Boomerang Workshops

Boomerang: Challenging Regain After Weight Loss Surgery

The full length, 30 minute, version of this video is not currently for sale but can be seen in Boomerang workshops around the country given by My Self Design Providers. Let us help you learn to catch the regain boomerang!

 Other Audio/Visual Aids

Weight Loss Surgery: An Inside Look

This video is available in VHS format. It is a frank, funny, and inspiring film that will take you behind the scenes of baraitric surgery in a very personal way. You will learn first hand some of the powerful reasons why people summon the courage to risk their lives in a difficult journey that changes everything. Many patients have found this film useful in helping family and loved ones understand the pressing need for weight loss surgery.

Audio Tapes $5 each - Ordering Information

My Self Design provides numerous audio recordings for sale on timely topics related to weight loss surgery in CD format. To purchase these audio tapes please see the ordering information below.
These professional recordings are powerful and effective tools for helping you reflect on your progress and determine new strategies for the challenges on your unique weight loss surgery journey. Purchased recordings can be played on your iPod or computer or in your car’s CD player as you travel. Additional resources like these provide creative ways to expand support for your recovery from morbid obesity.

Audio Tape 1 - The Truth About Regain
Is it true that some people regain their weight? How much and why? Learn the truth about post-op regain and some things you can do to prevent it. 2. I Feel So Out of Control? Why do I suddenly feel like I can’t stop eating? Is this a phase that other patients go through too, or is it a sign that I’m one of the ones who can’t be “fixed”?

Audio Tape 2 - Out Of Control
Sometimes that old familiar “out of control” feeling returns. It can happen early in recovery or years into your new life when everything seems to be going so well. It’s not helpful to live in dread of such a day but being prepared and well armed to deal with shifts like that is vital.

Audio Tape 3 - Food For Thought
What will become of all your compulsive urges after surgery? This tape discusses symptom substitution after surgery, or the potentially compulsive NEW behaviors patients sometimes switch to when they can no longer overeat.

Audio Tape 4 - Finding Your Sweet Spot
Why did you decide to have weight loss surgery? How much do you want to weigh when your “honeymoon” is over? Will it be thin enough to make your operation worth while?

Audio Tape 5 - Individual Aftercare: The Key To WLS Success
Few surgical weight loss programs offer patients the one tool that would help them the most after surgery: individual aftercare. Learn why you need more than a support group to make the long-term lifestyle changes required after surgery.

Audio Tape 6 - Bariatric Surgery: Fear Factors
You are frightened…no make that terrified! that you will not succeed with this last ditch attempt to resolve your morbid obesity. Can fear undermine your success and sabotage your recovery? This recording will help you begin to develop a game plan that replaces fear with knowledge.

Audio Tape 7- Making It Last For Life
It’s all gone better than you ever dared to hope but you worry that one day you will lose control and suddenly the weight will start piling back on. How can you make it really last this time?

Audio Tape 8 - Beautiful Day
A relaxation and visualization exercise designed especially for people recovering from Bariatric surgery. Only 15-minutes long, this tape can be used to help you achieve a calm and deeply relaxing state any time you need it. This recording can also be used as a model for designing your own personalized relaxation exercises.

Audio Tape 9 - Weight Loss Surgery: An Inside Look
This is a series of inspiring stories from the My Self Design video, Weight Loss Surgery: An Inside Look. Six courageous Philadelphians discuss their personal reasons for choosing surgery and describe the changes in their lives since.

Audio Tapes $5 each - Ordering Information