My Story

Hello new friends! My name is Meghann Kirchner and I am 23 years old. I have struggled with my weight ever since I could remember. I used to steal cupcakes from our kitchen and hide in the bathroom to eat them, then I'd flush the wrappers when I was done. My relationship with food had never been good. I was addicted to sugar.

6th Grade

Around the age of 13 I started dieting... I have tried L.A. Weightloss, Weight Watchers, Adkins, Nutrisystem, Calorie counting, Liquid diets, Smoothies, All protein, All veggies, No carbs, starving myself, binge and purging... Nothing has worked for more than  a couple weeks or a couple months. This lead to lots of depression and anxiety issues for me. I was not comfortable in my own skin. I skipped out on lots of fun events other kids participated in. I vividly remember being chanted at in the halls of school when I was in 9th grade. None of this was how I envisioned my life to go. I eventually moved out of state for college in 2010. When I moved all of my support was gone, I was stripped bare and left to find my own friends and take care of myself like an 'adult'. I was not ready. In a series of poor choices I made I became very depressed and alone.

October 2014

My family missed me so much and I couldn't bare to tell them how horrible I was doing so I acted like everything was fine and I was having the time of my life. This lead up to me having a total meltdown, I'd say it was an anxiety attack but I walked off of my job in the middle of my shift and dropped out of school with 4 weeks left until graduation, packed all my stuff into a U-haul and moved 650 miles back home to be with my parents.

December 2013

This in itself made me feel like a quitter, I was so disappointing in myself, I wanted to blame the people I was surrounded with in college but it was nobody's fault but my own. I got a job and 6 months after moving back home I re-enrolled in college. I started doing pretty good, getting my life back on track. Then I turned 21 and starting going out and making poor decisions again, spending every penny I had. Somehow I graduated college.

By this time I was still making poor food choices. I got a job working at a bakery again, eating lots of donuts nearly every day. I had lots of cravings, barely any energy, I felt sick and weighed down and none of my clothes would fit. I was 22 years old by this point, wearing size 20 pants and weighed 252 pounds. I was utterly disgusted with myself. I KNEW what good nutrition was, I have a culinary degree, I know what I should be doing for myself but I wasn't doing it.

September 2014

September 2014

April 2015

On July 29th 2014, something clicked. I finally joined that gym I kept driving past. I stopped eating those donuts. Slowly each change I was making, I knew would pay off. My goal was to lose 82 pounds, nobody thought I could do it. I went to the gym at 11 pm so nobody would see me working out.  I started to feel better, very slowly. I struggled a lot, but I didn't quit. It was important for me to see this through because I had already been a quitter so many times and I was really sick of starting over. I was convinced this was a lifestyle change, not a diet. Soon after I quit smoking cigarettes and had surgery in August.  This set me back a little bit but I didn't want it to be an excuse.
Fast forward to November 2014 and I had done research on sugar, the effects in the body, the amounts recommended to be consumed and the actual amounts being consumed. I was shocked and December 15th 2014, right before everything delicious during Christmas time, I quit eating sugar. I weighed 137 pounds at this point. I had been doing my fitness alone, and not every day. It was hard to be motivated on my own sometimes. I started to plateau and feel stuck.

May 2015

An old friend from high school reached out to me on Facebook because she had noticed my weight loss. She shared with me her job as a health and fitness coach and I was very intrigued. After a few weeks of talking she got me to join in this incredible journey with her. April 26th 2015, I joined Beachbody. At this point I weighed 203 pounds. I was so enthused to have a support team. I was accepted with such love, I had gained a large group of friends (who are now like family to me) in a matter of days. They all wanted to see me succeed and support me. I was drinking Shakeology and doing the 21 Day Fix program.

June 2015

July 2015, The Fearless Empire

I felt on top of the world, like I had purpose. Other people started noticing my success and wanted to join me. God's plan was finally showing, I started to attend church on a regular basis and work on ways to be a better version of myself. I smile, run, laugh, cook and share great information with friends and meet new people as often as I can. Now as I write this, I reflect how much Beachbody has done for me. I am so thankful to be a part of something so wonderful, it is such a blessing in my life and has the bonus of helping me financially. I used to envy the girl that runs for fun, the one who wears fitness clothes all the time and bright Nike shoes, now I AM that girl and it feels just as great as it looks, if not better. To date I have lost a total of 60 pounds and have 22 more until I reach my final goal. Each day I am taking strides forward to reach my goals.The most rewarding part is being able to help others through this same journey. To watch someone morph into a greater being is incredible and I can never be grateful enough to Beachbody for giving me all these opportunities. I can not wait what the future has in store for me! I can honestly say this is the happiest I have been in my entire life!

Part of my LOVELY team, The Fearless Empire