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I agree with DH.
One of the things you can start with is to not combine fruits and vegetables. The exceptions are tomatoes, avocados and eggplant (all technically fruits), and it's OK to have citrus, particularly something like lemon or lime juice (which are the base of many salad dressings.)
If you eat fruit, do so at least one hour before eating vegetables, or two hours after eating vegetables.
There are even distinctions between acid, sub-acid, and sweet fruits. So, eat your berries at the same time, for instance, and do things like bananas and grapes another time. Melons of all kinds should always be eaten separately from anything else.
Everything you eat should be chewed, even juices. The digestion process begins with chewing, which mixes salivary fluids with the food. Juice should be chewed, and to be properly digested, you should spend at least 15 minutes chewing it (30 is better). Frankly, I'd rather chew solids for 15-30 minutes, so I eat lots of whole fruits and vegetables and chew them up.
For the constipation, I bet you're not getting enough veggies and leafy greens in particular. (And if it's all juiced, you might not be getting all the lovely fibrous pulp which is what we need to keep things moving properly.) Eat lots and lots and lots of all kinds of veggies, and especially leafy greens!
For the high fat / heavy stuff, it's pretty common for people starting out to be drawn to filling up a lot on fats, but it really is better to keep that to a minimum. I eat mostly veggies, some fruit, and smaller amounts of oils and fats, including nuts and seeds. Some is good, though.
For the treats, well, I bet that's because you're slightly out of balance all day and wanting to load up on the treats because your body really needs a blood sugar bump.
If you eat regularly all day, eat as close to a full balance of all nutrition as you can, then you really won't crave the treats. Yes, they're delicious, but frankly, I've got all kinds of luscious raw treats in my cupboard but really feel best eating lots of salads and some fruits as snacks. I hardly ever eat them.
To get a good balance of things, I highly recommend the book Rawsome! by Brigitte Mars as she lists all the vitamins, minerals, protiens, fats, nutrients, etc. and what foods have them. Make sure you're eating something off of every one of those categories. (And she has a category for hair loss and what to eat, too!)
For the getting firm and trim, just go exercise! No dietary change will remove all the wiggle in your jiggle, so do some aerobics, do some toning.
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