Bariatric Support
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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
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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
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
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Recovery is not simply healing from surgery — it is learning how to live differently.
Adjust to the emotional, behavioral, relational, and practical realities of surgery and recovery while following individualized instructions from your bariatric medical team.
- Prepare emotionally for surgery and recovery.
- Adapt patiently to changing routines and eating experiences.
- Recognize non-scale progress.
- Use support effectively during recovery.
- Maintain appropriate medical and nutritional follow-up.
Anticipate emotional, practical, relationship, and routine changes surrounding surgery and early recovery.
- Expect change
- Ask for help
- Prepare your environment
- Plan communication
- Follow clinical instructions
- Be patient with recovery
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Recognize that appetite, eating, routines, energy, emotions, relationships, and expectations may all require adjustment.
- New routines
- Changing appetite
- Eating experiences
- Emotional adjustment
- Relationships
- Patience
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Expand your definition of progress to include health behaviors, energy, mobility, participation, confidence, relationships, consistency, and quality of life.
- Health behaviors
- Energy
- Mobility
- Participation
- Confidence
- Consistency
- Quality of life
Planned lesson · Coming soon
If food helped you cope, lasting change requires additional ways to care for yourself.
Expand your coping toolbox so difficult emotions and life experiences do not automatically lead back to old eating patterns or other harmful behaviors.
- Recognize emotional states that commonly trigger old coping patterns.
- Develop multiple healthy coping options.
- Practice emotional regulation and stress-management skills.
- Strengthen relationships and willingness to seek support.
- Recognize when professional behavioral-health care is needed.
Explore whether eating has helped soothe, distract, reward, numb, celebrate, connect, avoid, or manage difficult experiences.
- Soothing
- Distraction
- Reward
- Numbing
- Celebration
- Connection
- Avoidance
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Develop multiple ways to respond to stress, anxiety, loneliness, anger, boredom, grief, fatigue, and difficult emotions.
- Emotional regulation
- Connection
- Mindfulness
- Movement
- Rest
- Journaling
- Meaningful activity
- Professional support
Planned lesson · Coming soon
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