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
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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
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
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
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