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🛟 Non-Profit Organization for People With Obesity
🎙️Patient Hosted Weekly Podcast
👥 Expert-Led Community
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We’re proud to introduce the BariNation Foundation:

A nonprofit dedicated to helping people fight the disease of obesity with evidence-based education, stigma-free support, and real community.

Our mission is simple: Bring together knowledge, community, and hope to support people fighting the disease of obesity.

No one should have to navigate bariatric surgery, GLP-1 medications, or long-term metabolic health alone.

👉 Share and talk with others about our impact on your journey
👉 Support our mission (Comment “BNF” to become a donor)
👉 Read our newsletter (Comment “Email” for link to receive)
👉 Subscribe to our Instagram channel (Comment “Channel” for link to join)

Together, we’re building a future where support is always within reach.

#barinationfoundation #barination #obesityawareness by @bari.nation

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We support anyone fighting the disease of obesity, whether you’re exploring treatment, living life after bariatric surgery, using GLP-1 medications, or working toward long-term metabolic wellness.

If you’re feeling stuck, isolated, or overwhelmed, you belong here.

Our community exists for the real, everyday moments when support matters most.

👉 Share and talk with others about our impact on your journey

👉 Support our mission (Comment “BNF” to become a donor)

👉 Read our newsletter (Comment “Email” for link to receive)

👉 Subscribe to our Instagram channel (Comment “Channel” for link to join)

You don’t have to do this alone.

#barinationfoundation #barination #obesityawareness by @bari.nation

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How do we support people living with obesity?

Through our weekly podcast, our expert-led education and peer connection in our Pillars Community, peer connection, advocacy, and daily community support focused on movement, mindset, and metabolic wellness.

We connect patients with trusted resources and help them take action in real life, not just in theory.

👉 Share and talk with others about our impact on your journey

👉 Support our mission (Comment “BNF” to become a donor)

👉 Read our newsletter (Comment “Email” for link to receive)

👉 Subscribe to our Instagram channel (Comment “Channel” for link to join)

Help us reach more people who need care, connection, and hope.

#barinationfoundation #barination #obesityawareness by @bari.nation

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8 months ago

The Tater is THRIVING after #bariatricsurgery and we are so thankful for @texasbariatricsurgeons who has guided us every step of the way.

✅ No issues with food

✅ Hitting daily movement, protein, and hydration goals

✅ Sleeping soundly

✅ energy levels rebounding

But that’s not even the best part.

He is returning to himself. He is becoming more and more like the man I met 18 years ago, the person I married 15 years ago, the husband who bought me every James Mitchner book I didn’t own for our 1st wedding anniversary 💙

Obesity takes away more than our physical health. It robs us of showing up in life in the ways that are authentic to us.

Obesity robs you of yourself.

Treatment gives you back yourself. And the world needs the best version of your right now.

If you have been on the fence about talking with your doctor…any doctor about your weight, stop putting it off. Make that appointment and show up.

If you are on a GLP1 or have had surgery and notice that you have drifted from your treatment plan, find your way back to it.

You are too important, too valuable, to be taken from the world in this way.

Stop waiting, start treatment.

#obesity #wls #wlscommunity #husband taken in Gig Harbor, Washington by @bari.nation

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“Should you be eating that?” 🚨 The Food Police ghouls have arrived.

All month long, we’re helping people bust the ghosts that keep haunting their health journey.

We have some spells (scripts) for your back pocket:

💀“My care team and I have this handled.”

👹“I’d rather talk about anything else.”

🕷️“Obesity is a chronic disease. My treatment is between me and my doctor.”

You never owe anyone your medical history.

What’s your go-to comeback for the food police who haunt your obesity journey?

Keywords: BariNation FoodPolice Name Your Monster Obesity Is a Disease WLSCommunity GLP1 Community taken in Seattle, Washington by @bari.nation

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It’s the spookiest time of year and if you have some ghosts, ghouls, or gremlins haunting your obesity health journey, we got someone you can call.

BariNation.

All month long, we are teaching our members how to call out their ghosts by name, shine a bright light on them, and send them back to where they came from. 👻

Can you name your ghost?

👻 The regain ghoul
💀 The body ghost
😈 The craving monster
👹 The stall gremlin

No matter what your ghost is named, we got a tool to help banish them from your life. And when they start haunting your life again, you will know how to send them packing.

We’re taking the spooky out of the season and giving you all the”treats”, no tricks.

🪄Support groups led by therapists
✨ Classes taught by experts
💙 Meetups hosted by peers

All virtual, confidential, and safe.

And you even get to avoid the wallet monster at the gas station 🤣

$19 a month- no contract or long-term commitment. The support you need, when and where you need it.

➡️ Membership info in the comments- linked in bio- or shared in a DM.

Join a community that is here to teach you how to bust the ghosts that are haunting your life, one spell, one treat, one moment at a time.

#ghost #obesity #wls #support #barination by @bari.nation

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9 days ago

Raise your hand if midlife is super crazy. 🙋🏽‍♀️

Nobody handed us the handbook, and honestly, we would like to speak to the manager.

What we do have is a place to land. Becoming: A Midlife Meetup is a new space inside BariNation, hosted by Monique Coleman, CFI. It’s for men and women who want to get together and talk about the highs and lows of midlife, beyond the scale and beyond the “you’re fine” we give our friends and family.

It’s a safe space. Real people, real patients, in midlife, having real conversations about the stuff that’s hard to say out loud at the dinner table.

📅 We kick off Tuesday, Oct 6, then meet twice a month on Zoom.
👉 Sign up at the link in bio.
📆 Comment “cal” below for links to our virtual support calendar.

You’ve got this. We’ve got you.

#BariNation #MidlifeMeetup #BecomingMidlife #ObesityTreatmentJourney #MidlifeCommunity SafeSpace MidlifeHumor by @bari.nation

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Supporting treatment, education, and outreach in the fight against obesity at the annual @treothewalk 👊👟👟🐾

☔️It rained this year so the walk moved inside the hospital but didn’t dampen spirits. A good time was had by all in the Bariatric community @usmdhospitalarlington sponsored by @bari.nation 🤗 #communitysupport taken in Usmd Hospital at Arlington by @bari.nation

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We had a great #walkfortreo sponsored by @bari.nation this morning to represent the @treofoundation and @treothewalk to advocate for treatment, research, and #education to end #obesity . Thanks for coming out to join us Ismenia - it was great to see you and catch up! And to my supportive wife @dani_greene_ and son #greenesmachines , thank you for reminding me that a family who moves and loves together, lives longer together. #drjoegreene ❤️❤️💪💪 taken in Beach Drive by @bari.nation

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21 days ago

Today marks the first day of fall. 🍂

Just like the seasons change, so can the layers of support we need along our health journey.

As we add on extra layers to stay warm this time of year, we might need to add on layers of support, too.

You might be in a season where you don’t need those extra layers.

But someone else does.

This fall, we’re inviting 250 people to become monthly donors and help us keep these layers of support funded and visible, so anyone who needs them can find them.

Every $10 a month donor helps fund:

🍁 BariNation Community: our $19 membership and scholarships for people who can’t afford it right now

🍁 BariNation Podcast: more episodes, reaching more people

🍁 BariNation Foundation: the tech, insurance, and operations that keep it all running

Give $10 or more a month and we’ll send you a BariNation thank-you sticker pack, our way of saying thanks for adding your leaf to our giving tree this season!

Help someone add a layer of support this fall. Become a monthly donor today.

Link in bio or long- hold the QR code.

#fall #seasonofsupport #fallintogiving #barinationfoundation oundation #obesity taken in Gig Harbor, Washington by @bari.nation

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Seven years into this health journey, I understand change very differently than I did when I started. So much of what led into surgery and my early post-op years was doing big things. Hard things. Scary things. The picture on the left was 6-years ago today. I woke up in the ICU following emergency abdominal surgery after arriving to the ER the night before with pain I thought would take my life. The picture on the right is an ordinary day at the ocean with my cousin a few weeks ago. The longer I am on this journey, the more I understand that transformation is a strange mix of risk, planning, and an enormous amount of mundane repetition. Sometimes the bravery is in the leap. Sometimes you need to think 10 steps ahead. And sometimes it’s the lunch you need to pack, or the workout you need to do when you don’t feel like it. The more I step back and survey my life, I am seeing it is held together by remarkably ordinary things.

As I look ahead to some big shifts coming in my life, even those involve mostly ordinary every day decisions mixed with hope and risk.

A few years ago I read a quote that said “A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn”. Sustainable living is creating a life that can bend without breaking. Firm and flexible are the guardrails that have guided me to a life I can and want to sustain.

My focus is on less of what I need to change and more on what is needed to keep the life I love.

6-years ago I woke up to a change that came without warning or permission. Another twist in my journey to heal from. Today I have a perspective that I can prepare without needing to control (which by the way we really can’t ) the outcome. I have found the difference between taking risks and being reckless, and trust more fully that leaning into the ordinary things on repeat can carry me through whatever comes next.

May you too build a life you can actually stay in, and make peace with the truth that boring things done consistently really do matter. taken in Bainbridge Island, Washington by @bari.nation

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