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
246 episodes
Episode 246: Skincare and Weight Loss with Dr. Mary Alice Mina
We all care about our face and how our skin looks and feels! Double board certified dermatologist, Dr. Mina, who hosts the SkinReal Podcast joins us today to talk about caring for our skin, focusing on how our skin changes through the weight lo...
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Episode 246
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45:47
Episode 245: Bill Streetman, Author of Simple... not Easy!: Escaping the Prison of Obesity
My friend Bill Streetman, who I have known for many years, wrote a book about his bariatric journey. The book is called Simple... not Easy!: Escaping the Prison of Obesity. Bill has been super active in the bariatric community, inspiring hundre...
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Episode 245
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Episode 244: Alone and Depressed
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 244. Today’s episode is at the direct request from a listener who emailed me because she is feeling, and I quote, “alone and depressed” foll...
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Episode 244
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1:09:45
Episode 243: GLP-1’s, Part 7. Dr. Daniel Kaufman on Skin Removal Following Weight Loss
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 243. Today’s discussion with plastic surgeon Dr. Daniel Kaufman isn’t directly related to GLP-1 medications. Yet significant weight loss by ...
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Episode 243
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1:02:43
Episode 242: GLP-1’s, Part 6. How GLP-1’s “Nearly Ruined My Life!”
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 242. For the past several weeks we’ve been talking about the use of GLP-1 agonists as a tool for weight loss. Today we hear from a woman who...
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Episode 242
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51:24
Episode 241: GLP-1’s, Part 5. Tabitha Johnson, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist on GLP-1’s and Relationships
Our topic today is GLP-1’s, Part 5. Another of my favorite people in the world, Tabitha Johnson, joins me today as we talk about the use of GLP-1 medications and their impact on relationships as well as what the people in your life might want o...
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Episode 241
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1:06:22
Episode 240: GLP-1’s, Part 4. MY BFFL Susie and Her Use of GLP-1 medications
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 240. Our topic today is GLP-1’s, Part 3. Today I’m talking with a woman who knows me better than almost anyone on the planet. Dr. Susie Matl...
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Episode 240
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1:04:45
Episode 239: GLP-1’s, Part 3. A Conversation with Nurse Practitioner Michelle Ledford
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 239. Our topic today is GLP-1’s, Part 3. Today I’m talking with Nurse Practitioner Michelle Ledford. Michelle has worked in the field of bar...
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Episode 239
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Episode 238: GLP-1’s, Part 2. A Conversation with Kellie Wilson: Bariatric Surgery with a Side of GLP-1
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 238. Our topic today is GLP-1’s, Part 2. In this episode I’m talking with Kellie Wilson, who is a favorite in the bariatric world. Kellie ha...
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Episode 238
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1:13:47
Episode 237: GLP-1’s, Part 1 with Katie Chapmon, RD
“Welcome to Weight Loss Winformation - I’m your host, Dr. Connie Stapleton. This is episode 237. Our topic today is GLP-1’s, Part 1 with Katie Chapmon, RD. This is the first of several episodes designed to educate you about the GLP-...
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Episode 237
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1:10:23
Episode 236: Part Two of Door Mat No More: Here’s How It’s Done!
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 nee...
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Episode 236
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1:11:06
Episode 235: Door Mat No More: Here’s How It’s Done!
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 ...
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Episode 235
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1:13:11
Episode 234: Are You A People Pleaser? If so, Your Healthy Lifestyle is in Jeopardy!
“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 ...
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Episode 234
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1:17:29
Episode 233: Who Cares What They Think? We ALL Do!
“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 cari...
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Episode 233
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1:06:40
Episode 232: Why THAT NUMBER Keeps Us Captive
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 y...
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Episode 232
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1:06:13
Episode 231: A Healthy Weight for YOU
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 l...
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Episode 231
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53:45
Episode 230: BariAftercare: Then and Now!
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...
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Episode 230
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1:13:29
Episode 229: Mirror, Mirror…Yep! I’m Talking to You!
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 holdin...
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Episode 229
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1:11:57
Episode 228: That Thief of Joy…Comparison
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 s...
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Episode 228
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1:11:16
Episode 227: Easier Said Than Done…Excuse or Reality?
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 ...
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Episode 227
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59:35
Episode 226: Facing the Music Together…Identifying our personal Thinking Traps
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 negati...
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Episode 226
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1:06:37
Episode 225: Specific Tools to Challenge and Change Stinkin’ Thinkin
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 aw...
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Episode 225
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1:02:03
Episode 224: Develop the Skills to Overcome a Self-Defeating Attitude and Take Charge of Your Life
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 progres...
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Episode 224
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1:11:15
Episode 223: We All Do This and It Helps No One
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 e...
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Episode 223
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1:11:42
Episode 222: Dr. Brugman Explains The Connection Between Your Brain and Your Behavior
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 behav...
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Episode 222
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