From Struggling Child to Pediatric Expert
I'm Dr. Sheila Carroll, a board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist. But before I was treating childhood weight struggles professionally, I was living them personally.
As an overweight child and teen, I know the shame and discomfort your child may be feeling. Despite my best efforts at dieting and exercising - my struggle with extra weight followed me for decades, even through medical school and most of my pediatric career.
After 20 years as a pediatrician, I realized something crucial: medical school never taught me how to actually help families prevent and reverse childhood weight struggles. It taught me an ineffective approach to weight loss and how to treat the diseases that result from extra weight.
When I figured out for myself what actually has to happen to lose weight and improve metabolic health, I applied that knowledge to create a family systems approach to helping kids and teens and everything changed.
Using the same strategies I now teach my clients, I lost 45 pounds and reversed both my own and my 11 year old son's insulin resistance and weight trajectory. Not through dieting or gritting it out, but by changing the home environment and creating new family standards around health.
As a pediatrician who now coaches parents of kids and teens who are struggling with extra weight and metabolic health, I help parents create the same transformation. Because here's what I discovered: kids can't solve this alone, but when parents create the right environment, children naturally return to health.
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Meet Sheila Carroll, MD
Sheila Carroll, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical experience. After discovering life coaching, she applied what she learned to her own life, resulting in a transformative journey. Inspired by her success, she became a certified Life and Weight Loss Coach through The Life Coach School to help others achieve their own transformations.
Sheila lives in beautiful Maine with her son Theo and their beloved 14-year-old puppy, Finn. Together, they embrace a healthy lifestyle and enjoy all the adventures life has to offer.