Bariatric Support

Course Overview
Start with Your Personal Bariatric Journey whether you are preparing for surgery, recently post-operative, several years into your journey, or returning after a setback. Continue sequentially or choose the modules most relevant to your current needs. Use the DGBB Bariatric Success Challenge as your ongoing daily practice and revisit assessments and your Bariatric Success Blueprint as your needs change.

Learn

Work through each module and lesson at your own pace.

Module 3Understand Hunger, Cravings & Eating Triggers3 lessons planned

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.
Not Every Desire to Eat Is Hunger
LESSON

Explore physical hunger, cravings, emotional urges, habits, environmental cues, and social eating.

  • Physical hunger
  • Cravings
  • Habit
  • Emotion
  • Environment
  • Social cues

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Discover Your Eating Triggers
LESSON

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

Module 4Build a Healthier Relationship with Food3 lessons planned

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.
Practice Mindful Eating
LESSON

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

Move Away from Food Shame
LESSON

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

Module 7Body Image, Identity & Becoming You3 lessons planned

Your body may change faster than your inner picture of yourself.

Explore how significant physical change can affect body image, identity, confidence, relationships, intimacy, clothing, attention from others, and the way you see yourself.

  • Understand why body image may lag behind physical change.
  • Separate personal worth from body weight and appearance.
  • Navigate compliments, attention, loose skin, clothing, and other appearance-related experiences.
  • Recognize changing relationship and identity dynamics.
  • Develop a values-based sense of who you are becoming.
When Your Body Changes Faster Than Your Self-Image
LESSON

Explore why significant physical change may not immediately change how you see or experience yourself.

  • Internal body image
  • Old identity
  • Adjustment takes time
  • Mirror and clothing experiences
  • Self-awareness
  • Patience

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Your Worth Is Bigger Than Your Weight
LESSON

Develop a more stable sense of worth based on character, relationships, values, contribution, growth, and how you live rather than body size.

  • Self-worth
  • Identity
  • Values
  • Character
  • Relationships
  • Contribution

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Module 10Create Your Lifelong Bariatric Success Blueprint4 lessons planned

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.
Recognize How Far You Have Come
LESSON

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

Know What Keeps You Well
LESSON

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

Know Your Warning Signs and Reset Plan
LESSON

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

Create Your Personal Bariatric Success Blueprint
LESSON

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

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