{"id":1226,"date":"2011-07-06T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/06\/mamavation-guest-post\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:14:06","slug":"mamavation-guest-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/06\/mamavation-guest-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamavation – Guest Post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Hello All\u2026 I am Megan or @NcCarterFamily and I\u00a0am basically\u00a0the Zoo Keeper for our family. I am a stay at home mom but rarely am I actually at home. I have 3 crazy boys, a husband and we live on the family property so my in laws are our neighbors. I blog at\u00a0www.carterzoochronicles.<\/span>blogspot.com\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0http:\/\/<\/span>cartersautismdogadventures.<\/span>blogspot.com<\/span><\/a>I started having kids very early in life and spent time being a mom and not really taking the best care of myself. When 2 of my children were diagnosised with Autism I jumped head first and lived everything that I needed to do or could think to do to dealing with their issues. Which meant a lot of emotional eating for me. Also a lot of quick meals and fast food while playing Taxi driver for the family. To add more to my plate I am also starting back to school this fall.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always put\u00a0everyone else\u00a0before me and have never really found out who Megan is. I know Megan is not who I am now. I am not this obese mother who is too tired, too fat, too lazy, too exhausted, too stressed out to be the mother my kids\u00a0deserve. I want to be able to run after them scratch that I have to be able to run and catch them because of the autism. I want to be able to take them to the water park, or to ride the roller coasters with them. I want to be running around playing basketball, chase whatever it is they want to do I want to be able to join them and I WILL DO IT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I know that signing my ass over to Leah and\u00a0Daniel along with the other Coaches and Mentors\u00a0and going through the Mamavation Mom boot camp will be a life changing opportunity for myself and my family. It will give me the tools that I HAVE to learn to make this LIFE STYLE CHANGE for my family. I don\u2019t want my children to have to grow up and then learn a healthy lifestyle I want them to learn it from me. I also want to inspire the others in my family so that they can learn and see what I have done to change my life. I have been a Sista with\u00a0www.Mamavation.com<\/a>\u00a0for 7 months and this is my 3 Campaign.<\/p>\n

I hope you will take a moment and head over to the Mamavation Site and Vote for me NcCarterFamily\u2026\u00a0http:\/\/www.mamavation.com\/2011\/07\/mamavation-finalists-campaign-9.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

**** Hi all! Katie, here. This is my good friend, Megan. She’s in the running for something that could change not only her life, but that of her family. Please take a moment and go over and vote for her, please. Help this mama help another mama help her entire family. ****<\/p>\n

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