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Scales of Despair

the scale is stuck
it won't go up
and, worse, it won't go down
so here I stand
towel in hand
fat and sporting a frown

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Andrea Dietrich

August 19, 2015 at 8:44 AM

that is so funny what Jan said. I really liked this poem, by the way!! (and could not find the other poem you mentioned in your soupmail to me) See ya later, Mary.

Andrea Dietrich

August 19, 2015 at 8:43 AM

WEll, I don't want that scale to go up at ALL!!! But I wholly get your wanting it to go down! I threw out my scale five years ago. Just could not take seeing it any more. I gained ten to fifteen pounds, and it was very new for me because I had kept the same weight fairly consistently through all my adult life. I think I am at last ready to try a diet again. Counting calories simply is not working. Back to the old ATkins diet. (it will be my KICKOFF diet!) Hope it works like it did last time!

Mary Rotman

August 19, 2015 at 9:23 AM

Best of luck on the diet,