The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 10 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring/Summer 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 10, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Have you done your vibe check today?Why are you choosing to eat things that don’t fall in line with your goals?Haven’t lost weight yet? That’s normal and here’s whyHere’s why you should use The Livy Method appHow to use indulging or overeating as a learning opportunityHow The Livy Method can positively impact your familyDo you manage stress with food?Why it’s important to review the Welcome GuideOur focus is helping people; the diet industry is focused on moneyFeeling under the weather? We’ve got you coveredHow to navigate The Program while travellingHow The Livy Method can help to end generational trauma associated with dietingHow to change your energy by focusing on what you’re doing wellWhy each Program you do will be a different experienceAre your bowel movements all over the place?What you can learn by weighing yourself every dayHave you listened to our new podcast yet?To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Well, here we are, day 10 of the program. Have you done your vibe check today? Have you checked in on yourself today? How are you doing? How are you feeling? What's going through your mind? Are you super jazzed about your day? Are you in a funk? What is happening? I love doing a good vibe check. As soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, I'm like, how am I doing today? And I don't mean tired because we're all tired. I mean, like, what's my mental state? What's my physical state? What do I need today? And especially when you're following this program, it's 91 days of showing up for yourself. It's 91 days of, you know, trying to make as many choices as possible each and every day that fall in line with your goals. It's 90 days of facing what's

going on on the scale. It's 91 days of knowing what you need to do and life not making that easy for you. So it's such a great idea to stop, take a minute, check in on yourself and see how you're doing. Hi, Judy. Good morning. I had a few too many bites of bits on the weekend and maybe Monday too, but who's telling? The good thing is that today I'm back at my lowest low. I love the program and I won't stop loving it. Well, I love that. And I love you too. Bites of bits are going to happen. You're going to recognize how they make you feel. Sometimes they are hashtag worth it. Sometimes you're like, why though? Right? And that's, that's, that's the mission is to figure out why are you choosing to eat things that don't make you feel good? Why are you choosing to have things that don't fall in line with your goals and stop and recognize? Are they serving a purpose? Are they bringing me joy? Am I making choices that make me feel happy? And a lot of times our choices are just based on habits, based on triggers, based on coping, based on a lot of things. I mean, if you love food,

there's nothing wrong with having that thing that tastes delicious. When you have it, you want to make sure you enjoy it. After you're done eating it, you want to make sure you're not berating yourself. The next day, you want to make sure you're not punishing yourself because really, if you rewind, did that actually bring you joy at the end of the day? Right. And these are the things that we're not thinking about. So many of you sent me that Oprah Weight Watchers, I guess, conversation that they're getting together to have to talk about diet culture. They're trying to figure it out. I mean, I think we have it figured out.

The diet industry has done a number on us physically, mentally. My goodness, the pressure to diet from the age of 12 when now looking back, you're like, wait, I didn't have a weight problem. What? Don't we do that, right? When we are 30, we look back at when we're 20 and we're like, oh my God, I wish I looked like that in my 30s. And then when you're 40, you look back at when you were 30 and you were doing all these crazy diets and you're like, what was I thinking? It just goes on and on and on. We are going to

get into all of that, how your past dieting is affecting your current journey. We touched on that a bit yesterday with Dr. Dina Karashefer. Isn't she lovely? So many of you are talking about how she's just so nice to listen to. I adore her. She's just so passionate. She's going to be back. I mean, she always says she's surprised that I have her on. She's a learning strategist. And with weight loss, we're really unlearning and relearning and learning new things. Dr. Beverly is going to join us tomorrow. If you're new to the program, she's a clinical psychologist. She is just absolutely fabulous because a big part of this program is what is going

on in your mind. The program is really simple. Follow the food plan. That's it. Follow the food plan. That's it. Follow the food plan each week, follow the tweaks that we're suggesting. And then the rest is just really all the fields that are popping up and the stuff that you have to work through, like your issues and associations and try not to fall back into old habits that no longer serve you where you are creating and supporting these new habits really while you're designing

the life of your dreams, you know? So we're going to get into it. I finally realized that starting to get my water in early works. Got my water in yesterday and already halfway today. It's uncomfortable when you're dehydrated and you're trying to get hydrated and you're trying to get that water in. But after a couple of days, you're like, man, I feel good. This is making a difference. You actually start to like crave water. You'll go looking, where's my water? You'll be thirsty. Your body's communicating with you. Hey, can you drink some water? But it's that like getting over that hump of like creating that routine, getting into it. So starting your day hydrated, like you're going to always, you're going to always feel so much better than when you start your day with

coffee. You're not getting your water in until like late afternoon. You're trying to get it in before bed. And then you're awake all night peeing. I know this because I did it yesterday. I'm jealous. I'm jealous of you. I'm jealous of you getting it in. I love this method. Heidi, down 7.5 pounds and super duper easy to follow with the app. Haven't been this low in weight in years. Okay. Some of you are amazed at how much you're losing already. The living method doesn't fuck around. It's designed to work. I basically taken 30 years of my life and figured out what do people need to do to lose weight in the healthiest of ways. With that said, though, it's because it's it's because of the rhyme and the reason behind the

food plan. It's the consistency, it's everything working together. And it's really cool because each week, you're going to be building on the previous week. And then when it comes to the food plan, we're going to make slight tweaks and changes to it. And then each week we'll have a different focus. So like, if you can imagine how good you feel now, like add like months to that and you just build and build and build. With that said though, it is still totally normal for people to still not have lost. So normal, it's

almost expected because your body is either going to do one of two things, it's going to start when you give it what it needs, it's going to start releasing that fat that no longer feels the need. Or your body is going to take everything that you're giving it and start making change, repair, rebuild, regenerate, rejuvenate, address issues that it has. So your body is just not doing anything when your scale's not moving. It's actually working really hard behind the scenes. And then what's going to happen is the people who are losing in the beginning, they're going to go on plateaus and then they'll be frustrated. They're like, what? How come I can't lose any more weight? What's going on with the scale? And again, after a plateau, which is just your body taking time to

adjust to your weight, your weight will start moving again. But people who aren't losing now, your time will come. That scale will start to move. And then you'll just kind of all be switching off. There'll be people who are losing while someone else is on a plateau. You'll have people who lose in big chunks, like bam, it seems like all of a sudden they just lost like all this weight overnight, but then they'll have larger plateaus. And then you'll have people who drop in little tiny bits and then you'll have shorter plateau. So everybody is a little different. I love that you mentioned the Living Method app. So many people don't know all the cool things that you can do in the app. First of all, if you're not using the app, it is not too late to start using the app in the app. You can actually skip ahead to the current day. It's so easy to follow

along. You open up your app and it takes you right to today's post. So the check-in video is right there. You click today's post and all of the posts that we're posting are right there for you. You can track your fluids, which is so easy. You just pop in, you click whatever it is that you're having, um, beside it, you tell there's these icons. So do you guys see that post today? What weight loss looks like really looks like where we showed real members scales. So you can check your own graph. So if you're tracking your weights in the app, you just click on the scale icon right beside it and your graph will come up your sleep, your graph will come up your body movement, your graph will come up. So this is this is also where we were talking yesterday with Dr. Dina about your

collecting data, right? So here's where you can where you're tracking your foods, again, no counting, no weighing and measuring, but you're clicking on the things that you're having when you click on the little fork and plate beside it, you can see your graph of how consistent you've been. It's really cool. There's so you can also set your intentions and a day reflections. So many people are afraid of technology and I am one of them. And I'm not a big tech head, but I've designed this app to be so easy to use, but also to have some really cool technology added to it. Plus there's also the Livi AI. So if you have a question, you can go down to the little question mark where it says ask.

And all you have to do is put in a question like, can I have cream in my coffee? You hit click. And then a few seconds later, yes, you can add cream to your coffee. You can have coffee at any time throughout the day. Avoid having it later in the evening as it can interrupt your sleep. You immediately get a response. So super easy to use. Plus it connects you with all the information in the Facebook group. So if I go into today's post, if I go into today's post and I click on that, I'm just going to mute. Okay. Mute myself. Good. Wondering why your weight is up or what real weight loss looks like on the scale. I'm going to click it. I can read it in the app, watch the video, and then I can go to the bottom and it takes me right to the Facebook support group,

where if I want to ask a question and have it answered by a real person, I can do that. So easy. So easy. Uh, why is your weight up? That's such an important post to make sure you're checking out today. Your weight can be up for so many reasons. It's not real weight gain. So it's good to know all of those reasons just so you can be calm when that scale is up. And also kind of like in gathering that data, right? Like what, um, what am I eating?

What are the choices that are I'm making? How am I feeling and what's going on with that scale? So you can really understand what weight loss looks like and more importantly, feels like to you, which of course is what I talked about today in that check-in. Weight is dropping daily. Remembering how much more I love food when I'm not stuffed all the time. Yes. When you enjoy your food and you walk away and you feel great, right?

Like we think we love food and I just want to eat. I want to overeat it. But then we don't think about and we forget how we feel after we overeat and that that mindset that kicks in. Oh my God, why did I do that? I feel so gross. Oh my God. Right? It's like, I always use this example. So say you're meeting a friend, you meet a friend for every Friday, and you go out for lunch and you have some drinks or whatever. And this is your time to indulge, right? Or you have a burger and fries, whatever.

You're sitting there, you are enjoying your lunch. You're having amazing, great conversation. You have your burger, fries, whatever it is. You overeat it. And then immediately you're both like, oh my gosh, I eat so much. Why did I eat that? Oh God, I gotta go on a diet. I should have ordered a salad, blah, blah, blah, right? You pay your bill and then you walk out and you're like, oh my God, oh, so full. Like think about that same experience. If you were to order something that

makes you feel good and you're mindful of eating enough to feel satisfied, you're going to have the same great conversation. You're not going to have a better conversation because you're ordering burgers and fries than ordering, I don't know, some salmon and a salad or whatever it is you're choosing to eat, right? You're not going to have a better conversation if you overeat your food than when you eat enough to feel satisfied and then you're going to walk away and rather than having that why do I eat that driving away being like I'm so fat I'm never going to lose weight oh I feel

horrible I gotta not eat for the rest of the day you're going to think wow it was so nice to hang out with my friends always so fun I love our Friday luncheons. Right? And a lot of times we think the food is going to enhance this experience. But when we really break it down, you know, choosing some of the things we're choosing to have and overeating the food, even though it's delicious, like I'm all for overeating. I'm all for overeating. Like when that shit is delicious. Like if, if, you know, we have a reservation at a restaurant and, uh, just on the weekend, we went to a great restaurant and they specialize in short ribs and it was a huge pile of, is it short ribs? Is that what it was? Short ribs. That's what they're known for. That's what we came for. It was this huge pile

of meat. It was so delicious. We totally overate it. And then when we got back, we're not like, Oh my God, why'd we eat that? We were like, Oh, that shit is so, that was so good. That was so good. Right? Like that's it. End of story. End of story. So there are times when I went to Rome, I have my favorite, not that I go to Rome every week or nothing. Don't get me wrong. I went to Rome once with Tony and then I took my mom back for her 70th birthday. And there was this restaurant, the Julia Roberts restaurant in Eat, Pray, Love. So they serve this pasta. It's just so simple, but it is the most, it's like, it's so delicious. I literally dream about it. And when I came back from Rome the

first time, Tony and I've been on a search trying to find a pasta similar to that. And so when I took my mom back, I took her there and I ordered not one plate, but two plates of that pasta. And I would have eaten three plates, but honestly, by then I was just so full. I couldn't physically jam it into my body. I was like, I came to eat. I'm eating that. I'm overeating it. Like I'm walking away with my belly full and I am joyful. I am like, that was amazing. And that's where I, that's where I want you to get to that. If you want to indulge in the food, you're making a choice. You're not, should I, shouldn't I? And then you're just like, you're enjoying like every single, like just there. I had, I shot a little video of that restaurant. And if you watch it, you can tell

I am just in love with the food that I'm eating. And that's my that's my memory of it, you know, and I really enjoyed it in the moment. And so that's what I want for you is like if there's a an event or a meal or a thing that you love, please enjoy it. This program is also not about just perfectly following everything. We're going to get our A-type people. You know who you are, who you're, you're just going to do all the, all the things. You're not going to deviate. You're going to do all the things, but then there'll be a time that comes where you're going to want the thing. You learn so much about having the thing you're, I want the pizza. I want the this. I want the, whatever it is that you just, you just, oh, you want it so bad. Have it, have it and see what happens. I hope you have it.

And I hope that you enjoy it. And then I hope you realize that's not going to stop you from reaching your goal and you just get back to doing what you need to do. Right. But if you have it, and then you berate yourself afterwards, and then you're tempted the next day to punish yourself and purposely skip meals and snacks. And do you know what, if you go into that mentality and mindset, then you've got some shit you got to work through. You got some shit you got to work through. So I love that, right? Um, everyone, let me read this. Weight is dropping daily. Remembering how much more I love food when I'm not stuffed all the time. Uh, every program I learned something new and this time it's really clicking, not hungry. Cravings have disappeared because I'm giving my body what

it needs. Yeah. I love it. It's a whole vibe. It's a whole vibe. It's a whole vibe. Good morning. My son is home from university and has been good with dinners I'm making. So that's a plus. Yeah. You shouldn't have to make separate meals for your family. Like there's, you know, so maybe you're, maybe you're making burgers, right? Maybe you're making burgers. And so you don't want to have the bun, right? Like then, you know, cut up the burger, have it on some leafy greens. Like there's always kind of like, I don't like eating a lot of bread. I'm not really a fan of a lot of pasta. I just find to get bloated. I don't feel great afterwards. So a lot of times it's where I'll pull up my leafy greens or make some extra veg to go along with it. Like you shouldn't have to

be making two separate meals, maybe an extra salad for yourself or some extra veg or something like that. But there should be a way. Also, here's the thing too. You think that our, our kids don't want to eat. You guys, you guys, I know you guys do this, right? You ask your, you make dinner and then the kids are like, and then you're like, okay, what do you want? Tell me what you want, but they can't tell you what they want. You know what I mean? And I find like, sometimes you just make it, they'll eat it because they're hungry, and they'll actually quite enjoy it. They don't even know what they like because they don't even really know what their options are.

So you shouldn't have to be making two meals. And we hear this all the time, especially when people have young kids. All of a sudden, your kid's eating your fruit snack, your kid's eating your veg snack, your kid's asking for salads because they see you eating salads, right? And then they see you making these choices, eating real food and feeling really good. And they're like, oh, let me do that too. Feeling so great. I always forget what it feels like when I'm properly hydrated. I know, I know. Good morning. Hi, Dilshad. Last week was so great and I felt amazing. Weekend and past two days,

stress and family situation got me back to making awful food choices, dealing with the intense stress and I feel so awful. Yeah. Today is a new day and hopefully I will stay on track and not sabotage. One positive thing is that I've kept up with my fluid intake every day. Yeah. So you're aware of what you do. That is like so huge. That is so huge. Like you might not change that overnight, but you are aware that this is how you are managing your stress. And so that is so huge because the next time you are stressed and you go for this, you're aware of it. Now you might do that another couple of times, but then you're going to get to the point where you are like, okay, this is just not working

for me anymore. And I love what you did here by focusing on the thing that you are doing. That's a positive because when you are, when you focus on the things that you are doing really well, or you are proud of, you are more likely to continue them because that is a whole vibe and it makes you feel really good. Right? So that's, that's how you do it. A lot of you have some deep issues, some coping mechanisms, you're going to have to work through some habits, you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to like, switch into something that's, you know, more supportive of the life you want to live and how you want to feel, but you're not going to do it overnight. You're not going to do it overnight. Why do I always have a hard time finding the lives each morning?

I don't know. They're so easy to find. I see them in the app before when I watch the check-in, but after nine, it's gone. They're always in the app. So there's a little link there that if you're using the app, it just connects right to Facebook. The easiest way is to pop into, if you're using the app, it just connects right to Facebook. The easiest way is to pop into, if you're using just the Facebook, is to pop in and go to the photo or media section and watch them playing there. Now, if you have not taken time to go and check out the welcome guide, so the welcome guide tells you all of this. The welcome guide tells you how the Facebook lives work, where you can find them. It basically tells you everything that you need to know to set yourself up in terms of finding the information. A lot of people just want that food plan the first day. They don't bother

with the welcome guide. There's a whole program guide too, and that talks about how the program works. And a lot of times people just skip over that information. They just want to get right to what they're eating and when. Where if you just invest a bit of time into reviewing the welcome guide, the program guide, you'll get a really solid sense of how things work around here in terms of navigating and finding information. And then also how the program works in general. And I know it's a lot of information, but really like if you invest that time and you're super clear on what you're doing, then you can really just focus on the what

you are eating and when and all the things you need to show up and do every single day. Weight Watchers is truly struggling to catch up with Gina. It's hilarious. Wondering what gimmick they will come up with next. I mean, this is it, right? Like they've lost a lot of trust in people. And I was just discussing this with Tony this morning. What I love about us is that I like, I, man, like our program is so awesome. And, and then group over group over group, I'm just, I'm so in awe of it. I think because of all the chatter that's happening in the diet industry out there, like they're trying to figure it out when we're in here doing it. We're having these conversations, like they're trying to figure out, you know, diet culture

and like how to turn that around. And like, they're just trying to figure out what diet culture is. We're living it over here, you know, and it's hard. Um, you know, I know so many of you have, we, we hear all the time, sign up for Weight Watchers when you're 12 years old, like we've heard all the stories, right. And the reason why they've changed so many times is because they, people were catching on that eating less, exercising more, it's not working for sustainable weight loss. But when you take a big company that has a lot of investors, and they have to make money,

it becomes all about money. And what can they do for member retention? What can they do to get people back in? And unfortunately, they didn't kind of catch on and they weren't in it to actually really help people. They're in it to make a lot of money. Or they'd have figured it out already. They would have figured it out already. And what I love about my program is that it honestly is a program that I can feel really good about offering and you can feel really good about doing. Like, think about it.

Even the verbiage that we use, like, it's like, there's no good foods. There's no bad foods. There's no on plan, off plan. Just the choices that you're making. It's that internal dialogue. It's that, ah, how to give your body nutrient rich foods, how to be in tune to its needs. It's just like, oh, recognizing how diet culture is fitting into your journey, recognizing the number that the diet industry has done on us.

All you have done is shown up, put time, energy, and money into doing what they told you to do. Right. And I used to, speaking of Oprah, I grew up watching Oprah. I wanted to be Oprah. And no matter how you feel about her, and I would watch, it's so funny, Tony and I actually watched the whole, Tony didn't know the whole pulling out the wagon, Oprah iconic moment. He's like, what are you talking about? I'm like, you haven't seen what? You haven't seen that? And anyway, I went down the rabbit hole of that. Obviously, she regrets that moment. And it was really interesting. If you watch the clip, she's talking about how if I can do this,

you can do this. There's no excuses. Meanwhile, she literally starved herself for 45 days. And here she's saying like, there's no excuse. If I can do it, you can do it. We can all just starve ourselves for 45 days. It's fucking insane. It's craziness. It's craziness. But I used to watch her and think she has access to all of the brightest minds in the world. Every week she had a diet person on. Why can't all these diet people and doctors get in a room together and figure out what works? Because I was actually like working with clients. So I'd be like, Oh, let's try this. Let's try that. Let's try this. Let's try that. And there's truth in the things that they're saying, but it was always a shtick, right? It was always like, like so extreme and a shtick rather than being like, yeah, okay. You know, like nuts and seeds, you know, yes, they're high in fat,

but they feed it like it's they're healthy for you. Right. And then like, yeah, OK, you don't want to do low carb, but maybe like, you know, breads and pastas, more processed foods, minimize those, minimize those and do more squashes, sweet potatoes, grains, you know, those types of like it was always a shtick behind it. And I'm like, why can't you jokers all come together and figure out what the fuck people need to do in order to lose weight. And so I watched this and then I just did it. I figured out what people needed to do. Cause I didn't have an agenda of like selling a book or how, man, my only agenda was helping people lose weight. So they would pay me. I would get really good at it. So I could feed my fucking kids at the end of the day. But I my agenda. But I love the Libby method because I figured out the secret to sustainable weight loss. I did. I was thinking about that this morning. I was like, did I really do that? You're fucking right I did. Through hard work,

spending a lot of time talking to real people on very real journeys. I talked to so many people about not just the choices that they were making, but how they were feeling. I watched people struggle when they were dealing with things in their life. I watched people struggle when things that happened in their past were affecting how they were feeling and how they were showing up. You know, like it's through working with real people for 30 years and figuring out what they need, right? So it's such an amazing program to feel so good about. Yeah, we know what we're doing around here. And a lot of this I have learned. We are still learning from our members. We are still learning from our members.

If you are new to the program, we do a whole survey at the end of the program where you get to give us feedback and what you're thinking and how you're feeling, what you liked, what you didn't like, what you would like to see us do. We've made so many changes to the program, not the base foundation of it because the body works how the body works. But we're really even our guest conversations, our guest conversations are next freaking level. That's what I was saying yesterday. If you're a new member, like you think you know what we're going to talk about. And then when we get into it, it's just, ah, it's so deep.

It's so deep. It's so deep. If you're looking for flexible workouts, Peloton's got you covered. Summer runs or playoff season meditations, whatever your vibe, Peloton has thousands of classes built to push you. We know how life goes. New father, new routines, new locations. What matters is that you have something

there to adapt with you, whether you need a challenge or rest. And Peloton has everything you need, whenever you need it. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. I'm a day behind in the program. Hi, Natasha, due to being sick, taking advantage of that and watching the scale move hard to get the water in that I need. So my goal for today is to get it back up. Yeah. So sometimes, especially when you're getting over that hump of like you needing to get hydrated, it's not so appealing. And then as soon as you start to get it in and starts to get more and more appealing, we do have a sickness protocol, um, how to follow the program when you're not feeling so hot, not just physically, but emotionally, we're going to be rolling that out next week, I believe, or it could actually be at the end. I don't have my book. Could it be at

the end of this week, but it's also in the app. So if you want to search, like, like if you use that Livy AI in the app and you put in there, um, how to follow the program when I'm sick, it'll pop up and it will link the sickness protocol for you too, which is really super cool. I feel great and following the plan. Uh, week five will be a challenge as I will be away. Should I follow the best I can, or can I pause? If I pause, how should I eat on days that are less challenging? Oh, I love this. So don't worry about week five. We got you. Once it comes time for week five, you're going to be super solid in how you're feeling with the changes that we'll be making. You might think, oh, I can follow the best that I can. Like doing the best that you can, even though it's not perfect, is still following.

Like to me, every day counts. Every day is part of your journey. There's so much to be learned on days that you can't follow, just as much to be learned as days that you can follow. But if you want to take advantage of all those 91 days, and you just don't want to think about it, right, there's a couple ways you can approach a vacation. It can be I'm gonna you know what, I'm gonna stick to the plan. I feel amazing. I'm going to try to follow the plan the best I possibly can while I'm away because I'm going to keep this I'm going to keep this party going. Right? Or it's like, fuck this shit. I love you, Gina. I have been waiting on this vacation. I get to drink margaritas for breakfast. I'm, I'm having chocolate chip pancakes. I'm eating all the things. I don't

give a fuck. That's okay too, because a week, two weeks, not long enough to mess it up. Right. You come back, you pick up where you left off, easy peasy done. Or you can see how it goes. You can be like, you know what? I've learned a lot in the last five weeks of the program. I'm going to make choices that make me feel good. And sometimes it's the margarita for breakfast or the pancakes or whatever that is, right? Like you can drink margaritas anyway, but you know what I'm saying? And you know, my, my, I love make choices that make you feel good, right? Cause sometimes it's, it's having that thing that makes you feel really good. And other times it's not having the thing that makes you feel really good. When you're on

vacation, the worst thing that happens is when you go away and you just want to come home because you just, you like, you can't wait to go there. And then you just want to come home because you're drinking and you're eating and you feel like garbage. You just want to sleep in your own bed and you're like, oh my God, I can't wait till I go back home. You don't want to feel like that. You want to feel amazing every single day. Plus vacations are a great opportunity to switch up your routine, right? Maybe get up, go for a walk in the morning, right? Go to the gym maybe, you know, like you don't have to do a fancy workout, but you know, it's the whole vibe of gyms on vacation is super cool. I love all the people walking around and they're like getting their, you know, stop at the juice bar and do their little workout. Like even if you

just do 10 minutes on the treadmill, even if you just walk to the gym and you look and you're like, oh, hey, Jim, you feel pretty good that you did that. I always, when I go on vacation, I like, I love starting my day with mimosa and having that great breakfast and the lunch and whatever. I make a point of trying to get a swim in, um, just sort of in the evening before dinner and whether it's half hour, hour, whatever I, I get in, I kind of feel really good. I'm moving my body after like eating and drinking all day. And then I kind of feel refreshed to then go to dinner, eat something, you know, come home, that type of thing. So you can absolutely enjoy your vacations,

all the yummy bites, the bits that come with it, stay on plan, you know, or do the best that you can to make choices that make you feel good, or just say, fuck it. And just not even worry about it. Right? So you have options. And then, so when you're closer to that date, see how you feel, see how you feel. See how you feel. It doesn't have to be all or nothing doesn't have to be all or nothing. It just occurred to me that the diet industry has messed up generations of women. Yeah. Then as mothers, we pass that on to our children. So double whammy of the diet industry. So sad. My mom and grandmother were just as messed up as I have been and my sister. Yeah, when you take it back, diet culture too, there was a time where like diets were cool. And we talked about them

all the time. And now like the diet industry is so like fragmented right now. There's not a lot of trust there. Diets don't work, but people still want to lose weight. So there's a lot, there's a lot, like there's actually a lot of shame on dieting right now, if you think about it. So we're adding shame on top of shame because diets don't work. If you do lose weight, everyone thinks you're taking a weight loss drug. And there's just like, there's now there's shame because of the body positivity and wanting to lose weight in the first place. You know, but what if you do want to lose weight? There is a healthy way to do that. Right? Like that's, and that's where the living method comes in. But yeah, so I've worked with so many people who are like, I want to lose weight, but

I also am mindful around my kids, you know, like there's like, you want to lose weight, but you don't want to pass this down to your children. That's the beauty of the living method. The verbiage that we use, your kids are going to see you eating. They're going to see you eating good nutrient-rich foods. They're going to see you feeling really good about the choices that you're making. Like your whole energy and vibe is going to change. You're going to be feeling better, sleeping better. You're going to be pooping better. You're going to feel in tune.

You're going to feel calm. And that's what your children are going to see. When I work with young people, and I, you know, the living method, I believe is an adult program, but I've worked with younger people in terms of one-on-one. And it's interesting, you know, they get it. They get it. Like if I just explain to them, hey, like if you don't eat, your body's going to think it needs to store fat, which is what it uses when you're not giving it food.

So if you keep not eating, your body's going to keep thinking it needs to store fat. And then they're like, oh, oh, okay. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Because they don't have that, like, they didn't grow up dieting and thinking eat less, exercise more. They're just like, they see it for what it is. They don't have the same baggage when they are younger. They don't have the same issues tied to dieting, right? That maybe their mom does or whatever. And it's just simply explaining it to them. And then yeah, you take that same child, right? And then you take them to weight watchers. You have to starve.

You have to eat less. You have to, you know, exercise more. You have to count this, count that. If you go and you weigh, you don't lose weight. You failed. You've done something wrong. You're not good enough. You know, like that has some heavy fucking shit.

That's some heavy shit. That's heavy shit. That's heavy shit. That's why I started this conversation today saying, check your vibe because it's just one, one, your history with dieting makes this very difficult. All the baggage you're bringing forward. Right. And this program makes you face that shit. Um, two, life does not make it easy for us. Life does not make it easy for us. It can be very frustrating how it's hard to find time for ourselves in our own life, to prioritize ourselves, the way our jobs are structured, the way our lives are structured. It's just, it's all a lot. People want this so

bad. You want it done yesterday. You want it done yesterday, right? The scale. Oh my gosh. Talk about frustrating, right? Talk about frustrating. I know some of you, I hear you and I see you saying like, I know fluctuations are normal. I know the scale goes up before it goes down, but it's still hard to see it, right? Like it is. There's a, there's a lot to that. So check your vibe. What's the mindset you're showing up with? Are you angry about your past dieting, but don't bring that anger into here. Reflect on why you are angry, honor the fact that you are angry, don't dismiss your feels, but don't let it stop you from doing the things that you need to do. And then when you focus on

the things that you are doing that you are proud of that make you feel good, it immediately changes your energy. Think about that. Angry, frustrated, you know, guilt, shame, like it's just, it's such a, it keeps you stuck and that energy brings you down, right? Prioritizing, proud, self-love, gratitude, making choices that make you feel good, like honoring your feels, kindness, whatever that even just saying those words, lift you up and move you forward. So you can honor the funk and the feels, right? But don't let it stop you from doing the things you need to do. And one way that you can kind of support yourself in that is, is start looking at the things that you are doing really well. Like maybe the scale isn't moving for you and that's frustrated, right? But you are sleeping better. You are feeling a lot leaner. You have

more energy. You feel good about the choices that you're making, right? So that, that energy will lift you up. Even just saying those words out loud to yourself and then that'll keep you moving forward. That'll keep you moving forward. Feeling so good. I've added daily walks to my routine and I'm so proud of myself. Exactly this, that is a whole vibe. That's a whole vibe. Listen, I want this, especially if you're watching this in or listening in the Facebook support group right now, this is not about toxic positivity. It's not trying to trick ourselves. It's not about only focusing on the positive. There are times I think it's so important to recognize and honor your feels like the frustration, like the whatever, whatever that whatever that is, and then be like, Okay, why am I feeling like

this? What's the roots of this feeling? Where does that come from? You know, and then that gives you the opportunity to be self-aware and to choose differently and to retrain your thoughts and your feelings, you know? So, so this is a place where you can do that. If you're having a down day, we are, we're here for you. I see people coming in, right? Like I'm so, um, like I'm so disappointed and I'm, you know, like it's, it's so degrading and it's so like those words, I'm like, oh my gosh, here you are showing up for yourself and doing all these amazing things. And it's just not reflective. Like it's not matching. Like you're, you're, you're, you're using these really extreme words, like so hard on yourself, you know, and this is where focusing on those things that you are doing

can like change that energy almost instantly, which can, it can make or break some people, right? It's the difference between, you know, showing up and following through and deciding this isn't for you, right? I mean, there's nothing wrong with this time. Sometimes I say to people, maybe this isn't the right program for you. Maybe it's not the right time. I think there's never a good time. This program is great for everybody. But you know, sometimes with where you're at and how you're feeling, there's nothing wrong with that either. Hi, Dot. Good morning. Day 10 is my day. I looked back at my journal and I seem to be up and down all the first week, then day 10 down. Every time it's different. Yeah, this time 1.8, but I'm okay with this. It's 1.8 less than last week. Yeah, so you'll hear us

talk a lot about returning members. The way the living method is structured is by 91 day programs, maybe someone needs one, someone else needs 10. We structure it in a way where you start and then you end, which is like so good for your soul. Every time you do that, it is expected that you are going to do as many rounds of the program as needed until you reach your goal. But every time you do the program, it's going to work just as well in terms of helping you reach your goal. But every time you do the program, it's going to work just as well in terms of helping you reach your goal. But it can be a different experience because your body is different physically, you're different mentally, maybe you lost really quickly your first time, this time your body's focused more on change. It's really cool. That's why we talk fresh eyes,

right? Fresh eyes is all about taking a look at each program like it's fresh and new, meeting yourself where you are at, really being in tune with what you need to do this time and what's going on in your life this time as well, assessing your situation, not just every single day, which is really cool, but every time you start a new program and process. This was the topic I was waiting for. My body is all over the place, one day up, one day down, trying to trust the process and have a hard time going to the bathroom. Okay, let's break this down.

So when you make changes in your diet, you're going to notice that reflected in your bowel movements. I don't know if anyone's ever had a baby. You change your kid's food. You know it's reflected in your bowel movements. I don't know if anyone's ever had a baby, you change your kid's food, you know, it's reflected in their bowel movements, you are no different. And then people are like, wow, I'm eating all this, all these vegetables, all these leafy greens. And yeah, so sometimes, so first of all, when you're following the program, it's normal to have bouts of constipation. And it's normal to have loose bowel movements, especially when the scale is moving. Now, obviously, if you're sick, you have food poisoning, you're having loose bowel movements, it's affecting your energy, you don't feel well, obviously, that is not a result of following the program eating good nutrient rich foods, right. But it's normal for your bowel movements to be

all over the place. For example, we have people who maybe you go the bathroom, you go number two, like once a week, right? You're going to see massive improvements in your bowel movements because the program is going to put massive focus on your digestive system and your microbiome. We're going to get in. Yes, we're going to have those conversations. Say you're a person who goes once every couple of days, then all of a sudden, maybe you're not going for a few days. And then all of a sudden when your bowel movements come, what I call back online, you start going every other day, or now you start going every day, right? And then say you're the kind of person who goes every day, but only after you have a coffee in the morning or something to

eat. That's not, that's not regular. That's like induced bowel movements. So maybe you have a coffee in the morning or something to eat. That's not regular. That's like induced bowel movements. So maybe you have a bout of constipation. And then what happens is your bowel movements come again, what I call back online, and maybe then you start going two to three times a day. And so this is what I mean by your body is taking the resources and is addressing and repairing and rebuilding and making change internally. And what some of you think is regular is not really regular in the most healthiest of ways, the most optimal ways, right? And so when your body is making change, it's making change internally. And that can be reflected in your bowel movements. So we have a whole poo protocol. So we have a

whole post on bowel movements. I wish I had my book. Uh, I have a whole post on bowel movements. You can add in psyllium fiber, taking probiotics and prebiotics can help. There's trifalic, there's things that you can add in. So in the beginning, if you're noticing constipation, you can definitely take something. Sometimes it's a backlog where it's the change in your foods. And then once you have that, once you, your bowel movements come back, you, you notice you become more regular and then you're fine. So that is totally normal. That is totally normal because of the changes that you're making in the diet. In terms of your weight going up and down, fucking get used to it. Get used to it. There are so many reasons why your weight can be up and will be up that have nothing to do with gaining weight. You're not going to gain weight while following

the program. And your weight up can be a sign that it's on the way down. This is why it's so important to invest in reading the scale post and reading these types of posts that are helping you get that deeper level of understanding. Otherwise, you're just going to make yourself crazy. And it's because you're weighing every single day that you're picking up on those fluctuations, whereas other diets, you probably just weighed in once a week. And to me, weighing in once a week doesn't tell you anything because your weight can be up when it's actually down. And so maybe all week long, you are doing what you need to do, your weight starts dropping. But the day before you are about to weigh yourself, you go to the

gym, you do a workout, your muscles are sore, you have a crappy sleep, you have salty foods, you didn't drink enough water. None of those are going to cause you to gain weight, but you wake up the next day and the scale is up. And then you think, Oh my god, this didn't work for me, right? I've gone and gained weight instead of losing weight. This program doesn't work. Meanwhile, you were dropping all week long. It's just that you didn't see that or you were dropping all week long. And then sometimes when we hit our lowest low, our weight goes back up again, right? Before it drops back down to that new low. And so it's really important to understand those fluctuations on the scale. They will make you crazy, but it is what it is. You are always going to have fluctuations because you're going

to have times where you have crappy sleep, where you have salty food, where you don't drink enough water, where your body is sore, maybe not from going to the gym, but maybe go from gardening and stuff, right? So it's really important to understand the scale and truly how to use it as a tool. And then also understand when it comes to those graphs, you will never see someone with a straight line down. You will never see that unless it is someone who has a lot of weight to lose. We once had a member lose 80 pounds doing the program. So you times 80 pounds, time 90, not times, but 80 pounds in 91

days, it's going to seem like they have a big drop down. But then their next program, they might not lose a lot of weight at all because their body is going to spend an equal amount of time solidifying the width that they have lost, right? So fluctuations are so normal on the scale. You will get to pick up on your pattern, what's normal for you. Does your weight go up right before it drops? And then pay attention to how you feel when that's happening, right? Do you have that drop, drop, drop, and then you see that weight go back up, and maybe it stays there for a bit before it drops back down to that new low,

and then drops again, right? So this way, I love the scale. I love the scale as a tool. I also love that the scale can bring up all sorts of feels, because it's just your issues right in your face. It's like, these are your fields. These are your issues. These are your associations. This is it. You want to work through this to get to a place where you are calm around food physically and mentally. These are the things that you need to work through. So I love the scale for that reason, but man, it can make us frustrated for sure. It can be very frustrating. Oh my goodness.

Okay. Let me see if I can get to, I feel like when I want something, I go back to one of the podcasts and just listen to it. Okay. Let me end on that note. So all of our lives live in the group get flipped over and turned into podcasts that are available over on our Livvy method podcast. We also have, I also have my way in with Gina podcast, which is really cool. This is like a different podcast. I'm still

talking about weight loss. It allows me to talk about a lot more things. I also have some great guests that are joining me. Um, I have one coming out with Cynthia Loyst and Josie Dye coming out, I think the end of this week where I had a great conversation with those ladies. I've talked about the keto diet. I'm going to talk about intermittent fasting. So that's on my Way in Regina podcast, but all of the lives are available as podcasts on our Livi method podcast. It's available on all podcast platforms. And if you're using the app, it will link you right to the Facebook live, but also to the podcast after, um, we throw it up on the podcast, which is really cool. Let me remind you, if you didn't, I didn't get a chance to answer your question. Please do not stop asking because

I think it just creates the vibe and the engagement behind these lives. But if you want your question answered, just pop it over on the question of the day page. My team will answer it over there. Start using the app. If you're not using the app, it is so super cool. You won't be disappointed. Honestly, we collect data at the end of the program and the people that show up and are weighing themselves each day and are using our living method app tend to stick around longer and lose more weight. It's all about setting yourself up for success. It's all about collecting data, not me collecting your data because we have it locked down.

It's private. We pay lawyers tons of money. We can't access your information. This is about you collecting data about the choices that you're making and how you are feeling and how that is affecting the results that you are seeing. So it's so super cool. Also that amazing Livy AI feature that's in there. That's my mom. That's my mom and I, when we, for those of you seeing when we were in Paris, when I took my mom to Rome, we stopped in Paris for a couple of days. That's my mom. Hi, mom, if you're watching and listening. Okay. Have an amazing day, everyone. I'll be back tomorrow. Dr. Beverly David,

we're going to get into diet dialogue, diet culture. We're not going to talk about diet culture. We're going to talk about your experience with it. We're going to talk about your history with past diets. We're going to talk about the feels that you're having, how to keep showing up, how to not give up, how to work past all of those work through and past all of those feels. So you can not only lose your weight in a healthy way physically, but also mentally. Have an amazing day, everyone. And I'll catch up with you later. Bye.