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More Than the Weight
A full-length Body Mass Identity guide for people preparing for bariatric surgery, beginning GLP-1 treatment, living through active weight loss, or navigating maintenance and regain. Bo McCoy explores what happens when your body changes faster than your internal picture of yourself, and offers ways to understand identity lag, work through emotional adjustment, and build purpose and habits beyond the scale. Separate patient pathways, chapter reflections, and practical assessment and planning tools help you apply the book to your stage of treatment. This book is educational, not medical advice or a replacement for your treatment team.
- FormatDigital book (PDF)
- Pages134
- Price$7
Find your starting point
Who this book is for
- Patients preparing for bariatric surgery
- Patients beginning or currently using GLP-1 medication
- Patients experiencing significant body change
Explore in this book
- Explore what identity is, how weight becomes part of it, and the emotional experiences that can accompany rapid physical change.
- Recognize identity lag in everyday life and work through the Identity-Reset Process to close the gap between physical change and your sense of self.
- Develop purpose beyond weight loss, identity-based maintenance habits, and goals that can be refined as your life changes.
- Understand lapse versus relapse and approach plateaus, setbacks, and regain without reducing your worth to a number.
- Follow dedicated preoperative bariatric, postoperative bariatric, and GLP-1 patient pathways.
- Put reflection prompts and tools into practice, including the Identity Gap Check-In, Body Mass Identity Map, progress tracker, and goal worksheets.
A closer look inside
The reading path
Selected chapters and themes show how the book develops its ideas, from understanding the problem to putting the work into practice.
Part One: Before the Body Changes
Maps the pre-existing identity structures and weight history that shape how individuals approach treatment.
Part Two: What Happens While the Body Changes
Details the physical timeline of treatment and the concurrent emotional experiences of rapid weight loss.
Part Three: Identity Lag and the Identity Gap
Explains the phenomenon where the internal self-image fails to update as quickly as the body.
Part Four: Closing the Identity Gap
Introduces a step-by-step reset process to align internal identity with physical reality.
Part Five: Purpose Alignment
Encourages moving beyond weight loss as the sole purpose to a deeper life-based meaning.
Part Six: Identity-Based Maintenance
Provides strategies to sustain behaviors through long-term maintenance, relapse prevention, and goal-setting.
Part Seven: Separate Patient Pathways
Offers specific guidance tailored for preoperative bariatric, postoperative bariatric, and GLP-1 patients.
From reading to practice
Exercises and tools in the book
These are named practices and reflection tools included in the book—not additional products or promised outcomes.
The Body Mass Identity Map
A four-column worksheet to identify old beliefs, collect present-day evidence, draft updated beliefs, and plan next actions.
The Non-Scale Progress Tracker
A tracking document to monitor energy, sleep, mobility, and confidence improvements separate from the scale.
The Identity-Based Goal Worksheet
A nine-field system to transform vague goals into specific, actionable plans with reset protocols.
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