Dietary Dedication

Hello Poetry Lovers

Most of us will recall diets through the decades. The pain and ludicrousness of it all.

I personally remember counting all those calories (under a 1,000?!) and buying those slimming biscuits.

So lovely and talented poet Trisha Broomfield has summed all this nail-biting era up with her wonderful piece below. Some of her details will make us cringe and some laugh out loud. What were we like?! 

Dietary Dedication

From Scarsdale through to Cabbage Soup

and even pills to make you poop

these diets we have tried them all

we only wanted waists so small.

We ate the Grapefruits, Pineapple too

white wine diet, only eat before 2.00.

There was apple cider, PLJ

took tooth enamel clean away.

We munched on Limmits, protein bars

wishing they were made by Mars.

Slender milkshakes, were quite nice

but didn’t put us off the vice

of eating chocolate after meals,

or buying fat soaked meal deals.

Then there was the HPD

and Boldo pills to make us pee.

No eating, smoke cigarettes instead

or spend the day and night in bed.

We tried the Sleeping Beauty diet

at least the flat we shared was quiet.

Our role models then were slim as sticks

the men they dated were all probably not

Now we brew ourselves green tea

and dream of jabbing Wegovy

still in pursuit of being thin

we should be happy in our skin.

©TB

Wasn’t that a wonderful piece?! And so true?! And painful?! Thank you so much, Trisha. Please keep them coming.

So, I’m getting straight back on that diet now!! 

Thanks for tuning in, PL’s. We’ll be back real soon……