Reverse The Rebound Weight Gain Podcast

You may or may not know that food and weight are only the symptoms.  This is why WLS doesn't fix the problem and make every thing go away and why doing this mind work is the key to making your surgery a success.  Let's unpack these control strategies. It could be: Tracking everything in an app - calories, exercise etc...and let's me honest this can feel like a part time job - all of the calculatio...

If you're not where you want to be with your eating and weight, chances are you are committed to version 1.0, and your thoughts/feelings and behaviours have aligned with that commitment. Most people think that they are not a committed person.   They say things like - I've got no willpower, I have no control. I'm just lazy. I'm not committed.  But you are always committing to something. Learn what...

Failure and weight is inextricably linked when it comes to weight loss surgery.  Chances are that you felt like a failure BEFORE you had surgery. This doesn't go away after surgery, and if it's not cleared, then you are susceptible to regaining your lost weight.  You will hear all of this and more when you listen to this podcast as I talk with special guest Tammy who had a sleeve 2 years ago, and...

We all have an inner mean girl. It's the part of us that is judgy, critical and compares us to others and we always fall short. She calls us fat, a failure, you can't get what you want.  You're greedy. You're lazy.  It's like an inner bully.  It also affects our eating and weight.  Either you eat to escape from the constant attacks all day. Or your inner mean girl tells you to eat.  You may as wel...

Welcome Michael Hii, Michael is a Osphogeal & Bariatric surgery at Melbourne Gastro Osphoegeal surgery. I've worked in the WLS clinic in the team with Michael since 2016, and Michael is a big believer in psychological services to support WLS and that's what we are going to unpack today. We speak about: - Weight regain after WLS, when does this typically become an issue and why does this become an...

This can either be a fear before surgery and a real concern after surgery. I often raise this as a potential flag for some clients that I see pre surgery.  I find there's a real mix.  Some women say - no way I can't wait to get rid of the excess weight, that won't be a problem for me.  I get it - often we don't know until we are in it that it could be a potential issue.  But if your weight has bee...

Many of my clients have struggled with their weight their whole life.  Your first memory is being the chubby kid.  Often another family member was small, didn't struggle with their weight.  But you always felt like the big one.   You'd go to school and notice that play out as well.  Maybe your friends were wearing certain, fashionable clothes back then, and you couldn't wear those clothes - furthe...

Are you secretly eating and holding onto your excess weight as an act of rebellion? This is related to my second pillar in my version 2.0 upgrade model, which is all about your identity. Who do you need to BE to make your WLS a success. We are actually clearing this block in the version 2.0 upgrade program next week.  Many clients that I work with are using food and their weight as an act of rebel...

If you have stalled or regained any weight after WLS, it could be that your psychological set point weight may be causing this to happen. We have a psychological set point weight that can determine your current weight.   If your weight isn't where you want it to be, find out how you can find out your magic number that will change everything.  Message me to find out how to change your psychological...

There's a part of you that signed up to WLS wanting to change, and then another part that is eating chocolate every night.  This is how sabotage plays out.  We are a sum of many parts. We have the part of us that wants the best for us, and yet another part that wants to stay safe.  Sabotage does not go away once your 'fix' your eating and weight. Learn WHY you keep sabotaging yourself in this epis...

I want to talk you through goal weight trap that I see play out a lot with women...regardless of whether you have had surgery or not.  I had a session with one of my lovely 1 on 1 clients and it's her  birthday in 2 weeks time and she wanted to be a specific weight for her birthday. She started tracking and counting and got a bit obsessive with it all. Guess what happened? She started to eat more....

It's another personal share today around what I am doing to be my version 2.0 despite extraordinary and challenging circumstances...being stage 4 lock down here in Melbourne.  When I found out we were in stage 4 lockdown - I started to get into victim mode. I started eating.  I then realised that I have a choice.  Stay in victim mode, feel sorry for myself and let me circumstances control me…which...

Join the conversation that I have with a WLS Dietitian, Julie Hennessy as we unpack some misconceptions about protein post WLS and how it could be leading to weight gain, and not weight loss.    You won't want to miss it!

Do you minimise your feelings? I did this last week in relation to stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions, and I ate! Learn what happens when we minimise and intellectualise your feelings and how to turn this around to avoid weight gain. What to learn more around how I did this, send me a message and I'll share it with you: https://www.facebook.com/georgiebeames/inbox

Lisa is a post-weight loss surgery client I've been working with for the last three months.   She had a mental block that the sleeve wouldn't work for her (she wished she got a bypass), she always felt like the big one in her friendship group and sabotage snuck in very quickly and she was worried that she would waste all that money she spent on surgery and the opportunity.    Lisa openly shares wi...

If you do, you are not alone.  So we want to honor tummy hunger but, for head hunger, we want to start to identify it and try out some different strategies.  Head hunger is instant. For instance, we might've just finished lunch or dinner and we have an instant urge and craving. It's like this tension in our body.  This driving force that takes over. We feel like we have no control. You know what I...

Have you ever lost weight in the past and then regained it? That is because your identity and self worth did not support your behaviours (eating and exercise). The secret is to  upgrade your identity, self worth and eating habits FIRST.  Pre WLS you had version 1.0 mind, and a version 1.0 body.  Post WLS your body had an upgrade to version 2.0 (significant weight loss, health benefits etc), howeve...

Does this sound like you. The night before you are fired up to get up early and go for a walk or go to the gym, then the alarm goes off and you hit snooze !! Or you say to yourself, after work I'll go for that walk...then it gets to 5pm and you think - I can't be bothered and you sit on the couch and watch mindless TV instead! Can you see that we make an either/or choice that are actually opposite...

I've spent the last 5 days in hospital with my son, Nate in sleep school changing all the bad habits.  It got me thinking  about where you might be right now with your eating and weight.    You've had surgery, and now some bad eating habits have snuck back in. You're aware of the bad habits, but a bit like me  - just knowing the bad habits isn't enough to change it.   Awareness is a great start, b...

If you have bumped yourself way down on the priority list and you're just running around busy looking after everyone else taking care after everyone else, then you need to hear this message today because it is affecting your eating and it's affecting your weight. What we're doing is we're either eating during the day thinking we're giving ourselves a burst of energy to get through the day, or the...

I'm 40, I'm 50, I'm 60 - and you might find yourself asking, why do I not have control over this issue? Why do I not have control over my eating and weight? I have control over all other areas of my life.  Then you might go here, "I haven't had this and that happen to me, other people are sooo worse off than me, I shouldn't complain, this is a first world problem  -why can't I sort it out??" Liste...

I work with a lot of clients who are very successful in their career and other areas of their life. They are in control in these areas and are very competent. However, they feel out of control with eating and their weight.  It's like they are successful and in control in all areas of their life, but they feel like a failure when it comes to their eating and weight. They try to apply the same strat...

I've worked with many clients who are not in their own body.  What I mean by that is that they received messages both implicitly and explicitly about their body when they were growing up, and it became a self fulfilling prophecy (aka being overweight). In the most part, there are 2 way that we let our mother's relationship with food and weight influence our weight:  Enmeshment  Rebellion I want yo...

You're in the honeymoon phase and the weight is dropping off like it never has before without really forcing it or hard work.  Everyone is noticing your weight loss and the complements are coming thick and fast.  You are wearing clothes that you love and you are loving these new changes and you're excited about the future.  You have NEVER felt this way before, and you are LOVING it.  And then you...

Numbers are neutral.  It's the meaning you've attached to that specific number.  I want you to really reflect on why you have chosen 75kg and not 83kg. It's got nothing to do with the number but the meaning you have given it.  Pre-surgery you were feeling out of control, that's why you had surgery right? There were high levels of anxiety around your weight.  I'm guessing you got surgery to feel fr...