Weight Loss Winformation

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.

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July 9, 2025 71 mins

Our topic today is Part Two of Door Mat No More: Here’s How It’s Done! In this episode, I share Jefferson Fisher’s tools from the book The Next Conversation for framing a conversation and using assertive language and boundaries to make your needs a priority so that you follow through with your healthy lifestyle goals! The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more...

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No one wants to be a door mat… and yet, some of us have had experiences that make it extraordinarily difficult to speak up for ourselves, to say what we want, to ask for what we need or to share our thoughts and feelings with others! If I just described you, there may have been times when you have felt like a door mat… walked all over by others! No MORE! In this episode, I share tools from the book The Next Conversation by Jefferso...

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“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation -  I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 234 and our topic today is Are you a people pleaser? If you are, or if you deal with a people pleaser in your life, you’ll want to listen to this episode. People pleasing can absolutely interfere in your plans to follow through with a healthy lifestyle that leads to a healthy weight for YOUR body! The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives ...

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“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation -  I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 233 and our topic today is Who cares what other people think? Are you kidding? We ALL do – at least to some extent. Where do you fall on that caring what others think continuum? Not much at all or Way TOO Much? Listen to this episode of Weight Loss Winformation and listen to the signs that suggest people are WAY too invested in what other p...

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THAT NUMBER… the one you obsess over… the one you’ve decided your body “should” weigh… That number is the thing that distracts you from focusing on HEALTH goals, holds you back from participating more fully and more actively in life AND keeps you half crazy in the head a lot of the time! Listen to this episode and learn if YOU are THAT PERSON who keeps some arbitrary number the thing you focus on in your weight loss journey as oppo...

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Most people begin a weight loss journey to improve their health or to ward off possible health conditions, to increase their ability to participate in activities they enjoy, and to increase their odds of living longer to be with the ones they love. However, at some point, a pesky little NUMBER interferes with their health goals and they become focused on a specific number that becomes a goal… Health is not about a number. Listen in...

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This is the transition episode of BariAftercare the Podcast! BariAftercare the program will still be alive and well and YOU can join for a FREE month by emailing me at Info@conniestapletonphd.com. Do that NOW! THEN listen in as I talk with Laura Preston who, along with Kelsey and our amazing group of peer mentors, has helped make the BariAftercare program what it is! In this episode, you’ll hear how we both started in the bariatric...

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Wow! is what I have to say about the great therapy tool I learned from Dr. Joan Brugman while recording this podcast! Dr. Brugman uses Mirror Therapy with her weight loss patients as a tool to help them use “fierce self-compassion” while holding themselves accountable and creating plan to incorporate healthy self-care tools in their weight loss and weight maintenance journey. I promise you I’ll be listening to this episode more tha...

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Theodore Roosevelt called comparison the theif of joy. And all along I thought it was the SCALE that was the theif of joy! Well… I guess it’s all in how you utilize either comparison or the scale that determines whether or not you allow it to steal your joy. Yes – pay attention to those words… whether or not you ALLOW ANYTHING to steal your joy is up to you! It’s that thinking thing again… what we choose to think about is so powerf...

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We’ve all said it a thousand times when it comes to following through with difficult things and/or things we don’t really want to do… We’ve said what? We’ve said, “That’s easier said than done!” And it’s true in nearly every case… because most things in life are genuinely easier to say than they are to do! Working in the field of weight weight loss, I hear the phrase, “It’s easier said than done” pretty much on a daily basis. In th...

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Every single one of us is guilty of using some pretty common forms of Stinkin’ Thinkin’ at times. Psychologists use fancier word to describe Stinkin’ Thinkin’… we call them Cognitive Distortions. Thinking Traps are also words to describe negative thoughts because they often leave us feeling TRAPPED on a hamster wheel of negative thoughts that spin out and result in negative feelings and ultimately result in unhealthy behaviors. I h...

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Did you know that we recyle something like 90% of our thoughts over and over, day after day AND that about 85% of those recycling thoughts are NEGATIVE thoughts? That’s what some research says! And I happen to believe that… even if we’re not aware of all those automatic negative thoughts on the hamster wheel of our mind. We need to change this to make room for and to create new, healthier neuropathways that keep us engaged in a non...

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In this week’s episode will teach you skills for ditching self-defeating attitudes and behaviors and for overcoming a victim mentality, which we talked about last week! Learning to be more resilient when setbacks threaten to derail your progress and learning to increase your “I think I can, I think I can” attitude, or self-efficacy, will not only help you prevent emotional eating and avoid self-sabotaging eating behaviors, these sk...

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Now, THAT’s a vague episode title! And it’s vague on purpose! None of us want to admit to … well, our less than healthy behaviors. Yet the truth is, we all engage in behaviors we would be mortified if others were to witness. The topic of this episode describes a type of behavior and mindset I would bet every one of us has engaged in at some points in time. For a percentage of people, this becomes a way of life. Others can see it cl...

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Do you ever wonder why you do some of the things you do? And also… why you might not do other things you want to do or plan to do? If you’re human…  I’m gonna guess you have wondered those exact same things… maybe on daily basis! Our behaviors are linked to all sorts of things going on in our brains. Listen in as Dr. Joan Brugman helps us better understand the connection between our brains and our behavior!

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There are all sorts of ways people choose to lose weight… surgical weight loss procedures, GLP 1’s, Weight Watchers, Noom, and all sorts of various diets such as the Mediteranian Diet, the KETO diet, or tragically, some version of the cabbage soup diet. Here’s the deal… no matter how a person loses weight, they all experience many of the same things after losing weight… and I’m NOT just talking about physical changes. Yes, clearly ...

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There’s little in life I find more inspiring than when a person takes a difficult situation and creates something amazing out of it! Rob DiMedio is one of those people! Rob, a post-op who chronicled his journey on social media, has taken his passion for health and created a business called Busy Bariatrics. Due to Rob’s passion for taking charge of his health, Busy Bariatrics has gotten VERY BUSY! If you already know Rob, you’ll lov...

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March 12, 2025 58 mins

Food… a red herring? As in… a fish? Nope!  So what does that mean… food… a red herring? You think I’m gonna tell you here, in the intro? Not a chance! But when you listen to the entire episode, you’ll learn why Dr. Anita A. Johnson, author of Eating in The Light of The Moon, wrote an entire chapter on this topic.  Also, as you listen to this episode, based almost entirely on that one chapter in Dr. Johnson’s book, I hope you will m...

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You’ve heard the Serenity Prayer: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot chance, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Turns out the founders of AA did NOT create this thinking. It originated many years BC… before the birth of Christ! The ideas used in the Serenity Prayer come from an ancient Greek Philosophy known as Stoicism. Using the tenets of this philosophy, focusing on wh...

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People usually have certain expectations when they begin a weight loss experience, whether that means having a surgical intervention, taking medications or participating in a structured program. For many people, some of their expectations are met; some are not. What I find particularly interesting as people lose weight are the things they learn about themselves that they hadn’t anticipated. In this episode, I’ll be talking to Sandr...

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