits such

as eating junk food, drinking too much, not getting enough sleep,

etc... I mean things like worrying too much, not getting the

emotional and physical sustenance we need, always searching for the

black cloud beyond the silver lining... things like that.

And just as it may take awhile for our 'bad habits' to catch up with

us, it may take awhile for our 'good habits' to take hold. I would

bet that when your skin was doing great, you had been doing something

IN THE IMMEDIATE PAST (when your skin was still 'bad'), either

consciously or not, that benefited your well-being. Maybe you had

made subtle changes in your eating habits, or perhaps you were

feeling good because you felt loved or needed. Something along those

lines.

So be patient. You're eating brocolli, baby, so you're on the right

track. Eating brocolli takes a lot of guts, and I believe fortitude

such as that will eventually thrust your complexion into glorious

remission. And hopefully science, and a positive attitude, will, in

good time, cause that remission to increase in duration until it's

more or less permanent.

Goodnite

--Miss Know-it-All (to you who called me this--if you're reading my

post--Thanks for the new moniker! I like it!)

> Do you all know what I'm talking about? Your skin's been acting

> great for a while, and you just sorta know that this means you

> have a real bad period to look forward to coming up in the

> not-too-distant future.. Are there any suggestions for

> minimizing the rebound period? I've stopped eating bad foods,

> and am trying to get more sleep, but each morning now I'm waking

> up redder and more swollen And I had close to a month where

> my skin was doing great.. (which has never happened before)

> which means this will probably be a REALLY bad one..

>

> Adam

>

July 24, 2002