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Leading the Bariatric Support Community Assuring Optimal Outcomes

Hope & HelpFor the pain of regain

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Invincible!

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You are not alone!

And the survey says…..

Our Workshop Objective:

To instill in you new hope in your ability reach and maintain your weight loss goals.

A new understanding; A new outlook• We suffer from the effects of the disease of

obesity; a surgical intervention is not a cure.• We must take responsibility for where we are and

how we got here and we must tell ourselves the TRUTH!

• We must each come to understand our own body. – Understand our unique metabolism and how to manage

it to loose, gain and maintain our weight.– Understand our individual addictions and emotional – attachments to food.

There is hopeRecall the new you!!

Describe how that felt?Describe an aha moment?

Who did that? YOU DID!

We want to bring you back to that place again

There is help

1. Gain an understanding of the basics and how

they apply to you

5 Key Elements Necessary to get

The Success Habits of Weight-loss Surgery Patients

• Research began in 1998 with a patient population of over 7,000 (Surgeries from 1979- 1998)

• Study was published in 1998 in Obesity Surgery Journal

•Those most successful had specific habits in common, from which we selected 6 Key Principles

• Each Success Habit Principle has a variety of lessons, activities, & challenges designed to teach and reinforce

• On-going research:

• Bariatric Support Centers International

• Cleveland Center for Bariatric Surgery

• University of Alabama

•Stanford University

© Bariatric Support Centers International

Portion Control

Nutrition

Fluid Intake

Regular Exercise  Vitamins

& Supplements

Personal Accountability

I recognize that I alone am responsible for mysuccesses and myfailures.

I understand the importance of satiety and listen to mybody’s signals.

I make good healthyfood choices each day.

I drink the right amount of the right beverages atthe right time each day.

I have adopted thehabit of exercise aspart of my lifestyle.

I take good quality vitamins each day toensure my good health.

The Success Habits of Weight-loss Surgery Patients

Learn them!Live them!

The Success Habits of Weight-loss Surgery Patients

2. A plan to identify and then exchange your old

habits for new ones

5 Key Elements Necessary to get

Let Go – Lighten Up!

BeliefsBehaviors

Belongings

3. An understanding of your OWN metabolism

5 Key Elements Necessary to get

4. Surround yourself with supporters

who “get it!”

5 Key Elements Necessary to get

5. A method or system of accountability

5 Key Elements Necessary to get

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Leading the Bariatric Support Community Assuring Optimal Outcomes