Avoiding Self-Sabotage
(Making the Right Choices)
By: Lori Sperling Nevins, LCSW
As bariatric patients, we are all familiar with the idea of self-sabotage as a behavior we struggle with consistently. In order to avoid undermining ourselves and create new positive lifestyle habits, we can be the architects of both physical and mental success as a long term post operative bariatric patient.
Make a trip to the supermarket a fun and challenging activity instead of a boring and unsatisfying one. You will find articles within WLS Lifestyles website on the Bariatric Kitchen and how to create one in your own home. We encourage the use of food as a pleasant experience for the senses as well as the palate. By keeping your food choices healthy and your attitude positive, there are limitless ways to enjoy dining while maintaining a bariatric appropriate lifestyle.
Many patients often speak of the increasing challenge and difficulty of keeping food choices and meal selections a pleasing experience. Making the right choices not only means the food itself but the reasons and motivations for those choices as well; we often let life get in the way and distract us from what is important many times. If we are to avoid self sabotage, we have to be honest and up front with our behaviors as well as attitudes. Wouldnt it be so much simpler to enjoy the experience of food and eating than to anticipate it with with angst and stress?
