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
211 episodes
Episode 211: You Either Got It or You Don’t… Positive Emotional and Mental Wellness – From Then To Now
If you have lost a significant amount of weight and remain preoccupied with the scale, if you allow the scale to determine your mood, if you are overly obsessed with a goal weight, or are struggling to overcome emotional eating… OR if you said ...
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Episode 211
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1:15:50
Episode 210: The Connection Between your Relationship with Yourself and Food
I get all passionate in this episode and do quite a bit of self-disclosing. Why? Because I believe with everything that I am that improving your relationship with yourself is the ONLY way you will be able to follow through the behavioral change...
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Episode 210
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1:10:27
Episode 209: Discovering or RE-Discovering Your Relationship with Food
Relationships of all kinds can be complicated. And they change over time! Friendships change over time, your relationship with your spouse or partner may be good for years, and then flail, and then get better again! Your relationship with money...
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Episode 209
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1:13:57
Episode 208: How Did I Get Here? Understanding Your Obesity
How did I get here? I’m guessing you didn’t grow up wanting to have the disease of obesity as part of your adult life! And if you have comorbid health issues associated with your obesity, I’m pretty certain you ask yourself the question, how DI...
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Episode 208
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1:12:14
Episode 207: A BariAftercare Year in Review with Laura Preston!
It’s always an honor and a privilege to have Laura Preston on the podcast with me because Laura IS, in many ways, BariAftercare! She is an organizer extraordinaire, has an understanding of the bariatric community that is unmatched, and has a pa...
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Episode 207
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1:24:03
Episode 206: Scott’s Bariatric Journey Plays Out on National TV
Scott Bagwill, an active member of the full online BariAftercare program, is today’s guest on BariAftercare, the Podcast! Scott had bariatric surgery almost one year ago and has lost an extraordinary amount of weight. He has also been one of th...
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Episode 206
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1:06:30
Episode 205: Alcohol: The Facts with Special Guest, Dr. Susan Mitchell
Alcohol… a substance consumed by most people, to include those who are having or have had a surgical bariatric procedure or may be on GLP-1 medications. In this episode, Dr. Susan Mitchell, a PhD educated bariatric-specific registered dietician...
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Episode 205
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1:24:54
Episode 204: Sanjay Gupta’s Summary about GLP-1s
Last week I took you for a stroll down the Memory Lane of fad diets over the past century and ended up at what is clearly NOT a fad in the world of weight loss: the GLP-1 medications. In this episode I share most of what Dr. Sanjay Gupta and th...
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Episode 204
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1:09:03
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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1:14:07
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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1:04:49
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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1:01:08
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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1:01:43
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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58:11
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