Yeah, I Know I'm Not Size Zero

'Just click here to lose all that weight!'

I sighed. I had been seeing these kind of ads everywhere. On my way to someone's house, I could see INSTANT WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM! from the car window, flashing in front of my eyes. I saw it in the newspapers, on the Internet, and guess what? The sight was just too...overwhelming.

Then, mamma started doing yoga at that time. As weeks went by, she lost oodles of weight.

All my classmates (here I am referring to the popular people. The charismatic queen bees of course) were so thin... and looked so good!

The thing was, that while they had a waistline of 28 inches, I had one of 32 inches. And I wore 'medium' size T-Shirts when they wore XS ones. And my weight... lets just say that I was overweight for a 5 feet 4 inches tall girl.

I was just 13, and I wore outfits for 14 - 16yrs.

But there was twist. I had something special. I could lose weight faster than I gained it. I believe that it was inherited. My dad gained weight very fast, and my mom lost weight very fast. When the two meet, something had to give!

Taking advantage of that, I started exercising rigorously. I knew that I would lose weight. I had experienced it before.

In a week's time, I lost 4 1/2 inches. But my routine demanded even that 1 hour I kept for exercise. So, I came back to square one. God help me.

I had a very, very busy schedule and I gave up exercising. Plus, I was too lazy. Whatever.

To control my diet, I went into various sites, read newspaper and magazine tips (My fave was Good Housekeeping. Both the site and the magazine)

I also wanted to experiment with various crash diets. But, my mom rejected them.

I didn't have any other option, but to just forget the whole thing. Initially, I felt bad but later, I did forget the whole thing.


My sister, Ayushi, had absolutely no problem. She was thin as a rail and no matter what she ate she never gained any weight. Baba (my father) also like Ayushi had absolutely no weight issues. No matter what he did, he never could shed any!

So when any of you notice that I lack that perfectly sculpted look sorry too bad. You just have to live with it. You'll have to accept me the way I am, fat or size zero. I have no intention of looking like Keira Knightly.