(guitar music)
-: Hi, I'm Stephanie Coleman
and I highly recommend the Lifestyle
and Metabolic Medicine clinic.
I had been experiencing weight gain
and several different health complications
for about 10 years progressively,
and probably over a 20 year period of time.
And I was feeling really overwhelmed
because I'd tried so many different things
for my weight,
and my high blood pressure,
and asthma,
and all of these different things that were going on,
and I would try,
and try to lose weight,
and I couldn't.
I was referred by my Polyclinic provider
to the actual Polyclinic Lifestyle
and Metabolic Medicine Clinic,
and they are
the team that has helped me gain my health back.
So I go to the doctor
and I sit down with the nutritionist
and she goes through information
and basically tells you
what their clinic is about.
Then you go
and see the doctor
and
he sits
and informs you of what your body's been doing.
It just takes that away from you, that guilt.
And it's kind of an interesting process
because there's ups
and downs throughout the whole thing
and it's not that you're not losing weight,
it's just that your body's adjusting to different things.
And so you continue with this wonderful team
at the metabolic clinic.
And you can talk to them about anything.
You can write them on my chart.
You can ask them questions that you may seem as silly.
The patience
and the guidance, the feeling of you're not alone,
the support that they give you.
The results for me have been incredible.
They've been life changing.
I have gone from a size 22 to a size eight.
I've lost
asthma,
and high blood pressure,
and I was pre-diabetic,
and I'm no longer pre-diabetic.
I was in a very high risk for heart
issues
and I'm no longer in any of those categories.
I never was walking or running or exercising before.
There's not a day that goes by
that I'm not out there even in the rain.
I just, I have to move.
I ran my first 10K
and that was really exhilarating.
The nutritionist from the metabolic clinic
met me out there,
at the finish line,
that will make me cry.
(laughing)