The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 2 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring/Summer 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 2, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:We're all about progress over perfection around here!Using all of the resources available to you: Livy Method App, Facebook Support Group, Program Guide.Keeping meals and snacks simple & delicious: Check out the Recipe Guide and, later this week, our Member Share Pages.The Lives are not mandatory. They are a great place to connect with other members and go deeper into the process.Water: It's not about more and more; it's about drinking enough to be hydrated.Setting intentions at the start of the day and reviewing at the end of the day is a great routine to get into.Portions will naturally adjust by consistently giving the body what and when it needs it.Breads, pastas, and flours: here's what you need to know.Condiments are a great way to add flavour and nutrients to your meals.Yes! You can have cheese!The body does not need help detoxing but it does need support when in detox.Supporting the body in detox and detox symptoms you will want to look out for.Here's a quick way to find the Live in the Facebook Support Group.Gina shares her background and history that led her to be a weight loss expert."Diet industry got it wrong"What maintenance has to do with losing weight.It's about bringing awareness to the choices made, not made, and why we've made them."Self-savage"Continual learning and The Livy Way.Why are you here? Creating a powerful why is a potent way to stay on track with this process.Taco AnalogyHow you frame the program for yourself matters to your motivation to keep on showing up.Reflect on your diet history to bring awareness to where you've been and where you are at today.It's not about blind faith. It will take time to trust this process.There are benefits to drinking lemon water and apple cider vinegar but neither are make or break!Meeting your body where it is at and using a sickness protocol when you are not well.Remember to post your question on the Question of the Day post at the top of the group! Visit our new Livy Method Podcast to listen to recordings of the Lives.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. It is day two of the program. Yesterday, we rolled out all the information, the prep week guidelines. So each week, we're going to roll out new guidelines for you to follow. I'm not big on rules. This is good. This is bad. I'm all about, these are the things you can do to be as proactive as possible at losing your weight as soon as possible, finally and forever. So each week, we're going to have a set of guidelines for you to follow. The base of that is the basic food plan. Week to week to week, we are going to make changes to it. We're going to be switching up the things that we are focusing on. So beyond just what to eat and when, we're going to get into those issues and associations and habits and beliefs and even traumas for some of you.

We are going to work through all of it. So yesterday we rolled out the food plan and it is now stored in the food plan guide in the Facebook support group and also in the app. You want to have such a great understanding of the food plan, not just Facebook support group and also in the app. You want to have such a great understanding of the food plan, not just what to eat and when, but the rhyme and the reason behind it, why you can't switch up the orders of meals and snacks, why you don't want to be skipping any of your meals and snacks. So make sure you're super solid on that. That is the goal for you this week. If you're new to the program, you can take the week to kind of just ease into it, review the information, ask questions, run out and grab anything that you need and start

making the changes you need to make. We are all about progress over perfection around here. It's not about how quickly you start in the beginning. It's about being here at the end of the 91 days. If you already feel like you failed and you are behind, that's okay. That's a total normal feeling. You haven't failed anything. We haven't even really started yet. That's what prep week is for, for you just to kind of get into it, for you to try to understand it, for you to try to do the things that you need to do when life does not make that easy for us. So we are still adding new people to the group, meaning they've purchased the program. They're just getting into the group today for whatever reason. So if that is you, make sure you reach out at any time.

We're here to assist you, to let you know where the information is. If you're in the Facebook support group, you do not want to use the main page and scroll to find the information. You want to make sure you find the guide section of the Facebook support group. And that is where we organize everything by guides. There's a welcome guide, a program guide, a food plan guide, a daily guide, a recipe guide. I know it's a lot of information. Failing that, we also have our book on Amazon. So this book contains all of the posts in the order that we post them week to week to week. So if you're feeling a little overwhelmed,

this book has everything nice and neatly packaged for you. Also using our amazing living method app. It's so easy, honestly, and we have a whole support team to help you get set up and start using your app. It's so easy. You open up the app, there's check-in video, the daily post, that's where you can track everything, your weight and your foods and your fluids and your movements and your moods and your sleep. And you can use it as a journal, set intentions, end of day reflections, and then everything links into the group. If you want to ask a question now, so many people, here's the big announcement. So, so many people are just using the app. We are missing like 10,000 people in the group and that's the way it goes. Some people just choose to use our app, which means that we might be opening up some more spots. So if you know anyone who didn't get in to the program because thousands of people miss out, tell them to head over to the website. I will keep you guys updated on that,

how many spots we have left and where we are at with that. But that's the beauty of adding our new app to the program is that we used to sell out every single time. And of course, once we start, we close down registration. But given the fact that we're missing 10,000 people in the group because they are choosing just to use the app, we might be able to open up some more spots. Don't hold me on that because it also could just be that people are late getting in. Hundreds of people are joining every hour in this group. But if you are new to the group, reach out. We're here for you. All right, let's get into your questions. Made an amazing turkey pasta loaded with veg and some zucchini noodles to go. Game changer. Who needs regular pasta? Fresh Eyes, sixth round. Love it. So we have a whole recipe

guide for you each week. We're going to be rolling out more recipes. There are hundreds of recipes or over a hundred recipes in the app as well. Now, if you don't want to cook anything or follow a recipe or cook anything fancy or follow a recipe, you can keep this whole program and process super simple as well. So on the weekend, we are actually going to post some recipe share pages for you. So this is where you if you are returning member, you can post your favorites, if you have any special recipes, or sort of, you know, favorite go tos, if you have your favorite cookbooks, or recipe sites, or whatnot, it's going to be a place where you can share those and where you can go and also get inspired if you're looking for ideas as well. Some of you are having a hard time with the fact that

I'm not telling you exactly what to eat and when. The food plan is very specific in terms of the components that you want to add in, those vegetables, proteins, leafy greens, healthy fats, heavier carbs, and whatnot. There's a lot of flexibility in it. That's because everyone is a little different dietary needs, preferences, cultural needs, whether you like to cook, whether you don't like to cook. So this is about learning what you need and what works for you to not only lose weight, but to be able to maintain and sustain your weight, right? So this is where you do got to do a little bit of the work. But remember, you're not alone. We are here for you. So got any questions about it? We're happy to assist you with that. Okay. Fourth round. This is the first time I've been able to catch a live live. Hi Irene.

Hello. So remember the lives not mandatory. You don't have to watch hours of me talking or, or listen to hours of me talking in order to be successful. I think they're super valuable. It's an opportunity to get in, really get successful. I think they're super valuable. It's an opportunity to really get into it and have a much deeper conversation. It's also a great place to connect with our amazing community as well. So many of our members are sharing their thoughts and where they are at and what's worked for them

and what they've been through in the comments. So the comment section of the lives can be gold. But I know some of you can't make it live, so we always do repost the guide, uh, repost the Facebook live in the guides. So at any time you can watch it and then you can also download and listen on our new podcast. So, so many of you are looking for the, the, the lives from the program. They can now be find found on the Livi Method podcast. So I have my old Way and Magina podcast. That's where we're going to have like celebrity guests. It's so fun. I'm going to talk about a variety of different topics. Our new one this week, I break down and discuss keto. Yeah, I know. I went there. So those types of podcasts are over on our Way and Regina podcast. Everything specific to the program is going to be found on our new Livvy Method podcast.

So you're going to want to go find that. I also went live last night, 7 p.m. So the 7 p.m. lives are like a what happens on the live stays on the live kind of lab situation. So we don't turn those into podcasts. But I'm going to go back tonight at 7 p.m. This week, I'm going to be back tonight, maybe tomorrow to feel it out. Just want to make sure you guys are, you know, feeling really good about where you were at. So if you want to join me tonight, I'll be back then.

All right, let's get into some of the questions. If you're struggling with water, I highly recommend getting a straw for you to drink. Maybe this will help some, really helps me drink. This helps me at the start to get back on track. So drinking the water or drinking for some of you drinking more water than what you are used to drinking, obviously, which can be a bit of a challenge of drinking out of a straw, finding the right cup to drink. Like I have glasses where it seems like I can just down the water and then other glasses, it sits there and I barely touch it. So I know it sounds so silly, but finding the right glass to drink out of,

finding the right carrier system or water bottle can make all the difference. Now, when it comes to water, it's not about drinking more and more and more and more. It's about drinking enough to make sure that you are properly hydrated. And most people are walking around being dehydrated. And you know, we many of us were told eight to 10 glasses of water. That's no longer the science. In fact, it was never science. So the new science, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Harvard, they've all come out with 2.7 to three and a half liters of water, something I've been saying for 30 years, but whatever. So you probably need more than what you think. And that means you're drinking more than what you

are used to drinking. And so it can take your body time to adjust to that. So you may find you're going to the bathroom more often. That is totally normal. We have Dr. Pfeiffer, who is a world renowned oncologist. And he's going to be back with his amazing video that he did for us. We've had him in the groups before and had these discussions, and we've put together this little video of questions that you have about how much water you need to drink and why. We're also going to get into pelvic health as well.

A lot of times when people start drinking more water and they're going to the bathroom more frequently, which can be normal as your body adjusts, there can be some underlying issues there with pelvic health. And this just isn't, you know, people who've had a baby. For all sorts of reasons, people can have issues with pelvic health. So we're going to have a pelvic health expert come join us and talk about that as well. So we're definitely going to get into the water and, you know, tips for drinking it and how much you need as you go along. So the amount of water that you need is not just based on how tall you are. Obviously, if you're taller or shorter, you may need more or less.

If you weigh more, you have more weight to lose than someone else. If you are on medications that cause dehydration, if you drink alcohol, salty food, exercise, live in a cold environment, live in a very dehydrating environment. So everyone is a little different. So it's about figuring out what you need. You definitely want to start it early, spread it out throughout the day. So you're not just jamming in at night. And then of course you can't sleep because you're up peeing a million times in the middle of the night. So it's really just about figuring out what works for you and how much you need can change on a daily, daily basis. So don't stress yourself out over it. You can gradually work your way into getting back at it or getting in the

water that you need, right? So take your time with it. Take your time with it. Let me see if I got some more questions. If you're looking for recipe inspiration. So yes, we have tons of recipes over on our app. We have over 100 recipes over on our app. We also will be posting new recipes each week. And like I said, we have some recipes share pages. And that's where you can post any of your favorites over there as well and share ideas and be inspired and whatnot. Good live last night. Glad to hear you are back tonight. Yeah, I'm here for you. I love doing the evening lives. There's something about checking in at the end of the day. In fact, next week, you will notice that we are going to post an end of day reflection post. So every night in the group and also be linked from the app at 6pm because you

can actually do this in the app. There's a place in the app to set your daily intentions and check in and post your end of day reflections, which is really cool. So I should be using our app, you don't have to no pressure. We're going to do a post in the group that's going to pose a reflective question to you. So we're going to do it a little bit differently this group. So if you want to pop into the group in the evening, and just for you do your own end of day reflection, it's the same thing with the check-in video pinned to the top of the page each day where you can ask all your questions. You'll notice some of our returning members use it as a place to set their intentions.

Hello, good morning. I am here. These are the things that I'm working on today. This place, this group is the place for you to do what you need to do in order to work through the things that you need to work through, to learn what you need to learn, to make the changes that you need to make in order to be successful. So you'll notice that people will use it in a variety of different ways. So if you see people just kind of saying hello and talking about their day on the check-in video, they're doing

what we call setting their intentions. Setting your intentions is just like, okay, I've carved out these 91 days to focus on losing weight, right? And each day I'm going to say out loud or write down the things that I'm going to focus on. So today I'm going to focus on being more consistent with getting my water in.

Today I'm going to focus on trying to be more consistent or making my food choices nutrient rich. Today I'm going to focus on trying to be more consistent or making my food choices nutrient rich. Today, I'm going to focus on being in the moment, not stressing about what my kids are doing or how crazy they're making me or whatever it is, whatever it is. Very similar to like a gratitude journal. What that does, it just reminds you or brings this to the forefront of your mind that yes, this is what you're focused on each day, which I'm a, I'm a big fan of. Third time here and always find the live so helpful. Always make sure I'm up by 7am so I can listen. Yeah. So, so, so many people live in different time zones. I know we have a whole team over on the West coast. It's actually just talking to Kim, who's our manager. I called her. I'm like, are you up? Which would be like five o'clock her time.

Of course she's up because she's excited about getting the program started. So moving forward, the information is posted at 5 a.m. We run Eastern Standard Time. I'm in just north of Toronto here in Canada. And so there's some things that you can do. Like if you want to follow the day behind, right, so you can kind of get that information. If you work shift work and you are up earlier, you can totally do that as well. There's also getting the information in the book.

Just remember that there's no sort of emergency situation with any of the things that we're posting each day. What you want to follow is the basic guidelines and of course, understand the foundation of the food plan and the rest is just kind of extra. So today we're talking shift workers. Can you be a shift worker and do the program? Absolutely. We have thousands of them run through the program every year. We have a lot of teachers who do the program. We got a lot of tips. I wouldn't say tricks, but we got a lot of tips for you for navigating and managing. You know, here's the situation. You might not be able to do all of the things, but even just doing some of the things is

going to make a big difference when it comes to the Libby method for sure. We're also talking nutrient rich meals, the importance of not just having salads every day for lunch. And if you do make them nutrient rich, don't just have those, you know, at the end of the day, you're hungry, but for your veg snack, you just eat carrot sticks, right? You can also have carrot sticks. Yes. But you can add like cheese or olives or, um, you know, like a dip, like a hummus or guacamole, you know, you can give your foods as much oomph, you know, much, as much bang for your buck as possible. We're also talking portion. So how the heck are you supposed to lose weight when there's no counting, there's no weighing,

there's no measuring. We have our own method for that. That's all about getting into it. So you will notice that if you are consistent in following the food plan, your body will start to adjust to portions. Your body does, it's not interested in overeating. What happens is your body gets used to consuming a certain amount that feeds into that set point, which is the weight that your body is used to functioning at. And so when you start giving your body what it needs or more of what it needs, your body and start like listening to your body is going to start talking to you. It's going to tell you when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat. So you'll start to notice you're actually hungry. You used to go all day long without eating. And now all of a sudden you're hungry. What gives? You used to go all day long without drinking any

water at all. Now you're drinking water and you're thirsty all the time. What gives? Well, because your body's communicating. They're like, holy shit, is she listening to us? Is she giving us what we need here? What the hell's going on? So you'll start to notice your portions are naturally adjusting. This is why we don't want you counting, weighing, and measuring. This is why we don't want you purposely trying to eat less or purposely trying to eat more. Just eat enough. Make sure you eat all of the meals and snacks, make them as nutrient rich as possible and eat enough to feel satisfied right now. So you're not trying to eat less. Definitely don't try to eat less. You'll fuck yourself over. I'm telling you, and you won't make me, you won't understand it today or next week or

the week after, but when it comes time to us to start focusing on and adjusting portions, you're going to be like, how do I do this? Because I've been trying to eat less the whole time. I know it's hard to resist that diet mentality that less is more. But in this case, it's not. So when it comes to portions, you want to eat enough that you feel satisfied right now. So check out that post. So many of you asking about bread and pasta and flour, of course, there's, you know, alternatives, like, you know, zucchini noodles and whatnot. But if you want to have pasta, you can have pasta, we just tell you everything that you need to know about that. Definitely minimizing things like breads and pastas, which in a sense are processed foods, right? Like there's there's a big difference between black beans when you eat them, the

nutrient value from them and how your body processes and break them down in compared to black bean pasta, two totally different things. And so you can absolutely still have breads. People continue to have bread the entire time. They're still successful. Same thing with pasta, still successful. It really just depends on how hardcore you want to be, any food sensitivities that you have and what not. And condiments, we're talking condiments today. So condiments are fine. Condiments are actually, condiments or spices are a great way to add nutrient value to your food. You just want to make sure they're all natural, no artificial flavors, colors, anything like that. And then we're talking dairy. Yeah, you can have cheese. You can have cheese. You can have cheese. You can have dairy, but you don't have to eat dairy if you don't like dairy. So we have a post on that today as well. Detox symptoms. First night went great,

but restless sleep, big headache this morning, probably sugar detox and not snacking at night. Yeah. So the body does not need help detoxing. I'm not a fan of detox cleanses. Tease does a great job on its own. If you've ever had food poisoning, it detoxes the shit out of that. A cold flu virus detoxing your menstrual cycle every month, form a detoxing. And so one, when you start to make changes to your diet, you're going to notice. And two, when you start drinking enough water to support the body's needs. So I don't believe in making the body detox, but I do believe in supporting the body's needs, especially when it comes to detox. And when it comes to fat loss in this process, it's all about your body releasing fat through

its natural metabolic process. That happens when you pee, when you poo, when you breathe, and when you sweat through that natural detox process, your body's process of eliminating things. And in this case, it is fat. So when you do a deprivation diet, where you starve yourself, and you deprive yourself and you force your body to burn fat, you will lose weight because you're forcing you're giving your body no choice. So it will it will burn the fat for fuel, you will lose the weight, but you are also simultaneously reinforcing the need for it. Your body stores fat because it feels like it needs it for those times where you are starved and deprived.

So if you force your body to burn fat, you are teaching the body that you need this fat, which is why the first chance it gets, your body stores all that fat back plus more. It is also why so many of you listening have had to have your gallbladder removed. One of the reasons why people have to have their gallbladder removed is due to weight loss through deprivation diets, where you lose weight so quickly and in a way that your body is burning fat. So your body stores toxins in your fat. And this is why, for example, that new breastfeeding moms or nursing moms are taught are told not to lose weight too quickly in this manner, because those same toxins can transfer to the baby. So the living method isn't about forcing

and starving and depriving, it's about giving the body what it needs. So the body no longer feels the need to store fat. So essentially, it's releasing fat. Now, of course, it's a much more complicated process than that. But what happens is when you burn that fat, those toxins that are stored in the fat, get into your gallbladder essentially and gunk it up. And then you have to get your gallbladder removed. So your gallbladder basically is holding like an extra cup of bile to help with digestion, processing and digesting your foods. This is why for some of you adding in that lemon water, apple cider vinegar or stimulating your digestive system before you start eating can be a benefit for a variety of reasons. So that's sort of like, you know, so when it comes to when the scale is

moving, we talk about detox in the program. But I do it in a very loose general term type of way. There's a lot of science behind the living method. In fact, we have a whole science post on detox. It's all the sciences in the back of the book. It's also in the app, in the science guide, and then week to week to week in the program, we're going to roll out the science behind the program relevant to where you are at in the program and the process and the things that we're talking about. So I'm going to, you're going to hear me talk a lot about detox, supporting the body in detox when the body is detoxing and detox symptoms. So when the scale is about to, to move, when your body's about to release fat, it's normal for your weight to go

up before it drops because your body is retaining water in order to follow through and release fat. Also those same toxins, right, getting into your bloodstream, making you feel kind of just blah, you can feel kind of bloated, you can feel kind of gross, you can get those headaches. And normally they will go along with the scale also moving. Also a sign of detox is extra hungry, heading into the evening, even though you've eaten all this nutrient rich food dissatisfaction all day, waking up in the middle of the night around three or four o'clock time, having to go to the bathroom, also a sign of detox, having your weight be up, feeling bloated and whatever, sign of detox, headaches,

whatnot. We have a whole list. We're going to roll those out for you tomorrow. So make sure you check out that post. And water not appealing. So those are all signs that your body is in the process of releasing fat and they should go hand in hand with the scale moving, if not that day, then the next day. And then that's kind of good because you get to pick up on what weight loss looks like and feels like to you. Now, some people experience, you know, really strong detox symptoms when that scale is moving, and some people don't experience any. And so how strong a detox symptoms you get zero indication of how successful you're going to be. It's just everybody's body is a little different in that way. So you're going to when making change, you're going to notice your body adapting to change

and you can't just take pounds of fat out of your body and not have your, not notice the process of doing that. And for some people, there is a byproduct in terms of symptoms, in terms of how you feel. But we never want to blow off, you know, oh, it's just you're dropping weight and detox symptoms. No, never want to blow off, you know, oh, it's just you're dropping weight and detox symptoms. No, never want to blow off how you're feeling. So if ever you feel like there's something else going on, make sure you check in with

your doctor. But we're going to talk about that tomorrow. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. Oh, do, do, do. Let me go through this. Do, do, do. How do I have access? How do I access this live from Facebook, link to it from the app, but there is a delay. So yeah, so that's because people have to link the live to the app. So the quickest way to find the live is to go into the Facebook support group.

You know, it's every day at nine. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer, a few minutes longer. So it's every day at nine. The quickest way to find it, because if you, again, scroll through our main page, it's going to take you forever. If you link from the app, there is a bit of a delay because the team has to take the code once it's live and manually input it into the app. I mean, technology is smart and good, but it's not that good. So there is a bit of a delay. Our team is pretty quick with it. The best way to find the live is to go straight to the photo or media section of the Facebook support group. You just click on it and you'll see it airing. Or if you're clicked on it, you will see it pop on live as soon as it goes live. So that's the quickest way to find it, not through scrolling.

And the same thing with the guide. So the team have to find it and then go and put it into the guide. So the quickest way, pop it in the Facebook support group and go straight to the photo section. Now, all of these tips are in our welcome guide and our program guide. So in our welcome guide talks about how to download the app, troubleshoot that it talks about how to find the lives, it talks about how we do things. So many people discount or don't bother looking at the welcome guide, especially after the program starts, but some good tidbits, great information to help you make the most of you know, the Facebook support group and in the app. Also, in terms of the app, we have so many amazing videos, a lot of times what happens is people

don't even know the stuff that they can do on the app or how to utilize the data that you are collecting, which we take privacy issues real serious. So I do want to mention that if you are uploading any photos into the app, I cannot see them. The team cannot see them. We do not have any access to any of the information. So we got it all locked down, privacy laws and rules and all of that. So don't worry that, you know, all of a sudden you post a photo in the app, you're going to find yourself on a billboard somewhere. We don't do that. Also, anything that's posted in the group, we're not going to take that and, you know, turn it into a commercial or share it. If there is something we would like to share, we will reach out and ask you. So this group is, you know,

a really safe space for you to really, really share your journey if you feel so inclined to do so. So just give you a heads up on that. Do you have a nutritional background? You know so much about nutrition and diet plan. So yeah, of course, so many people they look at me and they're like, what does a skinny bitch know about anything? I am 51 years old. I have been working in the diet and fitness industry since I was 14 years old. At 14, I became a personal trainer. I lied. I lied and said that I was 16 and I became a personal trainer at 14. And I've worked in a variety of gyms pretty much my entire life. Back then, and you know, when I went to university, you didn't really go to school for nutrition unless you know, you wanted to be a dietitian

or whatever. But I took a lot of courses, a lot of in-house courses in the gyms, they had their own nutritional, like Good Life had their own nutritional program. You know, American Council on Exercise, Lifestyle and Weight Management. There's the Canadian one that we have here. So I have had all those certificates, did all those courses in nutrition, but that's sort of the thing is that I worked in gyms throughout high school. When I went to university, it's one of the ways I paid my way through university. But while I was at university and I was teaching two to three hardcore aerobics classes, I'm talking thong up your ass, you know, like 20 minute workout, but you're going to do that for like an

hour, you know, go until you puke kind of aerobics classes. Plus I was into bodybuilding and then I was going to school and what was happening to me, even though I was teaching all these classes and then hardly eating anything, um, one, cause I was broke, anything. One, because I was broke, broke student. Two, because I was on a diet. My weight just kept going up and up and up to the point that I gained probably over 150 pounds. And that is where I was like, what the hell is going on? Everything that I've been taught and everything I share and teach with other people, my job was to help other people lose weight. People come into the gym, they want to work out, yeah, but they also want to lose weight. And, you know, so I would put them on diets, I would help them with that. And, you know,

what I was doing for other people wasn't working for me. And this is where I went to my doctor and I said, there's something wrong with me. Like, I just keep gaining weight. I keep exercising more, eating even less, and I just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Now I know high stress, lack of sleep, long periods of time without eating, overtraining. I know exactly what it is now, but that's not how it was then. I haven't had a client that needed to lose weight

because they were just eating all the wrong foods in 30 years. Like it's so much more complicated than that. Um, so that's sort of how the Libby method came about. And then I continued to, after university, I moved to Toronto and then I continued to work at gyms and teach classes and help people lose weight. Um, as a personal trainer, I, and I was teaching, here's a photo of me actually, as a, you know, I'm teaching like 250 pounds, I weighed teaching aerobics classes, I was strong, built like bull, super strong. And yeah, so anyways, when I moved to the city, I met my ex husband, and he was a chef And, you know, when you start to date, you start to eat

more. And, you know, obviously now I also realized, you know, I wasn't pulling all-nighters with school. My stress levels have changed. And, you know, as the more I ate, the more I started to lose weight and people would say to me, what are you doing? What are you doing? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just like eating. I don't know. And I was dumbfounded. And I got pretty obsessed about why in the world am I eating more than I ever have? And I'm losing weight. This doesn't make sense. So I went down a rabbit hole of, you know, how foods process and break down on your body. And this is like pre-internet people. So I would head to the library, the microfiche, read journals, like this was like

old school. Nobody was talking about lifestyle, metabolism, cortisol, insulin, digestive issues, microbiome, these words, nobody was talking about these things. I even went down like the organic rabbit hole and for a while spent a fortune on organic foods. I was like, what is going on? I was also raised in the diet era, 30 years of watching all the diets come and go. And I'm a massive Oprah fan. No matter how you feel about Oprah, I totally respect how you feel about her. But I was like, I wanted to be Oprah. I wanted to help people. And I was fascinated with all of the diets and all the doctors that she brought on. And I kept saying to myself, I don't understand all these super smart people.

Why can't they come together and figure out what works for people? Anyway, I figured it out by using myself as a guinea pig and trying to figure out why all of a sudden I was losing weight. Within eight months, I had lost 100 pounds. Within the year, I had lost, within eight months, I had lost a hundred pounds. Within a year, I had lost the rest. And then it got into a situation because I was working at a gym that people are like, well, you need to help me lose weight. You need to help me lose weight. You need to help me lose weight. And so then I started helping people lose weight on an individual basis. And then I learned a lot by working one-on-one

with people. And so I would meet with people and talk with them about what they're eating and what they're doing and how they're feeling and what they're struggling with. And then as technology progressed and I had four kids and it seemed like every fucking day, one of my kids were sick and it was hard for me to get to work and whatever. I started working online where I had clients that would text me everything they eat every single day. So from the minute they woke up, how are they feeling, right? What did they eat? What did they drink?

Did they have bowel movements? Like all of it. And I would get to really understand what people were doing and then what was happening on the scale because of what they were doing and how they were feeling. And then the things that they were working and how they were feeling and then the things that they were working through, having a hard time prioritizing themselves, dealing with guilt, dealing with past traumas, trying to understand why they're sabotaging themselves. Just when the scale is moving and they're doing so well, why did they go out and do

this or do that or whatever and what happened there? And really getting to understand what was working for people, what wasn't working for people and what wasn't working for people and what people really needed. And so I haven't been sitting around in a boardroom or in a lab or, you know, in school or any of those things. And in fact, you know, what people learned in school has radically changed, especially if you look at the, at the Canada food guide, right? Like how much that has changed and evolved over the years. And they're still not there. It's just politics and bureaucracy. And I, you know, like, it's not that fucking difficult, figure it out. You know,

it's like the whole diet industry, they know their shit stinks. They know that their diets don't work for sustainability, but Weight Watchers can't come out. Well, actually they did come out. It's like, how do you come out and say, Hey, yo, whoa, we got it wrong. Thanks for giving us millions of dollars, all your time and energy over the years, but shit, yeah, we got it wrong. What we were sharing with you was never sustainable. And can you imagine? And then immediately, I don't know if you watch this on the whole Oprah thing when the CEO of Weight Watchers came on. And immediately, if you went to Twitter or X or whatever the hell you call it these days, people are like, I want to sue Weight Watchers. I want to sue them. Because now they're coming out saying that this doesn't work. I mean,

the clues are all there. If someone reinvents their pro people say to me, Oh, is it the same program every time? You bet your fucking ass because it works. And there's science behind it. You're not going to find me switching things up every week. This week we're doing this. That week we're doing this. We're reinventing this.

We're reinventing that. Nah, man, because science is science and what works, works. You know, it's not about duping people and conning people and getting people to believe that, you know, this is going to work for you. It always worked for weight loss. It never worked for sustainability. So what was the question again? So what makes me a weight loss expert is that I have spent a lot of time with thousands of people really trying to understand what works, what doesn't. I've tried all of it. So the living method is a combination of like low fat, high fat, high protein, this, that, whatever. Like it's a combination of really learning. There is truth in some of the things. It's just people take things

to the max, right? Like there is benefits in intermittent fasting, but it sucks for weight loss. There is benefit in not eating after dinner and in the evening. You don't have to call that fasting. That's called you've eaten all day long, your body's pumping melatonin through your system and getting ready for wind down for a nice deep sleep. You can skip breakfast, yeah, because you're not eating to give you energy. If you ate the day before, you wake up, you're full of energy. But is there a benefit in eating higher protein for breakfast? Yeah. So there's so many like,

so many myths and mistruths because so many people just trying to find the shtick and make a buck. And so no one's really telling you what, and that's why we're here. The Libby Method, accessible, right? We have a Facebook group. We have people here to answer your questions. We have an app. We have, I mean, even the colors of our app are geared towards people who have seeing issues. We have transcripts available, captions available. We have our book for people who, if you know, the book works for them, like accessible and accessible to people all around the world through Facebook, affordable, 75 fucking ass dollars for all of this information, all of the support. Just wait till you see our guest experts who are just like

doable, doable, doing it in a way that makes sense. It's systematic where one week leads into the next leads into the next, where you understand what you need to do. You're learning along the way you're unlearning, relearning, learning new things. So at the end of this program, you're taking everything that you've learned and you're so able to easily maintain your weight, not just physically, but also mentally, right? And more importantly, maintainable. It's one thing to help people lose weight. So this is what I've learned. This is how I learned maintenance is that I have pretty much worked in small towns. I was born and raised in Peterborough. I lived in the city for a bit Toronto, but you know,

you're in that same group of people. I would go to the gym every day. The people that I was helping lose weight would be there every day. I worked in small towns after that on my own where I'd have to see the same people for days, months, weeks, years. And so if I helped you lose weight and you paid me to do that good money, well, mind you, you know, I don't want to see you two years later and have you gained all that weight back. So it was only through like perseverance and being in a small town that I not only needed to help people lose weight, but in a way that when I saw them again, they were able to maintain and sustain their weight, right? So all of this kind of created

out of what I've learned through my own journey and also necessity and not only needing people to lose weight, but also do it in a way that they can maintain and sustain. And then also really understanding how shit the diet industry and the mentality of all of that and the detriment behind it and really wanting to do it in a different way. This is why we don't talk about control, moderation. There's no good foods. There's

no bad foods. You know, there's no berating on yourself, getting on yourself. I don't even talk really about accountability. It's not accountability. It's awareness. You understanding what you want to achieve and what you need to, where you've been and what you need to work through and things you need to do in order to achieve that goal. And a lot of it is being aware of the choices that you're making. Be aware of the choices you're not making and why. Being aware of how you feel every day, right? There's so much to it. So if you found your way to the living method, you are lucky because it is an amazing way to, you know, lose weight to the point that people just don't even know it exists out there. They do not even know that you can lose weight in a healthy way. And here we are. It's like Oprah had that big conversation, right?

And they're trying to figure it out. And we're over here just doing it every day. So that is how, so that is sort of my background. Yeah, I have certificates and I've taken tons of courses and I've done that over the years. But really what makes me a weight loss expert is the time that I've put into actually helping people lose weight. But with that said, I do stay in my lane. I do stay in my lane. You're not going to see me coming out as a hormone expert next week. Like we have our own doctors that are coming on. You know, I did think about going back to school and getting a psychology degree. I did, but I've been too busy doing these groups. But we have a psychologist coming on. We are people, we are bringing on people who are experts when it comes to hormones.

So the program is not just me. The program is me sharing everything that I've learned with you over the years. But it's also our amazing guest experts. They're going to come on and talk about the things that you want to talk about. Talk about self-sabbage and how to work through self-sabbage. Self-sabbage. Here we are, day two, self-sabbage. Self-sabotage and how to work through self-sabotage. Here we are, day two, self-sabotage, right? Working through past issues, associations, traumas, some of you, we're going to get into hormones and why it can be so difficult. We're going to get into talking

about all of it. So it's not just my area of expertise. It's like everyone who's part of the living method, which is really cool. And then we also learn so much. We continue to learn so much by you sharing where you are at, asking the question. So how the, how the information got to be all of this information is that someone would ask a question and I would answer and I'd be like, someone else would ask the same question. I'm like, okay, people are interested. They need to know this. Let's make a post. Let's make another post. Let's make a post for this. Let's make a post for that, you know? And we have fine-tuned and tailored the information group over group over group based on what we're learning from our members. At the end of the program,

you're actually going to have an opportunity to fill out a survey and share everything that you have learned, things you liked, loved, didn't like so much, things that you would like us to see and make change. Like we have made tons of changes. Like one of the things from the book is that it now says, you know, along with what page it is on, on the bottom, what week you're on, like little things like that. We're constantly learning. I do not know it all, nor do I pretend to know it all, and nor do I want to know it all because I love learning. I love learning. So I also go through my own learning process with you guys. When you're going through the Libby Method, there's always something for me to learn around here. Okay, enough about that. Did that answer your question? Are you sorry you asked? But I do want you to have a little bit of faith in me. I know some of you are like,

you don't know me from nothing. And you know, you don't of faith in me. I know some of you are like, you don't know me from nothing. And you don't have to trust me. I totally get it. You can have your reservations. You can have your questions. That's why I ask your questions, have your reservations, how you feel. I always say, no, love me, hate me. I don't care.

All I care about is you being successful at the end of the day. And I get to show up every day and talk about what I love. So I'm so grateful for that. My why is to lighten the load on my knees so I can be the best self for my 825 kilometer El Camino walk, uh, hike and pilgrimage, pilgrimage. Uh, I love this for you. Oh my gosh. I mean, this isn't the first time that we're hearing your why. Why are you here? We talked about this a little bit yesterday, right? There was a couple things you want to want to do. You're going to want to, yes, understand the food plan inside and out, but you're going to want to know why you're here. Take a minute and ask yourself, why are you

here? Some of you are using your same why from 20 years ago. I guarantee you, you are not here because you're trying to fit your ass into your short shorts for summer. I mean, not that that wouldn't be a bonus, but that is not why you're here. That is not going to be why you keep showing up. So why? And make it tangible. So I'll always use the example of, okay, I want to lose weight, lose weight. I want to fit into my bikini. Okay, great. I'm all for that, but take it further than that. Okay. So envision yourself wearing the bikini, jogging on the beach with your jiggly parts everywhere, right? Jogging past the taco stand where you stop and you grab a taco and you wolf it down with the beer and then you get back to carrying on your merry way. Not worrying about what anyone's looking at, feeling calm and confident

in your body, you know, being able to eat a taco and drink a beer without stressing about it and just get back to like this gorgeous, amazing day, right? Or I want to be healthy. What is healthy? What is that? What does that mean to you? Is that like getting out of bed every day where you feel like, oh, you're excited about the day instead of like, fuck me, I'm exhausted and my body hurts. You know, like go into your closet and being able to grab whatever you want, not have to worry about if it fits and changing your pants 10 times. You know, does it mean like having good energy and, and, and actually doing the things that in your mind you want to do, like get out and go for a walk or sign up for this

dance class or go bowling or whatever that might be, right? Is it playing with your grand? Is it taking your kids to the park and not just sitting there with a coffee being like, Oh my fucking God, you know, or is it like getting on the playground and being there with your kids and, you know, like playing with them and having, or having that energy? Oh, nothing wrong sitting there with a coffee. Trust me. What does it mean? Does it mean going to the doctor and not stressing or thinking, oh my God, I'm going to have a heart attack every fucking day or worried about your cholesterol or worried about your fatty liver or worried about this or worried about that, right? Like what does healthy mean? So really defining what it is to you. Now it can be a long-term

why, right? Or it can be a short-term. You have a goal that you want to achieve. How you frame the program is really important. So bear with me on this. So you can call this a diet. You can call it a lifestyle. I don't really care. I'm not going to, I'm not trying to make it not a diet. It's a diet. It's designed to help you lose weight, but you can call it a lifestyle if you want, because essentially you are creating a lifestyle for you that you will continue to follow when you are done. Um, you can call it a course. Hello, here's your reading material. You can call it an adventure. I don't know what the fuck's going to happen, but I'm here for it. You can call it a journey in self-discovery, find out who you really are, what works for you, what makes you happy, what doesn't, how to be your best self. It can also

be a project. You are a project. You are the project. You know, that you have things that you want to change and do and how you feel and stuff you want to accomplish. So however you, so having a really strong why and defining it like a course, for example, you go like your kid going to school, kid going to school, kid going to school, your kid is not motivated to go to school every day. They have to go to school, they have to graduate, maybe they are motivated to graduate, but they are not motivated every day to do the things that they need to do. Same thing. Maybe you're working at a job, maybe you have a business, there's goals you want to create, maybe there's a, you know, a promotion you want to get.

And so yeah, maybe your why is you want to feed your kids, feed your family, put a roof over your head, take vacations. I don't know what that is, but you're not going to be motivated every day to go to work. And there just are things that you need to do each day. So you just, you want your why is like your reminder of why you are showing up and doing the shit that you need to do every day. And when you do take a few days off of it, why, you know, your why is why you're going to get back to do those things. So having a really strong why and defining that is really great. And it's up to you. It can be whatever you want. It can be fit your ass in your short shorts, but don't just have it be fit your ass in your short shorts. Where are you going to wear your

short shorts? What are you going to do in those short shorts? How are you going to feel in those short shorts? And then also that going back and tracking, stop, take a minute and assess where you've been, the diets that you've done, what's worked for you, what doesn't work for you, you know, why you've gained weight, why it's hard for you to gain weight, really taking that time to reflect on where you've been, where you're coming from, right? And so you can meet yourself where you are at today. A lot of times people bring a lot of baggage into the program because you're like, like you haven't just been losing weight for two days with the living method. You've been trying to lose weight for 20 years. So sometimes people do that. They bring all of their baggage, like you're in stage two and you're frustrated already. Well, fuck,

why haven't I lost five pounds yet? It's day two. But for you, it's not. For you, it's day, I don't know, 2002, because you're trying to lose the weight for the last however many years, right? So it's good to recognize and kind of own and recognize where you've been and sort of meet yourself where you're at so that you can kind of move forward on this new journey. Totally off topic today. What are we even talking about today? I've already gone past my time. It is 948. I have a timer here. I'm supposed to stop at 30 minutes, but here we are. Just a little bit of a backstory for you guys to get to know me a little bit. Thanks for asking. I do think that's important because a lot of our returning members will say, just trust Gina, trust the process. And yeah, I love that. but also it's not about blind faith and it might

take you a while to trust the process. It might take you a while to trust that eating more often isn't going to cause you to gain weight. It might take you to trust that you don't have to count and weigh and measure, and there is a different way. It might take you to trust, take time to trust that you're going to be able to lose your weight in a way you're actually going to be able to maintain and sustain. But I'm going to make my mission to, to explain it all to you, to make sure you feel super confident in everything that we're doing each day. And that's a big part of these lives is to be able to kind of talk more in depth about, you know, um, the things that you want to talk about. Can I have,

can I, can my water intake all day be with lemon? Sure can. Um, you know, we do have people who be like, if you're putting lemon in your water, be mindful of your teeth. So you want to be mindful of not like drinking water, brushing your teeth, lemon water, no different than lemonade, um, or any other acidic drinks. Um, but as long as you're mindful about that, some people have to worry about enamel of their teeth. I've been drinking lemon water for years. My enamel is totally fine. It just really depends on individual situation. And if you don't have any issues with that, you can totally add, especially in the summertime, I add a ton of lemon to my water all day long. So you can totally do that. It has its benefits. Same thing with

apple cider vinegar. It has its benefits in the morning before you eat. It also has its benefits before bigger meals and also has its benefits throughout the day. It's that like the, um, like lemon, lemon, lemon water, like really stimulates your digestive system and is a little bit different than, you know, apple cider vinegar is lemon water is enzyme based, whereas apple cider vinegar is bacteria based, that cloudy mother in it. Right. Which is good for digestion as well. So, yeah, they have their benefits, not just first thing in the morning, but throughout the day. Oh, day two of concussion. I'm struggling with drinking and eating.

Can you provide some tips and ways to navigate? Talk to your health care provider or whoever. Concussions are difficult. So we have a sickness protocol. It's in the app. It's also in the book. We're probably going to be rolling it out at the end of the week. I don't know what day that is. But there are going to be some times where you don't have an appetite and you don't necessarily want to force yourself to eat. You just want to make sure you're meeting your body where you are at. A lot of times when you are dealing with a sickness, whether it's emotional or physical or, you know, like whatever that is, your body doesn't, you won't be hungry because your body doesn't want you to eat because it's focused on healing,

repairing, rebuilding, detoxing and whatnot. So you really want to be in tune to that. So does that suck that you are two days into a program and you're already being hindered already? Absolutely. But is that going to stop you from reaching your goal? No, not at all. So we do have a whole sickness protocol. So if you are feeling not so hot today, you can search it in the app. It's also available in the book and you can read through it, or you can ask any sort of individual questions in the Facebook support group as well. I got to go everyone. Remember if I didn't get to your question, which I'm sure there are many, all you have to do is post it again over on the post pinned to the top of the page, the question of the day page, I call it. You'll see number two, which is the day that we're on, the check-in video beside it, or really, quite frankly, on any of our written posts.

The live is the one place that we don't circle back around and answer any written responses. But I want to thank everyone who did ask a question. Don't stop asking questions because you provide the talking points and the content and the conversation really at the end of the day. So please don't stop, even if I didn't get to your question, but please post it over on the question of the day page. The team will answer it over there. Remember you can download and listen to our podcast over on our new Libby Method podcast. Have an amazing day, everyone. Like I said, I will be back tonight if you want to join me then. Otherwise, have an amazing day and I'll check in later. Bye.