The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 26 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: May 17, 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 26, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Enjoying the summer and still staying focused on your goalsMoving your body in the morning to get goingWater Retention; The role of sodium and climateMake a plan going into the long weekendSkipping meals and how it will impact your weight loss journeyPrioritizing yourself to be consistent and create routinesCraving salt; What is your body asking for?Reframing what indulging is to youGina shares how she still utilizes the tools she teaches with The Livy Method Gina discusses her natural fluctuations on the scaleWeight Loss versus Fat Loss; and how your body can change What does living the Livy Way look like?Spoiler Alert: Fall 2024 1-Day sale coming soon - $60Making choices that make you feel goodGoal Weight: How do you know when you are done losing? Unpacking all that comes along with losing your weightTips for downsizing next weekTo learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

and Amazon Music. Hello, hello. Happy day 26 of the program. Okay, so it's a Friday. We're rolling into the long weekend. How are you feeling about that? I mean, it's a good question to ask yourself, how are you feeling about that? Because we're rolling into the summer and the summer, I mean, there's, I'm trying to think of the advantage for which season is easier than others when it comes to weight loss, but there really isn't. Each season kind of has its own advantage. Like the summer is, I would say this summer probably is the best time to lose weight because you tend to, you have a little bit more energy, you have a spring in your step, your body doesn't have you on that winter

hibernation mode. The thing though, that's hard about losing weight in the summer is the heat and the heat will have your weight up. And that's one of the reasons why I've never really run a summer program or started a program in the summer with new members, because I would have to literally convince them the whole time that the reason why their scale is up is because of the heat. But the summer is great because your body's getting all that vitamin D. It definitely doesn't need that extra fuel source to help keep you warm. So it's a great time. It's a little tricky though, because we tend to have this kind of vacation-y attitude about the summer, right? At least where I live, the summer is really

short. It's way too short. And we want to get out there. We want to have barbecues. We want to have pool parties. We want to travel. We want to hit the road and we want to do all those things. So in my check-in this morning, I talked about this. You absolutely can enjoy your summer, indulge in some bites of bits here or there, and still stay focused on your goals. This is why I love maximizing, which is really, again, all those other things that you can do besides the foods that you are eating to be proactive with this process. Yeah, I find the summer the hardest because I'm up later and want to snack after dinner, trying to eat dinner a bit later. So something to think about

with that, right? Because we have a few extra hours as opposed to the wintertime where it's literally dark, like four o'clock in the afternoon. So you may notice your hunger levels changing, especially if you are not just up later, but at more active later into your day, and then your body's not producing that melatonin production. So you can try getting up early. This is one thing people don't talk about. I actually should have talked to our sleep experts about this is adjusting your sleep according to the seasons. And so you might want to get up a little bit earlier. So you're tired a little bit earlier, but then, you know, maybe you'd like to be out later. Maybe you're playing some baseball or you love gardening in the evening or whatever that might be. Don't forget about bonus snacks. Don't forget about bonus snacks.

We have those bonus snacks that you can add in. I know it sounds counterintuitive, seems counterintuitive to be eating more food while you're trying to lose weight. Um, that if you are finding you're having a hard time with those few extra hours in the evening and the time that you're having dinner now, bonus snacks are not to be added in after dinner. There's a specific time for them, but you'll find if you're eating more throughout the day, that will really help with your hunger levels in the evening. I mean, every season is a good time to lose weight. There's, and also there's never a good time to lose weight. There's always something coming up and challenging us. That's the thing too, that's really interesting about running these programs season to season to season is that like, even after you've lost your

weight, and we talk about this a lot in the maintenance group is that you kind of go through each season now having lost your weight. So you're gonna have to learn how to navigate that, right? Every holiday where you're indulging or birthday or celebration or Easter or Halloween or whatever. Now that you've lost your weight, it's all about kind of reconnecting with foods. And what's your sense of indulging in those holidays? If before you see it all the Halloween candy, obviously, you don't want to be doing that. But that doesn't mean that you still can't enjoy some. All right, let's get into your questions and see where you're at. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Yeah,

so I'm heading out of town shortly after right after this live. I'm heading out Tony and I are going to Montreal for the weekend. It's my birthday on Sunday. Sunday? Sunday. Sunday. It's my birthday on Sunday. I'm going to be turning 51, 51, 51. You guys are all so sweet.

Thank you. Working from home today, got a Sydney Cummings workout done. I've yet to check those out, but I hear people, I see people posting them all the time. Love getting my workouts in the morning. Feel so much more energized. Yeah. It's good to get your, so exercise is great for like getting your body going too. Like that's why you feel like more energetic because literally it's a message to your body. Like wake up, here we go. All right, let's go. Let's go. It's also great when you get it done in the morning because it's not looming over you all day long. Like, oh, I find that I got to get my workout in. So if I do that trade off, okay, I'm not going to work up this morning, but I'm going to get it in later. Then

it bugs me all day long. Got to get my workout in, got to get my workout out. And of course, the day gets away from me. It didn't get my workout in. You always feel so much better after you get it done in the morning. Moving weekend for our son, high inch into his first real home. This mom has got all the feels. Oh, I hear that. Oh my goodness. That's great, right? You raised an independent child. They're off, they're on their own, and they probably still will need your help for a long time yet, but that's a good thing. We're trying to think, we're trying to think of ways to get ours out of the house. So that's great. I feel like I'm retaining water, which is not normal for me. Is this a sodium deficiency? Um, retaining water. So, so the, quite the opposite. When you have a

sodium deficiency, the water tends to run right through you. And that's why when you're drinking lots and lots and lots of water, and it seems like you're in the bathroom every five minutes, that would sort of be because you don't have enough sodium in your diet, your body's retaining water. Now, what it could be is that you're not drinking enough water. And so your body will retain water if you're not drinking enough water. And so your body will retain water if you're not drinking enough water. This also can be, believe it or not, your body adjusting to the seasonal change, especially I know some, I've been seeing some places around where it's been quite warm, it's been quite hot. So depending on the climate that you live, especially if you're rolling from a cooler winter or winter season, and now you are feeling the heat, it can take your body time to adjust that.

It could be other things too. It could be underlying health issues. So if it's not normal for you, like it's excessive amounts of retaining water, definitely head to your doctor and get that checked out. It is normal to feel bloated if your weight is about to drop, very similar to like if you ever got a menstrual cycle and you're kind of feel puffy and bloated, like that's me right now, right before your period comes. Cause it's my birthday and I'm going along away for the weekend. So of course I'm getting my period cause you know, that's how it goes. Anyways. Um, yeah, so there should be a reason for it, but low sodium wouldn't be bloating. Um, low sodium, when we do have a post on low sodium, so you should, everyone should

probably check that out, especially with the summertime coming when it's really hot. You want to make sure you're keeping up with those electrolytes and whatnot. You're sweating extra. That is so more sort of a fatigue-y kind of dizzy, kind of like really low energy, not feeling so hot kind of feeling as opposed to a bloating type of feeling. Bloating, and that used to be like the old thing in the 80s, right? People, if they were bloated, they just stopped drinking water, when in reality, they were probably bloated because they needed to drink even more water.

Good morning. I hope you have a great long weekend. Yes. And I think that our US losers, you guys are next weekend, right? I think. So I'm always mindful when I say that, because we have people from all over the world doing the program, which is so super cool. I'm spending it with family and especially my niece going to her wedding dress, second fitting and her fiance's birthday, then making those darn shower cookies. Bonus, I have to mix the edible metallic with vodka. Okay, so make a plan, right? Make a plan, whether you're moving your son into his first house, or you're going to baby showers, or you're going to weddings and whatnot, make a plan for yourself. The worst thing that you can do is fall back into old habits of not eating all day because you're

anticipating a bigger meal later, or you eat the bigger meal and then you starve yourself the next day. It's that not eating leading up to, and then not eating afterwards. That's really what does the damage in terms of signaling that your body needs to take this food and store it as fat. So also it just, you, when you're under stimulating your digestive system, you don't eat all day. And then you go out to enjoy indulge in that nice meal, you just feel bloated afterwards because you haven't been utilizing your digestive system. So try to stay on plan. I don't like on plan, off plan. That kind of bugs me every time I say that, but you know what I'm talking about.

Try to follow the best, try to make as many choices as possible each day that fall in line with your goals. Focus on that. And like, you're not going to gain weight over the weekend. You'd be even hard pressed to gain weight over, you know, all week. If you are indulging in some really crappy foods, it's just a lot of inflammation in your body. Sometimes, sometimes it's just your body, you know, a backlog of foods that happening. So no one's going to gain any real weight this

weekend, but there's ways that you can sort of minimize the damage for lack of a better word. So make a plan for yourself. Like there, it's very empowering to be like, okay, I'm going to go out and I'm going to enjoy myself at this dinner. I'm going to a very nice dinner. You know, like it's my birthday. I know Tony's got a lot of nice restaurants planned this weekend. I'm not stressing about what I'm going to eat, not eat. I'll probably overeat a little bit. You know, I packed a pair of joggers, I packed my jeans in two different sizes, and the same jeans and sort of my smaller range, big range, going to bring both right. But the more important thing for me is I'm going to want to feel good. Right. So although I'm definitely

going to be having some smoked meat sandwiches, I'm going to be having some bagels definitely have some poutine, also some really indulgent, super rich French food, no doubt. I'm also going to be mindful because, you know, try to get those leafy greens in, try to drink my water. I'm going to bring my digestive bitters with me because I also want to feel really good too, right? So I, you know, I guess I want to indulge, but I also want to feel good as well. So I don't want to trash myself just because, you know, it's my birthday. Finding it difficult to time food intake on busy days when I'm out and about and end up skipping meals or snacks. Okay.

So understand that this is probably one of the reasons why your body's feeling you need to store fat. So this is like, you're going to have to recognize old habits versus, you know, creating new ones. Like understanding I'm like this too. If I'm really busy, I can go all day long without eating. That is not a good thing. That means that my body is forced to draw its energy from my reserves, which is my fat reserve. So once I blow through my glycogen in a few hours, I'm going to,

I'm going to be utilizing my fat reserves, which is just simply reinforcing the fact that my body needs it. And what we're trying to do on this program is convince the body it doesn't need the fat anymore. We are literally trying to rewire how the body has come to function. So if you keep doing the same old shit you always do, it's just gonna it's gonna take you a lot longer, right? So also kind of reframe this like, so so you are right now you are skipping class, put it that way, or you're, you're not doing your homework. So if you think of this as a course, right, I don't know if you have kids or not, or, you know, you remember going through school on your own, but you know, you have signed up for a course, a 91 day course, and you're now not doing the homework because you're too busy, right? That's kind of, you can frame it that way.

You're not doing the things that you need to do in order to reach the goals that you want to reach. So, so what you're doing also is, is creating a hole in your foundation. So, so first of all, I'm trying to really stress the importance of, you may not understand it yet, but there is a rhyme and a reason to why consistency is so important. In fact, if you've been listening to our guest segments, the body loves that routine. It loves routine. And if you're kind of like hit and miss with your routine, that's not a routine. And because we're going to be making changes to it, especially next week. So next week with our downsizing week, we're actually going to purposely start eating slightly less, but we can't change anything else because we don't want the

body to freak out and stress out and be like, oh my gosh, now I need all this fat. But what you're going to do is you're going to continue to follow the routine. So at the very least, even though you're eating less than what you're used to, your body knows and can trust that there's that next meal or snack coming down the pipeline. So what are you going to do about this, right? What are you going to do about this? You can, if you're using our amazing living method app, you can actually set alarms or notifications and timers that if you, especially if you have a smartwatch, it will pop up, it will ding, it will let you know when it's time for your next meal or snack. Now the timing may be a bit a little bit off, but you don't have to be fancy about your snacks or some carrot sticks

in a bag, and like some nuts and seeds in a bag like that's pretty easy. Like snacks aren't really that an apple, carrots, an apple, a carrot, buy a big one, like a round one, don't do sticks, an apple, carrot and some nuts and seeds. It's so easy. So when that timer goes off, whether you're in your car driving or walking somewhere about to go into a meeting, finishing up a meeting, you can make time. You have to understand in order to do what you want to do, there are things that you need to do. So you have to figure out how to get them done. And also it might not be easy. And this is where you're looking at your lifestyle and thinking, okay, well, I live this lifestyle. Well, I can't even, I don't even have time to eat.

Right? So this is where you might want to set some boundaries for yourself. Take a look at your schedule, what you got going on. You know, if it's not customary to eat at work, fuck that shit. I'm going to fucking eat at my desk. I don't give a shit. I need to eat, need to give my body energy. And you know, if I lose this weight, I'll probably feel a million times better. So I'm going to do what I need to do. Right? So I don't know your certain situations, but this is where you have to say, okay, how can I get this? Cause the answer isn't, oh, that's okay. Ah, no big deal. It's okay. If you miss a few, that's all, I'm going to say that. I'm not going to say that. No, I'm going to say that. Um, because it really is going to factor into how to retraining, how your body's going to function. It's a lot that we're trying to get done in 21 days. Like this is a concentrated

fricking effort because I know y'all want to lose weight sooner rather than later. And if it was up to me, I'd make the program six months, one year long, even if you only had 20 pounds to lose, I'd make it a six month program easy or a year, year long program. But you know, people, once you've done the program, people are like, yeah, I might actually start selling the program in like, like a year long package type of thing. Um, as I'm thinking about, cause we do need to normalize that, but I I'm assuming like you want to get this done, right? Let's just fucking get it done. Just do what you need to do. Make a plan for yourself. Um, have a little chat with yourself.

Be like, I got to prioritize myself. This could be a deeper issue too, where just you don't like taking that time for yourself is not normal for you. And so that can be very foreign too. I'm just throwing a bunch of stuff out there. So kind of what is it, right? Like I'm out and about, like I'm, you know, moms, listen, this, I always bring this back to moms. Moms are always out and about, right? Moms are always out and about. Do you ever,

ever, ever leave the house without snacks for your kids? No. Right? No, you'd never, you'd never dream of it. You would never dream of leaving your house without snacks for your kids. If you have kids, I mean, maybe you don't have kids, so that's not really relevant. But, you know, take time to make those snacks. Pre-make them, maybe make them easy for you to, you know, to grab and go, that type of thing. Here's what I can tell you. Once you are really consistent with the routine, your body will come to expect the routine. Your body will let you know.

So your body probably right now is not letting you know that you're hungry or you're so hyper-focused on doing what you're doing that like that, that, um, that by like it kind of like that kicks into your focus overrides your hunger. And that's where your body will help keep you focused, but we're not supposed to be so focused 24 hours a day, right? It's for those moments where you really are concentrating, your body will like sidetrack your hunger level so you can focus. But you know, if you're an A-type personality and you're super focused all the time, right? Yeah, never. Snacks and water, right? Never leave the house without those snacks for the kids. Yeah, markets are opening up. That's a nice time of this time of year too. Starting golf this week,

normally golf four times a week. I find that I found I was really craving salt later in the day. Any suggestions to add supplements to my diet? I mean, you can always buy some salted nuts, right? If you're craving salt, it's probably your high stress. Maybe golf makes you really stressed. I don't know about you. Sometimes golf makes me stressed. I just got into golfing as well. Salty foods generally are high, your body's looking for more good fat. So omega-3s can be great to add in. Omega-3s are really good to come in. Sometimes though, when you crave salt, you actually want, your body wants salt, especially in the summertime. Any other time a year you crave salt, it's usually like your body's looking for more good fats. In the summertime. Any other time of year you crave salt, it's usually like your body's looking for more good fats. In the summertime, especially when it's hot and you're craving salt, sometimes your

body actually is legit looking for salt. So this is where maybe bringing some coconut water with you. If you're golfing all day, that can be great electrolytes to get that coconut water in there. There's also trace minerals. Do I have some, you can grab some of these trace minerals called, um, trace minerals. That's what they're called. Concentrates. You just get them off the Amazon. Um, there's some like drop drops, the sodium magnesium that you can add to your water. Um, so, so yeah, so omega-3 could be, if you're craving fats, salt, salt for the sake of fat, bump up your omega-3, especially if you're using a lot of brain power. Like it might just not even be the physical part. Golf can be a lot of brain power.

And so that can be stress in a good way. There is stress that's like, oh, my God, I'm stressed. But there also is stress in a good way. Both of them are equally draining on the body. So it doesn't mean that like it's bad and you're overly stressed. So you can try that as well. You guys are so kind. Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Ah, there's Terry headed to Banff to celebrate our 45th anniversary. Ah, I went to Banff. Was it last year? Yeah, last year. We went, we took the family. So, oh my gosh, it's beautiful. We were in the wintertime,

so I can only imagine how amazing it's going to be. 45th anniversary. Holy shit. Happy anniversary. See, that is not a moment where you're going to want to be stressing. You're going to want to make sure you indulge. But also, it's a great opportunity. So it's a great opportunity to reframe what indulgence is to you. Reframe what a good time is to you. Reframe what going out for dinner is to you, right? Like, and you can make it about the food, but you can like sit there

and enjoy your wine or breathe and relax and enjoy the atmosphere or the view if you're in bam, bam, indulge in like conversation, you know, and then really indulge in your food and how it looks and how it smells and, you know, really take the time to eat slowly and taste it and enjoy the conversation. You know, you go to the parties and yeah, like maybe if you're used to, I don't know, grabbing a drink of whatever, maybe have a cocktail, maybe try something new that you can sip on. Try, you know, indulging in conversation. You know, if you find you're just hanging by the food table, like move it to another space in the room, you know, try to like indulge in life and living in conversations.

And it doesn't have to be in the moment. It doesn't have to be, not to say you can't enjoy the food, because I would never take that away from people, right? But try to maybe reframe with that experience, you know, what going out and being around food really means to you, right? Or what celebrating your anniversary is all about. Feeling stress is my boy, Leo. Oh, is not eating. Back to the vet medication, struggling to get him in. A very poor sleep and skill is him. Yeah, that's always sad. I have an older dog, Jasmine. She had cancer last year and we think she's got some dementia going on this year. Someday she wakes up and she's our dog and someday she wakes up and she like, you can tell she doesn't know who people are. And it's so unnerving, you know, they're just, you expect them to be a

certain way. And when they're not, it's just like so unsettling. It's so unsettling. So be kind to yourself, mama. Be kind to yourself, right? And deep breaths. I recognize that that's just as much stress as anything else in life. So that's affecting your appetite and your mood. You know what I mean? That's tough. That's tough. Let's have a celebration in Montreal. I would love to say happy birthday in person. A huge thanks for my 26 pound weight loss. Hi, Debbie. Do you live in Montreal? I haven't been. Tony and I went along when we first started dating, I think after the first year, first anniversary, I think. Yeah. So it would have been like,

we're going on eight years this year. I went to that boat to boat to spa, which is always food, always restaurants. So I'm looking forward to going back and then going to go in the, we're staying right downtown. I know where I stayed before staying right downtown this time. My question is, do you still follow the plan on a daily basis? Oh, so, so yes and no. So, so if you're new to the program, I, we're going to teach you after you're done losing your weight, a technique called back on track, which is basically the, the basic food plan, because we're going to phase you off the basic food plan. We're going to make changes to the basic food plan. So what you're eating and when it's going to change and evolve, like for

example, eventually you're going to be able to add a protein and fat to your fruit snack or switch it up for something altogether. You'll be able to have fruit in the afternoon, like for other snacks. And so we're going to, we're going to have at the end of this program, like what you're eating and when it's changing and evolving, right? As you change and evolve as well. And so this is why that routine and the basic food plan is so important because this becomes your go-to. It becomes so familiar to the body that it's like, it's instantly recognized it as this. And again, there's a rhyme and a reason to that routine, right? In terms of stimulating your digestive system. So, so you are to use it whenever you

find yourself indulging, like after you, after you lose your weight. Okay. So there's four stages of the living method. There's lose your weight, there's solidify your weight. So you want to put the time into helping your weight become your new norm. So you want there's four stages of the living method. There's lose your weight, there's solidify your weight. So you want to put the time into helping your weight become your new norm. So you want to do another round of the program, or we also teach you this technique called personalize the plan. Then there's like this maintenance phase, right? This maintenance phase where you're testing out the waters, you're starting to indulge, you're trying to understand what like being in maintenance feels like learning to trust, you're going to be able to maintain your weight. And then there's that, like, you're ready to move on, not be so hyper-focused on losing weight, maintaining weight, just kind of wake up,

look good, feel good. Obviously utilizing, you know, the, the bringing forward the knowledge, like living the Livvy way, right? Like going, focusing on protein at breakfast, always going to be a benefit because there's science behind starting your day high at protein and breakfast. You want to make sure you're going to be getting your water in. Ideally, you want to make sure you're not going too long without eating, although you can stretch that a little bit longer. You know, following basic principles, like eating at night is you can go back to eating at night, but like I had chips last night, it's not going to cause me to gain weight, but doesn't make me feel great in the morning,

because for the same reasons why you're trying to lose weight, right, your body's not repairing and rebuilding, it has to focus on digestion and just messes with your body temperature. So whenever I eat at night, I don't get a great sleep and I feel kind of blech the next day. Um, but that doesn't cause me to gain weight. So you're going to live your life in this state of living your life, right? I eat whatever I want. I don't not eat anything. Um, I, this is why a lot of times on my Instagram account, I'll show you, like if I'm on vacation or away, like I said, I'm going to have bagels. I'm going to have, you know, I'm going to have smoked meat, poutine. I'm going to have all the things this weekend. Um, and then I'm going to get right back at it on Monday. So on Tuesday. So when I come back,

I will probably do a couple of days of back on track. So I regularly use back on track as a, just kind of like, okay, I've been eating like shit and now I need to help my body get over feeling like shit. And so rather than what we would have done back in the day, starved and deprived ourselves, which really doesn't do anything for us other than under stimulate our digestive system, prolong the whole process, um, I'll use back on track. So we talk, I talk about this a lot in the maintenance. So I lost

my weight 30 years ago. There are times that are more stressful in my life where I am less mindful and I am less active and I am more stressed. And so my weight will kind of go in a range. That's why I have the same jeans in two different sizes. Like I, and I buy those good American jeans where they range, like each range is four sizes. So technically, I'm covering eight sizes. And that is normal. So people think when you lose your weight, you're going to just say it one way when when the fluctuations that you're seeing now on the scale will continue to happen when you've lost your weight, there will always be fluctuations on the scale, you indulge in crappy food, food, your body's good, you're going to deal with

inflammation, your weight's going to be up once you kind of clean it up, for lack of a better word, drink some more water, get in some leafy greens, get some sleep, your weight will come right back down. And then there's a then there's the regular fluctuations, right? crappy sleep, high stress, you know, working out muscle sore, salty food, you know, not enough water, all those, so your weight continues to fluctuate. So your weight range, your set point is probably about a 10 pound weight range, right? And so different seasons of my life require me to function differently. In the summertime, for example, I love chips and I love like Coronas. I love drinking in the summer. And with the heat, my weight usually will stay around the higher

range. So my rates 119 to 130. And so I'll usually in the summertime, stay around that 2830 range, right? Whereas I get back in the fall and the that's not as hot anymore, I start to get this, you know, kind of like, you know, kind of clean it up type of vibe. I'm not drinking, partying, whatever, my weight will drop right down to my lower range. The last couple years, I've had an extreme amount of stress with my kids. My ex, it's, you know, coming up to a year next week. It's coming, I'm a hot mess. My ex, it's coming up to a year since my kid's dad passed away. And it's very traumatic. It's been very traumatic for everybody. So I'm juggling every minute there's a kid that's crying and then it brings up all the

emotions. I ended up, I was the one who spent his last, uh, I was there with him day and night in his final days, which was, um, very traumatic experience for me. So that, that's why you notice I have this giant pimple here and I'm really run down. So I'm making an extra effort to make sure I eat healthy and I'm drinking my water and I'm doing the thing. So I'm going to bring my swimsuit with me this weekend and whatever. So my range right now, like I feel really bloated. My weight is on that higher end. Plus I'm dealing with sort of a hormone situation. My period comes, it doesn't come. I haven't got it for like two months. I feel like I'm getting it every day. Pretty sure I'm getting it this weekend because I'm crying every five minutes, but it just could

be because I'm going through an emotional experience too. I don't know. So right now I'm sitting at the higher end of my weight, right? But what I, then what happens is I start to feel not great. So then this is where I, you know, start making a point, getting up, getting my exercises in and do whatever. So I, I've, so the reason why I'm explaining this is what you are learning in this program are going to be the tools that you need to not only lose your weight, but to easily understand

what you need to do to be able to maintain your weight. Cause I'm not controlling anything and I'm not moderating anything. That's really important. What I'm doing is being in tune with where I'm at and how I'm feeling and what I need on any given day. And so that's why that basic food plan is so key because that's going to be your fallback to help you get back on track. So, so yeah, so I do, I'll have moments where I'm following the food plan. I, I pretty much like I'll have fruit snack in the morning. I try when I do the program just to kind of like,

you guys are on it, so I'll jump on it. It's great just for like, the program is so good just for basic health and wellness, right? So when I recognize I'm having an extra stressful time in my life right now, I'm following along. Now, will I do downsizing next week? Like, no, I'm not going to do downsizing, but I've been having my breakfast, my fruit snack, my lunch, my veg snack, my nut snacks. I've been doing that for the last couple of weeks along with you guys. Will I do downsizing? No, I probably won't depending on what's going on. Yeah. So hopefully that answers your question. It's always a welcome event to head into a new season. Try on your shorts and tops from last year and finding

out they're falling off your frame from the last time you wore them. Nevermind spending a little bit of money on new summer clothes. Yeah. So pull out your clothes, especially if you, especially if you've been with us for a while and you've lost weight in that winter program, you're hesitant to pull out those summer clothes, pull them out. You're going to be surprised again with this program. There's a big difference between like fat loss, which is what we're going for, and weight loss. Fat loss is like, that's fat loss, right? That's where you're maintaining muscle mass, your body's releasing fat. Weight loss is when you're forcing your body to starve and it's burning fat, but also muscle,

also water weight and whatnot. So your structure, that's why you'll notice your body change a lot, even when the scale isn't moving. Let me scroll down. Tony's going to come and grab me. The school course. Yeah, you guys like that. Yeah, again, there's always some things you want to check.

So you want to check your why, right? You always check your, any reason we can't stay on program. I have so much. Okay, so I don't want you. Yes. Let me tell you why you can't stay on program. First of all, if you're new, this is not the program. This is just foundational building.

Like we haven't even got into it yet, right? Like what I love though, what I love especially about next week's tweak is I love that people end up loving what they're doing in these past few weeks that they're so hesitant to make change. But we want to get more in tune to your body's needs. The fact that your hunger levels change each day, you know, your body has certain needs day to day and whatnot. What I don't want you doing. So what you are going to do is, is again, when you're done, you're going to take what you've learned and implement that. I call it living the Livvy way, right? You're going to live the Livvy way, but that is not setting timers and alarms on your phone.

That is not only having fruit snack in the morning. That is not like, you know, following eating when you're not hungry, right? Like this is why I don't want you to do any kind of weird shit. Once you're done losing your weight. Like I don't sit there and think about what am I going to eat? Not eat, right? Oh, am I hungry? Do I need to eat? What do I want to eat? I'll run through what I can think about what's in my fridge right now, leftovers, right? So what did we have last

night? What did we even have last night? Oh, we had like dumplings last night. And then we had like oxtail the night before. And I think there's some pork chops the night before that. So I know that that's up there. I also know that I have some fruit. I saw, I got some raspberries there that I can have. I got a whole fucking drawer full of cheese. I got so much cheese. It's like, I love cheese. I could have cheese. I could have, you know, so I'll go through really quickly. It happens within instants. Okay. I'm hungry. What should I eat? This is what I got. This is what I feel like, you know? And the thing is that you got to trust, like your body's not my body. It's not like I'm going to be like, what do I feel like? My body's like, Oh, you feel like a Big Mac and a chocolate bar and a bag of chips right now.

Never. My body's never going to tell me that. When I'm truly hungry and I'm running through the foods that I have available to me, it's never going to stop on chips or chocolate or any of those things. I might like the idea, but never. So this is where you're just going to trust that your body's going to tell you when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat. And you will get to a point where you'll be able to trust that and then just kind of, you know, not be doing weird shit. You just wake up, look good, feel good, go about your day, make good food choices. It's not a big deal. You're not trying to lose weight. So if you end up, you know, out and about on the road and you know, you didn't have access to food, you make the best choice you can when you can, that type of thing, you know?

So yes, don't want anyone doing the program after the program. There is, we do phase you off. So there, again, there is that lose your weight, then solidify your weight, which you want to put another couple of months into solidifying. And then maintenance for some people is three weeks. Some people it's a year. They're still working through their issues to really get to a point where they're just ready. They're like, you know what?

I'm ready to move on from losing weight, maintaining weight, I'm ready just to live my life. I'm in tune. I know what I need. I know how my body works. I know what foods make me feel good, what foods make me feel crappy. I know that when I indulge, it's not going to cause me to gain weight. And you're not doing that vicious cycle of I indulge, punish myself. That's what's really detrimental, right? You just do that. Okay, back at it, you know, back at it. How do I make sure scale's not moving so much? I will need part of the next program. How do I make sure I have a spot and isn't full? So spoiler alert, next week, we are going to announce that we are going to do a big fucking sale. So you got, I don't know if

you know, if you're new to the program, you probably don't know. But we broke the internet, we literally broke our website last time, because we had so many people because we cap the numbers. We are very mindful of the number of people we take on the program, because we have real people answering questions, we want you to get great customer service. And we're just not there yet with, you know, taking on as many people, eventually, we want to have the app working where you know, we can have millions of people using our program, but we're not there yet. And right now we really love doing these groups. And I think a lot of people really love the community and the group. So it's really important for us to have that kind of, you know, manageable customer experience, not just for you guys to get good customer experience, but for our team,

not to be stressing out and keeping it all manageable and in fun and in fun and where we can also enjoy and really love what we do as well. So last time we capped the numbers, I think at 15,000, we like sold out, like within like the, we broke the internet. Like then everyone was upset because some people were trying to get in for like hours because they couldn't register. And this was obviously not the experience that I want for anybody. And so then we ended up opening it up. And then we, then we, you know, so it was just like stressful. And in the end, we ended up being able to add more spots anyway.

So we're going to have one big fucking one day sale. Pop in any time during the day, in the morning, at night. I said to my team, I'm not limiting the spots. I'm not doing, unless we sell out, unless we sell out. So we're going to have the big $60. I probably not supposed to be telling anybody, but I'm doing it anyway. Fuck it. Fuck it. That's why I'm having a fuck it sale. It's going to be 60 bucks. And the reason why we do this too, is like, we want to give back to our members. Some of you have been with us for a while, you know, um, I just, it's a feel good thing to do. It's the original price of the program. So 60 bucks, we're still making money. Don't we're still good. I'm still good. I can still feed my kids. So I'm good.

One day only 60 bucks. It's going to be the 27th. We're going to let you know next week when it's going to be, we're going to give you lots of heads up so you can get your butt signed up. Unless we sell out, you'll also still be able to sign up after that. So we'll give you lots of notice on when to sign up. That's why we let you, my point is we let you in here know first so you guys can get signed up first. You can also tell your friends and family and whatnot, but yeah. So that's the heads up on that. That's full transparency. I cannot keep a secret. My God, my team's probably like Gina. So that's going to be, uh, that's going to be next week. Next week I had a sleepover with the grandkids. We're all going camping for the weekend. So maybe a bit crazy this weekend. I love that. Camping is so fun. We do again, this comes down to,

if you are a camper, right? How do you feel when at the end of your camp? You probably feel like shit. You eat all the hot dogs and the chips and the things. You don't want to feel like shit. You don't want to feel like shit. When you are on vacation, when you are at the cottage,

when you are at camping. And then what happens is we indulge in foods. We overeat, we starve ourselves. We do it again. We do it again. That's the pattern. So it's hard to break that, right? But now you're acquiring the tools and the skills to know better, make choices that make you feel good, right? Bring a salad, focus on drinking some extra water. It doesn't mean that you can't have the chippies and stuff too, right? This is a great opportunity to kind of like kind of assess and frame, reframe what you find to be joyful, especially

your, cause we talk about how we're rewiring the body. We're also talking about how we are rewiring the brain as well. And that's your thoughts about foods. That's how you connect with foods, right? That's a big part of that too. So even how you're feeling, if you're nervous this weekend, you cannot mess this up this weekend, right? That's a big part of that too. So even how you're feeling, if you're nervous this weekend, you cannot mess this up this weekend, right? Or next weekend, if it's a long weekend, you can't mess it up as long as you keep, um, as long as you keep, um, I'm sorry, I got sidetracked. How do we get to our own maintenance when we are all in different weight loss journeys,

how much pounds to lose? Not sure my question is, well, that's up to you. So you have to decide when you are done. So the program, just like any diet, you do as many, you just keep doing it over and over and over until you reach your goal. Each time you do it, there's such an advantage. You're just leveling up in all areas, physically, mentally, program works just as well each time.

So you wanna follow it until you reach your goal. Only you will know that, only you will know when you reach the number that you are comfortable at. Once you reach that number, your weight does tend to sit about five pounds above, just with normal processing of foods when you're not as diligent. When you're in maintenance, you're not trying to live a life of seeing, or when you're trying to move on from this whole journey, you're not going to live your life trying to see your lowest low every day. That's not what you're going to do. Although people do realize when they stop maximizing, you know, trying to move their body, get better sleep, they don't feel as great.

So a lot of times their thought process shifts from things I'm doing to lose weight, the things I'm doing to maintain my weight to things I'm doing to just make me feel good, like managing my stress and trying to get better sleep and moving my body. You no longer have to do that to lose your weight, to solidify your weight, but now you're doing it because it just made you feel really good. In terms of your goal weight, that's something you're going to have to figure out on your own. You'll kind of know when you get there. I've had a lot of conversations without people. They start with a number. We do have a post on goal weight. So if you want to go check that out. And then sort of, if you're talking about the program, so say you do this program and then you still have more weight to lose and halfway

through the next program, you lose that weight. Well, then you can move on and go into maintenance if you want, or you can also follow through on the rest of the program, which is also beneficial as well. And so once you go through this first program and you, you're there for the conversations that we have on maintenance and we explain how that works, It'll make a lot more sense. It'll make a lot more sense. I'm a hypnotist specialist, helping people lose weight. I didn't realize how much resistance I had trying to be, uh, trying my best to be consistent. Yeah, actually I was looking into this, a hypnotist for business stuff. I'm going to try to look for a therapist, hypnotist, um, to really get into deeper, really whatever help you try to get over your deeper shit, right?

There's a lot of blocks. There's a lot of resistance. There's a new, the, the reason why it's so difficult too, is because of our connections with food, because we use, first of all, it goes way back to how our parents ate, how our parents' parents ate and how they pass that down to us. What we were taught as a kid, eat everything on your plate, you know, wait until dinner, wait three hours till dinner to eat, you know, eat your broccoli. It's good for you, even though you have a belly ache, like we are really taught to disconnect. You add diets to that, then you're really disconnected. And then it's our associations to how we utilize food. We use food to show love, to bond, to celebrate, to console, to cope, to whatever. So it's like, it's not just your connections with it. It's your how you've used it. So then it's also your habits. And then you have to get into your beliefs. Do you believe that you are worthy? Right? Like, do you believe that you are worthy? Plus people's weight can be really interconnected into past traumas. And a lot of people not just indulge in food, but actually carry excess weight to keep them physically distanced from people from opportunities. So there's a lot going on there.

When it comes to your weight, it's not just don't eat the food, right? Like that's a real surface thing. Don't eat the food. It's there's so much more. It's the same people who like I work with people who've gotten gastric bypass, and they're limited in what they can eat, they have a really hard time because they haven't gone through actually like doing the work, rewiring the body physically, mentally, right, making those connections, repairing those relationships and whatnot. So it's one thing just to be like, you can't have that food or don't eat that food, that food bad, this food good. It's like, it's so much bigger than that. So it's one thing just to be like, you can't have that food or don't eat that food, that food, bad, this food, good. It's like, it's so much bigger than that. So there's a lot going on there. I got to go. I have got to go. I know Tony is like Judah, come on. Uh, he wants to hit the road. We got to go. Um, I'm going to check in on the weekend. I will not be going live on

Monday. I'm taking the day off. Look at me. I don't even know. I'm a slacker, this group. I don't know what's going on. Hopefully you have better things to do than listen to me on the Monday. I will be around Tuesday. I'm not worried about you. I will be checking in. The team is working. Of course, we're starting downsizing, of course, on a long weekend. That's how I roll around here. Make sure if you are new to the program, pop into the group, read those guidelines. Here's my advice for downsizing next week. One, listen to the tweet this week, the conversation that Kim and I did. I will check in and I will talk more about downsizing for you as well. And then also recognize nothing is changing, except you're going to eat slightly less. The goal is not to be starved, not to be deprived, just for your body to notice those slight variations in your food choices to decrease

the amount of food that your body is used to eating. And if that's freaking you out, don't worry, we got you. Okay, I got to go. Have an amazing weekend, whether you have a regular weekend, long weekend, everyone, I'll check in on you. Great conversations this week. If you missed it, our whole sleep series, I highly suggest you check it out. It's a good one. Okay, now I got to go. Bye.