Getting Back in Touch With Nature
By Eating Healthier Foods

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites


The Green Thumb Diet Plan for Weight Loss, a Natural Diet

Sick of all the stuffing of the stuffing during the holidays? Are you ready to venture out onto The Old Diet Trail in search of healthier vegetation? Of trees loaded with fruit so fresh that it almost reaches out to pinch your 'upper' checks?

Wanting to tantalize your taste buds with something light? Something oddly wonderful? Something un-carrot, un-cucumber, un-celery?

Good! You've landed smack dab, right in the middle of Farmer Tom's Greenhouse, the man with a green thumb and the height to match...... (ooooooh, this is going to be better than a B-grade movie!)

On to our torrid little Diet Story!  You'll love it!

Once upon a time there lived a handsome gardener and his wife. Other than chasing one another around the house, Gardener Tom loved to garden and his especially beautiful and bright wife loved to cook.

Gardener Tom was renown throughout the village for growing the biggest cucumbers for miles around. His tomatoes were bigger than basketballs. No one could doubt that his gardening skills were unsurpassed.

Now you might not think this ability is spectacular, but considering Gardener Tom's tiny height - well, it's quite astounding! No bigger than a thumb, yet capable of growing pepper bushes bigger than Texas tumbleweeds.

The lovely couple enjoyed healthy greens, healthy tomatoes, healthy melons, healthy squash - all so healthy and yes, low in calories. It was hard to believe that all this goodness contained zero fat, especially as they used the no calorie butter spray rather than butter, margarine or oleo. Of course, there was a bit of fat in a few green goodies, such as Tom's avocados. Even so - they were extremely healthy!

Former Diet, Not So Healthy

Gardener Tom and his bright, beautiful wife, did not always eat so healthy. In the old days, they were extremely bad. They had an intense passion for chocolate and visitors would often times find it hidden in the most unusual places. But, that's another story.

It all began a few years ago, shortly after the Christmas holidays. Tom and his wife were sick of all the stuffing of the stuffing they had done during the holidays.

Wifey had cooked a 57 pound turkey and for two people who are not much bigger than a gnat, it takes a long time to eat that much bird.

She fixed turkey croquets, turkey sandwiches, turkey enchiladas, turkey spaghetti, turkey soup, turkey pot pie, turkey jerky, turkey brown betty - and so many other turkey recipes that she and Tom didn't even want to look at another turkey.

And both of them were so bloated that they had to tie weights around their ankles so that they wouldn't float away.

It was at this point that they both decided that perhaps fresh vegetables and fruits would be a very nice, healthy change and would help with the de-bloating. Although turkey in itself is a pretty lean food, all the cheese and other goo that were part of the total recipes weren't very calorie friendly.

The Start of a New Diet, a Natural Food Eating Plan

Tom purchased a peck of seeds that first year. He and wifey had dieted many times in the past, so they yearned to go beyond celery, cucumbers and carrots.

Tom went ape with tomatoes - every size and every color imaginable. The couple made tasty salads and hot sauce.

And he even grew the peppers and onions that went in the hot sauce. Sometimes they would dress in sombreros and frilly ponchos for mealtime because Tom's hot sauce was a four-star dining experience that deserved serious celebration.

One season, he took time to sun-dry a few of the tomatoes he had grown, and he and wifey enjoyed the best pasta salad imaginable - prepared with light Mayo, of course.

Tom began experimenting with squash and melons and graduated to fruit. Their massive backyard begin to look like the Garden of Eden might have looked. There were even tiny earth snakes roaming about to help keep down the Evil Bug Count.

Then something amazing happened!

Suddenly, Tom and his wife noticed that they were slowly de-bloating. The fresh goodness of the garden was literally pumping healthy life into their minuscule bodies, transforming them into strong little specimens of wonderment.

They felt so strong, so agile that they plan to climb to the top of the beanstalk that Tom recently grew from a pack of beans that he traded for the milkless family cow. It was an overnight sprouting at that.

In Summary

Eating foods that Nature provides clears your Nutritional Path to optimum health. You'll feel better physically and emotionally. In addition, one must keep their diet plan interesting. Although celery, cucumbers, lettuce and even carrots are ultra low in calories, they can become boring very quickly.

The key is to mix up the foods that Nature provides. Example: Amos loves steak, but if Amos has a steak every day, at every meal, he's going to begin disliking it pretty quickly. Remember Tom's & Tom's wife's 'turkey experience'?  Boring, tiring and un-fun.

Diet Tip: Say that you enjoy a few carrots with LIGHT ranch dressing for lunch. If you must have carrots for dinner, try shredding them, then add a little LIGHT Mayo, a few raisins and a dash of salt. A little squirt of lemon will prevent the carrots from turning brown on the edges or toss in a few pineapple tidbits which do the same.

So - mix it up for Diet Success. By the way, what do you think that Tom and his wife will find at the top of that beanstalk? 

Did you just honk?

 

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