Proven Plant-Based Programs

Although these smoothies were meant to be for breakfast, I used them for lunch. The smoothies we had been making had good, nutritious ingredients, they were routine and uninspiring. The ingredients included in the challenge were very unique and also nutritious and scrumptious.

I’ve always been a health conscious eater. I have been eating mostly plant based since 2019. I do eat fish a couple times per week. Joining Rawk the Year has helped me to increase my fruit and vegetable intake. I love to do the cleanses. I tend to eat a lot of my meals on repeat and the cleanse recipes are so delicious, fun and different! I enjoy the versatility with being able to swap foods that don’t work for me in the recipes. I have Multiple Sclerosis, A-fib, and Hashimoto’s. Changing how I ate helped with managing all of those issues. Eating 100% plant based makes me feel even better. I always learn something new about myself and about food when I do a cleanse. After the cleanse is over, I am more disciplined in my eating habits and hydration. When I look back over the last three weeks, I am proud of what I accomplished. All of the food prep is very taxing on my energy, but having leftovers is the saving grace!

I can’t believe that I’m able to give up sugar for three weeks! I would not have believed it possible before doing the Rawk the Year cleanses. The food is filling and satisfying. I must admit I did have an oatmeal raisin cookie on Sunday and it tasted fabulous! 😊

Thank you Jen (and team) for sharing your inspiration and encouraging others to find their passion.

Honestly, many plant-based recipes look decidedly like similar mish-mashes at best or unappetizing and unappealing at worst. I absolutely loved almost all of the recipes and was challenged to use some ingredients that I was unfamiliar with. I am a light eater so found that I had too much food to get to all the recipes and wasted some ingredients because of that, so I was glad that meals repeated. I did try to minimize the use of oils; and because I eat very little, I found it difficult to eat enough protein.

After cooking for decades, the decision of what to cook had gotten to be an agonizing chore. Having the decisions made was wonderful, along with the grocery and prep lists, but I will admit that prep was daunting; sometimes I just did it over more than one day.

I’ve dabbled with plant-based eating before, but wandered aimlessly through endless materials. This was a guilt-free, no-judgment structured approach that leads you through the basics with clarity and compassion. Now I can take it as far as I’d like and will continue with the system until I feel confident in my skills, my choices, and the durability of my commitment.

I always start out with good intentions but life. If I get in a smoothie everyday I am winning. I find that most of the smoothies for me sustain me till lunch. I feel fulfilled and less bloated.

I love reading reviews and getting other rawkers suggestions and tips. They helped me out with my refrigerator problem!!

I’ve been in the cleanse game for a while but haven’t picked up on a completion yet. It hasn’t deterred me. I’ll keep coming back knowing one day I will complete the cleanse . I don’t have to be perfect just committed to try and do my best at what I can during the cleanse.

The cleanse helps me to eat better. I make better choices and love the fact that I eat clean a lot more than not. My refrigerator has better choices and I do feel better when eating clean.

Thank you Rawk family. You are the best!!

The first time I did a 21-day cleanse with simple green smoothies, I felt very revitalized by it. I felt like I had so much energy & that was despite giving up coffee. This time it was a very different experience. I felt tired & my muscles ached & it got progressively worse. So I had to “tweak the cleanse” in week two to reintroduce complex carbs a little early to feel better. That I felt empowered to listen to my body & make this change is indicative of the atmosphere of the cleanse. There is a consistent message of progress over perfection, of adapting the cleanse if needed so that one can fully live their life – one isn’t expected to put life on hold for three weeks, but to learn healthy strategies and to build the habit of returning to healthy choices after, say, a special event is over. The food is really delicious. There are always subjective responses to the recipes, but you can easily adapt seasoning or swap vegetables if there’s something that really doesn’t suit you. Some practical considerations – if you have a small fridge it can be a challenge to store all the raw veg & prepped food for the cleanse, plus the food your family/housemates will eat! Another challenge is if you have people with nut allergies in your family – the menu does include chopping, processing & cooking with a lot of nuts. It would be helpful to have substitutions for the recipes that included nuts – either ingredient substitutes or just alternative recipes. Finally, I felt a valuable lesson about portion sizes – I think I’ve definitely been overdoing the rice when having stir fry & rice-based dishes. I learned that I can do 1/2 cup of cooked grains and fill the bowl with vegetables and that will satisfy my hunger. I think that alone will help me achieve & maintain a healthy weight after the cleanse.