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Vitality Champ Mayra Morgan Stays Healthy Even During Pregnancy

Mayra Morgan, Inpatient Coordinator, HCP the gym during lunch. On a personal
Mariner, estimates that in the seven years level, one of the reasons she wanted
she has been employed at HCP, she had been to get healthier and lose weight was
gaining about 10 pounds per year due to a because she wanted to get pregnant.
sedentary lifestyle and not enough exercise. Now due in July with her first baby,
So when HCP started to offer the Vitality Morgan continues on a healthy path.
wellness program, she joined right away, She snacks on healthier choices that
eager to find out more about the different she learned about through Vitality,
tools offered to get healthier. and at home she does a prenatal
yoga video that she purchased with
Because she is so enthusiastic about the Vi- her Vitality points.
tality program, she started to serve as a
champ in the middle of last year. “I was al- As champ, she is eager this year to
ready trying to get people to join the pro- get all of her colleagues to complete
gram, so it made sense to become a champ,” the Vitality Health Review (VHR) so
she said. that her site reaches 70% VHR com-
pletion in the Got Points challenge.
Her own health journey has taken some posi- She’s raffling Starbucks cards as an
tive turns. Last February, she lost 34 pounds, incentive for people to do this.
Mayra, at 29 weeks along, strives to
which was half of her goal weight loss. This
stay healthy during pregnancy.
helped her to place second in the site’s “I want other people to have the
weight loss challenge. (First place winner Juan Delgado is same experience I have had with Vitality,” Morgan said. “It
Morgan’s former walking buddy). She did this through feels so good to be living a healthier lifestyle.”
both dietary changes and more exercise, including going to