Step up to the scale today

Time to weigh-in time to pay

For all those croissants for all that pie

For every day you do you die

Eating seems no fun no more

What once delighted’s now a chore

We crunch and chew on tasteless fiber

No more a glutton no more imbiber

Times have changed from days of old

Clean your plate mama would scold

Then in she’d bring the chocolate cake

Or lemon meringue a prize she’d baked

And life went on, and we grew stouter

We had no reason to ever doubt her

But now I’m harried cholesterol

High blood pressure one and all

Too much too much, we cannot fake

Our appetites this vast intake

And doctor says you must not smile

Until you’ve walked or run your mile

Let’s face the facts, the time has come

The mighty ounce has finally won

He shouts in loudest decibel

You must be slim, you must be well

The battle of the bulge goes on

From soup to nuts filet mignon

All the goodies we behold

Are measured first, the hot and cold

Today the question of which fork

To pierce into the piece of pork

Though etiquette is fast upstaged

The war on fat is loudly waged

The table’s turned, now less is more