The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 23 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: May 14, 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 23, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:What is Mindfulness?Learning to find joy in new connections with food.Making meals and snacks as nutrient-rich as you canYour skin and the connections to our digestion and detoxification process.Dealing with cravings during the menstrual cycle.Falling back into old habits when life hits you hard with stress.Normalizing the journey of weight loss by honouring your feelings.How to make this the last diet you will ever do by looking for the proof in your non-scale victories.Being proud of the work you are doing to prioritize yourself with The Livy Method.Detours! Why it’s important to keep moving forward toward your destination!Celebrating members in our 100+ Club!Moving forward through troubles and challenges by showing up even when it is hardRecommended read: Jamie Kern Lima's Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life.Aging and living well: What does healthy mean to you?Not a quick fix: Check your old diet baggage at the door so you can move forward and be here at the end!Follow the program, honour the feelsTo learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It is day 23 of the program. We are focusing on mindfulness this week. In the live last night, someone said, like, what even is mindfulness? I thought it was such a great question. What even is mindfulness? I think mindfulness can mean different things to different people. To me, mindfulness is the opposite of mindless, I guess, where you're not really paying attention and you're not self-aware. I think mindless can be good sometimes, you know, especially when you're feeling stressed out. I don't think it's about adding more stress. I think to me, when I talk about being mindful or a week of mindfulness, it's being aware that your issues and associations and your history with dieting and your beliefs and

your, you feeling worthy or not worthy. And for some people, past traumas all factor into your journey. It's being aware or mindful of your habits that you keep going back into and being aware of creating new habits that you need to make or create in order to support the life you want to live, meaning how you want to feel, who you want to be, the kind of energy you want to put out there in the world, you know, the thoughts that you want to have running through your mind as opposed to constantly feeling like you're a failure and you're fat and you're never going to do this, you're never going to do that or constantly focusing on your food. Mindfulness is also paying attention to how your body's responding to the choices that you're making. And especially when it comes to those portions, which is the focus this week, like we think food is yummy and fun and delicious. And sure, it can be yummy and fun and delicious, and it's bringing us joy. But then when we overeat it, we don't feel

too great. A lot of times we physically don't feel great. We mentally don't feel great, not just in the moment, but hours after and the next day. So to me, mindfulness is being aware of when you've had too much and how you feel. So this is sort of where really, quote unquote, I don't know if that's the right thing to say, quote unquote, nailing those portions, right? Like that nailing that feeling of eating just enough is just as is more important than understanding the feeling of eating too much. And so we're not messing with the portions this week, but you, you can absolutely adjust them. If you find that you keep packing a certain amount of food for your lunch and you keep eating all of it and you feel overly full, you can, you can obviously not eat to the point where you feel overly full. So it's not like I just, we don't want to go purposely cutting. I hate that word cutting or decreasing

our portions, thinking that less is more. It's really about really tuning into eating just enough so that you're walking away and you're feeling satisfied and not stuff. You're not supposed to eat to feel like you've eaten, right? Like we're supposed to eat throughout the day to help replenish the energy that we've used or the glycogen that your body's utilized. And we're replacing that. And we shouldn't have to have unbutton our pants or have a nap or feel tired or hold our bellies every time after we eat. We should just feel like we've eaten, we've replenished our glycogen stores, and we're good to go.

And we're good to go. There's a bit of a gap. There's this gap about 20 minutes between when you start eating and when your body will register that you've had enough food. And that is sort of where why we like, and you'll get better and better and better your body will register that you've had enough food. And that is sort of where, why we like, and you'll get better and better and better at picking up on that. And that's why I love that concept of just enough so that when you're walking away 10, 15 minutes later, you're feeling satisfied and not stuff. All right, let's get into your questions and see where you

are at today. Scale finally on the move. Now the consistency and maximizing to keep it that way. So this week we are talking stress and sleep. That's the post today. Dr. Alinka is going to join us tomorrow. We're going to talk about stress. We're going to talk about sleep. Man, we had a conversation with Dr. Beverly last week. If you missed it, I highly suggest you give it a listen or a watch. It was the psychology behind sleep. And as a sleep research, Dr. Beverly really got into what happens when people are not getting enough sleep and people really underestimate the power of sleep work. It's kind of in our nature. We'll sleep when we are dead and I'll sleep later. I'll get caught up on the weekend. And that's not really how it works. And especially as you get older, you really need sleep. And then this is where stress factors in.

And I can't tell you how many people sign up for the program concerned about their hormones, especially when it comes to being, you know, perimenopausal, menopausal, postmenopausal. How do my hormones factor in? And I think sometimes people want just like, well, this is what you got to do. And one of the most, two of the most important things that you need to focus on is stress and sleep if you are concerned about your hormones. And so Dr. Olenka is going to kind of share with us how hormones are implicated while we're not getting enough stress and sleep and how that's affecting your hormones. So I highly suggest you join us for that conversation. Really felt the overindulgence at my son's

birthday last night, literally sweating and feeling icky after too much cake moving on today. Yeah. Right. Like even that, that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the cake, but you've made that connection of like, okay, too much doesn't make me feel really great. You know, like that's the whole thing with this program. And people will say to me, well, I want to be able to eat. Well, what happens when I start eating bread again? Or what happens when I have this again? I mean, that's why we're trying to build a nice high metabolism and give your body what it needs. So it doesn't feel the need to store fat. You've lowered your set point. This is the, this is where your body functions. You're going to be able to have those types of things.

But more importantly, you want to be able to enjoy them as well. And there is this something where if you're a foodie, you kind of go through this thing where you maybe you feel a little sad because you just love food and you love the indulgence of the food. But then that's your association to it. You're also then not associating how you feel when you overindulge in that food, which chances are is not great. And so this is where you're going to be able to create a new love and connection and relationship with food, where you can anticipate the food and actually enjoy the food and then walk away feeling good about the food that you ate. And that is going to bring you way more joy than overeating something, right? And so making that connection, okay, too much makes me feel this way. Like all of these

associations that you have with food now, those were associations that you've been making over the years. So we're reconnecting with food in a whole other way, in a whole other way. I'm so put out of thought, the sleep alive was this morning. Lots of active stress and little sleep this past week. Tell me about it. I haven't slept. Last night was the first night I actually slept in weeks. We did that Dragon's Den thing. It was so fun. And I was just like a personal, like, I'm just so proud of myself, right? I'm proud of my community. I'm proud of me and Tony. I'm proud of my team. I'm proud of a lot of things. It was a little bit stressful. Now I'm proud of me and Tony. I'm proud of my team. I'm proud of a lot of things. Um, it was a little bit stressful. Now I'm like, ah, you know, um, it was just really fun at the end of the day. Um, but I haven't slept in weeks, slept in a week. So, so I feel you, I really don't know what day

it is either. And now I've got like good sleep. I, my whole body is like, can we, can we like get some more sleep? Can we talk making meals, snacks, nutrient rich? What do you mean? Have multiple veggies and veg snack or whatever. So we have a whole post on this. So here's the thing I want to talk about this. So, because there's a lot of information at the beginning of the program, um, really all you need to pay attention to is the basic guidelines each week, but we have a post on nutrient rich meals. So we have a whole post on this that we talked about it.

There's a video that goes along with it. Right. And so this is where you might want to pick up the book. This is all. So the book that's available on Amazon has all of the posts that we talk about in the group. I just personally, I'm like a pen and paper highlighter kind of person. So if you have the book, you can also print it out in the group too.

Like it might be how you're absorbing the information. Like I highlight and I circle and I make notes because that helps me retain the information. These, these, um, actually they're not in the PDF. So you might want to grab the book, let me just go in here and look to see when we talked about just to make sure that I know what I'm talking about. When I said nutrient rich foods. Yeah, it was in prep week. It was in prep week. So it would have been day two of the program. It's on page 43 of the book, but I can talk about that. So, so nutrient rich means nutrient rich means, and there's some examples in the book, nutrient rich means don't just have a salad. Like if you're

finding that you're hungry, especially in the evening, right. Or you don't feel satisfied with your food. And I'm not talking portions. I'm talking satisfied, like with your food. Don't just have like a salad at lunch, because you think that that's going to be what does it for you. If you do have a salad loaded up, tons of vegetables, nuts, seeds, avocados, cheese, quality dressings. Make sure you obviously got some protein in there and whatnot, right? Give it as much oomph as possible. You know, add some quinoa or something in there too, if you want. It means don't just have carrot sticks for your veg snack. Add some cheese, add some guacamole or some hummus, right? Or add a boiled egg if you want to your veg snack. Don't just have a boiled egg for breakfast, right? You can, or just an egg for breakfast. You can add some veggies to that, a little bit of fruit, like some berries to that,

you know, some healthy fats. You can add some avocados to that. So that's what that means. That's what that means. That's what that means. Sorry, I'm looking at some other notes here. Someone was asking about rosacea and the rosacea flaring up. So here's what you may not know is a lot of our skin, your skin is your body's largest organ. We talked about skin last night in the live too. The way where you're losing weight is so much better for your skin because you're going to notice that you lose it in layers. But things like rosacea can kind of flare up because it's really tied to your digestive system. And you may not think, what the heck does my digestive system have to do with my rosacea? Really working on strengthening your digestive system, your microbiome, because when you're detoxing, especially, you might notice flare ups. Now that will get better,

obviously, but you know, some people are noticing some acne too, like they're breaking out just like when, when they're when you get your menstrual cycle, you you can break out or when you're younger and your hormones, whatever break out, or when you're older and your hormones are gone, you break out. The same can happen for skin issues as well. With the program, your body's detoxifying and it does that through your skin. So you might notice that you are seeing a bit of a flare up. So focusing on your digestion, getting a really great probiotic in there can be beneficial. So that can be why and what's going on there. Or is this? No. Okay. Good morning. I'm feeling very overwhelmed and sad. Okay. Let's break this

down. Let me see if I can. Where did that go? Sorry, my I should know better than to go. Let me see if I can find that here. Let me see if I can find your comments down here. Usually those are sort of in real time. So let me scroll down. I'm feeling overwhelmed and sad. Where did that go? Where did that go? I'm really struggling. I'll keep looking for it. I'm really struggling in the days leading up to my period. I feel like I could eat the world and it's so hard to resist the urge to eat all the time. I'm hoping this will reduce with time, but that's what I really struggle with nighttime. Hormones kick my butt. Okay. So again, make your food choices nutrient rich. Get on some magnesium. If you're not taking magnesium, magnesium can be very beneficial.

Sometimes your body associates chocolate with magnesium as well because chocolate can be a good source of magnesium if it's quality chocolate not that you want to eat the chocolate you want to have the magnesium bump up your water right that's really important you're feeling bloated you're feeling all of that especially if you're having those cravings could be that the call for water that's why your body's bloating because it's about to detox um make sure you get some make sure you get some rest right make sure you get you get some sleep adjust your workouts. Maybe that's not the time to go to the gym and do a hard weight workout. Maybe instead kind of like go for a nice walk, right? Go for a walk around that. So make those adjustments. So small little adjustments

can make all the difference. If you're skipping breakfast, really focus on a high protein breakfast, right? Because there's what cravings are, right? And you could be also stressed, maybe extra stressed while you're getting your period too. So now you're craving salty food. So bump up your omega-3. Kind of like be like, what does my body need in this moment? Your body's not trying to make you fat. It's not trying to make you feel like shit. It's just going through that natural process. And so what can you do to help your body through that? That's what you want to think about, especially when it comes to those cravings. Where did you get your props for the Dragon's Den pitch? Yeah, those were super fun. So we did for the Dragon's Den pitch, we made a, we got a huge calculator and a big weight, a food weight scale. And, and Drew, who's on our team in production, he, he has, he's worked in television for years. All of our, our production team is super talented. They've worked in television for years. And so Drew knew some props people. So he reached out

for some props. My team were rock stars. They, we really, we got on Dragon's Den. We had two weeks notice to pull it all together. It's not, it's not something I had on my bingo card for this year at all, let me tell you. So the team did really great. The team did really great at pulling things together. Okay, I think I'm going to find that comment. Where was it? Here we go, Cindy. Good morning.

I'm feeling very overwhelmed and sad. My weight is way up and I know all the reasons, but it's so discouraging. Am I ever going to get it back down to what it was last program? It's like I took great steps and now I feel like I'm starting over. I don't mean to be a downer, just share it and get support. Okay, so let's break this down, right? I saw Jennifer's post yesterday, one of our members who rockstar, lost a bunch of weight, and then she had a death in her family. And life got very stressful. And she's put some weight back on. Why does that

happen? Right? Because we fall back into because something extreme happens, we fall back into old coping mechanisms. Because it's such an epic amount of stress that our stress levels go through the roof. It's kind of not, it's not containable, right? And the combination of that and, you know, and also not that time to put into solidifying your weight. That's why solidifying your weight is such an important part. But while you're on your journey, obviously you're in the pursuit of losing, losing, losing. And that solidifying part comes in little bits along losing, losing, losing. And that, that solidifying

part comes in little bits along the way and big chunks at the end, right? That's why solidifying at the end is really important to allow your body to get used to your new weight. So your new weight becomes your new set point, but along the way that's difficult. And so, so here's the thing, like I've been working on my health, my wellness, my hormones. I haven't been feeling my greatest. That's no secret. I've been under an epic amount of stress, right? I turned 50.

I'm turning 51 Sunday. Turning 51 Sunday. Before the stress of my kid's dad dying last year. I have some kids with some mental health issues, and that was very difficult for me. We got married last year. That was a whole other thing. It was amazing, but it was just more stress. And of course, I've never run a business this size before ever. And the pressure to pay people depends on people being thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people being successful, you know, and doing it in a way that I do right by people and is affordable for people and accessible for people and trying to really like, it's a lot of

pressure, right? It's a lot of pressure. And so there are times when I am doing really well. I'm making great choices. I'm not drinking a bottle of wine every night. I am moving my body. I'm prioritizing myself. And then there are things in life like Dragon's Den last week. And although it is a wonderful experience, and I'm so happy that we did it, It was a lot of stress and not the pulling together of, of the props, the, the pressure that I put on myself to feel worthy, to feel like I, I've done something like it's good enough. Um, it's a lot, it was a lot. I've sacrificed a lot of my time with my children over the years to provide for them. I also pretty much was a single mom because their dad was so sick. So it's not like I had a choice yet. I feel all this guilt. And so the reason why I'm sharing this is

because I want you to know it's normal. You're going to have times in your life where everything is aligning and everything is great. And then you're going to have times in your life where everything is aligning and everything is great. And then you're going to have times in your life where you're really struggling, even when life seems like it's amazing. And that is just, it's just normal. And you're going to this. So what you're learning here is the tools to, so, cause you say, you know, why you gain the weight, right? So now, you know, and so that's another tool in your tool belt. And so then you're going to get back at it. And you're, you have to remember your body doesn't want this fat. If you're thinking, oh, my body just doesn't want it. You're wrong. Your body wants this fat gone just as much as you do. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks that it's going

to take you more time to lose it. But whatever you went through is what you needed to go through. And whatever you did is what you needed to do to recognize that you need to change the way you do things. Right? But unless you experience that, you're just going to carry that forward with you. And at some point, something's going to trigger you and you're going to do what you did. Right? So now you know, you know what you know, and you didn't know what you didn't know. And so now you know, I know that sounds crazy. But every time you go through a hard time in your life, you're putting tool and you and you're you're navigating your way through that being mindful, you're adding more tools to your toolbox. And so that's not going to happen again. I don't know what happened. You say, you know what happened, but you know, the fact

that you know that, you know what happened, that's so huge. And so weight loss is just not a straight line down, right? I love when you guys share your graphs and you can see, oh, this is the girls weekend and whatever. Oh, this is the weekend that this happened. And you know, it was very tragic and sad. This is, you know, where I dealt with that thing that happened. And then you'll be able to also see on your graphs when you started to prioritize yourself again, when you started to make better choices for yourself. I don't want to say better, but you know what I mean? Like you'll be able to see that you, that's why when you click on your graph, if you're using our app, which is really cool. So right beside where you can try, that's why using our app is so great,

right beside where you can track your weight. If you click on the little graph icon, it pulls up your scale. And so you should be able to see, oh, this is when this was happening. This was when that was happening. Oh, this is when I was doing all of the things. I really had some great momentum. And you see that scale down, right? It's like a, it's a, it's a scale of, it could, the scale could be representative of the stress in your life, the sleep that you're getting, um, the choices that you're making, right? The ones that aren't, aren't, are super supportive of your, of the changes you want to make and the ones that kind of really aren't helping all that much. And so that is, we really need to normalize the journey. And that's why I love the, the, the 91,

the 91 day programs, right? The 91 day programs, because they're breaking it down in digestible chunks of time. That's what that's about. It's about digesting them in like breaking them down in digestible chunks. Here's 91 days of my life. What happened in what happened? What happened? And if you, if you're on a, your second, fourth, 16th program, what happened in those previous programs, right? What was going on in your life? You know, you have to factor that in. I'm not a big fan of that saying, it didn't take you 91 days to gain the weight. You know, it's not going to take you 91 days to lose it. I mean, the way that the Livi method is structured, you can lose a lot of weight pretty quickly in a really healthy way. It's life that makes it hard for you, right? And so sometimes life is just

shit and it is what it is. And I think that's probably what sometimes we feel sad. We feel like, why can't we get our shit together? Right? And meanwhile, life is like smacking you in the face. But here's the thing. Prioritizing yourself, making healthy food choices, getting better sleep, managing your stress, although it can make you feel like two steps forward, two step back. Those are exactly the things that you want to focus on when you're going through these times in your life, when you're going through these times in your life. It's exactly what, exactly what you want to be focusing on. Exactly that.

Let me scroll through again. I'm seeing some really great comments. If you have sushi for lunch, do you have to have a salad or leafy greens along with it, or you can have sushi on its own? Well, I mean, sushi, if you're doing the rolls, I guess it has seaweed. I would count that as leafy greens, right? Listen, if you're not feeling a salad, you could do seaweed salad if you want to. They have that. Greens are great to get in more often than not. You know, if you're out for sushi and you're like, you know, you're not into a salad, that's fine. But you know, try to get those greens in as often as you possibly can. So yeah, so sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to kind

of brush over that, Cindy. Honor your feels today, right? Honor your feels today. You don't have to be happy about the choices that you're making. You don't have to feel sunshine and rainbows. You do have the power to choose your thoughts. That's one of the things that we're going to get into. Your, your brain might be wired negatively to the whole experience of weight loss. You've been this, it's not what's happened is the fact maybe it's, this has happened over 20 years of your life where you've lost the weight, gained it back, lost the weight, gained it back, lost the weight, gained it back, lost the weight and gained it back. Right. But that's, this is a diff, this is different this time. This is, this is different this time. Right. And it's those things that you're dealing with that you're going to work through them so that you got those tools in your tool belt. Honor your feels. You're going to work through them so that you got those tools in your tube all honor your fields. You're allowed to have a sad day or an overwhelmed day. You're allowed to have a, like a,

you're allowed, you are allowed, you are allowed to do that. You guys are all giving her some love. I love that. Um, but, but,

but feeling lighter overall, even though the scale is not reflecting that, but that's okay. One of my biggest non-scale victories is no more acid reflux and heartburn. If you doubt your progress in the program and you constantly have heartburn, wait, it's worth it for the price of admission. Those non-scale victories can be magic. Focus on those, start making a list of those. Honestly, honestly, you know, this may seem like there's a lot of things to do on this program, but I really, truly, I was talking about this last night.

I want this to be the last diet that you ever do. And so there's a lot of, there's a lot of working parts and focusing on those, not like setting your intentions every day. Your end of day reflections just keeps this process going. It can, it can contain sabotage, right? You know, keeping a journal can be a game changer, you know, and focusing on those non-scale victories, just really, because that is proof, proof, proof, right? Sometimes we don't trust it. So non-scale victories are proof. Oh, my clothes are fitting differently. Oh, I'm this. Oh, I'm that. This is happening. That's happening. I'm feeling like this. That's proof, you know, that proof to your mind thinks that you can't do this. And if you, if you do get past that,

right, and you get to a point where you, you know, you can do this, then your mind thinks you can't sustain it. It's like a whole thing. It's a whole thing, right? So, so looking for that proof in those non-scale victories, uh, The Dragon's Den episode is going to air in the fall sometimes. We can't say much about it. We can't say whether we slayed or we didn't slay or what happened. Here's what I can tell you. It was a really fun experience. We got to hang out with our members.

So if you guys missed it on Thursday. First, if you're not following us on socials, follow us on socials. We do some fun stuff over there. Thursday, Friday last week, on Friday, we got to pitch to the Dragon's Den. It's like a business show here where there's like investors and you're pitching to get them to invest in you, to partner with you, that type of thing, which I would love because although I'm super proud of myself, just like you guys need help in weight loss, I would love some help in business.

Tony and I, we've crushed it. We're doing great. We don't need anybody else, but man, it'd be amazing to have people who have grown their businesses to these, you know, multi-billion dollar businesses. And it's not about money. It's about getting it out there to the world. And we want to get it out there to the world. If you've been listening, I've been talking about that, right? And so marketing is great, some ads on Facebook and whatever, but really getting out there so that we truly become the number one weight loss company in the world. And we let people know that this amazing program exists. So that's sort of like why I made the decision to go on. It was a really

great opportunity for that. So it's a show about that. And so we brought on some of our members, which was so fun. So we went out for dinner, we got to hang out all day. I know we did everybody proud. We did. Our intention was to make our community proud. When you guys watch that episode, if you watch, we're going to have a big watch party or you know anyone who watches it or people start talking about the Libby Method. I want you to be proud of it. I want you to be like, yeah, that's the that's the program I did. Yeah, that's what I did. I want you to go to the doctor and be like, yeah, this is what I did. You know, the reason why I got off my, you know, beta blockers or acid things, or, you know, you know, my drop my A1C or went

from pre-diabetic into normal range or decreased my thyroid meds or got off my blood pressure meds and cholesterol meds is because I did the work, man. I did the work. Some people were nervous that things are going to change. Even if we have investors, I'm a pretty tough cookie, pretty smart cookie. I'm not about to give up my morals. I like sleeping at night, even though I don't really sleep great. I got to work on that. We won't be jacking up prices or doing anything differently or anything like that. Not about that. We're always going to make our company mantra, just so you know, is affordable, accessible, doable, and sustainable. We're doing okay. You know, keeping the program affordable. We do also like to pay our employees competitive salaries. You know, there are expenses, you know, it may seem like we're rolling in dough, but we're really not. Believe it or not, I mean, you know, I'm comfortable.

I'm happy with what we're making, just so everyone knows. You might do the math, but the government takes half. We pay our team really well. We have a huge team to make sure people get the support that they need. You know, we do all more offerings and offerings. We added an app. We didn't charge more for that. You know, we keep our book prices cheaper than what you could print out on your own. And we believe you can do that. We believe that, you know, we can keep things affordable for people and run a really, truly successful business. So if anyone was concerned about that, I do want to mention that because I know some people were concerned about that. If you're looking for flexible workouts,

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that road analogy in the wild. Let me, so I love this. There's a couple of analogies that I love that I have not used at all. Well, I think it may be the building the house. So I, two analogies that I love. One is you're building the house. That's you, your house, this house that you live in your body. And so when you signed up, we gave you a plot of land. And then each week, I'm going to give you the tools that you need to build your house. You are going to show up every single day, you're going to work on building your house. And this is where I say the scale thing comes in, right? Like you don't have to use a scale, but to me, not using the scale in this process is like trying to build that house without a hammer. When you have the right tools, it makes it a lot easier. And so

every day you're showing up and you're building the house. Right now we're still on the foundation. We're still building that foundation, right? And those of you who are returning, you're like, you're, you're solidifying that foundation. That's what you are doing. And so every day you show up. Now what happens if you were really actually building a house? What's going to happen? Right? You're going to have some days where you don't feel so hot. So you're really not all that productive. You're going to have days where you just are not into it mentally. Ah, fuck this shit. Right? I don't care about my fucking house. You're going to go away on weekends. Not going to have days where you just are not into it mentally. Ah, fuck this shit. Right? I don't care about my fucking house.

You're going to go away on weekends. Not going to work every day. Sometimes you're going to go away on weekends. Right? Sometimes you're going to go on vacations. But when you come back from vacation, you don't knock your house down and start again. You just pick up your tools and get back at it. So it's like building a house.

Right? Every day you're going to show up and work on your house. Each week, we're going to give you the tools you need to eventually put up some walls, add some windows, add a roof, right? Then in the end, you're going to decorate it, all that stuff. So there are days that you're more productive than others, right? You don't knock your house down just because you didn't have a perfect day. I love that analogy. I think it's a great visual. The other one is I love is that you were all on the road and we're driving to Disneyland or your destination, your goal weight, wherever you're going, right? And so we all, when we started this program, we all got in our cars and we hit the road. Now, some people live further away from Disneyland than others, right? Some people have more weight to lose than others. Some people have health issues that they're dealing with. Some people don't just live

further away from Disneyland. Some people are driving sports cars and some people are driving some pretty beat up cars, right? So we're all getting in our cars and we're hitting the road. And there are bound to be, as you drive all the way to Disneyland or finally in forever, there is bound to be traffic jams, right? Roadblocks, detours, right? Just because you hit a roadblock doesn't mean you go back home and you start again. Just because you get detoured doesn't mean you go back home and you start again. Just because you hit a flat tire doesn't mean that you go back home and you start again. So your trip is perfect, right? Some people are going to go sightseeing on that road to Disneyland. They're going to stop at Aunt

Sally's and be like, Oh, Aunt Sally lives here. Let's go stop at Aunt Sally. And then you go there and she's like, Oh, hey, stay for dinner. We're going to have a great time. And then you end up having a great time. And then you end up having a great time. And then you get back on the road just because you stopped to see Aunt Sally's. Don't mean you go back home and you start again. Some people are going to go sightseeing. Oh, we're going to stop at the world's,

I don't know, tallest tower. I don't know. I don't know. Biggest grapefruit. I don't know. We have like a giant apple here in Ontario. You're going to go sightseeing along the way because for you, it's not necessarily, yes, it's about reaching the destination, but you're

going to have some fun along the way, right? And so you go on detours, like you're sightseeing, you visit people, roadblocks, like whatever that, some of you are going to get in accidents, unfortunately, right? Some of you are going to get in accidents. And, but you don't, you just, you get, you know, you get, you get back at it and it doesn't stop you for once because you get in an accident. It doesn't mean that you don't want to ever go to Disneyland, right? So maybe you do go back home for that one. You get some rest and then you try again, right? Because it's not like just because

this has happened, you don't want to still go to Disneyland. And so I really like those two analogies. I think those work. I think those work really well, whatever you can do to visualize the pro the process, right? And this is also a reminder of the things we started with. We started with their why we started with your why. Sorry, I just got sidetracked from Kim here. Kim, I'm on my fourth program and I'm down 106.7 pounds and blown away at how much I have learned over this past year. My husband decided to follow this time and I'm so super proud of him because he really loves his junk food. He is really working through his feels and definitely feel that this Holy fucking shitballs That's amazing Oh we've got some people hitting some really big numbers

Kim Lamarosh Lamarosh Lamarosh Lamaroshi L-A-M-A-R-C-H-E. That's so amazing. You know what's really interesting? Well, it's really exciting is we've been doing this program long enough that people are accumulating some really big numbers. And what we're seeing is healthy weight loss. I love this so much. Honestly, congrats. That's so great. Come on. That's amazing. Oh, that is so good. That is

so good. Here's Lisa. I'm down 11.4 pounds so far. In the last couple of days, I was not losing. And then I was stressing about family and stuff and found myself not tracking, not being as hopeful. And it was all I could do to just not go back to my old habits. Yes, that can we normalize that? Let's like, let's normalize that that's going to happen. The universe is like, Oh, yeah, I see your goals. How badly do you want to reach those goals? Yeah, okay, let me I'm going to test you. I'm going to test you. I'm going to test you. Because that you are not only trying to lose weight, but in this program, you're trying to lose it finally and forever. And think about this.

Oh, my God, this is so huge. In me wanting this to be the last diet you ever do, and you, I'm assuming, want this to be the last diet you ever do because you actually really, truly want to reach your goals so you get to fucking move on with your life. And so imagine what life is going to throw at you to make that happen for you, right? To truly make that happen for you, for you to learn what you need to learn, to go through what you need to go through, to go through all the stuff you've been through, right? And to reconcile that. Because again, what I love that you're realizing is that the way food is so involved in our lives and so intertwined in our thoughts and our feelings and our habits, there's a lot of that rewiring to do physically

and rewiring to do mentally. You know, that's big stuff. I love that you said this, right? So you went into that stress, right? You started to cope. You're not tracking. You're feeling your feelings of that not hopeful tied into that.

You got ruined everything. So this is you got in your car. You got in your car, right? And you hit a detour. And then just when you finally got back on the road, you were in a traffic jam. And then just when the road started moving again, you got a flat tire. And you're like, fuck me. We're never going to get there.

Right? That's not fun. That's like, oh my God, you made me got kids in the back. Aren't we there yet? And you're thinking, fuck, I'm never, this isn't worth it. Gotta turn this car around. Right? That's what's happening. That's what happens. It affects your feeling. And yet you were so excited when you got in that car, right? We're going to Disneyland. And now you're like, fuck. So yeah, very similar, very similar. But I just keep showing up and the lives in the post help me stay on track. But I do notice it's a lot of work, not the program, but my emotional journey is hard. I have to keep reminding myself I'm worth it. Yeah. Yes. Right? And that's why you just keep driving forward. You keep driving forward.

And even though you're in that traffic jam, you're moving forward, right? Even though you're on a detour, you're moving forward. Even though maybe you're sightseeing along the way, you're still moving forward, right? You're still moving forward. Yeah, I love that. Jamie Kern Lima wrote this book called Worthy. She did this great. She had this whole day conference. I don't know if it's still on. It might be on YouTube. Find it. Jamie, J-A-M-I-E, Kern, K-E-R-N, Lima, L-I-M-A. Her book is called Worthy. I highly suggest you pick it up. She did this whole thing, this whole day on YouTube. Obviously it was like to sell her book,

but she had some really great guests on there and I watched it and I didn't think I had any worthy issues. Like I didn't think that I had any worthy issues and worthy is not what you think. Worthy, so I highly suggest that issues and worthy is not what you think. Worthy. So I highly suggest that you like Google that and find that book. So I was on the treadmill. This was not too long ago. This is my last group because I remember I sent the link to people on our email list. I was on the treadmill.

This is what I was in. I was in like a, I was moving and grooving. I made some good decisions why I was like feeling worthy and working out. You know, when you, when you trust yourself more when you're in that zone. Um, so I was watching this thing on worthy and you can, you can be really successful and not feel worthy. You can be doing the things and not feel worthy. You can have that scale be moving and grooving and not feel worthy. And at some point, that feeling of not feeling worthy is going to come up. You might sabotage yourself because of it.

You might not do something you want to do because of it. It's a real thing, that whole worthy thing. So I highly suggest you pick up that book. I was like a real aha moment for me. My aunt is turning 100 on the 17th. She exercises, eats well. Hi, Risa. Gets sleep, sees her friends every week at the mall, spends time with her family regularly, and is the funniest person I know. What a mouth on her. She never minces her words and says what's on her mind. She is my role, role model, I'm sure. I don't want to be like her.

That's a whole vibe, right? But, you know, we're learning a lot more. It's not just eating healthy. It's like having quality friends. It's like enjoying your life. You know, if you ever talk to somebody who is like, you know, old, they're like, yeah, I, you know, they do tend to swear a lot. There's something to that.

They do tend to swear. And they're not about, oh, I just ate vegetables. And why am I making that voice? That's not what old people sound like. Maybe my voices are like what I would sound like if I'm old. Maybe I'm going to sound like that. Tony! Tony!

Tony! Can you get me some wine? Open that good bottle, that Beaujolais. I went to, listen, I went to this, um, I went to this thing on Friday, last Friday, the Friday before that, man, my Fridays have been busy. What is going on? I went to that women in AI and technology and health conference that I had the pleasure of speaking at. And there was this woman, Zaina. She's incredible. She is a futurist at Deloitte. And she studies future. Man, wow.

It was really fascinating talking about how the healthcare system can't keep up with people these days. Like technology has to evolve to be able to keep up with healthcare. And obviously, you know, with my ad, there's some tech I want to add there to really customize and personalize the experience that I'm really excited about and what they're doing really at first, you know, I know technology, people feel like some of it's like, ah, you know, it's not great, but there's some pretty cool things that it has an equal and opposite reaction on the other side, uh, in terms of use. But anyway, she was talking about how people are going to live to like they're 150 years old.

And I was like, what? And she's like, you know, you think she's full of shit. And she was like, no, seriously, we know this. This is no different than people used to die when they're old, used to be 30, right? You had kids when you're married, when you're 14, had kids when you're 16, you know, die when they're old used to be 30. Right? You had kids when you're married when you're 14, had kids when you're 16, you know, died when you're 40. And that was the norm. And just like, you know, every generation has its norm, we're heading to a space where people are going to be able to live to like 150 years old. And I was like, holy shit.

I want to live to like I'm 150. I want to be on the planet as long as possible. I know some people are like, well, what about this? What about that? I'm like, yeah, you know, I'll have lots of time to do other things when I'm dead. I want to live and I want to be able to surf and be able to enjoy my life. And there is something to be said about not your age, but like living, right? I want to be living when I'm that old. That's what I want to be said about not your age, but like living, right? I want to be living when I'm that old. That's what I want to be doing. I want to be healthy and well.

We had an interesting conversation over in the maintenance group last week where we talked about what does healthy mean, right? Because we noticed when we put out a post, people were like, what's your why or what's your, you know, what's your motivator? And people are like, I just want to be healthy. And we're like, well, what does healthy mean to you? Like, what is, what's the why or what's your, you know, what's your motivator? And people are like, I just want to be healthy. And we're like, well, what, what does healthy mean to you? Like what is, what's the definition of healthy? And what we realized it's different for different people have different versions of what healthy is. To me, healthy is a healthy mind,

waking up and not feeling like I need to stay in bed all day or drink wine at 9am. It's to be able to move and feel like I'm not aching everywhere. To be able to touch my toes again would be really lovely. To feel like I have the energy to do things and the things I want to do. There's a lot of things in my mind I want to do and I don't have the energy. But bigger than that, my grand scheme of things is to be mobile when I'm older. I always tell that story of that woman who was 100 years old when I worked at the hairdressing salon. When I was young, I worked at a hairdresser's and there was this woman who used to come in, she was 100. And she would fly through the door. It's like the whole door just

went. And she came in and the way she moved was like, and she'd sit in her chair, hop in her chair and cross her legs and be like, hello, and hello, and la la la. And so that's my, that's always been my version. So that's my, when I think healthy, that's what I'm thinking. What is healthy mean? What is happy? Oh, we got into that last night. Are you happy? What is healthy mean? Oh, um, hi Maria. Just curious. Why do I get a reminder around 9pm to have my second PM snack, even though I check it off earlier in the afternoon. So this could be due to your settings in your app, you might have your notifications set in your app, you might maybe have your I think, yeah, is that what most likely Tony saying? Yes, most likely. Remember, we have our app team tech support at GinaLivie.com. After several rounds of living method, living

method and varying degrees of success, I've come to realize for me, it's not even about the food, but all the other stuff. Yeah. And we're going to, right now, is it about the food? We're going to get into all of that. We're going to get into all of that. It's a lifelong struggle to get past old habits when you're stressed. Eating my feelings has been my go-to for 60 years. Glenna, I hear you. Yeah, I too am in the same rut. I feel defeated many mornings, but I know if I weren't here, I'd be right back to my highest weight, hanging in there until I get that, right? That. You're not gaining weight if you used to gain weight. I talked about this on my live last night. Okay. I want to go to Leanne. I'm feeling so discouraged. Only 3.8 pounds so far. I'm trying

so hard and following the food guide. Let me talk about that first. I'm getting a lot of this, right? We're only on week three of the program. And I will not buy into the need for a quick fix. Like you're not going to make me feel bad for you because you haven't lost weight yet. But I am empathetic of the feels. It's not fun to sign up for a program. You want to see results like yesterday. Chances are what you're doing is you're bringing your old diet baggage into this new process. So you've only been with me for three weeks, right? But you're bringing your old diet baggage into this new process. So you've only been with me for three weeks, right? But you're bringing in feels maybe from 30 years. And so recognize that, right? And I'm hoping that because I say this almost every day. I've written it in the book.

It's in the videos. I have posts on it, right? It's not about how quickly or how much you lose in the beginning. It's about being here at the end. And it is very normal for you to still have not lost any weight. Though you've lost 3.8 pounds in three weeks, four, if you, four and a half, three and a half weeks, because we're only on week three. So let me let me give you credit that you started on prep week. Okay, because we got to bring some reality to this. And I love that you brought this up because a lot of people feel like this. So it is normal to have not lost any weight. If you still haven't lost weight next week or the week after and you say you're doing all the things I'm not worried about you. Week five, I'm going to have a conversation about you know, things that could be factoring in that you're

going to want to keep in mind, but the things you're doing now are the things you're going to need to do anyway. And there's zero reason why you're not going to reach your goal. You're human, you have a body, your body doesn't want this fat any more than you do, but there might be other things going on. It's too soon to tell. And the things that you do about that are the things that you're doing now. And it could be things like hormones, inflammation, your microbiome. There could be a few things, all addressable, all addressable. We're going to talk about that week five. And even by week seven, okay, week seven, fine. I'm getting a little bit like, okay, make sure you go to your doctor, get some blood work done, whatever. It's way too early to tell

if the program's going to work for you or not going to work for you or for you to judge it. Cause I know it's going to work for you. All you have to do. I've never met anyone that I couldn't help lose weight as long as they were willing to put the time in. So put it that way. Um, but let's talk back to you three and a half, 3.8 pounds. So three and a half pounds in three and a half weeks. That is fucking awesome. That is the standard one to two pounds of healthy weight loss a week. So let's break this down, right? It's normal for people not to have lost weight.

It's not like I advertise that, hey, lose 50 pounds. And I don't like, that's not what I do, right. So I'm pretty honest about the fact it's not a quick fix and it's normal for people's weights. It's in the literature, right? It's so normal for your weight not to move. I mean, most people do nine, something like what's the percentage, Tony, how many people lose weight in the first four weeks? Do you know? 93%? No, that's the whole point. Although 93% of people lose weight. First four weeks, it's the whole point. Although 93% of people lose weight. First four weeks is like 60% or something.

And then like the next few weeks and the next few weeks to add up to be like 93%. Some people aren't even here to lose weight. So 93% of people lose weight. So you're losing weight. You've lost the average amount of weight, one to two pounds per week, right? So that's amazing. So what's the discouraged about? What's the, what's the discouraged? What are the feelings about? Right? So it's not about me. It's not about the program. It's not about what's happening on a scale because you've, you've lost a pound a week. That's amazing in a healthy way. You haven't starved yourself, deprived yourself.

So that's great. So where are the feelings coming from, right? Because you want to honor the feels, follow the program, but honor the feels. So where are the, because this is the work for you. Today, the work for you is not in the food plan, right? And you mentioned that I'm doing the food plan. It's not in the food plan. It's not in the food plan.

So where is the work for you? Now, could you go through the maximizing post and recognize your stress and sleep and movement, all the other things, all the 150 other things you didn't mention, right? Like that there are some there are some other things that you can do. But where is the where is that word? Where is the discourage come from? So that's the work for you. The work for you today is to figure out discourage. Why are you feeling discouraged? I guarantee you it's not because of what's going on the scale because you've shown up, you've lost a pound a week in a very healthy way. So it's not about that. So where, where, where is that word coming from and what is that about?

That's which falls in line with our mindful week. Again, mindful. Let me circle back to how I started this conversation. What is mindfulness, right? Mindfulness is not just about following the food plan and remembering to have your meals and snacks. Mindfulness is about being aware, self-aware of the choices that you're making, how you're feeling with those choices. It's about being aware of how your body is responding physically. It's also about being aware of what's happening in your mind, right? So you know what you're doing. You're following the food plan. Yes, but you're carrying this feeling of being discouraged.

What is that about? Where is that coming from? What's happening, right? The best way to kind of handle that is kind of maybe just like spend some time, journal, sit quietly. Like what am I discouraged about? Name some things. Am I discouraged because I, right? Am I, I'm discouraged because I maybe I'm so busy in my life. I it's, I'm not making that right. Then maybe your issues got to take time for yourself. I'm discouraged because my kids are really high maintenance and I don't have a lot of time for myself. I'm discouraged because I'm bringing 30

years of baggage from past diets into this process. So I feel like the psychology of effort, here's what I would suggest that you do. If you're feeling like this, that I feel like I want this so bad, I should have better results. That can come down to the psychology of effort, which was our science Saturday post. I think not last week, the week before you last week was detox. I think the week before the psychology of effort, it is a real thing. And this is what I mean by bringing that baggage where you want this so bad. You've been, you've trying so hard and you've been trying for a really long time that you should already have the results that you want. And in your mind, that makes sense. But that's obviously not the reality and how to reconcile that's a good

place. I gotta go. I was really only going to jump on for a half hour today. But I love talking about this shit. And I could talk all day. So here I am still. I am going to go live tonight too. Next week is the next week is the long weekend here. So yeah, I won't be going live then. And then I missed like Friday and then Monday. So I'm going to be back tonight. If you want to hang out with me tonight for the 7 p.m. live. If not, have an amazing rest of your day.

Tomorrow, Dr. Alinka is going to join me. We're going to talk stress. We're going to talk about sleep. Such an important conversation. Because right, what we learned today, it's not really about the food plan. It's about everything else. The food plan, the food plan is like your foundation, right? And then each week we are going to be making tweaks to it physically. We're going to be getting into those portions. We're going to be doing some cool stuff, but really it's everything else. Have an amazing day, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me.

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