First of all: I was never obese. 169 m, weight something between 52-56, depends on season, stress etc..
I got into the raw scene a few months ago and started to eat raw sometimes 50%, sometimes up to 80%. It was great, I felt great. Healthier me, better skin, stronger hair, more energy, better mood. Of course in the beginning I had some detox symptoms but it was ok. Then I got lazy, stopped making great raw leafy and veggie meals, cooking and had rather small portions raw food, fruit in the morning but not enough so I would snack on too many nuts and such things, eventually grab more and more sweets like cookies or chocolates.. you know some of the newbie mistakes. A few skin issues like dandruff and low energy pointed to the fact that I had some nutrient deficiencies and fat imbalances. My whole life my body didn’t crave for great breakfasts. I would eat two apples or a bowl of grapes or something in the morning and then the first bigger meal 3-4 hours after waking up. Light meals in the morning gave me energy! After a good sleep I didn’t need 1000 kcal as I would feel like a refilled battery anyway. The problem was I got pretty hungry every evening. I thought: Well maybe it’s time to go a level higher and try out 80/10/10.
First days I had more bananas than usually. Before I wouldn’t eat more than 5 fruits a day, now I tried to have more and 3-5 bananas and felt amazing. My dandruff got better. During the day I would graze on more fruit and in the evening eat salads, sometimes some pasta with raw marinara, which never caused me any problems. I didn’t eat the required calorie intake though, cause I wasn’t used to stuff my small belly like that.. but I saw that a smaller amount of fruit and salads only would leave me with deficiencies (cronometer showed me.. never enough iron, vit e, amino acids etc.) so the next days I tried to eat more bananas than my appetite would want to have. 8-10.. I was doing it for having at least 2000 kcal every day and cover up more nutrients. This is when I felt worse and worse with every day. I didn’t have the promised energy like I did experience in the first two or three days and thought I had to increase to 2500 but it was impossible. During 2 weeks!!! my intestines got clogged by forcing myself to eat more bananas and dates (even if blended..), my perfect bowel movements stopped, I got a belly like pregnant with twins, which is gross as I am actually quite thin. 
Now I tried to get the most part of the calories in the first half of the day which was impossible. Of course because of the constipation, I got breakouts. I couldn’t sleep well. My hair got weaker, my wrinkles suddenly became deeper, my cellulite as well (?) All day long I felt all those bananas in my stomach.. I had nightmares of becoming as wrinkly as Doug G although I always looked younger than my actual age and was proud of that. I couldn’t think clearly, felt confused, out of balance. Struggling whether I should push it through or not. I stopped. I incorporated more sprouts, avocado, coconut oil, cooked lentils and millet, fresh herbs, wheat grass, spices like turmeric and greens into my diet again. Just waaaay more balanced. I’m not counting calories anymore. Trying not to snack on whole packs of nuts anymore, though I would have surely 20% of fat coming from calories every day. Got back to 3-5 bananas, don’t eat in the morning unless I feel like it. Listening to when my body is asking for more instead of stuffing. Well.. my hair got stronger again, my wrinkles are pretty gone, bowel movements get better (although I still think I have bananas from last week in there :O) and I hope this will be the way to go for me to live my life to the fullest. ;)
Lesson? Never follow something that doesn’t work for you. That has a name, that has an ideology. Take from it what you can learn and what will heal you, add what you need, avoid what does you bad. That will work for you! We all have different needs for everything.
DR and Freelea aren’t bad people and it’s cool that 80/10/10 100% works for them, it’s just too bad they don’t see others as individuals with all those different needs, lifestyles, sorrows, situations, pasts. I hope one day they will be ready to look behind their horizons.
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