The Livy Method Podcast - Follow a plan, not your mood.

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

You’re not behind. It just feels that way.In this episode, Gina Livy unpacks that all-too-familiar spiral that hits when you’re trying to lose weight or make a change and suddenly feel like you’ve already messed it up. A few days in, and the doubt creeps in. Like you should have it figured out by now. Yeah, no. That’s not how this works. This conversation gets into the reality of what it takes to actually change your habits for good. The learning curve. The resistance. The part where your brain starts questioning everything. Gina breaks down why consistency matters more than perfection, why trusting the process isn’t about blind faith, and how years of dieting have shaped the way you’re showing up right now. You’ll hear the truth about why traditional diets “work” but never last. Why your body pushes back when you try to force weight loss. And why doing things differently might feel uncomfortable, but that’s often a sign you’re on the right track.If you’ve ever thought, “I’m already failing” just days in… this one’s for you.This episode is in line with Day 3 of the program:https://www.facebook.com/ginalivy/videos/961227303057522To 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 g-lp-1s? 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 Livy Method podcast. Here we are day three of the program. How are you feeling? How is it? going. Okay, so first things first, I am streaming into my public Facebook page. Trying to get everyone into the private Facebook support group. That is where you can connect with the community. That's where we're going to be going live, moving forward, starting next

week. If you know anyone who would be interested in doing the program, it's a great program as you know, not just for weight loss, but working towards any goals in your life, but especially when it comes to wellness. We want to be your weight loss and your wellness. partner at you can still go to the website liby method.com and get signed up. Okay, so these lives are not mandatory. I want to make that really important because sometimes people are like, I just don't have time to do all the things, watch all the things. It's about figuring out what you need to focus on. 25,000 people go through the program, right, each season. It's about figuring out what are the things that you need to focus on. So we're starting with that basic food

plan, the sooner you can start following that food plan and being consistent with it, the sooner you're going to start to see and feel results. Some people are going to hit the ground running. Cool. It's not how quickly you start, right? It's about being here at the end. Other people will find more success in taking the week and easing themselves into it. It's just really what works best for you. How do you best stay motivated? It's not any one big thing that you do that's going to make you successful. It's about all the small things that add up and make a difference. And that's why I always say we do things differently around here than any other diet because we are specifically focused on you losing your weight in a way where you don't have to

fucking do it again, right? That's the focus where you're actually going to be able to maintain and sustain it. I've gone to all the obesity conferences, right? We have been researching the living method for years and years in years. We science around here. We're telling you what other diets don't bother to tell you. I don't like to slam other diets, but if you think Weight Watchers gives a shit about you, they don't.

The reason why they keep switching CEOs every five minutes is because they're not making enough money. They sit around in boardrooms trying to figure out how to make more money. They don't sit around and being like, Jane's really struggling this week. You know, she's dealing with grief. She's having a hard time with this. she's having a hard time with that. What can we do to best support Jane? They do not give a fuck about

you. Right? Noom. Noom was created by two tech guys. Do you think they give a fuck about you reaching your weight loss goals? Absolutely not. Do they care about member retention? You keep coming back. You bet your ass they do. That's what they care about. Their bottom line, their dollar. Now listen, I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a businesswoman. I got four really. really expensive children. I'm here to make money. I'm not, I'm not here to apologize about that, but I actually care. I know that the money is going to come for me if I can successfully help you, not just lose your weight, but be able to maintain and sustain your weight. Everything we do is about you. Everything we do is about helping you, not just lose weight, but be able to maintain and

sustain it. And we have very real conversations. We don't bullshit you. So my point in all this is if you are new, heck, if you're a returning member, you might be questioning some of the things that we're doing and being like, why, why are we, this makes no sense. It makes no sense because probably no one's ever talked about it in the way that we do, right? Like, science is science until science changes. That's the thing about science. Like, listen, I'm all about science. But I had naysayers, for example, five years ago that were like insulin resistance is woo hooey. It's pseudoscience. The whole program used to talk about insulin resistance because what are we trying to do? decrease insulin, lower blood sugar levels, right? And inflammation. And I got attacked left,

right and center because, you know, insulin resistance is pseudoscience. And now we know it's the foundation and basis for like pretty much everything, right? So science is science until it changes. But you know what doesn't change? What someone needs to do in order to reach their goals? What doesn't change is that you are human and you have a body and your body has certain needs, right? And so today we're talking about why it works. So every Wednesday, we're going to do a post on why it works. So today we're talking about set point. We're talking about the food plan.

We're talking about eating as often as we do. Some people are really nervous when they start because you're eating so often. What we're trying to do is spread your meals out through the day. So you're either a person who goes way too long without eating. And then when you do eat, you probably overeat. And so we're trying to spread your, or maybe you're like a three meal a day person. which is fine, but probably at those three meals, you are overeating or eating more than you need at those meals. So what we're doing is spreading those meals out throughout the day, trying not to go

any longer than three and a half, four hours at most without eating, right? So there's a rick stimulating that digestive system. Mentally, there's a whole piece to that, right? It's knowing that you had that next meal or snack coming down the pipeline. So there's a lot that goes into physically the rhyme and the reason behind what we're doing and mentally the rhyme and the reason behind what we are doing. So do what you need to do. Follow the plan, not your mood. Right? Right. Understand the science behind it. If you're interested, we go into deeper science every Saturdays. And if you don't give a shit and you're just like, Gina, I'm going to do whatever you say I'm going to do. That's fine too. I will not steer you on. The other thing is the thoughts in the fields.

Like, are you already frustrated on day three? Right. What are you frustrated with? Like if you're like, this is too much, I don't have time for this. So let's make it really simple. got to follow the guidelines. You just got to start following that food plan. And it's going to take you a while to get into the routine of that. And some days you're going to be perfect and some days eating chips for breakfast. That's okay. That's okay. Right. If you're, if you're frustrated because the scale isn't moving, okay, you're allowed. Your feels are absolutely valid. Your feels are valid. So you want to honor your feels, but still follow the plan. So then you'd be like, what's this all about? Like it's day three of the food plan. I'm showing up. I'm doing the best I can. It's not

perfect. So why am I frustrated? What what what what's going on with these thoughts that I'm having? What's going on with these feels that I'm having? Right. That's the work for you. Believe it or not. That's the work for you. What is that all about? Like we all know you want to lose her weight like yesterday. You've spent enough time and energy and money. Right? Like you just want this done. You just want this done. So what are those, what's behind those thoughts and feels? Dr. Beverly David is actually going to join me tomorrow. And she's a clinical psychologist, as you all know. And we're going to talk about this.

How do we get a handle or how do we start addressing those thoughts and feels? And the thoughts and feels that we have are very much tied into food noise, right? Everybody's talking about food noise out there in regards to GLP1. So this is what happens when you take a GLP1. You get a handle on the food noise. But then all you are doing is eating less of what you used to eat before. And we know that. So research is showing that people spend less money on groceries, but they are not changing the groceries that they are buying. Yes, they are losing weight, but they are not changing how they are living. So you take a GLP1, it suppresses your appetite, and then you are, you know, you don't eat as much, so then you lose weight. You take a GLP1, it helps the food noise, so then you don't have that food noise, which is great. But then the minute you come off it, it just comes back. Now, how do you actually change that? right because a lot of people are realizing that they don't actually eat because they're hungry

they eat because they're using food for other things like coping for example right binge eating your feelings so it's not always hunger driven right like there's there's hunger because you actually need to eat because your body is hungry and then there is hunger conditioned hunger you're used to having a dessert after dinner. You eat chips whenever you watch Grey's Anatomy on Thursday nights. You, right, out a habit, habit of learning to clear your plate. So you don't even know how much food you need to be satisfied just every time you eat, you clear your plate, right? And then there is that emotional hunger. There's that emotional hunger. When I'm sad, I eat, when I'm stressed, I eat, when I'm triggered, I'd eat. So there's different types of hunger. And that's

where the food plan and the routine comes in. Because if you're giving your body what it needs, it probably won't need the things that you think it needs. Because there's a big difference between wants over needs. So for example, we're going to talk about chocolate this week. People will always go crazy over chocolate. And I've worked with clients in the past. And dark chocolate is you can totally fine. You can totally have a piece of dark chocolate, right? 70 plus percent chocolate, low in sugar, it's got magnesium in it. Right? And the body's so smart. This is like why you crave like chocolate whenever you get your menstrual cycle because, one, we tend to be dehydrated and the body needs more water because it's going through that detox process. And when you are dehydrated, you tend to crave sugar. And two, good chocolate has got magnesium in it. And magnesium you need, especially when you have your menstrual cycle. So adding in a piece of dark chocolate every day, not a big deal. The problem is is that I've worked with clients in the past. And again, for 30 years, I've spent helping people actually reach their goals and keep their weight off. And so that dark piece of chocolate, like they're like, can I have a piece of dark chocolate?

And I'm like, yeah, sure you can. And then as they send me what they're eating each day every day, there's a dark piece of chocolate, dark piece of chocolate, dark. And I'm like, what's that all about? Well, I really like it. It feels like a treat. I'm treating myself every day. I'm like, well, why do you got to treat yourself every day?

Remember, we want to lose weight in a way that you can enjoy all the yummy bites of bits of life. So if you want to have a piece of chocolate, how bad are. But it goes deeper than that. Where is this need to treat yourself? Well, I look forward to it every day. To a piece of fucking chocolate? Let's look forward to losing your weight so you can travel the way you want to travel. So your bones don't ache.

So you feel fantastic and calm and comfortable in your body, right? Like we keep getting these dopamine hits or I want a piece of this. I want a piece of that. So that is not a need. Your body does not need chocolate. Now, does it need magnesium? Yes, absolutely. So you might want to supplement with that.

But that's like, that's a want over a need. You, your body does not need chocolate. That is a want. And sometimes people are like, well, if I just are in tune with my body and I eat what my body wants, it's just going to have me eating chocolate and chips. And no, that's a big difference. That's that, that, that's a, your want over your body's actual needs. Your body doesn't want any of those things.

So this is about getting like really in tune to that. So the thoughts and the feels are a big part of it. You want to handle the physical stuff the sooner you can start, um, getting on that food plan and making that consistent. And then what we're going to do is we're going to make changes to it. As we go, if you are a returning member, if you are a returning member, I would like to say to you, you have the advantage. You want to bring everything that you've done in your previous programs into this one,

but you don't want to do it the same way. You don't want to just do the same things you did last time, right? Like you don't want to eat the same breakfast. You don't eat the same lunch. You don't like this, you don't want to drink the same amount of water. First of all, in the wintertime, it can be very dehydrating. You might need more water because we got our heat up so high, right? Or maybe in the spring you're more active and, you know, you're sweating more so you need more water.

So you're taking all your knowledge with you into this program, but remember you have changed physically and you have changed mentally. One of the things that happens with people is they get stuck on what happened before and stuck on what they did before. So that's why it's a great idea to take a bit of time and be like, okay, what do I need right now today in this season of my life? If you could give anyone new to the program, if I could give anyone new to the program some advice, it would be to slow down when you eat. I found when I did, I was much more satisfied with my meals. So we're going to, we had a post yesterday on portions and how you just want to eat enough to feel satisfied in the moment. We're going to really dig into what satisfied means to you. Like if I was to ask you, how do you know when you've

had enough. I've asked clients this in the past. How do you know when you've had enough? They're like, what do you mean? I'm like, what do you mean? What do I mean? How do you know when you've eaten enough food? And they're like, um, when I'm done. And they're like, well, when I'm done, I'm like, well, how do you know how much food to put on your plate each day to know you're done? This is why calories in versus calories out is flawed. Because your body's needs actually change every day. You don't need the exact. same number of calories every day, right? And you see this in kids if you, if you've had children, you know, they'll have days where they eat you at a house and home. And then they'll have days

in weeks where they're not eating anything. You're like wondering how they survive. That's just that natural being in tune. And the concept of breakfast, lunch and dinner, like breakfast, you've been told as you're the most important meal of the day. It's not. And I'm not into like, you know, I'm not into conspiracy theories or, you know, politics around food or anything. like that. I just kind of stay in my land. I don't got time for that. But, you know, breakfast was created to sell breakfast cereal. It's not the most important meal of the day. When you wake up, you're already full of energy. What do you need? Like, you're not eating food to give you energy. You eat food to replenish your glycogen stores. And the last thing that you

need is a big bowl of sugar waking up in the morning when your glycogen stores are already full from the previous day. So breakfast is not the most important meal of the day, which is why you do have the option of choosing not to have it. If you do have it going higher protein, obviously is, you know, that's a benefit for a variety of reasons, which reminds me when it comes to fasting. A lot of people ask me about intermittent fasting. And there's a big difference between intermittent fasting and how it's done, just simply dieting and eating less. And sometimes I think people really get that confused. And there are a lot of benefits to fasting, which I won't get into. but in terms of weight loss, it's not really a great weight loss tool in the way that people use it.

And so it can complement the program if you eat dinner as early as possible because as soon as it gets dark, your body's producing melatonin to wind your body down to get a good night's sleep. Sleep is like, sleep is like everything around here. And don't worry, if you can't get more sleep, you can get work on getting better quality sleep. And so your body repairs and rebuilds, regenerates, you know, juvenates, detoxes, you are sleeping. You need sleep. And if you eat too late at night, it messes with your sleep, and that's going to mess with your fat loss process. You don't get good sleep. You're craving

carbs and sugar. You're less sensitive to insulin. Like there's a, there's a whole thing that happens. And we're going to cover this more during our sleep week and we get into that. But if you don't want to eat after dinner, which is great, that's going to help with your sleep. And you may say, well, people in Europe, they eat late. Yeah, well, they're not trying to lose their weight. right so it's not about you can eat late if you're not trying to lose weight i'm talking about while you're trying to lose weight definitely not eating after dinner fucking game changer right like yeah like if you keep snacking at night you're really working against yourself your body needs that time without food and so if you don't if you don't eat after dinner and then you want a longer fasting

window you can choose not to have breakfast ideally breakfast is eaten within two and a half hours of waking that's if you're going to eat, that's for it to be beneficial for you. That's the best window for that. But if you choose not to have breakfast, then you can extend that eating window a little bit longer. But the problem is people get carried away and then they don't eat to lunch. And by them they're starving. So they're overeating the meals that they are eating and it's a bit of a disaster. So if you do want to add fasting, I would eat dinner early. Choose not to have breakfast if you want a longer fasting window. But make sure you get in that morning fruit snack. That's really important because what you want to do is replenish those glycic. storage in stores. Otherwise, you're just reminding the body that it needs its fat because then as you get up and start your day, your body needs energy from somewhere and guess where it's going to get it from. It's going to get it from your fat reserves, right? So you want it to get it from your glycogen reserves. So yeah. The night snacks are my bad. I know, but I still do it. So this is where, yeah. And like, okay, what do you do about that, right? So one, you want to make sure you're drinking enough water during the day so that you are not dehydrated and craving sugar at night because

that, you know, that'll make it harder for you. You want to make sure you're eating good nutrient rich foods throughout the day and eating enough to feel satisfied. So not skipping your meals and snacks. So making sure you are getting, your body's getting everything that it needs. So it doesn't really want or need for anything in the evening. Right. Then you want to break down, okay, so if you're not dehydrated and you're not actually hungry, because again, your body has no need to eat in the evening, especially when you've eaten throughout the day. Your body doesn't want to. It's like, leave me alone. I want to get a good night's sleep here. Like that's, you need sleep. So then what is that about? So what's the hunger about? Is it that, you know, you're trying to indulge in you

time because you feel just stressed out. You have no time to yourself. You just want to mindlessly eat and watch your show. Okay. Let's say I give that to you. Is the food you are choosing to eat along with it bringing you joy? Is it bringing you peace? Does it feel like a treat the minute you are done, then what is happening in your mind? Is this, are you full of immediate regret? Right? How do you feel, does it affect your sleep? Which we know it does. What are your thought process the next day when you get on the scale? Because the scale is like a reminder of you are working towards this goal. And every day you get on the scale and you don't see it move. You're less like, you're also probably reminded of the things that you're not doing to read.

We put a lot of pressure to reach our goals and then we don't follow through with the things that we need to do. And we're going to unpack all of that, right? This is not a shame and you need to work harder. That's not it. This is like getting real. This is why you either use the scale every day for a tool and understand it's a tool. It's a tool to pick up on your patterns of what like weight loss physically looks like, right? And it's also a tool to challenge you mentally as well. So you want to use it as a tool. So you're watching your, you try to get some me time, you're watching your show, you're eating, you love the anticipation of that, you're eating, you can't think, it's great, the minute you are done, you feel what?

Immediate regret. Why did I eat that? Oh, my God. How does it affect your sleep? Are you still thinking about it the next day? Are you now going into, oh my God, I've ruined everything. Let's punish myself, starve myself all day so I can make up for it, right? Like, that's where you really want to unpack that shit. Like, is it actual true hunger? And in the evening, it never is while you're following the program. Right. I'm not saying other people out there, you're starving yourself all day. Sure, you're probably still going to be hungry at night, right? And then, you know, is it actually true, true, is it actually true hunger? Or is it like out of habit? I watch Graze Anatomy.

I drink wine. I have chips. So it just feels that's my habit, which feels comfortable, right? And safe. Or is it emotional? Is it that I'm going through a very, are you going through a divorce right now? And that's what's actually making nighttime eating really hard, right? Are you stressed out about money and finances?

And you're just trying to like get a break and reprieve from thinking about it for five fucking seconds. And that's what's making it hard, right? Like what is it that's making it hard for you? So that's the kind of, and I know you might say, Gina, fuck. It's day three. It's day three. Chill. Chill, girlfriend.

But this is like these thoughts and feels come up right away, right? So this is where we want to be like, what is that about? What is that about, you know? So that's what we want to be, that's what we want to say to ourselves. Junk food equals coping equals numbing for me, round two and working on these issues. And that's what I mean by figuring out what is it for you. And so this is the same thing goes with like resources. So we have the app, which is amazing, right?

You can track, you can watch the check-in video, you can link to the lives. It has all the guides in there. It has the AI, which is really cool. You can set intentions on it. App is great. easiest way to follow along. You don't even need Facebook, right? Then we do have Facebook, which is great because that's where you can connect with real people community, especially on the check-in video in the morning, during the live sessions. You can chat with each other. It's great

to take part and feel like you're part of a community. We know when people feel like they're part of something, they are more likely to be more successful. We know two things. When people track or journal every day consistently, not perfectly, they are more likely to be more successful and lose more weight. We know that when people connect with the community and they feel like they are part of something and not alone, they are more successful. Like we know that. We like science, research, our own surveys, our own focus groups, our own data tells us that, right? So you have the app and there's so many people not in the Facebook support group. It's like 25,000 people and only like 12,000 in the Facebook support group, which is fine. If you don't want to be in the Facebook support group,

that's cool. That's why we created the app. So we have the app. We have the Facebook group. We have the lives, not mandatory. We save them after the fact. You can participate live. You can also download and listen to them by way of our Living Method podcast. It's not how I guide you through the program, but we do learn a lot, especially when I'm joined by my guest experts. We also have our book. We also have the Living Method program guide.

So if you are someone who just, you don't like reading online, get yourself the program guide. I think it's like $20 something dollars. we've kept across low. We don't make any money from it. It's literally just print costs through Amazon. We print it direct through Amazon. It gets delivered to your house. You can read ahead, all the information, make notes highlight.

If that's your jam. If that's your jam. And then there's a journal. And whether you use our journal that goes along with the spring program or your own journal, right, figure out how do you learn best? Do you learn best if you frame this as a course in school? Do you learn best if it's like an adventure? you don't know what the fuck's going to happen but you're here for it.

Or maybe it's like a journey and self-discovery and awareness. Like what's going to motivate you to, how can you frame it in a way that's going to resonate with you? You're not always going to be motivated. That's why I switched midstream there. You're not always going to be motivated. That's why having a really strong understanding of why you are here. Because a lot of people don't make it to the end of the 91 days. And I love the, the Libby Method is a year-round program.

So now with our membership, you can join, you can follow it. year round and then we have live sessions at every season. So we have a seasonal program, obviously right now in the spring. We're going to have a summer session. We have a fall session. We have a winter session. That's just to keep you more motivated, right? To help guide you in real time and go along. But ultimately, what's deeper? What's your real true motivation for doing this? You don't want to fucking be on your deathbed having spent your entire life trying to lose weight and feeling miserable physically or carrying you this extra weight that, and listen, you love yourself at any, at any way.

That's really important. You got to love yourself. You got to work on loving yourself right now today as you are. You don't have to like the way you look. You don't have to like the way you feel, but you have to focus on loving yourself, right? You can absolutely love yourself, be in love with yourself and still want to make change. Still want to make change. But let's get this done.

So we can focus on other things in your life. All the things that when you say, when I lose my weight, I'm going. going to start dating. When I lose my weight, I'm going to start a business. When I lose my weight, I'm going to quit my job. When I lose my weight, I'm going to start traveling. When I lose my weight, I'm going to start whatever, right? When I get confused about, hi, Alfie, how are you? What I get confused about, hi, hi, Alexandra. What I get confused about is all the chatter around high protein, but I don't live in an active lifestyle. Do I need a ton of protein still like 120 grams a day? Love this. Okay. So there's what's, it's the conversation what, so people don't know that you can lose weight in a healthy way.

Like for the billions of dollars that are spent on the diet industry, when you actually lose your weights, we were just talking about this on the live last night where someone was saying, oh, in the maintenance group, I've lost my weight. I feel fantastic. Never felt better in my life. And people who haven't seen me in a while are like, you need to stop losing weight. And they're like, what is that about? They're making me feel bad about the fact they have lost weight when I've literally. work so hard to do it in a healthy way and I've never felt better. And that is because for all the people trying to lose weight, they do not believe you can do it in a healthy way. They do not believe you can do it in a healthy way. And you absolutely always have been able to lose weight in a healthy way. It just fucking takes forever. And that's where the living method and the method behind it has streamlined the process. Like, we don't mess around. It's about helping you, make no mistake. It's about helping you lose as much weight as quickly as you. As quickly possible because we want that but also truly in the healthiest way physically and mentally.

Like, right? Like that's, that's truly our mission. But we're not fucking around. We want to get this done for you. And so when they talk about out there in the, like the, so the protein conversation came about out of two things. One is that when people typically follow a diet and this is constantly reiterated with calories in versus calories out, which was really started by this woman, Lulu Peters Hunt,

who, it wasn't even for weight loss, but that's a whole other thing. I'm actually writing a book on the history of where this bullshit came from. And the fact that the industry keeps doubling down on it is insane. But anyway, I digress. I digress. People just eat less. And they're doing this, they're doing this when they're taking weight loss medications, for example. I just talked about it earlier, right? They're, sorry, they're eating less. So all they're doing is just worrying about calories and not where those calories are coming from. Your body needs carbohydrates, it needs proteins, it needs healthy fats. It also needs leafy greens for, you know, other things, detoxification and whatnot.

And so what we're realizing is as people constantly go on diets, they're losing muscle mass. And it's lowering their metabolism, which makes it, which causes their weight to their set point to increase and their metabolism to tank and makes it harder and harder for them to lose. with. And so there's this concept of, like, again, a calorie isn't a calorie, and I talked about this, what you get, what your body does with 200 calories with cookies is totally different than what it will do with 200 calories of protein. So consuming protein also helps you feel more satiated. It feeds into your satiety hormones. So it's beneficial. You need protein and it's beneficial, but eating more protein than you need absolutely not necessary. So where is that conversation coming from? It's coming from the diet industry and people realizing you can't just eat less calories.

You do have to be mindful of where those calories are coming from. And if you're not getting enough protein in your diet, you're not maintaining or building muscle mass. And when you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into glycogen. It stores it in your liver. It stores it in your muscle primarily and then stores it in your fat. And if you no longer have that muscle to store the glycogen, where does it go? It goes into your fat or it goes into your liver, fatty liver. Right. And so that's where as you get older, you're getting that midsection. You're going to notice there's

more and more conversation. I was just reading some stuff today about menopause and they're like, yeah, it's not it's not menopause that's causing women to gain weight. It's low metabolism. It's lack of muscle probably from years of dieting. Right. And you do you do gradually lose muscle as you get older, but we also become more inactive. Now it is a bigger conversation because estrogen that you're losing is very anti-inflammatory. So, you know, anyway, that's the whole thing. So the other protein conversation is from the big menopause explosion that happened a couple years ago where we're talking about how important it is for women to be maintaining their muscle mass. So when people starve and deprive as a method for weight loss, and this includes GLP1s. This is why everyone's talking about it. People are losing weight

real quick, so they're losing a lot of muscle. That's problematic because the minute you go off them, you end up gaining it all back plus more and then it's even harder for you to. lose weight. Plus, you need that muscle to be strong and healthy. You fall, you break a hip, you're unstable. Like there's a whole thing that goes along with it. So that conversation is happening out there, and this is where I'm going with it, without people understanding what you're doing in here. So you are prioritizing protein at breakfast if you have it. Morning snack is on its own, but later on we'll be adding protein fat. For lunch, you are having protein. For your veg snack, you can add protein. You can add a boiled egg. You can add. You can add a boiled egg. You can

you know, some hummus. Like you can add chicken, you can add protein to your veg neck if you want. Your second afternoon snack, those nuts and seeds, high in protein and fat, which feed into your satiety hormones, make you feel more satisfied heading into dinner where you're also focusing on protein. Right. So this helps you get that protein in throughout the day and we're going to get more in tune with that. So absolutely not. You do not need, I think, you know, give it another year and people we're going to be talking about how consuming too much protein is is not beneficial for you at all. So yeah, so I'm right there with you on that. The thing is like 30, 30, 30. And so that ends up to 90. And but it's not like that's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And you really want to spread that throughout the day.

And I'm not into counting and weighing and measuring. You shouldn't have to know math in order to lose weight. And you shouldn't have to do math to learn how to maintain and sustain your weight. And that's where we're going. It's about being in tune. You know when you're like crave a state. you're ready to rip a cow's ass off because you just, I need a burger. I need a steak. I think this is your body saying, hey, eat more protein. You know what I mean? Like, you know when you need more protein, everybody lets you know.

It's just a lot of times we just don't, you know, we don't take time to think about it. So we have a post in the app and a post that's coming out. I think it might even be in the food plan, proteins, carbs, and fats that breakdown. And then also there's different, you get a variety of protein and a variety of different things. that you're consuming. So there's plant protein that you want to add in. There's protein in things. Like even fruit has a little bit of protein in it. So your protein adds up. Again, what you're kind of seeing out there is a super click baity and there's no context to anything. And that's why people are like, oh, there's so much information. I love context, right, and deeper level of understanding. So I'm with

you on this. I'm with you on this. I'm going up against a lower metabolism due to unwanted chronic illness plus the meds I'm on yeah meds factor in so if after this program i remain the same i will move on to maintenance where i'm at thank god i have come to love my body now and not needing it to be a certain size this might be it for me and i'm okay with that i want to lose it but accept if this is it this okay if you have excess weight to lose your body wants it gone just as much as you it's just what is your body focused on right now and if your body is focused on decreasing inflammation, what can you do to help decrease that inflammation, right? That's one of the things that can slow your weight loss journey. Not that you won't be able to lose your weight, but it will need to be

something that you can help your body with is decreasing that inflammation, right? And that tends to happen with chronic illness. And so it's about give the body what it needs so it no longer feels it needs to store fat. So you're going to do that. You're going to help the, you're giving the body the resources it needs to repair and rebuild, regenerate, rejuvenate, and keep you nice and strong. Then it's about helping the body focus on fat loss. Above all the other. things that your body has to do. And so when you're dealing with chronic illness, there's a whole other layer on top of that. And so the benefit of the living method, what's so great is everything that we do is helping you be healthier. There's no downside to that, right? You still need to be hydrated.

You still need to manage your stress. You still need to make sure you, you especially with chronic illness, you need to cover your sleep because your sleep is when your body repairs and rebuild. So this is where what are the things that you need to focus on. And so what happens is people just focus on the food and not really that you know, you really need to be super mindful of your stress because when you're already dealing with inflammation and your body is already kind of, for lacky of a better word, struggling more than most, stress is going to beat you down, tear you down. So you got to be like, uh-uh, I need boundaries, I need good coping mechanisms, and then on top of that, you need sleep. Your body needs to heal. It only does that when you are sleeping. So this is where your focus probably

is on stress and sleep. And then routine, right? So it's not that your body doesn't want to focus on, doesn't mean your body's happy and wants, it doesn't want you to lose the weight. It's like right now, what are the things you can focus on to help your body focus on fat loss? And this might be like something that you need to get a handle on. And, you know, this will help you with that. And then once your body kind of calms down and, you know, like you, you help it to get, you know, to address its issues, that's when it's able to focus on foul. There's just no way around that. And that sucks. It sucks, right? Like you want, you want it to be easy for you. But what's great is all the things you're doing to lose weight are all the things that you are helping you be healthier in general and helping to address any illnesses that you have, any diseases that you have going on. That goes on for thyroid issues, you know, diabetes, PCOS, like, you know, any health issue that you're dealing with, this is all about give the body what it needs to address those things. And because when you store excess fat, the body stores, it creates inflammation. Inflammation is not good. And this is what I mean by your body does.

want the fat any more than you do. It doesn't mean that you can't live in a larger body. So this is also, we had a great conversation with Dr. Sean Wharton a while ago. Definitely worth checking out where we talk, everyone's talking about obesity as a disease. Obesity is a disease if it is affecting your health and wellness, right? If it is causing insulin resistance, if it is causing high blood pressure, if it is causing heart issues, then obesity is a disease. You can live in a large, body and be categorized as obese and still be really healthy. And in that sense, you do not have obesity as a disease, right? But yeah, so it's just about, everyone thinks their fat is just kind of

sitting there doing nothing, but your body's actually factored, it factors your fat into everything that it's doing. So it's just a matter of helping the body focus on fat loss. If your body thinks it needs that fat, then what can we give the body to be like, hey, you don't need that fat? Like, we're good. I'm going to keep feeding you. I'm going to give you the nutrients that you need. I'm going to help manage your stress. I'm going to get better sleep. So that's like step one. And so for someone like you, that can take a little bit longer. I can do it. But you can absolutely get it. So I wouldn't want you to give up hope. I love the fact that you're embracing yourself as you are right now today. And that it should be the absolute focus. But I also wouldn't give up hope

on truly feeling. It's not about a number on the scale. I want you to get to a place where you feel calm around food, you feel comfortable in your skin, you feel as good as you possibly can. Right? Like there are people who have back issues that, you know, you got to rod in your back. Like, you're never going to feel fantastic, but you can feel as good as you possibly can. So I'm not trying to like, you know what I mean? I'm not trying to be toxic, you know, toxic positivity or anything like that. But in, and it's a constant thing, right? It's a constant thing. It's a constant thing. Okay. What do I want to talk about? Dr. Bravley David is joining us tomorrow, clinical psychologist. If you feel so inclined to join us,

again, I know I keep saying the lives are not mandatory because I don't want you to feel, I'm avoiding saying the word overwhelmed because you should find this really easy to follow. Just the guidelines each week, just the guidelines. Figure out the resources that it worked best for you. This is still prep week. I could say we haven't even started yet still, right? This is still prep week for our new members, for our returning members. Take this time.

Figure out what are you thinking about this process. What do you need to follow through on this program? Right? Like, where are you at? What's your why? Also, have fun with it, please. If you are stressing, it's not helping. Stress makes you fat.

I know there's no context to that. No, it's stressing. I'll see you tomorrow, Dr. Beverly. Good to be joining us. I'll be back tonight in the group if you want to do a Q&A. Again, that is not how you get your questions asked and answer. Just ask it in the AI and the app. Simple as that.

Get a response within seconds. Or pop into the Facebook support group and the team will answer your question over there. If you want to come hang out with me tonight, I would love to see you then. Have a fantastic day, everybody, and I will see you later. Thanks for joining me. Remember, you can also download and listen to this by way of podcast over on our Living Method. Podcasts available in all podcast platforms.

Okay, bye. What am I doing here? I'm seeing this comment. As a diabetic, so I'm going to go back. As a diabetic, I've been instructed to only have fruit with protein. Should I just eat the AM snack and see what happens or can I add a little protein? So here's what I will tell you about this. that. The program works really well for people who have diabetes, drop an A1C, going to pre-diabetic

in a normal range. There's a couple of things I want to say here. It's your, whoever told you this is not understanding how you're eating in its entirety. And that's so old school. However, I'm not going to be, what I would suggest you do is go seek out the post on diabetes in the app. It'll be coming out later in the week. Yeah, like it's, this. This, This is kind of not, there is a benefit to adding protein. There's so context, did you eat breakfast, right? And it's how you're eating throughout the day. We do add protein and fat to your fruit snack later on.

What I would look into is fruits that are lower on the glycemic index. That's where you would want to go with that. But at the same time, I'm not about to tell you to not listen to your healthcare provider. So that's what I want to say with that. Like there's a rhyme and a reason. We've had probably thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people who have diabetes go through the program and follow the program. And I can try to explain to you why right now.

But if your health care provider is telling you one thing, you want to follow that. What I would do is do some more research on this, right? And really understand that's not really the full picture. There's no context with. Yes, ideally you want to have fruits with a protein and fat to help negate the amount of insulin that your body would need to obviously figure out what it's doing with the glycogen from that fruit. But there are fruits that are lower in the glycemic index that would be better to have. And there's a rhyme and a reason, even beneficial to people who have diabetes,

to have that fruit on its own in the morning. So that's what I've got to say, but I'm not about to convince you. And if you wanted to add protein and fat to your fruit snack, at the end of the day, it's not a big deal. So this is where some people will be able to follow all the things. And some people, like maybe you're allergic to nuts and seeds. are alternatives. Some people don't like the texture of fruit. Like I've, I've helped people who literally, they cannot have it. It just, it's a psychological thing. So then what's the alternative to that? So you might not be able to do all of the things, but here's my advice to you. Sometimes

what happens is that people start picking and choosing what they are doing. And it very quickly goes from a system and a method that works and is highly researched with science behind it to someone just doing their own thing. And that's the difference where other diets, your haphazard counting, weighing and measuring, where, like, sure, that works because you're just eating less, but there's a whole rhyme and a reason to everything that we're asking you to do and why with this process, right? So, so, yeah, just kind of play around with it. Play around with it. See what works best for you. If you're monitoring your blood sugars, then you'll be able to kind of play around with it and see where you are. So I wouldn't go like, like, this is like a personal,

what you have to feel good about, right? So maybe I would do with your doctor if you're working with them, show them the entirety of what you are doing throughout the day, then they may look at this and be like, oh yeah, shit, no, this is good stuff. Follow this. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, but there's always wiggle room. I'm like, do this. There's always wiggle room there, right? We don't want anyone doing anything that you're not comfortable with. And then you can wait and see how it goes. So don't stress. Okay, now I've got to go. Oh, God, I'm the worst. Okay, bye, everyone.