I am not pregnant just fat.

I cannot hide behind the postnatal response any longer. Yes I was pregnant with twins in 2009 but they are now 10 months old. Those lovely pregnancy hormones are long gone and my jelly belly remains.

It is time for action and not just depend on a great set of shapewear. For the last two days I have been sitting in a Project Management professional development course at university eyeing off the free muffins however the only project I am focusing on is to reduce the fat gained from my belly that is spilling over my denim skirt. I desperately would like to wear a new pair of togs this summer. It has taken many months to lift my belly off my caesarean scar – mostly because even looking at the scar made me nauseas. It measures 14 cm if you were interested.

So what is my project plan for a yummy tummy by Christmas? How can I develop my own late postnatal exercise program? Do I dare post my a current photo of what my belly looks like after twins? Would that be motivation enough like the before and after photo from all those diet advertisments?

Earlier this year when I started my new vision board, the Yummy Mummy was a centre focus but I am afraid that focus has slipped. It is time to reaffirm and map out a plan on how I can feel like a yummy mummy with a nice acceptable tummy.

I have read a few books on Law of Attraction and selected a few of my favourites to share with you. Last week while the twins and I were treating ourselves to lunch at a coffee book store I picked up this one, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Power of Positive Feelings. Now I am only half way through this book so I can’t give you a full review but the reason I picked it up was something different from the other books I had read. “In our everlasting search to find more happiness in life we devour positive thinking books but the millions. But if those books truly hold the secrets to abundant and joyful life why do we keep buying new ones?” (P 1). This book shows you how to find that feeeeling the feeling or intuition of success and how to hold onto that positive vibrating energy which in effect when is high will meet other like energy bringing the attraction into reality.

So feeling good can be difficult when days are long and there is work to do, chores to do and groceries to pick up. What makes you feel good and how can you hold onto that feeling? Coincidently the other day I had my ipod on random shuffle on my hourly drive home from work and the good old beach boys starting playing;

“Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take you to

Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama”

I might be a bit of a dag but I like that song. Why? Because in grade 6, my teacher would put the cassette on with this song and instead of the usual catholic songs we would sing this. Even today I have no idea why. She had the words neatly printed on the overhead projector and in chorus 30 eleven year olds would sing:

“Key Largo, Montego, baby, why don’t we go down to Kokomo

We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow

That’s where we wanna go, way down in Kokomo.”

Once my teacher even brought out the map of the world to point out all the locations in the song however the infamous Kokomo was never found. Where is it?

While we stumbled through line by line of the song we often looked at our teacher staring out the louvers of another Queensland school day.

“We’ll put out to see and we’ll perfect our chemistry

By and by, we’ll defy a little bit of gravity

Afternoon delight, cocktails and moonlit nights

That dreamy look in your eye, give me a tropical contact high

Way down in Kokomo”

Now I am a little older and wiser I get quite nostalgic when I hear this song and instantly it gives me that warm fuzzy feeling of being high.  I wonder if my teacher ever found her Kokomo?

“Everyone knows a little place like Kokomo

Now if you wanna go to get away from it all

Go down to Kokomo“