Dedicated to healthy ways
I shop the outside aisles these days
and fill my cart with healthy food
whatever my trainer says is good.
 
I choose veggies, red and green.
avoiding fats and mean caffeine.
Pick soy, tofu, and carob chews,
skip soda, sweet drinks, orange and blue.
 
I lost some weight; my skin is clear.
Friends stand in awe that I’m sincere.
They don’t know, when bedtime’s near
what I would trade for chips and beer.


© by Mary Buchel.
Used with the author’s permission.