I am 16 years old with an 11 month old daughter. I can't stand my weight! I am extremely self concious!! I care way too much what people say about me but I can't help it, it just rely gets to me. When I say "I'm fat!" people tell me, "You had a baby, you have an excuse!" and I don't really believe that ... well not for me anyway! My daughter is almost 1! So to me my time line to use that excuse is OVER!! I hate looking in mirrors, but sometimes I can't help, but all I do is critize myself and tell myself how ugly and fat I am. I guess I wouldn't be so hard on myself if I didn't know I wasn't always over weight!! I was into dance and gymnastics! And I freakin LOVED it! but my mom forced me to stop! I was also into sports! I have a big brother so that was bound to happen :) I played softball for two seasons but then the girls started to realy get on my nerves so I didnt sign up for a another season :( I LOVE swimming !!!!! and I think that's what kept me in shape the most! Where I used to live we had a swimming pool in the back yard and I would go out there EVERY DAY to swim and play with my dogs! We had stairs too and I liked to run and down them :) The first I moved the pool was public and half the time it would be closed and I didnt like the neighborhood at all so I didnt walk around unless I had to! And now where I live, The people are couch potatoes and no pool and really nothing to do. And it's really hard anyway to just go out and do something because of my daughter. Well anyway I'm going to really try to lose this and feel good about myself <3