Thoughts for My Weight Management Club

Wrong Century
by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

If I lived in the time of
Rembrandt or Rubens or Renoir
when women had full breasts,
large buttocks and big thighs
where dimples and folds,
were considered beautiful
if I were living then
I would be much too thin

But I live in the time of
Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue magazine
and so I’m too fat


Calorie Saver
by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

I’m so glad that cake was tasteless
that the filling was like glue
that the icing looked like toothpaste
I’m so glad

I’m relieved dessert was awful
that the ice cream was too sweet
that the cookies were like cardboard

I didn’t eat