My Personal Experience Eating Vegetables Improved My A1C Among Other Things

One thing I learned over the last few months that sparked me to go on a vegetable diet, was reading the book The China Study. It taught me that by eating vegetables, I would not only get all the protein my body needs, but that it was time released so my body only took in what it needed at the time. You see, I grew up in the body building era, where I was taught that the more protein you ate, the bigger muscles you'd have.The problem with this is once you stop lifting weights and still eat like a horse, you will start gaining lots of weight very fast. In my early thirties I was close to 300 pounds. Yes I had some body mass but lots more fat over it. Since then I've tried about every type of weight loss program there was from Jenny Craig to pure meat and zero carbs to vegetables. It felt like a roller coaster. However from 2005 to 2014 I did manage to go from about 290 to 255 pounds.So later I got sick of being this heavy, and decided to do something about it. About 5 months ago I started a vegetable based diet. When I started I was about 248 pounds. Now, 5 months later I'm at about 223. I actually managed to drop to 215, however I have to admit in the last couple weeks comfort food temptations got the best of me.What I did was buy the prepackaged Sweet Kale which usually consisted of Kale and other dense greens, packaged up with dressing, cranberries and nuts. I've been getting them from Smart & Final for $5.00 a package. I usually go through about one package per day and it fills me up pretty good. One demon I've been battling since trying to lose weight is not knowing how to channel all the extra energy I'm getting from getting so light. I work for the government which takes care of a lot of it, but I think I'll need to take a video editing class or something to stimulate my creativity a little more so I can more efficiently channel it.


One thing I noticed with eating vegetables, is that even though I seem to blow my diet sometimes and eat everything under the sun when I do, overall I'm still losing weight. For example, if I stay on my diet for 2 weeks and blow it for 3 days, overall I'm still losing more weight than I'm gaining. This is what has given me the opportunity to lose 25 pounds or so over the last 5 months. Also my A1C went from 297 to 156 which is a massive improvement, not to mention my blood pressure was 116/76. So my recommendation is to eat as many vegetables as you can. You will probably blow it occasionally but so what? The main thing is that you keep trying your best, and you'll eventually drop all the weight you need to.