Weight Loss Surgery Recovery, Weight Loss Surgery Counseling, My Self Design

Contact My Self Design directly for Weight Loss Recovery seminars and presentations in your area on the following topics:

Boomerang: Challenging Regain After Weight Loss Surgery

Learning how to make weight loss surgery last for life is the real challenge every weight loss surgery patient eventually faces. This powerful new 30 minute video is accompanied by a live presentation and handouts from a My Self Design provider. It raises patient awareness about the emerging data on regain after surgery and how to challenge that growing trend. It’s a workshop designed for ‘newbies’ and ‘post ops’, but will prove especially powerful for ‘grads’ of one year or more.

Boomerang pulls no punches in exploring the reality of every patient’s worst fear and the commitment needed to be successful long term. Learn to CATCH THE REBOUND BOOMERANG! Don’t let your success spin out of control. Contact Us or your nearest provider for information on hosting a weight loss surgery recovery, Boomerang presentation, for your support group or bariatric practice.

Body Image & WLS: I Still Don’t Like How I Look!

It’s difficult for surgery to heal a lifetime of loathing by self and culture. How much do other people’s opinions matter and how do I discover what I really need to feel good in my own skin?
Goals:
1. Develop respect for, and trust in your body.
2. Address your own fat prejudices.
3. Learn to prioritize self-care.

Finding Your Sweet Spot

Knowing success when you have it and learning to make success permanent.
Goals:
1. Provide strategies for developing a healthy relationship with food, stablizing eating, and trusting your new pouch.
2. Establish comfortable control over eating choices.
3. Defining and accepting a good enough result.

Relapse Prevention

Relapse Prevention
This workshop concentrates exclusively on the basics of relapse prevention: Risk Awareness, Abundant Coping Skills, Practice and Planning, Self Confidence, Internal Control, Support Network, and Strategies for Long-term Stability and Maintenance.

Food and Feelings

This 4 hour workshop is recommended for anyone struggling to gain control over compulsive eating behaviors. Explore the many ways your emotions fuel cravings and establish healthy ways to nurture yourself without resorting to compulsive behaviors.

Weight Loss Surgery: An Inside Look

This 20 minute video and live presentation is frank, funny, and inspiring. It will take you behind the scenes of weight loss surgery in a very personal way. It is especially helpful to families and loved ones of a patient considering surgery and it is helpful in deepening understanding about any patient’s decision to choose surgery. You will learn first hand some of the powerful reasons why people summon the courage to risk their lives in this way - in a journey that changes everything in a patient’s world.

This film will benefit anyone interested in bariatric surgery, whether for themselves or because a person they care about is considering it. This film has proven particularly helpful to family members who are worried about a loved one who has elected this serious option. Every weight loss surgery patient’s long term success relies heavily on the emotional support their receive from their family.