Wrong Size, Wrong Time

Once upon a time, long long ago in a place far,far away I was a size zero. I had a 24 inch waist , could stuff my face from dawn to dusk and barely cast a shadow at noon. I also had skinny bitch attitude fortified by a sibling with weight issues since childhood. I had a pleasant time in school and college wandering around in skin tight Ts tucked into faded jeans which naturally frayed and tore over half a decade of regular use. This combined with a crew cut led people to mistake me for a 12 year old urchin at frequent intervals, once memorably by a policeman in the wee hours of the morning but thats another story.

I gradually gained about 4 kgs during my mid to late twenties and though not size zero any longer, I barely managed to move to size S from XS. You know where this is headed. I now have eight kgs of post pregnancy weight still clinging to me tenaciously in all the wrong places. None of my pre pregnancy clothes fit me any longer and I have no money for a new wardrobe having been unemployed for the past few months. So I have dug out old salwar kameez material which I had formerly turned my nose up at and despatched them off to the tailor, in order to have a reasonable work wardrobe. My play wardrobe consists of a pair of discount Benetton jeans ( size 28, the horror of it all ) a couple of track pants and loads of T shirts left behind by Rahul when he went to HK. I thought breastfeeding is supposed to help in losing weight gained during pregnancy, mine sure doesn’t seem to be budging. I still have the “currently lactating” excuse to avoid rigorous dieting for now but that will not last forever and then I’ll have to really face facts. Currently my regime consists of doing about ten crunches a day while enviously watching Heidi Klum, Malaika Arora Khan and Victoria Beckham prancing around on T.V. Really Vhictoria, pregnant with your fourth kid and still looking like Oliver Twist ? I think the easier route to take would be to join one of the organizations panning the media for promoting an unattainable body image thus causing mental agony and physical detriment to young mothers  around the world. As an aside, anyone know what happened to Bridget Jones once she got pregnant ?