O2B Healthy WLS Workshop

Success Lifeline

for Pre and Post WLS patients

Weight loss surgery does not work alone.

At the heart of long-term WLS success is having the information and skills to make significant changes in your attitudes, behaviors and habits.

Our goal is to give you the coping skills to prepare you for the journey to a healthy life with new energy and vitality!

O2B Healthy WLS Workshop answers your concerns:

• How will my family react to my change in eating?
• I am losing weight, but why do I feel so down?
• What will I feel like when my body changes?
• How will I handle my stress when I can't eat?
• Can I say no to the foods I've loved so well?
• I'm not losing weight; what can I do?
• Help! I'm stuck at a weight plateau.
• How can I make myself exercise?

O2B Healthy WLS Workshop teaches the "how to" skills:

Motivation Maintenance

• Keeping your energy high for reaching WLS goals
• Touching your Spiritual connections
• Enriching relationships
• Celebrating success

Life-Skills

• Yes, you can say no without feeling guilty
• Staying connected to loved ones
• Confronting negative thinking
• 4 steps to build self-esteem
• Goal setting for success
• Stress busters

Self Care

• Keys to the Kingdom: Diet and Exercise
• Skills for making self-care a top priority
• Creating your healthy lifestyle

Heartful Awareness

• Understanding the emotional impact of your body's changing shape
• How awareness leads you to new choices and change
• Creating a healthy emotional relationship with food
• Listening to the wisdom of your body
• Breaking out of reactive eating cycles

We teach all skills in an experiential, encouraging style which helps you recognize your strengths and bring those strengths to bear on your commitment to reclaiming your health and your life after weight loss surgery.

I was shocked at how little I really knew about obesity. The workshop helped me understand why I can't lose weight and what I need to do after the surgery to be successful.
-E.R., Pre WLS

My surgeon kept saying the surgery is not a quick fix, and after the workshop, I understand what he meant. I'm much better prepared to handle both the physical and mental changes I'll need to make.
-R.G., Post WLS

I loved the atmosphere of the workshop.
-B.C., Pre WLS

I attended the workshop after my surgery because my surgeon told me to. I didn't want to go. It was the best thing I have ever done for myself and now I know I'll reach my goals.
-A.S., Post WLS

From today forward, I will find new and exciting ways to spend my life and energy.
-W.F., Pre WLS

I proclaim a victory over my body. No 'ands, ifs or buts'.
-P.C., Post WLS

You taught us in ways I could absorb. This is an experience I'll never forget.
-J.K., Pre WLS

When I left the workshop I knew I had what I needed to make my experience successful. Indeed, I was right. I'm 16 months out And I still use the information I learned in the workshop.
-S.T., Pre WLS

Your warmth in your relationship (Betsy & Greg) came through and made the workshop convincing.
-S.F., Post WLS

Food has held me prisoner in my own body. The workshop helped me see I deserve better.
-G.H., Post WLS

I am giving up my affair with food. No longer will food be what I am always thinking about.
-K.C., Pre WLS