The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 12 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 12, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:How are you going to show up for yourself this weekend?Introducing the Livy Method Journal – There is science behind journalingRemember to be kind to yourself – How are you talking to yourself?Signs that your weight is about to changeTake a photo of your journal and tag us – check out our social pagesDetails about the Livy Method journalThere is no such thing as "way too long" on The Livy Method – it is going to take the time it takesCreating a vision for yourself – How do you want to feel in the next year?How does it feel when you make choices that fall in line with your goals?Updates on the Menopause CompanionLet’s discuss all the different conditions that can be affected by hormonesThere are so many ways we use foodThe scale is going to fluctuate – Why is the scale bouncing up and down?You can mindlessly do other things than eatingShow up every day like you’re expecting the scale to move – The scale is a toolTips for handling celebratory days and mealsWe have a recipe for Chaffles – Sprouted Love is a great productThe Livy Method is different – it’s not a quick fix, if you quit now, then what?We are just getting started around here – there’s so much more to comeThank you to everyone who asks questions or makes statements, we appreciate youTo learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams from my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on Acast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple,

and Amazon Music. It is day 12 of the program. It is Friday. How are you feeling about your week? How do you feel rolling into the weekend? Remember, there's nothing you can do in a weekend that can't be undone by getting right back at it. But with that said, before you find yourself in the midst of your weekend with your hand in the chip bag, it's a great idea to take a step back today and be like, how am I going to navigate this weekend? How am I going to want to feel on Monday? The most important thing is do not blow off your whole day or your whole weekend just because of a

few bites of bits here and there that is bound to happen. Try to follow the plan the best you possibly can. If you have any big events, do not not eat all day in anticipation. That is the worst thing that you can do. Going all day long without eating and then overeating when you do eat and then not eating the next day. That just is a recipe for sending the message to your body that it needs this stored fat. When what we're trying to do right now is convince the body that you do not need it. It's okay if your foods are slightly off on the weekend because it's the weekend when your routine tends to be different than your weekly routine. So don't sweat it. Good morning. Got my journal last night. So excited to start using it today. I hope you love it. I hope you all love it. Obviously, I didn't get it out in time for the start of the

program, but it didn't stop me from getting it out. I really just want it to be something that you use that is effective, that looks nice, that feels nice, that's a great value. We try to keep the price as low as it can go with Amazon, the way we print it. It goes in line with the program. It guides you through. So if you have the app, do you need the journal? No, you don't. You can do all the same things in the app that you can do in the journal. I just, I am an old school. Like if you saw, if you saw my desk right now, like literally, if you saw my desk under my desk, there's paper everywhere. In fact, and I want to talk to Dr. Dina Karaschafer about this next time I speak to her, there is science behind writing, the connection between writing

out your thoughts and not only your ability to remember, but to really bring it to the forefront of your minds. I mean, the app does that too. Of course, establishing a routine does that too. If you're not using the app or the journal and just checking into the group each day, making a habit of watching that check-in video brings the process to the forefront of your mind. But there is science behind journaling. And I was just, I looked at a lot of journals. I hate when there's not a lot of space to write, but then I was like, people who would like to write a lot probably have their own kind of journals where it's just kind of, you know, written pages for journaling. And so this is what I'm starting with. I think it came out beautifully. It has a nice look and feel. There's a lot to do, but I want to hear from you. So I, in the next couple

of weeks, so I'm going to give you some time to use it. And then the next couple of weeks, I will do a shout out in the group. And if you wouldn't mind sharing your thoughts, things that you would like to change, see added and whatnot. My plan is to do a new journal as a keepsake for each program. Now, maybe this is your one and done program. That's great. I love that for you. Most people will have to come back. I think this is great for that fresh start, that reset, and also just to keep a keepsake from your journey because you're going to be working really hard on the things that you're working through. There's also a place for measurements in here.

I am working on getting that in the app, but it's not quite there yet. Been here for a while. This time around, my main goal is to be kind to myself and show up every day. Sometimes my tank is full and other days I'm running on empty. Tracy, I hear you.

So being kind to myself is top priority this time. I will get there finally and forever. Have a great weekend. I like to listen to the lives again on the weekends. I always catch something that helps. Definitely check out that conversation that we had not only with Dr. Dina Karaschafer on Tuesday, but Dr. Beverly on Thursday. I do believe that kindness can be the key. Being kind to yourself, giving yourself grace, understanding, patience. It can be a game changer and it can make the difference between you following through and being a success story and just dropping out, bailing on the program and your goals and your goals.

It's not an easy thing to do. It's not an easy thing to do. I like the kind of tip of when you're getting on the scale every morning and the things that you're saying to yourself, imagine if your best friend or your mom or your daughter was beside you and they were also on their scale, would you say the things you are saying to yourself to them? The things that you say, whether you say them out loud or to yourself, you believe. They've studied this and it's no different whether you're saying it to someone else or to yourself. It's resonating with you.

It's impacting you. It's affecting you. So you really do want to be mindful of how you are communicating, not only about the program to somebody else and how you are showing up and doing that, but also more importantly to yourself. The things that you say and how you say them to yourself really matter. You'll notice I'm very cognizant, although I do swear a lot. Although I do guilty of swearing a lot. I am really mindful when it comes to diet dialogue.

You will notice I say foods are not good and bad. I don't talk about moderating. I don't talk about controlling. I don't even talk about willpower. I don't talk about any of those things. I don't really think they have a place, especially in when it comes to weight loss. I don't do fear mongering. I'm really mindful of the words that I choose. I believe that you can say anything as long as you say it with love. So how you communicate with yourself, I mean, that can be a lot of work for some people. But man, it can be a game changer. It can be a great game changer.

My scale is on a downward trail, uh, back to lots of pee breaks and no late night cravings starting to feel great again. Oh, I love that. I love that. So remember there are signs that your, your weight is about to change. So those of you who are like, ah, I'm doing all the things you can look at for signs. One of them that it's not such a great, you know, so much fun, but it's your, is your weight being up. So it's normal for weight to go up before it drops. We're going to get into showing, so showing more examples of the scale. And it's so normal to see an up before it drops as the body's like retaining water to helping to detox and release the fat. So that's like a tell, unless of course you like, whenever your

weight is up, you should be like, okay, I'm doing all the things. Is there any other reason why my weight is up? Is my body sore from a workout? How is my sleep? How's my water been? Did I have any salty foods? And if you really can't find any reasons as to why other reasons why the scale might be up, chances are, if you're doing all the things, the scale is up because it's about to drop. So your scale being up is one, being extra hungry, heading into the evening, even though you've eaten all your meals and snacks and you've eaten them to satisfaction, that's a sign. Getting up around that three or four o'clock time in the morning, also a sign. Feeling bloated and just kind of like, wow, for someone who's eating so healthy and making all these changes, I feel bloated and gross and just not

great. And also water not being appealing. So if you're like humming along and you're getting your water in, then all of a sudden your water's just not appealing. Those can all be signs that your weight is about to drop. Still normal at this point for your weight not to drop. Still normal at this point. So don't be stressing about that. Although I know you still will be stressing. Still normal. Still normal. Not worried about you. Not concerned about you. As long as you are doing the things that you need to do, your weight is going to move. Your weight is going to move. I have started journaling and love the insight it gives. Oh yeah, I love that. I would definitely want a new journal every program, right? Yeah. So many of you tag me if you're on Instagram or Facebook, take a photo of your journal, tag me in it. I love to see it. If you're not following

us on our social media accounts, believe it or not, some people sign up and don't even know we have them. We don't post program information, but we do post complimentary information, motivation, insight into the program and the process over there. It's also a great way to connect with the community. So I have my Gina Livy Instagram and Facebook page, but we also have a Livy Loser Instagram page. It's called Livy Losers and it's all community driven content. So we, we reshare what our members are posting and that's also a great place to connect with

other members as well. If you're wondering where the loser thing came from, just quickly, because I know some people are like, what? So years ago, when I first started this program, I didn't really have a name for it. So I enlisted the members and said, hey, what should we call this thing? And there were lots of names that came up and someone said Livvy Method and that kind of stuck. I was not a fan of it to begin with. I was just like, what? I don't know. And then someone said, yeah, we call it the Livvy Method and we'll call ourselves Livvy Losers. And that was something that was started by members and it just kind of took off. I personally love it because I've always felt not cool. I've always felt like a loser

and this is our opportunity to be cool and we do want to lose. So it's kind of just our fun, uh, wordplay on that. So that that's where that comes from. If you're wondering, is the journal set so that we can enter our weight meals, et cetera, on the app still, and write about our day in the journal. So we did include when we did a poster for the journal, we did include, um, sort of what it looks like. There is space, for example, I can show you now if you're watching, to set intentions, to record exercise, to make notes about the foods that you are eating. It has a place, a midday check-in. How are you doing with today's intentions? Are you on track? There's an evening reflections. What did you do today to

support your body and its needs? Also the questions that are being asked on the end of day reflection post in the group. So those of you who've been using the daily check-in for your intentions and then popping back in at night and using the end of day reflections post. So you'll notice the questions posed on the end of day reflections in the group are the same questions that we pose as, as end of day reflections in the group are the same questions that we pose as, as end of day reflections in the journal as well, which is really cool, which is really cool. Mike, weekend is hard on program. Something about in my comfort zone where I just eat off plan. Okay. I love weekends, but just want time, Keep it together. Just want, just want to keep

it together. Even though I've been here way too long, just something about Friday. Anyone else feel this? There's nothing, there's, there's no such thing as way too long. There's no, there's no such thing as way too long. So I do got to say that because what else are you going to do in, in the living method? Yes, we are working towards losing weight. Okay. But we're also making space for ourselves in our lives. We're learning to strengthen our mind body connection. We're learning to, to, to improve our relationship with self. We are prioritizing ourselves. We are prioritizing eating nutrient-rich foods that nourishes our body. We are being mindful to drink enough water to be hydrated. We are going to be focusing on managing our stress and our sleep. It's so cool the way all the things we do on the program really just factor into you looking and

feeling your best and helping you be as healthy as possible. So no such thing as too long, but I feel you. There's a couple of things. I think the way society, like we've ingrained that weekends are like party time, free time, our time, relax time. It may be the way that you're looking at the program, especially if you're looking at the guidelines as a set of rules you have to follow or like work. And then you're just like, I'm working hard all week. Like, I just want to take a break from all of this. I want to chill.

But then if you took a break from it and you chilled, and let's say you just ate everything you wanted to eat and you didn't move your body, you wouldn't really feel great. Right? So it could be the way that you're framing it and you're being triggered. It could be that, that trigger. I mean, listen, who doesn't love a weekend, you know? So I think that there is something to be said. Like I would maybe put together a list of what you're, what, so I think that there is something to be said. Um, like I would maybe put together a list of what you're, what, what you want your weekends to look like, how you want to feel, you know, like, are you going to be the kind of person who gets up early and goes for a walk or run, then comes back and makes a coffee and then reads your morning newspaper or journals, or maybe you want to be the kind of person who sleeps in, man, I love sleeping in. You sleep in, you take your time,

maybe you go make some tea, you drink your tea in bed, you know, like what, what the, in your, in your, like designing your life. Like, so your best life to me, your best life to me is today because you woke up and you are alive, you know, but you are designing and creating the life of your dreams. I think this is really key for also weight and weight loss goals. Like let's, let's, let's envision a year from now, right? A year from now. So it's next fall, right? A year from now. So it's next fall, right? How was your summer?

You know, were you wearing your short shorts? You know, were you wearing the bathing suit at the pool? Did you travel? Were you gardening, right? How do you feel? How do you feel in your body? What's your morning routine? Like, what do you want your How do you feel in your body? What's your morning routine? What do you want

your life to look like? Like me, I want to feel energized when I wake up. I want to be excited about my day. I want to get up. I want to work out. Maybe it's not going to be running, not going to be running, but maybe it's some yoga and some stretching. Obviously, I'll do some resistance training and whatnot. Grab in my coffee or my tea. I would like to get off coffee. Now I'm on decaf. I'm drinking a big decaf right now.

So I'm not doing caffeine. So I'm off caffeine, but not coffee. I'd like to switch to like a tea, do some meditation, feel calm, not like frenetic. And I got a million things to do. I like to show up in all my business meetings, just like feeling like super grounded and confident and calm. I'd like to be able to handle hard things better than I've handled them in the past. I want to go into my closet and pull out all my clothes and have them just fit, like just and be confident in all of them. More than that, I would like my closet to be nice and

calm. I've got a lot of stuff in there. I don't wear, it's chaotic. I'm just like sifting through stuff. How grateful am I to have a closet full of, you know, beautiful clothes, but I don't wear, it's chaotic. I'm just like sifting through stuff. How grateful am I to have a closet full of, you know, beautiful clothes, but I don't wear half of them half the time. So, you know, like I have a vision for how I want to feel, how I want to show up in my life, you know, so maybe like a mini version of that, um, on weekends, maybe, I don't know, so maybe like a mini version of that on weekends, maybe. I don't know. Maybe that was too deep. We all want a fucking break from our lives. Listen, life, let me just also break this down. Life is fucking stressful.

We're doing the daily grind, day in, day out. Life is not making it easy for us. So if, you know, we want to have some ice cream or you want to have whatever that is, like what I love about the living method is you can do that. You can have your glass of wine, you can have some chips. I just want you to get to a place where you have the chips and you enjoy them and you're not feeling guilty about them afterwards or punishing yourself the next day. I want you to get to a place where you can have a small bowl of chips and enjoy that and not feel like you need to eat the whole bag and then feel guilty about the bag. Right. Um, I mean, that's why I love that saying there's nothing you could do on the

weekend. Um, that can't be undone by just getting right back at it. We don't go back. We don't repeat steps. There's no good. There's no bad. There's no right. There's no wrong. Right. Just keep moving forward. Ate all of my meals and snacks yesterday and wasn't hungry, but got offered food and client fine and kindly declined. And they said, oh, it's going to be gone tomorrow. I said, that's okay. It's okay. I felt the pressure, but I'm so glad. I said, no, yeah. Right. And so really, really like take moments. And I love that you shared this, take moments where you like, what, like what, what was that thought process, you know, and you said no. And what did that feel like? Oh, I did feel a little, I felt like, Ooh, I felt the pressure. Did I feel a little FOMO? Did I feel like, what did I feel?

And you sat in that uncomfortableness of pressure or FOMO or whatever that is. And you made a choice that today feels really good for you. So that's the difference of like instinct gratification, that dopamine hit of having that donut or whatever that thing is. Yeah, you get that dopamine hit. It's not actually having the thing. It's anticipating having the thing. And then you have the thing and then you're left with these feels where when you're making choices that fall in line with your goals, sometimes you have to wait a bit for that. It's like delayed satisfaction, but it's worth it because this is this today. What you've learned is that you can do this. You're probably feeling confident and you're probably feeling like calm and pretty like, yeah, I'm really happy that I made that decision. It can be really difficult

in the moment. You know, I share, I have a hard time with wine and stuff. I love drinking wine. I talked about it the other night. Some of you asked me why I can't drink wine or, uh, and not drinking wine. I have learned that alcohol just does not, um, it doesn't sit well with me. Um, it makes me feel really bloated. It, it, it upsets my stomach. Also, I feel pretty like depressed the next day. Um, and, and the, I can feel the effects of it for a couple days. That doesn't mean that I won't still enjoy a glass of wine or a drink here and there. But I also do have a tendency to, when I do have a glass of wine, drink the whole bottle. I drink the whole bottle. And I use it as, I realized I really used it as a coping mechanism in the last couple of years.

And so I want to get to a place where I can enjoy it again and then physically be strong enough, like really work on my digestive system. I'm really working on getting that up. My hormones right now are a little bit out of whack or a lot and alcohol just, yeah, it doesn't really work. Also my sleep is not great And it really interrupts my sleep. So I can have it. I'm choosing not but listen, that does it still it's it's still very difficult in the moment to say no, do you feel that pressure? And all of that. So for a variety of reasons, it can be very difficult to say no to things, especially when it comes to food or alcoholic beverages and whatnot. But it really but here's what I'm really holding on to. it can be very difficult to say no to things, especially when it comes to food or alcoholic beverages and whatnot. But here's what I'm really holding on to is the feeling the next day when I've

said no, I reflect back on the great time that I had regardless, on the yummy food that I ate regardless. And I really indulge in how I feel that day. I am so proud of myself. Um, I feel really good. I'm like, Oh, I'm so glad. So this is, then this is the same for nighttime snacking. So whether you have a habit of, um, like if you have a habit of nighttime snacking, uh, and you're used to eating at night, you're having a hard time with that. If you can just do what you can do to, I mean, go for a walk, read a book, drink some tea,

go to bed early. If you can just sit in that uncomfortableness of like, oh, this sucks. I really want to snack. I really want to eat, but I'm just, I'm not going to. After a couple of days, if you really pay attention to how you feel the next day and really pay attention to how you're sleeping and like that becomes a really strong motivator. Once you make that connection of, ah, man, when I don't snack at night, I have the best sleep. When I don't snack at night, I wake up and I feel like I'm making gains. I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel leaner. I have more energy.

So it's really catching the feels before, during, and after we're making these choices to really understand what's working for you and what's not working for you, right? Good morning from Barry. Hi, Connie. what's working for you and what's not working for you, right? Good morning from Barry. Hi, Connie. Loving the program so far, how the info is presented, and knowing I've got so much support. Any update on the menopause companion program? Yes. So I'm so excited. I'll tell you a little bit about it. And we are going to talk about, you saw my post today talking about hormones and menopause. So it's not like we're going to not talk about it here in the weight loss program. It's just, it's such a big conversation. I literally could call this the menopause diet. I mean, the program also works well for anyone who's not in menopause. It works well for people who are younger, people

who are older. It works well for men. It works well for everybody. You're human, you got a body, it works well for you. I could literally call it the menopause diet, I'm sure. Maybe I will do a version of the Living Method, but it really would be the same program. And we're going to talk about why it's so beneficial when you're dealing with perimenopause, menopause, even postmenopause, doing the program. It's so much of that is built in. So the program's always worked really well for any hormonal issues, whether it's thyroid, insulin, whatever that is. But when we're talking specific about perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, it's a bigger conversation. And so I'm going to actually be taking a lot of conversations

outside of the program and doing kind of add-ons or companions for those who are interested. So what I'm thinking of doing is starting a Facebook group, similar, where we can gather as a community. It's not going to be the same kind of Q&A type of format because this is not, I'm staying in my lane with this, but we are going to talk about how the program is beneficial. Like how eating nuts and seeds can be beneficial in menopause, right? What types of fruits to eat when you're in menopause? Like we're going to go down kind of those types of conversations. We're going to talk about menopause and we're going to relate it to the program and your weight loss journey, but we're going to talk about menopause and we're going to relate it to the program and your weight loss journey. But we're also going to go and have conversations on signs and symptoms.

We're going to talk about testing. We're going to talk about treatments. We're going to talk about hormonal therapies. We're going to talk about all of that in the program. We'll talk about exercise, basically going to cover all of it. We're going to do like what we do in the living method with our guest experts, but make it menopause specific. And so we're going to have a Facebook support group where you can, you know, where we can support our community. We are going to have posts that will go along with the conversation. And then we're also going to have guest experts who are going to join us and guide us. So there will be specific modules and things that will be focused on. So we will have conversations.

There will be information that you will receive that you can read over that will be posted in the group and will be emailed to you as well. I'm thinking of opening up registration for it on the 30th. So yeah, so that's what I got. I don't have like the particulars, but I've had this in my mind for a while to go down that rabbit hole, like really just kind of really get into the information and see where it takes us. So yeah, so it's happening. I can tell you registration is going to open on the 30th. Yeah, that's what I'll tell you for now. The registration is going to open on the 30th. So that's what I have. But you will notice in the actual weight loss program, we are going to be

talking about hormones as well. Did you guys see those posts? Those posts are new. I've been working on those for you. I thought, you know, we talk about some of the health issues that people deal with. So in the group today, there's a post on diabetes. There's a post on thyroid, PCOS, hormones, menopause. I do have another one. I'm working on insulin resistance. I really shied away from talking about insulin and insulin resistance the last year and a bit because it was really a big part of the program. But because it became so mainstream, everyone was talking about insulin resistance in really kind of flippant ways, kind of like just clickbaity and really started to fall under the pseudoscience side of things. And so now I love that there's a lot of research to actually back up insulin

resistance. It is a real thing and can be, you know, an underlying issue, especially in PCOS, obviously clearly with hormonal issues, menopause and whatnot. Um, so I'm working on a post for that, uh, as well, kind of diving into those conversations. So I hope you enjoy those. I hope you enjoy those. Every day I look in the mirror and tell myself all the positive things to start my day. You're beautiful. You're worthy. You're enough. You're amazing. You're rocking this. Love you, beautiful. Have a good day. Oh, I love that. I love that because you will start to believe the things that you are thinking and saying. You'll start to believe them. You'll start to believe them. Down five pounds. Going to treat myself to a pedicure. Margaret, I love that. Good for you. Good for you. There's nothing wrong with

treating yourselves as long as you enjoy the treat and you don't punish yourself for it afterwards. I mean, this is where food is complicated and dieting is complicated because we do use food for so many things. We use it to treat ourselves. We use it to console ourselves. We use it to show love. We use it to connect and bond. We use it to celebrate. So what we want to do in the program is really differentiate between our body's actual needs and our wants and the way we've connected with food and the way we use it to cope our relationship with food and kind of create distance from that so we can reconnect for lack of a better word in more positive ways, in more positive ways. Going up and down, staying within one pound of the scale,

not sure what's happening, but really enjoying the process. So Ingrid, this is totally normal where the scale goes up and down, up and down, up and down. Now, what you need to typically do is be as consistent as you possibly can and bump up your water slightly. Now, we're going to start talking next week about maximizing and all the other things that you can do, like make sure you're getting a good night's sleep, make sure you're managing your stress, moving your body and all those things.

But the scale bouncing up and down can also be another sign that your body is trying to detox, release fats, but it's retaining water in order to do so. So usually just bump up that water slightly and that can be enough to get that scale moving. I mean, it could be other things. It could be one day your weight is up because you had salty food, then it came back down. The next day your weight is up because you've been working out, your muscles are sore, then it came back down. But nine times out of 10, and I've been doing this long enough, when someone scales going up and down, up and down, and you are feeling the effects of detox,

like you feel like, and you're doing all the things, you're like, my weight should be dropping what's going on. Usually just bumping up the water slightly. And obviously bumping up the water is not like the be all end all fix to everything, but the body needs to be hydrated enough for it to release fat. And so usually that does the trick. So try bumping your water up a little bit. Something frustrating happened yesterday afternoon that made a great day end on a crappy note. It would have been easy to not be true to my journey and snack on junk. Instead, hubby and I watched an action movie to channel all the fields. Oh, I love that. I love death and destruction,

not real life. I cannot watch like law and order. I can't watch anything real life, nothing real life. But man, I can watch the goriest death and destruction movie on the planet as long as it is like sci-fi or like fantasy or whatever it is. I always, like it calms me down. I sleep the best whenever I'm watching like a really gory, actiony, end of the world, sci-fi, death and destruction. I feel you on this. I feel you on this. That is like, so I love this. This is shifting your brain. This is shifting your brain, right? That coping mechanism, I've had a rough day. I want a dopamine hit. I deserve, I want to, because you, you cannot eat and think at the same time. So it might just be, you want, you just want mindlessness. I want to not think about all the things that I'm thinking about, or I want to not think about all the things that I need to

think about. I just want to mindlessly and eating just works so well with that. So you can mindlessly, and eating just works so well with that. So you can mindlessly do other things. You can mindlessly do other things that won't result in you feeling horrible about the choices that you make. I have all those signs, not gaining, but slower than I'd like, hungry, sore muscles, eating all the things, drinking my water, so I'm expecting a big loss once my muscles repair. Yes, and you should. You should expect to lose weight. You should show up every single day. Like you're expecting the scale to move, even though it's not going to move every day. It's not going to move every day, but you want to show up like you're expecting it to every day. You want to understand again, the scale weighing yourself every day is a tool along with knowing the choices that you're making and how you are feeling and really

paying attention to how your body's responding. And so that scale is just a part of it. And so you will get to learn, oh, scale is up. How am I feeling? Like what's going on, right? Oh, looks like detox, feels like detox. Let me support the body in detox, which we have a post coming up next week talking about once that scale starts to move, how to keep it moving. So continue to do all the things you need to do, right? So really understanding what weight loss looks like on the scale and feels like to you and really picking up on your body's patterns, patterns of behavior. So you can better capitalize on that. Rosh Hashanah is coming company for days and serving a big holiday meal. Very hard on me because of my physical issues, ideas on how to navigate this.

So one day is not going to stop you from reaching your goals. You literally could eat all the things. One weekend is not going to stop you from reaching your goals. A week away on vacation, eating, drinking, all of the things is not going to stop you from reaching your goals. In fact, you cannot even gain weight that quickly. It's much more complicated than you understand or most people understand to take the foods that you are eating and have your body convert them into fat. Though with that said, the scale does fluctuate and can go up, usually due to a backlog of food, salty foods, and the inflammation that can result from eating processed foods. So I don't see any reason why you can't, and I'm sure you are preparing a beautiful home cooked meal, or maybe you're

ordering in, I don't know, but I'm assuming you're, and there's that eating all that delicious home cooked food is not going to cause you to gain weight, although it may cause the scale to go up for the next couple of days after. It's not going to cause you to gain weight. Also, there is no reason why you can't consume this food mindfully. Enjoy it. Enjoy making it. Enjoy tasting it.

Enjoy eating it without having to overindulge in it either. Now, maybe there are some cultural sweet treats that go along with it. And maybe you just have a couple of them rather than eating all of them, right? Like there is middle ground. It's not all black and white. There is a whole gray area there. So you can focus on getting your height. This is what I love about the living method because it really suits everybody's needs. You can start your day with your, I don't know if it's an all day eating thing or it's a later in the afternoon, evening thing. Just try to make choices that you can that fall in line with your goals. Try to make sure you're keeping up with your water intake. For example, try to prioritize that protein in at breakfast.

Try to get some leafy greens in along the way. So it's not these celebratory days or days that we're observing that are associated with food. It's not the holidays. It's not, it's not Thanksgiving. It's not Christmas. It's not Halloween. It's not, it's not Valentine's day. It's not those days. It's the day to day. It's the day to day. That's going to really make a difference for you. So, um, you got this. Why don't you take a minute and be like, so this is going to be part of your life, right? Like what are the joyful, like, obviously this brings you joy, really focus on how you can make it a more joyful experience, really indulge in making the food with love.

For example, taking time to eat the food, like taking a minute, um, to be grateful, whether that's through prayer or just gratitude before you eat your food, like taking a minute to be grateful, whether that's through prayer or just gratitude before you eat your food, chewing your food, really making an effort to be in the moment and taste the food and enjoy the food, right? Smell the food, taking breaks from eating the food and just looking around your table of your beautiful friends and family, everyone talking and being together and absorbing the atmosphere and environments that you're consuming your foods. You know, there's, there's a lot more to it than just eating it and stuffing our faces

and feeling horrible after, right? Like, I think there's a way, and that's all part of that reconnecting because it's going to come along next year and next year and the year that, right? You don't want it to be something that's causing you stress. This is a way to reconnect with foods. And I don't want to say more positive ways. There's no positive or negative. But reconnect in a different way.

Reconnect in a different way. That serves you. That serves you, you know? That serves you better. That serves you better. Chaffles. Oh, I'm making chaffles. So we have a chaffle recipe. It's, it's like waffles. They're chaffles. I believe it's in the, in the app that we'll be introducing. So this is sort of, we have a great product around here that we love called Sprouted Love that was created by one of our members who was also on our team as well, Michelle Pfeiffer. Interestingly enough, the husband of Andrew Pfeiffer, who did that really fun video on water,

he's an oncologist and he did that water about water for us, water, the video on water for us. So she sells this great product called Sprouted Love. So we've just come to love it around here and she has done some recipes for us and the chaffle is one of them. If you want to search her up on Instagram or online, it's Sprouted Love is the name of her company. And it's like chia seeds, hemp, like it's a bunch of sprouted grains. It used to just be available

online. Now she's in stores. Very similar to like adding hemp hearts or buckwheat, chia seeds, mix, that type of thing. There are other versions out there, but we love her and we love her products, Sprouted Love. So that was one of the recipes that she made. She was like a whiz. We're going to have her on. She's really great. She's a whiz in the kitchen and she comes up with a lot of really simple breakfast ideas and ways of making your food choices nutrient rich. I think we actually have a segment with her on my YouTube page. We went and did a segment with her last year. It's available on our YouTube page if We went and did a segment with her last year. It's available

on our YouTube page. So if you're looking for breakfast ideas, we can link that. Each week, we're going to be rolling out some breakfast, some meal ideas for you, some recipes each week. But also remember, we do have them all stored in our app as well. Just scrolling down, see if I can get to a couple. It's been two weeks and I haven't lost any weight. Going to give it one more week than try something else. Okay. You might as well just quit now. I'm just going to be real honest. I always lose weight the first week of a new plan. Okay, Nancy, let's have a conversation. I love that you shared this. And how has that worked out for you? Losing that weight in the first week of all those plans. How's that worked out for you, losing that weight in the first week of all those

plans? How's that worked out for you? I'm going to guess not well, because you're here. I will not apologize for the Libby Method being different, because it works. It works for healthy weight loss. It works for sustainable weight loss. What you want is a quick fix. And I'm going to tell you right now, that ain't me.

I am not interested in the quick fixes. I'm not interested in the, if I don't lose weight in a week, I'm going to quit. I quit now. It's okay. It's not for everybody. But yeah, I can tell you who the program is not for. It is not for anyone who wants to quick fix. This ain't it, man. You could have hormonal issues. You could be coming into this with all sorts of

issues and association with foods and habits. Like, let me ask you this. Why did you gain the weight back? I'm assuming you've done programs before you've been successful and you gained that weight back. Why? You got to figure that shit out. You got to figure out why you gained it back, whether it was mental, falling back into old habits, issues, associations, coping mechanisms, or whether it's health issue related, hormones, whatever you got going on, you got to address those. Or simply because those crappy shitty diets where you lose a lot of weight in the first days, weeks of the program, just have you gain it all back plus more every single time. So

I don't give a shit that you're not happy that you haven't lost weight in the first week of the program. What I give a shit about is you showing up day in day out for as long as it takes. And you never give up on reaching your goals because with the living method, it's like your chance to lose your weight in a way that you will actually be able to maintain and sustain for the rest of your life. So I can understand you're not happy because you've probably done a lot of diets. But if you can look at the Libby method as something that's different and understand why it's different, that will be your chance at reaching your goals and moving on from your weight loss journey. I fucking love the fact that the Libby method is different. And here I want to tell you that weight that you lose in the beginning of those crappy shitty diets, it's not fat loss.

It's water weights. It's muscle loss. It's from starving yourself, depriving yourself, forcing your body to burn fat. Sure, you'll lose the weight, but you're just automatically reinforcing that you're going to gain it all back again. So if you are still here five weeks in, six weeks in, and you haven't lost, you're doing all the things, I'm still not worried about you. I've helped hundreds of thousands of people lose weight, many of whom did not lose one pound till week five, six, seven of the program and still went on to successfully lose 30 to 40 pounds in the back

end and then went on to successfully reach their goals. So I don't know if you, this is a threat for lack of a better word to yourself. Um, but putting that kind of pressure on yourself, man, that's just like that. I'm not like, I, you might want to give some thought to that, or it's like a threat for me to want to say something different to you or promise you something. And threat might not be the right word. But whenever people come to me with this, I'm like, just quit or allow yourself to quit. And then I want you to go and take a minute and say, okay, then what? So let's go to then what? So then you can go and take Ozempic or any of those GLP-1s, which maybe you should talk to your doctor about. I am

not opposed to those. I actually think they can be a game changer. But here's what I can tell you. You will lose weight on those medications. The minute you stop taking them, you will gain all that weight back plus more every single time. So at some point in your life, you're going to have to do the kind of work that you need to do with this program. You have to work through the issues and associations, which I know you have, based on this comment today. Like that, just the comment that you pose shows that you have issues with dieting that you'll need to work through. You have to work through your beliefs, which I know you have, because you don't believe that you can lose your weight in a healthy, sustainable way. Right? You have to work through coping mechanisms and triggers and habits and maybe even some past

trauma. What you could be dealing with here is a fear of failure, which it sounds like you have. You're just going to quit before you prove yourself right. Um, rather than reaching out and being like, okay, what can I do? So for example, if I go to your, if I click on your name and I pull up all the comments and questions that you have, have you asked any questions? Have you, have you reached out to the team and been like, okay, what can I do here? What can I do there? Are there changes that I can make? Like, have you asked any questions or have you just shown up today and been like, it's been two weeks.

I haven't lost any weight. Going to give it one more week, then try something else. I always lose weight in the first week of the plan. Hashtag not happy. Like, are you helping us help you? Are you helping yourself? Right in this situation? So but more than that, and the reason why I say then quit, because what else you're going to do. So you could do GLP ones, but then you're going to have to still do the work at the end of the day, you can get liposuction, but we're going to

have a plastic surgeon that's going to tell you liposuction is not weight loss. It's not weight loss. Not only that, but if you don't work through your issues and associations and habits and the way you cope in your life's food, you will gain that weight back. But with liposuction, you'll gain it where you no longer have those fat cells. So you gain it in weird spots, which is not a good look. Trust me. You can do gastric bypass surgery. And we've had thousands of members who've done gastric do the program. In fact, I suggest if you're doing gastric to do the program because you have to learn to eat. You have to work through your issues and associations and your habits and your beliefs and all of that, because guess what? You will lose the weight, but you will gain it all back. And we know this. We know this. I've been to the Canadian Obesity Summit in Canada and all the brightest minds in obesity research

are trying to figure out how to help people not gain weight back. You want to know how to not gain weight back. You've got to lose it in a way that you're able to maintain and sustain, not just physically, but mentally at the end of the day. So I, you might notice I'm a straight up kind of gal. I'll tell you how it is. I will also go to the ends of the earth to help you, to help give you the information that you need to understand how the living method is different, what you need to do to figure out what's going to resonate with you. But if you're not going to stick around, you're not going to stick around. Right? And I just got to be honest. I got to be honest. You're honest. I'm honest back. No disrespect. I love, I appreciate you. I'm grateful for you signing up for the Libby method,

but I'm also okay with the end of the day that it's not for everybody. But if it is for you, here's what I can fucking tell you. We are going to get into it. This is just the end of week one of the program. Oh my goodness. I hope you understand this is just a taste. We are just getting started around here. We haven't even tried to lose weight yet. Right now we are just building the foundation. We're going to get into it, whether you are all day, every day doing all the things, just showing up when you can doing some of the things. I guarantee you, if you make it to the end of the program and you are still here, you will be so happy. I wish I could bottle up the feelings that come after 91 days of showing up for yourself, prioritizing

yourself, strengthening your mind-body connection, reconnecting yourself, your relationship with self, with others, the way you show up in the world, the calm confidence you will have, not just physically, mentally, but around food, with the choices that you are making. You will feel hopeful. You will feel inspired. You will feel empowered, truly, because anything less just isn't good enough around here. As always, I am grateful to every single person who makes a statement, asks a question or comments, whether it's in the program or during the live.

It's what creates conversations. We are not afraid to talk about hard things. We are not afraid to have the conversations that we need to have. If anything, people have not been talking about weight loss in the ways that it needs to be discussed. And I'm here for it. I thank you for being here for it today. If I did not get to your question, pop it over on the question of the day page. The team will answer it over there. I will not be going live this weekend, but I will be checking in and I'm already looking forward to our conversation on Monday.

Have an amazing rest of your day, everyone. I'll see you then. Bye.