The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 33 - Winter 2025

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 33, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2025In this episode, Gina is setting the tone for success—starting with how taking a moment to set your intentions and reflect on your day can be a game-changer. She's getting into the realities of celebratory weekends and what it means to truly celebrate yourself at this stage of the process. If your scale isn’t moving, don’t stress—Gina breaks down exactly what’s going on and what to do about it. Plus, why focusing on your own plate (literally and figuratively) is the key to staying on track, how to interpret what your scale is telling you, and why this Program is the ultimate act of self-care.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 a cast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon music. Hello and good morning. Happy day. 33 of the program. Okay. So fantastic lineup of guests these last few weeks. If you are not watching or listening to our guest expert segment, you are honestly missing out. They alone are worth the price of admission.

I'll tell you why. Because not only are they coming on and talking about specific topics tied into where you are at on your journey, they know exactly what you are doing and what you need to hear. So you're taking they're taking their time and sharing exactly what you need. And so it's not just them coming on and promoting themselves. It's not just them coming on and talking about the one topic that maybe we've promoted the conversation as being. We really understand, we take the questions that our

members have been asking and how they are feeling, kind of like what we do with the Tweek This Week conversation. Every Wednesday Kim goes into the group, she keeps tabs of the kinds of questions and kind of the vibe and how people are feeling and all of that and then she sends those questions to me and then we have a whole like lineup of questions and things that we want to address and discuss with our guest experts. So if you are not watching or listening I highly suggest you do they will be game changers. So we store them all in the guides. I believe we have a whole guest expert guide to make it really easy for you to find them and in the app. So if you go into the app, there is a whole guest expert guide. So you go to the bottom of the app and you click on guides. All the guest expert segments are there so you can literally just easily find them, get caught up on any that you might have missed. The weekends are

great for that. We tend to keep things quiet on the weekends. We show a couple of recipes. We introduce members of our team. Of course, there's that Science Saturday post. But other than that, we keep things quiet. It's a great opportunity to get caught up on anything that you miss. And you can download and listen to all of the segments by way of our podcast.

They're all available on the Libby Method podcast. So you can go for a walk, put your earbuds in, and listen to any of the segments that we have. A lot of you talking about the weekend, you're setting your intentions which I absolutely love. How many are still setting intentions and doing end-of-day reflections? Especially the end-of-day reflections. When we first did that post at the beginning of the group everyone is putting their end-of-day reflections. I think end-of-day reflections can be just as important as your intentions in the morning.

It's kind of like just sandwiching your day. And before you go to bed at night, you've already reflected on your day. You kind of like patted yourself on the back. This is what I did really well. And then you're thinking about the things that you need to work on the next day, which not only helps with your sleep,

it just helps keep the whole process in the forefront of your mind. Those are things that are hard to keep up. How many of you bought the living method journal and you've stopped using it? You can go back in, pick it back up again. These things keep you consistent. We know that the more people are engaged, the more successful they are. The more people who use the app consistently, the more successful they are. We have numbers and data to prove this. So all you have to do is keep showing up. You

don't have to be perfect, but there are definitely some things that you can do that will help you keep showing up each day. Some of you are excited about the weekend. You feel super calm. So we're talking about making a plan. Maybe you are heading down to the city. That's where I am today. Maybe you're traveling. Maybe you're just at home. Make a plan, maybe you are heading down to the city, that's where I am today, maybe you're traveling, maybe you're just at home. Make a plan for yourself. Although there's nothing you can do on a weekend that can't be undone by getting right back at it, there is something to be said for momentum at this point in the program.

Four weeks in, you've been giving the body what it needs so it no longer feels that need to store fat. Now we want to specifically pave the way and help the body focus on fat loss when it has so many other things that it needs to do. So consistency is really key and momentum is really key. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't have a few bites of bits here and there.

If you do, like I said, don't blow off your whole day, don't blow off the whole weekend, just to try to, like if you have, I don't know, burgers and fries, not like that's the worst thing in the world, but let's say you have burgers and fries for lunch tomorrow. Don't be like, oh, I screw it. The rest, I've ruined everything.

So I might as well just continue on with the rest of the junk food the rest of the day, right? So just get right back at it and try to keep it as consistent as possible. All right, let me know if you got any questions. No snacks, no snacks. Okay, Super Bowl. All right. Let's talk about that. How are you going to a super bowl party this weekend? Okay. So Superbowl Valentine's day coming up. Um, celebratory days in general. Part of the program

is also, I know I just talked about keeping your shit together on the weekends general. Part of the program is also, I know I just talked about keeping your shit together on the weekends, but part of the program is also learning to navigate these social situations. And we want to get you to a place where not only you lose your weight, but you're calm. Calm around food physically, calm around food mentally, where you go to a Super Bowl party,

you're just like, oh, I'm going to have some of this, I'm going to have some of that. You're not stressing. And, and this, this is, this is, this is what you want to do while you're following the program. This is why it's not always about being perfect, but you learn a lot because you can be perfect. Right? We talked a lot about A-type people showing up, just following the program, easy peasy, one and done. But then what happens when there's no structure, there's no routine and you hit a celebratory day and you're around food. And so I want you to get to a place where you're, you know,

surrounded by your favorite foods or you're at a Super Bowl party with all the fun stuff and you're just like not even stressing about it. And so this weekend is a great opportunity to just pay attention to your feels. If you are somewhere where there's like fun food accessible, you know, the choices that you're making, the thoughts that you're having, how you are feeling. There's things you can do like bring your own veggie tray. That's really easy if you're worried about if you're going somewhere or someone else's house

and you're worried about the snacks or food that are available. You can eat before you leave, you know, bring your own snacks like I said, or choose the best of whatever is available to you. But we don't want you not going out and not being social because of these sort of celebratory events, so learning how to navigate them. So even if you just go, let's say, and I'm just using that Super Bowl as an example,

it could be Valentine's Day and eating all the chocolate. Even if you go and you eat all this stuff, or Valentine's Day comes and you eat all the chocolate, you're going to learn how you feel. And you're going to learn what's happening in your mind. Is that chocolate really bringing you joy when you are stressing out about it and then starving and depriving yourself and punishing yourself for days afterwards, right?

Is the Super Bowl party food as fun as you thought it was going to be when you just feel crappy the next day, right? So it's a great opportunity to learn. So you learn just as much and doing the things you need to do as you do in not doing the things that you need to do. So, but make a plan, make a plan for yourself. It's a great idea to say, how do I want to navigate this? Do I want to go to the Super Bowl party and just bring my own food and be like, Hey, I'm just doing this thing. I want to stay on track. Or am I going to go to the Super Bowl party and be like, let me just see how it goes.

Right. Or am I going to go to the Super Bowl party? It's the freaking Super Bowl. I'm going to eat all the stuff and I don't give a shit and I'll be back at it tomorrow. Right. So there's no right and wrong way to navigate that. I went to see a family doctor yesterday, a new family doctor yesterday, and mentioned I was doing the GenaLivy program.

He's super interested about it. He says he loves nutrition and Googled it while I was there. I love that. I mean, we are trying to get the word out. We know from Ruth Cain and our team at the University of Ottawa that there is zero downside to following the Livy method. In fact, it's kind of like a how to get healthy 101, how to get healthy 101 where weight loss is the side effect of that.

So more and more doctors are starting to promote the Libby Method, which is really great. So I love hearing that, I love hearing that. I'm going to celebrate myself for the first time ever. I'm sticking 100% to the program for me. Treats will include baths, candles, flowers, and a massage, yay me, celebrate you too. So I love this. It goes hand in hand with a comment that I saw in the group today where someone was like, when I hit 10,

I made a promise to myself that when I hit 10 pounds, I was going to celebrate by eating this thing. I think it was a cannoli. I can't really remember what it was. And they realized that they don't even want that thing. Right? They were like, okay, if I just lose this 10 pounds, I'm gonna celebrate by this food that brings me joy. Then they got here and they realized that's not what they wanted at all. That's not what they wanted.

So, you know, I think it is important that you reward yourself, whether that is just taking time to be like, I'm really proud of the fact that I've been sticking with this. And this is even if listen, even if you're not doing as well as you would like, it is so important to find things that you are proud of. I mean, like, I'm really proud that I'm still here.

33 days later, I'm really proud that I've lost 10 pounds. I'm really proud that this is the longest I've been on a diet. I'm really proud I got all my water in yesterday. I'm really proud that I got a walk-in today. When you take time and you are really proud of the things that you're doing, it's like little dopamine hits and you are more likely to continue that behavior. So it's a great way of reinforcing new habits you're trying to create for yourself. Great tip. I just got back from a week in Mexico and gained zero. Your weight is probably actually down. So if you just flew from Mexico, for sure, your weight would be up just because flying altitude like sucks the water out of you and

leaves you so super dehydrated. So if your weight is actually the same, your weight is probably down. I was selective of what I ate and drank and didn't feel restricted, made the best choices for me, didn't have what I didn't want. And so this is like, whether it's a weekend or it's a vacation, how do you want to navigate? I want to stay true to following the program the best I can, I just want to say screw it,

not think about whatever and just, you know, be in the moment or I'm just going to go indulge, I'm going to eat and drink, all the things. But then you can also offset that and just, you know, be in the moment or I'm just going to go indulge. I'm going to eat and drink all the things. But then you can also offset that by being, you know, going for more walks. Not that you're trying to burn off calories, but there are, there are, there are little things that you can do if you would like, okay, normally I go on vacation. I eat and I drink all the things. And then by the end of the week, I can't wait to get home, sleep in my own bed.

I feel so gross. Like maybe there's some middle ground. Maybe there's some middle ground, you know. You're going to hear this more and more also about weekends. So you'll hear those people go on way on vacations and they'll still enjoy themselves, but they'll come back. Their weight will be the same even down. You'll start to hear this about weekends too, which I started off the top talking about

momentum on weekends. And you'll hear people say, wow, I indulged this weekend and yet my weight was still down today. That's because weight loss is based on the things you were doing in the days and the weeks leading up, not any one thing that you did the day before. Right. So at this point in the program, just being here this far along, your body is like really happy with the changes that you've made and that momentum is building.

And so for those of you who haven't seen that scale move, body is like really happy with the changes that you've made and that momentum is building. And so for those of you who haven't seen that scale move, like I, like I, like I, like I, like I get the frustration with that. I also have mad respect for the fact that you are still showing up and I would not see you wrong or try to bullshit you or just try to get you to keep showing up. I know that weight is going to come for you. So we're going to have a conversation with Dr. Paul to part series conversation with Dr. Paul.

Actually, I'm going to add a three part because Dr. Jennifer Zalabitzky is going to join me on Monday. We're going to talk about menopause, so perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause and how that can mess with your weight loss journey, not that you can't lose weight, just things that you need to know and understand. And then Dr. Paul's gonna talk to us about four reasons why your weight might be slower to move.

So inflammation, hormones obviously, and that's where that feeds into the conversation with Dr. Jennifer Zalawitzki on the day before. And then food sensitivities is a big one, and then gut issues like that, what's going on in your microbiome. All things that there are things that you can do and address.

The groundwork for that is laying the foundation that you're laying with the food plan itself, but it's still normal at this point to have not seen any weight loss on that scale. But moving forward, there should be an expectation that that is coming. And so a lot of people think downsizing, I start eating less,

this is when my weight should start moving and some people still don't see that. Now don't get me wrong, 93% of people, 93%, like there are 30,000 people following the program, 93% see movement in that first four weeks of the program, but there are those select few where it's a little bit tougher.

But if you don't feel like anything is happening, like you're not feeling better, sleeping better, pooping better, your body isn't changing, then that definitely tune into that conversation next week. In fact, tune into the conversation next week if you're just looking to level up too, because even though your scale could be dropping, there could still be things that you can address that can kind of keep that moving. I bought the meditation book that Kyle recommended. Oh, and Tulsi tea. I love that. So so speaking the meditation book that Kyle recommended. Oh and Tulsi T,

I love that. So speaking of the guest lineup this week, so we had Dr. Dena Kara-Shaper talk about change, how to embrace change, because we're going to be making a lot of change in the weeks moving forward. The information kind of really slows down and it really becomes about the tweaks each week and following those guidelines and then showing up and trying to make the changes that you need to make. And then Dr. Sandy Van on Wednesday, so she's like an obesity medicine expert and she was like her obesity was her jam before these weight loss medications and she's talked a big part about the brain and that really is the secret to sustainable weight loss. Yes, how you lose it physically.

Obviously everyone talks about that bounce back effect, which the living method is all about addressing set points. That's why I love the program. That's why you want to need plateaus. You lose weight, you hit a plateau, that's your body adjusting to your plateau. This is what's so brilliant too, for people who haven't seen much movement on the scale. For who have seen movement on the scale it's been about giving their body

what it needs it hasn't been about starving it hasn't been about depriving it hasn't about burning and forcing the body to utilize fat it's just by giving the body what it needs and the body's like oh I keep getting what I need so what I don't need is to store this extra fat it's like like you kind of trained your body to gain weight. You have to train it to understand it no longer needs that fat anymore. And so then that mental piece comes in because this is about really, this is this is about showing up. This is about your issues and associations tied into food. This is about the

choices that you're making, right? So she really reinforced that mental part of it. I. Like that food noise. Everyone's talking food noise and food noise is very difficult to to like quiet down. But you absolutely can quiet it down. It's through habits or your thoughts are based on habits. If you've been on diets and assessing about food, your brain is wired to constantly obsess about food. And so you can absolutely rewire your brain to not be so obsessive about food with some of the techniques that our guests will be sharing with us. Great conversation. And then Kyle Buchanan, how amazing is Kyle? So I always enjoy my conversations with Kyle. We geared the conversation was, you know,

around anxiety, but we started off talking about poop. One of his favorite topics. One of mine. So he gives all sorts of suggestions if you're constipated, there are things that you can do, but really talk about how anxiety factors. It's a different conversation from stress, right? We all talk about stress and managing your stress and we talk about sleep and how that is affecting the choices that you're making, but we don't talk about anxiety. So we had that great conversation with him yesterday too. Great conversation with him. I'm so proud that I was mindful this week. Hi Risa and made very good choices. So many relatives tried to encourage me to eat foods or desserts

that didn't interest me and I had a small portion of what I felt like I didn't use my stress as an excuse to overindulge like I would in the past. So Risa I just want to send you so much love. Risa is a dear member here and she's been sharing a lot about doing the program and being a caregiver to her mom. A lot of time spent in the hospital, a lot of time caring for her mom, as I'm sure many of you can relate,

and not an easy thing, and recently her mom just passed away. So I'm sending you love, girl. I'm sending you love. Sending you love, and I'm thinking about you. And yeah, I mean, that's a situation where you want to maybe like indulge if you've ever used food for managing your feels and then people are like they want to show that they love you and a lot of

people's love language is food. So definitely not an easy thing to navigate when you know, people like eat this eat this and then then you end up just mentally not feeling great and physically not feeling great as well. I went to a potluck yesterday between four and seven, did bring my veg tray. It was not hard to inconspicuously navigate the table and keep more or less on track. Yeah, it's really no one's business what you're eating. It's nobody's business what you're eating.

Whenever I'm at the grocery store, I run into members like don't look at my cart or whatever, I'm like, I'm not looking at your cart. If I'm at dinner, I'm not looking at what anybody else is doing. I'm not like if I'm in a dinner table and someone's not eating their food, I'm not looking at who's eating all their food,

who's not. I just kind of stay focused on myself. And that's one of the things the program helps you do is you're so busy focusing on yourself, your four questions being in tune you're not really paying attention to what other people are doing and if someone is paying attention to what you're doing that's their own issue. You know I know sometimes we feel ways about it and the thing about it is sometimes you don't want to talk about what you're doing and sometimes just eating healthy food

people are like what are you on a diet like if you just because you don't want to talk about what you're doing. And sometimes just eating healthy food, people are like, what are you on a diet? Like if you just because you don't eat the chips or just because you don't eat the whatever, I don't know, whatever it is that people bring in, people are like, oh, you want a diet. And then if you say yes, that just like, you know, it brings the whole thing up and maybe you just don't want to talk about your diet, right?

So, also you could just be like, oh, no thanks. Like you could throw out, so I'm just trying to eat a little healthier or I just try to get my vegetables in today. Or I'm just trying to offset the chips I had with some carrot sticks or whatever. But I get it, not an easy thing to do, but I love that. I love that you're part of that.

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So that up and down can actually be a sign that your body is trying to release that fat. So this is where you just want to make sure you're getting that water in. You're trying to get that sleep in. That's like, you can see that kind of movement happening. Plateaus are sort of more kind of like, sometimes plateaus are like on that same, you just can't move the dial on that one, but you equal an opposite reaction. So on average about one or two pounds per week. That's what we'll say.

I mean, some people lose a lot more, right? But one to two pounds per week. That's what we'll say. I mean, some people lose a lot more, right? But one to two pounds per week would be like the average loss. I think 11 to 16 pounds per program. Now obviously some people lose a lot more than that. And because the program is designed to work. I saw a comment the other day where someone was like, I've been losing a pound every day. Like is that okay? Is that normal?

And I'm like, yeah, because you probably haven't lost any leading up. So then when that scale moves, it moves. So one to two pounds is about the norm. So you've lost 10 in four weeks, a little bit more if you include prep week in this week, which is fantastic. But that could be the body saying, OK, I just need time. So 10 pounds is a lot. With the living method, you're losing it all over.

So I like to use the example of butter so you go to the store you see those pounds of butter right so that's when someone says oh I lost three pounds go get three pounds of butter and stack it in your cart and look at that and be like wow but if you were to take that so other diets you might lose out three pounds like in certain areas but take that butter smear it all over your body it's gonna just seem like it's not even gonna be you're not even gonna really lose out three pounds like in certain areas, but take that butter, smear it all over your body. It's going to just seem like it's not even going to be, you're not even going to really notice it.

You might feel a lot less leaner. You might feel more leaner, you're less bloated. Your clothes might feel a little different, but you're not really going to notice much of a difference. But if you took that three pounds of butter and you just looked at it, you'd be like, holy shit. So if you go to the grocery store and you pile up 10 pounds of butter and you just looked at it you'd be like holy shit so if you go to the grocery store and you you pile up ten pounds of butter that's a lot of fat now I know it's not the same consistency of fat but you know

what I'm saying so that that's quite a bit of fat so this is your body would need time to adjust to that so it's kind of equal and opposite reaction some people lose in little bits and then they have little plateaus some people lose lose lose lose lose and they have really long plateaus. Some people lose in a big chunk and then they lose a bigger longer plateau. So equal and opposite reaction right and so you want and you you need plateaus because that is your body which the longer you want in that plateau this is your body factoring in your metabolism, your blood flow, your body temperature, your hormones are regulating with 10 pounds less fat. And so this is your body adjusting to the weight that you have lost, which is exactly what you want.

So this new weight of yours, 10 pounds less, is becoming your new set point. So, and your set point is the weight that your body has come accustomed to functioning at or feels like it needs to function at. It's not your healthiest weight, it's not where the body's happiest, it's where your body has landed in terms of this is what I feel like I need to or to keep this person alive.

And so as you give the body what it needs, it no longer feels the need to store fat. So it's just a matter of helping the body specifically focus on fat loss when there's a million other things that your body needs to do. And hence getting the body's attention and the tweaks that we do each week,

and then consistently giving the body what it needs. And so downsizing is helping the body focus on fat loss, right? Off the heels of eating dissatisfaction, getting its attention, right? Slightly downsizing those portions, continuing to do all the things, manage your stress, try to get better sleep, maximizing all those things,

that's what you're doing. So then you're allowing that body to adjust to a new set point. So the longer, technically, you are on a plateau, the more that weight becomes your new weight. And so that's what you want. And this is where when people talk about, or experts talk about, well, um, starvation, when you go through periods of starvation, you, your body thinks you starved.

The minute you get food, it's like, Whoa, let's store that back plus more. Make sure that doesn't happen again. And then you keep doing that dieting. Um, it's that, you know, that's that fight or flight, your body's wired to when you run away from the bear, right? And we talk about how when you get to a safe place, your cortisol levels are supposed to drop, you're safe, you're laughing about the bear chasing you, ha ha ha.

But we're so stressed that our cortisol levels never come down, they always stay elevated, so it keeps us in a constant fight or flight, and your body thinks, oh my God, I got to keep high cortisol levels to keep her alive. I have to store all this extra fat to keep her alive. Right. And so this is where we're addressing all of those things. And your body, when I say your body is so focused on doing other things, your body is

so focused on keeping you alive. That's not repairing and rebuilding and regenerating and rejuvenating, which is why with the living method, when you give your body what it needs, this is why so many of you are noticing your body changing and you're like, I'm not dropping any weight, but man, I'm dropping dress sizes, right? So you want and you need plateaus. You'd want and you need plateaus. Uh, I dropped five pounds in the first two weeks and nothing since my weight has been fluctuating by one to two pounds here. I'm following the program to the letter, including getting an hour of exercise every day. Very frustrating, but I'm not giving, I'm not giving up exercise every day. Very frustrating, but I'm

not giving up and not happy. So this is like you just torturing yourself, right? Like this is you, honestly, just torturing yourself. Like five pounds in five pounds. So whether you drop five pounds in the first day, five pounds in four weeks is amazing. And this is where I think you need to listen, where I say to other people, people is so normal for some people to have not Lost any for a variety of reasons. This is why I want you to Go back and track your history with your weight What's your body been through physically mentally? What kind of diets have you done? What do you think your body thinks about you? So I would say to you five pounds down. I love that you shared this, right? Because this is being honest in how you're feeling. Um, you're probably not happy because you've been trying to lose weight for 20 years. And so you just want to lose your weight like

yesterday already. And so what would your body say about you right now? Right? Like if you, you're by like, fuck, like you only lost fucking five pounds. I'm not fucking happy about it. And then your body's like, are you fucking kidding me? Do you know what you put me through? Starving me, depriving me, so oh great, you've added in an hour of exercise now. Thank you very much. That's very kind that you just started to add an exercise. Now I'm not saying this is you, I'm just saying, oh great, you just started to exercise. Great.

Here's a fucking hero cookie. How about all the time you starve me, you deprive me, your stress is through the roof, the times where you, you know, stayed up all night, you did this, you did that. How about you give me a hot fucking second to work on repairing and rebuilding and regenerating. How about you take five seconds to let me trust that you're gonna continue to do this because every time you start a diet you do it for a few weeks and then we're done and then we're back to trashing ourselves again. So what do you think your body would say to you if you said, I'm so fucking pissed off at you that you've only lost five pounds.

And meanwhile, you're showing up because then to me, I'm like, it doesn't make sense. Think about what you're doing right now. If you are eating all this good nutrient rich foods, you're being super mindful about portions. You're asking yourself, you're trying to get in tune. You're trying to like show yourself love. You are, you're exercising hopefully not to pound the shit out of your body and cause it to burn fat, you fat bitch. You know what I'm saying? I hope that's not your attitude towards your body. You're exercising because it's great for you. It's great for your mind mentally. You feel fantastic. It's great for stress levels. You know it's what your body needs.

Hopefully you're doing some like resistance training. You're building that muscle that your body needs. Hopefully you're honoring it and recognizing where you're at every day. Not just doing the same routine, but what do I need today in terms of movement, right? Showing up and being kind and compassionate to yourself. Trying to get better sleep, right? All the things that you're doing are just making you healthier

Right managing your stress trying to get better sleep moving your body Eating good foods being in tune to your body's needs listening to yourself. Like what is the downside of that? What is the downside of that? Right? You've all done the quick fixes before you get that way back It's great for that quick hit. It gives makes you feel wonderful. I lost so much weight I was like, oh my god, you lost so much weight and then quick fixes before you get that way back it's great for that quick hit it gives makes you feel wonderful I lost so much weight I was like oh my god you lost so much weight and then we forget when we get it all back and so this is sort of where you want to be like what is my frustration about so my point is like what would your body think about how you feel about it right now and it's probably like I'm just doing my best

over here man give me a break but this is where you have to say what it was my frustration about was my frustration about? What is my frustration about here? Like, why am I really frustrated? I'm showing up. I'm doing all these amazing things. I'm being consistent. How am I feeling?

Am I feeling better? Man, I feel fantastic. I'm sleeping better than I ever have. I'm like, look at me. I've incorporated a workout routine. This was great. Like, why is your why is your feeling not really excited for yourself? You know we we we talked to

Brenda Scott right. She had a brain tumor lost 58 pounds on the program just literally learning how to walk again doing speech therapy just so she could show up and share her story with people. The program works right. We have so many stories like that, not stories like actually have quite a few stories of brain tumors. But, you know, we know the program works. You have these great guests and information, people coming in and sharing. You have people supporting you of this great community. Why are you not excited for your journey? Why are you not being like, I'm really proud of the fact that I've lost five pounds.

I'm doing this and whatever, rather than focusing on the frustrated. And it's always like, I'm not giving up, but so this is where you want to honor your feels. But I go deeper into that. What's really going to get you across that finish line, because this is going to come up again and again and again and again is why do what? Where's the frustration? I'm not sure if it was the word. What was the word? Very frustrated, very frustrated.

Where is very frustrated coming from? Like where is very frustrated coming from? And what is that about? Because that's a message for you. So your thoughts and your feels are not just an expression of how you are feeling, they give you great insight into things that you need to work on and work through to truly really make change in your life.

You probably get frustrated in other things. I'm frustrated that I don't have a billion dollars. Why don't I, I said to Tony the other day, why don't I have a billion dollars yet? Why is it taking so long? Have I done anything to try to make a billion dollars? No. Do I live the lifestyle of someone who was going to make a billion dollars? No. Am I deserving of making a billion dollars? No, I am not! But I want a billion fucking dollars. I don't even know what I would do with it. I'm just using that as an extreme example,

right? And this is no different. You want something really badly. I would love that. I want it. I'm really frustrated I don't have it. But am I actually doing the things? And have I put in the time? Put in the time. There's so many things that I've wanted to do in my life and there have been moments that I'm frustrated that it's not happening sooner rather than later. Why don't I have the number one weight loss company in the world? Why don't I? I work hard every day. I want it so badly. I have the most amazing program. I have the best guests. I have the best community. Why do I not have the number one weight loss company in the world? My company is about the size of a speck of sand compared to the big, massive, you know, neumes and weight watchers of the world. I'm really frustrated that I don't have

the number one weight loss company in the world, but what is that about? I'm very hard on myself. I feel like sometimes what I do is never enough. I feel like maybe there's a bit of me that thinks maybe one day it won't happen. Well, it's not really. I'm pretty confident in that. But what is it really about? What is my frustration really about? Maybe I'm making choices that aren't really aligning in my goals. I'm doing a lot of things that are helping me get there. But then there's other things that I, my core foundationals, that haven't really changed yet that I need to change. Right?

Maybe there's things I need to learn first and for before. You know, like maybe I don't feel worthy, right? There's a lot, there's a lot going in there. So this way you got to figure out. So, and the reason why I spent so much time and I'm so grateful you shared this is a lot of people, their frustration will just take you out of the game.

It'll just take you out. And then I'll be like, and then what are you going to do? So you have to kind of see the program for what it is and try to get excited about this. This comes down to be really proud of the things that you are doing rather than being frustrated about what's not happening. Be really proud of the things that you are doing because that's going to reinforce your behavior. You're going to continue to be consistent and that's where you're going to continue to get the results. And the reason why I can talk so freely like this is I know without a shadow of a doubt, if you keep showing up, you're going to be successful.

The problem is, are you going to keep showing up or are you going to let your feels get in the way? And a lot of people let their feels get in the way. I've never met anyone that I couldn't help as long as they were willing to put the time and energy. I've met a lot of people that I have helped and it hasn't been on their timeline, but as long as they continue to show up and figure it out what they need, they'll get there. They'll get there.

No, but a lot of people feel like that. A lot of people feel like that. So not happy, right? Like that's another one. I'm very frustrated, not happy. Like how can you not be happy when look at what you're doing? It's amazing, right? Look at how you're feeling like outside of very frustrated, probably amazing.

So what are those words about? So if you find yourself keep saying words, this is one way you can figure out what you need to work on in life, not just when it comes to weight loss. And you're like, what's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Chances are it's the words that you are using to describe whatever is going on in your life. You'll keep repeating them over and over and over. And maybe not happy is not happy in your job. Maybe not happy is also in your life you'll keep repeating them over and over and over and maybe not happy is not happy in your job maybe not happy is also in your relationship maybe not happy is

something going on with something something but right now you're focusing that energy on the diet that you're doing and so that's coming out through i'm not happy right so trying to figure out what that is um i got a notification from my Apple watch that my resting heart rate has decreased over the last seven days. Nonscale victories, yeah, we love those. So we're gonna hear more and more people going to their doctors, going from pre-diabetic into normal range, dropping their A1C,

decreasing their thyroid medications, getting off their cholesterol meds, getting off their blood pressure medications. This is really like, these are the nonscale victories. Like this is really what it's about and then that's tangible. That's tangible which is really great. A lot of people don't have tangible obviously they're not going to their doctor and they're not getting that blood work done. But for those of you it's really exciting because it means that your body's on

your side. There is something you can do about the health issues that you have. Like it's it's pretty amazing what your body can do when you just give it what it needs and you help it focus on what it needs to do and you give it the time. That's the biggest thing is that you gotta give your body time. You gotta give your body time. Speaking of time, I gotta go. Wow, that blew by really quickly today. Thanks for joining me today. So it is Friday. We're rolling into the weekend. Make a plan for yourself. It's also, so it's Super Bowl and then we got Valentine's Day coming up. Take a look at your social calendars. Make a plan for yourself. It's also, so it's Superbowl. And then we got Valentine's Day coming up. Take a look at your social calendars.

Make a plan. Don't be stressing. Don't stress. Make a plan. Even if you eat your face off this weekend, you're going to be fine. All you got to do is get right back at it, honestly. There's nothing you can do in a day

that's going to stop you from reaching your goals. Though making a plan is a great idea. I'm not sure what our Science Saturday post is. Let me see what our Science Saturday post is tomorrow. It's probably a good one given where we are at. Let me pop in and see here. My Wi-Fi is a little slower. So there we go.

Science Saturday is on. Ooh, the basics of digestion. That's a good one. If you haven't been keeping up with our Science Saturday post, make sure you get caught up on them. They're really great. They'll just they'll blow your mind. They'll give you a great sense of like deeper understanding of the program. Make sure you pop in ask as many questions as you need.

Make sure you also use our app. If you haven't been using our app is a great resource. There's a lot of really cool things that you can do you can get caught up on those guest expert segments You can set intentions and a day reflections a lot of cool stuff in there And then finally finally finally just a reminder that our April program spring program goes on sale on Monday Regular price is 99. You can pick it up for $25 off Celebrating our 25th program in April. You can tell your friends, tell your family. All you have to do is head to the website. You don't need a code

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