 I'm Christina LeBron and I'm a patient at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health and Medicine. Before I became a patient, I had seen various other physicians just trying to look for ways that I could find answers to what was going on and why I was feeling the way I was feeling. One of my hobbies is graphic design and I was tired all the time. Looking at the screen was always hard for me whenever I was suffering with a migraine and so I took the trip over to the beautiful Jackson Health Village facility. My first visit with Emma Stafford, the nurse practitioner at the office was phenomenal. She even asked me some of the things that I was eating, some of my diet, my nutrition. I didn't realize how much my nutrition affected a lot of what I was suffering with. We discussed a lot of the things and findings and some of her concerns and suggestions as I moved forward as a patient at Integrative Health. She helped me to really see how important the foundation of having a purpose, knowing your purpose and walking out your purpose so that all of these other things that I might not have been paying attention to were just as important and just as valued. Nikki Cirillo, the nutritionist, is just amazing. The first time that I met her, I really thought I was going there to get a eating plan. I didn't think that this was going to be a lifestyle change for me. She helped me to implement practical ways and that was one of the things that I loved that it wasn't hard, it may have seemed like that on the outside, oh my gosh I have to make all of these changes and my eating habits, now I have to start exercising, I don't have time and all of these things were sort of going through my head. But she helped me to really implement practical ways and little by little we built up to getting me on a program that was actually attainable when we talk about our goals but doable at the same time considering my lifestyle and being a mom and working full time. So I was really able to accomplish the goal that she had given me and able to really make the changes that I thought might have been difficult in the beginning. Just by eliminating and taking out small things, it wasn't a drastic change. I was able to lose overall so far I've lost 13 pounds. I'm still on a journey, I still have a goal, I still have more to lose but I love the fact that it's exciting because it's a lifestyle change. It isn't just a quick fix program because that's really not what it is. We've all been there, we've all been on diets, we've all wanted to lose a lot of weight and we've all been there, we've gained it back. And so what I love about it is that it really is what I love to do now. I want to eat healthy, I want to make smarter choices, I look at the labels when I'm shopping, I don't just grab anything convenient, I don't just grab it because it's cheap. I want to make sure that my whole family, not just myself, is being fed nutritionally and so that we can be healthy as a whole. And so I'm on a journey, I'm still losing, it's exciting, she's working with me. I can't wait to see her every time I leave for my appointment. I want to come back the next day. But she stays with you, she works with you. Life now is much more exciting because I have control of it. And I have the keys and I have the goals and I have the practical ways to do that because I went to Hack and Sack Meridian Integrative Health and I chose to really listen to what they had to offer.