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Hope to Gets…

• Stay on Track• General support to stay on track • stay motivated – be compliant • Education & information • Peer support – comaradre• Inspiration to exercise • make friends• help others along the way • learn from others who are successful• personal accountability • making it a lifestyle

• Workshop Overview:

Week 1 – Personal Accountability

Week 2 – Portion Control

Week 3 – Nutrition

Week 4 – Fluid Intake

Week 5 – Regular Exercise

Week 5 – Vitamins & Supplements

The Success Habits of Weight-loss Surgery Patients

• Research began in 1998 with a patient population of over 7,000

• Study was published 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

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

I recognize that I alone am responsible for my successes and my failures.

Personal Accountability

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REGULAR WEIGHING

• What are my weighing routines?

• What is my relationship with my weight?

I recognize that I alone am responsible for my successes and my failures.

Personal Accountability

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SETTING WEIGHT LOSS GOALS

• Why set weight loss goals?

• What is a warning weight?

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• Repeat the values statement often• Read Success Habits book chapter 1• Complete check up questions on page 52• Complete workbook long range goals• Set weight loss goals, request chart and card

This week’s assignments

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Next week:

Week 2 – Portion Control

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