How do you recover from friendship changes? Listen today’s episode and learn not only that, but the reasons friendships are so critical to our physical and mental health, reasons they change, and how you can deal with friendships as you lose weight! As the saying goes… Make new friends and MAYBE keep the old? Oh, yeah… I added the maybe part!

The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let’s get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?

Resources:

· BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com

· Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com

· BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare

· BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare

· Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people

· Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)

· Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)

· Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)

· Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)

· ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)

· Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/

· Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

· When Friendships Fade by Ankita Guchait, MBPsS

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-realities-of-refugee-screening/202509/when-friendships-fade

· When a Friendship No Longer Fits by Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifetime-connections/202205/how-friendship-needs-change-over-time

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-healthy-journey/202506/why-people-should-expect-relationship-changes-after-weight-loss

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-hear-you/202512/when-friendships-end