Bariatric Support

Course Overview
Start with Your Personal Bariatric Journey whether you are preparing for surgery, recently post-operative, several years into your journey, or returning after a setback. Continue sequentially or choose the modules most relevant to your current needs. Use the DGBB Bariatric Success Challenge as your ongoing daily practice and revisit assessments and your Bariatric Success Blueprint as your needs change.

Learn

Work through each module and lesson at your own pace.

Module 6Build Habits That Support Your New Life4 lessons planned

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.
Build Systems, Not Just Intentions
LESSON

Create routines, reminders, preparation strategies, and environmental supports that reduce dependence on willpower.

  • Routines
  • Planning
  • Reminders
  • Environment
  • Preparation
  • Consistency

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Support the Basics Every Day
LESSON

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

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Module 9Plateaus, Setbacks, Weight Recurrence & Recommitment3 lessons planned

A setback is information — not your identity and not the end of your journey.

Respond to plateaus, setbacks, returning habits, avoidance, or weight recurrence with curiosity, appropriate clinical follow-up, renewed support, and practical recommitment rather than shame.

  • Recognize common forms of habit drift.
  • Reduce shame and avoidance after setbacks.
  • Identify changes that may have contributed to current difficulty.
  • Reconnect with appropriate professional and social support.
  • Rebuild progress through small, realistic recommitment steps.
Recognize Drift Before It Becomes a Crisis
LESSON

Identify subtle changes in routines, eating patterns, coping, follow-up, planning, movement, sleep, or support that may signal a need for attention.

  • Routine drift
  • Eating-pattern changes
  • Reduced follow-up
  • Stress
  • Avoidance
  • Isolation
  • Early awareness

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Weight Recurrence Is a Reason to Respond, Not Hide
LESSON

Approach weight recurrence or other difficult outcomes as reasons for compassionate assessment, medical follow-up, behavioral review, and renewed support rather than secrecy or self-condemnation.

  • Avoid shame
  • Return to follow-up
  • Review contributing factors
  • Medical evaluation when appropriate
  • Behavioral support
  • Recommitment

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Rebuild One Behavior at a Time
LESSON

Choose the smallest high-value action that helps restore direction instead of trying to fix everything in a single burst of effort.

  • Choose one priority
  • Small actions
  • Consistency
  • Track progress
  • Use support
  • Add complexity gradually

Planned lesson · Coming soon

Module 10Create Your Lifelong Bariatric Success Blueprint4 lessons planned

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.
Recognize How Far You Have Come
LESSON

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

Know What Keeps You Well
LESSON

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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Know Your Warning Signs and Reset Plan
LESSON

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

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Create Your Personal Bariatric Success Blueprint
LESSON

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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