I stopped eating meat and dairy 8 or so years ago. The meat part was by choice, the dairy had to go because I'd become intolerant. It wasn't a difficult transition. In fact it was way easier than I'd imagined it would be, and no where near as difficult as stopping drinking coffee!
Everything was good for a coupe of years until I started feeling 'not right', so I started eating fish occasionally. Even now, if I go too long between fish dinners I get the same feeling of 'not rightness', even though I'm careful with my diet and generally eat well, take vitamin B-12 tablets, etc.
As for results. I don't feel any different to when I ate a meat/dairy heavy diet, perhaps better, but certainly not worse. The one dissapointment is my weight. I expected that switching salad for cheeseburger and fries would result in weight dropping off with no effort on my part. Not so. Eating a lot of salad and fruit and bread and pasta and grains and...... turns out to be the same as a comparatively small amount of energy dense dairy. That said, eating a rainbow colored plate of food is clearly much healthier than a plate of beige fries. I used to get frequent colds during the winter, now things like that are a rarity.
Sorry for the long ramble. In summary, I feel like I'm doing just fine on a plant based diet. But, I also feel that it might not work for everybody. I think many people will need to supplement a plant-based diet with varying amounts of fish, or even meat. That said, I doubt anyone needs to eat meat every meal, or even every week.
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