A first-person testimonial from Dawn describing long-term struggles with weight loss, how conventional diet programs failed to help her maintain weight, and how Dr. Tague’s medical approach — including balancing her lab work — produced substantial improvements in energy, well-being, and weight maintenance. She emphasizes the importance of medical guidance, education, and support to assemble the "parts of the puzzle" needed to sustain health changes, and frames maintaining weight as benefiting family and responsibilities.
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I had done a lot of different diet programs, and I usually was able to lose the weight, but I could never keep it off. And I just was like, gosh, what is wrong that I can. I. Just. As hard as I try, I just can't seem to do this on my own. I felt like I needed some other tools. I needed some other information. And I've worked in the medical field, like, 20 years, and so I. I really like that that he's a medical doctor and takes a medical approach, and they filled in a lot of the blanks for the medical piece that a lot of the different diet programs don't. Once he was able to get my lab work balanced out, I just. The difference is just amazing. How energetic I feel, how much better I feel, how I finally feel like I'm at myself. I'm at a weight that feels like myself, and I feel like I'm not held back by my body for things that I want to do. It's pretty exciting. You know, there's some shame when you can't. You feel like you can't maintain your weight, and it looks like everyone else can. I feel like Dr. Tague and his staff, they help you put that in a proper perspective and realize that you maybe didn't have all the tools you needed to keep your weight in line and that that's okay, but. But, you know, if you don't have all those tools, you need to be willing to listen and be educated and get what you need. Other parts of our life, like our finances or even our relationships, we're willing to get some good advice and, you know, even get medical advice or whatever's needed. But for some reason, for a weight, sometimes I feel like we feel like we should just be able to handle that all on our own, and that's not necessarily the case. If you don't have all the parts of the puzzle, it's hard to put it together. And so Dr. Tague just helps you get all those pieces so that you're able to make wise choices and have those boundaries so you can keep your weight in a good spot. I've been able to maintain my weight. I'm just excited that I've got a partner that will help me and that I can, you know, work with. And I feel like with those outer boundaries that they give you, it's pretty easy. There's people that are depending on you and people that just enjoy being with you and people that you add to their lives. And so you're not only helping your. You're really helping a lot of other people by taking good care of yourself. And so if you're a parent or an aunt or uncle or whatever, you've got someone looking up to you, and so you want to be, you want to be a good example, especially with something as important as your health. So it's just worth it. It's worth the time and energy it takes. You just get to a place where you can just feel so good and just feel like, ah, this is who I am, this is me, this is my weight, this is how I feel the best. And so it's just worth it. It's worth the time and energy.
