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Slayde Meyer

Forgan

I had been thinking about doing mission stuff. They always take a group of Oklahoma high school students overseas for missionary work, so I signed up for it. I got accepted, but I found out that you had to have a body mass index of a certain level.

I was overweight.

So, I started exercising, and that’s when I started losing it — 78 pounds. I’m at 202.

I just started eating a lot healthier and running. I had run before, but I could never really lose weight. We live on a country road, and I started on that. At that point, I could probably do about a mile and a half.

I did 10 miles last Sunday.

My German teacher, she lost 110 pounds. She runs, too. We’ve kept each other motivated.

I’m doing the half (marathon). It’s just so amazing. I think back — what if someone would’ve told me a year ago that I’d be doing this, I would have never believed them.

I hope to run a full marathon by the time I’m 18.