BariAftercare: The Podcast
Welcome to BariAftercare: The Podcast, where weight loss surgery patients learn healthy coping skills for dealing with the emotional and psychological issues related to living an amazing post-op life. Learn to avoid regain and how to lose post-op regain! Hosted by Dr. Connie Stapleton, a licensed psychologist with many years of experience sharing practical skills for improving your post-op relationships: with food, with other people and most importantly, the relationship you have with yourself! Be sure to check out the entire BariAftercare program for successful post-op living at www.bariaftercare.com.
Episodes
203 episodes
Episode 203: GLP’s for Weight Loss. The Be All and End All?
GLP’s have taken the world by storm and are being used for weight loss by people who medically qualify for them and by people who well… found a way to get them, whether they formally “qualify” for them or not. Weight loss methods date back … pr...
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Episode 203
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1:03:04
Episode 202: Romantic Relationships and Dating after Significant Weight Loss
It’s definitely not only your body that changes following significant weight loss! In fact, most areas of your life are affected when you lose weight. Think about it… in addition to improvements in physical health, people who lose weight get ou...
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Episode 202
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1:12:26
Episode 201: Developmental Stages of Life and Your Relationship with Food
In today’s episode, I’m talking about we start developing our relationship with food during our first days of life! By the time we’re three years old, our belief in our ability to trust ourselves has already begun. Trusting ourselves with food ...
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Episode 201
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1:05:29
Episode 200: The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating: A Detailed Description, Part 2
In today’s 200th episode, I pick up where we left off last week and clearly define and describe the remaining 8 principles of Intuitive Eating as outlined in the book Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach, 4th edition, by Evelyn ...
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Episode 200
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1:14:34
Episode 199: The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating: A Detailed Description, Part 1
Last week I had a fun discussion with Shea Quinn, the newest peer mentor for the full BariAftercare online program. Shea and I discussed intuitive eating and how this eating theory fits, or may not fit, persons who have had a surgical procedure...
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Episode 199
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1:09:10
Episode 198: Intuitive Eating — Yay or Nay? A Conversation with Shea Quinn
Intuitive Eating… sounds, well… intuitive, instinctive, automatic. And it is! When we’re infants, anyway…. We are built to eat when we’re hungry and to stop eating when we are physically satisfied. By the time we’re adults, intuitive eating has...
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Episode 198
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1:09:32
Episode 197: Fertility, PCOS and YOUR Bariatric Journey
Did you know that approximately 20% of women suffer with PCOS, or polycystic ovarian syndrome? It affects women of all sizes and shapes and races. For those who also suffer from obesity, having PCOS makes it very difficult to lose weight withou...
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Episode 197
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Episode 196: A Big Word That’ll Bring You Big Results — INDIVIDUATION
Individu – WHAT? Yeah… it’s a big, fancy psychological word… individuation. But it’s a word worth knowing and a process well worth going through! Why, you ask? Because individuated people know a lot of things: they know who they are, what their...
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Episode 196
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1:11:10
Episode 195: Calling all FOODIES — Meet Jared Gleaton, Author of A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well
I saw something on Instagram that caught my eye and am I ever glad it did! The reason is that whatever it was (and I honestly don’t remember what it was that I saw) led to this great interview with Jared Gleaton! Jared is a man who knows what i...
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Episode 195
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1:00:54
Episode 194: Katie Chapmon, RD is back with — Your Gut Biome, Part 2!
She’s back with us! Katie Chapmon, who helped me – and hopefully you – better understand some very important information about our gut biome is here with more great information! People had questions after listening to the first episode on the g...
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Episode 194
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Episode 193: The Doom Loop of Irresponsibility
Anyone with a chronic disease knows that a host of factors have collided to result in their having that disease. Obesity being a classic example. Addiction, hypertension and heart disease being others. In many cases, there is a genetic predispo...
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Episode 193
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Episode 192: Do What, Now?
In life, when we make changes there are often things we gain and things we lose. A new job may mean the loss of some free time or the loss of a previous job you really liked. The new job also brings gains: perhaps an increase in salary, additio...
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Episode 192
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1:00:04
Episode 191: Your Gut Biome: What YOU Need To Know!
Boy, did I learn a lot of great information in this interview with Katie Chapmon, Registered Dietician, who specializes not only in working with bariatric patients, but also in helping people understand their gut biome and how imbalances in our...
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Episode 191
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1:03:46
Episode 190: What Exactly IS Trauma and How Does Trauma Impact Your Bariatric Journey?
The last three episodes of the podcast have focused on Diane Petrella’s fantastic book, Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors. The core of the information in these episodes has been trauma resulting from childhood neglect or abuse. Ther...
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Episode 190
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1:05:10
Episode 189: Book Review of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors, Part 2
Let’s pick up where we left off in the last episode, completing the book review of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors by Diane Patrella. I’ll continue sharing insights and wisdom that Diane offers readers to help them heal from emoti...
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Episode 189
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Episode 188: Book Review of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors, Part 1
In the last episode, I interviewed Diane Petrella who wrote this incredible book! Today, I start a thorough book review, sharing with you the insight and wisdom Diane shares with readers to help them heal from emotional eating and from trauma t...
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Episode 188
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Episode 187: Meet Diane Petrella, Author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors
This podcast episode is absolutely one of my favorite ever! It was a complete honor talking with Diane Petrella, author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors. Diane has been a therapist for the past 40 years and is a therapist anyone...
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Episode 187
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1:08:49
Episode 186: Readiness for Change…At Every Step Along the Way
Whether you are getting ready to have bariatric surgery or are one, two or twenty years out from surgery, you can always increase your readiness for ongoing change! Thinking about change and creating change are two different things, as most of ...
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Episode 186
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1:05:55
Episode 185: Weight Loss Surgery is Like a Wedding! Who Knew?
One day I’m going to turn this episode into an ebook… I’ve had that in the back of my mind for years now, actually! So here you go – a sneak peek at the ebook that will one day be available to one and all! For now, listen to this lighthearted b...
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Episode 185
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Episode 184: Always Go Back to the Basics — The Bariatric Basics
Getting used to the bariatric lifestyle following surgery can be like a full time job! There are bariatric specific vitamins to take at certain times of the day, there’s a lot of water to be consumed, more than a lot of protein to take in, move...
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Episode 184
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1:02:24
Episode 183: Post-Op Amy is Crushing the NSV’s and Kelsey is Helping Her!
BariAftercare’s movement contributor, Kelsey, who is a personal trainer and Burn Boot Camp instructor, met a post-op who is shaking things up in the best way, not only at the gym but in her life as a mom, a teacher, and through her posts on soc...
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Episode 183
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1:10:54
Episode 182: Modification or Transformation. What’s It Gonna Be?
The Butterfly Effect. You may or may not have heard of this, but the butterfly is commonly recognized in the world of bariatrics to represent the transformation people go through as they modify their bodies through significant weight loss. The ...
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Episode 181: Personal Power, Happiness and Long-Term Success, Part 2
This week I conclude this two-part series on establishing and utilizing a sense of personal power that will facilitate you in defining and reaching your goals, not only related to your bariatric adventure, but your life beyond bariatrics, as we...
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Episode 181
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Episode 180: Personal Power, Happiness and Long-Term Success
As part of the full online BariAftercare program, we have a word of the week that corresponds to our word of the year, which is accountability. One of the words we recently discussed is the word POWER. This word has a lot of definitions, which ...
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Episode 180
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1:10:10
Episode 179: What Do Mental Toughness For Young Athletes And Life As A Post-Op Patient Have In Common? PART 2
In this episode I pick up where we left off last week, only in this episode I provide a number of five to ten-minute practical exercises you can use to help ensure your long-term success as a post-op. These exercises are ones the author of Ment...
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Episode 179
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