Bariatric Support
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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
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
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
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
Planned lesson · Coming soon
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
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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