Raw food. Madness or a well kept secret

Today I'm sat in a fairly nice b and b having just had a reasonably nice cooked breakfast and I'm contemplating my next challenge. The last challenge worked out to be fairly simple; to find people who had found lasting love online which I started out thinking it was going to be quite difficult but thanks to the wonders of Facebook I managed to find a fair few people that found their special someone through cyberspace. Article written now just waiting to see if the editor of the magazine likes it! To distract myself from thinking about this I've started researching my next challenge. Raw food diets. What are they? What makes people change over to raw food diets and what changes do they bring to your body and mind. I read one blog by some guy named steve. He's a self professed expert on health and peace of mind. A self made rich man (I can't say millionaire as I'm not certain that he is) a man that writes self help articles that I'm sure countless gullible people around the world read and go "oh he's so clever" quit their job and end up living on a friends sofa because they just didn't think this through. And no before you ask I did not read his article before I jacked in my job and went to live on my friends sofa but maybe if I had, things would be going better. Or maybe they wouldn't. Who knows. Anyway back to the point. Steve did the raw food diet challenge for thirty days and reported feeling awful for the first two weeks, headaches, nausea, cramps, difficulty concentrating etc but then after two weeks his body became accustomed to it and he started being able to function better, better mental clarity, he could do progressively more sit ups (he went from being able to do 5 then 7 then a whopping 28 sit ups) whoah. Easy there steve, you don't want to give yourself a hernia!
As you can see, as a dedicated meat eater, I am sceptical about the whole idea. I don't see how living off vegetable and plant matter exclusively can be good for you but in the name of curiosity I'm willing to give it a go. Now, I was going to try it for 14 days but if steve reckons it takes two weeks for the initial shock of not eating cooked food or meat then I guess I'm going to have to rise to the challenge and do thirty days. So if any raw foodies out there want to give me some hints and tips and nice tasting recipes (Steve's banana, spinach and water smoothie sounded less than appetising) please drop me a line and if you see me during February looking lost, confused and famished please take pity on me and give me some organic chocolate or just wrap me in a blanket in front of a few episodes of big bang theory.
THINGS I'LL MISS
•steak
•cheese
•roast dinner
•chocolate

THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
•being off my face without the use of narcotics
•the weight loss
•er....um... I think that's about it. I'll let you know if anything wondrous occurs.

Oh and it would be a big help if during that time you didn't offer me any of my favourite food especially cheese unless you want to see a grown woman cry.

Thanks!