Update on Measurements and 7 weeks out.

Okay, I promised a measurement update the other day. Super thrilled my weight is starting to tick down -- I had been stuck for several weeks between 176-178. Today I weighed in at 173.6

I will reach the 160's by surgery. I'm so close. Soooooooo close. My surgery goal weight is 165.

For by birthday next year when I turn 27, my ultimate goal weight is 155. It will be 10 less than high school and I feel like it'll place me at a really great body fat percentage. Staying focused on a really good, healthy, honest diet and staying consistent with my exercise is imperative. Making sure I eat  no less than 1900-2000 calories on days I workout is also important too so I don't wreck my metabolism either since I burn on days I don't workout around 2500 (this is an all day LIVING average) and around 2700-2900 when I include what I burn when I workout.

One week post baby I was: 

Neck - 15
Pit- 40
Nip- 43
Rib - 37
Waist - 38.5
B. button - 45
Pooch - 45
Hips - 45.5
Thigh - 25.5
Calfs- 15
Arms - 13

Sunday June 9, 2013

7 weeks post baby I was:

Neck : 14
Pit: 39
Nip: 44
Rib: 37
Waist: 37.5
Belly button: 42.5
Pooch: 44
Hips: 45
Thigh: 25.5
Arm: 13
Calf: 15

March 26, 2014

11 months post baby #3

Neck: 13.5

Pit around: 36

Nip (bust fullest): 41

Ribcage around: 34

Waist: 34 

Belly Button around: 36

c-section pooch: 39.5

Arms: 12.5

Hips: 42.5

Calfs: 14.75

May 28, 2014

13 months post baby.

Neck -            13.5

Pits -             35

Nip -             41

Rib-             33.5

Waist-          33

B. button -   34

Pooch -        37

Hips -          41

Thighs -       24

Calfs -         14.75

Arms-          12.5

Weight        175.8

July 28, 2014

15 months post baby

(with one week off due to a tweaked shoulder/neck muscle)

,

neck - 13.25

pit - 34

nip - 38 (it actually moved!! ahhh!)

rib - 32

waist - 31.5

B. button 34 

pooch - 35.5

hips - 39.25 (hips are officially smaller than high school! )

thighs - 23.5

calfs - 14.5

arms 11.5

weight - 173.6 

SO. I'm down another 12. 25 inches in 2 months. 

I'm pretty dang happy with that. :)

Down 2.2 lbs, too and have maintained for a week. Time to drop it down in the 160s. I have 7 weeks. 

I. Can. Do. This.

(I thought this would be a cool thing to remind myself,

 and y'all who are reading this when you want something but have an obstacle) 

My ultimate weight is 155 right now. 165 for surgery as I stated above.

And for a quick measurement dream.. I'd like to have a 27-28' waist.

And 37-38 inch hips. If we make this happen my body fat % should hover, according to the army's body fat % calculator online -- around 21-22%

They consider 21-24 athletic and ideal.

If I compete and I hover there on off season I'd be pretty happy. :)

Anyhow. Battery is about to die on my laptop. 

Over and out!

XOXO

The beast.

So, I've been doing a pretty decent job at hiding what would be the product 

following 3 large pregnancies, 3-csections, and 7 years of weight fluctuations. 

I have always been athletic and tall, but what other see primarily from my height are my legs. 

Not my torso.
I have a short short short torso for being 5'9".

I carry large babies. 

My torso however, isn't long at all. If you swapped my husband's legs and my own... 

he'd probably reach 6 feet, and I'd be a solid 5ft in height. 

(Eric has a long torso)

Anyways. My starting weight when I was in HS was 165.

(before kids)

(emma)

(kaelyn)

(Jensen)

 I reached 235 with Emma and lowered to 188 when I got pregnant with Kaelyn. 

With her I hit 210 on delivery. Again at 188 I got pregnant with Jensen and hit a whopping 225. Today I am 173/174 and keeping my fingers crossed to hit the 160's in the next 8 weeks (even though I took a break this week with a tweak in my neck from picking up the baby wrong. 

(go figure.)

I wanted to finally share with you what I have been
busting my ass off to hide. 

I show my best selfies, nothing wrong with that. 

However, many haven't seen what I've been referring to as the 'beast' for awhile.

Relaxed, Flexed, Sucking in.

(today)

(no matter what I currently do, the flap is there.  I also wanted to show the difference.)

Then over head views. 

(excuse me knickers. *best pirate voice*  ;) )

I have a crater in my abdominals and skin I can pull out even further than this but have to hold the phone to shoot this by myself. 

My back has been weakened from lack of support in my abdominals, and the skin can get irritated when it's hot out (yuck)I'm lucky I'm IN my high school clothes even with the pooch. I'm really curious to see where I'll be after it's removed and the swell hell is gone.

This lump of skin and left over fat that is stubborn as hell to lose has mocked me for 7 years.

Reminded me that I could work a little harder, push a little further.

I have held myself back from doing activities because of wanting to hide it.
It's been so embarrassing. I'm nervous going to this extent to share it because
 this is the furthest I've gone to really show what it does look like.
I don't like to play outside because this gets so warm and still to this day jumps
 and flaps when I run or move around.
Compression pants from Oldnavy, thanks for helping!

Again, this is my journey and struggle and something I'm finally over coming. 

I have more to share about my past later, including the fact after my first delivery I had an eating disorder (not eating hardly at all) and intense self esteem issues that led into depression. 

Thankfully today I am NOT that girl anymore.

I am stronger, wiser, healthy, and happier.

I am healing. <3

In 52 days I can say good bye for good to this thing. 

I am thankful it housed my babies and protected them.

The stretch marks hardly bother me anymore. 

Scars tell stories right?

But I am excited to start fresh and not have aches and skin issues from it any more. 

(my bitty loves <3)

I feel like with this surgery I am getting a clean slate though for me:
to be the best version of myself and regain my confidence back.
On top of it, perform in all areas without having to adjust myself around it any more.
I can be who I want and not have to think twice.

(and my kids will stop asking if I'm having another baby, LOL)

Thanks for listening. This was a difficult post. 

XOXO

Update on this summer!

Hi frannz!

Well here we are, mid July and summer is in full swing.

Texas heat.

No school.

Our summer vacation has come and gone and now we

 are just hanging out till School starts in August.

We recently had a funeral for our dear cousin, Philip and that has been a wild whirlwind of emotions.

Vacation sent me on a stray from my diet for a week or so.

And some other stressing factors were building up on me, but thankfully addressed this last weekend.

Needless to say, I've felt like I've been on a plateau since June and I've been frustrated.

At the end of school I was 175.
I've hovered here for a bit.
Then I went up during vacation to 179-180 but it's back down now!
This morning I weighed in at
174.2

My measurements are back down once again, too :)
(I'll post later)

---

So... for the big scoop.

I had an ultrasound on my lower abdominals a couple of weeks ago and found out that I'm having a scar tissue-issue. Looking at things it seems fixing this will post-pone my bikini competition in November -- which I'm bummed about but I need to get this looked at and fixed.

Eric and I are also, in 3 weeks,
saying good bye to ever getting pregnant again as I'm tying the tubes finally.
Kind nervous and the finality of it all is kinda sad, but at the same time:

3 kids is a lot!

I never thought I'd have 3, let alone 1 when I was in school.
I would have laughed in your face actually.
All are so healthy and happy and we are wanting to travel with them
and do everything we can for them.
Adding another would make it tighter and push all of those dreams to
 do all these fun things sooner.... way off again..

But that's not all.

*wiggle wiggle wiggle*

I just got the two thumbs up and approval for a

Tummy Tuck! 


(don't want to mess that up down the road either!)

SO.

Answering a few questions on that real fast:

1. Yes it got approved partially with insurance because of scar stuff. I had issues during Jensen's delivery and they are taking a ton of that junk out.
2. Yes I am paying a small part on my own but over time, thankfully.
3. I'm told to drop another 10 lbs before this -- it is set in stone for Sept 17th.
4. I'm currently, recently in a 10 but this is over that skin flap and hang so I'll be single digit we think after, YAY! I haven't been single digit since early high school!
5. I am going to document and blog all the good, bad, ugly, and crazy involving this as I did with the pregnancies and deliveries, weight loss after baby, and now this. If ya don't like it, don't visit the blog. I'm keeping the bulk off of FB and in here so it's not spamming everyones stuff.
6. My bikini competition in November IS being put off for now, I won't be ready, however... projected new competition will now be here in the Houston area July 2015 in the Woodlands. (maybe.. we'll see how it will be after recovery)
This will give me plenty of time to heal, and tone. No more sagging skin and scar issues so this will help out tremendously. No more 4 inch gap by my belly button either to make my belly poke out when I'm not being conscious of it. Flexing I should say. Sucking in makes the skin droop like crazy and it's not anything I've shared with anyone online just yet. It's a beast but I'm sharing it soon.
Time to say bye bye!

I've posted photos over the course of the last few months and I'm going to again once I get my paperwork done from the doctors office this upcoming month. I will be laid out for a good week following, along with the 2nd week once drains come out (yuck, never had to deal with that with any other surgery, so that makes me nervous)

Doing this has been something I've wanted for a long time and I couldn't do it up until now.
I am extremely excited and nervous at the same time.
Like butterfly inducing nervous.
I've lost over 50 lbs and 10ish more will put me at my high school graduation weight which is where he wants me. Dr. guessed it'll be around 5 lbs gone after surgery and I can continue to drop a little more after I'm back in the gym.
It's all so surreal.
(thank you dear lord baby Jesus.)

I wouldn't have done this had my weight not reached a point in the process it needed to be.
In 2012 I was going to but I was still hovering way to close to 200 lbs. In fact, when I was going to do it originally I was 201 the day I booked it. But we canceled because I was too big and we decided we wanted a Jensen lol. :)



Another thing is -
I've decided, some how, some way that is still unclear to me:
I'm incorporating the fitness realm into my future career.
My graphic design, photography, fiction writing, and art will ALWAYS be there and going,
but since this fitness journey and with the help of my trainer,
on top of EVERYONE who has kept me motivated, come to me for advice, said I had inspired them, and pushed me to keep going,
this is only the beginning.

This last year was only me waking up and warming up to the idea.
As I heal from this surgery coming up and can hit the gym again...
Megan 3.0 is going to hit things full force. I have some cool stuff I'm figuring out for early 2015 as well when things are in full swing too, so keep your eyes peeled.
I can't wait to start on this new project.
>)

(btw --- 2.0 was during and after kids, and 1.0 was before haha #nerdingout)



SO.


That is the big news right now.
I'm ready for this saggy skin over my c-section flap to be gone.
I've worked my butt off to get here and this will bring it all together.
8 more weeks.

I'll update again soon! :D
(and with pictures)