so this diet makes you feel healthy fast. but you give up something in the process. cooked foods are out (in my case significantly curtailed. i have been doing it for 1 year--i can never stick with any eating plan so thats a big deal. and the only reason i can stick with it is that i feel so much healthier and alert and i have so much more energy. and the good news is that this happened really quickly. the first 2-3 days were tough as my body detoxed. i had headaches and was achy. but then really quickly i felt better and started to lose weight steadily and quickly. and i never really loved fruits, salads and raw nuts before. now i love them. and i sneak pasta and cooked foods all the time and so long as my diet is about 60% raw, i have been able to maintain the weight loss very easily.

I've been high raw for a year. I've lost weight, I feel GREAT! I also lost lots of symptoms; achy joints gone, headaches gone, monthly cramping gone! The most difficult thing for me was coaxing my husband and kids into eating less junk and more good stuff. Now the kids are fruit bats and love being able to eat a whole "pie" for dinner and then get banana "ice cream". Still working on the Mr. but he has noticed that he's lost weight and feels better than usual. We don't get sick anymore! Bonus

I felt so much healthier on this diet, but I had a hard time grasping all the food combination rules. Also, the Green Lemonande was okay, but I couldn't get myself to drink it as often as I should have. What I did like about the diet was that I lost some weight without paying attention to calories. One problem I had was that I couldn't see eating most of my diet raw - I was probably only eating raw food at about 40-50% at best. Also, I could not see doing this diet for a very long period of time!

I really have to say the the food on this diet is inedible. I hated the taste of the "green lemonade," and I wondered how many good nutrients were going down the drain with the fiber. Juicing foods is processing them, and juicing takes out the fiber which is necessary for good digestion. Juicing is also a very messy operation. Some nutrients are better absorbed from cooked food.

if you people think that the food you have named on this website is all their is to raw foods then you need to do some more research there's a lot more to raw food than just eating an apple or banana i have had a few raw meals and they made me feel energetic unlike the typical diet people eat that should tell you something there that your not eating the right food if your tired after,duh!!!!And if you choose not to look into it,then go ahead and die young!