The 80/10/10 Diet Paperback – November 15, 2006

I've eaten massive quantities of animal based products my since I was a baby. That's the way my family was raised and the way that they raised me. I'm 26 now, and about 10 months ago, I realized that maintaining my health is by far the most important thing I can do. In December 2012, I started doing minor research and making small changes in my lifestyle. I first started with P90X and eating their diet, which is very difficult and bland; not to mention unhealthy. I failed on the P90X course after a little over a month. In May 2013 I started strength training again and doing some cardiovascular exercise. I felt better and more confident, but I knew the one thing I was avoiding to change was the most important: my diet.

In June I started heavily researching nutrition, and it's role in health, disease, and overall well-being. It shocked me to learn the truth about the meat and dairy industry. I was blown away that these foods are the CAUSE of most of our problems. However, once you find out for yourself and understand the research, it's not hard to figure out why these foods are so bad for you. In July, I stumbled upon the 80/10/10 lifestyle via various well known youtube channels and raw food websites. As hard as it was to wrap my head around not eating any animal products AND very low fat, it just made sense. It hasn't been an easy transition but now I'm embracing the lifestyle, and my body and mind have been thanking me bountifully. My energy levels are up, my mood is always fantastic, and my strength training is at new levels. One thing in particular is body fat, which has been shedding rather quickly. Funny, since most "experts" tell you; "carbs make you fat".

I'm 5'11 and started at 229 pounds and 25% body fat in December. I'm now at 194 pounds and 12% body fat(most of which has occurred since May of this year). I'm aiming for 185 pounds and ~8% bodyfat or less. Don't believe anyone who tells you that you can't bodybuild on 80/10/10, I'm proving them wrong as I speak. Of course physical aesthetics are nice, I'm enjoying the overall health and well-being that comes with eating what comes naturally.

I noticed someone said they felt "peace within my soul" after 36 hours of starting the diet. I can say I'm one of those people.

I was turned on to raw foodism by David Wolfe, I was a vegan before that. Eating raw still was a vast improvement, but all the fat from nuts and avocados since I was craving calories made me feel pretty awful. The 80/10/10 diet is the answer. You can skip the Sunfood Diet Success system.

You don't have to buy the book. It's really really simple. Get all your calories per day, no less than ever before, except 80% from carbs, 10% from proteins and 10% from fats. Eating all raw fruit and vegetables and some greens, and nuts and seeds and stuff like that occasionally, if you want. All the info is on the internet. Give it a try.

You will have tons of energy. You will actually WANT to exercise and you will feel great for doing it. And you'll have the energy to put up with all the crap you don't feel like you can put up with usually. And do so much much much much more with yourself. And actually be able to have fun doing it. So, that's pretty nice, I'd say.

Prepare to become one of the most privileged people on the planet! The sub-tier of the sub-tier of the sub-tier! Fruitarianism is where it's at baby.

Much much love :) :) :)

Loved this book it was GREAT. I am a African american woman that loved southern cooking but my health was failing with many ailment I wanted to change my diet and I heard about 80/10/10 Diet, I ordered the book and that is when my life started to change. I wanted to see if I could eat just raw foods and to my surprise I enjoyed the experience of feeling better, looking better and had plenty of energy.I decided to go to the Diabetic Retreat that Dr. Graham had on the 11th of September, I am a new person and I am no longer on diabetic medication and I feel fantastic. This book has changed my life.

This book is really interesting. I came across a guy known as The Fruitarian, who is an Iron Man Triathlete, and he spoke very highly of this book. Wanting to eat a little more healthy, lose some weight, and being already familiar with vegetarianism, I didn't think this would be very much of a stretch (and it's not). The author goes into alot of the "why's" pertaining to a fruit-based diet (and not just his "beliefs" about why you should (no guilt-trip), or why this system works), and he backs it up with a lot of research. He talks about how the body processes different foods (especially depending on which order they are eaten in), current mis-information that some very well respected doctors have just dead-wrong, and a history about how we came to eat some of the less-than-perfect-for-us items that we're all addicted to today (chips, candy, soda, animal products, etc.).

One of the things that really piqued my interest in the book was when he dispelled a current mantra espoused by doctors. You will hear a lot of doctors say that fruit (more specifically, fruit sugars) are not necessarily good for you. This is TOTALLY UNTRUE. It's when you eat the fruit that determines the fruit sugars affect on you. I'll paraphrase quickly, to give you an idea about just one of the revelations I found in this book. Your body was meant to eat fruits and vegetables. We, as a species, came out of the tropics where fruits and vegetables were plentiful and always abundant. We didn't start eating meat until we left the tropics to go settle other lands and didn't have this bounty of fruits and vegetables available to us (so we started cooking meat). When you eat fruit, the body easily breaks down those fruit sugars and sends them into the blood stream to be absorbed and utilized. However, if you eat the fruit after you've eaten something fatty, there's where the problem lies. See, what happens is when you eat something that has fat in it (and what doesn't these days), that fat lines your blood vessels and if you eat fruit after the fatty item, then the fat lining the blood vessels doesn't let the fruit sugars pass through the vessels to be utilized by the body. Instead, those fruit sugars are trapped in the bloodstream with nowhere to go (until the fats lining the blood vessels break down and once again allow the sugars to be absorbed). However, this fat breakdown could take hours. So, the fruit sugar stays trapped in your bloodstream for some time. This spike in "sugar" is detected by the body and the Pancreas starts secreting Insulin to degrade the sugar in the bloodstream. If it has too much sugar to process, sometimes it will store it as fat (for use later). So, think about it. If you eat a big steak, or mashed potatoes, or fast food, etc., and then eat fruit as a snack after that...if the fat from the previous meal hasn't degraded yet, that fruit sugar is stuck in your bloodstream, causing your Pancreas to work overtime pumping out Insulin to bring your sugar levels back in check. But, if you eat the fruit first...it gets easily broken down and distributed to your cells and your body doesn't freak out metabolically because there's sugar stuck in your bloodstream that can't diffuse through to the cells because the blood vessels are lined with fat.
He has many more incites of this caliber in the book, including why today's children are always wound up, have ADD, are in poor health, etc. It's really fascinating.

He also lays out very detailed information about all sorts of fruits, vegetables, nuts, all of the nutritive values of each and really holds your hand through the entire adaptation process. He recommends starting out by just replacing breakfast with fruits, and continuing to eat what you regularly eat for lunch and dinner. Then, when you start to see the effects of eating a fruit-only breakfast (and how good you feel, how easily your body processes things, how much energy you have, etc.), then he recommends doing breakfast and lunch with only fruits/veggies/nuts...then all meals with only fruits/veggies/nuts. Some people reading this may be thinking, "...but I NEED meat for protein." UNTRUE. He goes through all of this in the book (scientifically enough for proof, but not so egg-heady that you get turned off because you don't understand). He lays out meal plans (which are ridiculously simple...think about it, you really don't have to cook anything....huge time-saver, in addition to giving your body what it actually wants (once all of the screaming toxins have left your body and can no longer tempt you to eat crappy food)).
I'm reminded of a quote from Tony Robbins..."Nothing tastes as good as healthy and fit feels."

I've got to say, I'm really impressed with the book and have definitely shifted over to a more fruit-based diet and can really tell the difference. Even if you aren't going to switch over to a fruit-based diet, I HIGHLY recommend this book to give you a better idea about how your body works, and what foods do/don't work for it. I mean, hey, we're talking about your life here, right?