Bariatric Support
Course Overview
Contents › Learn
A path from assessment to coaching — follow the tabs in order for the full ProgressTracks journey.
Understand where you are, why this matters, and what you want to build from here.
Explore why you chose or are considering bariatric surgery, what you hope will change, what surgery can and cannot do by itself, and the behavioral, emotional, relationship, and lifestyle factors that may matter most in your journey. This Foundation Journey provides meaningful value on its own while helping you choose what to explore next.
- Clarify your personal reasons for pursuing or continuing the bariatric journey.
- Identify realistic hopes, expectations, concerns, and questions.
- Explore current eating patterns, coping strategies, habits, self-image, and support.
- Recognize what surgery may change and what still requires ongoing personal development.
- Choose a practical next focus and create an initial Bariatric Growth Plan.
Identify whether you are preparing for surgery, recovering, building new habits, maintaining long-term progress, or recommitting after challenges.
- Pre-surgery
- Early recovery
- Post-surgery adjustment
- Long-term maintenance
- Recommitment
- Your current priorities
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Clarify the life, health, relationships, experiences, freedoms, and possibilities you hope this journey will support.
- Personal motivation
- Desired life
- Health goals
- Relationships
- Freedom and participation
- Meaning beyond a number on the scale
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Develop realistic expectations about how bariatric surgery can support change while beliefs, coping strategies, relationships, habits, and identity continue to require intentional attention.
- Tool versus complete solution
- Behavior change
- Emotional adjustment
- Habits
- Support
- Lifelong learning
Planned lesson · Coming soon
A changed body works best with a mind prepared for change.
Prepare psychologically and behaviorally for a major life transition by examining expectations, beliefs, fear, motivation, perfectionism, shame, and the mental patterns that influence long-term change.
- Develop realistic expectations about bariatric surgery and life afterward.
- Recognize unhelpful all-or-nothing thinking, perfectionism, and shame.
- Strengthen commitment beyond temporary motivation.
- Practice constructive self-talk and mental rehearsal.
- Build a support and preparation plan.
Explore hopes and assumptions about surgery, weight change, health, confidence, relationships, eating, and life after surgery.
- Realistic expectations
- Unrealistic expectations
- Health versus appearance
- Relationships
- Emotional adjustment
- Long-term work
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Recognize perfectionism, shame, harsh self-judgment, and the belief that one difficult choice means the entire plan has failed.
- Perfectionism
- All-or-nothing thinking
- Shame
- Self-talk
- Progress over perfection
- Returning quickly after a difficult choice
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Learn how values, planning, routines, support, and small actions can sustain progress when motivation is low.
- Motivation
- Commitment
- Values
- Planning
- Small actions
- Support
Planned lesson · Coming soon
You can respond more intentionally when you understand what is actually driving the urge to eat.
Learn to recognize the different experiences that can lead to eating and identify personal patterns involving physical hunger, cravings, emotions, habits, environment, stress, boredom, loneliness, rewards, and social situations.
- Differentiate physical hunger from cravings, habits, and emotional triggers.
- Identify common personal eating triggers.
- Recognize environmental and social influences.
- Understand what emotional eating may be attempting to accomplish.
- Create alternative responses to recurring triggers.
Explore physical hunger, cravings, emotional urges, habits, environmental cues, and social eating.
- Physical hunger
- Cravings
- Habit
- Emotion
- Environment
- Social cues
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Look for patterns involving stress, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, fatigue, conflict, celebration, reward, location, people, and routines.
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Loneliness
- Boredom
- Fatigue
- Conflict
- Reward
- Social triggers
Planned lesson · Coming soon
The goal is not to fear food — it is to relate to it with greater awareness and intention.
Develop more intentional eating behavior through mindfulness, awareness, planning, flexible thinking, and collaboration with your bariatric nutrition team.
- Practice mindful and intentional eating.
- Reduce shame-based thinking about food and eating.
- Follow individualized nutrition recommendations from qualified providers.
- Prepare for social situations, eating out, holidays, and travel.
- Recover constructively after difficult eating experiences.
Slow down and increase awareness of thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, choices, satisfaction, and your bariatric care plan during eating experiences.
- Slow down
- Pay attention
- Reduce distractions
- Notice internal experience
- Follow your care plan
- Reflect without judgment
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Challenge the idea that eating choices determine your worth and replace shame with responsibility, curiosity, and constructive adjustment.
- Food is not a moral score
- Self-worth
- Responsibility without shame
- Curiosity
- Learning
- Recommitment
Planned lesson · Coming soon
The goal is not simply losing weight — it is building a life you know how to keep supporting.
Bring your learning together into a living plan for eating awareness, habits, coping, body image, relationships, professional support, follow-up care, recommitment, and the life you want bariatric treatment to help you build.
- Review progress and recognize meaningful changes beyond the scale.
- Clarify long-term values, priorities, supports, and behavioral commitments.
- Identify personal triggers and healthy coping strategies.
- Define warning signs that indicate a need for adjustment or professional support.
- Create practical 30-day, 90-day, and longer-term priorities.
- Complete and maintain a Personal Bariatric Success Blueprint.
Review behavioral, emotional, relationship, health, confidence, mobility, coping, and quality-of-life changes that deserve recognition.
- Non-scale victories
- Behavior change
- Coping
- Relationships
- Confidence
- Quality of life
- Lessons learned
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Identify the habits, relationships, professional care, coping strategies, environments, and routines that most strongly support you.
- Core habits
- Clinical follow-up
- Support
- Coping
- Environment
- Relationships
- Reflection
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Identify early signs of drift and decide in advance how you will respond, who you will contact, and which habits you will restart first.
- Warning signs
- Behavior drift
- Emotional warning signs
- Support contacts
- Clinical follow-up
- First reset actions
- DGBB recommitment focus
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Bring your why, habits, triggers, coping strategies, support team, clinical commitments, body-image priorities, reset plan, and future goals into one living roadmap.
- My why
- My desired life
- Eating insights
- Triggers
- Healthy coping
- Clinical commitments
- Nutrition-plan commitments
- Hydration
- Movement
- Sleep
- Support network
- Body image
- Relationships
- Warning signs
- Reset plan
- 30-day priorities
- 90-day goals
- One-year vision
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Ready to start? Enroll or begin your free trial above.