My first yoga session

This is a sequel to my attemp to lose weight. My attempt to lose weight finally made me find a nature cure center near my home. The doctor advised me to join the yoga sessions they offered as he found me to be 3 kgs overweight.

I agreed happily. Asale naku aarambhasooratva chala ekkuva. I coaxed my husband into joining me. We set the alarm to ring at 4.30 am as the earliest session started at 5.00 pm. We were among the first to arrive there. We spread our mats on the floor and so started the session. The teacher kept showing us various warmup exercises and we did as he did. After warming up the teacher asked us to lie down and he started demostrating the aasanas. My husband is a very lean man and is very proud of it. At the slightest available pretext he starts flaunting it. I dont know what got into him but he went absolutely crazy. He started doing all the aasanas. The teacher asked us to take it easy and do everything slowly as it was the first session and he just wanted us to get a feel of it. My husband(Vamsi) however wouldnt hear anything of it. He was twisting and turning his body and grinning at me proudly. The session continued for about an hour. The teacher would say lift your legs and my husband's legs would be up in the air even before the teacher finished the sentence. There was one aasana called dhanuraasana. The teacher demostrated that to us and I immediately decided not even to try to attempt it. I relaxed. My husband was the only one who attempted it. The teacher asked him to lie down on his stomach and lift legs and fold them at the knees. He then was to lift his head up and hold his toes in his hands like a bow. My husband did it and I could see that he regretted attempting it. The joke however was yet to come. The teacher then said "ippudu munduki venakki oogandi" meaning that he had to swing back and forth in that position. I almost burst out laughing but somehow controlled myself. My husband swung back and forth and then released his body. We relaxed and then the session ended. When we came out my husband declared that he was not in the position to drive. We somehow reached home and then he fell on the bed groaning and moaning. He has never again mentioned yoga and refuses to talk about that session.

My attempt to lose weight

I was a very thin child. Everyone from my school and college remembers me as a thin and very naughty child/teenager. After I started working the combination of the junk food and the lack of physical activity helped me put on weight. In the beginning I thought I looked cute and a little fuller. But I never realised where I was heading. I started gaining weight slowly and steadily. My jeans no longer fitted me and I attributed it to the fact that the jeans could have shrunk. I could only climb one flight of stairs without panting but that according to me was because the stairs were too high and I was very weak!! It took a lot of courage and strength for me to admit that I needed to shed weight and I needed to do it fast!!
I started reading about the ways of losing weight on google. Man were there ways! There were so many ways and for each way there were pros and cons. I decided to diet first. I stopped eating breakfast and lunch. I however would eat dinner and because I would not have had breakfast or lunch I would be so hungry by dinner time that I would stuff myself. After a week I had gained some more weight and was desperate. I then decided to exercise. I started walking and using the stairs instead of the lift. I made just one mistake. Instead of building up my rhythm slowly I rushed it. I started walking too much...more than my poor lega could take. This went on until my body refused to cooperate. I fell ill. The illness was backache :(. I could not sit straight due to the severe strain that I had out my body through. I had lost weight, in fact a lot of it. One week's leave from work and rest restored my strength and my WEIGHT. I was so depressed by then that I gave up. I started eating all the delicacies that I had been avoiding until then and stopped bothering about losing weight.
I guess my attempt to lose weight will have to wait.