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Welcome to BariNation, a safe place for bariatric patients to connect, learn, and grow from one another and experts in our community! Join our membership community at www.barination.com or find us on Instagram @bari.nation

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Leanne said something so powerful in our conversation with her. She said she used to be a quitter, and that statement stopped us in our tracks. We can all identify with that statement. We have quit ourselves on diets, mindsets, or hopes and dreams. Life after bariatric surgery is about living it differently than ever before, and Leanne found a way to stop quitting on herself and her dreams. In this amazing conversation, Leanne shared how she found freedom, joy, and peace in our life through movement. She shares with us some strategies we can all use to welcome movement into our life and discover just how committed we can be to our new life, our new mindset, and our new future after bariatric surgery. Follow Leanne on Instagram @leanne_latley and join one of her movement classes in the BariNation Membership Community, where she has joined us as a Movement Expert! If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! As a member, you can access virtual support led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, movement experts, and patient moderators. Try our community for 14 days to see if it is right for you! Find us at https://barination.mn.co Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
124: Finding Freedom, Joy, and Peace Through Movement with Leanne
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Sometimes, stepping away from life is the only way to get through it. At times, life calls us to step away. Other times, we feel the call within ourselves to step away, to move back, to retreat from something big, bold, scary, or sad. But what happens when we come back? What do we do when we have to come back, or we are called back? How do we engage with our lives again when we feel tectonic shifts have forever changed the landscape? April, Jason, and Natalie reflect on their summers and dig into why we step away and how we come back. Each person experienced something different this summer, taking away different teachings and lessons from their experiences. All three learned how powerful the bariatric community is, gained a new understanding of what it means to be supported, and discovered new ways to ask for support. If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
123: Stepping Away, Coming Back
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At any given moment, we can identify handfuls of missteps, mistakes, and failures that we feel we have made from the moment we woke up. And teasing out any win’s or succusses seems like an impossible task. If we allow a moment for our rational thoughts to catch up to our irrational thoughts, we would know this is simply not true. Yet many of us are running this race every day, and finding ourselves exhausted before the starting gun has even sounded. Perhaps there is a better way. In this deeply personal conversation with our friend Katie, we explore some of the ways we can learn to meet ourselves in these moments and tease out the truth; that we have worked hard for many wins every day, even on the days that seem the darkest. Katie shares with us how she is working to find hope in the valleys and enjoy the vistas of the high peaks. Follow Katie on Instagram @katie.vsg. We are so thankful for her friendship and willingness to speak so truthfully about her struggles and setbacks. If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
122: Meeting Ourselves in the Moment
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Trigger Warning: Sudden Death/ Family Trauma Jason and Natalie sat down with one of our brightest community members, Tawnya Bacchetti, to talk about her incredibly difficult journey after bariatric surgery. They talked about how Tawnya persevered about becoming a widow just four months after her VSG surgery, why she decided to stay positive and find her daily rainbows, and how she chooses her health daily, even when moving through grief. Tawnya is a phenomenal example of how choosing joy and love can save your life. We are so thankful for her willingness to share this incredibly difficult story with the world. Follow Tanya on Instagram @vsg.my.way.tawnya If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
120: Finding Our Rainbows
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Our friend Katie has made amazing progress this summer, and she sat down with us to share what she has been doing, what she has been learning, and what she is focusing on next. Katie has discovered that accountability is key to her success and she shares with us just how she has found her stride and how she is staying steadily aligned with her goals! Follow Katie on Instagram and TikTok @katie.vsg. If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
119: Consistency Check-In with Katie
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Turns out that changing our established thoughts, patterns, and behaviors is extremely challenging. We are hard-wired to fight change. Humans are motivated to act (or not act) through what is known as the Motivational Triad, and trying to do anything that goes against those three forces is extremely difficult. But difficult does not mean impossiable. Mabel Joseph, Mindset Coach and creator of the Beyond The Sleeve Academy, joins us for an extremely powerful conversation about change, why it is so hard and what we can do to make the changes we want to see in our lives last. If you are struggling to make changes in your own life, you will leave this conversation with new toosl to try along your own journey! Follow Mabel on Instagram @beyondthesleeveacademy and check out her online group and one-on-one coaching at www.beyondthesleeveacademy.com. A huge thank you to Mabel for joining us! If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
118: Why Change is Hard (And What We Ca Do About It with Mabel Joseph
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This summer has NOT gone the way any of us thought it would. Things are in disarray, but we are not ready to give in or give up yet! In this episode, April, Jason, and Natalie reflect on their goals and how they have (or have not) been working towards them. We discovered that even though things are not going to plan, we are making small course corrections along the way. We each identified some areas we wanted to continue to work on and shared our game plan for making that happen. Do you feel like your summer goals are off track? Don’t worry, we are too. This episode is for you! If you are looking for extra layers of support along your bariatric journey from experts, clinicians, and patients just like you, join the BariNation membership community! Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, registered dietitians, wellness coaches, and other clinicians and there are weekly opportunities to connect with patients just like you in peer-to-peer meetups and live events! Check it out! You have 14 days to try the community for free before your membership kicks in! See if the support is right for YOU. Follow BariNation on Instagram @bari.nation for continued support aligned with your bariatric journey. Follow April @activley_april, follow Jason @tha_smithsonian_, and follow Natalie @breakingbari_ers
117: August Summer, Steady Check-In
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Wondering what you can do to make your favorite summer recipes more bariatric friendly? Looking for some small mindset shifts to help you think differently about bariatric eating and your bariatric journey? Then this VBM recording is for you! Jeannie Boyer, RD, and Stephanie Mitchen, Chef and patient, joined us as expert guests to help us better understand and make some outstanding summer swaps! Let us know what your big takeaways from this video are in the comments! Looking for additional support along your bariatric journey? Join the Barination Membership Community! We offer over 100 live, virtual events supports every month that are tailored to our bariatric needs. Our support groups are led by bariatric therapists, our classes are taught by experts in the field, and our creators and moderators host fun and engaging peer-to-peer meetups! Check it out at www.barination.com and join the community today! You've got this and we've got you!
August 22 VBM: Summer Swaps
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For many bariatric patients, learning how and what to eat after surgery is one of our largest struggles. We might have known how to eat a certain number of calories, but most of the time, those calories did not align with our goals. Learning how, why, and what to eat is our first struggle and one that often lasts quite some time. In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Matt. Weiner, a bariatric surgeon, and author from Tucson, Arizona, to talk about bariatric eating before and after surgery. He has developed his own bariatric eating protocol called a Pound of Cure, and we wanted to know what it is all about. He is also a strong advocate for weight loss medication being used as a part of a patient's treatment plan, and we wanted to know more about this emerging facet of obestiy treatment. We are so excited to introduce you to Dr. Matt Weiner! Follow him on Instagram @drmattweiner and find him online at www.poundofcureweightloss.com. A huge thank you to Dr. Weiner for joining us for this important and engaging conversation!
116: Bariatric Eating and Weight Loss Medication with Dr. Matt Weiner
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