I am a big "O"!
A round face, round eyes, round nose, round cheeks, round chin, and a round mouth. Whatever you can see in the name of neck is also round. Then comes the round body with small hands dangling on either side to make it rounder.. So at the first glance, it looks like.. a small round on top of a big one.
It is babyfat, my friends said... even after I had my own babies. Chubby cheeks, cutie chin,.. they sang. Where ever I saw lovely cute and healthy body parts, others saw fat. I am not fat. It is just that my weight doesn't correspond to my height. The problem is with my height. I am comfortable in my own skin, no matter what frame it is stretched over. I used to admire my dimpled thighs and ballooned belly. People with a round face are quite jovial, and are very lucky, says those learned ones.
But then one day I had enough of it. Well, it can be bothersome, to have my size commented on. It's time to say bye to my babyfat, I decided. And make that O an I. Well, there's no harm in trying, right? First I tried to fool people by camouflaging it with brushes and blushers. The warpaint was on! Still the O remained an O. I decided to start deflating from my cheeks. "Blow balloons", someone suggested. "I will send balloons in crates", my cousin teased. Chewing gums will help you, said a magazine. I chewed and chewed, but the only result I got was an addiction to those chewing gums. My face started to look like that of a ruminant's. Suck air in, and then blow out in force whenever you can, said a friend. I started doing that everytime I remembered, regardless of time and place, until I realised that those stares and sneers were actually meant for me!
It is babyfat, my friends said... even after I had my own babies. Chubby cheeks, cutie chin,.. they sang. Where ever I saw lovely cute and healthy body parts, others saw fat. I am not fat. It is just that my weight doesn't correspond to my height. The problem is with my height. I am comfortable in my own skin, no matter what frame it is stretched over. I used to admire my dimpled thighs and ballooned belly. People with a round face are quite jovial, and are very lucky, says those learned ones.
But then one day I had enough of it. Well, it can be bothersome, to have my size commented on. It's time to say bye to my babyfat, I decided. And make that O an I. Well, there's no harm in trying, right? First I tried to fool people by camouflaging it with brushes and blushers. The warpaint was on! Still the O remained an O. I decided to start deflating from my cheeks. "Blow balloons", someone suggested. "I will send balloons in crates", my cousin teased. Chewing gums will help you, said a magazine. I chewed and chewed, but the only result I got was an addiction to those chewing gums. My face started to look like that of a ruminant's. Suck air in, and then blow out in force whenever you can, said a friend. I started doing that everytime I remembered, regardless of time and place, until I realised that those stares and sneers were actually meant for me!
The realisation dawned that home remedies are not going to help. So I put on my shoes and went in search of a trainer. He has agreed to change my complete upholstery. So now I am jumping, running, puffing, panting.. all just to shrink my carefully bloated body! Only one part was needed for the inflation.. my mouth. But for the deflation, it takes the combined work of all my mental and physical organs.. To inflate is human, to deflate, Divine!!
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only one correction
mouth is not only round, but non stoping :)
May the 'Divine' help u in making the O to an I...!!! Coz I know how it feels... and how hard it is... I have been there, done that !!
A blonde was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet. "I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least 5 pounds."
When the blonde returned, she shocked the doctor by losing nearly 20 pounds.
"Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said, "Did you follow my instructions?"
The blonde nodded. "I'll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that 3rd day."
"From hunger, you mean?"
"No, from skipping".
Hey, It is the scales that are against you! Change the scales!
No doubt, a fully rounded personality!
Cheers
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