The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 17 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 17, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:Understanding your natural fluctuations on the scalePortions; They are what they FEEL like not what they look like A sneak peek at the 4 questions that will be introduced next weekWater; Getting it in, start early and spread it out. Late night eating; the things you may have to work throughSituational change and helping your body adaptTuning into what makes you feel good in your body and what doesn't Kyle Buchanan coming in the next few weeks to chat about weight loss and anxietyThe signs that your scale may be about to dropSupplements with Dr. Paul Hrkal: more conversations to comeBe open to working through the feels that come up, Dr. Beverley's 3C's: Capture, Cancel, CorrectSuccess is what you learn along your journey, recognizing your capacityAt some point you will have to do the mental work! The importance of following The Food Plan as it is laid outShow up for yourself, your best day is today. What is your game changer today?To 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. Hello, hello, hello, and happy day 17 of the program. Okay, so first things first, I was just in the notes, the check-in video in the morning, which there wasn't a check-in video today, but I stepped in. But pinned to the top of the page every day is where I do my check-in video. It is also where we post what's going on in the program. It's also a great place to set intentions in the morning. I see a lot of you doing that. Obviously a great place to ask any questions that you have. So just a reminder, because I know we still have people filtering into the Facebook support group. The program is 91 days. You want to follow all 91 days of the program. If you're just starting, you're going to be following behind the program, but that's totally fine. It's all about you and your journey. You can still use the Living Method app, link to all the daily check-ins, all the daily lives. What you want to make sure you are

doing is reviewing all of the information, especially if you're new to the program, because you probably missed quite a bit at this point. You absolutely want to get caught up on it. There's a lot of questions about the scale. People, is it normal for my weight to be up? Is it normal to have not lost any weight yet? You really want to understand what you're doing with the program and really understand what weight loss really looks like in terms of that scale. Normal for your weight to go up for so many reasons, just based on life, your scale will always fluctuate. It always did, always always will so you want to understand what's normal for you um how reactive your body is to certain foods that you eat if you don't get a

good night's sleep is your weight up after you do a workout your weight can be up so so many reasons and then more importantly it's normal for your weight to go up before it goes down so you want to really understand what's normal so that when your weight is up, you're capitalizing on that. Someone asked about portions. Should I, if my weight isn't moving, should I be eating less? Now that's a bit of a loaded question because next week we are actually going to start getting into portions and being mindful about them. And a lot of you will notice that you are eating based on what's on your plate rather than how you are feeling. You want to eat enough to feel satisfied in the moment. That is the goal right now. But

when we actually start addressing portions, you might realize that your satisfaction is tied to other things. You feel like you've had enough when you're done eating all your food. So if you are walking away feeling bloated, feeling overstuffed, feeling like you ate too much, you probably are eating too much. I don't want you to go purposely eating less for the sake of starving and depriving and forcing the body to burn fat. But there is something to be said by taking a minute and saying, okay, what does satisfaction mean to me? And how am I feeling after I'm done eating my food? So for example, if you're eating all the meals and snacks, you feel like you're just so full all day long, chances are you're eating too much. So try eating a bit less, but eating a bit less should be based on trying to

understand what it feels like to eat enough to feel satisfied or trying to not feel like you're eating too much or feeling too full. So, so portions are what they feel like. Let me just say that portions are what they feel like, not about what they look like at the end of the day. Uh, a few pro a few programs in and solidifying my weight. I still feel like I don't have a handle on eating to satisfaction. So we're going to start asking four questions. This is next week. So this week, we just want to focus on consistently following that food plan and understand the concept of maximizing, which is all those other things that you can do. I'd rather you actually overeat right

now than under eat. The focus is giving the body what it needs so it no longer feels the need to store fat. That is so important. We have a lot of time to lose a lot of weight. We really want to build a strong foundation. We want to build trust and routine with the body. So the most important thing that you can do right now is to make sure that you are giving your body more of what it needs, not less. But we're going to get into the four questions. I talked about this the other day. Before you even eat, taking time to assess, am I hungry? How am I actually feeling? And yes, if you're not hungry, you still need to eat. How is this portion for me if I ate the whole thing? And not in your head, but in your belly, in your body. If I ate all of this, how would I feel? When you start eating, how am I feeling now that I've started to eat? What if I

was to stop eating now? What if I was to take a few more bites? And then when you're done eating, how did I know when I had enough? And then further, further to that is when you're 10, 15 minutes later, how do I feel now that my body's starting to process and digest the food? So, so a big component of this program is getting in tune to your portions. You want to, at the end of this, know what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat. You shouldn't have to count or weigh and measure to understand. The body's really smart. You'll come to really understand as you start to pay attention and bring awareness to your body's cues. You're going to start to notice it's going to communicate with you. You're going to have a much easier time with that. But in the beginning, it can take a bit of practice to start listening

to your body and understanding what it's trying to say. The program is challenging to get water in. Been busy, need to set reminders. So the reality with water is that you probably have not been drinking enough. We've been told six to eight glasses and that's just not real life. That's not real life. Um, the body, we now know, we now know the, listen, when I first started doing this, telling people to drink two and a half, three and a half liters of water. Oh my gosh. It was like craziness. People were like, people are going to die. You're going to drink too much. All of this. Um, because they were told the six to eight glasses of water, which there is they were told to six to eight glasses

of water, which there is no science behind the six to eight glasses of water, and it really comes down to how much your body needs to function on a more optimal level and survival, beyond basic survival, like actually being drinking enough to be healthy, and for a variety of reasons, we need more than what people think, cellular function, beyond keeping us hydrated. You'll notice that when you stop, when you're not drinking enough water, you can have a foggy mind, energy. It affects your energy. So it's really important to make sure you're drinking enough. It's just that it's a lot more than what people are used to. That's the thing. You're not asked to eat crazy amounts. 2.7 to 3.5 liters. That's science. And even then,

that's not for optimal health. That's just how much our body at minimum needs. So it's more than what people are used to. So start early, get it in throughout the day, spread it out. You don't want to sip. You don't want to guzzle. So it can be a change in routine for a lot of people. It'll be a game changer in terms of how you feel. But setting alarms is a great idea. You can do that with our amazing Living Method app. Getting the right cup to drink out of will be a game changer there as well. But first that understanding that you're not drinking more than what you need. You're just drinking more than what you are used to. So it's just a matter of making that routine. So it definitely can be a challenge. You also don't have to start drinking all of your water in one day. You can like build

up to it, build up to it as well. So take your time with it. More than that is this life makes it really busy for us. It's hard because we, you know, yesterday I went to a spa. Uh, we went for walks. We did a variety of things that made it really easy for me to get my water in. So I had no problem getting it in the day before I was here, there and everywhere. And I think I maybe got in like a couple of bottles of water and that is it. So you can't really make up for water that you didn't drink, but there are going to be days that are going to be easier than others for sure. You guys are all talking about your water. Yeah, right. I've had a rough couple of days and late night eating when I'm not even hungry, but back and listening for the support and to get

back at it. I've noticed late night eating. My sleep is horrible. I feel gross. Today's a new day. That's the key, Lisa, is that if you can really grasp how much better you feel the next day when you don't eat after dinner or snack at night, that can be a real game changer and bring upon aha moments and be a real motivator in the moment for not snacking at night. But that's difficult because right now you're probably dealing with a habit. If you have a habit of eating late at night and then also triggers, maybe like your routine is triggering. You could also coping like you mentioned a rough couple days. So coping. So those are really big things that you're going to have to work through. That's not going to happen overnight either. So I love the fact that you're catching the

feels of how you feel when you do eat at night, you don't feel great in the morning, you're not getting a good night's sleep. And so again, that can be sort of that motivator. And you can say to yourself, okay, for the next three days, I'm going to not come, no matter what, I'm not going to, I'm going to not eat after dinner or at night, and be very conscious about it. So set those intentions, end of day reflections, or say to yourself, before I eat anything in the evening, I'm going to take a minute to just think about it and say things to yourself. Okay, I can have this. I'm a grown up, so I'm going to stop you from reaching your goals in the end, but how am I going to feel if I have

it? This is going to take me a minute, a few minutes to eat and then I'm going to be sitting here. I'm not going to feel so great. I'm not going to have a great sleep. I'm going to wake up the next day. It's going to affect me. So sometimes it's just being able to catch what you're doing in the moment and give yourself a bit of time to make a different decision, especially when it comes to that coping. That'll get easier though. When you show up and you do the things that you can do, you're going to start to feel so much better. And it's going to be like in your face when you eat things or do things that don't make you feel good. And when you keep doing things that make you feel good, that that's really

motivating. And you, you start to not do the things that don't make you feel good. So that'll come in time, but you got to string those days together where you're like, okay, I feel, I feel, I feel good right now. I'm probably not feeling so great. And you just kind of got to get over that hump. So I hear you. Today is a new day. Today's a new day. Today's a new day. Took me three tries to get the right water bottle. Yeah. It's so important. The right cup is key. It took me, it took me a few to figure out the best. The right cup makes all the difference. The right water bottle makes all the difference in terms of getting that water in for sure. The alarms on the Living Method app are a game changer. I love them, especially when I'm super

busy. I use alarms too. I use alarms to remind me to eat because sometimes when I'm busy, I use alarms for motivation too, to remind me that I'm on a mission to get my ass outside to go for a walk or to drink warm water, whatever. I use them. I use them. I've been maintaining my weight for 30 years. I still use them. My skin looks better since I started drinking water. Yes. Well, look at my skin. Yesterday, I was all dehydrated. When I woke up yesterday like yesterday I was all dehydrated. Uh, when I woke up yesterday morning, I was all dehydrated yesterday. I drink all this water all day and my skin looks amazing today. Warming your water up makes a big difference to this time of year. Um, it's, I don't know, it was written. I don't know what it's like. It was dark out right now. Um, but with the seasonal

change and it getting darker earlier and it's cold you might want to start warming your water up drinking more teas that can be a great way of getting it in broke your wrist hi cara my first live i've been able to make broke my wrist on friday having surgery on monday wow okay taking sickness protocol not logging on the app it's still trying to follow with no food with no appetite. Okay. Scale was going up and now going back down. Yeah, that's inflammation. That's inflammation that will have your stress, inflammation, probably not sleeping great, maybe taking some painkillers that are messing with your digestive system, probably messing with your bowel movements. Have to really use this time to focus on eating dissatisfaction, especially

since I won't be moving much in the next eight weeks. My relationship with the scale is so much better now. Huge non-scale victory. Yeah, this is situational change, right? This is situational change. This is what your body is going through, whether that's a sickness, an illness, breaking your bones, change in job, whatever that might be, is helping your body adapt to the new situation. And you're right, you're going to have to really pay attention. If you're not as active, you might not need as much food. So when it comes to portions, always what they feel like. So you might still have days where you're extra hungry more than others, but then you might have days like you're having now that you're not hungry at all. Totally normal. Totally normal. Thinking about how garbage I'm going to feel the next day

also applies to wine for me. It's not the wine itself. It's the crappy sleep feeling like crap and the bad food choices the next day. You can actually bring up that feeling. I'm totally into this. Um, you bring up that feeling cause you know, you already know, you already know. Like if you, if you pour that glass of wine, you know, it's appealing, but you also know it's kind of not appealing and you like want it cause you know it'll be good, but then you already know how you're gonna feel the next day so you're right catch the feels the next day when you decide not to be like oh my gosh thank goodness I don't feel like that that thing I have the same thing with coffee coffee doesn't really sit well with my digestive system so I love the idea of coffee I love the idea of coffee. I love the idea of coffee. But if I have

to go like make the coffee go buy, I'm standing in line to buy the coffee the whole time. My body is like, I don't think we really want this coffee. I buy it anyway. Cause I love it. It's my like one vice. It's also decaf. I'm drinking a big, large decaf. But my body's already telling me that I don't, like, it's not, it's like, I don't, your body's like, I don't need this, don't want this. But in my, so a lot of times, the secret to getting in tune with your body in terms of your choices is not in your head. It's actually that feeling in your body. Your body, your body. Hi, Risa. Good morning. Good morning. I'm starting drinking it very early, especially at the gym. Yes, it's hard leaving my class right now. I'm off and spending as much time with my mom as possible. I love that. The love of family,

friends, this group, exercising, deep breathing, getting to bed early with my calm magnesium is helping. And yeah, it's a whole vibe that's a whole vibe uh seeing my doctor talk about what i'm going through and getting chest and chest anxiety dealing with this uh on a good note only 2.8 pounds to my 32 michael good for you checking in with your doctor that was been a conversation um last week always a great idea just because you're eating healthy doesn't mean that you aren't still going to encounter some health issues. If you do have any health issues, working hand in hand with your doctor. Speaking of anxiety, Kyle Buchanan is going to be joining me in the next couple of weeks.

We're going to talk about weight loss and anxiety. So we're actually going to have that conversation, which I'm looking forward to. Last night I was so hungry and had all my meals and snacks, fat, nutrients, but starved, just kept drinking water and fought it off all evening. Happy this morning I did, but it was hard. So many things calling me at night. Also remember, also remember, so one of the signs that your weight is about to drop is that you are extra hungry, especially when you ate all your nutrient rich meals and snacks. So that's actually a sign your weight's going to drop. So extra hungry, even though, which is hard, right? Cause you go into that diet mentality and you're thinking you're on a diet. So you're

starving. So you had that kind of that association with dieting that I'm hungry all the time. Um, which, which it could just be, it could be the fact that your weight's about to drop. It could also be triggers. It also could be if you have a lot of stress going on in your life. So especially if you're craving like salty foods, bump up, bump up your good fats, add in an omega-3. I know we talked about supplements with Dr. Paul. Um, so extra hungry at night, you're waking up in the middle of the night, around three or four o'clock time, um, kind of feeling bloated and just kind of off and water not be not appealing. those are signs that your weight is about to drop. Those are signs. Can we talk about the supplements with Dr. Paul yesterday?

So great conversation with him, more of an overview of supplements. In the written post, I write down what supplements I'm suggesting, why, minimum doses, things to keep in mind, times a day if notable, and if it doesn't say what time of day, then you can pretty much take it any time of day, and in that case you want to take it whenever is convenient for you. Supplements can be a real game changer. I guess that's the conversation today, game changer. That's our theme today. Supplements can be a real game changer, especially if you are deficient in them. I know a lot of people blow them off thinking that they don't really need them, but then they have a harder time getting the scale to move. We're going

to talk to Dr. Paul about a couple things that can really affect your body's ability to focus on fat loss. Inflammation being one of them in which if you can get a handle on inflammation and help your body be as healthy as possible that can be a game changer. Gut issues, your microbiome, so we're going to put a lot of focus on digestion. Just all this good nutrient rich foods will also help, but probiotics, prebiotics, a lot of you asking about digestive bitters, especially if you're missing a gallbladder, talk about game changer, that can make a big difference. So a lot of these things, they're not like miracle workers, but in combination with all the things that you're

doing can really have help your body function at a more optimal level. And one of the things people don't realize is you have to be healthy first in order for your body to be able to focus on fat loss. When I say there's all these other things your body has to focus on, your health and wellness factors into that. And so anything that you can do to help your body be as healthy as possible is going to help get and keep things moving on the scale. Um, I, I see another comment. I'm going to read it again because it's really important because what I don't want to be doing is like really dwelling on this moving forward. I could spend all my time talking about it. Um, because we're in the first few weeks of the program, I want to make sure I really get this messaging across. The scale is up by almost three

pounds. So discouraging. I'm doing all the things, feeling all the feels. This is where I would almost quit, right? So first of all, I love that you recognize that. We want to understand that feels are a normal part of the process. So even though I'm telling you it's normal for the scale to be up and, you know, it can be up for so many reasons. It's so important to validate and understand where your feels are coming from, because that again will be a game changer. Um, you don't have to be happy all the time with everything that you are doing, everything that you're experiencing, but what you do want to do is get into your fields and be like, okay, what is this about? What, what is this frustration with the scale? Cause you can be frustrated, but what you don't want to do to your point is be so frustrated that it takes you out. So frustrated that you quit

because then what are you going to do? So just understanding, okay, why is this frustrating? You want to know why it's frustrating? Cause I've been trying to lose weight for 20 years. That's why. It's frustrating because it's not through lack of time and energy and money spent on dieting that I haven't been successful, right? I've been successful. I gained it back. That sucks. Wasn't your fault, by the way. That was just all those diets were designed. It's frustrating because I feel like I'm working really hard and I'm not getting the results that I want. And of course, like nothing ever really happens on our timeline. It always takes longer than you think, but it, for so many reasons, it can be frustrating. So really validating that, but also being like, what is, what is, what is that about? And then we're going

to talk to Dr. Beverly. She has this thing called capture, cancel, correct. So the capture is I'm feeling frustrated. I'm feeling discouraged on this scale. Okay. So you've captured that. Cancel that is where you say to yourself, okay, you're allowed to have your feels. You're allowed to have your feels, but just because the scale isn't moving, doesn't mean that you're not doing the things that you need to do. Okay. It's normal.na says it's normal for your weight to go up before it goes down even though i don't want to believe that it is true right um kind of like kind of like undo the lies the lies you you are it's not that you're not doing well you are doing great it's not that it isn't working it is working it's just not the way ideally we would like to see translated on this scale. And then correct, right? If I keep

showing up, I'm going to reach my goals. I'm going to get there. I'm going to stick with this. I'm going to be around for 91 days. So if you're just taking that time to kind of be aware, understand, process, it's going to help you work through the feels. And more than that, have a deeper level of understanding of what your feels are about and where you're coming from, which can make all the difference in terms of you following through and reaching your goals or quitting. What you don't want to do is fester in your funk. That's one of the things we talk about. Don't fester in your funk. Feel your feels. Don't fester in your funk. What's the other one? Honor your mood. Follow the plan. So you still want to do other one honor your mood follow the plan so you still want to do the things that you want to do but you do want to also take time to honor how you're feeling

and i love that you're coming on and expressing that i used to say the the facebook support group was a safe positive space to work on your goals but then i realized i was kind of buying into that toxic positivity yes i want to be to be a place you enjoy spending time in. And yes, a place that we can celebrate, but also a place where we can honor all of our feels, even if we are feeling frustrated or discouraged or disappointed or whatever any of those big feels are at the same time. This is my third round. The first round I picked, I picked and chose what I followed and what I didn't. Yeah. Right. Just, you did your own thing that a lot of people do that. Saw zero progress. My second round, I was slightly more, more with the program. Can I just talk about the fact that

I'm glad you came back? I have such mad respect that you came back. I love that you came back. The second round, I was slightly more with the program, but still not enough and saw zero progress. This round, I decided I was going to go all in, zero holding back. I have seen more progress in the last three weeks than the first two rounds put together. I definitely understand when you talk about not feeling right when you stray from the program. I never understood it before, but having followed it closely, I get it. When I miss snacks or I choose not the best foods, I feel sluggish and tired. It's harder to get myself out for a workout, whereas when I follow, I feel fully energized and ready to go for my entire day. Consistency, game changer. Ding, ding, ding. That's the word. We should have

played a drinking game every time I played, said game changer. Consistency is so important. I do want to go back and say, though, that part of your success with this program is what you learned in your last couple of programs. That's why I have mad respect that you're back. It took you going through that and doing what you did to get you to a place where you're ready to do all the things. So to me, I looked at it as like a really important part of your journey. Not that you didn't do this, you didn't do that. But that was your process. And probably for good reason. Maybe you have a trust issue. Maybe you're like, I'm not really sure. You've probably been duped by the diet industry before. Maybe you have so ingrained what you think what works what doesn't work maybe there have been things that you did before that did work for you so you want

that initial okay this is what worked for me before without also then seeing the big picture how in the end you probably gain that weight back and then you may be carrying some blame for yourself rather than blaming the fact that that's not how the diet was never designed for you to sustain your weight anyway. Maybe there were some big fields that you were going to need to work through that you weren't quite ready to go through. Maybe there were some changes in your life because you had other things going on that you weren't really ready or had the capacity. There's a big difference between having time to do things and having the capacity to do things. So I look at that as just like it was all part of your process. Whatever you learned by doing the last couple of programs, the way that you did them is going to be the game changer

in terms of you following through and being successful this time. You had to get to this place where this was your thought process and you had to know what didn't work for you in order to know what does work for you. That's why it's not always about being perfect when it comes to following the program because when you do choose to have the thing, you're picking up on how you're feeling. You're realizing, oh, it didn't actually make me feel the way I thought it was going to make me feel. Not mentally, not physically. So that's not really working for me, but sometimes it takes us a while to get there. So I love this whole process that you've just gone through. That's going to make all the difference in terms of being successful.

All of it, all of it. I love my wine, but I eat so much snacking and drinking. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. It's not the wine. It's what we eat. Usually when we drink the wine, that's, that's a big part of it. Third program, my weight is up over my starting weight. Since I started, I've been doing all the mental work throughout though. And I don't feel stressed. Love that the program feels different than the other ones doing the mental work has really settled my system. And I know that I will lose weight later after I do all the mental work. This is a program that will change it all. Yeah, it's true. This is the real work that you need to do. It's not, it's not the, what's the eating and when it's not the food part. I mean, it can be how your body has learned to

function. It can be health issues that you're dealing with. Inflammation hormones can be all those things, but those are all figureoutable. You can address all of those things. Usually the bigger stuff that you need to work through is what's happening mentally. That's, that's it. A type, we'll talk to some people. We're going to talk to a variety of different people. We're going to actually start talking to members. We have these spill the tea segments and every now and then I get an A type personality, right? They just follow the rules. Not that we have rules, we have guidelines. They do all the things and they're like easy peasy, one and done. But here's what I can tell you, whether you deal with your issues

now or you deal with your issues later, at some point you're going to have to deal with your issues. A-type personalities are great with following the rules. Once they are done losing their weight and they're shifting into maintenance, that's where the work is much harder for them. Because at some point you're going to have to deal with your issues and associations and beliefs and habits and all those things when you take away that set of rules or guidelines. When you're left to being in tune to your body's needs and being able to trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat, that's a totally different ballgame. And so it's great that you can follow the rules and get the job done. But can you maintain and sustain afterwards? So that that's really the work. So at some point, you'll

have to do the work, whether you're doing it now, or you're doing it later. Whether you're doing it now or you're doing it later. Can I skip breakfast and go straight to lunch or have the morning snack first? So the only meal really you want to you can choose not to eat is breakfast. When you wake up, you're already full of energy. You really don't want to be skipping meals and snacks outside of that. So if you are new to the program, there's a couple of things you're going to want to focus on. First of all, there's a lot of information. And even if you have the book, you'll be able to visually see. There's a lot of information we've covered so far.

You do want to make sure you're reviewing all the information in the post. But really the focus is on the guidelines each week because those are the instructions or the guidelines of what to eat and when and what the focus is each week. And then the food plan. So you're going to want to find that food plan guide. In it we talk about what to eat and when. We have a video that talks about the rhyme and the reason. Talks about the importance of not skipping snacks. The importance of having those token amounts. If you're not hungry you still want to have those. The importance of not skipping snacks, the importance of having those token amounts. If you're not hungry, you still want to have those. The importance of making sure you're eating the foods in the order that we suggest. You're not switching things around, doing your

own thing per se. So check out that food plan video. It's stored in the food plan guide. So you can choose to have breakfast or not have breakfast. It is a benefit to start your day higher in breakfast for a variety of benefit to start your day higher in protein with that breakfast, but you can also choose not to have it. Regardless, if you choose not to have breakfast, then you go about your day, your energy levels start to drain, glycogen levels get depleted, and you want to replenish those quickly, and hence that morning fruit. If you start your day higher in protein focused as well, same thing, your body's working harder from the get-go. Your energy levels start to drain.

You want to replenish them quite quickly. So regardless of whether you have breakfast or not, you want to make sure you have that morning snack. Now, if this is a bit of a, this is a bit of a, if you, if you sleep in, that's a bit of a different, like if you sleep in, maybe let's say you sleep in normally, you get at seven and you sleep into eight till ten o'clock and then you have a lunch that you're going through then you can kind of be okay what am I doing I'm gonna have like like am I gonna start start my day we're gonna have breakfast and then like just go straight to lunch am I gonna do more of a brunch so on those occasions where your day is kind of messed up because you've slept in really late then then you can kind of skip that fruit, go straight to lunch or brunch, and then make sure everything on the back end falls in line. How am I doing for time, babes? I got to get going in a few minutes. Let me scroll down. Hello from Vancouver, BC. Hi, Julie. Hi, Julie. Hello. So we're leaving today. I feel like I live here. I feel like we've

been here for so long. What a beautiful city. Oh my gosh. I'm absolutely just in love. Tony and I are already making plans to come back. We're going to go to the island. We're going to like, there's so many, just everywhere is these like just little gems. I just, I'm in totally love with the whole city. We spent a lot of time walking. We took another walk around the water, Stanley Park last night. It's just gorgeous. My goodness. Life lesson. Hi, Joanna Hunt.

Something is always going to go on. I have to adapt to it and work with the situation the best you can, even when it's too fucking much. Your best day is today. If you woke up today, no matter what you are dealing with and you are still alive, you're living your best life. Honestly, I know life makes things very difficult and there are some of you who are going to go through hard times over the course of the next few months of the program.

It is still very important for you to show up for yourself. This program is something you can follow and feel really good about especially when life is hit shit is hitting the fan because it makes you pay attention to yourself self-awareness especially the conversation we're having with maximizing focusing on managing your stress on your sleep how are you handling the things that are happening in your life carrying excess fat and this goes back to our very first conversation it's hard on your body carrying excess fat is not helping you your body wants you to be as healthy as possible even when it's dealing with all these things but a lot of times it's through our method of weight loss starving and depriving restricting reducing that disconnecting all the other ways that we have

dieted in the past really aren't helpful for trying to manage the shit that we have to deal with in our life. And this is making you make time for you. It's making you prioritize good, healthy, nutrient-rich foods to give your body the energy it needs. It's helping you to understand when you're stressed and the cravings and the messages that come along with that. It's helping you understand how important getting sleep is, not for the sake of just moving the dial on the scale, but your health and wellness in general. It really is a program that has no detrimental side effects and you can feel really good about, and you should buckle down and follow, especially when shit is hitting the fan in life. It is hard

sometimes because tied into that, you do want to lose weight and it can feel like you've been trying to do this for a really long time and it can feel like there's a lot of things getting in the way. Okay. I got to go. I got to jet. Um, thanks for joining me today. What is the, what is the, what is the, what is your game changer? That's the message today. What is going to be a game changer for you? Is it managing your stress? Is it getting a handle on sleep? Is it getting those steps in moving your body? Is it resistance training? Is it focusing on your digestive system? Like what is it focusing on consistency? What is going to be your game changer? That's your takeaway for today. I'll be back tomorrow. Hopefully, um, you can join me then. Uh, if not have an amazing rest of your day. Um,

I'll be checking in tomorrow. Um, yeah. Bye. See you guys later. Thanks. Remember, if I didn't get to your question, copy and paste it over on the question of the day post. The team will answer it over there. How do I get out of here? I got to do this first. There we go. It's a great way to end the day. Bye.