00:00 At my heaviest weight, I was 315 pounds.
00:03 Food was really the only thing that made me feel good.
00:08 I've gotten a lot of comments, fat ass, pig, cow.
00:13 I was chafing and sweating, struggling to breathe.
00:16 If I didn't do something about it,
00:19 I literally could have died.
00:21 I started taking classes at a gym.
00:24 I had weight loss surgery.
00:25 I have lost 165 pounds.
00:28 I recently had 10 pounds of loose skin removed from my body.
00:32 Growing up, I was always the chubby kid.
00:37 Parents divorced when I was seven,
00:39 and I just kind of felt isolated and kind of felt lonely.
00:43 Food was really the only thing that made me feel good.
00:48 100% food was emotional support for me.
00:53 It was like my friend, but it was instant regret afterwards.
00:58 I would binge.
01:00 I would eat spoonfuls of peanut butter out of the jar,
01:03 spoonfuls and spoonfuls of peanut butter.
01:05 I used to order entire big boxes from Pizza Hut,
01:10 which has the two pizzas and the breadsticks
01:13 and the dessert sticks,
01:14 and eat almost a full box to myself,
01:18 and I was proud of it.
01:19 There have been times where I would eat late at night
01:22 when no one was looking,
01:23 and I was ashamed for people to see that and judge me.
01:27 At my heaviest weight, I was 315 pounds.
01:31 I've gotten a lot of comments.
01:34 Fat ass, pig, cow.
01:38 I've had people that I had considered good friends
01:41 make fake screen names online and say very hurtful things.
01:46 Megan's slob and fat piece of (beep).
01:50 I was really struggling inside mentally and emotionally
01:53 and putting on that brave face.
01:55 - You have held fears at your heaviest.
01:58 - I had sleep apnea.
02:01 I would wake up in the middle of the night gasping for air.
02:05 A lot of things run in my family.
02:07 Diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease.
02:12 If I didn't do something about it, I could've died.
02:19 I literally could've died.
02:21 The breaking moment was in 2018
02:24 when we went to Disney World.
02:27 I didn't fit in some rides,
02:30 and I was like, "I can't do this anymore.
02:33 "I can't live like this."
02:35 That's when I decided that it didn't matter
02:38 what it would take, but I'm going to start now
02:43 and keep going.
02:45 I'm so grateful that it finally clicked.
02:47 I started taking classes at a high-intensity gym,
02:51 and it's group classes, and you go in that community.
02:54 It was really helpful for me.
02:55 There were coaches motivating me,
02:57 telling me every time I went in,
02:59 "Oh my gosh, you're looking smaller and smaller."
03:01 When we moved down here to Florida, we needed the gym.
03:04 We got a house with an extra bedroom.
03:06 We're doing it.
03:07 We're making this a gym.
03:08 We're investing in the equipment, investing in myself.
03:11 - All right, you ready to do this?
03:13 - Let's go.
03:14 - Let's go.
03:15 - Eddie has been such a huge part of my journey overall.
03:20 That man loves me.
03:21 - When we first met, she was already on her journey.
03:24 That was one of the things that really inspired me
03:27 about her was how motivated she was
03:30 and the fact that she was able to lose all that weight.
03:33 As far as she's come, she's been amazing,
03:35 and I've supported her every step of the way
03:37 because it's what she loves to do.
03:40 - When we go into the gym and we do our workouts together,
03:43 that's our time. That's our bonding time.
03:46 We're building each other up and hyping each other up
03:49 and keeping that momentum going.
03:51 I think we keep each other, you know, level-headed.
03:54 We're both, you know?
03:56 At my heaviest weight, I was 315 pounds,
03:59 and I have lost 165 pounds.
04:02 - Good job, babe.
04:03 Killed it, as usual.
04:06 - After I lost 100 pounds, I had weight loss surgery.
04:10 I was really concerned about what others would think of me
04:13 'cause you hear the stigma of,
04:15 "Oh, it's the easy way out. You cheated."
04:17 But I came to the point where I was like,
04:20 "Who cares what other people think? I care about me."
04:24 (screaming)
04:26 - How did you finally feel about it?
04:28 - I don't think I told my family
04:30 until like two weeks before surgery
04:32 because I was afraid that if I told them too soon,
04:36 they would talk me out of it.
04:37 So I waited until I was like fully committed.
04:40 My dad has always been the one person
04:43 that encourages me to follow my intuition.
04:47 - I know she was unhappy with herself
04:49 with, you know, being overweight,
04:53 but during the time that she was very heavy,
04:58 she would hide that.
05:01 She wouldn't outwardly show it to everybody
05:04 that she was upset with herself, with her weight.
05:06 You could tell even if she's pretending to be happy
05:09 in her own skin, she wasn't.
05:12 - Oh, look, she's a living work of art.
05:14 Look at her.
05:15 - Yeah.
05:16 - She's come so far and she's made such a transformation.
05:21 - I recently had 10 pounds of loose skin removed.
05:25 So I had a 360 lower body lift.
05:27 Seeing that for the first time was like crazy.
05:31 And even still, like when I look at myself,
05:33 I just can't believe it.
05:34 I mean, I still have, you know, loose skin
05:38 in different areas of my body, but like, I feel good.
05:40 I feel cute and I'm, you know, I'm rocking it.
05:43 I'm confident and it's very special.
05:46 I never thought I would be here because, you know,
05:49 I was overweight for so long and I had failed so many times.
05:53 If I had a message to my younger self,
05:56 it would literally just be, it's gonna be okay.
05:59 It's gonna be okay.
06:03 It gets better.
06:04 Don't stop.
06:05 Keep going.
06:06 There's literally a life out there
06:08 that you don't know exists.
06:10 Go find it.
06:12 Go get it.
06:13 Keep going.
06:15 That's what I would tell my younger self.
06:17 I'm so proud of myself.
06:20 My goodness.
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