Hi my name is Jaydn Cronister and I'm 21 years old. I'm a single mother, last year I give birth to my baby boy. He is about 11 months old and I love my son so much he is the best part of my entire life and being coming a mother was the best thing that I've ever done, but since giving birth to him my body image issues have gotten a lot worse. I haven't felt attractive at all in over a year. Having a baby isn't the only reason that I've had problems with my body image it's been like that for as long as I can remember. It probably started when I was in middle school late elementary, I start getting picked on for my weight. all of the girls in my class were very tall and skinny, and I am very shorts so the smallest about of weight gain looks like ten times as much. Around my junior year I started cheerleading and I started feeling better about myself, I started to lose little bit of weight my senior year. I was feeling really good about myself and after I graduated I lost about 15 pounds. My freshman year of college I met my son's father and we were together for a few months and we decided to get engaged and we were planning a wedding. In February of 2012 we found out that we are having a baby, but when I was about 5 months pregnant things with us weren't going well. After a very difficult separation I got really depressed and that's when I gained most of my pregnancy weight. Altogether I only gained about 35 pounds which is pretty good for someone that's had weight issues anyway. After I had my son I started breast-feeding and I lost about 19 pounds right away. I tried to go back to work and trying to breast-feed and work didn't go very well for me so I eventually stop making breast milk. Therefore I didn't have that extra calorie burn anymore really, and it rly hindered my weight-loss after pregnancy. So since I had him I've gained about 35 more pounds. I weigh more now than I have in my entire life, and I weigh more now than I did when I was pregnant with my son. I'm just ready to be comfortable in my own skin for the first time in my life and I've tried so many things to get there that this is probably my last chance. If I don't find something that I can stick with then I'm just gonna be miserable for the rest of my life. I don't want my son to see me like that. I want to be the fun mom that goes on camping trips and takes him hiking and goes swimming with him, all that kind of stuff I want to be able to do, play with my son without being winded and feeling like I am overweight and that I can't do those things. I don't want him to have to come to me and say "mom, why can't you play with me". Then have to sit there and explain to him it's because I'm too big to move that fast. I don't want that I want to be able to enjoy my son and the time that I have with him while he's little and this is my chance to have that with him. I want this for both of us so we can have great memories together:) please vote to help my son have a happy healthy mommy!