...you didn't follow Wai Diet, so you can't judge this diet.
I appreciate your trying to help, but the Wai diet contains fruits, doesn't it? Fruits, even when eaten with fats (as I explained), trigger acne outbreaks in me (though who knows, maybe I'll become less sensitive in the longer run). I also tried to explain that I have found many claims of magical combinations of foods to offset their harmful effects, to not work in my experience, nor in that of countless other people, so I am skeptical of any claim that the Wai diet would clear existing acne in carb-sensitive people like me, rather than trigger it. I could be wrong, but given my experience with fruits and GS's with Wai, it's not a diet I would be remotely interested in. Like Dr. Harris, I also don't consider it Paleo, but that's another story. I'll give this for the Wai diet--it's at least vastly superior to an 811 diet.
None of us has tried every single diet. We make judgments based on the foods we have tried. I don't know exactly how I'd fare on Wai, but given that even a small amount of fruit triggers new outbreaks of acne in me, it isn't rocket science to judge that a heavy-fruit diet like Wai would cause even more acne in me. So based on my experience and some limited knowledge of human metabolic and immune system function, I do judge that diet, as does Dr. Harris (another somewhat carb sensitive person, BTW) despite his also never having followed it to the letter--though he knows much more about human biology than I do, so he is better qualified to judge it. If I had reason to believe that fruits were not actually a problem for me, that the Wai diet might somehow make sense for me, and if I had never tried anything similar to it, then I would reserve judgment before trying the explicit Wai diet. But that none of those factors apply in my situation.
Let's try it from a different angle. If someone like Tyler says to me that he doesn't do well on even small amounts of raw dairy, I don't then suggest that he increase his intake of raw dairy or offset it with special food combinations to overcome that problem. I figure he's probably wise in avoiding it. If he really wanted to eat dairy anyway and found that it was only lactose that was the issue, then he might be able to eat raw cultured butter. Similarly, I'm trying to find out if I can handle small amounts of certain fruits. For example, maybe it's just fructose that's the issue for me, so maybe I could handle some low-fructose fruits, but I wouldn't go wild and eat a ton of fruits and try to offset the damage with other Wai diet foods--especially given that I find I fare better on grassfed animal and seafood fats than I do on the olive oil of the Wai diet.
I also would be curious to know if GS strictly follows Wai diet (especially eating fat with fruits on several small meals a day and not overeating protein).
I can understand that carb-containing food is problematic, as it is also the case for me. I can't digest fibers properly.
He doesn't follow it now. He said he used to. As I understand it, he still eats plentiful fruits, but he found that adding raw meats to his diet was beneficial. He can correct me if I err.
If all carb-containing foods are also a problem for you, then I would never dream of suggesting that the Wai diet might clear up acne in you, even if you had never tried it. I suspect that the main reason it clears up acne in some people is because it eliminates some well-known triggers of acne like gluten-containing foods. For a carb-sensitive person like me, eliminating gluten was a great help but it didn't clear up the acne fully, whereas eliminating all carbs did.
