The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 19 - Winter 2025

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 19, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2025In this episode, Gina delves into the transformative momentum behind sustainable weight loss. She explores how travel can support your goals, the power of daily intentions, and the key signs that your body is primed for a drop on the scale. Plus, what detox really means, how long it lasts, and the art of prioritizing yourself. You’ll learn about the importance of maximizing efforts and staying attuned to your body’s needs.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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And here is the promo code. It is livymethod25. Just use the code when you check out online at joefresh.com or through the JoFresh app. Hello and happy day 19 of the program. Okay, so also happy Friday. It has us rolling into the weekend. I was actually just in the group reading some of the comments. So many of you are planning to travel. Can you travel and

lose weight? Absolutely. In fact, travel can be so great for weight loss because what's happening is your stress levels are changing. When we travel, we tend to enjoy travel, unless maybe it's for work. And then that's about reestablishing new routines so that when you are working and you're traveling, you are making time to prioritize yourself and do some of the things that you need to do. And trust me, I have worked with pilots, people who travel quite often, along with shift workers, where there is a will, there is a way. If you have any questions about how to navigate the program with a crazy schedule, make sure you reach out to the Facebook support group and let us know. Travel is so great for weight loss,

whether it's a vacation or you are just going away for the weekend, it's changing your stress levels, it's challenging your body, it is stimulating your brain. It's okay, just like I said in the check-in, it's okay if your routine is off, that your foods are off a little bit. The importance of keeping that structure through the week, it's amazing what you can accomplish by trying to be as consistent as possible during the week because

weight loss is based on momentum. It's not like if the scale moves today, it's not because of what you did yesterday. It's because of what you have been doing in the days and weeks leading up to getting that scale move. So as we progress in the program, right now people are really fixated on the scale and you're noticing the little ups and the downs. A lot of times for the weekend it's not the foods that you're necessarily indulging in, it's the fact that maybe your sleep is a little off, you're staying up a little later, maybe you're having some alcohol, maybe that's a bit dehydrating. Sometimes though when you do have like those super indulgence foods, they can cause the body to be a little bit inflamed.

That's going to have your weight up. But as we've progressed in the program, you're going to hear more and more people talk about how, even though they indulged on the weekend, their weight is still down on Monday. And this is why you don't want to blow off your whole day or your whole weekend just because of a few bites of it. We did heading out on a three-week trip tomorrow.

Yeah, you can like you got it. You still have to eat and maybe you can't be perfect. But it's also a good opportunity if you're going away and you're traveling to think about what is traveling going to mean to you. Maybe traveling is getting up and going for walks in the morning when maybe you didn't do that, especially if you're in a new city or maybe you're walking, you know, you get to watch the sunrise on the beach.

Maybe that's when you go to the gym, you start using the hotel gym. This morning, if you can tell if you're watching me live, I am at a hotel, we're in the city. We got some work stuff here. So this morning I got up, I went to the gym, I used the treadmill for 20 minutes and they have a really great rooftop pool

and I finished it off with a bit of a swim. And you know I wouldn't have always done that but I just feel so much better. It sets me up for the whole day. Now you don't have to go to the gym you could just go out for a walk but maybe it's time to think about what is my new travel routine, right? Like what can I do while I'm away or traveling that I can keep my energy up, continue to feel really good, make good food choices and then that leaves the wiggle room for you to indulge. If you go out for a nice dinner, you want to enjoy a nice dessert, you do want to indulge here and there and that's what

maximizing is all about. Maximizing is about doing all the other things that will make a difference besides the food and drinking the water and the supplements. So if that is off and your food is off you can offset that by just making sure you're focusing on all the other things. So please don't stress about any travel. If you are not following the program at all you can always pick up from where from where you left off. Someone actually had a great question about this the other day and they're like how do we know if we just keep moving forward or we have to go back because we weren't following the program? It's all about your intention.

If your intention is to follow the program and you don't end up following it as best you possibly could, I would still count that as your day and I would still track that in your app. Let me say that again. If your intention when you wake up or you're on vacation is to follow and do the program each day then I would absolutely track that even if you do find yourself indulging and you don't really do a great job following I would still count that because what you learn from not doing the things is just as important and the only reason I would suggest not tracking a day is if that you just are not you're not even intending to follow you just don't care you are just going about

your travel you're like I'm gonna just put this on pause I'm not gonna think about anything I'm just gonna be on vacation and then I'm just gonna you know deal with it when I get back or you are sick and you can't follow the program if you're sick and you can't follow the program that's the only time you really want to stop following or like have to go back and then pick up from where you left off. I wish I'd get up earlier to do all those things. Yeah so you might have noticed especially if you join me in the evening lives this week I was a hot mess. I show up anyway good days bad days you get what you get. I'm

here for you. I will go to the ends of the earth to help you. But in the evening I was a little off and that's because I was resetting my sleep pattern and I was really good before the holidays about getting up every morning early. I can get a lot of a lot accomplished. I feel better. I feel like I'm getting more out of life when I'm getting up early because all I do in the evening is just lie in bed and watch TV anyway. I scroll on my phone, I watch TV, like I'm not really missing anything. Whereas when I get up early, I feel like I can get so much done. I feel more fulfilled when I get up early. But I hadn't done that in a while.

So I had to get on track and it was rough, y'all. It was so rough. I was like a zombie by the end of the day which is probably very noticeable but now so I could have slept in today and this morning I was like where was it five five five twenty I'm lying there wide awake and I said to Sonia who I went should I get up or should I try to go back to sleep because I'm a big day today doing lots of stuff she's like maybe try to sleep I couldn't do it I'm like I can't do this so I was like, just let me get my clothes on and off I went.

So it's sort of like a learning curve, right? You're not going to feel better at first. It's not going to be easy at first, but your body is more wired to, as soon as it gets dark out, pumping that melatonin through your system. And so if you can kind of like be in tune to that, it can be a game changer in your energy as well.

Hi Debbie, good morning. I'm excited for the weekend. I love that. Hi Candy, scale finally moved after 10 days down 8.5 total but 9.8 since January 2nd. Oh, I love that for you. Still normal. Do not see any movement on the scale yet. But at this point, at this point, two weeks in, three with prep week, rolling into our week of mindfulness next week is one of my favorite weeks where we start to address portions and be mindful of them. You should be noticing change. You should be either seeing the scale move, not every day obviously. Some people lose a little chunks, a little plateau. Some people like larger chunks, longer plateaus. Or you should be seeing something happening in your body. You should be feeling a difference. Wow, I'm sleeping better. I have better energy. I'm more in tune.

I'm getting hungrier, but I'm also feeling more satisfied a lot quicker. You're noticing your body change. You feel a lot less bloated. Your digestive system feels better. You've put in enough time. If you've been consistent from the beginning, some of you have just like started like this last week. So if you've been consistent from the beginning, you should start to see and feel some changes. And then it's just a matter of building, building, building, building, building. Hey Christine, Gina, I just want to say

that I'm finding it easier this week. I am being less hard on myself. It really does, it doesn't have to be perfect. I am realizing this. I can and will make it this work in my life, make it work in my life. It is totally doable. I need you to call me out.

I needed you to call me out the other night. Hey, I will tell you how it is with my best intention in my whole heart. It's just a matter of, you know what I do is I read the question and I take a minute, I think about it or the comments and I'm like, okay, what are what's a way to frame this or what is something that's going to resonate with someone? Right? Is it like you would have been like, yeah, okay, that's a great

or a fuck you, Gina, right? Like if it's the fuck you, Gina, that means like there's something about it. That's resonating with you. There's something about what I said that bothers you. And then what is that? And this is where when you're getting into and you're listening to how your body's reacting And this is why it's not only important to have conversations and helpful to somebody else But even have these conversations with yourself and be like hey what what is going on with me? Like why am I struggling? What exactly can I is there a better word that I can use to define what I'm dealing with and just the kind of catch-all of? Struggling what am I thinking? Where's that? Where's that thought process coming from? Is there a better word that I can use to define what I'm dealing with and just the kind of catch all of struggling?

What am I thinking? Where is that? Where's that thought process coming from? How would I feel if I did this? How would I feel if I do that? Right? And a lot of times it's how we're talking to ourselves. Like we're the ones who get in the way.

We're the ones who make it difficult for ourselves. But a lot of times I think when what happens is that when you are setting out to reach a goal, the universe kind of gives you everything that you need to reach that goal. The universe is like, oh, I okay. I see you. You want to reach this goal. Okay, then you need to learn this and this and this and go through that and deal with this in order to have the skills and the tools that you need or the understanding that you need in order to reach that goal. And

so that's the sort of what like the other day someone said, oh, I feel like I'm like living to eat. Like I'm kind of consumed with the food plan and they're eating more than they ever have. And it is time consuming because you need to make real change. And with constantly focused on what you're eating all day and maximizing, setting your intentions and end of day reflections and journeying it all out and then you add the changes that we're gonna make each week, it makes you make time for yourself.

It makes you pay attention to yourself. It makes you be in tune to yourself. And when you tie in listening to what's going on mentally, that's where you make the real change. So you see the things that you're doing physically and how that's adding up, and then you're adding that mental piece to it. So what you are thinking and how you are feeling, let me say that again, what you were thinking

and how you are feeling is all part of the program and the process and it gives you a really great insight into the things that you specifically need to focus on. So that's why you never want to discount how you're feeling but you do want to get into and be like what's that all about why am I like why am I feeling this right why am I feeling this let me go back and see if I missed any questions last night it was so hungry and this morning I was down 1.6 I love so I'm glad that you mentioned this it's so hard in the moment to remember the signs that your weight is about to drop so weight being up on the scale is a

sign that your weight is about to drop. So weight being up on the scale is a sign that your weight's about to drop. Feeling kind of bloated and just kind of, ugh, run down. That's a sign that your weight's going to drop. Being extra hungry in the evening, even though you've eaten all your nutrient rich foods all day long, a sign that your weight is about to drop. Waking up in the middle of the night, especially around that three, four o'clock time, a sign that your weight is about to drop, waking up in the middle of the night, especially around that three, four o'clock time, a sign that your weight is about to drop.

So it can be very difficult to not because you can feel really hungry. A lot of times if it's sugar based, especially like if you want something carby or sugary, you probably need more water because your weight is about to drop. But in the moment, it can be really hard to think about that. That's why like if you took what I was saying and anyone else who didn't know about the program and I'm trying to tell people like not to eat after dinner or even if you're hungry people will be like, oh my God, she's telling people not to eat if they're hungry. You know, I thought would if you took it out of context,

but because I know that you're eating so often throughout the day, your body is getting more more than what it needs. And so if you could really hold off on that need to eat in the evening, what helps with the scale moving is the fact that your body can focus on detoxing and releasing fat rather than on processing and digesting your food. Who that is?

I saw someone who's super disappointed. I always like to read those comments. I'll get to that in a second. Is it still possible that I'm still in detox almost three weeks? Yeah, I mean, your body detoxes every,'ll get to that in a second. Is it still possible that I'm still in detox almost three weeks? Yeah, I mean, your body detoxes every day. So, ah, I have a great Science Saturday post for you tomorrow. Pop into the group, open up the app, read it.

It's a good one. It's on detox. So it gets into the science of detox. Your body's always detoxing. So you don't have to make your body detox. You don't have to help. You can help your body detox. You can support your body in detox,

making sure you're drinking enough water, moving your body, getting a good night's sleep. All of those things will help your body and just being healthier in general, obviously helps with detox. So your body's always detoxing. That's why I'm not a fan of juice cleanses and teas or anything like that.

It'd make you feel better maybe for a hot second and it doesn't really do anything but anything. But you're always in detox. So is the scale can you move have to see a lot of movement on the scale yeah some people there it's not unusual for some people to lose upwards of 60 even 80 pounds we've had some lose in the program so you take 80 pounds over the course of 91 days that can make it seem like you're dropping almost every day mind you the average is one to two pounds per week the average is anywhere from 11 to 16 pounds right depending on what you got going on so I

don't want to make it seem like it's normal like I'm normalizing everyone losing 16 if you don't it didn't mean the program doesn't work for you but if that's the case and you have a have a lot of weight to lose you find you're losing quite a bit it can seem like you're in detox every day. That's because your body is doing a lot of work every day. Now people who tend to lose that much weight in one program when they go on to their next program, their body is going to take time to adjust to that weight and that's where you

might see the next program. Maybe you're only walking away 5, 10, 15 pounds because your body has to take time to adjust to the weight that it's lost. I mean everybody's different, everyone's different. So yeah so it can feel like your body's in detox. Also it's cold and flu season so if you're also struggling your body could be fighting a cold or flu or virus. This is making you feel also kind of ick. So detox you will know if you're in detox like weight loss wise because the scale will also be moving along with it.

And this is why when you, this is why I always say when you see that scale move no matter what happens the next day even if it goes up or it's the same always assume that your weight is still dropping because once your body goes into the mode of focusing on fat loss it's it's gonna do that for a couple days it doesn't just start it and then stop so this is why you always want to make sure you continue to support that for a couple days. It doesn't just start it and then stop. So this is why you always want to make sure you continue to support that body and detox. Assume the scale is going to move for three to five days.

Sometimes it goes longer, sometimes a little bit shorter, but you want to just kind of, no matter what's going on this scale, because you'll see that drop on the scale and sometimes it'll go back up and people think, oh, that's it. And what's happening is the body's retaining more water in order to follow through on that process.

That's why sometimes you don't see that scale drop until like a few days later or a week later, you'll see that new, new low. Can your body get used to the program and weight loss slows down as it gets harder to lose weight? No, it's actually quite the opposite. It's actually quite the opposite. So you think of other diets that you do,

you're starving, you're depriving, you're forcing your body to take the fat that it's feeling it needs to store and use it for energy. And the reason why it feels like it gets harder is because you have to eat even less and you have to exercise even more because your body thinks you are legitimately starving and it is trying to save your life from dying of starvation. And it gets harder as you go. And so you have to eat even less, exercise even more in order to get your body to store that fat.

And of course what happens, we gain it all back, plus more, because you've used your fat, now your body's like we better store more back. And so with the Living Method, it's all about, you start the program on this level, this is your health and wellness, right? You run through the program, not only do you lose weight, but you work on, you're making changes, you're is your health and wellness, right? You run through the program. Not only do you lose weight, but you work on your making changes.

You're helping your body get healthier. Your digestive system, body's repairing and rebuilding. It's increasing your metabolism. You're more in tune to your body's needs. And then your body functions and people get off their, drop their A1C's. They get off their blood pressure medications, their cholesterol medications. They drop their thyroid meds. They're actually able to see real change. And then the next program you're starting from this level. And then it's the absolute same process.

Your body never gets tired of you being mindful of its needs, giving it what it needs, eating good nutrient rich foods. It doesn't get tired of you focusing on managing your stress and getting better sleep and moving your body. It doesn't get tired or used to any of those things. So each time you do the program you're coming in from a different place. What your body worked on last time chances are this time is going to be different and so each

opportunity of the program is to go even deeper, level up even more, get even more in tune. 91 days is just like, it's nothing to your body. 91 days is nothing. Two years is nothing. If you've been starving and depriving and dieting for the last five, 10, 20 years of your life, couple years is nothing. Couple years of actually listening, being in tune.

You know what I mean? Taking care of yourself, helping your body be as healthy as possible. The body never gets tired of that. So with the living method, you're getting even more in tune as you go, and it's structured in a way where you're building on each week.

You're building on, so prep week, for example, all about just trying to get everything together. Ask questions, get back into the routine if you're a returning member. Right, week one, about being more consistent, fine tuning, adjusting the things that you're doing, trying to be real consistent with that food plan. Now, what have we layered on top of it this week?

We've layered on top of making sure you're getting better sleep, which we're going to talk about next week in our sleep series. So the maximizing, we're going to continue to have it be a conversation. So our maximizing, which is all the other things, started with supplements this week.

We talked about that. Maximizing is also recognizing if you have food addiction issues. Maximizing is also checking in with your doctor, right? Making sure you are working hand in hand with your healthcare providers. Next week we're going to build on that conversation with sleep, plus we're going to add mindfulness.

So we've added consistency to the routine, consistency. And then we've added maximizing. Then we add mindfulness, being even really in tune to those portions and we have a process for that. And then downsizing the following week where we get in tune to your portions actually start changing them And so each week we're building and building and building and building so the process in a sense physically gets easier Mentally now mentally it can get trickier because you go your it's like layers of an onion, right? And you're you're you're? And you can bring up,

some people can bring up some deep shit that they gotta work through when it comes to the changes that they need to make. Now everyone's journey, we need to normalize this as different. Just like it's totally normal, some people lose in the beginning, some people, their bodies work on change.

And then the people who were losing in the beginning will see a plateau and other people will start losing. It's normal some people lose in bits and have little plateaus, some people lose in larger chunks, larger plateaus. Somebody might lose 30 pounds in this program and someone else might lose 60 and then next program the person who lost 60 might only lose 10 and the person who lost 30 might lose 40 more It really depends what you're you'll notice. It's equal and opposite reaction We're lowering your set point the weight that your body has gotten used to functioning at and so you will drop weight You will have a plateau you will drop weight

You will have a plateau So whether you drop a little bit amount of weight and have a little plateau little bit amount of weight little plateau or larger chunks bad amount of weight and have a little plateau, little bit of amount of weight, little plateau, or larger chunks, longer plateau. And this also breaks down program to program. If you have a program where you've lost a lot of weight, at some point your body's going to say to you, we need to hold off a minute and we need to make the change that's going to adjust to the weight that you've lost. And that's what you want. When you've lost weight, you're on a plateau, that is your body now making your new weight, your new set point.

So that means when you are finished dieting, your body's not going to feel the need to store that back plus more because you've actually changed the dial and the set point. Set point is something that they're starting to really talk about with the new GLP ones and medications is that you take the medication, it helps lower your set point,

you bump up your medication, it lowers it again. You bump up your medication, you lower it again. It helps you get a handle, but the program also helps you get a handle on things like your hunger levels, being in tune to your body, eating in a way that helps your body not only release fat, but gives it what it needs, right?

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what's going on with my what's going on with my body what let me get this food plan let me figure it out what's happening what's going on on scale like what what is this all about? What the fuck am I doing on this program, right? Real physical. And the second time around is now that you've got the physical part, the routine of the foods, that's easy peasy.

Now you're left with dealing with this, continuing to show up, continuing to prioritize. Many people six weeks into this program will say, this is the longest I've ever actually stuck to a diet, right right and this is why you're actually going to see results because the little things that you're doing end up. Third time around is really like melding the two right it's a real mind body experience. You've got a handle on the physical, you have a handle on the mental and really it's about pulling it all together and then moving forward from there it's about your own personal

experience and journey like what specifically are the things that you need to focus on. Some people it's more physical, there, it's about your own personal experience and journey. Like what specifically are the things that you need to focus on? Some people it's more physical, some people it's more mental. That's a great question. Sorry. I forgot to turn my phone off. What was I talking about?

What was I talking? Less hungry, less hungry, thank you. So what you're gonna notice is that when you're hungry, actually you'll feel really, really hungry, but then you'll also notice you start to get full faster. And you're gonna get to a point where you're gonna look at your food before you even eat it and know, like, if it's too much or not enough.

So this is like, this is you paying attention. You're paying attention to what you're eating, you're bringing awareness to what you are doing. It's all consuming, for lack of a better word, in all the best ways, and you're going to start to pay attention. And because you're starting to give your body what it needs, it's going to start talking to you.

You were born to be intuitive. You don't have to take a course on how to be intuitive. You were born. And what we're doing here is just putting you, keeping your energy directed at yourself rather than out there. And this is what counting and weighing and measuring doesn't do for you.

Counting and weighing and measuring, it's math, it's numbers, it's outside of yourself, it's controlling, it's moderating, it's that, and what you don't do is get in tune. And a lot of us are very disconnected from when we were young, especially when it comes to food, right? You're going to eat everything on your plate. So even when you're a young child, even if you have had enough, you have to eat everything on your plate. So you're taught to eat past when you were full, you have to clear your plate. And a lot of people, when we start in the next couple weeks dealing with portion sizes, are going to notice that their sense of satisfaction is actually clearing their plate in order to get the snack. And so you're taught to ignore your hunger cues.

And then you add dieting on top of that where you are purposely trying to ignore hunger cues, purposely trying not to eat. So that all creates a really disconnectedness. And so what you're trying to do is just get back into, at the end of the program, once you've lost your weight, we are gonna have you understanding when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat

and being able to trust that and being able to trust that Good morning, I've gotten back to exercising and every day my scale is going up about a quarter pound Yep, I know the exercise is good for me as much as I want the scale to go down I'm gonna continue with what I'm doing because I'm 75% sure that eventually it's gonna catch up and the scale will go back down You can bump that up to 100 percent absolutely. So see if you're just listening we're getting fireworks in the background you can absolutely bump that up to 100 percent confident. So what there's a couple things going on when you exercise you are ripping and tearing your muscles you are literally causing damage in your muscles when you sleep your body works hard to repair and rebuild those muscles that has your body working harder.

It has it utilizing more energy. It's making you stronger. It's building and maintaining muscle mass, which is only hugely beneficial for you. So absolutely without a shadow of a doubt, no matter what's going on with scale, 100%, it will in the long run help you when it comes to not just losing weight,

but being able to maintain and sustain your weight the more muscle mass you have in your body, the less your body feels a need to store your glycogen in like your fat and so it hugely beneficial hugely beneficial. You will notice your body change. So what's really cool on the Libby method actually, you know what we did a post the other day of one of our members who had lost 25 pounds and we are always very true very honest. Actually, you know what? We did a post the other day of one of our members who had lost

25 pounds. And we are always very true, very honest. We don't have to fucking fool anybody at the end of the day with how much people are losing. The proof is in the pudding. People post their own photos and we share. And we posted one of our members who had lost 25 pounds. And we actually had some people reach out and be like, you know, that's not real. Like fuck off. First of all, fuck off. We don't have to make things up around here. But too, what I explain to them is, and we say it all the time, healthy weight loss hits different because it's not just weight loss, it's actual fat loss.

And there's a massive difference between fat loss and weight loss. And fat loss is your body actually giving you're giving it what it needs. And so your body is actually able to take the foods, nutrient rich foods, repair, rebuild, regenerate, rejuvenate, actually function and make change. Where simultaneously your body is also focused on fat loss, so releasing the fat. And there's that's a big difference. Because you do a diet where you're starving and depriving yes you lose fat you also usually water weight which obviously is not an issue here because you're drinking so much water and muscle you lose a lot of muscle when you do

those crackpot crazy ass diets and with the living method you're maintaining your muscle you're giving your body the nutrients to make change and your body is releasing fat So 10 pounds on the living method will look like 20 pounds on any other diet And this is something that actually saw happening a few years ago where I was like when I started like because I had helped people all over the world and social media has made it so you can see people and Back in the day, you know old school We didn't have that. And so I would see clients and I wouldn't worry if they sent me photos or what they said they lost weight.

I trust them because they paid me to help them. If they hadn't lost weight, they'd probably be pretty pissed off. So not sure why they would lie to me about their weight loss because they were paying me to help them with their weight loss. We also don't pay anybody. That's really important. We don't pay our guests. So our guests can just say whatever they want. And like, for example, my guest on Thursday,

she's new. We don't have a talk beforehand and say, you need to say this and this is what we're doing. So we're on the same page. I'm not afraid to have conversations with anybody about it at the end of the day. But we also don't pay people when they share their stories or anything like that. People are just doing it to help inspire. But it's a big difference between fat loss and weight loss. And I noticed a couple years ago when members were starting to post their photos,

I'm like, what is different about this? Like there's before and afters, and then there's what's happening here. And it was like seeing healthy weight loss. People are so used to seeing unhealthy weight loss that when they see real weight loss, like fat loss, they don't recognize it. So when you, my whole point in this

is when you have your foods, and I was a personal trainer for years, personal trainer for most of my life. And why I decided to get specifically into what I do with weight loss is because I would be at the gym with my clients at five o'clock in the morning and they're like I need to lose weight and I'm like okay it's great you're here every day at five you need to eat better

well I'm working out I'm exercising I should be able to eat what I want I'm like don't that's not how it works and so now that you have the eating point on and you add exercise your body is gonna transform like crazy you're gonna feel so strong from the inside out. You're going to feel invincible that you won't even care what's going on the scale and it's still going to be about the scale. Don't get me wrong. We're going to make sure we're focused on fat loss over here. It's incredible when you add physical activity to the living method and you're also managing your sleep so your body can repair and rebuild. You're managing your stress, you're doing all that. It's pretty incredible what you can accomplish.

Pretty incredible. I'm in Florida and we aren't used to the cold weather. It makes it hard to drink all the water. I can't imagine how it must be for my northern friends. Yeah I saw you guys had snow. I saw you had snow. So we have a post on that on like tea, drink some tea. It was a while ago and how to like get that water in when it's when it's kind of cold a lot of tea a lot a lot of tea Kathy stay warm I am nowhere near I am nowhere I am nowhere near where I should be for day 19 but I am nowhere near where I was before we started this this really needs to be about progress over perfection or I will trip myself up.

You know what I'm going to say, Melissa, I love how you're feeling this, you are exactly where you need to be. Exactly where you need to be. Because let's say, okay, in hindsight, it's so easy, right? I should have been here, I should have done this, I could have done that, whatever. But now we need to break it down and say,

and I've had people say this, oh, I did a program and I totally failed, I'm back, whatever. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You didn't fail, life happened. We need to normalize. You need to start a diet and follow through until you reach your goals. But there's gotta be an end to it. And we go program by program by program.

So we break it down into digestible bits. Yours also like seasons of the program, seasons of your life. And then sometimes in your life and then sometimes in your life it's a lot easier to do what you need to do than other times. So this is where you need to say okay what's been going on in my life so I want to do better I'm not happy with the results I have I'm not happy with the way I've showed up for myself what can I do to better support myself so what can

I do to make change right what can I do to change that and then you let it say wait a minute like what why why didn't I do more than I did? What was going on in my life? Right? Could have had some a lot of stress going on with your kid like I got going on right now. It could be, you know, you got a lot of work stuff happening, could be that you've been sick, you had a cold or flu or whatever it is. And so we need to normalize, you are exactly where you are and that is perfect, it's perfect. What matters is that you keep showing up every day. I get how you feel, right?

So what is that about? We all wanna keep up with where we're all at with 91 Days of the Program in an ideal world, but the reality is so many people don't do that or can't do that because life gets in there and smacks you in the face. So I just love that you made it another day. You are here today and that's all. And that insight, let me tell you, that insight that you get, that factors into

big picture, continuing to show up no matter what, and being able to maintain and sustain your weight. Because being understanding of how you might need to support yourself when life does not make it easier for you to do the things that you need to do all of everything you were learning through being where you are at right now is going to help in the end game when it comes to being able to maintain and sustain your weight. I wanted to find that one comment but I can't see it. This is timely. Last night my son invited me to join his family visiting my brother in Ottawa. I'll be away for five days. Will not be able to drink a lot of water

on travel days. Plan to do my best and not worry that's it huge huge just do the best you can right do the best you can maybe you can go out for walks while you're there maybe get get hydrated when you can right have a great time have fun enjoying life is never a downside to losing weight never a downside to losing weight never a downside losing weight I see the team telling me it's time to go. I'm going to ignore them for a second and see if I... My weight keeps increasing. I'm being consistent, getting sleep, exercising 75 minutes in the morning and drinking 140 ounces of water. How much is 140 ounces of water in liters? Can you do the math on that? I'm so frustrated. I know patience but no success. So that's, I'm not worried about you, but I know that doesn't negate how you feel.

So you can be frustrated, but honor your mood and your feels, but keep showing up. I'm not too concerned about four liters of water. Okay, great. So exercising 75 minutes in the morning, like what are you doing for your exercise? You know, are you counting weights every day? Are you mixing it up?

Are you getting some relaxation in there? People always say this, I'm being consistent, right? I'm exercising, I'm drinking my water. What's going on with stress, right? What's going on with stress? Getting sleep is one thing. Are you getting enough sleep is another thing. Are you coming off a keto diet, quick fix diet?

Sometimes your body needs to take time to stabilize. It's not real weight gain. So this is what I would say to you. Do you believe it's real weight gain? And if so, why? Why do you believe it's real weight gain? Like what about what you are doing would cause your body to feel the need to store fat? And sometimes they're like, oh, it's because I'm eating more often.

But if you're eating all the nutrient rich foods on the program and plan, you're not going to gain weight. It's just impossible. You're not going to gain weight by following that. So it could be your body in a constant state of stress from all the exercise that you are doing. Your body needs time to repair and rebuild those muscles comes back to what I said. When you're exercising, you're ripping and tearing your muscles.

So your body actually needs time to repair and rebuild those muscles. I also don't know what age you what age you are, what led what's going on hormonally or whatnot. but the repair and rebuild of your muscles is so important. As a personal trainer, I'd have people again come into the gym all day every day. And what I would suggest to them is why don't you go every other day? Give your body time to like really take a break, repair, rebuild, because what happens when you're ripping and tearing your muscles is that your muscles are inflamed.

It can cause inflammation and all the best ways and it's so great for you, but you might need to just kind of calm that down a little bit because 75 minutes is a long period of time to go. So as soon as you start sweating, for example, you're down like a liter of water. So 75 minutes if you're sweating the whole entire time, that's intense exercise. You might need more water than that. Also it could be that you're not getting enough good fats in your diet so you want to make sure you're getting omega

3, could be vitamin d, could be any deficiencies like magnesium especially if you are sweating a lot, working out a lot and you're low in magnesium and not taking a supplement. So I got so many questions for you right so this is where I would look at okay if you're not happy with what's going on is your body changing? Because you should be noticing your body changing with working out that much. And so that should be noticeable. You should be saying, well, the scale is not moving, but holy shit, my body is changing a lot. If your body is not changing a lot with that much exercise and eating on plan, you are probably over training, probably over training and need to give your

body a bit more rest. Or you've got some underlying issues like hormones like inflammation or you have maybe some deficiencies like magnesium, vitamin D, omega 3, those types of things. So that's what I would like look into. It could also just be like I said coming off a restrictive diet. There's that breaking point. So it might take you your body a little bit to get used to feeling confident. You're going to continue to give it what it needs because you are, if your body's feeling it needs to store fat, so if you're coming off a restrictive diet,

I'm not saying this is you, your body's feeling it needs to store fat, you are exercising all the time so you're putting a drain on your energy resources. It might take a while for your body to trust you're gonna continue to give it what it needs. But hang in there, your weight's gonna drop, it's gonna drop. Let me just see.

I lose so slowly. Half a pound a week or less. It's so unmotivating. Okay let me end with that. You are not going to be motivated. Do not rely on your motivation or you will not make it. You will not make it. You will not. Say it again. If you rely on your motivation you will not be here at the end. Motivation is not going to be what gets this done for you. It's not, you have to understand what your end game is. You have to be willing to do what you need to do, show up for as long as you need to show up for in order to reach your goal. You've started it, you need to follow through and you need to finish it. I'm not worried about slow movement because you'd be surprised how quickly little bits on the scale add up and make a really big difference.

So, I mean, that can be like frustrating. It can be frustrating. I mean, in terms of one of it, you cannot let me say it again, you cannot look to the scale for motivation, or you're just gonna you're just gonna take yourself out. You're gonna be frustrated, it's gonna ruin your whole mood, it's gonna make you crazy and you will probably bail. And motivation is why you signed up, you are motivated to lose weight. That's why you signed up. That's why you clicked the buy button. That's your motivation. Your motivation for your daily motivation,

it's great if you feel motivated, but you're not always gonna be motivated. So just like if you go to job, you go to your job. So your motivation for your job probably was to pay your bills. You're not gonna be motivated every day. I love my job, I'm not motivated every day to do. I love my job. I'm not motivated every day to do my job.

I mean, actually, I'm pretty lucky. I'm pretty motivated. I am motivated every day, but I'm a one-off, right? I love my job. Hopefully everyone listening loves their job too, but you may not love trying to lose weight. You may not love the things that you need to do in order to lose weight. So you're not going to be motivated every day. So you got to go to work. It's like you saying I'm not

motivated to go to work. Who fucking cares? If you want to get your paycheck you got to go to work. If you have kids, I have kids. I can only imagine if my kids said to me, I'm just not motivated mom. I just I'm not motivated. The teacher's not motivating me. I'm not motivated. I just I don't think I am gonna go to school. I don't know what I'm not motivated today. I would get get your fucking ass to school because I don't give a shit if you're motivated or not. You gotta do what you need to do to graduate so then you can get a fucking job and be independent and pay your own bills. Right? That's the thing. So I know that may seem a little harsh but that's a real dose of reality.

So to look at weight loss as being any different than anything else you have to accomplish in your life and it's great because if you can love what you are doing, if you can fall in love with yourself, if you can fall in love with giving your body nutrient-rich foods, if you can fall in love with getting and being able to move your body when so many people are not, if you can fall in love with self-care, trying to get better sleep and what it feels like

when you finally get sleep, if you can fall in love with protecting yourself from all the stress and the worry and trying to change your mind and do the things that you can do to better handle that stress, you don't feel so broken down all the time. If you can fall in love with feeling your best

and fall in love with yourself, then at the end of the day, this can be a really wonderful, beautiful, and motivating experience. But your motivation is not gonna come from the scale. Your motivation is not gonna come from a piece of metal on like you step on every day. It's not gonna come from that.

So you might as well just quit now. And you may be like, what kind of fucking motivating person is this? I actually am not a motivator. People ask me if you're a motivator, I'm not a motivator. I'm a truth teller. I'm an information sharer. What I'm really good at is helping people lose weight.

I share everything I can with them and I tell them the truth about the process and it's up to you to find your motivation. So really indulging. So what can you do about it? Your why, right? And I love that you asked this. So many people, I'm really passionate about this because so many people are going to struggle with this.

I'm going to try to keep you motivated, right? I'm going to show up every day. I'm going to try to keep you entertained. We're going to try to keep you entertained with the food plan. We've got some great guest experts. We're going to talk to real people. We're going to show you some before and afters. I'm going to try to keep you kind of be motivated, but your why, your why. Why are you here? That is your motivator. That is the thing you remember every day. The whole point in me being here is because I want to accomplish this. I want to feel like that. I want to live a life this way, right? So that's

your motivator at the end. Love that question by the way. Okay so if I didn't get your question pop it over in the question of the day page. Team will answer it over there. Thanks so much for joining me today. I love talking about this. I am motivated every day because I love helping people and I hope that what I'm sharing is resonating with you Pop it over the question of the day page read the science Saturday post It's a good one the science posts are so good It'd give you great insight into what we're trying to do here

We have the the first one which is set point theory, which is the whole base of the program last week was on What was it on it was on? Psychology of effort. That's a good one. This one's on detox. We also have some recipes for you tomorrow. I'll meet some more of the team and then make sure you pop into the group on Sunday. Read the guidelines. Spoiler alert more of the same following that food plan, but we start to pull in mindfulness. We're building on the last couple weeks pulling in mindfulness. We have this thing called the four mindful eating questions.

We're really going to get into those portions. It's super cool week. How'd amazing rest of your day everyone. Sorry about the technical issues and I'll see you later. Bye. Whether you're in your running era, Pilates era, or yoga era, dive into Peloton workouts that work with you. From meditating at your kids game to mastering a strength program, they've got everything you need to keep knocking down your goals. No pressure to be who you're not. Just workouts and classes to strengthen who you are. So no matter your era, make it your best with Peloton. Find your push, find your power.

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