The Livy Method Podcast - Gina LIVE: Real Talk. Real People. - April 17, 2025

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

In this special episode of Gina LIVE, Gina Livy is joined by four real women from our LIV Lighter campaign to talk about what losing weight actually looks and feels like—beyond the scale. They're talking guilt, shame, self-worth, and finally feeling free in your own body. If you're ready to stop carrying the weight of your past and start showing up for yourself, this convo is the reminder you didn’t know you needed. Hit play and let’s go.You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/ginalivyTo learn more about The Livy Method or to sign up for the Spring 2025 Program, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. Hi there, my name is Gina and I am the creator of the Living Method Weight Loss Program and given my next program is set to start this Monday for our spring summer program I thought who better to bring on and have a conversation with than our Live Lighter ladies if you have seen our new marketing campaign Live Lighter with the Libby Method then you have seen these gorgeous beautiful faces of our very real members and today we're going to talk about their very real journeys. Hi ladies, hello. Hello.

Hi. So the last time we hung out was to shoot our Live Lighter campaign. And when we started to talk about marketing our program, listen, we have an amazing program. It's time the world knows about it. How are we going to advertise it? How are we going to get our name and faces out there. And I said, what are we selling? We have a great weight loss program that works. We have a great maintenance program that helps people go on to maintain and sustain their weight. We truly want

this to be the last diet that anyone ever does. But what are we selling? And I was like, we're selling hope. Hope that after years of spending all your time, energy, and money, after years of struggling with your weight, you actually can lose your weight in a way that leaves you healthier physically, mentally, and gives you a fighting chance at being able to maintain and sustain it, hence our Live Lighter campaign. And so the team came up with, well, what is Live Lighter?

You feel light and beyond just losing the weight. Lighter physically, yes, but lighter mentally. So that's one of the questions I'm gonna ask you is what does living lighter mean to you? But then we thought, well, we have to do this with our members and how are we gonna make our members fly through the air? And somehow the team pulled it off

and it was just, it was such a great day. It was so fun. And most of all, it was really special for me to spend time with all of you. So it means a lot. It's not easy to sit up here and share your story with people on, you know, in front of thousands and thousands of people. So where should we start? What is, should we just go around?

This is Kim and Stacey and Nazneen and Candice and they've, they've and they've lost weight anywhere from more than a hundred pounds to just over 15 pounds. So, a huge range of weight. I don't think we need to get into the particulars of how much anyone's lost. You've all been hugely successful in your own way. So maybe let's start Kim with you. Like what is live lighter?

What does that mean to you when people see our ads? Like what does it mean to you when people see our ads? What does it mean to you? It means being able to live free of the negative talk. The inner voice that said, I wasn't worthy of being here, of taking up space. I now take up space. I might be smaller, but I take up more space now. And it feels amazing. Yeah.

And Kim is someone who's lost over a hundred pounds with the program. And I would imagine that's been pretty life-changing in probably a lot of ways you didn't expect. A lot, a lot. I can't even explain how good I feel, how much lighter, yes on the scale, but later in my body, in my heart. I just, I have confidence that I never thought I'd have. I love that.

Nez Niena, what are you making notes down there? What do you, I see you writing. Are you trying? Well, I was sort of like, I was actually looking at a couple of things and I was thinking about a couple of things. I was like, what would, I actually had jotted a couple of points down

of just things I wanted to mention. I was like, I'm gonna get my thoughts together. So that's what I just did. Yeah, what did lighter mean to you? You like, I'm gonna get my thoughts together. So that's what I just did. Yeah, live lighter mean to you. You know, I love what Kim just said, but it's funny because it's evolving for me because I know like in my ad, I talked about it just releasing the burdens

that you kind of hold onto. But I feel like live lighter just for me has just been about like feeling that I can enter this world and I can be myself. It's by lifting the weight off, but it's not the weight, it's actually lifting, taking those things that always held me down and held me back. So the weight is just, it's like the physical manifestation, but it's not. That's not even really it.

It's about all the other things that come off of me, have come on off me. Guilt, shame, feeling like I have to hide. So now I'm actually coming into this world and more so than I've ever been before and saying, you know what, I deserve to be here and I deserve to be seen. And I'm actually showing myself in something more than I've ever shown myself in the world. Woo, woo.

That's good, I like that. If you're just tuning in, I'm chatting with the lovely ladies of the Live Lighter campaign that we've done, very real members. We have a lot of really real conversations in the program and you're going to lose weight. If you follow the program, yes, we tell you what to eat and when, but it's really truly so much more than that. It is working through, like the ladies have already mentioned, working through your issues and associations tied into food. It can be working through your beliefs, like feeling that you are worthy. It can be, you know, it's a lot of working through old habits and creating new habits that support the changes that you want to make in your life. And for

a lot of people it can be about past trauma. So it can get really deep. And that's why I started probably with the deep question of what does Live Lighter mean to you? Candice, what about you? What is... It's probably gonna run a, Oh, right, like after the campaign and then it airing. Yeah, I find it really interesting because I feel like I'm trying to also capture what Nez Nin and Kim are trying to capture

that it's not just even a physical manifestation. It's not a physical experience of, yeah, I see a difference on the scale and I've had some really good success moments of dropping what I imagine, what I wanna be dropping and fitting into jeans in a better way and all those things. But I feel like it's as if I'm lifting the,

as if I'm peeling back the moral responsibility of holding something that's not socially accepted in my body as like a representation. And I get to kind of like, like Nazneen said, like shed the burden of that and be able just to embrace who I am, how I walk through the world and with more confidence and with really just appreciating the body that I do have. And I do think it is to do with the commitment to the system that you've created for us, Gina, I think that there's these elements that are put in like good strategies, and then bringing in all of the experts that you brought in, has helped me kind of unpack the bigger

has helped me kind of unpack the bigger component as to what it is to commit to changing how my body looks and how my body feels. And that feels lighter. That actually feels, it feels like I'm shedding like, like off the, you know, the weight off of the world off my shoulders. I'm no longer holding myself in a negative light when it comes to that, I guess. You know, that's that the diet industry is really heavy right now, right? Like people have weight that they want to lose and they feel like diets just don't work. They've tried everything and this is hence why it's time to get the word out about the Libby method. And of course, people are taking GLP-1 medications, which of course I'm totally on board with, but that's not an easy fix.

You still have to do the kind of work that you do in the program. But you just I think, describe the heaviness of the conversation out there, people really struggling, they want to lose weight, but then the diet industry is just, you know, has just really done a number on people and really being free from that. And getting getting to the other side, getting to the other side. Oh, my gosh, I love you. I love you all. Stacey?

Well, live lighter for me, like what, you know, what Candice, Nazneen and Kim said, like it's just, it's really, it's not the physical aspect, the weight will come off. And I think it's just letting go of like, for me, at least is letting go of childhood traumas and childhood expectations and cultural beliefs and that you have to be skinny, you have to, the constant comparison, you know, why is your cousin skinny and why aren't you skinny? So at the end, you don't accept yourself, but I think this program, like what Kim said, you just accept, you like you learn to love your body kind of like, you know, I looked in the mirror today and like, oh, you know, before I would have been like, oh, no, I can't look in the mirror like with, you know, with just wearing my bra and underwear, I'd be like ashamed. But today I was actually like, oh, okay. I'm like, all right, well, you know,

certain things maybe I could probably get rid of, but it didn't bother me the way you used to. I wasn't hiding. I wasn't like going the way it used to. I wasn't hiding. I wasn't like going like this in the mirror. I was really like, oh, okay. It's like, this is me. It's, I think it's like the self-acceptance. Definitely the self-acceptance and just that in itself is so liberating.

Right? Like it's just, I don't know how to, again, I don't know how to explain it. It's just something, it's like something clicked and you're like, you know what, I love myself. I'm like, I deserve to be here. I have my space, I need to be seen, and I will be seen. I am seeing myself.

I think that's the most important is that I'm seeing myself, right? Yeah, I love that. It's, it is a lesson in self love. Yeah, I think it is because you, one, you're so focused on all the things that you're doing, following the food plan, drinking the water, doing all these things that you have no other time

for anything else or anybody else's stuff. So I think it's all about self-love. It's all about keeping your energy directed at yourself, being aware of the choices that you're making, why you're making those choices, what you're thinking after you making those choices, being aware how your body is responding to all of it, right? So there's a lot about self-love and people talk about accepting themselves the way they

are in body confidence, but then they've tied that into the size of your body and your weight. And I think that's problematic because you should love yourself at any size. You shouldn't wait to get to a certain size in order to love yourself. Cece, I'm sorry, we just had a bit of I think there's an audio, a bit of a delay or audio thing that was going on there. Maybe the team can work on that while I pose this next question. When you sign up for the Libby Method, what's the one thing that surprised you about it? Your first time, if you can go back to the first time. Nazneen? This Livvy Method? Honestly?

The first time I was like, oh, sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead, Stacey. Go ahead, Stacey. I think something's wrong with my audio. It's like delayed. That's okay. You look great.

So go ahead, Nazmeen. Thanks, Stacy. No, from honestly, I did it so much on a whim. I was in a Facebook group with some local, like, you know, these Facebook mom groups and they were talking about it. And I just was like, okay, I had retired a few months before that. And I knew, like I knew after when I would retire, I'm like, okay, like, I not been taking care of myself, I need to figure out this. So I just on a whim sounded good. Hit it. I did post this the other day

on one of your comp, one of the comments that when I first joined, I'll be very honest. And I wrote this on one of the comments. When I saw Gina, I was like, okay, honestly, what is this woman gonna tell me about weight loss? Like, seriously, what? But I did, and I was like very skeptical. I was like, you know, I'm very reluctant about weight loss programs anyway. I'm just like, trying to make them up, but I don't know, I had signed up.

I was like, okay, whatever, I'll just take a shot. And then I started reading, but honestly, within a few minutes, like just a couple sessions of listening to you and just reading about it a little bit, like reading the sections, I was like, okay, this is exactly what I needed. I never felt so heard and understood.

I hadn't felt that heard and understood when it came to this aspect of my life journey ever. And I knew that right away. But like I said, I was one of those skeptics. I kind of did it on a whim. I didn't do it because it was recommended to me. I just was like, actually, interestingly enough, actually, my cousin has told me

that she had recommended it to me about a couple of years, like a year before that. And I didn't even pay attention. Like I was very dismissive of it. So when I did it, like I was like, whatever. But honestly, like for me, that was my first reaction, but it did not take long for me to figure out that I had the universe had guided me there. That's how I felt. Yeah, we get that a lot. People are really surprised once they get in there. I think the price surprises people for what you get. And it's hard to explain the program

because it's such a process. So I think we get that a lot. People just signed up or on a whim, and then they got in there like, whoa. What surprised you? Candice, Kim, what surprised you guys? OK, I'll go first. It surprised me as to how committed you Regina to having create the system every single day, this kind of showing up. And because you showed up compelled me to show up. And I needed to be

piggyback. I needed to piggyback on the energy that you brought. And creating a group and a community, regardless whether it's the ether or what have you, I felt like, oh, I need to come up with a better word than show up, but I like stay committed to run the course and to start, I mean, I got the book, I treated it like this is like a course and I was gonna be the valedictorian. And so every day I was doing my homework and that the four questions

and the be present and the yeah, check, check, check and read ahead. Super confusing reading ahead. And then up comes the next conversation where you're like, do not read ahead. I'm like, oh, yeah, right. So I think I really love that. And you have this great way of predicting when we're going to need a piece of information, it's like I've got this vague idea. What's this question? And then if you show up in the morning at the nine o'clock sash, oh, she has the answers to it. Great. Now I understand it better. So I think it's really hard to define what this method is. And I think I like the word method within it because it's like a system. It's not just a do these 10 things and you'll see this. It's literally stay committed to the path, to the journey.

Yes. I mean, I think that's one of the ways that our program is different. It is guided. So we do tell people what to do every single day. And you think about other diets, you're just counting and weighing and measuring, or just trying to figure it out as you go.

And we figured it all out for you. And they're really the best way. I'm gonna ask you guys for your tips in a minute, as soon as I hear from Kim and Stacey, but it's to show up on a day to day. And so many people are, oh, I bought the book, I feel so overwhelmed. Like you shouldn't feel overwhelmed

because you don't need to read the whole book. You got 91 days. We're gonna guide you through it. We're gonna be there to ask, to help answer any questions. Kim, what about you? I'm surprised you got the program. That it was easy. It was easy. It wasn't, I didn't have to, I didn't have to do anything crazy like count way measure

food. That to me was huge. I was so done with all of that. And I had in my head, I was done with diets because it was just, it didn't make sense. Everybody, we'd all do a diet, we'd lose, we'd gain it back. And it just never made sense. There was something definitely wrong in the diet industry. And after starting it and understanding

that it's so much more than the food and the exercise, it's, you really have to dig deep. And digging deep is what gets you to where you need to be. And I dug deep. I dug deep. I'm retired. So I had the advantage in some way, but I was at home so alone so I could have eaten with nobody knowing. But again, like Kanda said, you showing up every day made me show up every day. It was, if Gina can do this and teach us this stuff,

why can't I do this? Your guests are top notch, life changing stuff. The capture cancel correct thing was, I used that for everything. And knowing that there was a maintenance was another big thing for me. Because I could lose the weight, but how do you maintain?

I didn't understand. I didn't get it. And that was, for me, that was the game changer. Yeah. I mean, I do show up. It ain't pretty. It's just, it's not pretty. Sometimes, it's not, some days it is not pretty.

And just like, it's real. And just like, you know, I, so I do, I do show up every night, all night, all 91 days and I do a check-in and we go live. As Kim mentioned, we have great guest experts. So it's not just me. Yes, I created the, the, this algorithm for sustainable weight loss and I share everything that I've learned over the past 30 years, helping people lose weight.

But we do have great guests. We have doctors, psychologists, we have a learning strategist, we have fitness experts, we have a new menopause specialist added menopause doctor, we have doctors that specialize in the GLP-1. So that's that's new conversation, the last group for us if you the program is very GLP-1 friendly. So you know, if you want to talk about if you are taking or been subscribed to any medications, we do talk about that as well. It's a very safe space that we provide people to show up and go through their journey with. Stacey, what about you? What surprised you about doing the program? Well, first I checked the first program I did. I checked out after 30

minutes. I was like, what does she know about weight loss? She's skinny. What is we know and all that. But then the second group, I did not expect to find community. I think it's the community and finding yourself, I think that was the biggest surprise for me. It was like this mental journey because I thought I was just gonna be physical and Done. See ya later. But now it's like it's just a whole new meaning

it brings life a whole new meaning and Like I just kind of want to be the best version of myself Which I don't think I was ever gonna get there or I thought I wasn't gonna get there and if I was it would be until like gonna get there or I thought I wasn't gonna get there. And if I was, it would be until I'm in my golden years when I sit in my retirement home and finally maybe realize, oh, okay, self-acceptance. But I didn't know I was gonna hit it this early on in my life.

And I wanted to improve every aspect of it. I guess to become a better mom, become a better wife, become just kind of like the best version of myself as me, not as me trying to be skinny, not me trying to be a person that I'm not kind of thing and not accepting myself. So that was, I think, the biggest surprise for me was finding the mental piece. Yeah. Because it's not just what you're eating and when, it's so many other things that are factoring in.

And you do have to, people talk about accountability and it's great, we have the community and we have people there to answer questions and you sign up for these 91 day cohorts. So it is normal, I should say for anyone who's watching or listening and doesn't really know about the program, to do as many programs as you need in order to reach your goal.

So just like any other diet, you start and as you need in order to reach your goal. So just like any other diet, you start and you keep following it until you reach your goal. We break our programs down into 91 day chunks of time. So we do a fall program, a winter program, and now our new spring summer program is starting up on Monday. And then after you've done and reached your goal,

we have a whole maintenance program for you. But each week, so it has a different focus and tweak. So we start with a basic food plan. I know you guys probably have a lot of questions about that. We start with a basic food plan, which is very flexible. It meets your dietary needs, cultural needs. You can still enjoy the types of foods that you really like. And I'll get into with the ladies here in a minute.

But each week also, it brings to focus or highlights things that you're dealing with, like food waste issues, food scarcity issues, feeling worthy, continuing to show up even when you mess it up, this need to be all or nothing, working at extremes. So we really, I mean that's a big part of why we have Dr. Beverly David, a psychologist, joining us to talk about, you know, just how hard it is to show up, especially when life is not making it easy for you. That's for sure. So with the program, we have we have a we have the Facebook support group. So that is where it's a private

group, you can hang out with our community, which we have the best community on the planet, honestly, you can hang out with the community, we have real people, they are program specialists honestly. You can hang out with the community. We have real people there, program specialists to answer any questions. That's where I go live. I do check-ins. All of that is also available in the app.

So the app guides you through the program as well. You can review all the information. We don't have live people in the app, but we have a really cool AI feature where you can ask questions and get answers. So you can use just the app or you can use just Facebook or you can use both in combination. We also have our podcast, we have our book,

our book both available on Amazon. We also have our Living Method Journal. So it's a lot of resources. They're not there for you to use all of them. That's really important. It's for you to figure out what works best and what's gonna help you learn. So what resources? Maybe do a hands up. Who use the app? Do you guys use the app? Who use the app? Yeah. Say you guys all use the app and

all in the Facebook support group as well. What about Facebook support group? Yeah. Did you use the book? The book? Yeah. Nez Nin's like a no, Stacey Candace, yeah. Journal? Journal? Podcast? Podcast? Always. Always podcast most. Always podcast. Yeah. What was your favorite resource? What was your favorite resource? What was it like if you could just pick one, what would you choose? What was it like if you could just pick one, what would you choose? Mine would be podcast. For me, it's the Facebook group. Facebook group? Mine is the one.

I can get everything from the Facebook group for me. All the stuff I need is in the Facebook group. Yep. Kim, you're saying the lives. I love the lives. I relied on that every morning, 9 a.m. I loved the lives. I relied on that every morning, 9 a.m. I loved the lives. I put it, I cast it onto my TV and that was my thing. I loved it. I did too. I did my big face on the TV.

You know, so the lives are, I do go live Monday through Friday, 9 a.m., Monday evenings and what not. So the lives are not a mandatory part of the program. So anyone who's new, we're not going to make you watch hours and hours of video to be successful. But can you describe why the lives, like why do you think the lives are worth at least at some point watching or downloading and listening to? The information. The guest experts are next level.

You give the true version of yourself. You're so honest, you're so, I just love your F-bombs. I mean, you're just, you're real. And the fact that all these guest experts are just freely giving the information that we need at the right times. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, I think I think I think like listening to your lives is just really calming. Yeah.

Again, I'm really sorry. I don't know what's wrong with my audio. I don't know if it's my internet, but it was fine working before. But no, I think listening to your lives is very calming. Like I find it's just listening to your voice just kind of brings the calm and motivation to kind of continue on and show up for yourself.

I don't know if that makes sense, but. It's your voice, Gina. It's you, it's you. That's how I. Yeah, I think also when you're in the live, like I find, so for me, when I said the Facebook group, I mean that because I can find everything that I need, like the lives, like the guides, everything's in there.

But what I think it was the lives, and what I find with the lives, especially because now I just finished my fourth group, I started feeling like, OK, do I need the lives as much in the live moment if I can? But what I found, and even if I listen to it later, is so often it grounds me again. It grounds me back into what I need to be doing. It reminds me of it.

So life happens to all of us all the time. And what happens, or at least I know for myself and my own, especially the world I lived in before because I was in education, everything was always so fast paced and I was always about giving to others. And so what happened is even though I'd say I'd make a commitment to myself, what would end up happening is life would happen and I'd start to get going. So it was really nice about the lives is when I did listen to the lives, it was like it would brought to the forefront again, that I need to make myself a priority. Like it was whether I listened to it live or listen to it later, it reminded me that it reminds me that I need to stay the course.

It just would ground me again. So I used to find that that still is the case. It's like just, I listen to the live and I'm reminded again why this is important to continue showing up and to keep going. Even if I was doing okay and I was doing well, it just, it fueled me that way. Because I do feel that it's like so many people in our life, like so many people I know, and I'm sure lots of people can relate to that,

we put everybody else ahead of us, ahead of us. And then what happens is we forget. And so the lives bring it back to you reminding us to focus on ourselves a little bit and that it's okay. And then of course the conversations that are happening in the group are so amazing. So you're reading it if I'm in the live and we're actually like sometimes even the conversations happening amongst the members and then the guests. Like it just, it really just brings it, it brings it home. It keeps it keeps your

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intentions each day, reflecting at the end of the day, watching that check-in video or popping into the group or opening up your app and re-establishing a routine that's going to best support the changes that you want to see. And, you know, I think what I love is when I'm doing the live is the conversation that's happening with the community. So we may be talking, I may be talking about something and then our members are talking about how that affects their lives or sharing tips or whatever. Like, I really think our community is this really incredible space and place to show up. And when you are wanting to celebrate your wins, we do really, what we do really well in that group is celebrate when people want to celebrate and support when people need support. And it's not all about this place that sunshine and rainbows. It's really this place where if you are struggling, you can

say, Hey, like I'm having a shit day today. I'm really struggling today or, you know, and someone will give you some advice or they're, you know, they'll, they'll, they'll show up and be supportive. Um, that's one of the things I'm most proud of is, is our incredible community. I'm not that I create it. It's the people like you that create it. I'm just kind of facilitating it. Um, I do want to, I do want to ask, there's a lot of people who this is going to be their first program and they are nervous and they are unsure. What's something that you'd like to share with them? Or maybe someone who's thinking about doing the program but they're on the fence. They're like, Oh, my God, it's just gonna be another diet. But

what, what's one thing you'd like to share? Or you think people need to know? Or a tip? So many things perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Achieving perfection is that that that's just that's your recipe for failure. So just take it day by day by day by day. Yeah. Yeah. Progress over perfection. Definitely progress over perfection. Give yourself the grace. If you have a shit day, have a shit day. It's okay. You can pick yourself back up. One wrong move isn't going to do anything.

You can keep going. Never give up. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. I agree. It might be overwhelming to try and take in all the information at the exact same time. So slow down, slow down. Yeah. Day by day. Yeah. And embrace the non scale victories. That's probably my biggest. One of my biggest things.

If I'm thinking about if I'm a person who's just joining, I mean, there's so many things that make this program amazing. And I need to tell anybody who's out there that is doubting, I am the biggest doubter when it comes to weight loss programs ever. I really am. And so for me to be sitting here on a live and trying to encourage people to join this, if you had told me this, when I, you know, before I started that I would be doing this, I would have told them, you know, pull that person that they're absolutely nuts

and don't know me at all. Because this is not what I would be doing is trying to tell people that there's a weight loss program they need to be part of. Because it's not about weight loss. And I think this is what I it is weight loss, of course, that's what we're trying to do. But I think for somebody who's starting, I think the message I'd want them to get is that, firstly, go into it with just openness, and take that chance. And it's okay to trust yourself. You're gonna be okay. And I think one of the things that people can get overwhelmed, I notice whenever people start the program, it's like, there's so much information. Here's the thing, the program is provide, Gina and the team provide many entry points for people.

There's many different ways you can access the information. You don't have to do the journal and the book and the group and the app and watch every live and do everything. Yeah, because like I said, I'm not a book person. I'm not a journal. I got it. I tried but if that doesn't, that's not where I'm at. Right. So I you try to get people to understand that you it's offered resources, you find what works for you, you make one change at a time,

there's lots of changes you can make. The great thing about this is because this isn't something you're gonna master, none of us have mastered it. Even if we're like, I'm going to be going into my fifth group, I haven't mastered it yet, but I'm gonna learn more each group as I go along and I add things to it. The other thing is

The bad days are the days you actually have to embrace like yeah It those are the days where the best learning happens and also this is a program about navigating life Navigating how it's navigating life and things are not going to be perfect. Every day is not gonna be easy. So when you go into it, even if you start out the first few days and like, I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think I'm, that's okay. Talk about that.

That's part of the learning because we have to unlearn this idea that we have to be perfect, right? So I think it's really opening up and coming into that with that kind of mindset. But it is don't think you can't do it. You can. You can.

Well, it's a program that we, yes, I want to run a successful business, but I also want to sleep at night. And I also more than that actually want to really help people be successful. I lost over 100 pounds over 30 years ago I've been able to maintain and sustain and sure there have been ups and downs Just like there's ups and downs in your life And it's really what you are learning while you are losing weight that it's gonna help you maintain And then it's what you're learning while you're maintaining weight

That's gonna help you get to a place where you get to move on And put your weight loss journey in your past because you can move forward with the skills and the tools so that if life smacks you in the face, you know, you're not you're less inclined to fall back into old habits. You know how to get back on track. My advice to people would be like, it's easier than you think. There's a lot of information. Read over the guidelines. We're going to talk about a lot of things are going to be a lot of posts. But really, it's just about those guidelines each week. You can just really keep it really simple. Focus on those guidelines.

Be really clear on the task each week. Ask as many questions as you need. Because there's so much information, but not all of it is necessarily relevant to you. My other thing would be definitely take time to watch the guest experts. So I saw people asking questions like what times are the lives of the lives are at 9am in the morning, Monday through Friday, 7pm on Monday evenings. I do

go live Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for the first couple of weeks. But if you can't watch them live, that's okay. You can download and listen or watch them after the fact. But definitely take time to watch the guest expert segments. Because like you said, they, it's an hour of these amazing guests time where they know exactly where you are at in the program and what you are doing and what you need to hear and what you are working through. So that kind of like concentrated like knowledge being shared is just like, that's the worth of the program alone. I want to ask you, and this may seem sort of not, you know, what any sane person would do when they're trying to advertise and get people to sign up for the weight loss program, but I'm going to ask you what was the hardest part of the

program? Because, you know, we do want to be real with people. It's a great program. There's great support. We have great resources. We have the best community on the planet. But what's the what was the hardest part? Let's talk about let's talk about that. What was the hardest part? Breaking free from the chains of that perfection, like the progress of a perfection is a real hard lesson for me. And I find that I can slip into that so easily. It's so like my friend who I carry along with me in this journey and the days that I'm fatigued and it's been a rotten day or emotionally I'm charged

and I tend to be like eating my feelings. I slip right back into and think, oh, well then I screwed up. I'm just like, forget it. And then recommitting back to my promises to myself to show up for myself authentically and kind of stay the course. And it still is.

It still is. And this is going to be, I'm the same as you, Nezny. This is going to be my fifth I sign up for the Spring program. And I still feel like even in this gap, I feel like I've slipped into things where I want to, I have that little voice. And then the method, and sometimes it's like the devil and the angel that battle it out for me.

And I think that one's a long, I think that's the long game change. I don't think that that's, for me anyways, it's not been instantaneous. Yeah, thank you, love that. It's not been instantaneous. Yeah, thank you. Love that. I think for me, it was learning to trust myself,

learning to trust that I can do it. I don't need all the wackadoo stuff that other diets give you, make you do. I was able to get to where I wanna be with again, progress over perfection. Absolutely. You have to really be able to dig deep and look, really look deep inside.

And that is hard. That was hard. To look at your feelings, to look at your triggers and your bad habits, that to me was hard. It was very difficult to handle each day. There was a lot of stuff I swept under the rug and just focused on the living method.

And eventually those things had to come out and dealing with them was hard, but I did it. And it's so worth it. It's worth understanding that stuff. Because that's the real change, right? That's the real work. The physical stuff is one thing. You know, if you do this, your body will do that. You know, yes. So like I always say the living method works for everybody.

If you're human, you have a body. And what we do is we teach you how to figure out what you need to focus on. So you follow the basic food plan. You follow what to eat and when, week to week as we make changes. But this is where someone might have health issues they're dealing with. Maybe you have diabetes or you're in menopause or you have thyroid issues or you have food sensitivities or whatever you're dealing with. And then there's that whole mental part, right, that people are dealing with as well. So there's a lot to unpack there about your about your past. So that's that that can be the hardest part for people, not the

physical part, the what's he doing when the mental part of that. Stacey, what's the for me, it was a scale. It's that scale, right. And what I mean by that is not seeing things in such a black and white way of I failed, I succeeded, I failed, I succeeded, I failed, I succeeded. Like, I feel like I always entered when I used to think about weight and my body size, I used to think I'm either successful or I'm not like it was very much like that. And the scale, of course, is a society's indicate, like, I don't know, we've been, we've been tuned

to believe that somehow the gravitational pull, actually, it's interesting, Candice and I, I actually went to Candice, because she's a massage therapist, and we should never have a conversation about this scale, where somehow we've been convinced, made to believe that the gravitational pull of the is really what dictates our value. And I think for me to break free of that, because I am a slow loser, and I have been I've got tons to lose. And I'm a slow loser. And the skill does not move for me very quickly. And sometimes it moves a little bit faster than it doesn't. But for me to surrender and accept that that scale is not my marker of success, that it's how I think

the physical changes, those non-scale victories. I know people talk about that all the time. But I'm still working through that, because I still can fall into that trap of that scale, that scale, that scale. But I'm realizing, you know, it's to me, that's the hardest part, because if you're going to for some people that are going to join, this isn't going to be a fast process. It's not. But if to be sustainable, you want it to be the real you want it to be real changes to the way you live so that you will never, as you say, never have to die again, like you're never going to do this again. You want to get to that finally and forever. But you, but you have to do that slowly. So I think that was the hardest part initially for me. It was like, okay, why is this going on moving on? Is this now I'm failing? No, I'm not. I'm not. And I know it. And when I stuck it out, and I stayed with it, like, my body composition has completely changed. I mean, the other day, I went to the trainer, and the trainer

actually said to me, she said, I'm seeing the changes in you. And I said, I know, I said, and actually, the fact that I'm actually going to the gym and work with the trainer, I credit to the living method because, you know, and then I actually posted a picture of me at the gym on Facebook, like on my social media. That's again, unheard of for me, right? So I think for me, it was really getting past that idea that the scale is what's going to tell me whether I'm successful. Yeah, I, Judy, I hear Judy here.

She's saying the same thing. The hardest thing for me was learning that the scale is not always the ideal measure of success. It's not it's not at all a measure of success. It's a tool, it can be a very effective tool to kind of understand and pick up on you know, what weight loss looks like and feels like patterns of behavior and those things. Judy talks about the non scale victories are so important. You know, that's what I love about the program is that if you are struggling with something, chances are someone else is struggling with the same thing. If you have a question, chances are someone else has the same question, right? And I think this is part of like just really being open and sharing the reality of the journey. I mean, I think that's one of the things that makes

not just our program amazing, but you know, this is why we have such an incredible community. I don't wanna go, but if you are new to the program, don't just take the lighter ladies' words for it, and we don't pay them, by the way. We have not paid them to show up or say any of these things or be in our campaigns

or nothing. They just truly have a passion for the program. They want you to be as successful as they have been. And if you just go through the comments section, you know, through all of our social media pages, if you're looking for that proof, right, there's a million befores and afters. In fact, this is why we haven't really used befores and afters in our advertising. We wanted to show the after we wanted to show like, yes, I lost the weight.

This is what it's all about. You know, peruse around, get to know us, our community, ask any questions. There's still time to sign up for our next program. It starts on Monday. So if you've signed up, you wanna make sure you get your codes, you've downloaded the app, you're ready to go,

you're in the Facebook support group, if you choose to join us over there. On Monday, you're going to be able to review all the information, take your time, ask any questions, run out and grab anything that you need. It's prep week for our new members, so we give you the whole first week to get into the groove of it, and it's hit the ground running for our returning members, although we'll give you some grace if you need a few more days to ease back into it. Before I go, ladies, and I'm so grateful for you taking the time, what are you most looking

forward to? Are you moving on to the next program? Are you in the spring group? Are you moving on to maintenance? Where are you at? What are you most looking forward to? I'm in maintenance. I'm going on my third round of maintenance.

I'm just excited because I'm very close. I know I'm very close to live in the living way. I am almost there and I'm so excited for that. Yeah. And I don't want to make this about weight, but you've lost over 100 pounds and been able to maintain and sustain that. You feeling hopeful, over 100 pounds and been able to maintain and sustain them. You feeling hopeful, you feeling confident in being able to maintain and sustain. Yes, very inspiring.

I've got this. I've got this. I mean, my dad just passed away in September. That was my first maintenance program. And I went through it. It was tough, but I went through it without falling back into the old habits and knowing I could do that. I got this. You got this. Yeah. I got that. I love that.

Nazeem, what about you? What are you looking forward to? You know what? I'm in the spring program. I have signed up for it. I have learned that I don't even know what, so I'm in the spring program, I have signed up for it. I have learned that I don't even know what, I'm just looking forward to whatever's next. And the reason I say that is because when I think of each round, like this last round, I finally went to go see

a naturopath. I had just started working out with the Gerard gym, Gerard against Reiner, and I'm loving it. And it's actually becoming becoming, I'm not hitting like I've hit the gym when I was younger, but I used to do it in a way where like, I'm gonna hit the gym, I'm gonna go four times a week, I'm gonna do it all the time. And, and I'm gonna do this. And then when I couldn't sustain it, and I couldn't, I stopped. So now my commitment is maybe two, maybe three times a week if I because that's you know I'm starting at that point and sustaining it and it's natural so for me who knows what this next round is gonna hold and that's the beauty of it because we can't always predict the future but what I love about it is that I have no doubt that as I go through this with this this community and the people that I've met and following this program that I'm

going to learn and I'm going to grow even more because there's so much to learn and grow forth. And honestly, I do have to say that the four of us have now formed our own little group and we are our own little, we have become our own group and the support that I've had from them, like I'm so excited to go into this next round with being present with them as well. Got a couple weeks ago, I had a very down day and I reached out to them and they pulled me right up and reminded me that I, you know, I've got this. So I'm excited to kind of go into it with them again and, you know, so I think that's the kind of thing. I think every round is so beautiful because it's something new and something different.

Oh, I love that. Candice, I see you nodding. I think I look forward to the framework. I like a system. I like living within a system. And so that gets to start for me again and I enjoy recommitting. So I think that's probably it.

And I have, because I haven't hit my goal, but I'm closer with every program, I'm closer and closer to it. So I'm in, I'm in the right direction. Yeah. I hear you. I know the framework. I don't even know what day it is. Like I've taken two weeks off and I don't know what is going on in my life. I miss the routine. I miss the routine. Stacey, what about you? What are you most looking forward to? Where are you at? What's going on with you? I trust this wi-fi. I don't know. I feel like I'm delayed. I don't know. I've been getting back at it. I'm looking forward to getting back at it because this past round, I was just all over the place.

I'd be like, no, I'm in maintenance. Nope, I'm in the program. Nope, I'm in maintenance. Oh, I can be in maintenance. I was all over the place. But I stuck with the method. I stuck with the food plan, like what I couldn't eat, indulge a little bit more here and there.

But I think just focusing on myself and getting back at it and drinking the water, because my water intake has been bad. It just has, I just can't get back at it. So I think that's it. Monday, I'm ready to get back at it. Yes. You and me both. I mean, you know, life, life definitely, you know, gets in the way. And I mean, everyone's journey is, is, is different. It's unique. And so sometimes people have an easy peasy. And sometimes people just feel like they're just hanging on. I'm the same. I got to get caught. I'm looking forward to that kind of fresh start, like getting back

on drinking my water and my supplements and that routine and being like, okay, you know, it's been fun, but let's let's get back at it. Um, ladies, I don't want this to end, but I know I'm going to see you in the upcoming weeks. I'm going to see you around anyway. Thank you so much. It means the world to me that you took time tonight to share your stories and your journeys. Um, and it meant the world to me that you you that you joined us and joined us in our campaign, our Live Lighter campaign. And how great is it to see the people who are in our ads and hear about their journeys? I mean, this is who we want to be. We want to be ethical and responsible. And we want to be honest and we want to be real. And this is you're just another extension of that. So I appreciate all of you so much. I appreciate all of our members, our returning members.

I see so many of them in the comments. I'm so excited to get back on Monday. I hope you are too. To all of our new members who don't know anything about us, but they're about to put our faith in us. You've come to the right place. And we wanna do you proud and we wanna make sure you are successful. Not just me, my team, our community. We really want to all move past our weight loss journeys. We wanna learn what we need to learn, work through what we need to work through to really get to the other side of this place

and just get on with living our lives already. Thank you so much ladies for joining me tonight. Thank you for everyone who's listening after the fact. Have a great rest of your night and I'll see you all on Monday. Bye. Bye. Thank you. Bye, ladies.

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