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WELCOME TO MY BARIATRIC NUTRITION COACHING PROGRAM
Did you know 50% of patients regain the weight they lose due to lack of support!
Want to learn the secrets to
Fast Track Your Habits & Weight Loss for LONG TERM SUCCESS
Need help to break those old habits that sabotage your weight loss?
Finally, do you want to STOP FIGURING IT OUT and feel in control of your weight loss and what you eat?
DID YOU "say yes ?"
YOU'RE READY TO FAST TRACK YOUR HABITS & WEIGHT LOSS?
Start feeling confident and in control of your food choices, mindset and habits with my BARIATRIC NUTRITION: WORKING WITH YOUR SURGERY & EMOTIONAL EATING PROGRAM.
You’ll have WEEKLY COACHING TO TRANSFORM YOUR HABITS & WEIGHT LOSS in my exclusive BARIATRIC COMMUNITY with Van and Theresa (Therapist). This will give you the support you need to take action.
It's not what you eat, it's about WHY you eat
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Van
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A Specialist Bariatric (weight loss surgery) dietitian and emotional eating coach, based in the West Midlands. With more than 30 years experience as a dietitian and NHS Specialist in the West Midlands.
As my work is virtual I work with clients locally, nationally and internationally to help them achieve long lasting lifestyle changes.
In 2019 I created The Dietologist because I wanted to provide nutrition and mindset coaching to help you achieve the weight loss results that you want, and deserve. I work privately with individuals who are serious about transforming their lives, offering services that can support a healthy weight loss journey.
I’m an enormously positive person and I love working with committed women who want to transform their lives by jumping off the cycle of dieting and managing emotional eating habits.
My mission is to remove the stigma of weight loss surgery and spread the message that surgery is not a “silver bullet” to weight loss.
In my Working With Your Surgery & Emotional Eating program you’ll get access to all the tips, tricks and tools I provide in my 1:1 coaching, to kickstart your weight loss and transform your eating habits and mindset, delivered in a comprehensive way that is suitable for everyone, regardless of where you are in your weight loss journey!
You’ll also get EXCLUSIVE access to The Dietologist T.R.I.B.E GROUP (Transforming Results In Bariatric Eating & Weight loss) and with it the opportunity to feel part of an awesome community to transform your weight loss results before and after WLS - a fantastic way to have immediate access to amazing support, information and a community of people who are on their own weight loss journey.
Studies show those belonging to a positive community get better results after WLS! The Dietologist T.R.I.B.E will be the most positive community you’ll experience to keep you accountable and focused to your weight loss goals.
We all want a quick fix, especially when it comes to weight loss… I know I do!
Unfortunately, when it comes to lasting change in your weight and health there isn’t a quick fix option, and this is where the MY PROGRAM with weekly coaching can help.
What if you could:
Forget about ‘dieting’ and incorporate all of your favourite foods into your daily lifestyle to keep the weight off for good?
Stop Worrying about calories and “bad” food?
Feel confident in creating balanced meals without feeling like you’re missing out?
Improve your relationship with food and be able to know when your body is hungry instead of your mind?
Remove the guilt surrounding food and get rid of feelings of failure and imposter syndrome?
Develop the confidence to find things that you love and start to enjoy exercising?
Take control of your own weight loss journey, at your own pace, change your habits and upgrade your mindset and feel great about yourself and your results?
THE PROGRAM INCLUDES:
an online video resource library to help you build firm foundations WITH your weight loss surgery
COACHING TO help you UPGRADE your mindset and break old sabotaging habits to create new ones
EDUCATION & SUPPORT TO break free of dieting, so you no longer restrict THE food YOU ENJOY & BINGE ON
access to The Dietologist T.r.i.b.e group coaching to give you time to digest everything you learn and put it into practise
Weekly Q&A session with Van or TALKING TherAPIST, where you can ask questions live during a zoom call
want to know more about the program?
WEEK ONE: FOUNDATIONS TO YOUR WLS:
This week I help you understand how your WLS tool works, the do's and don'ts of WLS, including hunger levels, and how to map out your weight loss journey to help set realistic weight goals.
WEEK TWO: HOW TO EAT FOR YOUR SURGERY:
Includes the post op healing phase of the diet with step by step guides with recipes & meal plans. A Diet reset to get you back on track if you're experiencing weight regain or hit a weight stall/plateau.
Talk about MACROs, protein goals, fluid guidelines, using the bariatric plate method instead of counting calories to help you lose weight.
WEEK THREE: Working with your surgery
We discuss the importance of eating techniques, how to put them into practice, dumping syndrome, prepping and planning your meals, pantry and fridge/freezer storage ideas, how frequently you should be eating after WLS to meet your needs.
WEEK FOUR: Your relationship with food:
We cover real hunger v emotional hunger, triggers to emotional eating, the hunger and fullness scale and food and mood. You'll begin to identify your triggers emotional hunger and start tp understand why you do what you do.
WEEK FIVE: Trashing the triggers to emotional eating
How to manage your triggers to emotional eating when you seek comfort, feel lonely, stressed, bored and so much more. Eating in response to our social environment and childhood influences. How stress and cortisol affects weight loss and cravings.
WEEK 6: Dieting cycle and cravings
Living with food restriction and bingeing, good and bad foods, the all or nothing mindset, black and white thinking and how this sabotages your weight loss. We begin dig deep into your mindset this week.
Week 7: Creating balance:
We start to create your new way of eating to help banish the old habits. We explore mindfulness, a SECRET rule for food, exercise and life to help create balance, and help manage your relationship with the weighing scales.
Week 8: The Right mindset
We dig deep into improving your relationship with yourself, self esteem, imposter syndrome and changing the inner critic to become your best self. This is the inner work that is needed to keep the weight off for good!
MY SUPPORT will HELP YOU:
Develop the foundations to understand your weight loss surgery journey
You will understand how your surgery works, so you understand how to use your weight loss surgery tool for maximum results. You'll have a clearer idea about how much you want to lose and how long it will take to achieve your weight and health goals.
Understand how to eat for your weight loss surgery
By the end of week 2 you'll fully understand how to eat and balance your macros at whatever point you are in your weight loss transformation. You'll appreciate where your calories come from really does matter and how this the wrong food group can cause a hormonal shift which can lead to weight gain rather than a loss.
Learn how to work with your surgery
Understand how to get the best results from the surgery by using the evidence-based eating techniques and correct food textures to help with fullness levels. You’ll learn about when it’s safe to drink fluids and understand why it’s important to follow this advice to ensure optimum weight loss results. We will also examine dumping syndrome and what you need to do, to reduce the risk of dumping and how to manage it if you do.
Examine your relationship with food
Understand the difference between real v emotional hunger and how surgery can only help with real hunger. You'll examine your traits of emotional eating, understand hunger and fullness levels and learn how to use the hunger scale to help you gain control of your eating to ensure you don’t overeat.
Trash your triggers to emotional eating
You'll learn how to use your food and mood diary to examine the psychology of why you eat when you’re not physically hungry, identifying triggers in your eating habits and patterns in a way that you’ve never looked at before. You’re now beginning to trust your hunger and fullness cues, helping you to work with your WLS.
UNDERSTAND WHY YOU BINGE & CRAVE FOODS
You’ll understand why you crave certain food and how you may have given your permission to eat to a diet/meal plan and why “dieting” doesn’t serve you anymore, along with understanding your mindset with regards to losing weight. You will begin to journal your thoughts and feelings about your weight from childhood and start to connect with your eating habits and inner child.
Build the RIGHT positive mindset to help empower you to achieve your weight loss goals
You'll be managing imposter syndrome and the inner critic that keeps telling you, you can’t lose the weight because you’ve failed so many times before. You can now create the right positive mindset and your new reality. You’ll learn the power of gratitude and affirmations to help empower you to become the NEW YOU! This is the inner work I've done (and continue to practice everyday) to transform my life and I know you can do it too.
Create balance in WHAT YOU EAT & HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE
You will create balance to help banish the old mindset, going deep into mindfulness, exercise, and work life balance. I’ll give you access to a top-secret rule to help you learn how to literally eat cake without it disturbing your weight loss. You'll no longer be a slave to the weighing scales and you’ll know the SECRETS to long-term weight loss success. It’s the icing on the cake you’ve been looking for!
JUST LOOK AT THIS AMAZING FEEDBACK FROM JUST A FEW OF MY HAPPY CLIENTS!
FAQ'S
What is bariatric aftercare and why do I need it?
Bariatric / Weight Loss surgery aftercare is the support that you need to help make the changes for long term weight loss. Without this you're likely to regain the weight you lose after a few years. 50% of patients regain ALL the weight they lose due to lack of aftercare support.
I like to use the analogy of a house when discussing WLS aftercare/support:
“We need to get the foundations right before we start to build and decorate our homes, otherwise the cracks keep appearing.”
The inner work you do before and after any bariatric procedure is the most critical part, and at The Dietologist I want to help prepare you for surgery and support you through the process post-surgery (aftercare).
Won’t I just lose weight automatically after having my surgery?
WLS surgery is a tool and does approximately 30% of the work controlling real hunger. WLS doesn’t control emotional eating or change your thoughts and feelings about food or yourself. After working in the industry for many years, most women I’ve worked with struggle to change their thoughts and feelings around food. They believe the surgery or a diet will “FIX” them, but there are usually deeper issues which they have not dealt with!
Can’t I just put a meal plan together or go on a diet and get the same results?
Meal plans are very general and I like to manage my clients as real people. Diets and meal plans can create a restrictive mindset where food cravings can result in a cycle of bingeing and restricting. With the Dietologist 8 week Working With Your Surgery & Emotional Eating program I want to help you break free from the dieting mindset, move away from labelling foods as "good" and "bad" and create a better relationship with food, so you don’t have to worry about counting calories or following a general meal plan. You’ll be equipped to create your own meal ideas and plan as you wish for your needs.
Do I have to be pre op in order to join?
Absolutely not! With the Dietologist
Working With Your Surgery & Emotional Eating program you get access to amazing support and advice regardless of what stage you are at in your weight loss journey.
What if I can’t make it to a Q&A live session?
All coaching sessions will be recorded so you can watch the replay of the sessions in the Dietologist TRIBE community. You can post your questions in the group to be answered during the live session.
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