Im pretty sure it is quite common for this to be normal when you are eating sufficient calories. Especially when you first start the diet. The body does a lot of healing and repair while we are asleep. When I was in the tropics with other fruit eaters and rooming/housing with them, most everyone did this 12 hour a night thing with the wake ups every few hours to go to the bathroom. The sun would also go down at 7:30 and up at 7:30 anyways, we kinda just followed that. We all would also wear eye masks, ear plugs and use red headlamps to minimise disturbance of melatonin production when up in the night to pee. If I'm not mistaken, Doug even talks about it in his book that tons of sleep is normal. For me, if I do not eat enough calories from fruit I do not fall asleep or stay asleep well and will have poor digestion the next day as well as lowered energy (im talking less than 3000 calories a day). Perhaps if I did the diet longer than 3 months here and there, maybe I would have needed less sleep eventually but I loved my 12 hours. Some may have less healing to do than others though so maybe they need less. If my energy output is that much better when I am awake as well as my recovery from exercise, then its worth it to me.

Are you food combining properly? Is your fruit ripe enough? Do you do mono fruit meals? Do you have more than 5 ingredients in your salads? How much and when do you drink water? What are the actual symptoms you experience?

@Sue Jacobs Thank you, and glad to not be judged. I had a lot of influence around me encouraging me to eat animal products and I was worried about my health with my hair falling out. But I think I was just doing so much hiking (nearly weekly 8-13 mile steep mountain hikes/summits) plus dog walking as my profession, I just wasn't getting enough fuel in. So instead of upping my fruit and greens intake, I went towards more sugar, fats and even animal products. I then broke my toe and quit hiking all together and drastically decreased my dog walking but I just kept on eating the same for like 3 years. After a month now of cutting the fat and animal products out, I'm planning on going all raw again this week. I have access to bananas, dates, oranges/orange juice, and greens. Mango is now available here, but hit and miss if they are affordable. I miss papaya and mango so much (and champedek, rollinia, mamey sapote, durian etc etc!). You are right, smoothies do really help with calories and throwing some greens in I will definitely do too, but I'm slightly confused right now on how much calories I should get in considering I'm not underweight anymore, but I am under muscled and have this cellulite or whatever it is and fat on my belly that Ive never had.. I do want to lose that.

@Richard Gambino Thanks Richard, I did all raw yesterday and no salt! Going again for it today. But also I'm sure if I exercise and sweat more I could lose salt that way too? I think my biggest fear of going totally 811rv long term is getting too low body fat. For a woman it just isn't ideal in my opinion. I also really need to put on some muscle. I am hypermobile EDS and having a strong body is so important.

I have used sugar to sweeten fruit and get in adequate calories during times I have not had dates or enough fruit, or if the fruit or juice is simply not tasty enough, and adding sugar has actually helped it digest better. I use it also when I'm really burning a ton of extra calories like with long grueling hikes. I'm skinny enough eating 80/10/10 macros for almost 15 years now. I have gotten too thin trying to be a purist and never eat sugar. Ripe quality fruit is always my first choice and the priority is always enough nutrition. I really do think its the blending with water and not really chewing my fruit that is the biggest problem. If there is any studies that show that sugar itself causes digestive problems, I would like to see it though. I will say that I am not 100% raw, I eat cooked at dinner, its the best I can do right now, I just cant afford totally raw at this time, and I feel like I always get too skinny when I do. My main fitness priority is muscle building. Its something ive always lacked and this year I really want to get on the ball with it.

Oh okay good to know! Maybe I misheard.