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
197 episodes
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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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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46:05
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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1:07:17
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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59:39
Episode 178: What Do Mental Toughness For Young Athletes And Life As A Post-Op Patient Have In Common?
This episode has been so much fun to record! I have been reading a book called Mental Toughness for Young Athletes to two of my grandsons. As I’ve been reading it aloud to them, I’ve found myself regularly saying, “I need to share this with my ...
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Episode 178
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1:05:02
Episode 177: Perception vs Perspective and YOUR BariAftercare!
We have some terms to define in today’s podcast episode. More specifically, we need to explore what the words perception and perspective are… and what they have to do with increasing the likelihood that you maintain your weight loss and live a ...
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Episode 177
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57:10
Episode 176: Self-Efficacy, Habits and YOUR Success!
What a fancy word… Self-Efficacy! What the heck does it mean? What’s the connection between self-efficacy, habits and your long-term success after bariatric surgery? You’ll have to listen to this week’s episode to get the answers to those quest...
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Episode 176
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53:29
Episode 175: Find a Bariatric Therapist with Ashlyn Douglass-Barnes
So many people ask about how they can find a bariatric therapist to work with! Well – in this episode you are going to get the answer to that question! In addition, you’ll learn more about Ashlyn Douglass-Barnes, creator and founder of the Find...
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Episode 175
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1:03:56
Episode 174: You – Taking Personal Responsibility for Creating the Life You Want to LIVE!
What does it look like on a daily basis to take responsibility in order to create the life you imagine… the life you can create… the life you want to live? In this episode you’ll be given a phrase that has helped guide my behavior and helped me...
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Episode 174
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1:02:13
Episode 173: Summer Camp with Rob Demedio's Busy Bariatrics
It’s that time of year when lots of us are re-igniting that New Year’s resolution to work out more… because the weather is getting better every day! Tune in and listen to one of my favorite podcast guests and one of your favorite bariatric men,...
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Episode 173
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