When people seek to lose weight the focus is often on the weight itself (or, the numbers: the scale, the pant size…). However, there is a lot more to it than just the physical outcomes; significant weight loss can also have impacts to a person’s mental and emotional wellbeing, that can then affect their choices and ultimate success of a weight loss procedure. This is why our clinic, when treating a patient with the Allurion procedure, pays particular attention to their holistic care to support them towards a sustainable lifestyle change, with weight loss only one part of the process. 

Emotional eating

Emotional eating is often a factor for weight gain, and has very little, if anything, to do with the food itself. Emotional eating is overconsumption of food to mask or medicate emotional triggers that aren’t being addressed through more helpful means. This typically includes mindless eating (where there’s little to no enjoyment of the food, it’s an unconscious act that offers temporary relief to emotional pain). 

The Allurion Balloon alone, while offering opportunity for great weight loss results, does not on its own assist with emotionally-driven overeating. The Newcastle Obesity Clinic’s expert team works with you on a support plan to overcome emotional eating triggers, and help you better understand the motivations for overeating. In doing so, we can help you find sustainable tools to manage emotional eating and give your Allurion Balloon outcome the best chance of long term success. 

Motivation and accountability

Motivation can be hard to harness continually when all you can think about is what you’re ‘missing out’ on. Our support program helps to rewire your focus to be more on the health, fitness and wellness goals you’re trying to reach, and less on retreating into old thought patterns that make motivation something to fight to keep. Instead, we redirect energy into keeping you excited, enthusiastic and in want of changing your lifestyle as a whole, keeping you on the right track for changing your life with more positive, healthy choices. 

Education and empowerment 

Education and empowerment tend to go hand-in-hand. When not running off emotional triggers or unconscious unhealthy habits, there tends to be a lack of understanding around why these behaviours are occurring, and healthy ways to turn them around. Our post-Allurion procedure program doesn’t just help you lose weight, it helps you understand why it matters. Our nutritionists and expert consultants offer education around food, exercise and general healthy living, applying them to counter your specific triggers for less positive lifestyle choices. When you have this knowledge, more positive choices become natural, helping you gain control over your wellness journey. 

Customisation

There is no one-size-fits all approach to long term health and wellness, even as it applies to weight loss. While the Allurion Balloon procedure itself looks the same for all patients, the aftercare and support program is designed around your specific circumstances, mindsets and past experiences. Your psychological relationship to weight gain is as individual as your relationship to weight loss. Some people, though they seek the outcome of losing weight, have a difficult time understanding their new body shape and how they now fit in their world, and society generally. Others embrace this aspect, but have more difficulty changing old behaviours. We customise your after treatment care to specifically monitor, support and navigate a healthy mindset to set you up for sustainable success with your physical changes. 

How weight loss affects you psychologically is a really important factor to focus on and have supported, as much (if not more) than the physical. We understand that both your body and your mental state contribute to overall health and wellbeing, and our program is designed to specifically support your individual needs in both spaces after the Allurion Balloon procedure. By looking at everything holistically, you are increasing your chances of being happier and healthier inside and out, long-term.