I love my life. Let me help you love yours.
I mean that literally. After 25+ years in medicine, including the Army and 14 countries, I genuinely love the life I have built. That is exactly why I do this work.
What I kept noticing
I am a therapist and behavioural counsellor at heart. Over the years I kept seeing the same pattern in the people I worked with: stress leads to comfort-seeking, comfort-seeking leads to weight gain, weight gain wears down self-esteem, and low self-esteem feeds anxiety and low mood.
For some people the loop ends in type 2 diabetes, which becomes a physical stressor of its own. It is a loop, not a coincidence.
- StressLong days, pressure, little recovery
- Comfort-seekingFood, sugar, late nights
- Weight gainSlowly, then all at once
- Low self-esteemAvoiding mirrors, photos, plans
- Anxiety and low moodWhich brings more stress
- Type 2 diabetes, for someItself a new physical stressor
Your mind and body are not separate patients. They are the same person, talking to each other all the time.
I don't treat a diagnosis. I treat you.
That is why I specialised in metabolic rehabilitation, to help with weight loss and diabetes remission. Not as a separate service, but as the other half of your mental health.
I had to break the loop myself
Long shifts, rushed meals and stress I never dealt with took me to 96 kg, about 20 kg heavier than I had been, with an HbA1c of 12.1. I was weak, slept badly, healed slowly and was irritable in a way that was not me.
So I became my own patient and followed a medically structured plan, not a fad. I worked my way to remission, and today I am well enough to hike and live fully.
If you are stuck in that loop, I would love to help you break it.
The same way I broke mine. Start with a conversation, or check where you stand first.