Bariatric Support
Prepare your mind, strengthen your habits, navigate life after surgery, and build a healthier relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
Transformation
Move beyond relying on surgery or willpower alone by developing greater self-awareness, healthier coping strategies, stronger daily habits, a more supportive relationship with food and your body, and a practical lifelong plan for maintaining progress.
Journey
Prepare • Recover • Build healthier habits • Strengthen your relationship with food • Create lifelong support
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Course Overview
What you'll learn
- Clarify personal motivations, expectations, concerns, strengths, and priorities for the bariatric journey.
- Understand what bariatric surgery can change and what still requires ongoing behavioral, emotional, and lifestyle development.
- Recognize physical hunger, cravings, emotional eating, habitual eating, and common environmental or social triggers.
- Develop a more intentional and less shame-based relationship with food.
- Build practical routines that support the individualized recommendations of the bariatric care team.
- Navigate emotional and identity changes that may accompany significant weight loss and physical change.
- Develop healthier ways to cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, grief, frustration, and other difficult emotions.
- Recognize plateaus, setbacks, habit drift, and weight recurrence as signals for reflection and appropriate support rather than personal failure.
- Strengthen communication and collaboration with therapists, dietitians, surgeons, physicians, coaches, and supportive people.
- Create and maintain a Personal Bariatric Success Blueprint for long-term wellbeing.
Who this course is for
- People preparing emotionally and behaviorally for bariatric surgery
- People adjusting to the first months or years after bariatric surgery
- Long-term bariatric patients who want stronger habits and ongoing support
- People working on emotional eating, cravings, food triggers, or stress-related eating
- People adjusting to significant changes in body image, identity, relationships, or self-confidence
- People experiencing plateaus, habit drift, setbacks, or weight recurrence
- Clients working with bariatric therapists, dietitians, surgeons, coaches, or multidisciplinary care teams
- People who want bariatric surgery to become the beginning of sustainable lifestyle change rather than a temporary intervention
Best for
Adults preparing for bariatric surgery, adjusting after surgery, working to strengthen long-term habits, navigating emotional eating or body-image changes, or recommitting to their health after setbacks or weight recurrence.
How the course works
Begin with the Bariatric Journey Discovery Assessment to understand your current stage, expectations, strengths, eating patterns, emotional needs, support system, and most useful next step. Then explore mental preparation, hunger and eating triggers, your relationship with food, recovery, sustainable habits, body image, coping skills, setbacks, and lifelong maintenance. Apply what you learn through Smart Forms, reflection, coaching, and the DGBB Bariatric Success Challenge. Finish by creating a Personal Bariatric Success Blueprint that supports continued growth alongside your bariatric medical and behavioral-health team.