The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 29 - Winter 2026

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

On Day 29 of The Program (and the beginning of Downsizing), Gina Livy checks in on mindset, motivation, and what it really takes to keep showing up when things start to feel harder. She talks about why weight regain happens, the importance of giving the body time to adjust to change, and how routines, habits, and mindfulness play a massive role in sustainable success. The conversation also focuses on downsizing, satisfaction versus desire, and learning to trust your choices without guilt or self-judgment. It’s an honest reminder that progress isn’t just physical, it’s mental, emotional, and deeply connected to how well you understand your body and your why.This is a recording of the Day 29, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2026.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.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 for 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. Day 29 of the program, I think.

I think it's day 29 of the program. I can't even hear my head. Is that? Can you hear me okay? Let me know if you can hear me okay. Well, let me know if you can't. Let me know if you can't hear me okay. All right, it's Monday.

As I said in the check-in this morning, how are you feeling today? How are you feeling? Where's your heads at? What's going on? Are you going to be able to do this? you're going to be able to keep showing up? Are you able to follow through? Are you going to be here at the end? Are you going to reach your goals? Where's your mind at with all of that? Have you

taken a minute and checked your why in a while, right? The why that you started started with might not be the why that's going to keep you motivated this entire time. We're downsizing this week. That can bring up all sorts of questions and second guessing and thoughts and feels. If you have any for me this morning, I want to get into as many as I possible. We got a great week this week. Dr. Dina Karas Schaefer is going to join us tomorrow. She can talk about how do we embrace new routines? I mean, why do people get back, right?

They gain weight back no matter how they lose it because the one, they don't give their body time to adjust to their new weight. That's a really big one. And why? Because they go back into old habits, challenging their body, processed foods, long periods of time without eating, no longer managing their stress, their sleep. Your body needs time to adjust to the weight that you've lost. That's why you want and need palatose, right? Your homeostasis is around the fat that your body is storing. Your

your fat doesn't just sit there. Your body factors it in. Your body temperature. That's why people who lose weight will notice all of a sudden they're cold, right? You'll be like that cold for a whole year until your body kind of readjust. Your blood flow, metabolism, the size of your heart grows to the size of your body. This is why they give you blood pressure medication. to prevent your heart from being in an enlarged heart, working too hard, growing too big. And when you lose weight, this is something that a lot of people don't think about. The size of your heart needs to adjust. That's why you can't just lose the weight that you want and not have your body need to take the time to adjust your weight.

So once you reach your goal weight or you're done trying to lose, that's where you want to help the body really maintain and sustain that way. What's another, so not giving your body enough time? And it takes about two years. That's the new research. It takes two years. But that's when people just kind of lose it chaotically, eat less, exercise more, or whatever, and they're not doing anything intentionally, actively.

So that's why we have a whole maintenance program that kind of really helps to fast track all that. The second thing is situational change. So your situation life changes. Either you move, new routine, new job, something happens in your life that just throws you for a life. And then why does that cause you to gain weight back? Because you go back into old habits. That's really going back into old habits. is how they gain way back. Your body doesn't want to fat anymore than you do, right? So it's all about

giving it what it needs so it no longer feels the need to store fat. That's why the routine of the program is so important. And the other is being mindful. Really, the other is being mindful, not being mindful and in tune to the choices that you're making, you know, aware of how those choices are affecting how you're feeling, right? I see a question right here about downsizing. So I want to get into it. Erica, what do you do in downsizing when you are a good cook? What do you tell yourself when you really want seconds for taste rather than the need? I mean, I don't even think you have to be a good cook for this. You want to lose your fucking weight, right?

There's things you got to do to be able to do that. You have to make change, right? We're in the pursuit of change, so therefore you're going to see change. So all this time you've been giving your body what it needs, this size body, eating enough for this size body, which is great. Even with that, there are people who are noticing the scale move, right? still normal. And if you are not losing weight, it's not necessarily because you're eating too much food. That might not have anything to do with it. It's more the state of your body. But your body gets used to functioning at a certain level and it gets used to you giving it a certain amount of food. And this is

where you really want to get in tune with satisfaction, like eating enough to feel satisfied, eating enough in the moment that you're satisfied 10, 15 minutes later when your body starts to process the foods. And you want to know what it feels like to feel slightly unsatisfied. That's that once you lose your weight trusting when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat, right? Like I never accidentally overeat, ever. And I overeat all the time because I make a choice because it's delicious and I want to enjoy it. Also then, ding, ding, ding, knowing that I'm walking away and I'm going to feel a little uncomfortable.

Therefore also, I have the wherewithal and the mindfulness to not be like, oh my God, why do you do that? I know why I fucking did it. It was delicious. But the aftermath, why'd you do that? Why'd you do this? Oh, you're so fat. You're never going to lose weight. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I just regret it. Break myself from regret and then punish myself the next day, right? Try to eat less to make up for it or whatever. So I think this is understanding that you want to lose your weight in a healthy way. Yeah? Healthy physically. Healthy physically. Healthy in a way you're going to be able to easily maintain. But also be able to, I enjoy all foods. I lost over 100 pounds, probably close to 150, over. 30 years ago, I enjoy all foods in life. Why does my weight go up? Like, my, I'm a range, right? So when you lose your weight, there's like your set point as a range. So my lower end 120, my higher end when was going on in my life when it went up to like 140, almost 150. Epic amount of stress,

drinking wine, just like not moving my body managing your stress. Like just chaos was happening in my life. And was I really doing the things? I was doing a lot of things to try to negate that, but I wasn't doing the real work that I needed to do, right, to be able to help my body manage that weight. And so it's about losing your weight in a way that you can enjoy the foods that you're cooking for yourself. Are you actually enjoying the food? Right? Like, think about this for a second. Are you able to cook this beautiful food for you without stressing about how much you're going to eat or not eat? Are you be able, are you, do you sit down and you smell the food and have a pre, like, actually take the time to appreciate this glorious food that you've created for yourself.

Or heck, if you're at a restaurant and you can afford to eat at a beautiful restaurant, do you sit there and really enjoy the food? Or before you even sit there, oh my God, you're thinking about how fat you feel and worried already about what you're going to eat. Do you eat your food chewing, savoring, enjoying? Are you stressing the fuck out with every single bite about how much you're eating, right? And then when you're done and you do choose to overeat, is that wonderful? Oh my gosh, I am so grateful. My belly is exploding and that was wonderful. And oh my gosh, so good.

Is that your reaction to the foods that you are eating, right? And if not, I mean, let's just say for shits and giggles it is. And but you eating this good nutrient rich food is not, even if you you were overeating is not why your body is feeling you need to store fat. That's not it. That's not it. No one's overeating their steak and their broccoli to the point where they're gaining weight. So chances are it's long periods of time without eating high stress, lack of sleep, right? All of those things. Maybe menopause, which is affecting your sleep, right? Maybe you're not being as active, so you're losing that muscle mass or whatever. So back to your question. What do you do? You just follow the guidelines. You do what you need to do. You make an extra point of being extra intentional

about being in tune and mindful to those portions. And then you stop eating when you feel unsatisfied. And then you sit in the uncomfortableness of that to know what that feels like. Right. Like this is work. This is work. This is not having your cake and eat it too. It's not. You got to, there are things you're going to have to do where you might feel uncomfortable. You might not like or love while you're trying to lose weight. But the whole goal is for you to be able to enjoy life, all the yummy bites of bits, especially this glorious food that you're cooking for yourself, right?

So why are you here? Let me ask you this. And I'm generalizing. I think this is a really great question. Because we have foodies, people who really enjoy food. They love the indulging of the food. That gives you that dopamine hit. You love that.

But then again, you forget about the after-off. It's like that boyfriend, girlfriend, that relationship, right? You break up because it was horrible. You were unhappy and fucking miserable. A couple years later, you see them again. You're like, oh, but we had so much fun. And then we was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, girl. It was shit, right?

You look back, you remember the good times. But there are people who are foodies who genuinely love food. There are people who could take it or leave it, still have a weight issue. And then there, maybe because they use food for other things. High stress, lack in sleep has kind of got them, right? Coping mechanisms, trauma, stuff like that. And then there are people who love food. So you will go through this kind of like sadness of not being able to indulge in food in that way over eating.

So indulgent it in other ways, right? Indulgence is indulgence. And then you will circle back around to enjoy food in ways that you never did before without the aftermath of the heavy thoughts and the foods and all of that. So I don't like calling the rules, but you follow the fucking rules. You do what you got to do. This program works really well for A-type people who just follow the rules. The problem is, because they're not rules or guidelines, at some point they have to deal with the thoughts and feels that come up.

So sit in that uncomfortableness. No one is starving. So there's a couple of themes that are coming up that Kim sent me. That always came up with this week. One of the things is members wondering if it's just serve less on their plate and then on their plate, then plan to leave some behind. And it's not that. It's not guessing.

It's like, come, come on. Get in tune with yourself. Right? Do the fucking work to become in tune. So you can trust yourself. Right? So you can trust that you're actually hungry versus bored or triggered or out habit.

Trust that you know exactly what to eat. I want fruit. I want a steak. I want a salad. Or if you're craving a donut, you know why. Right? And then how much? much to eat. You don't want to be ruled by fucking food for the rest of your fucking life

and spend most of it trying to lose weight. Right? Like get to know yourself. Trust yourself. Like we're the only species on the planet who doesn't know what the fuck to eat, how much to eat, when to eat any of that. Like, come on. Do the work. Let's dig our heels in and do the work. Don't try to look for loopholes and make it easy for yourself, right? So how's this portion for me? I sit down. Okay, so my kid made dinner last night. It's all there. It's beautiful.

I know it wasn't really hungry, but, you know, I got to eat her food because she, you know, worked so hard and made a freaking mess of the kitchen. But it's right. And I get down and putting it on my plate. And I'm not really all that hungry. So I got a little piece of chicken, a couple things of bok choy. She made these, she's so proud of these pastry things that I really wasn't hungry for. So I put one on there. Like, I know I'm not hungry for this meal.

Even though she's loaded up her plate, Tony's loaded up her plate, whatever. I'm like, I know, I'm not hungry for this meal. So I'm like, okay, let me just take my time and indulge in the flavors because you're going to ask me, how is it? Right. I already knew. I already knew that I wasn't hungry. And so even the small amount of food I put on my plate, I wasn't really hungry for it, right? And so then as I'm eating, I'm paying attention to that and I'm taking a few more bites.

And I'm like, oh, God, I'm really not hungry here. I keep eating this. I'm going to be past the point of being full, right? And how do I know I was done? I wasn't even really hungry to begin with. So I did end up leaving food on my plate and I passed my kid. Do you want the rest of my food? Let's say you are hungry, right?

Or you're in a restaurant and someone serves you this big plate of food and you're, how is this portion for me? Like really take a minute. Feel it in your body and be like, how is this portion of it? And you know this, right? I always use those two examples. Like you're putting food on your plate at a buffet. You get to a point where you know it's too much.

You just know. You know. You know. Like you're ready. You know. You know, you know, it's too much. Or alcohol. Like your body is keeping tabs on everything you've ever eaten ever and knows how it makes you feel.

It totally can tell just by looking at your food if it's too much, not enough. It's that we're trying to think it. We're trying to think it rather than feel it. And that's how the body's communicating it with us. It's not communicating by thinking. It's communicating by feeling, right? Name that alcohol right now, do it. The one that you got so sick on, lemon gin.

immediately my belly, my saliva glands are like, no, we're not doing that. Don't ever say that word again, right? So your body knows these things. And so you're at a restaurant and the food comes and say you are hungry. Okay, you're hungry. Am I hungry? Yes, I am hungry. Am I actually hungry? Am I just like, am I actually hungry? Like feeling my body. Rather than I'm excited to be at this restaurant and maybe I haven't eaten or I know the food is good. I'm actually. hungry? Oh yeah, I could eat. Okay, yeah, I could eat. So how's this portion for me if I ate the whole thing? Okay, it's probably going to be too much food for me. But I'm going to shove that for a minute. I start to eat. Now, am I eating? Am I smelling the food? Am I tasting the food? Am I chewing the food?

Like, what's my experience with this food that I'm so excited to eat? Right? And then what if I was to stop now? So visualize a waiter taking your food away. Would I be like, whoa. Oh, it's fine. I'm done. right? Or would I be like, oh, what do you get back here? What? Are you, I'm not done? Excuse me, I'm not done yet. Right? I'm not done yet. And I keep eating and then get to a point where how do I know when I've had enough? Or in this case, unsatisfied. Like if the waiter was come, take my food away, would I be freaking pissed or would I just be like, yeah, I'll be, I could definitely have eaten more, but I'm okay. Right? Or say you eat all your dinner and then are you still hungry. So say you're at home and you've portion out a small portion. You can portion out a small portion to answer this question. You can portion

out a small portion, but allow yourself to go back for more if you need. Right? So you portion out what you think is the portion. You're coming to the end of it. You're kind of still hungry. Hungry, not unsatisfied. Hungry. Go back and have a little bit more. Put that on your plate and then leave yourself feeling unsatisfied. We want strong feelings to come up so we can really recognize them and be aware of what they are. And then, and then checking in on yourself how you feel later, you might be hungrier than normal. Like, you don't want to be starved or deprived. If you feel like you're starved or deprived, then make sure you eat something. But you got the next meal or snack coming down the pipeline, right? But these are, I also want to say these are really real feelings,

but you kind of got to fight yourself and be like, what is this about? Like, what's going on? There's, there's like, you don't want to fight your body physically, but you kind of have to like, this is where you got to get curious and be like, what is this about? Why do I have have this strong feeling. Like a lot of food waste issues popping up too, right? So, so I would serve what you normally serve and then get used to leaving foods on your plate, which brings up food waste issues. Think about this, right? If you just serve less, what happens when you're at a restaurant, a friend's place where you don't have control over the amount being served? This is, again, life skills forever. So you want to get used to seeing food. You go to Thailand and if you clear

your plate, they'll put more on it because that means you're still hungry, right? That's not what we do. our plate because our parents told us that we need to clear our plate. And so our sense of satisfied is seeing the plate clear, not actually satisfied. So leave some food on your plate. Now, if you, you could just eat a few bites less, but you're really not digging into the fact that your body's hunger levels change every day, which is going to become really important towards the end of the program and really important, obviously, once you've lost your weight and you're maintaining it. So you either do the work now or you do more work later. Like so, and if you don't have capacity, Gina, fuck you. I don't have the capacity for doing this. Let me just put less on my plate.

You could do that too. You can do that too, right? But you're here now. So maybe some days that's what you're doing. And other days you're really digging in, right? It doesn't have to be all there. Nothing. Doesn't have to be on. But that's the intention. You want to learn here. You want to bring up these fields. You want to learn the skills that you need to learn to be able to not just lose, but maintain and system. Members have a hard time throwing food away and not cleaning their plates. Yeah, so think about this. You made a meal, and rather than eating everything on your plate, you're leaving some. So you eating that food that you don't need because you've already had enough is not saving food. It's not saving any food. You are not the garbage can, right? Like you're not the garbage can. And there is a price to pay. It's actually more expensive to keep doing that because it's at the cost of

your health or your sanity when you're trying to lose weight, right? So put it in, no matter how small, put it in a takeout container or a Tupperware container or whatever, and then you can incorporate it into your foods. If you really care about food waste issues, there's all sorts of places that you can volunteer that actually do this. They go pick up foods from restaurants, like there are, you, you know what I mean? Like, there are things that you can do. So this is, if you have a, if you have a hard time leaving food on your plate because it's waste, that's a personal you issue, not like a food waste issue and it's not going to save you any. Here's what I can tell you.

You will find that you actually spend less money on groceries when you then get to a point where you're truly cooking what you really need rather than what you want. You want to eat that food. You do not need to eat that food. So that's kind of the difference there, right? That's the difference there. Members worried about being hungry later. This is really interesting.

So many people are afraid of being hungry. you want to be hungry. You want your body to talk to you, right? When to eat? Am I actually hungry? Oh, yeah, shit. I'm hungry. So hunger's not an immediate need for food. So hunger is when your glycogen levels drop, your body says, hey, Jeter, you might think about, you got to think about eating soon, girl. My body, it doesn't know, because my physical brain that runs me doesn't see that I have food everywhere. So it doesn't know. So it's giving me a heads up because it thinks I got to go shoot an animal or pick some something, or find the food, prepare said food, eat the food, and then digest the food. And then that's the thing that happens. Like, most of you are eating so often throughout the day, your body hasn't even really processed and digest the food that you ate before. The food that you ate before, right? And then you have your next meal or snack coming down the pipeline. So most of us don't have to worry about actually legitimately really being hungry. We just probably have a fear from past diets of feeling hungry and you'll know because this is so much of this is mental so if you're new to the program

and if you're a returning member we do this phase where you actually take your meals and you split them in two you eat the first portion and then you wait 20 minutes half an hour before you eat the next portion you should see what happens when you have to eat that second portion people are literally it's like if you took the food that you portioned out today and you just split it in two and you ate that first portion, you probably wouldn't be hungry for the second portion. And then when you allow people or they have to eat that second portion, they're like, I don't want it. I don't want it. I'm satisfied. That's because after a half hour, without that pressure or that trigger of deprivation and they know it's sitting there for them and they

can have it if they want, they actually don't want it. So a lot of that fear of hunger is that trigger from past dieting or that fear that, oh my God, I'm going to be hungry later, you probably will. You will probably feel hungry later, but you will also eat your breakfast, your snack, your lunch, your snack, your snack, and then your dinner. And then make sure those are really nutrient rich. I don't just have, you know, celery sticks for your veg snack, like add a protein and fat. That's going to give you more like oomph, more like, you know, add a boiled egg to it. Right? Add some chicken to it if you want.

Like add a dip, something like that. It's going to give it a little bit more oomph. with your veg snack and that will really help. But food takes time to break down your system. So if I eat what I think is enough or even satisfied and then I walk away 10, 15 minutes later and I'm still hungry, that could be like triggered because I actually ate too much, right? That could be thoughts of like, oh my goodness, did I eat enough?

And then that food still hasn't even been processed and hasn't even registered yet. So what does adding more food on top of the food that you ate that hasn't even been processed and digested, do? It just gives you peace of mind, gives you peace of mind, right? So this is where we want to work through all those thoughts and feel. So every thought and feel that you have, every second guessing, all of it's all valid. So I love that. So be like, okay, what's that about?

Let's go back to the first comment about being like a foodie and loving food and I'm a good chef. So what is that about, right? So is there a way you can indulge in other ways, right? Can this right now be about you getting in tune? So you just know the exact moment when you are overeating. And you can make that choice. And then you can also then pay attention to what's happening to the aftermath afterwards, right?

And then you'll notice your taste buds too will start to change as well. And you'll have more, you could end up having more love and respect for your food and enjoy it in ways you never thought you could before without that aftermath. So what is it? What is the lesson for you? What's the learn in this? No matter if you're the first program or 26 program, right? What's the learn in that for you? What's the learn in that for you? I'm excited about this week. I don't know if you can't tell. Like this is where we really get to just dig our heels in. And not that that past four weeks haven't been worked. Sometimes the hardest work is just laying that foundation. Right. And then just getting back in tune if you're returning that member establishing that routine. And now this is where we got to like, this is where we get to like have fun with that. Have fun with that. Do do do do do do do. Oh, someone's talking about our community event tonight. So I will not be going live tonight because we have our community event revolution her. So we normally send out emails. This event has been sold out for a really long time. But we're going to keep you up to date through emails and whatnot about any events that we have going on. But if you follow us over on social media, all of our like Instagram and then our public Facebook page, we

we post about events and stuff coming up. I think this one sold out in like 15 minutes. And we're going to do more. We're working on doing more. Or doing it on me. It's only 91 days. I hear because I want this. Yeah. But that can seem like it can seem like we're kind of going into the middle part. Like we're so excited in the beginning, that fresh start, all of that, or maybe you're new. And then you get into the middle and it can seem like, oh my God. Like it can feel like it's taking forever. So this is where you've got to be like really intentional about it. am I doing here? Why am I here? How can I make the most out of this day? How can I, how can I dig into this? How can I do that? All knowing, it's going to lead to change, right?

And it might, everyone is so different in why they're here and what they need to learn or work on or work through in their journey. I mean, weight, it's, weight loss, yes. It's just, it's so much bigger. It's about sustainable change, right? Like, figure out where you're at, what you need. Yeah, you might want to lose weight, but you, you, you bigger than that, you might just want to find joy. in your life and be happy and be calm and comfortable in your skin right like you you might just want to feel better or not feel like drinking wine at 9 o'clock in a minute what is it for you and the the food plan is like that's that structure that's routine physically that's going to help you whether you'd start working out are you managing your stress trying to get better sleep you're going through

menopause all that part is going to help you with that but it's the it's the underlying keep showing up what are you working on right this is why journaling is so I I see those end of day reflections, right? First couple weeks of the program hundreds of comments as we go, it starts to dwindle. Like as we go, participation in general. We've already lost so many people. Why? How you sign up for a 91 day program and you quit? What if this was your kids who signed it for a 91 day class? And four weeks in, they're like, yeah, I don't know. Don't want to go. I'm not motivated. It's hard. The teacher sucks. Like, I don't want to watch too much homework. I don't want to, like, imagine if your kid did that. You paid money.

sign them up for a 91 day program. They're like, no. Eh, hey, you still going to school? No. Wait? Still going to hockey practice? No. What?

Get your fucking ass in the car. We're going to hockey practice. You know? I fought with a waiter once at a bank. He was more worried about clearing plates than customer appreciation. He tried to take my plate and I told him, not done yet. He took it away anyway. I've been there. I've been there. I'm like, where you go? I pay for that. I don't even care if it didn't a part of a buffet. Someone paid for

that. Bring it back. You know, right? That's what I mean. Like, you know when you are still hungry. But don't be afraid of hunger. Don't be afraid of hunger. Hunger is so many things. You can, and, you know, really loud hunger cues. That's the thing, too. You're becoming so in tune. that really loud hunger cues are great. But they don't necessarily mean that you're starving or you need more food. They can just be your bodies being like really clear. Like Gina. Right.

You got to think about eating. Okay. Thanks. You know? Like that's the thing too. So sometimes you're really hungry and then you go to eat and you're like, oh, you're not even hungry at all, right? So yeah.

I struggle with leaving food, but I'm really going to work on this this time. not just take class. That's it. Right. And you might not have capacity for that. Like I don't know what you all got going on in your lives. So, you know, I'm trying to motivate you and help you see a different way in and a different way it approaches. But you might not have capacity. You might have got so much going on in your life or something big you're dealing with right now and you're listening to Gina and you're like, I'm now. I'm tired. Girl, I'm not doing that. Then just leave some bites of bits on your plate. That's okay too. That's enough as well. That's enough. But if you have the capacity,

like get curious about it. Get excited about it and be like, okay, let me like figure this out. Let me figure it out, you know? That was my aha moment. You're not a garbage candy. Yeah. Right? And but people don't think about that.

But I also, I bring, I bring, like, I can be in the fanciest restaurant and I'm bringing that half a piece of bread home. Bring it. I've taught my kids this too. Like we pay for that. We're bringing it all. Sometimes we eat it, sometimes we don't. Same thing in your house.

You don't get yourself, I love good Tupperware. I had that rubber made one. Oh my God, I love it. It's so insanely expensive. So I only replace it whenever it's like a Black Friday sale, half off or something like that. But it's so easy to use. I love it. And it comes with these little small, like little tiny ones that you think don't fit much,

but you can actually be surprised in what you can fit in there. Oh, you guys are talking about squads. So on the weekend we posted again, we're still trying to. Squads is like not our ownership of Squads. We're trying to facilitate squads in the best way we possibly can. So we did a post on the weekend asking squads where they were from. So hopefully you can link up and find people that way as well. What is Revolution Heur?

So Revolution He, so we are trying to think of ways that we can actually get our community connected in real time. Some people are really into that. If you're not, that's okay. So we've done pop-up walks where we go and we meet up for a walk. Revolution Her is a store that they have in Burlington that they used to have one in Vaughn. They have one in Burlington where it's all,

or close to Burlington, I'm not really from that area, where it's all women entrepreneur products. And so she's got this great space, and we just come, you meet other members, we hang out, we do a little bit of a Q&A type of situation. You can shop if you want, you don't have to, but it's hard not to because she's got some great stuff.

And there's anything in everything. There's like candles and bags and mugs and books, and clothes and stuff like that. So how can I support women, entrepreneurs, obviously? How can we bring our community together? Because connection is so important. How do we facilitate connection? So many people meet people there.

It's hard to meet people these days. Like, I don't know, where do we go to meet new people? So we've done three of them so far. Two last in the fall. And then this is another one that we're doing and we're going to work to do more. So that's what. that is all about good morning looking for a squad of new market up that's where i am anyone else

want to be saying you're not a compost bin yeah you're not a compost bin there you go i love that i totally i'm a i'm a big fan of the compost bin hoping this week gets me off this latest plateau i've been playing the same three pounds for months what do you got to do right like let's get into it get out a not what are you doing what are you not doing what are you not doing that you're avoiding doing that might be the ticket. How's your water intake? Some people get stuck on like drinking the same water, but I don't know about you guys.

My lips are so chapped because it's so, it's in this polar vortex. It's so cold that my heat is up so high and it's still cold in my house, right? So making adjustments like that, like maybe you're not drinking as much water, what's going on in your life. How are you feeling? Like getting it, it's never really about the food,

though you could be digging, dig into those portions. Like other programs, you're counting and your weighing and measuring. And yes, what you eat is important. Also, how much you eat is important too, but it matters more what you are eating. And this is why calories don't make any sense because it doesn't take an account where those calories are actually coming from, right? So, you know, dig in.

Try eating a little less. Let's see what it feels like to be hungry. Also, don't forget. Don't forget. There's a couple of things that really make. this week interesting. You'll have people who aren't even hungry trying to downsize. So I love that. That's normal. Just how those small token amounts. Portions are what they feel like, not about what they see, not what they look like, see what, see what. But also, it's normal to be extra hungry when

your weight is about to drop. So you have all of those things going on at once, right? That's a lot to juggle. Try to have fun with that. Try to have fun with that. I feel like I'm going through the motions and everything in life. The head noises need to stop. It's not food. noise, it's negative self-talk. Please send the Calvary to get me through this thrilling mess in my head. You know, I'm going to suggest my book. It's a really easy thin read, but this is, it's about, sometimes you're trying to figure out where you're at, what's going on and process all of it. And you actually just need to stop a minute and kind of understand yourself a little bit more. Again, I'm not, you know, I'm not really promoting this book. It's kind of like something that I read and I

promised myself, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to post about it and share what I think to. yeah, this is about like really recognizing where you're at. And it's not the food and it's not the this. It's not the this. It's not the that. It's like it's so much bigger than that. Right. And there's so many things you can do. So many things you want to do. So many things you're juggling. Even with this, it's kind of all like everywhere. It's kind of like you just need to be here without any of that. And just for today, be okay. Just for today. Don't worry. Just for today. Don't worry. about anything else. And then make a plan. Where do you want to be? I like a five year plan, but I also like a, you know, a three month, like that three months kind of not enough time for me,

like a good one year. How do you want to feel? How do you want to feel in the summer? The midst of the summer. Right? In summertime, when sun is shining, how do you want to feel? Physically, mentally, what do you want to wake up? What do you want to be doing? Five year plan I love, right? How do you want to feel? Where do you want to be in your job? What do you think, what do you, like relationship wise, all of that. And not overthink it and stress it. Just like write it out what you would like. And feel it in your body.

Feel what? How would I feel about this? How would I feel about that? Because all of my decisions in life, except for when shit went sideways, I trusted, how do I feel about this? How do I feel about that? Right?

Oh, this is the right choice for me. Sometimes it's hard for other people. And then you listen to other people. and that's where shit goes sideways, right? Because you know it's not the right move for you, but everyone's like, well, you'd be crazy if you didn't do this, well, you should do that and he's this and that's a good opportunity and whatever,

but you just know. So how do you make any choice without just knowing what works for you and what doesn't work for you? And that goes beyond foods and portions. So like that's where I just sharing, that's kind of how I function. I got to like quiet at all. And then just break it down.

How would I feel if I did this? How would I feel if I did that, right? Or like, if you have a why, right, your why, for example, can be very confusing because you need a why. What is my why? My why is I have some tough choices and decisions and things coming up. I'm not sure where I want to go moving forward and what's going on. So I know I need to be strong. And I need to be my best. I'm going to be 53. I want to physically feel good, mentally feel good. Okay, why is that important? that's important because I want to live my best life and right now I'm not because I'm tired. I feel overwhelmed. I'm stressed all the time. I'm, I'm, I'm, why is that important? I'm not really,

my best life is today when I woke up and I'm not really indulging and living in my best life. And why is that important? Because time goes by so quickly and before you know it, the people that you, that you love won't be around anymore and your kids will be gone and things will have have changed and you will have spent all this time just struggling rather than living, you know. So this is why this is so much more. You do not want to struggle with your weight for the rest of your life. You want to live your best life. You want to feel your best. So when you get there one day, that same place we're all going, you're like, yeah, man, fuck, I did that. And then you want to know that you're doing it along the way. This is why it's so much more, you know,

it's so much more than that. I'm excited with where we're at. Like I said, I love learning about myself. I want to keep growing and evolving and moving forward. This is such a great week to do that. We got some great guests, like I said, you're going to help us along the way. Dr. Dina, she's going to join us tomorrow. She's going to help us with why is creating a new routine and change so hard, but she can help us. Kyle Buchanan, who is just a doll. I love him. He's like our wellness guru around here. He's going to join us Thursday. Alyssa Steinberg is back. We're going to talk fiber, the F word. No one talks enough about fiber. So we're going to talk about fiber.

We're going to have a great week. I'm going to be joined. Barb's going to join me. Barb Gay is going to join me for our spilled of tea tomorrow. So it's going to be a great week. Take what you can. Take what you can. Leave what you can.

Don't overwhelm yourself. Remember, it's just about guidelines. Cut out the noise. If you're new to the program, if you're turning member, do the best you can. That's enough. Whatever way you've got to show up and manage. But don't not challenge yourself if you have the capacity for that. If you have the capacity for it, get into it.

Get into it. All right. I'm not going live tonight. Thanks everyone for joining me. Have a great rest of your day. We're going to have a great week. I can just feel it. I know it. Remember if we didn't get to your question, pop it over on the question of the day page. The team will answer it then. Have a great day. Bye, everyone. Thanks for joining me.