A NEW HOPE & HAPPINESS

I am a busy working mom with two kids ages 8 and 10, and the fact that I can be more productive in the day at my job, and after work, I can keep up with them and focus on them instead of worry about my health and that is huge. I feel like a new person and I am getting my life back that was buried under all the extra weight and burdened with low blood sugars. By time I was 36 years old, I had been over 300 pounds for 10 years. I wanted to be healthy for my kids, so I got gastric bypass surgery. Initially, I lost nearly 100 pounds very fast, but then a year later, I started having low blood sugars and I spent the next year seeing an endocrinologist and getting tests and he couldn’t find an actual problem in my body that was causing the low blood sugars, so they just determined it was of unknown cause. And over that year, I regained most of the weigh back and I was really worried about my health. I was big again, burdened with my health and stressed my work. I could not lose weight. I

would have to eat snacks to keep my blood sugar up throughout the day, I couldn’t exercise, and the worst feeling was that I couldn’t play with my kids and be the mom that I wanted to be. That’s when a friend of mine told me about a nurse practitioner who just opened her own business for diabetes and weight loss. It was easy to connect with her directly on the phone and she thought she could help me. At the first appointment, I could tell that Kristin was clinically very knowledgeable because my sister is a physician too. Also, I live in a small rural town in Kansas, so if I was going to keep go to appointments, then I needed that close-to-home access and she did telehealth appointments that were functional and easy. Before I started working with Kristin, I felt trapped and hopeless. The doctors couldn’t help

my low blood sugars and all the weight loss programs could not help my weight gain. In November 2021, I was in a worse situation than before bypass surgery, because not only did I gain most of my weight back but I had to eat more just to stay alive from the low blood sugar. I hated this new medical condition of hypoglycemia to deal with every single day and I just gave up.

Right away, Kristin Loyd fixed my low blood sugars and improved my quality of daily life. And that right there, that was worth a lot. Then, I lost some weight for the first time so that gave me hope and I decided to stick with her regimens for 6 months. I have lost 58 pounds so far and I am still on a steady track of losing weight for the long term. I have the mental space to live life better. I can play with my kids without fear of going low and I can execute my tasks at my job with more energy and focus. I have the physical ability to do things and I’m even working out now. I was willing to do anything and I spent so much money on every type of diet program to lose weight. I knew that I needed to lose weight for my health because I was sick in a lot of ways because of my weight, so I spent so much money on medical bills and all the time traveling to different doctors. Not only did Kristin Loyd fix my blood sugars, but she made weight loss possible for me and she made me healthier. She was competent to help me with a lot of other medical issues

that affected the quality of my life along the way because she understood how important that was to sticking the daily challenges of weight loss. At Evolve Diabetes, you get a medical provider who is willing to work with you throughout all of your challenges. I am on my own now, but I could not have done it without her. I am so thankful.

RESULTS: Started with daily low blood sugars in the 40’s-50’s and now never has any. Lost 58 pounds and continues her steady track of 5-10 pounds per month to reach her goals.