torrential rain
banging on the back door
wet dogs
© Rachel Green January 2025
eight months and more have I daily laboured
to rid my lockdown frame of excess weight
among the social peers and neighbours
at Slimming World, my appetite to sate.
Gone, for now, my desire and love for cheese
and coffee sweet with Lidl's double cream
and tasty, fresh-bread sandwiches to please
the taste buds of a former fat-girl's dream.
Thirty weeks and more of counted lunches
where calories become the hated foe
and longer walks without a stop for munchies
ten thousand steps or more ere home I go.
Though far from goal I can now see a diff'rence
And wear the "Biggest Loser" sash in sufferance..
© Rachel Green January 2025
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