Bariatric Mindset Success: Live Your Best Life and Keep The Weight Off After Weight Loss Surgery

by Kristin Lloyd

Weight loss surgery is stomach surgery, not brain surgery. Did you know that 40% of bariatric surgery patients regain weight within 5 years of having weight loss surgery? When it comes to long-term weight-loss surgery success, you've got to get a handle on your emotions and motivation. The food will always be there, and it’s not about knowing WHAT to eat, but instead, transforming your relationship with food. This is why conquering your MINDSET is essential. If you are not in the right head-space, you can slide backward and enter the danger zone of regaining weight. Unfortunately, the cravings, emotional impulses, and habits to eat whatever and whenever still pop up after surgery. Even with the knowledge of what to eat, you will also need to learn how to manage yourself and your mindset around food. Fancy meal plans won’t help you if you haven’t tackled the most difficult part of having weight loss surgery; your brain! After investing so much time to get your body where you want it, is having the wrong mindset worth the risk of sabotaging all you've worked hard to achieve? In Bariatric Mindset Success, you will be guided by Kristin, a professional psychotherapist and a successful gastric sleeve post-op patient through her most coveted weight loss surgery success strategies. She’ll guide you through the WLS basics as well as advanced mindset, motivation, and emotional techniques to help you stay focused and on track through the ups and downs of life. You’ll gain practical tools and techniques to create lifestyle habits that keep you focused on WLS success for life, not just in the short term. Also, she gives you tools to handle friendships and relationships after weight loss surgery in addition to giving you a compass for living your best life, beyond the weight loss. Ready to get started? Scroll up to the top of the page and click on the “Add to Cart” button.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 28, 2017

Reviews

[Jen Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are an embarrassing number of spelling and grammar errors that detract from the reading experience. Editor and publisher should be ashamed.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

You don’t have to be a bariatric patient to benefit from this book. The book focuses on Mindset that is critical for anyone struggling with weight issues. Lots of visualization and journaling exercises.

[Jana · Rating 5 out of 5]

You don't have to have surgery to learn from this book

Anyone who has ever struggled with their weight and self worth should give this book a try. She really am,Es you think about things. I'm looking forward to trying out the accompanying workbook.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am surprisingly disappointed with this book. It was recommended to me in a bariatric support group and I expected to find it helpful. While there are several interesting and useful ideas, I found the book was not very well written. It seemed to be all over the place at times. And I admit she completely lost me when she got into the section on tapping. I read the book while also listening to the audiobook, which is read by the author. I cannot recommend anyone listen to the audiobook. It is the worst quality sound I have ever encountered, the author pauses and stammers often, and several paragraphs are read twice. It did not help my overall opinion of the book.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall this was a decent book to help a person avoid bingeing and focusing on food. It was encouraging to get help via counseling if needed. I do think this book would be fine for anyone who has had difficulty with weight of focusing on food no matter if they have had bariatric surgery or not.

[Dawn valentine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Besides some of the spelling errors and missing words this book gave me lots of ideas and ways to focus on my successes, even through my most difficult times.

[Susanna Garner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful, insightful, easy to read.

I'm about to have bariatric surgery, and reading this book has helped me uncover a lot of the emotional reasons for my over eating. Learning about comfort food and the triggers that set me off. This book really help me understand the emotional side of obesity. I feel like I will be successful now that I have read this book because I will be able to utilize the tools and strategies that the author has provided. I think I will also purchase a hard copy so that I can have it to come back to as a reference in the future.

[Melinda Wong Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kristin, with the most respect, who tf edited this for you? There are so many grammatical errors throughout this book it's distracting. She has many good points and I appreciate this being so focused on mindset. You definitely don't need to have surgery for this to be helpful for your relationship with food, but I did find a lot of it to be redundant. I don't need you to tell me what's going to be in the chapter I'm about to read, and I certainly don't need a chapter recap every few pages.

[Belinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book on how to establish a good mindset to ensure success on your bariatric journey. I'm not sure all of the tools given (like EFT tapping) are based in clinically trialed therapies, so they may or may not work for others. There are multiple typos and grammatical errors, which should have been fixed by a copy editor. Like other self help books, read it, use what you can, and ignore the rest.

[Artina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fantastic book that helps you focus on treating the brain side of obesity. Wonderful journal prompts that really help you open your mind and change your way of thinking. Surgery is about so much more than just losing weight and I think Kristin Lloyd did a wonderful job of touching on a wide variety of topics. This is one of the better bariatric surgery books that I have come across.

[Jay Bakman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Currently 8 months post op VSG and I am IN LOVE with this book. I have lost 100 pounds and recently had some regain. It has been challenging. I am so thankful for this book. She really puts things into perspective and reminds me that I am human. I recommend this to ALL bariatric patients!!

[Shannon Unger · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars, I was really excited about this book in the beginning... there are a lot of formatting and grammar errors. Also, it seems to get long and repetitive. I personally think there are better books for bariatric patients.

[Kelsi Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book I will keep under my night stand! I will go back to it time and time again! It has great ways to get through your emotion your trying to eat away and really dig down deep into why you are addicted to food!

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and applicable

[Lisa Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read for anyone who has had or is considering bariatric surgery. So many great activities to help you on your get healthy journey.

[Carole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful. I bought the accountability journal too

[Tamika Dixon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ideas chapter 4 and beyond.