Well this is my first post in this journal thing...so I guess I will make it into a introduction :dn

My name is Andrea Warren and I'm 19 years old ..I have an 8 month old daughter who I stay at home with all day, every day...where ever i go, she goes. I recently got married too! My husband works at night, and sleeps during the day..so there isnt a whole lot of time we spend together. He is in the process of getting a job for what he went to school for...I think if he doesnt get it, i will go into a deep depression...I have been dreaming of him getting it, and of us getting this one wonderful house...It has a nice yard and a long driveway...which means me and my daughter can take our walks there instead of walking up town and back...Which is my current form of exercise. Ive have been trying for soo long to stick to a diet and exercise routine but it always fails...usually the same day I start it.

I have never really been a skinny girl...for example I was close to 120 lbs when i was only 10. But I have always been able to hide it well..I think I look about 20 lbs lighter than I actually am. But now It really isnt cutting it, my belly is in pretty bad shape and my thighs, arms, and even my back jiggles like it never has ( and never should).

Almost all through high school I dated this one guy who made me feel good when we were alone, i would wear cute little outfits and everything....But then I found out about him and these other girls.....skinny-skinny girls...it made me feel pretty bad about myself, and I guess I used that as motivation because i started a low-cal diet and started walking 4-5 times a week, and i lost alot of weight......Then I met my husband.

My husband is a skinny guy, but he loves to eat...and always gives me the line....it doesnt taste right unless im eating it too.. ( in my following posts, you'll understand how he is).



Anyways, I really plan on making this work....Im going to stick to a certain amount of calories a day, drink water instead of pop, and exercise !

My motivation is ....i want to wear a mini skirt by the end of summer...along with tank tops and shorts during. :spring:

Hello, Andrea, welcome to Diettalk.

I'm sure you will find lots of friendly advice and encouragement here at Diettalk. Losing weight is not an easy thing to do, but it can be done. It takes a certain amount of determination to succeed, and you seem very determined. So good luck to you.

A niced mixture of healthy foods combined with an increased activity level will help you drop a few lbs. Just keep focused on the end result, and do it all a day at a time.

With a nice young husband and a sweet daughter, you have some good incentives for making yourself healthier. And in no time at all you will find yourself in that mini skirt, tank tops, and shorts.

The best of luck to you, and enjoy yourself along the way.

Hi Andrea! Just wanted to offer my encouragement re: your tank-tops-and-mini-skirts goal. :) I agree with Joanne, I hope you have fun along the way. If you need help with motivation, there are always a few challenges going on at Diettalk. And the monthly exercise thread in the exercise forum can be pretty motivating too, for tracking your time and activity. I'm sure you'll find lots of support here. :welcome:

Hello and welcome! You sound like you have a wonderful family. Your husband sounds like mine. My hubby is always eating and i gained alot of weight since i met him but he didnt force the food down my throat but he made it hard for me to eat right when i wanted what he was having and knowing he loves me so much made it easy for me to not care if i was heavy. I wish you luck on your journey and reaching your mini skirt goals.

Well I kind of thought i would be able to make posts on this everyday..or atleast every other day......but its been almost a week since i started it...so maybe for now i will just try and make it a weekly thing....

Monday - Chris ( my hubby), had a doctors appt. in Columbus..which means we ate out at Wendys...i had a double cheeseburger and fries and a big diet Coke...and it was good, i was really hungry......he had that night off so of course we made our way to Krogers cause he had to have some cookies......we each had our own tray thing of them to make....i tried to burn mine so i wouldnt be tempted to eat them, but the smell of them baking got to me and i think i ate about 5 or 7 of them....

Tuesday - I cleaned alot on Tuesday so i counted it as exercise....i also got up early and took Crslynn ( my 9 month old baby girl) for a walk...and then later on when Chris got up and after we ate supper we went for another.... BUT THEN .... my grandma called and wanted to know if we could go to dairy queen for her...which we did, i ended up getting a banana split...i ate almost half but then my sweet little girl put her hand in it and spilled it all over the place..im glad she did though, i would have licked it clean...and since Chris had that night off too, around 11pm we were in bed when he said he needed to go get something, he came back about 15 minutes later with 2 plates of fries ( he has been wanting crinkly french fries for a long time ) ..well i only ate a couple and gave the rest to the dog. We had sex for a whole 6 minutes that night so im counting that as working off the banana split. :wn

Wednesday We took another family walk on wednesday but it wasnt a very long one, just up the road and back...i had subway for breakfast/lunch ....it was a 12 inch but it only had turkey 1 slice of bacon and like 3 triangles of cheese ( if i keep up with this journal thing, you will notice i eat that from subway about 3 times a week) ...i know subway is suppose to be healthy but i dont know if 12 in ones with cheese and bacon count............and of course that night we had pizza.


Thursday We didnt take a walk this day, it was rainy...BUT I did start to walk on the treadmill, and it actually broke !! ...something came loose on it or something because its uneven and kind of tips when i stand on it...Chris said i can still walk on it if i prop it up with a book or something....but he would say that, since he bought it in January...cause i swore i would use it everyday...and this was probably only my 4th time on it. I went to Logan, grocery shopping with my mom, I had to carry Crslynn basically the whole hour and a half we were in there...she is about 23 lbs, and squirmed the whole time, so that was a workout all in its own.....we had spagettie and meatballs that night, its my favorite...but i kept myself from eating a plate full and stuck to eating about...a cup and a half...

Friday Friday I went looking for good yard sales with my mom, aunt, grandma, and of course my baby girl. The weather wasnt that great so we didnt find as many as we hoped...and i didnt walk as much as i had planned either....and we ate at Captain D's my FAVORITE restraunt....i hate seafood..but i love their chicken and breadsticks......That night me and Chris played 500 Rumy with my mom and dad ( i won ) and had pizza again ...oh! and when i say we eat pizza - i always put BBQ sauce on my pizza..which i know it adds tons of calories but i cant eat it without it....


Well today is saturday, im not sure what we are going to have for supper, i was thinking of chicken but the meat market closed an hour ago ( i thought it was still friday, and they close early today) ...today ive had a tuna fish sandwhich with a tiny bit of mayo...and i few animal crackers as a snck...so hopefully i can stick with the low calorie foods today and convince my husband to take a nice long family walk....

Hello, Andrea! :wave: Sounds like you are doin' well at watching how much you eat and cutting your actual consumption of items down. That's a great step. Sweet story 'bout how the banana split only got half eaten. Your baby sounds cute!

Have a great week coming up!

Hey Andrea, sorry to hear about the treadmill. Don't you just hate how these contraptions have a way of going bad right when we need them? But I love your six-minute exercise plan... :D

Hope you were able to have your family walk. Sounds like you're doing a great job of tracking what you eat, and how much! Have a great day.

Hey welcome to DT!! I have a nine month old daughter too. Her bday is July 16th. God thats coming up so quick!! I have 2 more kids too. Lotsa work!! You'd think I'd be skinny just chasing them all around. No such luck. lol I LOVE Subway!! We were going there a few times a week too. Now I make my own sandwhiches and limit Subway to once a week. I love pizza too. Actually one of my all time fav pizzas. Is Lean Cuisines chicken and bbq little square pizza. OMG that is soooooo yummy. Had it today infact. 350 calories too!! I love LOVE Dominoes thin crust ham and onion pizza too. An entire medium pizza is only like 1100 cals or something like that. Not that I eat the entire pizza. lol But I figured it out. Limiting myself on the pastas is a difficult thing. I usually try and stick to a cup and a half too. God I used to eat about 3 helpings of it!! Anyways, I can't wait to check out your progress!! Good luck!!

i love bbq chicken pizza but no one else that i eat with, likes it..i love dominos too...whenever i talk my walks i walk up town and past it, just so i can smell it a little lol.

Ok well Ive been trying to start a diet for awhile.....from my last post you can tell that it wasnt really a diet...because i ended up eating too much of the wrong foods...... well yesterday i finally started it and stuck to it !

Well Saturday night my daughter wasnt feeling good ( she is getting her 3rd tooth ! ) and so i stayed up until about 3 am , because she kept waking up crying, and i wanted to make sure she was ok before i got into a deep sleep....while i was awake i was watching tv ( house shows) and i seen this girl on there and she had my dream body....which i think kind of set my mind on the track of sticking to this diet.....i almost had my dream body before when i use to count calories and take walks...so i knew i could get it again...

ALSO .... saturday i went yard saling with my mom and aunt...and i found these perfect jeans, i had a pair just like them but they ripped....well i decided to try them on and i guess my butt has grown too cause it was hard to get them past it ! So they went into my ...i want to keep, even though they dont fit yet basket. ( i cleaned out my clothes and got rid of alot, and kept a few that doesnt fit yet)


Ok SO lets get down to what I ate......

On sunday since we didnt go to sleep until late me and Crslynn didnt wake up until almost 11:30 ...so i got her breakfast ,a nd then for mine, i had a half a can of tuna ( about 60 cal. ) ...and a spoon of mayo ( about 100 cal. ... i cant eat tuna without it) .... and then instead of making it a sandwhich i used crackers ( 9 of them for 150 cal.) ... So i had just a little over 300 cal.

I was spring cleaning this day so i was moving alot...and i made about 7 trips from upstairs to the basement while carrying boxes of stuff im going to put in my own yard sale ( within the next month or so) and i know i burnt alot of calories !!!

I was planning on eating small amounts of things every 3 hours or so....but i sort of forgot about it while i was moving things....and when i remembered i was kind of in a hurry because i wanted to get so much done before Crissy woke up from her nap. So I just made a big cup of Ovoltine ( i know thats spelled wrong ) .....and im pretty sure i stayed shy of 200 cal.

Around supper time i was still cleaning....and Chris was craving Wendys so when he went to the bank he brought some home.....i was dissapointed cause i knew that was the end of my diet... but i only ate about half the sandwhich...i gave the rest to the dog....and a few fries. so i know it didnt do me any favors to eat that...but it is ALOT better from what i use to eat....and i was very proud of myself......also a little while later my dad had brought some ice cream he got.....and i didnt eat it...so i was even more proud...... And yes at bedtime my stomach was growling a little....but it felt alot better than usual when it is super full.

So my calorie plan is to stay under 400 cal. for breakfast....200 ( or 250 ) for lunch....and 1 helping of whatever is for supper ...im going to use my daughters little plates as my supper plates from now on..since they are half the size of regular dinner plates..so even if i decide to fill up my plate it wont be as bad.


AND NOW TO THE NEAR FUTURE PLANS !!!!!!


As of right now Im on the Depo shot because I have PCOS ...and the shot helps witht he pain......Also my mom has PCOS but her started out as Endrometriosis... and then developed into pcos after she was 30....and also Tomorrow she is geting a Histerectomy ( sp) because of it...my pcos developed really fast..which means im going to have to get a Histerectomy in the near future also.....So we decided next month when my depo shot wears off, we are going to start trying for another baby !!
Im very excited !!!!!!!

But i decided that im going to keep it under 400 cals. for breakfast .

I have gotten off my diet again....but i really havent gotten that far off of it ....My mom had her hysterectomy... and so we were going to Lancaster to visit her every day that she was up there, which means we ate out on those days...i also got sick...Im not sure what it was...i think maybe a bad head cold but i had a really really bad cough and sore throat...im alot better today then i was and my voice just came back, but its kind of raspy....And.. the heat has came on ! Probably a month ago i had to wear my winter coat ...and now its sooooo hot...i think it was pretty close to 90 yesterday. Today is my brothers prom and we are going out to take pictures of him and his date....i know there will be a few family pics...(since when i went to my proms there seem to be more pics with my mom and grandma then there was of me and my date)......and im kind of dreading seeing myself in the pictures. Yesterday we went there to see my mom and we were outside because it was pretty out, and since i was feeling pretty i thought it would be a good idea to get a few pictures of chris, me and crslynn.....well after they were takin and i seen them, i got so depressed and i just wanted to lay inside the rest of the night i thought i looked like a dressed up pig with makeup..... When we got back home the 3 of us played outside for a little bit....so im hoping that burned atleast a few calories...especially since i did run a little.

I just kind of feel like i lost my motivation or something....last week i was so ready and pumped to start my diet and when i actually stuck to it for a full day, i was so proud of myself, and when i did it the next day, i was even prouder....i dont know if its the heat or where i was sick or what but i feel like.....whats the point....

I want it so bad, i want to reach my goals but i feel them slipping away...i definatly need some help and motivation.....but i know im not going to get it here from home...especially this weekend since my husband doesnt work, i can plan on him brings junk food to bed with us........

I planned on posting some pics of me..the way i look now, and how i use to look...even though ti wasnt small then, i was alot smaller and you can definatly tell a difference......but i have to go shower i will try to post them tonight.