The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 40 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 40, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina offers a powerful reminder: this journey is about more than just what’s on your plate. She breaks down how each tweak is designed to rewire not just your habits, but your mindset. From moving past the struggle bus to recognizing seasonal shifts in your body’s needs, Gina explores how your brain, your environment, and your emotional responses are all part of the process. She chats about the second round of downsizing—how to approach it with confidence—and explains why weight might be dropping in chunks (hint: your body’s working hard behind the scenes). Plus, she gives practical tips for resetting when life feels chaotic and how to show up to food-centric social situations without guilt. If your weight has stalled or your head’s spinning, this episode is the reminder to pause, reassess, and level up.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And again, these tweaks are less about the tweaks and the changes that you're making to the food, eating less. It's more about approaching weight loss from a variety of different angles. Our body gets wired a certain way. Our brain gets wired a certain way after years and years and years of functioning

and thinking a certain way. And it's really about rewiring how your body has come to function physically, but more so your brain and especially your associations to food and your history of dieting. We know the diet industry sucks, but we don't really understand how much it sucks and the impact that it's had on us. The constant food noise like that had to have come from somewhere that you're dealing with maybe when you were younger, as you started to diet and as you start to get older adding stress and you know everything else

that life brings us on top of that. So if you just followed along with the basic food plan eventually you would reach your goal. If you're obviously, if you're also, you know, moving your body and minding your stress and your sleep. And, you know, as we've learned this week, for some people it's trickier than others. Weight loss doesn't come as easy. But that was a conversation this week is reasons why your weight might be slower to move. And although, although, like I say, that sucks if it means that you have to go above and beyond or go the extra mile, but these are things you're going to want to focus on anyway to be as healthy as

possible. And so we're going to be downsizing again next week. You want to take what you've learned in the last couple of weeks. So you did your first round of downsizing, you survived. How did you feel? Then we brought it back to eating just enough portion wise that you're walking away feeling satisfied. That's a big one. A lot of people are still eating in the moment satisfied. It's just enough in the moment.

So that 10, 15 minutes later, that is when you're walking away feeling satisfied. And so downsizing next week will be off the heels of having eaten to satisfaction all this week. So you'll have another opportunity. In knowing that you survived it last time, you probably will feel less apprehensive about it this time. And then we're done with it.

And then we're done with downsizing. And we're gonna be moving on to a completely different week and tweak where we again approach portions from another angle which is really cool. We are going to take the same portions that you were eating to satisfaction, split them in two, eat the first one mindfully, wait a half hour, eat the second one and you'll be surprised how when you have the option of having that second portion as opposed to needing to leave food on your plate

or finish when you're unsatisfied, it's amazing what that does to your mind because you know you can have it. And you'll reflect back and realize a lot of the stress that you were under during downsizing was just because it brought up food waste issues, food scarcity issues, old diet dialogue and whatnot. So what you eat does matter.

That's really important. You know, portions do matter in a sense, especially when you're trying to lose weight, but it's really all the other things that you are working through that are gonna help you be able to maintain and sustain that weight. And then being aware.

This is a big ass program in awareness and hence all our conversations with our guest experts. If you missed any of them, they are stored in the guides in the Facebook support group. But there's also a section in the app where if you go to the guides tab at the bottom, it will take you to the expert guide. So all of our expert guide,

all of our expert segments are in that expert guide for easy access. So you can go back and watch and listen to them at any time. I'm tired today, just full disclosure. We had a house, we still have a house full of teens from their prom night last night. So they were still up pretty late. It was fun.

We had a little pre-prom party. They went to prom, they all came back safe and sound. And then they had a little pre-prom party. They went to prom. They all came back safe and sound. And then they had a little pool party afterwards, which is kind of nice. So they weren't out at some party or there's a lot of parties happening and they all chose to stick around the house. They went to McDonald's and then they walked back home and had a little pool party. But needless to say, I'm a little tired. So if I seem like I'm a little bit all over the place, I am. Hi, Kelly. Good morning. The struggle bus has parked its ass at my front door. I'm a little bit all over the place I am. Hi Kelly, good morning. The struggle bus has parked its ass at my front door. I'm trying to be patient thinking maybe my body

is still recovering from surgery in March. Okay, it can take the body a while to recover from surgery for sure. Also, if you're taking any medications on top of that or it's limiting you in terms of your lifestyle or whatnot, but I'm tired of bouncing around the same up and down five pounds. Is there anything I can do to support my body to finally get moving while recovering? What is going to support your recovery?

That's a big one in terms of like Get your body moving I Don't know what the surgery is So maybe if you had knee surgery hip surgery anything like that and you feel like you can't go for your walk or do it Any of your other exercise a summer is coming. And you feel like you can't go for your walk or do any of your other exercise. Summer is coming, maybe you can do some swimming. There's a lot of great chair exercises out there. Like for people who are limited

in terms of movement in their body, there's a lot of great exercises on YouTube that you can search. Justin Augustin is a great follow on Instagram. I'm sure he's also on Facebook and TikTok and whatnot. So there's a lot of great exercises that you can do. But here's where you wanna say, first of all, we've talked about the struggle bus before

and here's what you can do. So a lot of people, we talk about how the struggle bus is parked outside your house, right? Every day you wake up, you open the curtains, you open the door, yep, there's the bus. Again, yep, you open the curtains, you open the door. Yep, there's the bus again. Yep, there's the bus. There's the bus. And meanwhile, the driver is sitting outside your door and saying, get on the fucking bus. Like, let's go. Get on the fucking bus. Stop looking at it. Get on it. And so what does that mean? So that means what is the

word? So struggle is such a big, huge word. What are you struggling with? And this is where the cognitive behavioral therapy model that Dr. Beverly David talks about comes in. Is it your thoughts? Is it your feelings? Is it your behavior? Is it something physical?

So what is it exactly that you are struggling with? Is it, right? And so only you will know that. So that'll give you insight into where you wanna start focusing. But in terms of like actionable things, this is where that maximizing checklist, what can I do to move my body even with my limitations?

What can I do in terms of my food choices, even with my limitations? You might not be all that hungry if you are ever sick or you don't have surgery or feeling emotionally like bit broken down, follow that sickness protocol. A lot of times people are like, oh, I'm gonna just stick to the program and do all the things.

And sometimes it's not doing all the things. It's actually laying off and doing less things. Great conversations with Dr. Paul on inflammation. And so your body could be struggling with inflammation right now. I know there's a few supplements you can take. Like there is a lot of research behind curcumin or turmeric. Maybe get yourself some supplements there. It could be also your with if you've taken a lot of like antibiotics or medications after your surgeries, you might want to stack your microbiome, give it a little bit of help there, prebiotics, probiotics, those types of things. So if you want to give us a

little bit more information in terms of like what you've been through and what exactly you're struggling with, pop it into the question on the day page at the top where the team will help you kind of try to figure that out. But that's where I would look. And especially if your sleep has been interrupted on top of that or you're stressed because maybe you know you've got things going on in your life and you feel like you're a little bit limited based on you know your surgery and what you've been through. But that's the first one is really just what do I need to heal my body and chances are because healing your body, your body is working hard to repair and rebuild and regenerate

and rejuvenate and your body is trying to heal you. The last thing it wants to do is lug a bunch of excess fat that causes inflammation around. And so this is like, what do I need to do to work with my body right now? Or, and then the exercise is, if you go through all of those things and you really feel like you're doing all the things,

it's usually the things that you're avoiding that you need to focus on. But if you really feel like you're doing all the things, then you're right, it could just be time. And so then if it's just time, how do you reframe this so it's not making you crazy? Right? Maybe reflect on the surgery that you've had

and what you've been through. Maybe there's other things that you can do and focus on besides like what's happening on the scale, right? What's happening on the scale. Hi Deidre, good morning. I actually made it to a live. Hello, question. Are there special considerations for the method

in the hot summer winter? This is my second program, lost 20 pounds on the first. Second one is a plateau action for me, but that's okay. Not worried, more stress, second job. Yeah, yeah. Got it. So yes, so when it comes to the summer, it's really what you're doing in the moment.

So as the temperature starts to rise, first of all, the days get longer. So you have to take that into account in terms of like the timing of your foods, your sleep cycle and whatnot. So the days are longer. Sometimes, for example, you become more active. It's summertime, so you're out,

maybe you're playing pickle ball. I don't know what you're doing, swimming more. You're more active, yet we keep our portions stuck on the same small portions because we think that's what's doing it. So that's why portions are always in the moment. Can adapt to any extra activity that you're doing. The heat can definitely have your weight up.

I am really reactive to the heat. My body just bloats up as everything does in the heat. Everything expands in the heat. And so your body will retain more water in order for you to obviously survive when it's really hot and keep you hydrated. So not just drinking more and more and more water, but making sure that you are getting sodium salt in your diet, adding electrolytes, if you want to pick up some electrolytes to your water can help in the summertime because it gets to a point where you just you're drinking, you're drinking, you're drinking, you just feel waterlogged

and it's not really like sitting with you. So definitely adding some electrolytes to water. You don't have to, but it's definitely helpful. It's not about how much water you are drinking it's about your body be able to retain that water for hydration. Switching out your heavier carbs for things like fruits. So you'll notice in the summertime when it's really hot,

you crave like watermelons, more fruits. You've always been able to have fruit, add fruit to breakfast, add fruit to meals. We've always been able to do that. A lot of people miss that. They think they just focus on their morning fruit snack and think that they can't, but this is where you might wanna start adding some,

you know, berries to a salad, increasing your fruit intake and then decreasing your heavier carbs. We're going to do that with a food plan itself where you're going to have the option to be adding fruit for your afternoon snacks as well so you can be adding more fruit. So decreasing the heavier carbs, going for fruit. Fruit is higher in sugar, which is a good thing and breaks down faster. Because when you're hot, your body doesn't want to work hard on processing and digesting your foods.

In the winter time, your body's trying to keep you warm. It wants heavier, hardier foods, fatty meats, actually warm foods, soups, stews, chilies that help you, your digestive system work hard and keep you warm. In the summertime, your body doesn't want to work hard because then you're going to overheat and your body's just trying to keep you nice and cool.

So cooling foods, this is why foods like salads, cucumbers, watermelons, those types of foods tend to be more appealing in the summertime. So switching that up, switching it up. And that's why what happens in the fall program rolling into winter is that people get stagnant in their weight because they're holding on to, especially if someone lost weight in our spring summer program, that's the first program that they have ever done. They hold on to, well, I had salads and I had this and I had these things. And then as they roll into the winter, their weight gets stagnant because they're not switching over to more winter types of foods.

I mean, this is like eating seasonal foods and whatnot. And a lot of people are afraid to eat fruit, but that's sort of that when it's hot, your body, you don't have much of an appetite. You wanna make sure you're giving your body that quick, easy energy that it's looking for at the end of the day. Obviously portions are really important. Be eating in tune to that. You just can't eat a whole watermelon in one sitting.

Hello, that's what I love to do. But small little adjustments like that are sort of the biggest ones. That's such a great question. That's such I love to do. But small little adjustments like that are sort of the biggest ones. That's such a great question. That's such a great question. And my questions are not working today for some reason. Let me see if I can go back in. Does your weight loss trend change?

Hi, Rainy. I hear that you're going to be coming on or trying to get you on a little segment here, are we? I love Rainy. First of all, I follow her over on Instagram and she's always walking every single day. Rain, shine, whatever. Does your weight loss trend change? It can. Absolutely. I love rainy first of all, I follow her over on Instagram and she's always walking every single day rain shine Whatever. Does your weight loss trend change it can Absolutely. Let me read what you have to say. You all I always have lost in tiny increments very slowly

But in the last six weeks, I'm losing in big chunks almost five pounds in a week That then an expected plateau and now dropping another big chunk this week 30 years of tracking my weight This has never happened love it it but find it very curious want to support my body during this new trend. Yes absolutely you can go from little bits to larger chunks. Same thing with detox symptoms you can go from none at all to then all of a sudden having them. That can change as well. Your body's making change. Repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating. Your muscle mass probably is building

up from all the movement that you've been doing, right? So everything that you do is building up, building up, building up. That's why I love the structure of our program. Ninety-one days, you accomplish a lot physically, mentally, start the next program, meet yourself exactly where you are at, and you do the process again. You are able to, you know, dig a little deeper, level up even more, and you're building on everything that you've done from your previous programs. If this is your first program, you're building on everything that you've done from the previous weeks. You want to switch and pivot with the tweaks each week, obviously, but you're building. Your metabolism is higher, right? You're moving your body, probably more in tune to your body's needs and all of that

And so this is also more time spent addressing why your body's felt the need to store fat Also more time spent decreasing your stress levels, right? And so and it could be hormones depending on where you're at as well I know you're a little on the more mature side like me And so there could be a point where you are trying to lose weight and it just felt like it was fighting little bits. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, and then maybe your hormones are more, I don't want to say stable regulated balance

because they're never that addressed. We've addressed your hormones through, just even through time. And now your body's like, all right, let's just get rid of this. It could also be the spring. At your body naturally this time of year. In the winter time, your body naturally holds on to fat. And so if you've done our winter program,

obviously you're trying to help the body focus on fat loss. That's why adding that vitamin D is so important because it kind of tricks your body into thinking it's summer. And it could just be that your body is just like, let's let this fat go already. Right? You've just, you've taught it long enough. It just doesn't need it. And that's where you might be seeing those larger chunks come, just everything really coming together. So absolutely, the pattern will change. And I see what you say, like 30 years of tracking your weight, but probably 30 years of eating less, exercising more, and not actually spent on repairing and rebuilding and healing and actually making real change

in your body, right? That reconnecting how your body functions and reconnecting your brain. So I love that for you. You've worked hard for it. You've worked hard for it. Good morning, I'm still here. Kelly, hi, Christy. I'm in the same struggle bus lane after surgery in March. I'm feeling so much better, but the weight has stalled out.

I'm back to work, shift work. So my schedule's all over the place. I'm getting back on the bus today. Try, try again. What does my body need? If you, I am sure to work, shift work, so my schedule's all over the place. I'm getting back on the bus today, try, try again. What does my body need? If you, I am sure right now, because when I sit down and I talk to people, and this is what I do with my personal clients in the past,

and every now and then I sit down and talk to our members as well. And I sit down and I just listen to them. I ask them this, I ask them things like, you know, what's your age? What is your weight? What's the least amount you weighed after the age of 21 to get a handle on sort of what's possible? Or maybe they've always had a weight issue. When did their weight

issues start? Any health issues that you have or dealing with medications you're taking supplements you've added in. Then I go into lifestyle, right? How much are you moving your body? What's your sleep like? What are your stress levels like? We don't start with the food, believe it or not. Everyone wants to start with the food.

Whenever I sit down with someone they want to just tell me what, but I'm eating this. I'm like, that's not it, right? And so then it's just a matter of going through those things and being like, okay, where am I at right now? Like, what would my body tell me that it needs? If I was to say, Hey, what do you think I need to do in order to lose this weight? What do you think your body would say? A lot of people think that their body hates them when

your body is actually on your side. We're just not taking the time to be like, okay, what does my body need? If I asked my body right now, what does it need? It would probably say for you to slow down, for me to slow down, for me to move a little bit more. And I don't mean exercise and whatever, just more continual movement, to be more active in my life. But for me, the biggest part would be to slow down and not like necessarily do less, but slow down in my mind. My mind is going, I'm feeling the stress, the pressure, a lot of things. But I also know that I was in a

situational situation. And so there's reasons why weight, you gain weight back. Right? The biggest one is situational change, because situational change can be a change in your job. You got surgery, a change in relationship, you know, just something happening in your life. You fall back into old habits or you don't think do the things that you need to do to upkeep your new habits. The other one is not spending time in maintenance, allowing your body time to adjust to your new weight. And the other one is just not being mindful. Just like forget everything you've learned, just go back, eat whatever you want, fuck it. Which also has you going back into old habits. And so I had a lot of situational change, right?

My dog was sick. I had something going on with one of my children. I had the anniversary of the kid's dad. I had my son's prom coming up. We had my birthday, we had his birthday. You know, he got into, he had to choose his school. He also got into residence, by the way. I got so excited about that. He was on the wait list.

He finally got, so the other day we found out that he got into residence. So that was like immediate, like immediate stress off me. Because now Tony and I don't have to spend the summer trying to find him a place to live. So, so there was a lot going on and then, you know, the personal stress that I have put on myself. So that was sort of situational. And, but, you know, in that, my body is now telling me, you slow the fuck down, like just chill out already. Like that's what I need.

And so I have just been feeling like bloated and, and also probably need to eat some fresh foods. So it's just like having a real conversation. And that's what I love about where we're at in the program right now. And we're going to talk more about hormones. We're gonna talk more about, we're always, we've got so much more to cover and talk about, of course. But what do you need? Where are you at? What's going on with you physically? What's going on with you mentally?

Most of the time we just don't take the time to have a real honest conversation with ourselves and be like, okay, what's going on here? What do I need? You know, so that's where I would go with. That's where I would go with. That's where I would go with. Of course I lost my comments again.

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Hi Melody with Mindful Eating. I was at all you can eat hot pot. Oh, I love hot pot. Hi, Melody with Mindful Eating. I was at All You Can Eat hotpot. Oh, I love hotpot. Don't say hotpot. Tony's going to want hotpot. Tony now wants hotpot. I love hotpot. And if someone doesn't know what hotpot is, it's kind of like an all you can eat, like a soup. So you have different kinds of soup bases and then you just put the foods in. It's kind of like an all you can eat. You can just keep adding or you kind of order and it feels like an all you can eat. Some of them are all you can eat. I think I did a good job feeling better and stopping when I burped and felt full. Yeah, but full. It's full the same. Watch the words here. Is it full or is satisfied? Which one was it? Just enough?

You have just enough? Did you feel satisfied? Did you feel full? Of course, that's hot. It's hard when you're going to a place like that. It was hard to stop because I felt like I had to eat my value. Oh, this is me. Every fucking time. We like to go to Korean barbecue. Tony obviously likes hot pots. I always feel like I never, never get my money's worth. Here's what I say though. I say I'm worth the experience because my body's also not a garbage can and eating more food than I need is not helpful.

So this has taken me a while because I, you know, I wasn't really, when before I met Tony, I didn't really go out to eat a lot. That's really his thing. Now we go out, now it's our thing. I love eating good foods. But I remember starting to go to places like that with him. And I would say, because Tony would be paying

and I would feel like, oh my God, like I'm not even gonna get 10 bucks worth out of this meal, but I am worth the experience. I am worth the experience. And what I try to do is enjoy the foods that I do eat. Some people get a lot of food in a short period of time. So I try to eat my food and have it last me longer. So it's the experiences there for me.

But I feel you on this. This is something I still can to this day continue every time we walk in. I see the price of an all you can eat. I'm just like, oh God, you know, and it feels like I'm wasting money, but also you eating the food that you don't need is not saving you anything either. It's not saving you anything, but I feel you on this.

Today, my scale went up just a tiny bit, but I still feel good. That's probably just the salt. That's probably just the salt. Any tips on family eating where we don't have a set plate and we pick food as we go? I find buffets family style Chinese eating and all you can eat is hard. I can tell you try not to overeat with Tony's family is incredibly difficult because one his mom is there and she's always offering food and there's always a ton of food and

I don't want to be the girl who's sitting there not eating anything because that is just weird. So I relate to this. Like I said, focus on the food that you're eating and really be like, I think it's the value of food in family situations where you're just so grateful to have food and food is how people bond and show love and celebrate and all of those things.

But it's not about the volume of food. So so, for example, in Tony's family, the fact that we're able to have a volume of food is very like that's like we're successful. We're able to do that. Like that's that that that means something more than going to a buffet and then just eating your face off. Right. There's there's meaning behind that. There's meaning behind that. So this is where you can be like, wow,

because at first I used to get overwhelmed by all the food. And now I'm just like, how blessed are we that we get to just enjoy this food? I remember I took my kids to the Mandarin once and Mandarin with four kids is fucking expensive. And so this is why I think I didn't go to a lot of restaurants because I had four kids and it just was too expensive for me.

And I remember we took them and they just ate. I think it was the first time they'd ever been at a buffet and they ate everything. And they walked away. I remember them in the parking lot to this day, holding their bellies and laughing and so joyful at the fact that they were so stuffed, they could barely move.

But it was just joy. No one was like, oh my God, why did I do that? I gotta go on a diet, I'm so fat, I'm so whatever. It wasn't that, they just, the whole experience was just like, oh my God, our bellies are so full, it was so joyful, they were just whatever. And so I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Right, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

It's not the eating part of it. It's the what happens afterwards and then the punishing and trashing ourselves for the week to come because we over ate at that meal, right? So it's kind of like, so one thing I was like, take more time in the foods that you are eating, spend more time talking, right? Like take breaks in between, chew your food more and really like appreciate.

It's not the family food is not the family moment with the food is not the food. That's not it. So comfort, you know, the comfort food comes from when we tend to eat around family, we tend to not be as mindful. We tend to overeat. Our insulin level gets jacked. And then we have that euphoric, ah. Right? So we feel like that's a great feeling. Good food, good company, laughs, our bellies are full.

You get that euphoric high. That's a great feeling. And so try to get that, that indulge in the moment, indulge, look around at your family, indulge in the taste of the food that you are eating, indulge in the smell, indulge. So you have to like reconnect with this experience in a different way. So it's not like just go there, sit there and eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, stuff yourself, try to eat as much as you possibly can and then walk away and be like, why did I do that? And so this is part of the changes that you're making

to be able to sustain the weight that you lose. When you reach your goal, you wanna be able to be in these situations and be like, yeah, yeah, just in tune. And if you're gonna overeat, you're like, there are times when I know that I'm going out for dinner that I'm already like, I'm gonna eat my face. Tony don't even think about sexy time tonight

because it ain't happening. Like I will literally say that to him. Let's manage our expectations. No sexy time tonight. I'm gonna eat my face off. I wear my stretchy pants. I just, I'm there to eat. But even then I'm not just like closing my eyes and eating.

I'm just like, ah, I'm here to eat. I'm so excited about it. And then I just, just like closing my eyes and eating. I'm just like, ah, I'm here to eat. I'm so excited about it. And then I just, that's my intention. And sometimes the noise creeps out, oh my God, why'd you do that? I did, and I corrected immediately. I did it because it was so fucking good. I did it because I wanted to.

Yes, my body, my belly is full. Yes, I'm probably gonna have a crappy sleep tonight. I don't give a fuck because it was so worth it and I was intentional about it. So that's sort of like that's where and then you might seem like, oh, my God, you know, that's way too deep. But that's where you kind of got to go. And this is where you're retraining your brain.

And that's why every Friday I say, what's your intention for the weekend? How do you want to feel on Monday? Right, like I want you to say it out loud to yourself. And then if you if you just eat your face off, What's your intention for the weekend? How do you want to feel on Monday? Right? Like I want you to say it out loud to yourself. And then if you just eat your face off whatever and you're feeling like balls on Monday, I want you to be able to go back and be like,

what was your intention on Friday? What happened? So what happened in the moment that you didn't follow through on making the choices that you wanted to make? And it's not like, you can't just let it go. You let it go, you're not learning anything. So this is when you take it back. What happened?

Everything was going great. Friday was a great day. Saturday was a good day. Saturday afternoon, I got some awful news. I just, then it just spiraled, right? Then it just spiraled and just continued. And that's where I'm at, right? Everything was going great.

Friday was great. Saturday was great. Saturday night, my friends called me last minute and called me over for a barbecue. And, you know, I just got caught up in conversation, ate the chips, ate the thing, whatever. Was it worth it? Yeah, actually it was. It was so fun. Okay, then let's not berate ourselves about where we're at today Right. And so that's where you want to go back in the wide it and if I if I if I regret my choice

What was my what if I was at that barbecue and I regret it come Monday? Why did I have it? Did I think it's gonna make me have more fun? Did I think it was gonna bring me joy? Did I think it's gonna make me have more fun? Did I think it was gonna bring me joy? Did I think it was gonna bring me peace? Why did I, why did I, why did I have that? And so that's where you gotta catch that moment. Capture it, cancel it, correct it. In the moment is very helpful,

but you can also go back into your brain and capture it and cancel it and correct it. And then you're bringing awareness to that's the choice that you made and why. And so the next time you are in a similar situation, you will have at least a fighting chance of being like, ah, yeah, no, thanks. I know if I eat that, I'm going to feel like this. I did this with I did this with drinking, right? This is how I how I did this with drinking, right? This is how I did this with drinking,

is I was in the moment I kept focused on, how do I want to feel in the morning? How do I want to feel in the morning? If I have this, how am I going to feel in the morning? And then when I woke up in the morning from not drinking, I said to myself, oh my God, I feel amazing. Thank you, Gina, for not drinking. I feel fantastic today.

It is so worth it. It was so worth it to not drink because I felt amazing the next day. So this is where we're going with all this. This is where we're going with all this. And this is why this is not just following the guidelines perfectly. This is like get out there, experience life, go to the barbecues, go to the family dinners, go to all of that. This is what you're working on right now.

And this is why it's not always about the weight, because you have to learn these things. The weight part's gonna come easy. What makes the weight part hard is yes, if you have some issues going on, hormones, inflammation, stuff like that, your body will heal, but it's the choice part. It's the choice part.

That's the part that, it's the showing up part. That's the part that makes it more difficult. And so that's really, that can be, if you have one program where your weight just stays the same and you are working through all of that, that's a massive win. That's a massive win, right? Cause that's gonna help you be able to maintain and sustain your weight.

Now, what is going on with my comments today? Is anyone else feeling blah? Seem since not eating carbs, I don't have my joyful spirit or am I calm now from eating well, I don't know. So I love this for you. I love like, isn't that so sad that you just, if life is blah because you're not eating carbs? First of all, carbs are just breads and pastas, right?

Cause you can have fruits, you can have vegetables, you can have grains, you can have rice, you can have quinoa, you can have potatoes, you can have squashes. So you're really only talking about bread, which is a processed food at the end of the day. And you can have it. We do give you options like there's sourdough bread is better than regular bread, Ezekiel bread, true sourdough, Ezekiel bread, there's bread, there's options for that. And then there's pasta, right? But why can't you still have pasta but not have a ginormous

bowl of it? Have some pasta with some vegetables and a salad on the side, some leafy greens, right? And or crackers, right? Crackers are more convenience-y types of foods. There's all sorts of wraps these days that you can make that are high protein wraps that you can get. So let's like break it down on what you're talking about, right? You're talking about four things. You're talking about four things.

You're talking about bread, which you could still have if you want. And you can have a half a slice of bread. You don't have to have the whole loaf, right? There's no like you can't have any. The pasta. And you can have pasta. Just have half the amount that you would normally have. Add some leafy greens and vegetables. Crackers. If you want to have crackers, we have a great

sprouted grain recipe for making your own crackers, right? And I can't forget what the other one was. I don't know, whatever. So that is very sad. The thing is though, that's a reality. We use food for so many things, right? To show love, to console, to celebrate.

And some people just fucking love food. And some people just fucking love food. And you can just fucking love pasta. But this isn't a for, these are things that you can never have. And you quite frankly can have them while you're losing weight. You just, if it's harder for you to lose weight, we suggest that you minimize them while you're trying to lose weight. Eating them never caused you to gain weight. Look at everyone over in Europe.

They're eating pasta, they're eating pasta at night. That's not causing you to gain weight. Look at everyone over in Europe. They're eating pasta, they're eating pasta at night. That's not causing them to gain weight because they are more active, their stress levels are different. They probably have not done all the diets that we have done, right? At the end of the day. But I love this part of you, like,

or I am calm, right? Calm. Also, you could just be feeling blah because of what's going on in your life, the time of year, things are routine, where you're at in your marriage, in your life, all of that. Right? A lot of times people associate a lot of things to the diet because we are so focused on it. Like we're, there's a lot of things to focus on every day. So it can seem a very like consuming, but it's all consuming. It's all about it's it is consuming, but it's all things that are healthy for you, you know,

so so I love this. So why am I feeling blah? What is going on here? Right. I wrote a post about that the other day. Was it yesterday? Yeah, I wrote a post about this yesterday because I was feeling blah. I was feeling blah because I was feeling blah because my life is amazing and yet I was just stressing my way through it. And not really feeling it and connecting with it because I'm trying to do work, I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to do a million freaking things at the same time. My life is amazing, but I was stressing through it. And Tony and I sat down the other day and went through our, my whole summer.

I do not have any, I don't have a summer free. I can't book anything else. And yet I'm already stressing about the end of summer. I'm going on my honeymoon, delayed honeymoon at the end of the summer. And I'm stressing because I am booked solid, booked solid of family barbecues and a weekend at the cottage and trips here

and celebrating this, that's amazing. That's incredible. And yet I was feeling so blah because I just felt like I wasn't connecting with my life. I was going by a calendar and a schedule and whatever, and I wasn't in the moment. And that's why yesterday I was like, fuck it. My team kept sending me things that I needed to do

and reminding me of all of my work. And Sonia, my friend was there and she's like, oh, by the way, I'm like, don't, I don't fucking care. Today I'm done. Today I'm gonna worry about cleaning my house up, to entertain the parents. I mean, just not letting it be like, like chaos. So they think I'm a normal, sane parent.

Getting ready for this party and hosting these kids. And man, I was so in the moment. What a wonderful day. And I felt so fulfilled at the end of the day when all those kids came back and they had a great time. And I started thinking about all the times those kids slept on my couch and where they're at now and starting their lives. And I just woke up this morning and my house was trashed, by the way, because it should be because it's prom night. And I'd rather have them here

trashing my house being safe than out there doing whatever. They were swimming, they were eating, they were having fun, kids everywhere this morning. And I was like, this, this, this is it. I could feel it in my soul that this is what my body needed. And so sometimes it has nothing. And the reason why I'm sharing that is sometimes it has nothing to do with your weight or your food choices or whatever. It's like, what is it?

What is it? So I love this, the calm part, the calm part, the calm part, the calm part. I think quiet contentment can feel blah when you haven't been there in a while. Ooh. Yeah, that's great, right? Yeah.

Hi, Gina, I'm exclusively breastfeeding mom to a six month old and hence my sleep is definitely fucked as hell. I feel you, I hear you. Since birth, little fella has been waking up every two hours. I reached my lowest low last week. Since then, I've been having 500, 600 grams up while following the program to a T. Was it wrong to start this program and not really working out for me? Oh my gosh. Okay. So first of all, you're going to feel, first of all, nursing, right, your body is gonna store, it's gonna be a

little bit reluctant to let go of some fat, because it like, it's like needs it, I'm making milk for this baby, but you don't need excess amounts, right? So sleep, look at all the things that you are doing are absolutely going to add up trying to get the sleep when you can trying to drink that water, all that healthy food is making is great for that breast milk, right? So there's there's no downside to anything and you can trying to drink that water. All that healthy food is making is great for that breast milk. Right? So there's there's no downside to anything that you're doing. The worst mistake

that women make because there is nothing more metabolism boosting than growing a whole person in your body. And the worst mistake that women do is start following a calorie restrictive diet and not giving their body what it needs, right? And so you're eating all this good nutrients, rich foods, you're trying to be in tune. You know what I love that you're aware that you can't do all the things and you're struggling. That is amazing, right?

So all of your hard work is going to add up. There's a big hormone switch, four weeks in, four months in, and six months in, you're gonna notice a big drop in your hormones, like a change in your hormones that will really help you with this. And then you're just going to find that things are going to take off. So I wouldn't worry about what's going on in the scale now. The things that you are doing are adding up and absolutely making that's the change is

addressing your body's needs and then changing what's going on in your brain associated to food. So there's no downside to following the Libby method. None. We've studied this. There's no down. There are downsides to other diets that people do. There's no downside to this. So I wouldn't say it was the wrong time at all. You chose a program that caused you to make space for yourself, to cause you to think about what you need in. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to lose weight while pregnant even, right? Cause some women are told they need to lose weight while they're pregnant.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to lose the weight after you are pregnant. The only thing is just don't put that pressure on yourself. Don't put, there's no bouncing back. You will bounce back, but don't put the pressure on yourself for that right now because you know it's the lack of sleep, it's like whatever it can be. Now, are you not prioritizing yourself?

Right, is there more you can do? And I don't need more you can do to lose weight, but is there more that you could be doing because maybe you're not sleeping when the baby sleeps, but maybe you can't sleep when the baby sleeps because you have other children. So just bringing awareness to your limitations, right? And this is so you're limited. You can't get the sleep that you need right now, but you will. Your baby will sleep. I know it can feel like, man, I, there's a few times with some of my kids, I wanted to throw them out the fucking window. Honest to God, I was so tired. They didn't sleep. They just call a key, whatever they will sleep. There will come a time in your life when

you will sleep. And that is where all of your hard work will make a big difference. Will make a big difference. Make sure you're drinking enough water, you know, go through, you can still also go through the checklist and see, you know, sort of things that you can do and focus on as well. But no, I think there's never, there's never a bad time or a wrong time to, to try to be as healthy as you possibly can. And that's what this program is, especially as a new mom, finding a new way through. And just like I said, working through old diet dialogue, I don't know your history, and just listening. If all you did was listen to our guest experts, man, this program is well worth the money

that you paid for it. Well worth the price of admission. That alone is huge. If you did not even follow the program and you paid for it. Well worth the price of admission. That alone is huge. If you did not even follow the program and you just listened to our guest experts and absorbed that information and learned that, that's worth it, that's worth it, right? I gotta go, I gotta go.

So it's the weekends, have fun. Think about how you wanna feel this weekend. Think about how you wanna feel on Monday. Assess where you're at. I love that. I love a good switching to a whole new week. Just take a step back and be like, OK, we're going to be heading into week six of the program halfway through a lot of time left. Don't stress yourself out about the time. Summer is coming.

Yeah, you might not be able to be perfect. But what else are you going to do? Just completely say fuck it and trash yourself. Now you got to keep the process going, because once you lose your weight, you're going to have to know how to navigate summer. And you're going to want? Just completely say fuck it and trash yourself? No, you got to keep the process going. Because once you lose your weight, you're going to have to know how to navigate summer. And you're going to want to have a good time during summer. Barbecues are never going to stop.

Weekends at cottages, never going to stop. It's never going to stop, right? So it's just this is what we mean by it's so much more than just weight loss at the end of the day. Have a fantastic weekend. I will be back on Monday. We have a great guest lineup. Man, we're just going to keep going around here. And I'm all here for it. I'm be back on Monday. We have a great guest lineup. Man, we're just going to keep going around here and I'm all here for it.

I'm all here for it. I do want to say to everyone catching this live, if you feel like you are out of it, you are not. You are still here. Reach out, ask for help. I'm not too late to start using the app. If you haven't been using the app yet, great resource for you. Highly suggest we have a great tech team, techsupport at livymethod.com. Yeah, I got that right. We got a whole new website we're working on.

Have a great rest of your day, everyone. Get caught up in any of the guest segments. You might wanna go back and listen to that first supplement one or the sleep series that we did. A lot of great conversations in there. Have a great rest of your day. I'll see you, I'll check in over the weekend, but I'll see you. I'll check in over the weekend. We'll see you on Monday.

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