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Hi. I’m Kellie, and I have been a patient of Dr Mittal’s for a little while now. When I came to Dr Mittal, I weighed 305 pounds. I have since come down to about 245 pounds – still working on more weight to lose. But, I am a grandma of three grandsons that are four and under. I am a mom to five. I am a teacher to students – first grade. I’ve been a teacher to kindergarten students and preschool students.
Like most teachers, if you know our way of living, it is everybody else first and then us, which was pretty much my pattern – not paying too much attention to myself and my health and beginning to feel all of those things.
When I came to see Dr Mittal I was 51 I’m now 53, but I felt more like a 70 year old, maybe a little younger than that. But, bad knees, bad joints, not sleeping, bad everything, and my blood work reflected that.
So, what I’ve loved about Radiant Health and all of the people at the office, is that they have become not just someone who I go and talk to and she prescribes medication and tells me what I shouldn’t do, but rather she treats all of me and she helps me think through goals that I have – a goal that’s more than just that “I don’t want to weigh 305 lbs”.
So, she has taught me to have smaller goals, one of them just being that I want to be strong and healthy to play with my grandsons. To get on the floor with them or get in a pool with them or go hiking with them.
Which, I can say I do all those things with my grandsons, I get in a pool with them. I go on hikes with them. I go for hours with them in their backyard, whether it’s painting or playing just outside with their soccer balls. But, they are three rough boys, so it is constant contact and I am ready for it!
So, I really appreciate the encouragement and the goals that aren’t just about numbers on a scale, though the effect is that. The effect is weight loss and I am grateful for that. But, I think one of the things I love the most is the silencing of the food noise. So, if you have food noise, too, then might I suggest you spend some time with Dr Mittal and the office gang and learn how to get a hold of that and to get your life back.
I got my life back. And, while I still have a little to go I am so encouraged with how I feel now and I keep looking for more ways of feeling better and better and being more and more of the mom, the wife, the grandma, and the teacher that I can be!
