Bariatric Support
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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
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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
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
Planned lesson · Coming soon
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
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.
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
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
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