The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 38 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 38, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina reminds listeners that while consistency may not feel exciting, it’s where real change takes root. She unpacks why the scale might not be moving—hint: it’s not just about food—and helps reframe slow progress as a sign that your body is doing some deeper work. From holding space for grief while still showing up, to painting a picture of your future self feeling amazing on a sunny patio, the conversation is both real and uplifting. Gina also touches on the calm that comes when your body is truly content, and the quiet confidence that follows.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How do you think you are doing? What do you think you could do better? That's the question for today. Because at this point, we have been doing our best to give you all the information that you need to understand what you need to do and why you might not be seeing the results that you want to understand what you need to do and why you might not be seeing the results that you want to see on the scale.

This whole process is about understanding where you've been, how you got here, what you need to do and work through in order to reach your goals. It's all of the things that you are learning, the skills and the tools that you are acquiring that are going to help you be able to maintain and sustain your weight. I've already assumed you've reached your goal, meaning you are absolutely gonna reach your goal. There's no reason why you're not gonna be able

to reach your goal. To me, it's about you need to understand yourself so well and work through the things that you need to work through so you don't keep being pulled back into old habits. You need to make real sustainable change. You need to understand what you need to do in order to lose weight. You also need to understand what you need to not do

in order to gain weight. And so that's what we're doing around here. Follow the food plan, yes, eventually you are going to lose weight. If you just follow the food plan, eat good, healthy, nutrient rich foods, moved your body more, manage your stress, try to get better sleep. Eventually you would lose your weight. Your body doesn't want the fat any more than you do. But as we know, life makes it very difficult.

So the tweaks each week are designed to help you dig a little deeper, level up even more to kind of unravel or bring to the surface your issues and associations. This is a great week for this. So this week all about being really consistent with the food plan. That gets very hard to do because aren't you just fucking tired of it? Just doing what you need to do every day. You get tired of it mentally because we use food for so many things. It's not really all that exciting, but the body doesn't get tired of it.

The body's like, wow, this is so stable. This is like, I can trust this. This is amazing. I keep getting all this nutrients that I need. So the body is becoming very calm. It's also taking that nutrients, repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating. And more importantly, addressing why your body's feeling you need to start fat in the first place. That can seem so hokey that the whole like starvation mode or, you know, that's that's

and it is kind of, but there's also a lot of science behind it. Even that the Canadian obesity conference that I was at about a month ago, they were actually saying out loud, weight loss is not just eat less, exercise more. It's so much more than that. We really oversimplified the calories in versus calories out. So this week we are working on being consistent,

also maximizing, I hope at this point you understand how important sleep is, the effect that stress has, that you have to factor in your health issues, you have to factor in your lifestyle. Sometimes you are restricted because of health issues, sometimes you can't do it all because of what you got going on in your life, but you are doing the best that you can. And if you can't do all the things, it might take you a little bit longer than someone else you see in the comments who's already lost 20 pounds and you're

like, what the fuck, how did they already lose 20 pounds and I'm struggling over here to lose two? Well, they, they probably one have more weight to lose than you or been at it longer, so their metabolism is higher. They spent more time addressing their body's needs or everything is aligning for them. They don't have a lot of stress that they're dealing with. Maybe they're just sleeping like a baby. Or, you know, they have the time.

Maybe they're retired, or maybe they're in between jobs, or whatever they got going on, so they can move their body more and focus on more things than you can focus on. But that's okay. That's okay. So that's why I ask you, how are you doing? What do you need? Are you happy with what's happening on the scale?

And then if not, what do you need to do about that? So yesterday we had a conversation with Dr. Paul Herkel on four reasons why your weight might be slower to move. And if you fall under these categories, make no mistake, that sucks, sucks for you that you have to go the extra mile, but there's just no way around it. Even if you had bariatric surgery,

even if you took GLP-1s, there's no way around you dealing with the things that are causing your weight to be slow, because they are still gonna cause your weight to be slow. If you had bariatric surgery, if you had any medical intervention at all, they're still going to be the things that are gonna cause your weight to be slower.

So inflammation is a big one. Food sensitivities, if you're eating foods that just don't jive well with your system, they can lead to inflammation. If your microbiome is a hot mess and your microbiome is real and there's a lot of new research being done on how that plays with your weight being done on how that plays with your weight and your health and wellness and your hormones. And that can feed into inflammation. And then of course your hormones as well. So that's a big conversation. We're gonna finish part two tomorrow

if you wanna join me for that. Also, if you missed the menopause conversation, we had that with Dr. Jennifer Zalawitzki. So she is a board certified, she's an MD, family physician. She's legit. She's also a specializes in menopause. She's gonna be joining me for our learning series that starts June 2nd.

So this is gonna be all about menopause and weight loss. If you're interested in signing up for that, it's 55 bucks. It's honestly a steal. It's a deal. All you have to do is go to our website and get yourself signed up. Starts on, it starts on Monday, this Monday actually. Let's get into the conversation today.

Just got back from a mammogram, brutal way to start your day. You know, we can fly people to space, but that's what we got for mammograms. I actually heard there's some new technology coming, which would be really nice. But you know, listen, checking in with your healthcare provider along the way, it's all part of health and wellness. You know, it's all getting your colonoscopies, getting your mammograms done,

all of that. I think so many people when they have a history of carrying excess weight or living in a larger body, they're so resistant to going to the doctor because they think that the doctor is just going to tell you just lose weight and that's your problem. So a lot of people don't go. We've heard from many people over the years who our team has told them you should go to your doctor and get that checked out and they did and they are so glad that they did. That reminds me, I had a great conversation with Sean Wharton. He is like one of the brightest minds in obesity research and he is a obesity specialist and he runs a clinic covered by OHIP.

He's just an all-around really great guy. Honestly, he's gonna come on in the group June 4th. We're talking about doctors because we don't want to slam doctors. We really don't. Doctors, we all want a doctor. Doctors are life-saving. Doctors are amazing. Doctors are also human. And there has been a disconnect, the way doctors speak about and treat obesity. And you go to your doctor and you say, okay, they are like, you need to lose weight. And then they're not really giving you any idea of how to lose weight.

And then when you're not losing weight, that's a whole issue. So that's a real thing. And for so many reasons, we're not utilizing our health care team, especially our doctors, in the way that we can. If you missed it, we had a great conversation with Dr. Jennifer Zelevitsky in the beginning of the program where we talked about just reconnecting with your doctor in a whole new way. And she included tips in there for you.

Last time I was eating Indian food, we ordered takeout protein heavy. After a couple of bites, I felt full, but I kept eating not a lot but felt it later lots of leftovers. Yeah, right. So this is sort of why this is where you want to look back and be like, okay, why was it just delicious? And then I was like, I'm going to eat it knowing I'm going to feel full. And that's okay. Nothing wrong with that. But are you did you wake up today and now you're kind of like, Oh, why did I do that? Right? And this is where

we need to be aligned. If we choose to overeat something, then the next day we have to understand that was our choice and then not rag on ourselves about the choice. If we're ragging on ourselves about the choice, that means in the moment we weren't really making a choice that we knew that we were gonna feel good about. So then why did we do that?

Because as you said, there's lots of leftovers. You can have that again for dinner tonight or have it for lunch again tonight. So why in the moment do we do that? Right, because as you said, there's lots of leftovers. You can have that again for dinner tonight or have it for lunch again tonight. So why in the moment do we overeat, right? Sometimes just because it's delicious. Sometimes maybe you were just not being mindful. Sometimes you were just being stressed. So there's always a lot to learn.

The end game of this is to be able to trust when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat. To be in a room full of your favorite foods and just be like, yeah, I'm not hungry. Or, oh yeah yeah, I'm going to have some of that. Or maybe you just have a little bit because you're like, I've had enough. Or you're like, I'm going to eat all of it. I'm going to feel so bloated and stuff, but it's going to be so worth it. I don't fucking care. And then that's it. Because you indulging in one meal is not going to cause you to gain weight. Chances are it's not the food that you've been eating, at least not the good nutrient rich foods you've been eating. Could be the able to process foods,

high stress, lack of sleep, going all day without eating and then overeating all the years of dieting. That's really probably what led to your needing to lose weight in the first place. Good morning everyone from the beautiful lake of the woods enjoying the cottage sunshine and listening to the birds. It is cottage time. I'm actually heading up to a friend's cottage too in the next couple of weeks. It is cottage time.

It is barbecue time. It is patio time. How do you want to live your life? And I'm not just talking this summer. If you would 20 pounds less, 60 pounds less, a hundred pounds less, you just feeling freaking fantastic. What would cottage season mean to you? What would a patio look like?

What would a barbecue look like? What would that version of you show up to those experiences? What would you do? What would you say? How would you feel? What would you wear? What would you eat? Choices would you make?

Right? I know we're so in it right now. We need to make the changes we need to make in order to lose weight, but that person who you already are just are not seeing yet because you're gonna get there. What is the you? What is that you that shows up to the cottage? Is that you getting up and going for walks,

maybe doing some swims, really indulging and preparing fresh foods and the food that you're making for your family rather than throwing some chips in a bowl and being like, here you go. Right? Like, what is this life that you're creating for yourself? Because it will still involve barbecues and patios and cottage season and all of those things. But you don't want to go in there feeling bloated and gross and wondering what you're going to wear. I'm going to put my bathing suit on. I don't want to swim. I just feel, right. You don't want to do any of those things, not feeling your best, looking your best, feeling your best.

So, so I know we're in it and we want to lose the weight, but bigger picture, which can be more motivating is, is how do you want to show up to these things in the future? You know, what's that going to mean to you? Good morning, everyone. Stressful week. My brother passed away last Wednesday, suddenly from a heart attack, still in shock, glad to you? Good morning, everyone. Stressful week. My brother passed away last Wednesday suddenly from a heart attack. Still in shock.

Glad to be here for the live today. Oh my goodness, Kathy. I know we've been talking about grief this week and I'm glad we have because it's not something we have talked a lot about. We've experienced grief in this program. We've had some pretty, we do get to know our members around here. Oh my God, I'm already choking up a little bit about it. We've experienced grief by way of some of our more well-known participating members. Sarah Perry, a while back, Brenda Huxley, a while back,

Brenda Huxley a while back, Barry Lynn. Like these were real, like real prominent members of our community. And we didn't even, I didn't even meet them personally. I had an opportunity to talk to them all on my real people, real journey, which was really interesting. And that's how we ended up connecting. And then as you know, I've shared the grief

that we've been dealing with as a family recently. And I did that post on social media, and I'm so glad I did because it made me realize that it's not just trying to lose weight, it's trying to lose weight while we're dealing with really heavy feelings, really heavy feelings. I'm actually gonna talk to Dr. Beverly and Dr. Dina

in the upcoming segments about this because it can just get you. You can be dealing with grief over something that happened a really long time ago, yet every year at that time, it feels like yesterday. What I love about the Living Method is that it is something that it can help you stay focused on, and I hate

the word prioritizing yourself, taking care of yourself. There have been moments in my life, and one of them was, and I share, when my son was in the hospital and I had to take care of myself in order to take care of him. And that was not an easy thing to do. And sometimes being the caregiver is almost more difficult than the person that you're caring for because it's very draining. It's a lot of work and you want to just sacrifice your whole self. Sometimes what we do too, I find when it comes to grief is we feel so bad that we want to validate how awful we feel.

So then we physically create a situation where we physically feel awful. Like we just, we want to feel our feelings so bad and you just, there isn't a feeling big enough to feel the passing of someone that you love. And so this is where, you know, mentally we feel just devastated. And then physically, I think when we feel broken,

it kind of makes us feel more validated, makes us maybe process our feelings more because we're feeling it. So it's a tough thing to continue to take care of yourself, to eat food and, you know, to do the things that you need to do to help you through this moment. Well, we're always great for giving our friend advice. You need to take care of yourself. You need to eat. You need to do to help you through this moment. Well, we're always great for giving our friend advice. You need to take care of yourself. You need to eat. You need to drink.

You need to sleep. You need to whatever. But it becomes this really difficult things for us to do for ourselves. And so I think if you have a community where you feel safe and you feel like you're not alone and you can just do the things, the basic things that you can to keep you going.

It all counts because what are we doing here? We're looking, yes, we wanna lose weight, but we're doing it by being in tune to our body's needs. And then unfortunately, chances are there will be other moments in your life. And what we don't wanna go back to doing is falling back into old patterns where we're sabotaging ourselves

and we're, you know, we just get into that vicious cycle that's really hard to get out of. And so I always have such mad respect and appreciation for people who are like, I'm dealing with this really tragic thing right now and I keep showing up. I remember there was a woman, and this is why I say to my team,

this is why I say to my team, that you wanna answer every person's question like it's the first time you're hearing it and never ever assume where someone is coming from. There was a woman, and I used to answer a lot of the questions myself. I still try to get in and answer as many possible. There was a woman once who just kept asking these questions.

And then I thought, is she like toying with me? She pulling my leg, like what? Like it was just, it got to a point where I was like, what is happening? What is she doing? Cause I really want to help people. And I answered so many of her questions. I'm like, what is going on with her?

Anyway, I tried really hard to not judge. And I was just like, Gina, you don't know the situation. Just answer her questions, be supportive, whatever. At the end of the program, she sent me an email. And she said, I just want you to thank you and for you to know that this program helped me just keep going every day. She said, my husband passed away two weeks before the program started. She's like, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

And she's like, I don't even remember what I did, but all I know is that I'm here now. And me having a place to show up every day for myself was like, it helped her make it through the three months. So that was a really kind of profound moment for me. And this is why I never judge or, I don't know what you're doing in your, I don't know what you got going on in your life. I don't know what you've seen,

what you haven't seen or anything like that. So, you know, it's just been, I don't know what the takeaway is for this for me. You know, I've done 25, 25 groups and we've dealt with grief. And I think it's just finally the depth of understanding that everybody is dealing with something profound while they're trying to make this change, while you're trying to reach this goal, while you're trying to reach this goal, which can be very intensely personal.

And then the way food is tied into it, it's so much more than counting calories. Like that's so fucked up. Think about it. This concept of just eat less, exercise more, calories in versus calories out, math. Math is the solution to your weight. Like it's so fucked up when you really break it down.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk. Ha ha ha ha. Good morning, Hyland, not so hungry this week. Well, I love the feeling. I'm wondering how not to get into a diet mode. Okay, great question. So you're not in diet mode if you are checking in with yourself and understanding how you're feeling. We are so used to consuming larger

portions, seeing people consume larger portions, being served larger portions, trying not to eat. Don't forget you are eating six times a day. Right? Good, nutrient rich foods. It's not the volume of food. It's the quality of food that you're getting the nutrients from the food that really matters. But it's hard not to be into it. If you are, let me, let me, this might not be a diet thing. You might be a person who goes all day long without eating because you just get into like,

you're focused on whatever you're doing. So your body will support your focus and sometimes they'll be like, gosh, she's really focused on something. Let's not interrupt her because she's like really focused. And if that is you, set timers, use the Living Method app and set alarms to remind you to eat.

Because that is me. I could literally go all day long without eating. And then Tony will say, hey, do you want something to eat? I'm like, no, I'm fine. He'll bring it to me anyway. And it turns out I'm actually hungry when I take a minute and think about it, right? So that can be a way, set alarms and timers.

Really just take time to, and be curious and fascinated by this. I mean, actually, wow, am I on a diet and I'm actually not even hungry? What is happening here? You know, because it's so normal. You're going to have days and weeks. If you've ever had children, you may think back to when they were younger, when they're

just they weren't into the routine of breakfast, lunch and dinner and they're just living. There would be times where your kids would hardly eat anything. And I literally would be like, how are my kids surviving? They just like, they're not, they don't want to eat. They're not eating. They're just like, what are you, what are they, how are they surviving? And then there'll be times usually before a growth spurt

where they'll eat like five hot dogs and I'll be like, how, what, how could you eat this much food? And so that they are just living their lives being in tune. And there are times when you're just more hungry for whatever reason, maybe under more stress, you've been more active, whatever that might be. You do have to watch like hunger because you're tired, that type of thing, craving because you've had sugar.

But I know it can feel really foreign to just feel content. Is it content? Is it that you're not feeling hungry or is it that you are content? Right. So I'm trying to show the difference between like actually you evolving and going back into old patterns, that whole like just trying to knock it in that diet mode. Right. So what is your thought process behind that? What are you feeling? It could just be that you're feeling calm.

You're feeling content as opposed to constantly on edge or stressing or worrying or whatever, all the feels that come with a diet at the end of the day. So, yeah, so that's great. That's great. Don't worry. You're going to have an opportunity to feel slightly unsatisfied next week. We're going to downsizing again. Downsizing again, but it's so normal. It's so normal.

It's so normal. Yeah. Here's Essie. I'm struggling too. Second family friend passed in the past two weeks. I'm having a hard time. Brings up a lot of memories of my daughter passing, trying to focus the best I can. Find some time skipping meals or not wanting to eat scale is standing still maybe up one then down to I want to stay on track

So that's feel the stress that you're under if the emotions in the way right now your body's like we really we don't need To really focus on weight loss right now now Stress actually can be used to your advantage when you are doing the little things you can to address your body's needs. Because your body will rise to the occasion of that. So you might not see much movement on the scale now, but how you are taking care of yourself in this moment will help you when it comes to moving down the scale once you start to feel like you're in a bit of a better place. And so as you will notice when you are stressed

and you are not eating, this is exactly when your body relies on your fat stores. There's nothing wrong with that. When we talk about the sickness protocol, and maybe this is what you should be following, the sickness protocol, it's for when you're not feeling well enough to eat. That could be a cold or flu or a virus.

It also could be like dealing with a lot of emotions. And so that is the exact moment when your body will be like, you know what, we are dealing with a lot right now. And so, so digestion takes a lot of energy. How about we just like pull from our energy reserves. And that's what that's there for. from our energy reserves and that's what that's there for. That's what that's there for. So you drawing on your fat reserves while you are sick, while you are dealing with whatever is not the same as being fully function exercising, working out, go, go, go, go, go and trying to starve yourself at the same time.

And your body dipping into your fat stores to utilize them for these purposes is not the same as that. It's not the same as that. So you don't have to worry about, oh my God, I'm not eating, so I'm going to gain more weight back. But what you might see is that your body is being reserved right now. It knows that right now it's in a state of dipping in and utilizing your fat reserves. So that's not the state that it's going to go and start releasing fat. But that will lead to fat loss. So how you're showing up in these moments absolutely will work to your advantage. I mean, it sounds horrible to say, let's use this moment and have it work to your advantage,

but let's face it, why can't we? Why can't we? Why can't we? You know, especially when it means showing up and trying to do the things that you can. So I would pull out the sickness protocol. I picked up, I would, uh, is my volume low? I switched it. Hang on just a sec. I was shooting, um, there we go. That's probably better. I was shooting, um, that's probably way too loud. Way too loud now. I was shooting something the other day with a team. There we go. It's alive for you. Shooting something the other day with the team. So I had to turn it down.

Big disconnect here with my doctor, going a different route with a natural path. I love a good natural pathic doctor. They really got a bad rap a few years ago with pseudoscience and there's some good ones and there's some not so good ones just like doctors are some great doctors and not so great doctors. You try to make the most of it by being as informed as possible and this is like you doing your part right. Naturopathic doctors are great because they they hate the word root cause but doctors are are like, okay, you're sick,

here's what you take, you cut your arm, here's what you do. Like they're very in the moment, just like reactive medicine rather than being proactive and you need both. You need both. And so this is sort of where, you know, you can figure out what is going on with me. How can I help heal my body? Your doctor's trying to fix your problem,

not necessarily heal your body. And like, this is the issue with GLP-1s, they're great. Like the fact that, you know, this is like, we had these accessible to us, but they're not a fix. They're not a fix. They don't address the issues. And that's why the minute you stop taking them, you will gain all your weight back, right?

And so it's really about making sustainable change. What can I do to help my body be as healthy as possible at the end of the day? And naturopathic doctors are great for that. Great for that. Booked in to go to Mexico in January, usually go to Maui, which we love and will miss, but so want to get some of this weight off.

So always good to have something look for you. It is great to have goals. If you love big, massive, huge goals, I love that for you. I'm a motive. I'm motivated by big, huge, massive goals. I love that. Some people are more motivated by small goals. It doesn't matter what your what is what is motivated. Your why is your motivator.

You're really your intrinsic, your deep, Your I just I want to whatever that is. The reason why you're showing up every day. But man, you have to have some extra motivation along the way. That's amazing. Hi, Dorothy. I lost 17 pounds my first round, but since our break and this spring series, almost seven and a half weeks scale up one down just won't move. I sadly fall under the three reasons one down just won't move. I sadly fall under the three reasons

why your scale won't move. So wondering if it's going to eventually go now more as I have 16 ideally to lose, trying to see what I can do in the maximizing area to kickstart this body and let go of more fat. Any tips to help? So you absolutely don't make a mistake. Those reasons why your weight might be slower to move,

it doesn't mean you're not gonna reach your goal. That conversation is actually there to help you understand that there is more that you can do and probably need to do because you can drive yourself crazy just trying to eat less, exercise more, you know, even with the food plan, it's all about the food, all about the food, all about the food, and it really isn't. The conversation is to help you really understand the seriousness of taking your stress seriously. Really understand how detrimental that can be, not just in your health and wellness, but how it can affect your weight journey.

Stress is like, stress is huge. To understand how important it is to get sleep, how sleep can be a game changer. So if you're still watching Netflix, right? You're staying up late, you're not going to bed, you know, when you're tired, you know, or like whatever it is, you're on your phones or whatever that might be.

Understand, take that seriously. The conversation about exercise, right? Like you can lose weight, but can you lose the amount of weight that you want to lose without exercise? Especially if you've been doing deprivation diets, you're going through menopause, you're aging, you're losing that muscle mass. And those conversations are there because usually it's the things we're not doing that we need to do. And so you could have lost weight and then all of a sudden be hit with a health issue as well.

Right? Like just because you're following this healthy diet doesn't mean that you're not going to experience any health issues either. Because it's just a small amount of time, chances are you've been following this diet and making these changes as opposed to the whole way you lived your life before and how your body's come to function.

And so you lost 17 pounds in your first round. Sometimes, so let's take a look at, first of all, your environment. What is different this round from last round? Stresses you have in your life, environments, routines, lifestyles, what's going on? Health issues, have you had a cold?

Have you had a fucking cold that seems like it won't go away? I don't know, it keeps recycling in our family. Every week someone's sick, I don't get it. What's going on there in your environment? Then you want to get personal and be like, am I showing up? My first program, I was like, all right, let's go. Is it seeming routine? Am I getting bored? Just like any other diet would. The living method, we structure it in 91 days. And there's a rhyme and a reason to that, but you start a diet,

you keep following it until you reach your goals. I'm sure you've done diets before, we're halfway through. You're like, ah, whatever. Life gets busy, I'm not as diligent, whatever. You say, fuck it. You're like, I'm just gonna be happy in my body until you just don't feel happy anymore. Then you're like, I'm gonna do another diet, right?

So where are you at mentally with this process? And be honest, be honest with yourself, right? Have you, are you motivated? Maybe you need to reassess your why. Have you actually been showing up with the same, or are you letting bits and bytes in there? You used to really dig into those four mindful eating questions

and maybe you ask them once a day, you're not really doing it. Then I would look at sort of physically, physically, that's that physical part, what do I need to do? Do I need to exercise? Do I need to bump up my exercise? Do some resistance training? Do I need to focus on my stress, sleep, do some breathing exercises? Am I going through menopause? Do I have lingering post-menopause issues going on? Like what is happening there? How's your digestive system?

How do you feel? How's your energy? How are your bowel movements? Right, so all of this gives you insight into like, okay, what's going on here? I love that you say you understand, you fall under the three reasons why your scale won't move, but your scale did move. You lost 17 17 pounds so that's your body saying like I'm willing to let

go of this fat here now it could be if you fall under those three things this is an extra stressful time of your life right now right so then so what's? Because you still had those three things when you lost 17 pounds. So what's the disconnect? What's the disconnect? So what are some of the things that, what do you do? And this is where you might wanna sit down with a pen and paper, okay, last group, I did this. The mistake some people make is that they try to repeat

the exact same thing that they did the first time around. And of course we're repeating that with a food plan, but you have changed. So sometimes people get stuck on eating the same breakfast, same bunch of salads for lunch, same whatever, and not actually getting in tune to their body's needs. Or they get stuck on how small their portions were at the end, but now your metabolism is higher.

Maybe you're being more active. Your metabolism is increasing just because it's spring, right? Your body pulls you out of the winter hibernation mode and people keep their portions small, or they fall back into old diet mentality. If I just eat even less, exercise even more to make this happen, right? And so I would sit down with that and be like, okay, I would maybe like sit down with pen and paper, go back and listen to this last few minutes and then kind of just be like, okay, what's going on there? And then that's what I do.

That's what I do, Dorothy. When I sit down with clients, I just talk to them. And then usually they're like, oh, supplements, right? It could have been like the first program, you were taking all your supplements and you were consistent about it. And now that you lost 17 pounds, you're just like, yeah, whatever, right?

Because let's talk about this. Losing 17 pounds in a healthy way, that's freaking amazing. You probably don't feel as desperate as you did the first time you did the program, because you're amazing. You lost 17 pounds. You probably feel so much better. So sometimes they're not driven in the same way because our confidence levels

go up, we know we can do this. We start to physically feel better. We're not as diligent. We're not as motivated. I'm not saying that's what's going on, but there, there could be a few things. So it could be your environment, your lifestyle. It could be, um, physical. And it could be also like mental.

So it could be some of those things. So hopefully there's some good tidbits there. Some good tidbits there for you. How do I, how do I need my, how do I tell my cats I need seven to eight hours sleep? I hear you. Yes, they howl, they scratch at the door when the sun comes up. Oh my gosh. We are we have cat we have a cat like that too. So what I've learned is I just had a

whole whack of dry food more than she could possibly need. Now maybe your cat has a weight issue and you can't do that. Because if I don't leave food out for her at night for sure she is waking my ass up in the morning. And don't know, maybe get them some catnip. I got no, I got no, I got no suggestions for you. Oh my goodness. The struggle is real. The struggle is real. Inflammation is my nemesis this round,

along with not being able to swim. Physio is necessary, however, triggers my pain receptors at night and therefore negatively impacts the quality of my sleep. However, I'm still here. Yeah, Susanna, you know, this is so important because this is just what you're dealing with right now. Does it mean that you say fuck it and do nothing? No, it means that you understand your limitations and you'd be really proud of what you can do. That's what it's about.

Sometimes you can't do all the things and that's okay. You're going to have other seasons and you've been successful before you're gonna have other seasons where things are more aligned I love that. I I love that you are doing your best, right? I'm doing my physio exercises going for walks after the live I'm off to my art class. I love that great for the brain, you know brain, you know? This program on my second now has kept me in a steady routine whilst going through the process of declaring a marriage separation. It has saved me. Yes. It's keeping your energy directed. First of all, I'm sorry to hear that or congratulations. I'm not sure which one. I'm not sure which one. It keeps your energy directed at yourself having to constantly eat all day, drink water,

think about all these, there's that meme that goes around that you're drinking so much water, you don't have time for other people's shit because you're too busy peeing. There's kind of some truth in that. You don't have time for anybody else's shit because you are so focused on yourself. What to eat all the time, what to drink,

trying to do this, trying to do that. And that's how it should be. That's how it should be to get you to a place where you feel so fantastic that you're just living your life and you can just trust it. It just becomes who you are, becomes who you are. And so this helps you get in tune to yourself, keeps your energy directed at yourself. You don't got time for anybody else's bullshit or Or drama, because you're so busy. That's how it should be. And then this program is also just a lesson in self love. That's what it's about.

Really getting in tune, really knowing what works with you, what doesn't work with you, work for you. That's how I make all decisions in life. Well, how would I feel if I did this? How would I feel if I did that? I am so in tune that I know. How would I feel if I made this decision? How would I feel if I did that? I am so in tune that I know. How would I feel if I made this decision? How would I feel if I make that decision?

Oh, I'm definitely making that decision. And sometimes that decision is not easy for other people, but this is where your life flows when you are doing what's best for you. Doing what's best for you. Doing what's best for you. Thanks, MJ. Thanks, MJ.

Is it okay to, where is it? Okay to be early or late on the breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I communicate and go different places. Sometimes I try to follow the plan with snacks and meal times. Sometimes it's not the exact time. I'm down 8.1 pounds. Jill, you're doing great! 8.8 pounds is amazing. It's still normal to have not lost any at this point.

The order of the food is really important. The timing, not so much. Your timing can change day to day. And I love that you're in tune to that. Do the best that you possibly can. You don't want to be switching up the order of the foods but the time can absolutely change, right? What other people think of me is none of my business. I read this a while ago and it's really helped. Yeah, it's all about what we think about ourselves and what's going on up here. That's my time for today. I'm really excited about the conversation with Dr. Paul tomorrow.

We're gonna get into, we highlighted the reasons why you're ate by Ms. Laura to move. We're really getting into what can you actually do about it tomorrow with Dr. Paul. So that's bound to be a great conversation. Also, Greta Podletsky is gonna join us at 11 a.m. tomorrow and she's gonna walk us through making her

one of her amazing high protein salads. The salad looks easy peasy enough. We have posted the recipe in the file section and also on that post. It's in the guides. If you're looking for that, ask the team, they'll pull it up for you. So if you want to follow along with us, get your meal prep ready. We're going to ask her tons of questions. We're going to talk about protein, putting nutrient rich meals and whatnot together.

Plus it's the perfect time of year for that. So that's going to be tomorrow at 11 a.m. Also don't forget about Tara. I love that scale finding move don't forget about our menopause add-on kinds of great information if you're if you are perimenopause you are pre-perimenopause perimenopause or in post-menopause that is the group for you it's that we're going to be doing a live guided session for four weeks starting on Monday. It's also a guide yourself. So if you don't, if you're not into doing it Monday, you can still sign up and you can listen where you can review all the information on your own timeline. Have a fantastic rest of your

day and I will see you later. Tomorrow? Later? Tomorrow? What day is it? Oh, tweak this week. I'll see you later as well. Bye.