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
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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
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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
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