These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Reaching the Goal

Many times the ups and downs
of working toward the goal is hard.
Defeated days may sprout great frowns.
Determination makes the bard.

I've twenty pounds to give away
for losing them works not at all.
I walk and eat, but still, they stay.
Thwarted efforts heart appalls.

This keto thing has mixed reviews.
17 pounds I shed anon,
but ten returned, that I would not choose.
So, how can I tell what's going on?

The theory is quite good, I think,
"Just teach the body to use the fat,
then fat 'twill eat, you're on the brink
for sveltish body is where it's at."

May 20/20 eyes be given
in the new year, that I'd see
the way to change the life I'm livin',
that health would be mine, extra pounds I'd be free.

by Jay O'Toole
on December 28th, 2019