Weight Loss Winformation
Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation: 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
298 episodes
Episode 297: Bounce Back EVERY Time! Handling Setbacks with a positive attitude.
Too often when someone experiences a setback in the weight loss journey, they throw in the towel completely! That is not necessary as we are all human and will make mistakes in our lives for the rest of our lives! This episode provides encourag...
Episode 296: Relationship Recovery after Weight Loss
How do you recover from friendship changes? Listen today’s episode and learn not only that, but the reasons friendships are so critical to our physical and mental health, reasons they change, and how you can deal with friendships as you lose we...
Episode 295: Bariatric Rewrite! What’s That?
You are sure to be impressed listening to the passion and knowledge Shennelle, bariatric patient and founder of Bariatric Rewrite has for her recovery… from the disease of obesity and well… other things! She’s a ball of fire and will spark your...
Episode 294: Are You Psychologically Flexible and What That’s Got to do With Weight Loss and Maintenance?
Fancy schmancy topic today! Psychological Flexibility. Sounds complicated and it is in a way! But in this episode, you will easily be able to see the importance of developing psychological flexibility in order to lose weight and keep it off. Li...
Rerelease: Regain and The Return of Those Old Habits…What’s up with that?
Rerelease of Episode 166 from March 6, 2024SOOOO many people struggle with weight regain, regardless of how they have lost weight. If YOU have a history of yo-yo’ing with your weight, this episode is important for you! You’ll likely hear...
Episode 293: Weight Loss and False Hope Syndrome
Have you experienced False Hope Syndrome? Without telling you exactly what that is, I’m going to let you know chances are good that you have. I have certainly done so in more than one area of my life! False Hope Syndrome runs rampant in relatio...
Episode 292: Identity Disruption Following Weight Loss (Part 2)
Great news in this episode! As adults, we get to create the identity we want to have! Yep – like so many other things in life, it is, in fact, easier said than done. However, I find the opportunity so very refreshing and exciting and am forever...
Episode 291: Identity Disruption Following Weight Loss (Part 1)
I often hear from patients who have lost a significant amount of weight that they no longer know who they are! They don’t recognize their bodies, for one thing, understanding that their head hasn’t kept pace with the amount of physical weight t...
Episode 290: It Never Ends!
I hear many of my patients say, in relation to losing weight and maybe especially when it comes to maintaining weight loss, “IT NEVER ENDS!” What they are referring to are the behaviors, the mindset, the necessary skills and tools one needs to ...
Episode 289: Habits that Work for You… So They Last!
We all know how important it is to ditch unhealthy habits and to establish healthy habits in order to lose weight and keep it off. Yet, the reality of doing so can be really difficult! I’m joined today by Amy Burtt, a life coach who lost a sign...
Episode 288: Your EGO is NOT Your Amigo!
Most of us get tripped up by our own egos at times in life… we sabotage ourselves because we’re afraid to ask for help or we want our friends or co-workers to think we have it all together or we exaggerate our success just a teensy tiny bit… So...
Episode 287: Defeating Your Cravings!
Dr. Glenn Livingston, a licensed psychologist and author of Defeat Your Cravings: The Back Door to Weight Loss joins me in this episode of Weight Loss Winformation. Dr. Livingston has extensive experience in the field of bariatrics, through his...
Episode 286: Reward or Self-Sabotage
A very wise woman during one of the weekly online support groups on the BariAftercare Facebook page bravely shared a story about how she had rewarded herself with highly processed, non-nutritious food after a stressful day she’d had. She then c...
Episode 285: Internalized Weight Stigma
I doubt anyone listening to this podcast would argue that weight stigma, also called weight bias, or more crudely known as fat shaming, is wrong. Inexcusable. Not okay – no matter what. We collectively feel outrage about fat shaming on social m...
Episode 284: Make new friends and maybe keep the old... But for SURE make some REAL friends...
A few weeks ago I had my best friend on the podcast to talk about what our supportive relationship has looked like for over 30 years. In this episode, I talk with three woman who have more recently developed the kind of compassionate, safe, enc...
Episode 283: When Life Keeps Lifing… with Weight Loss Winformation’s Caleshia Haynes
One of the sayings in today’s culuture is “life be lifing.” Life isn’t easy and things come up ALL the time time that throw us off balance, add emotional stress and we often times engage in coping skills that lead us away from our healthy goals...
Episode 282: When Does It End? (and HOW?)
How often have you asked yourself this question: “When does it end?” I know I’ve uttered those words many a time in my life. When it comes to weight loss and weight maintenance, I’m guessing you’ve asked yourself that same question in relation ...
Episode 281: This is What Healthy Support Looks Like!
You hear me talk all the time about the critical importance of having HEALTHY support as you go through the weight loss process and especially as you work to maintain weight loss! This is true when treating the disease of obesity, all ...
Episode 280: Have you signed up for Summer Camp??
Remember back in the day… farther back from some of us than others… when you couldn’t wait to sign up for summer camps? Chances are that you are now signing your kids or grandkids up for summer camps! Well… fear not! This summer camp is for YOU...
Episode 279: How large is YOUR Window of Tolerance?
Well, now… that sounds like a personal question! Wait… what even IS a window of tolerance? I’ll give you some context clues by asking some more questions: 1) How well do you respond to daily stress? 2) How do you cope with intense emotional str...
Episode 278: Gynecolgy meets Weight Loss: Meet Double Board Certified Dr. Summers
You know that women tell their OB/GYN’s pretty much everything about their lives… almost like the doctors are their personal therapists! Dr. Summers, a board certified gynecologist joins us today. He shares that so many of his patients over the...
Episode 277: Accountability … some more!
Accountability is1111 one of the most important healthy adult skills we can develop! We have to develop this skill as most of us learned to react in negative ways when “confronted” with not following through with something we said we were going...
Episode 276: Helping You Take Charge of Your Own Healing with Scott Stolarick
Scott Solarick is a therapist who works with patients, many who have a history of trauma, either Big T or small t trauma, which we have talked about it prior episodes. Unresolved trauma can impact our present lives in negative ways, which could...
Episode 275: Adel shares her Personal Gotta Do Ems: AKA Her Habits of the Month
Back by popular demand, Adel, a major contributor to BariAftercare… which, if you are not part of, you NEED to be! Go to www.bariaftercare.com and get involved! Adel had bariatric surgery 20 years ago...
Episode 274: Self Compassion: Self-Compassion as a Tool Toward Better Health (Physically and Emotionally)
Self-Compassion has been well researched and can make a big difference in how you approach your weight loss and weight maintenance process. There can be a slippery slope between self-compassion and self-pity, which we talked about a few weeks a...