The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 3 - Winter 2025

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 3, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2025In this episode, Gina unpacks why fluctuations on the scale are 100% normal (no, it’s not real weight gain), what detox really means, and why plateaus are a necessary part of the process. You’ll learn when and how to weigh yourself and the power of focusing on non-scale victories. Plus, she answers why building a strong foundation through consistency and routine—rather than rushing the scale—is key to sustainable weight loss.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livi and welcome to the Livi 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 relisten 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. I wanna stop right here and take a minute to hear from our new sponsor. It's a good one, and they are offering a promo code, so you're gonna wanna listen up.

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Do you have any questions? Remember, do not be shy about asking all the questions that you need to be super clear on what you need to do. Do not go a day longer than a day wondering, unsure, just reach out at any time. It is not your job if you're in the Facebook support group to keep track of all the questions being asked. Just focus on yourself.

Ask as many questions as you need. We truly are here for you. Or you can also open up our amazing Libby Method app and use the AI feature in there. It's all self-contained, meaning it's all program information. So you can't use the AI to search questions about other things, not program related, but it's pretty robust. And you know, for program related questions, it's so easy, you just ask a question and it will give you an answer and it will also pop up links to posts that we haven't posted

yet. So in the Facebook support group, we roll out certain posts on a daily basis also in the app. But if you're using the app on a daily basis, also in the app. But if you're using the app, you have access to all of the information. So if you go into the guide section, you'll see all of the guides for all of the weeks. And there's a lot that we're going to talk about and cover over the next 13 weeks. Obviously in the Facebook support group, we roll things out in a timely manner as not to overwhelm you.

So the most important thing you need to do in the cold notes of the program, again, are found in the guidelines each week. So what you want to do is find those prep week guidelines if you haven't read them yet. And I say that because we still have people filtering in to the group, although we started on Monday, day one of the program, there are still people trying to get caught up. Just a reminder as well that we still have space for people who are interested in joining. I don't know how for how long.

What we do is keep an eye on the Facebook support group and our ability to answer questions in a timely manner. There's probably like 30,000 people signed up. I don't know how many are in the actual group. Let me check right now. 20,000, close to 21,000. So we still have a bit of space left. So if you know anyone who's interested in signing up, tell them to sign up sooner rather than later. Head to the website. We also have a referral program. So this is a way if you want to refer

a friend, all you have to do, I think we linked it in the Facebook support group today. There's also a link on our website. Click it. I believe you get a code and you can share that with a friend. You can save on the next program and then they can save on this program, which is really cool. I mean, the price is already super affordable, but you know, I like to save money.

So today we are talking about the scale in the group. We're also talking about detox, which is sort of a really loose generalized term that I use when talking about when the scale in the group. We're also talking about detox, which is sort of a really loose generalized term that I use when talking about when the scale is moving or how you might feel when the scale is moving. Those two obviously really important. You want to check out those posts today. I do absolutely advise that you get on the scale. I want this to be the last diet that you ever do. And you may think, oh my God, what? Get on the scale? No, that's not good. And maybe it isn't so great for your mental health. So if you do not wanna get on the scale,

you do not have to get on the scale. And I know I talked about this the other day. Whatever you do, don't get on it once a week. It doesn't tell you anything. It's completely useless. In fact, it's probably just gonna stress you out. What we're looking for by using the scale every single day is the small little fluctuations on what's happening

to give you insight and data on how your body's responding to the changes that you're making the choices that you're making the changes that you're making along with how you are feeling as well so that you can really understand what weight loss looks like and feels like to you so looks like on the scale what's happening are you losing in little bits or larger chunks, right? Does the scale go up before it goes down? And then how you feel. So there are a few signs that your weight is about to drop. One is that you're extra hungry in the evening, even though you've eaten all these meals and snacks and you made them nutrient rich and you ate to satisfaction, you're still extra hungry

in the evening. That's a sign that can actually be a sign your weight is about to drop. The second one is that you're waking up around that 3 or 4 o'clock time in the morning. That's when your body is going through its circadian rhythm. It's filtering through, doing kind of a self-cleanse, for lack of a more scientific term. It hits your kidneys and your liver around that time. And that can wake you up enough that you head to the bathroom. then of course you should be able to get right back to sleep.

Another sign is that you're just kind of feeling like not great, just kind of like a little run down-ish. Obviously with cold and flu and virus system, you never want to blow off your quote unquote detox symptoms as just fat loss. But if the scale is moving, if you feel like that the next day, the scale starts to move or the day after the scale starts to move, chances are that's probably detox. The other one is that your weight is up and you feel kind of bloated and just like, and you're saying to yourself, what is going on? I'm eating all this food, I'm following the program, and I feel bloated, I feel just bleh. What's that all about? Because that is sort of where all of your toxins

in your body are stored in your fat. And as your body starts to release that fat through its natural metabolic process, those toxins get released, they can make you feel all kind of just kind of lousy and run down. And so that's what you're feeling with that. So, and this is also why a lot of people

don't try to lose weight in a healthy way. I can imagine, you know, every January, let's say people are like, Oh, I'm going to try to eat better exercise and you lose weight. And you know, you think that you're making all these healthy changes and you think, Oh, I should feel fantastic. And so a lot of people do. A lot of you are probably saying to yourself, I've been following for a couple of days now. Wow, I'm starting to feel really good. You will feel better than you have ever felt on this program because this program is all about giving your body what it needs so it can do what it needs to do in it and help you feel its best.

Like honestly, but let's say so many people are being unaware of how the body can respond when you start to eat healthy to try to lose weight is that you don't feel so hot, right? You're like, I don't feel great. And then your weight can actually go up right before it's about to drop, which most people would probably be like, screw this, I'm trying to eat healthy, my weight is up, I feel like shit, I'm not doing this, right? So they quit right before they see that scale starts to move, right? So they just want you to know what's up and what's going on and why.

There is a bit of blind faith in the program because it's so hard to explain the whole 91 days because it's such a systematic process where each week has a different focus and a different tweaks. We're constantly making changes to it. So there is a bit of blind faith involved. Although I do want you to make sure

that you're asking all the questions that you need. There is no downside to the Libby Method. So this is truly about losing your weight in a healthy and sustainable way, healthy physically and then healthy mentally. And like I said, we want this to be the last diet that you ever do. So I'm always thinking beyond today,

beyond tomorrow, thinking big picture for you. So we're talking about building a really strong foundation in the first couple of weeks. That is the focus right now. The focus is not on moving the scale. Some of you are gonna see the scale move right away. You've probably, some of you have already seen the scale move right away.

That is fantastic for you. That is so motivating for you. I love that for you. It is also, I'm gonna give you a heads up now. It's also not normal to not see the scale move for weeks still. It doesn't mean that it's not working for you. It just means that chances are your body is working behind the scenes, repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating,

focusing on other things right now that are going to set the foundation for your body to be able to focus on fat loss. So you might have experienced in other programs where you starve yourself, deprive yourself, you force your body to burn that fat and you get that initial payoff and you see that weight move right away. And that's great. That's so motivating. That's awesome.

But I want you to remember when it stopped moving and then it felt like a fight. And when you gain it all back, because we're going to push through all of that. We're going to push through all of that because it's not how quickly you lose in the beginning. In fact, how quickly you lose in the beginning is zero indication of how successful you are going to be. It really is about being here at the end. So you really want to wrap your head around that full 91 days of the program. What time of day should I weigh myself and should it be the same every day? Yeah, I mean, ideally if you're getting on the scale you wanna create a bit of a routine with it. I mean, get up, go to the bathroom, weigh yourself,

or get up, do your thing, get out of the shower, weigh yourself. I mean, we're not nitpicking numbers here. We're really looking for fluctuations on the scale patterns of behavior. We're looking looking for fluctuations on the scale patterns of behavior. We're looking like you won't you won't tell anything from the scale in the first week, right? So you won't really want to be able to look at your graphs or the the way that you're tracking and see those ups and see those

downs and see those plateaus. That's really what you're looking for. So the small little point this point that I mean the little points along the way absolutely add up. We're just kind of going to get a rough sense of what's happening on the scale so so for me I get up go to the bathroom get on the scale that's what I do so but for you you just anywhere that you're fitting into your routine whatever you do do not weigh yourself in the evening it's just crazy pants weigh yourself in the evening. It's just crazy pants. Weigh yourself in the evening is just,

you can literally, your weight can go up like 10 pounds just from processing food in and out, whatever on any given day. Some people are really prone to fluctuations. So weighing yourself in the evening does not help. In my first program, I saw changes in my body, but not the scale. Clothes were looser, even not the scale clothes were looser

Even if the scale wasn't moving. Yeah, so we're really big on non scale victories around here These are all the things that you are Experiencing that have nothing to do with the scale In fact, those can be way more motivating way more the scale is more like a tool that you're using as you're collecting data Especially if you're using our app or your journaling to really understand what's going on, not just physically, but also mentally. But things like how your clothes are fitting, how you are feeling, your rings fit, like there's so many non-scale victories, you can actually track those in your app.

To me, those are way, way, way, way more motivating. I like this. I like the scale daily. I haven't been doing that in the last six months and I have gained 10 pounds. If I do it daily, it keeps me in check. I mean, the scale is does help. It's not meant to you don't want to use the scale and get on it

and berate yourself, right? You don't want to punish yourself. It can be a good indicator though, because a lot of times we're not really paying attention, especially when life, I would imagine that you didn't just gain 10 pounds from not weighing yourself. You probably had a lot going on in your life.

You probably had a lot going on in your life that was just distracting. Maybe you didn't have the capacity to take a minute and be like, hey, what's going on here? How am I feeling? What can I do about it? And so the scale, you're gonna see a lot, everyone is gonna see the scale go up.

It's not gonna mean that you've gained weight. You are not going to gain weight following the living method. It's much more complicated to actually take the foods that you are eating and have your body convert them into fat than you actually think. But the scale will go up for so many reasons. A crappy night's sleep will have your weight up. Salty food will have your weight up.

Not drinking enough water, being dehydrated will have your weight up. So many things,, being dehydrated will have your weight up. So many things, you're doing a workout and having your muscles be sore will have your workout, your hormones will have your weight up, all of it, not real weight gain. And the number one reason that you'll see your weight up while following the program is it's an indication that your weight is about to drop. That's your body starting to retain water in order to follow through on the metabolic and detox process. So a lot of people will be like, oh, I'm doing everything right. My weight was up today. What gives? Well, if you're doing everything quote unquote, right, because it's no right or no wrong. But if you're doing

everything, then chances are your weight is up because it is about to drop. It will fuck with your mind. It will. It will mess with your head. You will probably have feelings about it. You will be frustrated. Even though your weight moves the next day, that's okay. That's okay. You'll get used to it. If you're new to the program, you'll hear a lot of our members being like, Oh, I'm so excited. My weight was up today. Right? Cause they know that that means their weight is going to start dropping. And then usually once your weight drops, it will drop for a few days.

So when you see that drop on the scale, you want to assume it's going to continue to drop. What happens when we see that drop on the scale is that we tend to also stop drinking our water because when you're in that state of detox, water is not all that appealing and your weight goes back up again as your body tries to retain more water to continue the process. So if you see that scale drop and it goes back up the next day, a lot of times people will be really disappointed. They're like, oh, I lost a pound yesterday, but I gained it back today.

No, you haven't gained it back. In fact, chances are your weight is probably still dropping and you just need to drink a little bit more water. That's why we say the water is like your secret weapon when following the Libby method. I forgot how my hiatus hernia and stomach is uncomfortable at the beginning, not to mention stool inconsistency. So I know I talked about this a bit yesterday. We do have a post coming out on bowel movements. There is an adjustment period as you make any kind of changes in your diet you're going to notice. I was in the comment section yesterday and noticed a lot of you talking about how you're feeling really

full at the end of the day. So for a lot of people their sense of eating dissatisfaction is actually feeling full. You're used to just eating everything on your plate. That's what you were taught. When I say to you, how do you know when you're done eating? I know like let me let me ask you right now. How do you know when you're done eating? And I hear some of you going like, huh, what? What do you mean?

Right? Chances are, because you just eat everything on your plate. So we're gonna get really in tune with that. So you're probably eating way more than you need. So start to pay attention to that. We're gonna get it really into this next week. Start to pay attention to that. And chances are, you're probably noticing

that you've had enough well before you actually finish your food. There also can be adjustment period with your metabolism. When you start to give your body what it needs, it's like, it's not used to that. So what it's going to do when you continue it is be like, oh shit, we're getting, wow, we're getting all this amazing nutrient rich foods here.

But our body, we've put on slow mo, because if your body's feeling you need to store fat, it probably has you on like reserve mode where it's just keeping you really low energy and feeling you need to store that fat. So it's like, okay, we keep getting all this really good food here. What we need to do is like increase our metabolism, get this body working at a faster rate so we can process and digest this food more efficiently. And so you'll notice within a couple of days

of being really consistent with following the food plan, one, you start to feel more energy, you start to feel a lot leaner, right? You start to feel hungrier, but also feel more satisfied quicker. Now, some of you may be saying, what are you talking about? I feel like garbage. I have my energy is shit.

I feel bloated and gross. I'm not sleeping great. Chances are, if that's how you are feeling, stick with it because your weight chances are is about to drop over the next couple of days. Some of you are going to experience the best sleep you've ever had. Others are going to be crappy sleeps because you're going to your weight is going to be dropping. And so everyone kind of experiences a little bit differently. So for those who will see that initial drop right away, right, you eventually will go on a plateau as your body adjusts to your weight. You want plateaus, you need plateaus. We love plateaus around here.

Absolutely love plateaus. It doesn't mean that you sit and knit a sweater and don't do anything while you're on a plateau because we tell you the things that you can do to help break that plateau. Plateaus are your body saying, wait a minute, I've been making some change over here. I need to adjust to the weight that I have lost.

So people don't think about this. Everyone wants to lose 20 pounds in two days, but they're not thinking about what happens in the body internally and the body being able to and needing to adjust to that weight that's lost. Your body actually utilizes and factors your fat into a lot of things like your body temperature and your hormones. There's a lot that needs to be adjusted when your body is dropping that kind of fat,

even a few pounds, right? Your body needs to adjust. So you want plateaus, you need plateaus. We're gonna get into what's happening on the scale a lot more, but just a heads up, it is so normal if your weight isn't moving. So it doesn't mean that you're doing anything wrong. It just means chances are your body is doing,

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livymethod25 when you check out online at joefresh.com or through the Joe Fresh app, right? Amazing. Suzanne, hi, blind faith. Initially, yes, but look at how many returning members, successful returning members who are building on their betterment of overall health and accompanying weight loss. Yeah, I love that. This program and all that Gina offers, info, guess, science, is proof that Blind Faith can be put on the back burner in your mind. We are going to do everything you can to prove to you that the Living Method works because we know it does.

Listen, I'm a good person. I like to sleep at night. I also want to run a very successful business as well. At the end of the day, I truly want you to lose your weight. This is why I put together a team of incredible people who are here to help. We have all these resources. team of incredible people who are here to help. We have all these resources. I've seeked out the best guest experts who actually also do really care. There's nothing better. Man, it feels really good to feel good, but it feels even better to help other people feel good. So I have spent my entire life, like people ask me what makes you a weight loss expert? I'm not sitting in boardrooms, I'm not a scientist, but what I have done is I have spent my entire life

helping people lose weight. And a lot of that has been spent living in small towns where if I help someone, Judy lose weight or Sean lose weight, I'm gonna see them again and again and again, right? I'm gonna see them at the grocery store, I'm gonna to see them again and again and again, right? I'm going to see them at the grocery store. I'm going to see them out and about. And I wanted to make sure that I was helping people lose weight in a way

where if I ran into them two, three years later, and they had paid me some really good money, that they were still able to maintain and sustain their weight. So I have, believe it or not, of all the people in the world, figured out the algorithm for sustainable weight loss. And yes, I am saying that with a straight face. And yes, little old me, and maybe one day I'll win a prize for that. Who knows?

I figure out the algorithm, the system for being able to lose your weight in a healthy, sustainable way. And it's my mission to share it. And if you've been spending any time at all getting to know me over the last couple of days, you might have picked up on the sense I'm pretty enthusiastic about what we're talking about, even though I've been talking about it my entire life. I don't know what it is, but I believe that it is my gift to share. And I'm sharing it with you and I'm going to do my darndest to make sure that you are successful. You have everything that you need. You have the information, you have the resources. You have the guest experts, the specialists,

that are going to share all their information with you. And you have an incredible space to work through this. You have a place where you can wake up every day and feel supported and feel a sense of community. I don't know if you all have been hearing about what's going on with free speech and Metta and all of that. The internet, or especially Facebook, is about to become the Wild West. I'm on with free speech and meta and all of that. The internet or especially Facebook is about to become the wild west.

I'm all about free speech, I am. But more than ever, we need a safe space for you to show up and work through your goals. So we're going to make sure you have everything that you need. Now, there are a lot of resources. There's the Facebook support group. It's how I initially started the program, and I didn't have an app, and I didn't have a book program and I didn't have an app and I didn't have a book

and I didn't have a podcast and didn't have all those things. So you can very well follow the program just using the Facebook, checking out the guides. We have it all organized for you. It's where our team is. We also have our app, which is really super awesome and so easy to use. It's so super cool. We also of course have our book, which is a written version of all the information It's available on Amazon near you and we also have our

Journal if you want a journal along the way which there's a lot of science behind The using a journal to make any kind of change in your life where they use ours or use our own We also have our podcast as well, which right now you can access for free It's going to be part of the program at some point. We are putting that podcast behind the payroll. So you have to be in the actual group to be able to access the podcast. But right now you can download

and listen to all of our podcasts. Now that's a lot. That's a lot. I also check in every day. I also go live every day. Right now I'm going live twice a day. You do not need to listen to the lives to be successful. I love doing them, but you do not listen. You do not need to listen to the lives to be successful.

I love doing them, but you do not listen. You're not going to miss anything. If you miss the lives, it's really all about those guidelines each week and making sure you are super clear on what you need to do. But there's a lot of resources. So figure out what works. This week is all about figuring out what works for you. Does listening to the podcast work? Does, you know, just using our app work or just being in the Facebook, whatever works

best for you. We're here to help you kind of figure that out, right? What do you, what are you going to need to be successful? Good morning, Hi Bar, back again to work on the final 10 pounds down 18 pounds last time. Just want to say the morning weigh in is a great tool to help keep you loyal to your food plan. Love it. Yeah, it's all about routine.

I know yesterday we talked about routine and consistency. It's all about, like, I want you to be so routine with that food plan that you're almost feeling bored with it. In fact, week three of the program, you're gonna start, some of you, I mean, some of you are gonna love the food plan and be like, I could do this forever. And yeah, you could follow the basic food plan forever.

It's just that the tweaks that we're going to implement each week help things progress a little bit quicker, right? But by about week three, following this food plan, you're like, oh my God, nuts and seeds again, vegetables again, fruit snack again. I'm getting so bored of all this healthy, nutrient rich food. I don't know why I'm saying like that. I don't know why. I guess maybe that's how I talk when I'm bored. I don't know. I don't know where that voice came from. You're going to get pretty bored around week three. Good. And this is what I say to you. Some people

will be like, I need to make my food more exciting. I am not motivated. This is boring. And what I'm going to say to you is good. It's not boring, it's routine. And if you're bored, your body is bored, which means your body, you've lowered the stress and your body's just calm. What you think is bored is really just calm for your body. Right, and when your body is calm, guess what it can do?

It can focus on what you want it to do. Right, a lot of the times the body can't focus on fought less because it's focused on a million different things. You're all stressed out, you're doing this, you're doing that, it's all about making everything really routine so the body can get a handle on actually making change. Week three is also really great because this is where

if you ever use food when you're bored or when you're stressed or use food for anything other than nutritional requirements, you're going to highlight that, you're going to see that, and you're going to be able to work through that because you want to get to a place where you're not needing food to cope. You're not eating because you're bored. You're not using food in other ways other than nutritional value. So it doesn't mean you can't still indulge in foods every now and then.

I said this the other day, one of the reasons why weight loss is so difficult is because we use food for so many things. We're not going to stop enjoying food. We're not going to stop celebrating with food. We're not going to stop any of those things. But there are some things we might want to stop, like using food to cope and eating a whole bucket of ice cream if you're sad, you know, those types of things. So as you start to get really bored with your food, what that does is it starts to pull up these issues and associations that you have with food. So that's why the structure of the food plan, very routine, keeps the body very calm, which the body can focus on repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating, healing, detoxing and releasing

fat, right? So there's a rhyme and a reason to all of that. Is it okay to start my day with oatmeal with a little bit of fruit and nuts? Thank you for your help and support. Newcomer with my daughter. Hi Denise. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. Oatmeal is great in the wintertime. What you want to do though is make sure it's maybe more nuts, less fruit. You want to really make sure that you're focusing on protein as being like the primary focus of your breakfast. Right. So I love that you're adding the nuts in there. Maybe some hemp hearts on top of that is a great way just to bump up that protein value a little bit. But that totally works. That totally works. You just want to think protein is the focus. You can also like, let's say eggs. You do not have to just eat eggs. You could totally have oatmeal, you can have high protein pancakes.

There's a lot of options, you can have leftovers as well. So in, so we have the food plan, right? So if you go, we have in the prep week guidelines, which is the instructions for the week, we talk about the food plan. Then we've separated the food plan information in the food plan guide. Then we have a food plan overview. And then we have a breakdown of all the individual meals and snacks. It's a lot of information granted, so take your time going through it this week. But if you seek out that breakfast post, we actually have some breakfast

ideas in there for you. So let's just take eggs for example. You don't just have to have protein for breakfast. You can have some scrambled eggs on top of a high fiber rye-vita cracker, throw some cheese on there and a little bit of avocado and salsa. That's one of them. Like I love that. I haven't had that for a while. I'm going to start making that again. Or you could do eggs with some fruits. You can do eggs with some fruit. You could do eggs with some vegetables. So it's not just the protein. You just want to make sure you are focusing on the protein in there, but that totally works.

That totally works. I'm never done. I'm a finish the plate eater. So we're going to talk to you. So tomorrow, really exciting tomorrow, I'm going to be joined by some of my guests and we're just going to talk about what they think you need to know as you're starting the program. I did this last group.

Oh, it's one of my favorite conversations. All my guests are super delightful. And we're going to talk to one of my guests joining me tomorrow is Dr. Beverly David. She's going to be back. And each of the guests also have their individual segments. And she's a clinical psychologist. So one of the first segments we're going to have in the next

couple of weeks is talking about how your history of dieting is affecting your current journey. We're also going to talking about how your history of dieting is affecting your current journey. We're also going to talk about how your history of life, how you were raised with food, affects the choices that you make today. And this goes way back. This goes way back to even when you were like, you know, you fed as a baby. You know, I have four kids that I mean, that's a sign for eight. It feels like eight. Four kids. I remember jamming that bottle in that baby's mouth to try to get to sleep and put some extra little like, I think it was like oats or something.

My husband at the time's mom was like, put a little like, I don't know, cream of wheat or something. I can't remember what it was in that bottle and that baby will sleep all night long, right? Like forcing that baby to eat more than it needed so it wouldn't wake up and be hungry. And then, you know, as you're young, at least back in my day,

my parents were not like this so much, but I know a lot of people were, where I remember going to a friend's house for dinner as a young kid. And we had to sit there until she finished her whole glass of milk and finished her whole dinner. I was like, what is happening? Cause my mom, she wasn't like that,

but they were, she's like, you're gonna need to sit, where do you think you're going? You're gonna sit there and eat all your food on your plate and drink your whole glass of milk. And so a lot of us were raised where you had to eat everything on your plate. You couldn't get up from the table unless you ate everything. So as a young child, you probably were at a point where you were full and had enough legitimately because you're probably served like the same size plate as everybody else. And you were full but you had to sit there and eat past that. Or something like broccoli or your cruciferous vegetables, broccoli that is so good for us, but broccoli, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli like cauliflower is very hard to digest for adults have a hard time digest, makes you gassy, makes you bloated. It makes you gassy makes you bloated also made you gassy and bloated as a child as well and Your little tummy probably could not handle eating that broccoli or as much as you were probably served

And so you were taught to eat your broccoli. It was good for you. Yet it upset your tummy So you're taught to ignore that ignore eating past when you're satisfied ignore eating foods that you know Maybe healthy for you But didn't make you feel good or the other side of that is you're hungry and then no well dinner's in three hours So you can eat then so you're taught to ignore and then so if you take the way that you were raised Right and then you started dieting Starve yourself deprive yourself Try not to eat punish yourself when you did eat, that makes us really disconnected from ourselves.

Really disconnected. It could be the other way around. It could be another way where maybe you haven't had a weight issue and this is the first diet that you've ever done, but you are someone who, when you are working all day long, you can go all day long without eating because when you're working, you are so focused and when you are working and you are focused your body supports you in that so it's not telling you when you're hungry so you're like oh I can

go all day long without eating that is not good that means that your body's giving up on you you are very disconnected disconnect can disconnection can also come from not wanting to deal with your issues and associations and your feelings so So when you disconnect from yourself, you disconnect from everything. And so you're very disconnected because you just don't want to go there. You don't want to feel that. Right? So you're just kind of checked out. Checked out makes us very disconnected.

Or you're judging people. You find that you're constantly, if you are one of those people who have everything to say about everybody else, and you're always judging what people are doing, that's really disconnecting you from yourself. This is way distracting you from what you got going on in your own life. And so the living method is so much more than what you are eating and when. It really is about reconnecting and learning to trust yourself. And really, and in doing that, can bring up a lot of feels that created that disconnection in the first place,

can have you working through a lot of past stuff that has you disconnecting, can have you dealing through a lot of habits that you didn't know were creating that disconnection in the first place can have you working through a lot of past stuff As you disconnect and can have you dealing through a lot of habits that you didn't know we're creating that disconnection, too so it's all about Reconnecting and we start with that basic food plan and being aware of how your body's responding And then also being aware of the thoughts and the feels and stuff that comes up as well so that you are in tune Eventually after you are done losing your weight and you can trust when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat, right? So I don't know how I got started on that, but oh, you're talking about Sandy talking about how you finish your plate, right?

You finish your plate. So we're gonna get into all of that in the weeks to come. So, so back, hi Tammy, love this program. Amazing how great you feel when you nourish your body. You are going to feel better than you ever have. The living method was initially designed as a lifestyle program. What I quickly figured out,

if these are the elements and the things that you do and the things that you're focusing on, you are not only gonna get healthier, it has a side effect of weight loss. I tried to sell that in my younger years, no one wanted to buy a lifestyle. Everyone just wanted to lose weight. So I specifically focused on weight loss.

But the side effect of weight loss is you are going to feel healthier than and more connected and self-assured and confident than you ever have in your entire life. You are actually going to know what it feels like to feel really good, which is really exciting. So we are in a mission far beyond just weight loss. It's going to get so excited, exciting around here. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm excited. Okay, that is my time for today. Remember, if I didn't get your question, don't stop asking because asking the questions creates the vibe. It gives me great talking points.

I will get better at just answering, answering, answering, answering right now, really laying the foundation aware of everybody listening. I want to make sure everyone's on the same page and sharing what I think you need to know this week, but I'm going to get into answering everyone's particular questions as we go. But if I didn't answer your question, copy it, paste it, put it on the post pinned at the top of the page, the check-in,

or quite frankly, on any of our other posts and our team will answer it over there. So you can also download this podcast. So if you're into podcasts, you can go to any podcast platform. We have two podcasts. We have our way in with Gina, which is general conversation, which will be getting up and going again

in the next few weeks and months. And then we also have our Livy Method podcast, which contains all of the podcasts from the Livy Method program that you can seek out as well. All right, everyone, have an amazing day. I'll see you tomorrow, bye.