V is  already 19 months old and I am still ,sweating it out to get back into shape!! Every time I get on to that weighing scale, hoping against hope for a miracle,I silently offer a  prayer !! If ignoring my plea’s wasn’t enough,it goes on to mock me as well  “You weigh 300gms more than you did last evening!! Good luck lady!!!” 
Stupid weighing scale, Damn You!!

I have been patiently waiting for the remainder of eat-till-you-stuff-yourself -because-your-baby-needs-it  weight ( Honestly, I did go little overboard with the whole eating part, V ended up a underweight baby while i was 22 kg’s overweight! Gosh the look’s  I got right after my delivery, specially my mom and granny!!!  LOL!!! ) to just vanish away!

 V was half away into her first year when I finally decided to take charge of things, All charged up, I even wrote down my daily walking schedule..hehehehe . So much for the wishful thinking, with a 6 month old baby and working-from-home, I just needed a excuse, a week later Bye Bye Walking! hehehe

 2 months later, with all the flab still hanging off my body,  I started obsessing with the Law of Attraction “I am going to be thin..I am going to be thin.. Say it out loud, this has to work, its gonna attract I don’t know whatever and make me like thin!!!!”.  LOL

All along conveniently ignoring  L’s advice on wearing a belt (You know the kinda that you wear right after the delivery, it actually helps tone your stomach )  “Sorry , Can’t Do!!  That  wobbling tummy of mine,  will get all toned up on its own, I ain’t wearing a stupid belt!!” Right! So.. here we are, almost a year and a half later, still wobbling he he he, Ok!! there is one bright side to it, V finds it  very interesting and keeps prodding it , amazed at how it jiggles, now at least its providing some entertainment!! LOLL !!! OMG!! .  Yeah, I  am not really proud of myself for taking the advice soo lightly!! Alas, the damage has been done,  an apt proverb fits this situation, ab pachtaye kya karen, jab chidiya chug gi khet!!

Now that she had started crawling , I had hoped , that with all the running around her, would definitely help me loose this time!!! Shocked,  I was just a few pounds lighter!!(Hehehehe, seriously, i really believed that i was doing enough running around to loose some serious weight!!)  I mean come on, in just 8 months  I put on additional 22 kg’s (Imagine if V had stayed put for 4  more weeks, Omg!!!)  and now, 12 months later, I was not even close to my pre-pregnancy weight!! What the Hell!!

That’s was the final straw for me, I finally decided to get into some serious exercise, no more excuses!! That’s when I took up T25,  S had done his bit of research on this , and by the looks of it , it seemed  doable. Look up for it in youtube, trust me those video’s are soo damn convincing and inspiring, you are actually sold to the whole idea in less than 10 minutes, Atleast I was !! Or I guess I was too desperate hehehehe!
The whole  idea is to spend  25 minutes every day for 5 days a week that’s all. ” How hard can this be! I mean come on, you can’t even do it for 25 minutes? ”  HELL NO. 
That man!, Shawn T, “T stands Shawn T and Time, that’s right, just 25 minutes of your time”  he’s crazy!!!You literally are dying by the 20th minute and gasping for breath and praying hard that the video just freezes! (Its just easier to pass on the blame  rather than live with the guilt! It’s actually just 25 minutes !!).Forget it this ain’t happening, this thing will give me a damn heart attack ! 2 weeks later, I quit!

That’s right, I quit, Walking, Praying and now Shawn  T!!  Omg!!! Oh, Did I stop brooding though? Ha! No, the brooding and sulking continued while I just sat there and kept wishing for a miracle!!

And then, one fine day I bumped into a mommy-friend (When you have toddlers every other mommy you bump into  kinda becomes your friend!!! ) looking all fab minus all the flab!  I was taken aback by this sudden change, just few week’s back, she’s was just-any-new-mommy-with-a-tummy (You are sorta a new-mommy for good one year, that’s how you convince each other, “Its Ok, if you still haven’t lost the weight, you just had a baby”  Yeah Right!! It was 12 months ago, but then it does work in our favor, so why not?? hehehehe) and  here she was  just like that Santoor Mummy , looking oh so sexy!
  A few weeks of dedication and WOW, look at that!  That was my calling, well actually it took me 2 more month before I got down and worked on it, But I was inspired nonetheless LOL!!

There are the  lucky one’s , they just walk into a hospital , unload the weight and Yipeeeeee!!!! Just like that, they are  back into those slim fit jeans!! And then there are the not-so-lucky ones; Well let’s just say pregnancy fat loves our body and we have to slog it out !!!

Finally, after all the mental and not so-much-as-physical worrying and thinking, I finally enrolled into  wait for it, Taadaaaaa Zumba!! Yeah Baby!! I enrolled for the 6am batch,  well, you need some serious motivation to push yourself out of that cozy warm bed of your’s so that you to go dancing  !!!

But, once you hit the dance floor  , there’s no stopping the mommies (except  a few, mostly we all are new and not so new mommies) !! It’s a sight watching us shake our booties as elegantly as we can!! I pity the young boy who comes to teach us, how hard it must be on him LOL!!!!  (Take a cue from the pic he he he)

I have been enjoying myself thoroughly (I even come back and show some steps to V, its such a cute sight to see her try and copy them LOL! )  I am absolutely loving the adrenaline rush!! While the weighing scale continues to act like a dumb ass, refusing to comply with my wishes, I have no qualms this time, I’ll have my revenge soon !!! He he he he.

Na, I am not planning to call it quits on this one! Roll curtains, drum rolls , here I come Zumba!!