Welcome
Bariatric coaching by Kathy Sheffield means regular and reliable contact with a bariatric specialist who is a nutritionist and therapist. It’s like having your own therapist and nutritionist “on retainer” in the months and years after surgery.
This coaching represents the best advice on bariatric eating short and longterm, and very much focuses on surgical weight loss in the bigger picture of a person’s life, family, relationships.
Regular contact over the first 18 months or at any point after surgery, aims to support bariatric weight loss and maintenance with coaching on postoperative bariatric diet, eating patterns and practices in the first year to optimize relearning eating patterns, and normalizing eating in the years after surgery.
Perhaps more importantly, the coaching offers a resource for managing the changes that come after surgery, changes in you, changes in relationships- ones you expected and ones you didn’t.