It's important to keep in mind that losing weight is only the first baby step to health, albeit an extremely hard one. The rest of the journey is keeping it off. Most diets focus on the baby step and ignore the journey. If you view the process as a "diet" your chances of long-term success are poor. It needs to be a life-long lifestyle change. That's why fad diets always fail: They require things you cannot stick with, or prohibit foods you cannot live without, or they are just not healthy and balanced, so your health suffers in the long run. You lose weight while you're on them (resulting in lots of testimonials) and then put it back on when the diet is finished (though nobody retracts their testimonials). What you need to do is permanently alter your eating habits to a balanced, healthy, calorie-limited plan that you can stick with in the long term. Exercise is also important. Some people may have physical limitations to exercise, but for everyone else, it's critical.
Tracking your food and exercise is a very useful tool, and there are plenty of apps and programs to help with that.
I hope the OP has managed to lose that excess weight and keep it off .
A word on raw-food diets: Some nutrients are damaged by cooking, while others are unavailable until the food is cooked. A balanced diet contains BOTH raw and cooked foods.