The Livy Method Podcast - Consistency is boring. Do it anyway.

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

“Calories in versus calories out” sounds simple… but if it actually worked long-term, you wouldn’t still be searching for answers. That’s what we are talking about in today’s episode as Gina reminds us that the body’s natural processes are how you accomplish sustainable weight loss. Because it’s not about forcing change. It’s about understanding how your body is already designed to work for you. Gina walks through shifting out of quick-fix thinking and into something that lasts. Yes, it takes time. But not in a way that has you grinding it out for years. It’s about doing the right things consistently, and letting your body do what it’s meant to do. This episode may change how you look at the entire process.This episode aligns with day 15 of our Spring 2026 weight loss program. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm going to be honest with you, this podcast is unapologetically a hot mess, because that is what midlife feels like sometimes. Why, though? And how do we make it better? Do we all just need facelifts and gLP ones? I mean, let's talk about it. No bullshit, no wellness wangery here, because we're trying to make real change and change is hard. But we're in this together. Welcome to the Living Method podcast.

Let's go. Let's go. Okay. This is where it gets real. right? So here we are. You had prep week. That was like all fresh and new and exciting. And then we had week one, which is like fine-tuning and adjusting. Your body's adjusting to what's going on. Here we are week two. Consistency, and this is where people want to switch things up, right? Consistency is so important and maximizing. Understanding that it's not calories and versus calories out. You keep focusing on that.

You will never, ever, ever get there. It is not calories and versus calories out. It's just not a sustainable way to lose weight. You've done it before, right? And sure, you could probably do it again. You can starve yourself, deprive yourself, you're force your body to burn fat. Your metabolism will tank. You'll reinforce the fact that your body needs the fat in the first place and you'll get it all back plus more, making it more difficult every time you try to lose weight. It just, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. And I'm assuming that you're here because you want to do it a different way and you want to do it in a way that you're actually going to be able to maintain and sustain. That's where my mission comes from. Like, I remember, I've lost over 100,

It was probably close to 150. And I remember what it was like. And I was able to lose my weight, you know, by making these lifestyle changes. And I've been able to maintain and sustain it ever since and learned a lot along the way about helping people do the same. And that is my mission. It's not actually in helping you lose weight. It's helping you lose weight in a way that you don't have to keep fighting your body anymore. And so you've got to change the way you do things.

And so week two, we're going to talk about how it's so important to establish that routine that your body loves routine. In fact, you want to be so routine that you're almost feeling bored. You're almost feeling bored, right? Maybe you're like, I need to switch things up. I need to make things. So what we're doing is we are bringing everything you are doing together under one umbrella and kind of moving forward with all of that. Routine, consistency. This is where the body's like it can make change. You can repair and rebuild, regenerate rejuvenate, focus on detoxing, all the things. Focus on fat loss. Your body has to focus on a million other things. And it's like you, fat loss is not its priority because it thinks it needs the fat. And so you have to give the body

what it needs so it no longer feels the need, no longer thinks it needs to store this fat, and then help the body focus on fat loss, right? And you have to do that long enough in order to reach your actual goals. So this is where you, this is where people start to waver. It happens to everybody. The novelty wears off. So recognize it. That's how you're feeling, right? This is where people usually start to try to pull in other diet stuff they did before because they wanted to go faster. But how quickly or how fast you lose in the beginning isn't, it doesn't mean anything in terms of you being here and following through in the end. That's, that's really, that's the, that's going to be what gets you to reach your goals. You actually follow through. And, you know,

chances are it's going to take longer than you think or you would like and life is going to get in the way. And that's why this 91 day program is great for motivation. Let's go in real time. Let's do it together. Let's, you know, do all the things. But it's constant for you. You have to just keep going until you reach your goals. And then hate to tell you, but once you reach your goals, you got to learn how to maintain and sustain your weight. And that's why we have a whole maintenance program. I actually didn't want a maintenance program. I didn't think we needed it because I was like, well, the way you're losing weight, it really helps you to be able to maintain and sustain. And people used to do another round of the weight loss program to help their body adjust to their weight. And boy, was I wrong. So over the last,

like what, four or five years, we've been running the maintenance program. And, you know, with Ruth Kane and Ruth and the team at University of Ottawa studying people in maintenance, what made them successful and why were other people not successful? We've created this maintenance program. You can lose your weight physically, but not be done, you know, changing your mindset mentally. It's still being a, you know, a, like a weight loss mindset rather than a maintaining your weight mindset, right? You can have lost your weight and done it in such a healthy way, but not trust it, not feel worthy of it. People in maintenance sabotage themselves because they don't know what this feels like. The attention is different. The relationships are different. They are different. Right. You try to lose weight for

20 years. That becomes part of who you are. Weight loss is like your hobby, you know. And now when you're no longer doing that. It's a whole other thing, right? So, so if you are struggling, dealing with thoughts, dealing with feelings good, that's all part of it. That's all part of it. That's, that doesn't mean that you're not doing the things. It just means that you are recognizing it's just so much more than calories and versus calories out or, you know, what you're eating and when, which of course is also really important. So this week, be consistent as possible. And if you're not, don't fucking try to fool yourself. Hold yourself account of it. And I don't mean berate yourself and scold yourself and punish yourself, but understand what's going on here.

Right? Like you can't be bitching about the scale and then you're eating your chippies at night and you're not moving your body and you're just stressing all day and up late watching Netflix. And yeah, you may be getting in your meals and snacks. Right. Like think about that for a second. You're getting in your meals and snacks, but what about the rest of it? What about the rest of it, right? And people always say this.

I don't know. I'm doing everything perfectly. I'm eating the foods. I'm drinking the water. And I'm like, that's the least of it. Like, that's just the foundation of it. Right. So you've got to get really fucking real around here. You got to be here for it. You got to get real. You got to keep showing up, especially when it is hard. How was the weekend? Did you fuck it up? Did you mess it up? Like, how are you thinking today? Right. You go on the scale and the weight is up. And was your immediate go-to? This isn't working? Or was it how you navigated the weekend? because we all want something to blame. We all want something to blame.

But if not now, then when, and if not this, then what? Right. Did you feel like a rock star this weekend? Great. Take a minute and be like, you've got to take time and be really proud of that. And be like, oh, okay, this is great. I feel really good. So maybe you weren't as challenged this weekend as you might be in an upcoming weekend.

So really hold on to that feeling. Right. Oh, okay. Yeah, I feel really good on a Monday. You know, I'm working really hard here. I'm feeling good on money. One isn't right and one isn't wrong and one isn't better than the other. Because just showing up and doing everything perfectly until you'll reach your goal isn't ideal either because at some point you're going to work through the issues and associations and relationships and feeling worthy and all of those change your habits. So the more you can go get into the thoughts and the fields, the more you're going to get out of the program for sure.

I wanted to answer someone's question about, I want to talk about two things. I want to talk about intermittent fasting and I want to talk about GLP. P1s because that's going to be a conversation or weight loss medications today. I have one here from someone asking about intermittent fasting. What's the take on doing this program and doing it while intermittent fasting? 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. window. Okay. So we kind of do our own version of fasting on the program because it's always been really important to give your body time without eating and a big window for that.

More importantly, it's more about sleeping. and having a larger window where your body can focus on and get deeper sleep, where it can repair and rebuild and regenerate, which is so, so important for fat loss. I would say for intermittent fasting, what's your history? Like, see, intermittent fasting is quite complex because it's not just eating less, right? Or it's not just eating in a smaller window. And it leads to problems. Like when people go longer periods of time without eating, they tend to overeat the meals

that they are eating. It depends on what your reason why your body's feeling you need to store fat. There are all sorts of benefits and merits to fasting, like atopathy and whatnot, which are beneficial when people do longer fasts. But you have to kind of like understand sort of like where you're coming from and where you're at. So I think a better fasting window is, you know, stop eating at five o'clock. If you want a longer fasting window, stop eating at five o'clock in the evening because

As soon as it gets dark, your body starts producing melatonin to wind your body down. It goes better with the rhythm of your body. People always want to push their eating later. And to me, that's not as beneficial for fat loss. So I would try to eat as early as possible, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 7 latest. And then if you stop eating after dinner, then you have that big window. You can choose not to have breakfast, right? You can choose not to have breakfast if you like.

That's always been an option on that. the program, but then you'd want to pick up with your morning snack to replenish your glycogen stores. The problem is you're not trying to burn fat off here. You're trying to make the body believe it no longer needs to store the amount that it is storing. And that's more of a hormonal issue because if you keep dipping into your fat reserves, you're going to reinforce the fact that your body needs that fat. So you definitely want to replenish mid-morning with your fruit snack, replenish your glycogen stores and then pick up with your lunch and then go through the day. So that's what I would choose. I would eat earlier. Skip that 5 to 8 o'clock window, which is normally

what people do when they're fasting. They try to jam all their foods at the end of the day, which is just not great. So if you stop eating at five and you don't eat until mid-morning snack, that's like a 17-hour window. And that not eating at night is really beneficial. But people just just go too far with it. They think more is more and less is less and that's not the case at all. Even this conversation this week with maximizing, it's not do more, do more. The message is isn't you're not doing enough. The message is when you are making an effort, you might as will make it count on the things that actually really matter, right? Like you're focused on the foods. Great. I love that. But then if you're like I said, like you're staying up late,

you're watching Netflix. You, you know, are having a little snackies at night. You're stressing. you're not moving your body, then is it like you can eat the foods all you want, but you're really missing a big part of it, you know. The other thing I want to talk about is with GLP1. So we do have a post coming out tomorrow, I believe, how to navigate the program if you're taking weight loss medication. Spoiler alert, it's the same. It's the same.

What's really important is with weight loss medications, and the program is a great compliment to that because weight loss medications, I mean, there are more research is coming out. They can do a variety of other things as well. but they help with food noise, which is great. So that can help you get a handle on food noise. I had a comment from a woman who was like, you know, GLP's ones didn't help me because I didn't eat because I was hungry. I ate because I was sad and mad and tired and I used food to cope, right? So taking a weight loss medication doesn't help you. It can, yes, help with that appetite so you're not as hungry.

But if your hunger wasn't driven by actual hunger in the first place and it was driven by coping mechanisms, you have to learn how to cope. And so taking a GLP1 weight loss medication doesn't make this process any easier. It's not anymore or any less work. It's still the same work. Right. So GLP1's, the issue with them in not having an appetite is you don't eat. Yes, your body will burn fat. You will lose weight. But then you will end up losing muscle mass as well. So by eating so often and making sure you're getting your protein and all this nutrient foods can prevent that muscle mass loss. and what happens when you have that muscle mass loss is it tanks your metabolism. So you want to lose weight in a way that your metabolism isn't shot after it because people

are taking JLP ones. We're losing a lot of weight and then they're gaining it all back the minute they come off plus more. And they don't have a fix for this. This is like the reason why they're telling you you have to take these for life is because they don't actually have a fix for this yet. Like I think you need to because I, you know, I think people hear people talking about them and you have to keep taking them because obesity is a disease. Obesity is a disease for some people,

but it's not a disease if you are simply just existing in a larger body. I made a great conversation with Dr. Sean Wharton, who's an obesity medicine specialist. And so these medications, as much as they can be an absolute game changer, and I'm totally on board. And I always have been because I've always worked with people who've had gastric bypass, for example. Same thing. It affects your appetite, you can't eat as much, so you end up eating less, but it doesn't work through, help you work through issues and associations tied into food, your relationship with food, yourself, habits, doesn't do anything to change your habits, right? And so the best thing you can do if you're taking JLP1 is really dig into the lifestyle part of this program, and then, yes,

continue to follow the food plan itself, because it's really going to help. It's interesting. I talked to someone who did the program, took JLP1's, helped. with food noise, and then when they got off the GLP-1s, they were able to recognize the food noise because they were like, whoa, oh, gosh, now I can see what my food noise was all about, and then they're able then to rewire their brain. You absolutely can, like as Dr. Beverly David talked to us in her last segment, your brain is hardwired, right, to be fixated around food, especially if you spend any time at all dieting. So you can change the way your brain is hardwired. That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to rewire the body physically and how it's come to utilize food and feel this

need to store fat and rewire your brain mentally as well. Mentally as well, life got in the way, getting back on the horse. Let's normalize that. Can we normalize that? Let's normalize life getting in the way and getting back on the horse. I think this is so important because on again, off again, on again, off again. It's like exercise, you know, right? That's why my hair is wet. I just showered because I was working out this morning. So you exercise is fucking hard. You get started, right? You just, oh my God. Then you feel amazing. You're like, look at me. I feel great. Something happens in your life. Work, stress, family stuff, whatever you got going on. You sacrifice workouts. Next thing you know, you're back to feeling like schlumpy again. Then you got to start it again. And you're like, oh my God.

It's like I never exercise before. So your body is sore. You've got to get back into the routine. This is no different. This is no different. Right. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's because we use food for so many things. You use food because you need it to show love, to bond, to cope, to like celebrate. We use food for all this. That's not going away. Our obesity genetic society and ultra-processed foods, also not, which we use to cope when we are eating emotionally or whatever that might be, not going away. And so what you're doing now is helping your body focus on fat loss and so you can lose your weight. Right? You're also then changing your lifestyle habits so it supports that so you are no longer using food to cope maybe as much as you

did before or you have lifestyle habits that support your hormones like managing your stress and sleep and moving your body right and then you're working through your issues and associations and your relationships tied into food so that when you choose to have a piece of chocolate some ice cream some chips you don't eat the whole chocolate bar you don't eat the whole tub of ice cream you don't eat the whole bag of chips, you can enjoy them without then berating on yourself, scolding yourself, punishing yourself, and you have a more enjoyable relationship, not just with food, but yourself and everyone else around you. So that's really what we're doing here. And so, so there's times where you're going to be like rock star mode and times where you're hanging on by the skin of your

teeth mode and they all count. There is never a good time to work through this. There will never be the perfect time of your life or everything on life. Especially. if you're getting older. I don't know. Hands up if you feel like every day there's something. I think it's my age. I'm going to be 53 in two weeks. And it feels like if I don't have something going on, then my friends have got something going on. If, you know, if it's not an immediate family dealing with cancer, it's a friend's family dealing with cancer. If it's not, you know, immediate family dealing with finances and their jobs, it's somebody else I know dealing with finances. Like there's, I think it's, we're just at this age, right, where our kids are

growing up, our parents are aging. I mean, my mom, you know, she'll kick my ass any day. There's a lot going on. It's there's never like your time for smooth sailing has passed, right? Your time for smooth sailing is past. And okay, maybe you're going into retirement. And I love that. Maybe you don't have the work stress anymore. And maybe your kids are grown in adults anymore. I can't help my kids do that. You know, maybe your parents are gone and you no longer have to, you know, unfortunately take care of them. And that's a different situation for you.

But gosh, you don't want to be worried about your fucking weight while you're living that, right? So we've got to really normalize that. We've got to really normalize that. Yes, be patient. Leaky gut, yes. So leaky guts, fatty liver, insulin resistance. like any health issue that you can come up with, and a lot of this is like insulin resistance

related, which is insulin, which is the hormone your body used when it breaks down foods to figure out where it's going to go. It's going to go in the liver. It's going to go in the muscle. It's going to go in the fat. And this program has basically been built around insulin resistance. If you actually have a copy of my first book, it's all insulin resistance. Everything in there is about insulin resistance. And it's all about lowering your blood sugar, which is why we eat smaller portions more often. This is why we eat good nutrient-rich foods as opposed to ultra-processed foods. This is why we focused on trying to get sleep and manage your stress and all of those things. I read a comment today where it was about that where someone was like just focused

on, you know, I kind of remember what it was, what comment it was in the group and just talking about how, you know, their weight hadn't changed for a week. And, you know, usually it can be related to what's on in your life as opposed to if your food is super on point and you're doing everything there, you can't see a reason, then usually it's something else. Usually it's something else. And then also your weight isn't going to change every day. How does one stop the impulse to go back to devour that food item that has been your long held addiction when you suddenly see at the grocery store an emotionally challenging day? Awareness. Awareness, right? Like, there's a couple of things going on here. You had an emotionally challenging day. Just buy the thing and eat it. That's actually

not the problem. That's actually not the problem at all. The problem is then that will cause a snowball effect, chances are, of eating more stuff, and then you're not going to feel great, and then you're not going to sleep well, and then you're going to get up the next day, and you're going to be like, fuck. And then you are, your body's going to be inflamed if it's a processed food, ultra-process food. because, right? And then your weight's going to be up and then you're going to be like, oh, this program doesn't work for me. Or, oh, what's the point? Or, oh, it's the aftermath of the thing that you're having. It's not, it's not actually having that thing. There's not, there's not one thing that you can have that's going to stop you from reaching your goals. It's, it's really the collective

aftermath of having the thing. And so I could say to you, oh, just breathe. Just breathe before you you decide to buy it. Just breathe before you decide to eat it. But when you're in, you're in that mode. It's hard. It's hard not to, I don't know that you'll ever not be in that mode where you're like, oh, it's so pissed off and I'm going to get it. So I wouldn't focus on that part of it. I would focus on the connection to the aftermath of it.

So for example, I'm not drinking wine. Well, I'm trying not to drink wine. And what helps me not drink it in the moment is remembering how I feel the next day. right and so i went through um i went through the last couple weeks with i have a child that has a borderline personality disorder and she can be the loveliest person and then she can be the hardest person to deal with and it is uh it's just so complicated and emotional and so i've been going through that the last couple weeks and god i just wanted to drink wine and i knew it wasn't going to help me. So every day, I want to drink wine. I didn't. I drank my tea, went to bed,

whatever. And the stress of it all was so much. I was not even feeling better when I woke up the next day. And so I held off and I held off thinking, I'm just not thinking, remembering how shitty it makes me feel. It makes me feel so bad that I'm like, okay, I do not need to deal with this stress and then feel crappy on top of that. And then something happened that just broke me. And I said to Tony, fuck it. I'm just, I don't care how I feel the next day. I am drinking the whole bottle. And I went and got it and I drank it.

And I, I felt better. I felt better. I mean, physically, it felt like garbage. But mentally, I, like, allowed myself just to go into the emotion. I allowed myself to go into the emotion and drank the wine. And fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking. Sometimes we're trying to uphold the not going. to the motion and I don't know that that's healthy for us that we actually just need to feel

that emotion. I was trying to keep my shit together for my kids that were also stressing, for Tony that had to deal with the situation. And it's so, it was so like, so when you have someone with mental health issues, it can be so incredible. You love them and you can hate them at the same time. You know it's the mental health, but at the same time their behavior is something else and you do everything you can to help and it's never enough. And there's just, there is guilt and shame and just anger and frustration. And I was trying to keep it all together for everybody else. And so I had that wine and I just, I was sloppy and messy and unapologetic about it.

And it made me feel better. It made me feel better. But then the next day, I was like, okay, understand you feel like garbage today. How about you just be kind to yourself? How about you be kind? How about you just chill? How about you, whatever. And then, Gina, you had your moment.

Let's go. Let's get back to doing what I can. So I'm doing the program. I don't know if you saw my Instagram story. I do the program every now and then, sometimes because my weight will go up and down, sometimes because I just am not feeling great. And, you know, so I'm doing the program.

If you follow me on a social media, I'm sharing the real messy, deal of it. And maybe you don't find that inspiring. But this is, I think we really need to normalize. that sometimes like life is easy and same thing 30 years I've been maintaining my weight and sometimes it's so easy and then sometimes it's not easy but that is it that's that's where you have to learn these skills is where you have to make change because it's not the diet the starving yourself lose the weight fine maintain gain it back you know um when life hits again starve yourself

lose the weight gain it back up like that's just not working for us now that we're older it just it's not working for us anymore, right? And it's causing us to lose muscle mass and it's not helping with our mental health. And it's not that way of doing that is not the way to do it anymore. There is a better way to do it. So we really got to normalize that. We really got to normalize that. I've been trying to fool myself. I had two cookies and a butter tart yesterday and then disappointed that my weight wasn't down. Huh. Yes. Yes. And I love you for sharing that because both can be true at the same time, right? You can, you can have had the cookies in all of that. And then you can also be pissed off that this isn't working and be mad that the scale wasn't down, even though you,

you probably know it's not going to be down. All of the fields are valid. That's the thing about it. Like, that's, that's the thing about it. So if your feels are going to take you out, the only person who's going to stop you from reaching your goal is you. Your feels are going to take you out, right? Like so many people don't finish the program, right? People who do. There's lots of people. who do, obviously that's amazing. And there's people who don't, people who don't for whatever reason. And I love when people come back because they recognize, right? It's not the program. And I'm not trying to sell you something. The program works. We've researched it. We know it works. It's not the program. It's usually life getting in the way of the things. So, so yeah. Yeah, I try to fool myself all the time.

It works for a little while. Like I'm okay. It's fine. I got this. No, I don't. Right? Looking forward to this week. I had a really bad gastrointestinal bug last week and once feeling better slip back into some old habits. I love that too. Not that you were feeling bad or that I love that you're feeling better, but that you recognize.

Oh, I slip back. Okay. Yeah, that's how that feels. Back to listening to lives and on track. Food wise, easy to get off track, but feels better to be on track. It's so easy. And that is life.

Life is on a track. Right? That's on a track. Sometimes you're like, oh, it's amazing. Yeah. And other times you're like, it's like what's going on if you can kind of see it like that the ebbs and the flows and different stages and different phases the living method yes weight loss program it works maintenance program it works

it also works to help remind you that when life is hard you have to eat good foods got to keep your energy out right that's going to work towards your goals you got to help manage your stress so you don't have a heart attack right that's going to help you reach your goals you got to come on you can't sleep when you're dead you got to sleep it'll help everything food choices how you feel mindset, all of that, right? Going to help you also reach your goals. You got to move your body. You need that muscle mass.

You don't want to break a hip. You know, like you got to be strong so you can live life, do the things that you want to do. Also help you lose your weight. Right? You've got to create new habits. Like reinvent yourself, reinvent your life, design the life you actually want to live that you know that's going to support you. Change is not easy, but you can absolutely do it. Right?

Small things add up. Going to help you reach your weight loss goals. Like that's what's so fucking cool about this program is. everything you are doing is, yes, helping you reach your weight loss goals, but helping you in life. Helping you in life. At the very least, sometimes it's not about losing weight even. Maybe this is a season for you, this spring session for you is not gaining weight, right? Maybe the season session for you is just trying to maintain the weight that you've lost through whatever it is that you're going through, right? Yeah. Yes. Good morning, Gina. I was so excited that the scale said

199.2, happy day for me. I started the winter program at 217. Good for you. You know, it'll probably be back up tomorrow, that bitch of a scale. But it counts today. Own it today. Own it today. Own it today. I love this. This is a huge milestone. I remember that milestone for myself. I was like, oh my gosh. I remember getting on the scale in my weight. I remember after I had lost quite a bit of weight. And I'd been working hard, but I hadn't got on a scale because I was afraid And I remember it was a Christmas party for my work. And there was a scale there because I worked at a gym and we were getting ready. And I was like, okay, I'm going to get on the scale.

I feel really fantastic. And the scale said 2.30. And I remember thinking, oh, my gosh. Like those, like you remember these moments, right? And then I remember, I remember when I got on the scale and it was $1.99. And I was like, it just gave me this. Okay. Like, it just felt like, okay.

I can, I don't know what it is about numbers. But that one was a big one for me too. And yeah, of course, then it goes back up and then you feel like, oh, you know, and watch the celebratory moment too, because I know for me, I was like, okay, I did it. And then immediately went into like, let me celebrate, you know, and then of course the scale, you celebrate because you want to celebrate yourself and then you get on the scale the next day. And of course it's up because you're going and celebrate. Not real weekend. We know that, but still. So take that moment, soak that in. I love that for you. Ah, la la la la la. Yes. See, I scale up over three pounds this morning. We flew to Florida this weekend, lots of bites and bits.

So I know it will come back down. It's just discouraging. It is. Is the word discouraging or is it just like what is going on there? Right? Like let's unpack that because flying sucks all the water out of you. So you haven't gained real weight. Even if you went and ate your face off.

So foods that you eat cause a lot of inflammation. Like you drink wine. It causes your weight to be up. It's inflammation. You eat, you know, alter processed foods, inflammation. And then you fly. So altitude sucks the water out of you. It's what you like, you come off the plane. Your face is all like, your ankles are like swollen. So that's expected. That's expected. Travel is so great because it changes our routine. It's just great for our, you know, it's great. Socially, it's great. It's great. It's usually great for movement. You know, usually, I mean, maybe it's work travel for you. But. that's expected so what is so let's let's unpack that so that's expected that your weight would be up just from flying alone so why is it discouraging like i'm trying to think where that like i know why like i know why obviously like the feels are valid and so i'm not saying you're the fact

the feels invalid i'm just like let's try to unpack that for a second because you went away you probably had a great time you ate and whatever and so you made choices in the moment that made you feel good. And then flying is going to have your weight up and then your back. But what is the discouraging part of it? And, right? Like, that's where, this is exactly where I think we got to normalize this because you've got to live your life. So this would happen to me.

This will happen to me when I'm not trying to lose weight. This will happen to you when you're not even trying to lose weight. You're just living your life. this is going to happen to you. Right? So you're trying to, you, you've reached your goal. Let's say you've reached your goal. You go away and you, for whatever reason, you're weighing yourself, this is going to still

happen to you. And so that's that part where if you can maybe, maybe that's your in to, to be like, okay, this is learning how to navigate life. This is two steps forward, one step back. Two steps forward, one step back. Like that's, you know, that's, maybe that's it. Maybe that's the framing for you that's going to help you. Oh, yeah, I'm actually learning how to lose this weight.

Yeah. live real life at the same time. So I don't know if discourage is the right word. It's your word. So it's the right word for you. But you might want to be like, what is this about? And then keep in mind, just watch. Do me a favor over the next couple days if you use this word in other places. Because sometimes what's happening is where this is what we're focused on, but this is what we're doing here is representative of how we're living our lives, what's going on in our lives. right like and usually if it's a word that you keep using it's a word that is coming up in other areas of your life we just tend to hyper focus it on this this tangible thing that i'm doing because you're

trying to get a result on the scale so it's really easy to place that discouraged feeling for example here but is it can are you using that word in other and i'm just using this as an example because this is such a great example and i'm talking to everybody here because this what happens to me like I'll keep using a word and I'll be like, what is? And it keeps popping up over and over again. Then I stop and I'm like, okay, where is this feeling? What is this a, what is this about? So, for example, for me, pivoted was a word last week, pivoting, pivoting business, but I realize it's more about pivoting where I'm at, pivoting, like I'm at this pivotal point in my life. I kept using the word. And it's where I can't keep doing the same thing over and over.

and I need to take time to be like, where am I going and what am I doing? And it's really interesting. I came to this realization, what was it, Saturday night. And I was kind of journaling and I was up late writing it down. And then I talked to a friend on Sunday and she just basically laid it all out for me in a way that I was like felt really validated because I had come to the realization on my own. I'm like, okay, that's what this is about. That's what this is about. So, you know, just pay attention to those words that pop up.

Pay attention to those words. Be patient, yeah, and be patient. It takes me three days up to two weeks sometimes to get back down from a bump. Yes, yes, be patient. This is what this is, right? This is the place you're dedicating to work towards your goals. Like you're using the app. Maybe you're journaling.

You're popping into the group. You're connecting with the community. you are using this 91 days to be like, okay, in this 91 days, I'm going to be like a little extra focused. Now, if you're on our membership, right, obviously after the 91 days is done, your journey still continues. So this is why you can still continue to use the app, the resources. I'll be continuing to post in the app after the program's done.

We're going to be running like a little mini summer program. So we're going to keep you supported. So don't worry about that. You're going to be able to continue your journey. But let's take a look at this block of time that you set up. set aside for yourself. I just want to say also, so all the lives now are going to be hosted in the group. So for the first prep week and week one, I was doing them over on my main page. So you might have had some trouble. It might not pop up directly in your feed because this is what

you paid for. So this is where we are. We're in the group now moving forward. So just pop into the group. If you're just using Facebook, go to the media section, you'll see it playing or open up your app and click in directly. Okay. Have a fantastic rest of your day. We'll be back. tonight for Q&A. Heads up on the live, so I'm going to be going live tomorrow, and then I'm away on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, so I won't be going to hit you up on Saturday. If you want to come hang out with me, I will be hanging out then. So I'll be back tonight, and then I'll see you again tomorrow. Have a great rest of your day, everyone. I appreciate you joining me. Remember, you can also download and listen to any of these lives as a podcast if you want to like listen while

you walk or whatever to make it as easy as possible for you. Have a great start to your week two and I'll see later. Bye. Cut that one fast, hey? Thank goodness.