Bariatric Support
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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
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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
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Learn how values, planning, routines, support, and small actions can sustain progress when motivation is low.
- Motivation
- Commitment
- Values
- Planning
- Small actions
- Support
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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