Good nutrition is a very important part of living a healthy lifestyle, yet it’s amazing how easy it is for people to eat all the wrong foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and then wonder why they struggle with weight problems and are not feeling well. The good news is that anyone who really wants to can change!

This picture was taken prior to the start of my weight-loss program. I am posing with a chocolate covered strawberry. That was about the only way I ate fruit in those days.
This picture was taken prior to the start of my weight-loss program. I am posing with a chocolate covered strawberry. That was about the only way I ate fruit in those days.

Recently, I lost 159 pounds in fourteen months and one of the most important things I did was improve my daily food choices. Now that does not mean I quit enjoying my meals! Quite the opposite! The weight-loss program I created for myself included a wide variety healthy foods I liked and I had such a good time eating them that I still eat those foods today!

You can read my whole weight-loss story and all the details of how to follow my successful weight-loss program in my upcoming book, No Salads Required! How I Lost 159 Pounds without Salads, Celery, Sit-Ups or Surgery and How You Can Too! This book will be available from Amazon.com and other stores in either late August or early September of 2015 and I hope all my readers enjoy it. The book will include all the things that people hope for in a weight-loss book such as recommended foods, suggested meals, recipes, and advice on exercise, but it also contains something unique and special: poetry!

No Salads Required! Contains seventeen poems, which I have placed strategically throughout the book with the goal of presenting the information in the various chapters in a more memorable and entertaining manner. I also liked the idea of giving my readers a taste of something new and different, and weight-loss poetry is definitely that!

In fact, I enjoy writing weight-loss poetry so much that recently I have posted two special blog posts that included special weight-loss poems that I wrote specifically for my blog readers. The response has been overwhelming! Readers from all over the world have given me wonderful feedback concerning these poems and said that they really enjoyed them, so I have written a brand new one about food choices that you will only be able to see here! Enjoy!

You Can Eat the Right Foods and Still Be Happy!

Each time you plan a meal

Or visit the grocery store

You will make decisions

That your body can’t ignore.

Will you be eating protein

And vegetables and fruit?

Or will you fill up on pizza

And ice cream by the scoop?

The best way to be healthy

Is by choosing foods,

That not only fill your stomach

But provide nutrition too.

You will find you feel much better

And that you’ll have more zest

If you eat the kinds of things

Your doctor would suggest.

The fruits I love the most

Are cantaloupe and grapes.

I also really like to eat

Chicken, fish and steak.

I enjoy corn on the cob

And small cucumbers too.

Yellow grape tomatoes

Always improve my mood!

I don’t eat much sugar any more

But much to my surprise

I really do not miss it much.

I love living my new life!

Now it’s your turn to join me.

Start eating healthy too!

And one day you will see

Your weight-loss dreams come true!