The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 40 - Winter 2024

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 40, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2024Topics covered:We had such great discussions with Dr. Paul and Dr. Olinca this week, be sure to check them out if you haven’t alreadyLooking ahead at Downsizing again next weekThe importance of focusing on getting the best sleep possible to support your body throughout your journeyIt’s Family Day long weekend in some provinces in Canada this weekend! Gina will be taking Monday off, catch her Live on TuesdayTrace minerals and when to add them into your routineLarger drops on the scale don’t occur overnight, momentum is built over time and then reflected on the scaleManaging stress and prioritizing yourself, focus on taking things day by dayRecognizing and celebrating that you are still here in the process, almost 6 weeks in!Navigating The Program while taking medications and how to best support your bodyNo matter where you are in The Program, ask any questions you have, anywhere in the Facebook Support Group, and our team will respondConnecting with Dr. Beverely and some of our other guest experts, keep your eyes peeled for some upcoming master classes!The incredible changes our members are creating in their health - improving conditions and reducing medicationsThe benefits of making changes in lifeCircle back to yesterday’s incredible chat with Dr. Olinca, it’s worth listening to over and over again!Bloodwork and what to discuss with your healthcare providerRemember to check the batteries in your scale! Sometimes they are the issue!Best options to add in trace mineralsEnjoy indulgences, choose to not berate yourself, and then carry on!The reasons we’re not satisfied by the things we eat when craving sweet or salty thingsAntibiotics, their effects and impact on the scaleHave you signed up for the next Program? The importance of having a vision of where you want to go and what you want to createHave you seen our new ads? Check them out and share the love! Be part of truly making a change to obesity ratesEnjoy this weekend and remember, choose to not overeat, knowing we are heading back into Downsizing again next week!To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams 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 re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on Acast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple,

and Amazon Music. New year, new me. Season is here, and honestly, we're already over it. Enter Felix, the healthcare company helping Canadians take a different approach to weight loss this year. Weight loss is more than just diet and exercise. It can be about tackling genetics, hormones, metabolism. Felix gets it. They connect you with licensed healthcare practitioners online who'll create a personalized treatment plan that pairs your healthy lifestyle with a little help and a little extra support. Start your visit today at felix.ca. That's F-E-L-I-X dot C-A. Hello. Good morning. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Happy winding down week five, although we go right to the very last day of each week,

and then we start up the new week, the next week on Monday. So we're going to be downsizing again. Yay. Wow. What a week this week. My goodness. Dr. Paul here to talk about four reasons why your weight might be slower to move. Really all associated with inflammation in the body. Exciting thing about that is that you're already doing so many things that will help address inflammation in the body. And then Dr. Alinka here to talk about hormones on Friday. We didn't get like too far into the menopause, perimenopause, postmenopausal conversation, but we didn't need to. I mean, we're going to, but you got what you needed to know if you were concerned about your hormones getting in the way of you losing weight.

Because again, we really started to understand how everything is connected. Hormones involved with sleep, hormones involved with stress, hormones involved with your metabolism, hormones involved with hunger, they all get affected. And she had this beautiful way of explaining your hormones like an orchestra. And if sort of one part of that orchestra is off, it affects all the rest. And again, what's really exciting is you are doing all of the things with the Libby method to address your hormones. So this is where people be like, oh, I have a hormone issues. Am I going to be able to lose weight? I'm like, yes, what do I need to do? Well, you need to follow the program.

You need to follow the not just the food plan, not just getting the water in not just adding in supplements, but you need to maximize and really take focusing on your sleep and your stress and your movements and your mood seriously. Because that's what it's all about. That's a healthy, sustainable weight loss at the end of the day. I'm here for your questions today. So if you got that, you got them, load them up. Let's get rolling on them. Hi, Shelly. Good morning. Catching my first live this round. Hello. Nice to see you live. Nice to see you live. So yeah, downsizing again next week. Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? Um, don't be afraid of it. You're going to have an easy breezy time second time around,

especially if this is your first program. Downsizing can bring up a lot of the feels. And so, and now that you've brought up those feels and you've done it once, you're going to be able to crush it next time. But be sure you ask all the questions that you need to make sure you are super clear on what you need to do. You might want to go back and listen to the tweak this week from the downsizing week in week four, just as a bit of a refresher. It was a great conversation. We're going to have it again. We're going to have it again this Wednesday. We're going to talk about the tweak this week, which will be downsizing. And then we're going to roll into a whole other tweak, which is really cool. Man, from this point in the program,

it gets it's so cool, honestly, all the different tweaks. So you saw me the other day, I think in the check in also in the live and the conversation with Kim, where we've really covered the bulk of the information up until this point. Moving forward, a lot of it's going to be review, and then a lot of it is going to be focusing on the tweaks that you're making each week and showing up and doing the things that you need to do, solely focused on getting and keeping that scale moving. All right, I see some questions rolling in. Let me go.

I'm behind in the program, and I'm just implementing the advice we received from the podcast a few weeks ago about sleep. I'm having the best sleep of my life. I can see the difference it makes my day. I love that. Yeah. So it was obvious yesterday during the conversation with Dr. Alinka when she was talking about sleep that some of you missed that whole sleep week conversation.

Now I hope you're understanding after the hormone conversation why we put so much emphasis on making sure you're getting the best sleep possible. Even if you're a shift worker, even if you are a new mom, there's a lot that you can do. Even if you're in menopause, perimenopausal, whatever, there's a lot you can do to facilitate a better night's sleep. Some of you were, I saw someone talking about, well, I'm going to bed at nine, I'm waking up like 4.30 in the morning, what's going on? Well, one of the things that we learned from our sleep experts were that if you've gone to bed at nine o'clock, you should expect to wake up at four o'clock, 4.30 in the morning. Chances are you

probably already had enough sleep. I have seen major improvements in my sleep just based on the concept of sleep cycles, where, you know, she talked about if you don't have that, if you wake up and you don't have that hour and a half to go through another full sleep cycle, you should just get up. Well, it's been really interesting because you think that a good night's sleep is sleeping all night, not waking up, but that's not actually how it is. It's normal to wake up throughout the night. As your one sleep cycle, it starts and then it ends and you go into your next sleep cycle and then that starts and then it ends and you wake up and you go into your next sleep cycle and you might get three or four

sleep cycles throughout the night, anywhere from about an hour and a half to two hours long. And so now that I'm kind of picked up on my sleep cycles, if I do wake up in the middle of the night, I'm like, okay, I'm just sort of like starting a new sleep cycle. And then I've really like embraced that try not to sleep has made a huge difference for me. And then when I get up in the morning at like, you know, whatever time that is, sometimes five, 536, whatever, when my sleep cycle ends, I'm just getting up. Because I've really grasped the concept that unless I have time to put in that whole sleep cycle, if I fall back asleep, I'm going to wake up just feeling like garbage, I'm going to be so tired. So it's been so much easier for me to get up knowing, okay,

my sleep cycles ended, I feel like, okay, I should probably get up. And so I've been waking up early all week. It's been making a huge difference. It's been making a huge difference. So we, that whole sleep week, we talked to Dr. Beverly about the psychology behind sleep or lack thereof, which is really cool. And especially how it affects your food choices and your mood and how you're showing up for yourself. We also talked to Alana McGinn about sleep hygiene and we also talked to Dr. Alinka about the impact of not getting enough sleep and how your body processes the foods that you're eating, for example, which is a really cool week. Really cool week. Long weekend. Yeah, it's a long weekend. It's the, we have family day here in Canada or Ontario where I am at. So Monday is a holiday. I'm taking the day off. Y'all, I'm taking the day off. So you're not going to see me. Um, maybe I'll do the Monday night live

on Tuesday night just to kind of get it in there, but I'm going to take the day off. So you guys won't see me. I'll check in on Monday, but I'm going to take the day off. I've added trace minerals to my regime in the morning. How do I know when I've had enough or even if I need them? Well, you would need trace minerals because you are exercising and sweating. You would need trace minerals because you take medications perhaps that are dehydrating. I mean, you live in a warm climate so trace minerals you're well you're you're also following the the program and the diet in which so as much as we're taught that salt is bad

and sodium is bad for example because high blood pressure and whatever when you do a diet like the liby method where you're not indulging in processed foods maybe you're not going out to eat at restaurants or whatever you're eating is still, you know, following the program and plan. I hate using the word clean when talking about food. But when you clean up your diet, one of these issues is can is can can that can happen is that you're not getting enough salt and sodium in your diet, and that can lead to low sodium issues. So that's where you might want to add in some electrolytes. And then also adding in some electrolytes like trace minerals can really help in terms of keeping you hydrated. So you drink less water, but your body retains it a little bit more because that's that sodium helps you retain the water that your body needs to function. So you could

just for good measure, add a few drops a day. It really just sort of depends on why you're adding them in, you might want to take a look at that low sodium post that we posted. I think it was like week one of the program just so if you're in the Facebook support group, you can use the little like search icon and pull up you know, sodium and that post will pop up. Of course, if you're using the app, you can search any of the posts, they'll pop up or you can also use the Libby AI as well to assess your situation. If you've had enough, you're probably getting enough just adding a few drops in every day. And it's nothing people really have to worry too much about unless you live in a really extremely hot, if it was summertime, that would be a different

conversation. So if you live somewhere that's really hot, you want to make sure maybe you're, you're getting them in at the recommended dose. But you know, if it's just sort of throughout the winter, you want to make sure you're just getting enough in your diet, you can just, you know, add a few drops each day. I can't wait. I was sick last time. And when I started to feel better, my body just wanted all the good nutrient rich foods. Oh, I love that. My weight dropped six pounds yesterday, and then back up six pounds. I don't know why that happened. And I weighed myself a few times yesterday to make sure it was accurate. So equal and opposite reaction, right?

So you didn't lose six pounds overnight. I mean, check the scale, check the batteries on your scale. But this happens frequently. So you lost six pounds. That obviously didn't happen overnight. So what can happen is your body can go into detox and your weight is up. So maybe your weight is up. So maybe your weight is up because, you know, for a variety of reasons, salty food, maybe you're working out,

you know, maybe it's where you are in the time of month, you know, whatever you got going on. And there could be a variety of different reasons why your weight is up. I think actually yesterday, is that not what we talked about yesterday? Let's revisit why your weight is up. That was a post we posted yesterday. So your weight can be up and also simultaneously on the way down at the same time. And so chances are your weight has been dropping throughout the last week. And then it was just reflected on the scale. And obviously that's a huge drop. And if you're not drinking enough water to maintain that, your weight will pop right

back up again. So essentially you've lost six pounds. It's just, you only saw it happen on the scale for that brief moment. And so make sure you get on your water today and then you'll notice it will slowly come right back down to that lowest low. So you know, you could have had, also depending on what you had last night, right? You could have had salty food, not enough water. Maybe you worked out and your body's sore today. So really easy for your weight to be up after it drops. I'm really like, I'm like that. My body's like really sensitive to fluctuations, especially like in the summertime and the heat, my weight will go up. Dehydration, my weight will go up. I'm just, some people are

more prone to bigger fluctuations than other people. I love these lives. Hi, Judy, you are so wonderful to listen to. You have an awesome speaking voice. Oh, that's I'm working on it. Thank you. I'm working on it. I'm sure some of you are like, yeah, I can't stand listening. That's okay. You don't have to you don't have to love me. I always say like, love me, hate me, I don't care. What I want you to do is lose your weight finally and forever. So hopefully whatever I'm saying is helping you lose weight. I'm down 17.4 in my first group and a static that it's so easy to do. I love that. Yes. And some of you might be like easy to do. Yeah. I mean, easy is a different means different things to different people. Maybe you like the routine, the simplicity of not having to weigh or measure your foods. You know, obviously some people have a harder time than others and that sucks because,

you know, you want it to be easy too. You deserve it to be easy, especially probably after all the many years that you've tried to lose your weight. But that's what I love about our conversations with our guests, really bringing awareness and giving you the tools to figure out what you need to do and focus on above and beyond, obviously, all the things that we're doing on the program. So I love hearing that. I love hearing that. I have been struggling with stress and not prioritizing myself this week, but today is a new day and I'm showing up. Yeah, I hear you on this. So some days are better than others. Some weeks are better than others. Some months are better than others. Some years are better than others. You got to fight for yourself, right? You got to fight for your rights. You got

to fight for yourself and prioritize yourself. No one's going to do it for you. And when you don't take care of yourself, it means someone else got to come along and take care of yourself, take care of you. So it's up to you at the end of the day. Um, here's where you want to journal, set intentions, um, write down what you need, you know, remind yourself, tell other people what you're trying to do, like whatever you can do to support yourself and doing the things that you need to do. I think that's really important to take that time and be, I talked about this the other day with Kim, I think on our, um, on our tweak this week conversation, like, do you ever sit with yourself like in the, like quietly, not when watching TV, not on your phone, not when making a to-do list and really be like, what do I need? And like really kind of visualize

what's going to help you here. What's going to help you find the time. What's going to help you prioritize yourself. What's going to, you know, and especially with this process, really sitting and reflecting on your why, why you signed up. And, you know, this is the time that you have set aside for yourself to focus on the things that you need to do and give yourself a little bit of a pep talk, you know, a pep talk, like you can do this. Okay. You know, remind yourself, this is why I'm doing it. Remind myself, these are the things I can do to get it done. And then take a, a step-by-step day-by-day approach. I've been doing that lately. I've been, and Tony's been reminding me, I've been struggling a little bit. Um, and so Tony's been saying day-by-day, day-by-day. And

when I break it down into the little moments, okay, I just going to do this one thing at a time and then I'll move on to the next and I'll move on to the next. It's really been a game changer for me. And I've been telling people to follow the program day by day for so long, but I am not a day by day person. I'm like the big picture, go for it, go hard, go home, get it all done. You know, and if I'm not doing it all, then I'm failing all of it. Um, and so this day by day thing, um, for me anyway, has, has taken a lot of pressure off the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. And I got to do this and I got to do this and I got to do this and I got to do this. Um, you know, just little things like last night, I just wanted,

I was done my day and I just wanted, was going to go to bed. And Tony went to pick up the kids. There's a snowstorm and whatever. And I thought, oh, okay, I'm going to lie in bed. I'm just going to watch TV. And then I had these like curtains that I've been trying to put up for like, I don't know, they've been sitting in my front room for like two weeks now probably. And I was like, you know, I am tired, but I also know like if I just go down and do a little thing that I'm just going to feel so much better than lying in bed because lying in bed never really helps me feel better. And I just end up on my phone and in the group working anyway. And so I went down and I, you know, put the curtains up and, you know, I just, it was such

a little thing, but then I was like, ah, I did that. And then today when I saw them, I'm like, oh man, I did that. And so that little bit of effort really like beyond doing, getting the thing done, seeing them the next day gave me a sense of like, okay, yeah, like this is bringing me joy because I did it and I didn't want to do it. And, but I did it. And, you know, that's, that's sort of, you take that approach with everything you're doing, especially the program, right? Like drinking your water is hard, but man, you feel so much better when you get it in, right? Like taking the time to make the food choices feel so much better when you choose not to have something and go for something else. Instead, you're like, Oh, I feel so much better that I didn't, you know, especially the next day. I'm so glad I didn't indulge in that. I'm so glad I did that. I'm so glad I went for that walk. Right?

So just little things, little things, little things, little things. I wasn't dreaming yesterday. I'm still 179 today. So exciting. Yeah. You're actually losing weight. It's amazing how like it adds up. The little bits add up. It's just, we're in the messy middle. It can seem like it's taken forever. You're not getting anywhere. It's amazing how it adds up, honestly. Hi, Emanuela. I'm on my period, so my weight is at one pound, but only one pound. Yeah, that's good, right? Especially if it normally goes up a lot more. It means that you're kind of managing more in the in-between. So trying to focus on doing all the things, although I needed the sickness protocol yesterday afternoon.

Somehow I'm actually excited to downsize again and finally break into the 110s. Yeah, I love this. Yeah, downsizing. Like, get excited about this process, because you're here. You're gonna be we're gonna be rolling into week six next week. Holy shit. You're you are here. Look what you've done taking time to reflect like get excited about what's to come. We got some major tweaks come down the pipeline. You're going to get into it. If you're a returning member, right, you know what's coming. You have the advantage like yes, be all in. And if you're new to the program, you might be like,

I don't know what the fuck's going on or what's going to happen. But what you need to know is that you are here. And if you make it this far, you are going to be here at the end and your body's on your side. You're becoming more in tune with it. Your body wants your fat gone just as much as you do at this point. It's just a matter of continuing to show up, plow through the noise and the stress of your life and everything that else you got going on and continue to focus, focus on this one thing, you know, over these next few, well, you know, a few months really at this point. So we have a lot of time and unlike any other diet that you've done, it gets easier as you go. So I hope that you are excited about moving forward. Reflect back, man, on what you,

what you've done, honestly, like take some time. I think it's great at the, at the end of each week, in the beginning of every new week, reflect on everything that you've done. And then also pull out that maximizing post and kind of reset for that whole new week. You know, are you using the end of day reflections? I know we, you know, people are always excited about doing that in the beginning. And then, you know, sometimes it kind of people like, you know, stop doing it. I see some of you still going strong with it. We have a post that we post in the Facebook support group every day at 6 p.m. where you can pop in at the end of the day and reflect on your day.

You can also do this on your app. There's a place in your app to set your daily intentions, end of day reflections. And of course, you can also journal and do this. It is not too late to start doing that. It is not too late to start journaling. It's not too late to start using the app. It's not too late to start setting yourself up for success if you haven't been and like really dive in deeper or level up as the theme has been this week. Level up. I'm on medication for mental health. I'm also taking my supplements. I'm not losing. So I'm assuming there's something hormonal happening. Seeing my doctor on the 22nd,

I'm thinking of seeing a naturopath. Any suggestions? Yeah, I would definitely listen to the conversation that we had with Dr. Alinka yesterday and the one we had with Dr. Paul earlier today. So medications are not going to stop you from losing weight. Any health issue you have is not going to stop you from losing weight, but it's figuring out what you need to do. Is that medication causing you to be dehydrated? And when you're dehydrated, you crave carbs and sugar. So you find yourself eating more carbs and sugar and eating late at night and not drinking enough water, right? You know, is it affecting your sleep? Like what's going on there? Is it affecting your appetite, right? What's going on there? So you have to, your body factors in medications that you're taking. And so when

you're doing the program, because we're taking a holistic approach and you're kind of pulling all the things that you're doing and you're being consistent about that, that's where it works because your body's factoring in the medication. Unless you just started taking it, then it can take your body time to adjust to it anywhere from, you know, three weeks to six weeks, sometimes six months, depending, right? The thing is, is that all the things that you are doing, even though the scale might not be moving, are still going to add up in the end to helping your body release that fat. It's not you're not just losing weight, it's actually releasing fat. So all the things that you are doing, even when the scale isn't moving, are still factoring into that. And then when the time comes, your body's like, okay, now I feel like I, you know, I can release some of this fat, it will. And so there's always things

that you can do to level up. And then that's where people look to the foods when it's your sleep and your stress and your movement. It could be that you it's yes, you're on medication for your mental health. But it could be that you've spent 20 years of your life dieting. Every time you've lost weight, you've lost muscle mass. And because maybe you don't have the get up and go and to do things in your life, you haven't been working out, you haven't been doing any resistance training. And it's your lack of muscle in your body that's causing your body to be more sensitive to the foods that you're eating and how your body's utilizing insulin and decreasing your

sensitivity to it, right? So there's so many things that can be happening. And that's what's so great about the program and leveling up is that there's so many things that you can do. And the same things that you are doing to help you lose weight on the program are the same things you need to do to help balance your hormones. The same things that you need to do if you, you know, have any type of health issue at all, which is really exciting. Leaving for vacation tomorrow. Love that. I'll pause the program.

But still very devoted and plan to keep doing what we've been doing. I'm in a completely different mindset this vacation thanks to everything I've learned. Question. Okay. I plan to pick up where I left off and pretend the week behind is true time. But if I have questions a week behind, will I still get answers on old posts? Yes. Yes, you will. So we go back and sweet. We're very good. I mean, we're really good at what we do here. And this is our 20th group. And you guys, I wish you guys

could see the behind the scenes. We have 50 something people that work at weight loss by Gina. We have, of course, you know, people in production, people in customer service, we have people in learning and training, we have a whole learning and training department. And we have our amazing program specialists. We have a whole there's a whole system, there's a whole like, there's a lot that goes into the program, the process behind the scenes. And so when you are commenting on old posts, you can, or you're in the app and you have a, um, you want to go to a post and comment on an old post, we do sweeps. So if they're really old posts, like if they're like, you know, three weeks old,

a month old, whatever, and just might take you a little bit longer. We do sweeps a couple of times a day and we're not doing them every hour on the hour, but it might take you a little bit longer. We do sweeps a couple times a day. We're not doing them every hour on the hour, but it might take you a little longer to get a response if it's on some of our like really old posts, but you will definitely get a response for sure. You can also ask any questions that you have about previous weeks on the current check-in pinned to the top of the page each day. So even though you have a question about, I don't know, some old post or whatever, like at this point, you can ask any question anywhere.

The live segments are really the only, the one place where we don't guarantee that we're gonna come in and provide written responses. Sometimes we do. Like on the live, if I feel like someone's kind of lost and they're just asking a question on the live, thinking they're asking it somewhere else, then the team will come in and answer on the lives. But I wouldn't expect an answer on the live, thinking they're asking it somewhere else, and the team will come in and answer, answer on on the lives. But I wouldn't expect an answer on the live. But any

of our posts, really, you'll get a response. But you can totally be working behind the program and still be like watching the current check in or listening to the current lives too, if you want to do that, that's kind of advantage because you know what's coming down the pipeline. And then you can also ask on that main question of the day post, especially if you want a quicker response, ask on the question of the day post, even though it's a question about a long time ago, and the team will still answer it there for you. We are here for you six to eight month waiting list to see Dr. Beverly. Yeah, I know. I believe it. So spoiler alert, I'm actually working on some extended sessions. So obviously, you know, when it comes to the program, you can only fit so much in,

and we want to make it geared towards weight loss, obviously, but we could go down a rabbit hole with our guests with some of our conversations. And so what I've been talking about to our guests is if they would be willing to do some extra segments with us for a fee, for a fee, obviously, obviously in line with the program, super affordable, where you'll be able to like, you know, purchase like extra sessions with our guests, where there's certain topics that they're covering. because don't we just want more from them? Like we want so much more from them. And obviously their time is very valuable and they do, they do the program stuff for free. Um, so I've been working with some of them to say, Hey, you know, would you be interested in doing kind of like, kind of like masterclasses,

you know, how they have the whole masterclass series, you're doing something like that a little a little less formal, but giving you access to our guests, and they really want to share their information. God, we're so lucky to have them and how freely they share their information. A lot of people don't do that. A lot of people don't give it all away. They're like, you got to you want to know what's in my book, buy my book. You want to know what I have to say, book a session with me, you know. And all of our guests are, you know, they just so freely share their information. Yeah, kind of like a masterclass thing. We could do a whole series on hormones with Dr. Olenko.

We could do a whole, I mean, we could go down the rabbit hole with Dr. Beverly. I don't know about you guys, but I could use it. Dr. Paul's got some great ideas for us as well, where you buy a certain number of sessions and keep it super affordable for people because accessible, affordable, doable, sustainable, that's our jam around here. In case nobody's told you,

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who understand that everybody is different and can pair your healthy lifestyle with the right support to reach your goals. Start your visit today at felix.ca. That's F-E-L-I-X.ca. I'm 75. I've been on your program the first time. Hi, Sharon. I feel great. My blood pressure is down. I love that. And just got off my statins. Woo. I've lost seven pounds and I have 13 to go. Oh my gosh. I love this. This is a whole vibe. This is why it's so much more than trying to lose weight. It's your body working for you on your side, wanting to make change, repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating, actually addressing your health issues. Do you know what I'm saying?

That's amazing. That's amazing. And such a short time, blood pressure down, getting off stance, like this is so huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge. So you're just building on that, building on that, building on that, building on that, building on that. It's my third round. Hi, Monica. And for the past two weeks, I've been half assing it. So I sat with myself last night, had a good talk. And again, realize that this time in my life is finally for me. I'm starting a new job in a week and I'm feeling so happy about that. Oh, okay. This is a whole vibe. I love this. I love change. I love change. I love change, change. I love change, like moving. I love new jobs. I love like, I've had so many jobs. I just enjoy

change. I think we're meant to change and evolve. I love this. I love what you said about this time in my life is finally for me. I feel that. I feel that. But sometimes you can have all the time and you're like, what am I doing? And it can almost stress you out. What am I doing? So I love this for you. That's a whole vibe. That's a whole vibe. The conversation with Dr. Linko was so great for me. The estrogen, yeah, serotonin connection was mind blowing. Love it. Watch it. Watch it again. Watch it again. Yeah. I mean, I saw some comments and people like, oh, I'm disappointed you didn't get to menopause. But we did though. Like when we have the

conversation about perimenopause and menopause, we'll talk about the symptoms. We'll talk about the, you know, the change. We'll talk about a lot of things. When I, when I had a conversation with Dr. Alinka afterwards, and we talked about what would you talk about when it came to perimenopause? And, you know, one of the big takeaways she was, don't wait to get tested. It's not in the testing. It's in the feeling. It's how you feel, right? And the tests that they have for it really aren't all that great. And you could test one day and test the next day and results will be completely different.

And the conversation in talking about menopause or even premenopause wasn't about what you do about it. Because at the end of the day, we had that conversation yesterday and really highlighting hormones that are involved with stress, hormones that are involved with sleep, hormones that are involved with your metabolism, how your body functions, hormones that are involved with how your body processes and utilizes food, right? How your body, how your hormones involved in your hunger levels, your hunger hormones, right? What makes you feel full, what makes you feel satisfied. And what we learned is how they all work together. So you can't just take any one thing or hormone supplement or whatever, and think that's going to fix anything for you. And that was what was really exciting about the

conversation. I know you guys want to go into like HRT, you want to get into that. And sure, we're going to have that conversation about that. But above medication and beyond, really, and this is why again, the conversation yesterday is a lot of women or a lot of people when it comes to their hormones, they get prescribed antidepressants, because the way their brain is being affected and their serotonin levels because of their drop in estrogen, or because more importantly, they're not getting sleep or because they are stressed and way that's affecting their sleep, which is affecting their estrogen, which is affecting you. And I mean like that, if you, if your takeaway was, you got nothing out of that because you're dealing with hormones, your, your perimenopausal, menopausal, postmenopausal, you missed the whole conversation.

You missed the whole conversation. It was so good. Ah, so good ah so good so good so good I know my my my mind was blown not that I not that I learned anything new it's just except for the way it's all connected and the way she presented the information was like a okay I don't just have to wait till I have that doctor's appointment I don't have to wait till I miss my period for a whole year. I don't have to wait until some test tells me I feel like shit every day, right? There are things I can do right now today that are going to make a big difference. And what's really exciting is that you are doing all those same things to lose weight. So bonus, right? Ah, it's such a great conversation. Oh my goodness. I had to follow a row of five snowplows

stretched over the Skyway Bridge between Burlington and Hamilton. Six hours later. That's a good time to practice your deep breathing. That's a good time to practice your deep breathing. Judy, update. Your pep talk last week has really helped. I'm in a much better headspace. The foggy days is gone. I have lots to focus on. So thank you again.

I love it. I am here for it. I am here for you. You know, I sit up here every day and I make it my mission to help. You know, sometimes I say things in a really loving, supporting way. And sometimes I say things in a kick your ass kind of way. I could just so you know, what I do is I just kind of feel it out, right? I don't think too much about it. I read the question. I think about you. I think about, you know, what could be going on. I think about the way the question has been asked, the way it's posed, the words that are used, you know, what do people need to hear? And that's where you'll sort of hear me kind of like talk around it. Cause I'm just kind of throwing stuff out there hoping something sticks. And that's what I love about the lives is you can go deeper in those conversations. And, you know, I definitely don't know it all. But I've had

a lot of experience with people trying to lose weight, physically, mentally, emotionally, what can come along with it, why it's so hard, not just your hormones and your health issues, but because, you know, life has made it very difficult. Your past history with dieting, it makes it difficult. There's like a lot to it, your connections with foods. There's so much to it, you know, at the end of the day. And this is what I want for you. You know, I'm here for you. I want you to make the changes. I want you to feel your best. I want you to lose your weight finally and forever. You talked about getting your blood work done, but what should I ask my doctor for? Just regular blood sugar? Yeah, you could just do it. Start with a regular

panel. And then if you have anything else that you are concerned about, talk to them about that. We do, do we have a whole post on that? There might be one in the app where you can search up blood work. I think we do one. We, there was a post working with your healthcare provider. Ah, we have a post that we posted working with your healthcare provider earlier on in the program. So you can search that in the group or in the app. And I believe in that it talks about, um, different types of blood work that you can get done. We also might have one. It's not part of our science Saturday, but it's part of our science collection where it talks about all the different types of blood work that you can get done. So you might want to search that in the science section of our website, unless I don't know if it's still there.

Anyway, search in the app, search in the group. Last week, weight was down, down, down all week. This week, it was up, up, up. Yeah, that makes sense. Frustrating for sure. But I took it in stride this morning. Uh, I took the scale out from under the bed as I do every morning and the scale was dead. I killed it. I changed the batteries and boom, four pounds down. Yeah. Check the batteries. You, honestly, again, I will tell the story one more time about we had someone in our group who was just struggling. I don't get it. My weights is going up. I've gained like 15 pounds. We're like, we don't gain 15 pounds following the program. Yeah. They gained 15 pounds doing the program. I'm like, it doesn't make any sense. And they're like, I'm doing all the things I'm doing this. I'm doing that. I'm not seeing it. And every day

she would come into the group and talk, complain. I'm going to say complain. That's not working for her. She doesn't know what she's doing. And then finally, like two months in, changed the batteries and down 15 pounds, like down 15 pounds. We were just like, fuck. And what you guys don't know is when people are struggling, we really like, we have conversations behind the scenes and we'll be like, okay, this person keeps coming into the group every day and we keep track of what's been said to you. Like we do, like we'll go back and we'll search, you know, what's going on? What advice have we given them? Where are they at? You know, and this is where you can really help us because like when we, you know, make sure you are implementing the things we are suggesting, make sure you're not just coming in every day. Like if we've given you,

you've come in and complained that your weight isn't moving. And then someone's giving you this long response with like 10 things that you can do. Don't come in the next day and complain again, or in the next day after that, and the next day after that, and the next day after that, the next day after that, because it's going to take time, right? Like once you start implementing, like coming in and complaining about it every day, isn't going to help it along. And not that you can't be frustrated. I'm not saying that you can't be frustrated. That's not what I'm saying here. But I'm saying is once you receive that information and you start making those changes and addressing those things, it's going to take a little bit of time. It's going

to take a little bit of time, right? We love the follow-up though. Okay. I did this. I've done that. It's been X amount of time. You know, this is happening. This isn't happening. What more can I do? But we really talk behind the scenes on, you know, this is happening with this person. What's going on here? What can we do? What can we better support them? Well, we've said this, we've said that, and they don't seem to like this response or that response. So try this response and that response. We do really have this amazing team of program specialists who really, really care, right? Really care. So change those batteries. Any recommendations on a good trace mineral? There's a good one. It's called Concentrace. I don't have it. I think it's from Australia. They sell it on Amazon. They sell it on Amazon. You can just put salt in your water too, or your lemon water. Put some salt in there in the morning.

You know, people used to make or they still do the pink, the Himalayan rock salt. And you put it in a jar and then you let it kind of like soak down and saturate the water. And they just take a spoonful of that and you put that in your lemon water if you want to get fancy about it. I had a donut yesterday, enjoyed it, and I didn't feel guilty. Is this a problem? Not at all. Not at all. I mean, you have to be smart enough to know you can't just eat fucking donuts every day and still want to lose weight. Like, right. So like, you can't just be like, Oh, I feel good. So I can eat a donut. Um, but I love this. I'm like, I listen, if you can't eat the donut without berating yourself, don't eat the donut because you're not there yet. But if you can choose to have the donut and enjoy it, walk away, get back at it.

I love that. Love that. That's everything. That's a big part of what we're trying, the place we're trying to get you to, where you're just choosing to eat something and you not only choosing to eat it, you're enjoying it. And then you're not berating yourself after. But if you eat the donut and you berate yourself afterwards, there's a problem. There is a problem. So I don't see a problem with you made a choice. You had a donut,

you enjoyed it. Carry on. Carry on, right? Carry on. I carry on, carry on, carry on. Not only is not a problem, I think it's great. I think it's awesome. But obviously the more you can minimize your donut intake while you're trying to lose weight. All right. Right, right. I'm finding that I want something sweet. And then when I'm eating it, I don't want it because you don't really want something sweet. That's why your body has no need. You're like, so there's a couple of times where you'll want salty and sweet, where it means you want salty need you're like, so there's a couple of times where you'll want salty and sweet, where it means you want salty and you want sweets, but not even, not even really. So, um, there's like when you crave salty foods, you generally, you're stressed out. Your body wants

higher fat foods. Your body associates, um, high fat foods, unless it's in like the summertime where you're really hot and sweaty and you want salt because your body's actually looking for salt. It needs electrolytes to help retain the water. And it's usually only under extreme circumstances that your body wants the salty sweet associated to actual need. When you want, you know, the wintertime, you want something sweet, chances are you've had something sweet or you're dehydrated, right? And this could be coming, this could be, you're just becoming more sensitive to the sugar you're putting in your coffee, which is causing you to create, create sweets all day. Do you know what I mean? Like

it could be a little bit of sugar you're adding here or there that actually is just kind of like exaggerating you wanting more sugar because you're, you become more sensitive to it in a sense because you're just, you're not having any of it. It's kind of similar to when you stop drinking alcohol and then you go back to it, you can drink very little and it affects you. Or you know, you stop drinking coffee, you have a little bit of caffeine, it affects you, you stop eating sugar, you have a little bit of it and it affects you. Too, but chances are you're probably just dehydrated and your body wants water, not actually like sweet food. And then of course, there's the summertime where it's super hot. You're like low on energy. It's not the same.

That's where you have that like drain, like a low blood sugar is not the same as like low energy, or you're like feeling like, Oh my God, I really need something. And that's where you might need, you know, some fruit and like fruits are like quick, like, um, pick me ups, right. Where you, you, you, that's why in the summertime we increase your fruit intake to like three servings a day as opposed to one to two in the wintertime. Um, so yeah, so, so you probably don't need sweets. So you're recognizing that it could be a trigger. You get triggered, um, Valentine's day, right. Maybe seeing the chocolate, maybe you had some chocolate a couple of days ago. So your body's like, Oh, I know we got that chocolate bar in the freezer. I know we have

those candies. You know what I mean? You know that you're there. So it could be a trigger. It could be as simple as Valentine's day. You got triggered. So now you want some sweets, but then you have it. You're like, what am I doing? Like that happens, right? That happens to me. There'll be something on the counter and I'll have it. And I'll be like, what am I, that happens to me. There'll be something on the counter and I'll, I'll have it. And I'll be like, what am I, why am I, why am I eating this? I don't want this. I don't want this. Right. But you'll, you'll, cause you'll start to recognize a lot of your eating was out of habit. A lot of your eating was out of triggers and you don't actually, when you actually, now you're in the moment, you're paying attention, you're in tune, which is really super cool. You will recognize, I don't even, I don't even want it. I don't even want it. Not worried, but this morning I was surprised. The scale went up so much, got back on the scale

and was down two pounds from the first reading, went back on a third time and read it close to the first reading. Could this be batteries? It could. Yes, definitely could. Also, you know, you, my, I don't know about you guys. My my scale is like I lean to the right. I'm down a little bit. Lean to the left. I'm up a little bit. Pick my one foot up. It's down.

You know, lean forward. It's up. You know, do you know what I mean? You can get on three times. Take the medium. I don't know. That's my scale. Fight for your right to prioritize yourself always.

Right to party. You guys get me. You guys get me. You guys get me. My weight is up big time. Finish three rounds of antibiotics. That will do it. That will do it.

That will do it. If I recall correctly, both you, Dr. Paul, stress the point that it takes the body time to detox all that out of my system. In the meantime, I am all in, making tons of changes, my sleep routine, not drinking, being really cognizant of what I'm putting in my mouth. Also, don't forget probiotics, prebiotics, Annette. That can really help after taking a course of antibiotics is get those probiotics in there. That will really help. Yeah, it can take a while for your digestive system, not just why you took them in the first place,

but you're actually your microbiome as well. And that's a big conversation we had. So you should listen to the four reasons why your weight might be sore. It's a new conversation we had with Dr. Paul, because we talked a lot about your microbiome. And really, I'm going to change it. One of the reasons is the microbiome. Now it used to be inflammation, um, food sensitivities, gut issues, and, um, hormones that all lead, but they all lead into inflammation. And microbiome is a big one. He talked about your microbiome and how it's connected and it really slows the messaging. So your body's working in slow right now in terms of like all the signals going back and forth. Um, so it's slow to do everything.

And so adding in a probiotic might help for you. I definitely listened to that conversation. One day at a time. Yes. I'm up a couple of pounds. Lots going on. Yeah. Caregiving husband with hip surgery while still working full time, focusing on not getting depressed with the numbers on the scale. I've never eaten this much in this well, so that keeps me going. Already signed up for the next program. I love that. I love that.

Have you signed up for the next program? Do you know you're going to need to put more time into this and you haven't signed up yet? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? I'm a big, I love manifesting. I don't talk a lot about it. I'm from the whole like, well, like I'm a Reiki master. I'm into energy. Um, it was into that whole secret. I got a whole story behind that secret. Um, you know, the, the book and the video

that came out, the secret. Yeah. That came out at a time in my life where like, fuck, um, I was drowning in shit, shit sandwich left, right, center. And there's a lot of manifesting in my life. And I really believe that if you have a if you first of all, it's important to have a vision of where you want to go, who you want to be. Like close your eyes right now. Can you see yourself at the weight that you want to be at? Some of you maybe have never been at that weight that you want. You don't even know what that even like looks like, or is going to feel like. Imagine it. Try to imagine, try to imagine like, um, I don't know, like you, maybe you're on vacation or maybe you're playing with your kids or maybe you're, I don't know, you know, skydive. I don't know what you're doing, but vision, visualize yourself

being at that weight. Like what, what are you wearing? Like what clothes are you wearing? Like how are you moving? You know, are you moving you know or you're just kind of you're not flumping around anymore like you're used to feeling like you're going in slow-mo everywhere feeling like bloated and gross and tired and all that and what's your mind feel like does it feel lighter that's the weight of on your shoulders does that feel lighter do you feel like like what's the energy you feel when you're at that weight and not just like you know your weight because you've lost the weight because you've done the program you've done so many things you're at that weight? And not just like, you know, your weight, because you've lost the weight, because you've done the program, you've done so many things, you're sleeping better,

you're feeling better, you're pooping better, you've done this huge thing to make yourself so much healthier, you know, and then what's that going to mean for your life? What are your relationships going to be sitting around a table with friends and enjoying food? You know, are you going to be traveling? What's, what's, what's that? What, what do you want for your life? Like if you could design it, what would it look like? And then you want to feel that and see that, right? And then what do you need to do to achieve that? And I, I believe if you can see it and you can feel it, you've already done it. You've already accomplished it. I don't believe that we are given these dreams and this vision for what we want and this desire for what we want without the ability to actually accomplish it. And then

some of us have dreams out, you know, we got to put a lot of work into in order to achieve them. And maybe, you know, you love the idea of that and that you maybe don't reach the dream, but you come super close. You come super close. I've been thinking about this a lot with my dream of wanting to change the diet industry and wanting to be the number one weight loss company in the world. I mean, I want to have 50 million people a year using our Living Method app. I mean, we have 100,000 right now. That's close. I, you know, 100,000, you know, 1 million, 1 million, 10 million, 10 million, 50 million. That's how I look. I always live my life in leveling up. Well, if I'm doing it at this level, I can just do it at this level. And then

I can do it at this level. And then I can do it at this level, you know, and that's sort of where I've got with the groups now, you know, I started with like 400 and something, and then it was 1000, then it was 1900. And then it was 3900. And I just did the same shit over and over, but leveling up and leveling up and leveling up. And I truly believe the fact that I know that I can do this. I'm going to do this. I don't have a fucking clue how, I don't know how I'm just going to take it day by day. I don't even know how I got to where I am now. I don't even know how I got to where I am now, but did I know I was going to get here? I did. I knew I was going to get here, But I don't

know how I got here. And you want to know why? Because it wasn't any one thing that I did. It was every single day doing little things. And trust me, some days, I don't know how I got anything done. And other days, I guess I was more productive. Some weeks, I did nothing. Some weeks, I crushed it. But weight loss is no different. And it's the little things that you're doing that you're adding up, you keep going and like the study the science, you know, immerse yourself in the guests. And again, the one thing I say about science is there is zero science out there to suggest that losing weight is impossible for you. There is zero science that says that you will not reach your weight loss goal. You can do this. It's just a matter of you showing up, doing the things that you need to do and doing them

long enough that they actually add up and make a difference. And then one day you'll, you'll be there. Like, that's like, you know, I can't believe it. I'm still this number on the scale. I can't believe it. Look what I've done. I can't believe it. I've lost this weight.

Oh my God, look what I've done. Right. And so I'm a big believer in manifesting and really having a strong vision. And you know, that's part of like, get yourself registered for the next, it's not a sales thing where we sell out every program. We're not going to have a problem selling our program. Actually, we just started this cool, super cool. If you guys see our ads out there, please show them some love. We're trying to part of like being the number one diet in this diet in the world, because I think people need to lose their weight finally in a healthy, sustainable way. I want to actually see obesity rates start to decline. That's where we're at. If you see our ads out

there, you know, show show us some love. Thank you. Help spread the word but get yourself signed up. And that's not just signing up for the program. That's like journaling. That's like, you know, whatever you need to do to, to, to set yourself up for success. Cause you can't just do nothing and have a vision. Do it, do the things, do the things, do the things. Um, I gotta go. It's Friday. I don't want to go. Let me see if there's any other last minute questions. Um, what's this? I saw my GP got results from my blood panel. I am technically diabetic as I've been hovering for a while.

Not terribly high numbers, but enough for her to say it. I have to admit that hearing it sucks big time. However, my cholesterol is way down. My weight is down. My blood pressure is down and my vitamin B and D are good. She said she's not considering medication as she wants to continue on the Livi method, which she recommended as she is confident it will help me with my sugars and overall health. So now I'm doubling down, my friends. Okay. On that note, Lori, drop the mic. What a great note to roll into the weekend.

Do not be stressed about the weekend, right? And also don't eat your face off because you know you're downsizing next week. Don't do that. Don't do that. Okay. I know sometimes people do that. Oh gosh, we're downsizing next week. So I'm going to indulge this weekend. No, don't do that. Don't. I mean, if you want to make a choice, make a choice. Um, when someone asked me what my weakness is, my weakness, my weakness in life or my weakness in food, my weakness is wine. My weakness is wine. I love it. I love it. I love everything about it. I just love wine. That's my weakness in life. And I am going to, how long has it been since I've had a glass of wine, Tony? Probably a couple months. November. Since November. I cry about it every day still. I cry about it every day still. But I just know it's not great for me right now.

I'm going to come back around to it when my digestive system is stronger, when my mental health is stronger, when I'm physically feeling stronger, when I'm at a place where I can have it and not feel like shit, not just physically, but mentally the next day, because that's what happens. I love it. And then I just feel awful. It really gets me down mentally, but that's my weakness. And I'm really happy to say that I've gone a couple months now since November, November, December, January. Oh my gosh, three months now without having any wine. I miss it every fucking day. I'm due, but every day somehow I find a way to not have it. And then every day I wake up, I'm so happy with myself that I didn't have it. So that is my weakness. That is my weakness. Okay, on that note,

let's go you guys. I hope you have an amazing weekend, whether you have wine or don't have the wine. I hope that you get excited about rolling into our week next week or one last time for downsizing. Make sure you still read those guidelines though, because there's some other tweaks in there as well. So read those guidelines. Reach out on the weekend. Let us know if you got any questions. The team is working. We have a full team working on weekends, so you can pop in at any time. We'll have a new science post. Probably, I don't know what it is, but I'm assuming it's probably on hormones since the hormone conversation, I'm assuming. It'll probably be a good one, uh, from where we are at, uh, and get caught, get caught up on our guest experts, man. If you have not been listening, you are missing out. Have an amazing day, everyone. Remember if you have any questions,

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