Bariatric Support
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A path from assessment to coaching — follow the tabs in order for the full ProgressTracks journey.
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
Planned lesson · Coming soon
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
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
Long-term change becomes easier when healthy actions become part of everyday life.
Create practical systems that make health-supporting behaviors easier to repeat, including planning, hydration, movement, sleep, follow-up care, stress management, and other individualized recommendations from your care team.
- Translate health goals into repeatable daily behaviors.
- Use planning and environmental design to make supportive choices easier.
- Build consistent routines around clinician-directed nutrition and hydration.
- Support appropriate movement, sleep, stress management, and recovery.
- Recover quickly when routines are disrupted.
Create routines, reminders, preparation strategies, and environmental supports that reduce dependence on willpower.
- Routines
- Planning
- Reminders
- Environment
- Preparation
- Consistency
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Develop systems around the foundational behaviors recommended for you by your bariatric team.
- Nutrition plan
- Hydration
- Movement
- Sleep
- Medication and supplements as prescribed
- Appointments and follow-up
Planned lesson · Coming soon
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