1,000 calories is dangerously low specially while eating a raw vegan diet. It's a recipe for failure. No one can last long on a raw vegan diet eating that little. Got to get those calories way up, get most of those calories from fruit. Eating too little will negetivly effect loosing weight. 8 days is not very long at all. Up the calories for sure and focus on the other good benefits you are experiencing.

Also not all raw vegan lifestyles are the same and will provide difference results. I personally eat 80/10/10 with my calories at a MINIMUM of 2,500. I've lost over 40lbs that way but even better I have healed a lot of serious health issues.

Bananas and dates are a good source of calories and energy so those are great. A lot of people find that it takes a little while for the stomach to be able to fit in all the food required but keep trying to get up the calories. Are you keeping the veggies till dinner time? Fruit for breakfast, fruit for lunch, fruit starter for dinner and then veggies is the best way to get in enough calories and better for digestion. Veggies tend to fill your stomach up and are harder to digest but low in calories and energy so they are best for the evenings.

Are you logging your foods on here or anywhere else? It's key to have a food diary when starting out and specially good to have someone who has been doing this for a long time keep and eye out on it. Simple mistakes are easy to make but can effect positive results pretty majorly.

I didn't find my skin to dry out but it is more sensitive to chemicals that I used to put on it. How much water are you drinking?

Some of my health problems are significantly better but not totally healed since even some raw foods that I still eat don't mix well with it(nightshades mainly and harder to digest veggies). A lot of the other stuff went away after a month. It's different for everybody depending on the issue and past lifestyle habits.

Also to consider is where you are in your menstrual cycle. Typically women gain weight during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle (following ovulation) due to fluid retention. Most women ovulate two weeks before the start of their period and experience weight gain, food cravings, and other premenstrual symptoms until menstruation occurs. For this reason, you may not notice any marked weight loss until you menstruate, when hormonal shifts reduce fluid retention.