- 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.
