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Half Way

As promised, here is the weight update. It does have some background story to cover so bare with me. Once upon a time, Megan and Randy got married in November 2009. She weighed 146 lbs. That was almost 5 years ago. Megan got pregnant with her first child in November 2010. That was three and a half years ago. When she went to her first OB appointment she weighed in at 158 lbs. Which was a little embarrassing but she was pregnant so it didn't really matter because she knew the baby had to gain weight so she hunkered down for the long hall of weight gain. Full term pregnancy weight with the first ended up being 178 lbs.

 After she has her first child, she drop back down to 163 lbs before suddenly jumping back up to 174 lbs.  This was discovered when she went to her first OB appointment with her second child only four months later. The first month after her first child was great. She felt human and alive and did some silly things she probably shouldn't have like yoga. But there was also the postpartum (another back story for another time.) With the second pregnancy there was weight loss at the beginning because the fetus was taking more nutrition than the first fetus had done. (Seems a little weird to call my kids fetus's but it makes for a more dramatic story.) The end weight for pregnancy number two was 186 lbs. After giving birth to baby number
two,  Megan weighed 176 lbs. Then the weight just heaped upon her. In December 2012 she weighed in at 189 lbs. And that is when she stopped getting on the scale. She doesn't know how high she actually went.We'll just say it was close to 200 lbs. There are not very many pictures documenting the excess of weight. This is one of the only ones Megan feels comfortable sharing on the internet at this time.
This time last summer
Now at the end of July of 2014 Megan has finally got back down to 158 lbs. All the baby weight is gone! There are still loftier goals for Megan past the baby weight but this is a huge accomplishment. Hooray!
Same shirt smaller pants






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