Weight Loss Surgery Book – Eat It Up!  Dr. Connie Stapleton

It was a pleasure to interview Dr. Connie Stapleton and discuss triggers that many emotional eaters have and why underweight and overweight people have similar, but different issues. Many overweight people put weight back on after the surgery. Think this doesn’t apply to you? Do you know over 200,000 people  have the surgery every year?  With statistics like that, we may know someone in our own 6 degree of separation going through this.

Connie Stapleton, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who works directly with surgical weight loss patients before and after Bariatric Surgery

Observing patients regain weight after losing a hundred plus pounds following surgical weight loss procedures, Dr. Stapleton set out with determination to help patients prevent substantial weight regain after the surgery.

Eat It Up! The Complete Mind/Body/Spirit Guide to a Full Life After Weight Loss Surgery (Transformation Media Books, 2009)

holds the keys to the prevention of weight regain by providing information and tools to address finding balance in all areas of life that were negatively affected by obesity (Social life, Work, Emotions, Spirituality, and more).

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More from Dr. Connie Stapleton on her site, Mind Body Health

Mind Body Health Services is a venture started in 2003 by Dr. Connie Stapleton. Her vision is to inspire others to help themselves develop a healthier life, incorporating a mind/body approach. The mind/body approach simply means taking into consideration the whole person: spiritual aspects, family life, social supports, work life, volunteer activities, and physical being.

Life has ups and downs for everyone and a problem in one area of life affects other areas of life as well. The providers at Mind Body Health Services take into account the whole person in helping them find the solutions to deal with what is causing the patient discomfort in their life.

Tricia Greaves – Heal Your Hunger – Emotional Eating and Weight Loss

Tricia knows about emotional eating. Hear what she has to say about type A personalities, emotional eating, and why eating 6 small meals a day is NOT the way to go if you are into weight loss.

No Snacking, no small meals – good healthy three squares a day is the way to go.  (really? I love that -but what about my snacks?)  Be hungry, let yourself feel an empty stomach – it’s good for us!

Learn to get control of your weight and eating.  Although I’m not very much overweight (there’s always that 10 pounds), I do know that I eat when I’m happy, I eat when I’m mad, I eat when I’m sad – all emotional eating for sure. and I loved how Tricia gave me some tips – and some new ways of looking at food.

A Note from Tricia….When people suggested I lose weight by “eating in moderation” or “cutting out sweets”, I knew I couldn’t do it because food was everything to me. I had an insatiable appetite for all the wrong things – and wrong amounts! Strangely, even if I was “filled to the brim” and couldn’t eat any more, I STILL WASN’T SATISFIED!

The truth is that my hunger – especially for the ooey, gooey, chewy foods that were my staple when no one was watching – wasn’t a physical hunger. Every day I lived with a gnawing, gaping, yawn of a hole inside that was screaming to be filled. I had a hunger much deeper that no pastry, doughnut or plate of pasta could satisfy.

Find out more about Tricia at Heal Your Hunger
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(If you are reading this from a feed, please click over to watch this interview on Talking Purpose with Michelle Vandepas.)