CJ Torgersen is a graduate of the College of St. Benedict and the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is a full time practicing family medicine doctor. She lives in River Falls, Wisconsin, with her husband Kurt and their three active daughters, as well as various pets. CJ is the author of a children’s book called Magnus the Naughty Dog Steals Lunch. It is available on Amazon prime. She acknowledges gratefully that her complex life works because of the amazing support of an entire tribe of people.
I have been a family medicine practitioner for 19 years and have seen a lot of pediatric patients for the entirety of my career.
In the first fourteen years, I delivered babies and continued to follow them through their early years of life.
During the first 18 years, I observed obesity rates continually rise, but never at the rate I did during the COVID 19 pandemic.
I was a little late to the motherhood party.
I had been single for long stretches of time as a young adult and had an intense career in medicine before I decided to get married and have kids.
I had been very fit for most of my adult life as I had a lot of time to claim as my own. I finished five marathons as an adult and was a varsity track athlete through most of high school.
