The BariNation Foundation Podcast

By April WilliamsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

The BariNation Foundation Podcast episodes

April 15, 2021042: Reclaiming Our Health with Teri Turner
Many of us have had people in our lives who have been our *ultimate* teachers. A person who inspires and uplifts our potential, who shows us new and exciting ways of doing things, a person who shows us how to show up in the world as our authentic selves. Some of us are fortunate enough to have these people in our own families. Many of us turn to public figures, people who put their talents to the world in hopes of helping others. Teri Turner is one such human. She is the captain of No Crumbs Left- an online universe that helps us make everyday food marvelous.
About 3 months into her recovery, April *broke-up* with food. She swore it off and vowed to never interact with it again. Food had done her wrong and she was not getting back into another horrible relationship with food. Many bariatric patients feel the same way after their own procedures, but we all come to realize that we have to eat to live. If we want to find lasting success and our happy, healthy weight after bariatric surgery, we have to reconnect with food.
Teri's approaches food differently. She believes that food is meant to be enjoyed, that food is meant to be wholesome and healthy, that food is made from real, seasonal ingredients, and that preparing meals is not scary. She has dedicated her most recent years to showing us all the power of simple ingredients, easy tricks, and curiosity in our kitchens and farmer's markets to help us find our happiest and healthiest lives.
Episode Topics:
Identifying our relationship with food

How food and health go hand-in-hand

Hunger and what it means

How we can reconnect with food

Teri has curated amazing spaces online for us to learn and grow with and from her! Follow her in ALL the spaces!
Instagram: @nocrumbsleft

Facebook: @nocrumbsleft

Tik Tok: @nocrumbsleft

No Crumb Left Blog and Pottery Shop: https://nocrumbsleft.net/

No Crumbs Left Cookbook

We cannot thank Teri enough for her support, wisdom, and fierce "Strong cup of coffee" presence in this world! WE LOVE YOU TERI!
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 11 min
April 13, 2021 041: WLS at a Mature Age
We are often asked by older members of our bariatric community if WLS is the right decision at mature ages. So we weight straight to an expert, Dr. Jor Cribbins, the Director of the Texas Center for Bariatrics and Advanced Surgery! Dr. Cribbibns has performed thousands of bariatric surgeries and works tirelessly to ensure his patients find success after their bariatric procedure. We wanted to know if -age- impacts a person's ability to undergo bariatric surgery and if it impacts their rate of success after surgery? His responses BLEW OUR MINDS! If you are wondering if WLS is right for you, this episode will leave you optimistic and hopeful!
Follow Dr. Cribbins on Instagram @one_operation_changes_life and online at https://www.texascenterforsurgery.com/
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
37 min
April 07, 2021 040: Rethinking Food with Jana Wolff, RD
Food is what got us to our high weight. And conversely, food is what will help us maintain a healthy weight if we reframe our thinking on food. Mind trip, we know. To help us navigate this food adventure, we sat down with Jana Wolff, the Registered Dietitian behind BariBox, the bariatric meal delivery company! This start-up ships perfectly portioned and macro-nutrient-packed meals, snacks, protein powders, and desserts straight to our homes making food one of the *least* complicated facets of our bariatric recovery. But learning why we eat what we do and how that food has served (or not served) our lives is key to long-term success after our procedures.
In this episode, Jana helps us rethinking food and "flips the script" on what we think or know food to be. She challenges us to think about it in different ways so we can use food as it is intended, fuel for our lives. Follow Jana on Instagram @mybaribox and visit her online at www.baribox.org to see just how amazing her meal-delivery service is!
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 17 min
April 05, 2021 039: Reframing Food with Kedric
To finding lasting success after weight loss surgery, we have to do two things: acknowledge the role food has played in our lives and reframe these relationships to serve our new lives. Easier said than done.
We had the opportunity to sit down with Kedric Barrett, the amazing human behind the podcast Sleeved Believe the Hype- a show that chronicles the ups and downs of weight loss surgery in the most honest and real ways. Ked shared the role food played in his life before surgery and how has he reframed his relationship with food to work for him, not against him. We also discuss what it means to live life as a large human and the lasting impacts of our size on our family, friends, and careers. He is also passionate about speaking about the importance of following our doctor's orders before and after surgery, and he explains why in this episode.
Follow Ked on your podcast player app and on Instagram @sleevedbelievethehype
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 21 min
March 31, 2021038: Metabolic Wellness with Dr. Ariel Ortiz
We are honored to have the privilege to sit down with Dr. Ortiz again to discuss the hottest topic on the block- metabolic wellness. So many of you were blown away by this new learning in Episode 33 that we had to sit down with him again and deep dive to better understanding what metabolic wellness is and why it should be our lifelong wellness goal.
Dr. Ortiz is the world-renowned bariatric surgeon and Medical Director at the Obesity Control Center in Tijuana, Mexico! He is one of the pioneers of bariatric surgery and recognized as a leading authority in the field of bariatric medicine, playing a key role in the development of the Lap-Band, a type of bariatric surgery. He has gone on to pioneer a new type of sleeve procedure that has lower rates of complications and higher rates of success.
Episode Topics:
Defining metabolic disease, syndrome, and wellness.

Understanding the importance of achieving metabolic wellness.

Learning how to achieve metabolic wellness.

Metabolic wellness resources

Follow Dr. Ortiz on social media and visit the Obesity Control Center online!
Instagram: @obesitycontrolcenter

Website: www.obesitycontrolcenter.com

Facebook: @OCCMedicalCenter

Episode Mentions:
Benjamine Birkman, PhD

Jason Fung, MD

Eric Westman, MD

We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 6 min
March 24, 2021037: Shifting our Mindset
We believe there are three "pillars" of bariatric success: movement, mindset, and metabolic wellness. Each is equally important and each requires different skills, tools, and approaches to incorporate into our daily lives before and after bariatric surgery. April and Jason can share their experience and recipes for success, but we are here to connect this community with the experts in their field so we can learn and grow with the BEST!
We sat down with Mabel, the founder of Beyond the Sleeve Academy to understand how we can make the mindset shifts we need to become the people we want to be after our procedures. Mabel is a certified life coach who specializes in mindset and she is well versed in this practice, she has VSG in June of 2018 and has maintained a 120-pound weight loss! She practices what she teaches and that is the sign of someone who knows how to get results!
Follow Mabel on Instagram and online at www.beyondthesleeveacademy.com
Episode Topics:
What is mindset?

How do we recognize our mindset?

How do we shift and grow our mindset to be one that serves us?

What mindset areas do you see your clients struggle the most in after bariatric surgery?

We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 16 min
March 22, 2021 036: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Jason recently celebrated his ONE YEAR SURGERY AVVINVERSARY and we were so excited to reflect on what he has learned in that time. And believe if it or not, his wife Sarah had her first bariatric surgery appointment on that very same day! The three of us sat down to reflect on Jasons' year and better understand Sarah's upcoming procedure. We were able to better understand some of the ways Jason's life has changed, how his weight loss has impacted their relationship, and what Sarah is excited and nervous for!
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 15 min
March 18, 2021 035: The Three M's: Movement, Mindset, and Metabolic Wellness with Jamie
If you guys could see the show notes we had prepared for this conversation...and then compare them to what we actually talked about...you would question why we spend so much time making show notes ;) This interview was TECTONIC. Jamie (TheSleevedDietitician) is a freaking magician when it comes to all things movement, mindset, and metabolic wellness. No matter where you are in the bariatric journey, you will leave this conversation with new insights, new understanding, and a few "ah-ha" moments.
Jamie has created a TRIBE- a virtual space where bariatric patients can gather to learn, grown, and shift their mindset in ways that will help them find success after WLS. What makes her such an asset to our community is her experience and expertise. Not only is she a registered dietitian, but she is also a bariatric patient. She understands what WLS patients go through on a very personal level. We invite you to follow her on Instagram at @thesleeveddietitician and find out more about her TRIBE by visiting her online!
We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april

1 hr 41 min
March 10, 2021034: Movement and Mindset with Gina
Movement and mindset- two of the HARDEST things to master in life. But two of the most important things to master after bariatric surgery. We sat down with Gina @fat2fab_rny to understand how she has defined and refine both of these elements after her RNY procedure. She has discovered how mindset and action have helped her create her fitness goals, and how those goals allow her to live her life at a healthy weight. She is an athlete, a talented artist, and a thriving woman who has found a way to make it all work, even on the days when she's not feeling it.
Episode Topics:
Making the decision to have bariatric surgery

Finding our groove after surgery

The power of hashtags and community building

How to make movement a part of our mindset

We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 41 min
March 03, 2021033: The Power of Bariatric Surgery with Dr. Ariel Ortiz
Bariatric surgery can do more than help us live our life at a healthy weight, it is a tool we can utilize to find true, metabolic healthy. Dr. Ortiz is the world-renowned bariatric surgeon and Medical Director at the Obesity Control Center in Tijuana, Mexico! He is one of the pioneers of bariatric surgery and recognized as a leading authority in the field of bariatric medicine, playing a key role in the development of the Lap-Band, a type of bariatric surgery. He has gone on to pioneer a new type of sleeve procedure that has lower rates of complications and higher rates of success.
In this far-reaching and insightful conversation with Dr. Ortiz, the EastwWest_WLS crew discovered the true POWER of bariatric surgery. Our original goal for this conversation was to learn more about Dr. Ortiz and his Obesity Control Center in Mexico, but what we end with was a deep dive into metabolic wellness and a roadmap for how we can use it as a final destination for our bariatric journey.
Episode Topics:
Why bariatric surgery is necessary for many.

The pre-op and post- op experienece.

How to prepare for bariatric surgery.

How to find health and wellness after surgery.

What the bariatric experience is like at OCC!

Follow Dr. Ortiz on social media and visit the Obesity Control Center online!
Instagram: @obesitycontrolcenter

Website: www.obesitycontrolcenter.com

Facebook: @OCCMedicalCenter

Episode Mentions:
Benjamine Birkman, PhD

Jason Fung, MD

Eric Westman, MD

We also encourage you to VIEW this podcast on our YouTube channel. We shared some graphics and images that aid our visual learners who listen and enjoy listening! If you like what you hear and see, follow/subscribe to the feed and leave us a review!
Our goal is to create content that is of value to our community. If you have a topic, idea, question, or threat you would like us to explore in-depth, please leave us a comment on whatever platform you are listening to or watching from or message us directly on Instagram! We are @east2west_wls and welcome your feedback! Please like, share, and review this podcast- your review helps us grow and reach more people.
Where to follow along:
Website: www.east2westwls.com
Instagram: @east2west_wls
YouTube: East2West_WLS
Jason: @tha_smithsonian
April: @actively_april
1 hr 47 min

About The BariNation Foundation Podcast

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to The BariNation Foundation Podcast, where you’ll hear real talk about bariatric surgery, obesity medicine, medical weight loss, metabolic health, weight management, and lifelong obesity care. Whether you're considering bariatric surgery, preparing for weight loss surgery, recovering after surgery, or looking for evidence-based strategies to maintain long-term weight loss, this podcast gives you the education, support, and community you need to succeed.

Hosted by members of the bariatric community who are living the journey themselves, The BariNation Foundation Podcast brings together leading bariatric surgeons, obesity medicine physicians, registered dietitians, psychologists, exercise specialists, and real patients to share practical advice, inspiring stories, and the latest research in obesity treatment.

Obesity is a complex, chronic disease, and lasting success requires more than a procedure. Every episode explores the science, strategies, and mindset behind sustainable weight management. We discuss bariatric surgery, gastric bypass,vertical sleeve gastrectomy, duodenal switch SADI, revision/conversion surgeries, medical weight loss, bariatric nutrition, healthy weight loss, obesity medicine, lifestyle medicine, metabolic health, obesity care, emotional eating, body image, mental health, exercise, protein, vitamins, supplementation, meal planning, and long-term success after surgery.

You'll also hear honest conversations about the challenges that many people face, including weight reoccurrence, plateaus, transfer addiction, emotional health, relationships, loose skin, excess skin surgery, fertility, pregnancy after bariatric surgery, hormone changes, body confidence, and navigating life before and after surgery as well as GLP1’s. Our goal is to provide realistic expectations, expert guidance, and encouragement so you never feel like you're facing your journey alone.

As obesity treatment continues to evolve, we also explore the latest advances in obesity medicine, including GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro, and emerging therapies, while helping you understand how these medications may fit alongside bariatric surgery and comprehensive medical weight loss. We break down the latest research into practical, easy-to-understand conversations that empower you to make informed decisions with your healthcare team.

Where ever you are in seeking treatment for the chronic disease of obesity, be it researching bariatric surgery for the first time, preparing for your procedure, celebrating major milestones, overcoming setbacks, or supporting a friend or family member through their journey, you'll find expert interviews, patient success stories, nutritional guidance, motivation, and actionable strategies that help you build healthy habits for life.

The BariNation Foundation Podcast is more than a podcast. It's a supportive community built on education, compassion, accountability, and hope. We believe every person deserves access to trusted information, meaningful support, and evidence-based resources that improve health and quality of life.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon or wherever you listen to podcasts, and join thousands of people committed to improving their metabolic health, achieving sustainable weight loss, and thriving after bariatric surgery. No matter where you are on your journey, BariNation is here to help you take the next step with confidence.

Website: https://www.barination.com