The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 43 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 43, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this thought-provoking episode, Gina reminds listeners that there's no one right way to do The Program, only the way that works for you. From letting go of old habits to reframing setbacks, she challenges the idea that moderation or control are the ultimate goals. Instead, she encourages ownership, awareness, and daily check-ins to help you live with more intention. It’s not the food, it’s the noise around it—and the work happens in the moments no one sees. This episode is a call to stop waiting for the perfect time and start showing up for yourself today.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livi and welcome to the Livi Method Podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams from my 91 Day Weight Loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the Morning Live? Want to relisten to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place.

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Are you feeling stressed out by the time that you have or don't have left? That tends to happen with around the program. You signed up for a 91 day program. You want to be here right until the end. In so many ways, it gets easier as you go, at least the physical part of it, because everything that you're doing is adding up

to make a difference. The mental part sometimes showing up day after day what's happening on weekends. Of course, it is the summer so we're starting to travel more road trips, barbecues, we're out and about, and we want to enjoy it. We want to enjoy it. There is absolutely no reason why you can't still enjoy the summer. Everything that comes with it and still move the dial on the scale. It just depends about how hardcore you want to be. How hardcore do you want to be? That's really up to you. And I say that because I've worked with so many clients and I'm like a go hard or go home, just get her done kind of girl. I'm not necessarily sure that's the way to go.

But I've had a lot of clients to say, whoa, Gina, slow down. I'm good. I'm happy with the results I'm seeing. I'm happy with how I'm showing up for myself. Like I don't need to do more and more and more and more. I'm good. I'm good.

And so no matter how you choose to navigate your way through this program, you are doing it perfectly. It really just comes down to the pressure that you are putting on yourself. And so many people from six weeks on are concerned it's not going to be enough time to reach their goals. It might not be. Maybe it never was enough time for you to reach your goals. So try not to lose sight of that. We run our program a little differently. Ninety-one day digestible chunks of time. Someone might only need one program to reach your goals.

You might need five. And I'm not trying to like ruin your day by saying that, but just like any other diet, you start it, you keep doing it until you reach your goals. You're gonna have times in your life where you feel like you're able to crush it and do more. And other days where you're just like, you're just happy you're getting your water in.

At the end of the day, we have so much more to cover. So much more to talk about, work through. Definitely want to join us for our conversation this week with Dr. Alinka Trejo. She is the hormone queen. And no, it is not more menopause conversation. We are done with the menopause conversation, although this is very much the program you're gonna want to follow if you are in any stage more menopause conversation. We are done with the menopause conversation, although this is very much the program

you're gonna want to follow if you are in any stage of menopause and you are trying to lose weight. We had that conversation with Dr. Jennifer Zalawitzki last week, and now we take that out of this program. So we created a menopause add-on, now newly renamed our Menopause Learning Series

because the conversation was becoming so robust, it needed its own place in space. So that has started today. You can do it in line with this weight loss program. It's like it's supplemental information. So you absolutely do not need to join it in order to be successful at losing weight in menopause. But if you're interested in that, that has started today. Dr. Jennifer Zelavitsky is going to join us at 11 a.m. and talk more about menopause and weight loss. We're running a four week learning series. But the hormones we're gonna talk about this week

are relevant to everybody. If you're a human and you have a body, you have hunger hormones, stress hormones, sleep hormones, and addressing those hormones can absolutely be a game changer when it comes to not just losing your weight, but being able to maintain and sustain it at the end of the day. I need five. I can't stay on program drifting back to old eating habits.

So let's normalize that. First of all, thank you, Dina, for that. Let's normalize that. We have people, A type personalities, they show up. They're really great at following rules or guidelines. We call them guidelines. They're not rules, but they're great at following guidelines. They're like, okay, let me just do everything Gina says,

and they lose their weight and amazing. And then they get into maintenance and then life hits. And because they just were so focused on doing what they need to do food plan wise, they didn't really take the time to work through their issues, associations, habits, right? You can't go back to your old habits because your old habits supported the old you. So it's about working through old habits and then creating new ones that are going to support the lifestyle that you want to live, how you want to look, how you want to feel the kind

of energy that you're showing up. But when things happen in our lives, we get triggered, and we fall back into old habits. And so that is all really part of losing your weight in a healthy, but more importantly, sustainable way. So I love that you're recognizing that that is huge. And it's better to recognize that while actually following the program where you can work on it, then having reached your goal and then be struggling with that. In fact, we know Ruth Cain and her team at the University of Ottawa

have been studying the Libby Method for a few years. We know that people who do more rounds of the weight loss program have an easier time in the maintenance program because they've spent more time working on that mental part of it. And then this is where people in our maintenance program, and although we run a 91-day maintenance

program just like this program, but specific to maintenance, we have a support group where people will stay in it and continue to ask questions throughout the year. Because let's say you reach your goal weight today, where a whole year of triggers is going to come up for you. Holidays, birthday, anniversary days, travel days. There's just like, and they're in those moments, you realize there are all these different triggers that can easily have those habits pop up. So I love that you recognize that

and you're working through that. Struggling badly with social events. Saturday barbecue did poorly. And the Sunday I felt awful and did even worse than a baby shower. I'm feeling really off plan and having severe anxiety about next two weekends of social events.

I'm higher today on this scale than I've been in a long time feeling defeated. Okay, so this is your fault, right? So let's put it out there. You made those choices, right? And I'm not trying to shame you, blame you or anything like that, but let's like hit it hard and get real. This is your fault. You made those choices, right? And I'm not trying to shame you, blame you, or anything like that, but let's like, let's like hit it hard and get real.

This is your fault. You made those choices, which means you were absolutely in control of the choices that you make next time. So the defeated part, it's an interesting word that you are choosing because it's not like life is beating you down and something out of control has caused you to feel like you can never do this. You see where I'm going with this?

Like, defeated to me, and maybe it just has a different meaning, would be like, oh fuck, like, I'm just, I'm having a hard time, all these things are getting in my way. Not me, but life is getting in the way, or there's always people who are better than me, or there's something like, just keep trying,

and I can't seem to get it done no matter what I do. But this isn't a situation where you keep trying and can't get it done no matter what you do, because it's you that's causing you to feel defeated. So that's the first thing you wanna recognize. What is this word defeated and where is it coming from? And why is that your word when you did that to yourself?

You did that to yourself. So maybe defeated isn that your word when you did that to yourself? You did that to yourself. So maybe defeated isn't your word. Maybe like annoyed at yourself, pissed off at yourself. But defeated is an interesting word. So where is that word defeated coming from? So this is how you're going to start working through that. Where is that word defeated come from?

And your your next two weekends of social events, right? Like again, you're in control. I don't like the words, you're not trying to control yourself and you're not trying to moderate yourself. I don't like those two words when it comes to weight loss, but you are in control of the choices that you are making. Now, you may have a hard time being in control

when you're being triggered, if you're not setting yourself up for success, if you're not being mindful, right? Like there's, there's, there's reasons why that's easier said than done. But it sounds to me like you aren't happy with the choices that you made. And that is where you want to focus on that. And that's why you have to take full ownership of this. So you were there Saturday barbecue and did poorly and Sunday felt awful. So Sunday you woke up, you felt awful and you did it again. You did it again. So why did you do it again?

Did you think in the moment that the foods that you were eating were going to make you feel better because no one is forcing you to eat the things that you're choosing to eat at the end of the day, right? So this is sort of, if I'm just looking at what you said, struggling badly with social events. Saturday barbecue did poorly. So did you make a plan for yourself before you went to the barbecue? Did you bring your own food like some vegetable sticks and fruits, some stuff that you, a salad, some stuff you knew that you could eat even if everything else there was like hot dogs or

burgers or whatever. And you can always just eat a hot dog without the bun or a burger without the bun or wrap it in lettuce. Like, so what could you have done differently to set yourself up for success? What were you thinking in the moment with that choice? Were you thinking, oh, fuck it, it's the summer, I'm just gonna have it, I'm gonna worry about it on Monday, except now you show up on Monday and you're not in the, oh, it's summer, I don't care, I did that,

that was so worth it, I'm just going to work on this today. You're showing up with a very defeatist attitude today. So was your choice in that moment, oh, deal with it on Monday. And yet here you are Monday feeling defeated. When you made that choice, you made that choice. Again, I don't know what you did or what was going on, right? I'm just kind of talking out loud here. So what could you have done to set yourself up for success?

Why did you make that choice? Were you okay with it in the moment? Then why are you not okay with it now? So that's a conversation that you need to actually spend time having with yourself or you're gonna keep making that same choice over and over and over again. And so you felt you didn't feel good that the next day

and so did you just say, fuck it, I already feel like garbage, so let me again deal with it on Monday and here you are dealing with it on Monday. So recognizing that today is the day you're dealing with it because that's what you told yourself you're going to do. Right. And this is really important because if you've ever had anyone in your life that kept telling you they were going to do something

and then they just never did it, at some point you're just like, this is so full of shit. They're never going to do that. I can't trust them. And so then they never gonna do that. I can't trust them. And so then they get to a point where you can't trust yourself. And then that is where maybe you feel like you're defeated. You just can't trust yourself.

So it starts with you. You're at a higher weight on the scale than you've been in a long time. Again, you did that to yourself, right? So what can you do to make a different choice next time? You have to spend time in that moment. Take yourself back to what was happening on Friday, because all of this could stem from maybe you got fired on Friday, maybe you got in a fight with someone on Friday, maybe something happened with your kids on Friday,

which just started a snowball effect of like, fuck for the weekend. Right. And then you woke up on Saturday and you had maybe had plans on Friday and you were doing really great and you're going to keep this shit together all weekend. And then you're like Friday Saturday and you had maybe had plans on Friday and you were doing really great and you're gonna keep your shit together all weekend. And then you're like, Friday night, fuck this shit. I need to open a bottle of wine. And then that's when it started. So what was going on? What was environment wise?

What was happening in your life? You woke up Saturday, what was your thought process? Was it old school? I'm gonna starve myself all day so that when I go to the barbecue, I can indulge. I don't know. So what was happening throughout the day? What were the choices that you made then? What was happening in the moment when you chose to eat the things that you obviously are regretting today? Right. Was there a moment where you could have just

had chose differently? Was there a moment that you could have eaten less? What was happening in that moment? It's really important to not just let it go. You don't learn anything from letting it go. And so then the next day, how did I feel? What happened? What was going on? Why did that lead to other choices, right? So that's where you have to connect the dots. And that's what we have to really like take ownership.

Everyone wants accountability. I've had so many people over the years, I wanna sign up with you. Why? I want accountability. I'm like, hell no, uh- over the years, I want to sign up with you. Why? I want accountability. I'm like, hell no. Uh-uh.

No, I'm not working with you because you're not accountable to me. You have to be accountable to yourself at the end of the day. Working with me is not going to make you spend the time that you need to make on yourself to make these like reconnections. So what you're doing is reconnecting with your relationship with yourself, relationship with food, how you wanna show up in your life, the choices that you wanna make and all of that. So rather than letting it go today,

which should be so easy for me to say, oh, let that shit go, right? There's nothing you do on a weekend, can't be undone. And that's true, just keep moving forward, avoid the need to punish yourself today, just get back to doing it. Put your big girl panties on, let's fucking go already. You still have six weeks and the rest of your life

to get this done, right? So that's how you wanna look at it. That's how you wanna look at it. And that is gonna give you a fighting chance at next weekend. The work you do right now today is going to help you next weekend because you're going to understand what happened and then so next weekend, what's your plan going to be? What's your plan going to be?

Recognize where you're at in the moment, what you got going on in your life. Be prepared, bring some of your own foods. Make a plan or make a deal with yourself. I'm just going to go there and see how it goes. Fuck it. I'm going to eat all the things. I'm going to go and I'm going to make the best choices possible. And I'm going to be in the moment, ask myself my four mindful eating questions. Of course, it's downsizing week this week, so it doesn't make it any easier for you. There are always going to be parties and birthdays and celebratory days. There are not always going to be your best friend's

wedding. So let's say your best friend's wedding. So let's say your best friend's wedding is coming up next weekend. You feel like shit already. You're like, oh my God, I had a plan. I wanted to feel my best for her wedding. Now I've like, fuck, my weight is back up. But how do you want to feel at that wedding, right?

Like you have a whole week to feel your best by the time that wedding comes, whatever you got going on And this is for everybody. This is for everyone listening, right? Not just Heidi You want to feel your best and not only when you feel your best you want to look your best and you want to have the best Time and just eating your face off. It's gonna make you feel bloated. You're not going to feel like dancing having a great time You're not going to be comfortable in your dress But right now today you can get back at it and feel better or as best you possibly can rolling into that next event, right? So,

so I feel you. The feels are real. If you are saying a word, be like, where does that word come from? Like, what is like, what is this defeated, struggling, like whatever that is, like where's that coming from? That's the insight. And that's where we're going. Is the menopause group also beneficial for me at 63? We also talk about post-menopause. I mean, I am past the perimenopause stage essentially, but it has been so worthwhile.

I mean, by the time I figured that out, I'd already been through the worst of it. But I can tell you reflecting on it and everything that I've learned about it, I'm like, really, first of all, I have a lot of respect for myself in everything that I've gone through. And I've been able to like look back and be like, Oh my God, so maybe it wasn't COVID. It wasn't this. It wasn't that maybe it was this. Maybe it was that I've learned a lot about myself, about learning more about perimenopause. You might feel the same. We do still talk about postmenopause

and it's all very relevant if you're still dealing with menopause symptoms. If you feel fantastic and the scale is moving for you, just doing the Living Method program, that's like, that's all you need to do at the end of the day. That's all you need to do. That is all you need to do. Hi Louise, I sure needed this conversation today.

I'm recommitting to myself back to basics and focusing on organizing myself for success. I recommit every freaking day. Every day I recommit to myself. Because some days, man, I'm on shaky ground. I woke up today, it's Tony and I was like, are we gonna be okay? I like, is this working?

Is it, I know we have a plan, but I'm not sure, right? And then some days I wake up, I'm like, yeah, fuck yeah. Today's the day, let's go. I recommit to myself every single day. Last night I got back, I was at a conference all weekend, a women in business conference and I got back and there was this ball of the wine that someone had gifted me from my son's, the

pre-grad party that I hosted for my son last week around Thursday. And the bottle of red wine was sitting beside my bed was my bed. I just think I brought it up. And I was like, I would love to have some wine and I didn't. I didn't have any red wine. I still had a crappy sleep last night, but whatever I got a lot going on this week I'm excited about and I woke up this morning and There was the red wine and I said to myself. Oh, thank goodness Thank goodness Gina. You are a fucking rock star. You did not drink that wine

Because I immediately looked at it and thought oh my god if I would have drank that this morning This would just not have been a good choice for me today. Not a great way to start my day. Not a great way to start my day. So I love the recommitting every day. Where am I at? How am I feeling? What can I do?

What am I capable of today? Some days it's a lot more than others. Some days it's like, okay, I am capable of getting through my day. This is a conversation you should be having with yourself every day. Love that we are accountable to ourselves, comment. This has been the biggest learning for me and actually what I appreciate in so many ways. I want to be my best friend, my best supporter.

The only person I owe this to is me. I am constantly having conversations with myself. Gina, what is going on with you? Never what's wrong with you. Never is it what's wrong with you. It's always like, Gina, what's going on with you? Never what's wrong with you. Never is it what's wrong with you. It's always like, Gina, what's going on with you? What are you thinking right now? What's in your head? Like talk to me. What is this about? What do you need right now? Like this is how I'm constantly I mean, if you saw me driving, you'd probably think I'm a crazy person.

Thank goodness everyone's on their phones talking now because I'm literally like, what is going on? Why does this word keep coming up for me? What is that about? What is about? There was something I experienced on the weekend and it was really interesting to me. And I was just like, what is the message here? What is this about for me? Something bothered me and it was something that other people were doing. It was something about what was happening out here, but I knew it wasn't about that. It wasn't about what any people were doing or in like circumstance or situation. It wasn't about that.

And I was like, what is this about for me? What is this about for me? I'm still kind of working my way through it. That's how I gain insight into anything that I'm doing. Keep it inside. Keep it inside. And think about your, if you were, the stuff you say to yourself, would you say that to your best friend, to your child, to your mother, whoever? Would you say it to anybody else out loud, the shit that we say to ourselves? How would you say it if you're trying to motivate someone

and your friend was like, oh yeah, I did this and that and whatever, you know. It's really important to understand that we are listening. We are listening to our thoughts, which is training our brain on how we think. This is why that food noise for a lot of you, it takes work. We are listening to what we say to other people. So it's really important that we don't blow ourselves off

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Didn't eat all the meals and snacks. Some days barely added it all, felt like crap. Back was hurting, I hate that. Back at it today, feeling close to 100% recovered. Great. Weight probably up a little bit, digestion a little off with those, with taking Tylenol and any kind of pain relievers or anything like that. A walk, especially after your larger meals,

even if you can't get out for a long walk, a walk after your larger meals will help with your blood sugar, help with your digestive system, kind of get things moving again. I'm so happy to hear you're feeling better because my goodness, the back injuries, they're crazy. You don't realize how much you need your back until you do something with your back. I suffered from depression for 30 years. You're teaching me to reconnect and make the right choice for my body for the first time since I was a teenager. Thank you. Yeah, you know, I think this is beyond weight loss. This program, I was thinking a lot about this today.

It seems like everyone out there is taking weight loss medications, which are really great, but they don't help you work through this part of it. They might be able to help you with the food noise, be able to help you with your hunger, but at the end of the day, it doesn't help you reconnect. We're rewiring how your bodies come to function, feel the need to store fat, but rewiring your brain. And what you'll realize after losing weight, it's like a big thing because some of you have been trying a real long time. Could you imagine if you put the kind of time and energy you put into dieting into your career, into creating something, into reaching other goals in your life and the things that the way you're showing

up for this is probably the way you're showing up in your life in general. And a lot of that is held back due to our beliefs and our habits and past traumas for some people. And this is really keeping your energy directed at yourself, feeding yourself, consoling yourself, understanding yourself, being in tune with yourself, really reconciling a lot of your thoughts, how you feel about yourself. And that is going to make a massive difference

in how you're presenting yourself. And everyone talks about your best life, right? You want to try to live your best life, design the life of your dreams. I love that saying, which I need to credit my friends, Linda, Michael for. But, if you woke up today, this is, you're living your best life because you woke up, but it's about, well, how do you, how do you want to live? You have this idea, this vision of how you want to move through the world, how you want to be. And if you have a vision for that, you're already there.

It's just a matter of connecting the dots for you to get there. But a lot of us are like, I have an idea of how I want my life to be. Am I doing the things I need to do? Some, some of them, but not all of them. And I know this lifestyle that I want to live, there are things I'm going to have to do, changes I'm going to have to make in order to achieve that.

And I'm not just talking like money or business. I'm talking about how I want to feel. I want to be strong mentally, physically, right? And I don't get strong just, you know, walking on my treadmill or going for my 10,000 steps a day. I got to take my lifting my weights more seriously, right? I have to like, do you know what I mean? So it's kind of like, you know, the life that you want,

how you want to look, how you want to feel mean? So it's kind of like, you know the life that you want, how you wanna look, how you wanna feel, what are the things that you need to do? And it's never any one big thing that you need to do, right? The big part of that is mental. Everyone focuses on the what to eat and when. That's really the small part of what we do here. All of that is rolled out in the guidelines. It's the deeper stuff.

And that's the stuff that's gonna help you make real foundational change, like actually change, you know, I've been a lot through a lot of evolutions of Gina, versions of Gina over the years, and I've had some friendships come and go with those versions and you know, left certain jobs with those versions. And, you know, I love growing and evolving and changing. I'm far from perfect. I'm always looking to evolve somehow. I personally like that. But it does a lot of times take some deep reflection and deep reflection and that can lead to some pretty deep and dark moments as well,

you know. So it's that that's the work. That's the work. That is the word. Pam been sick again with the sinus infection. So much shit going around this this year. Six since January, but wasn't on plan over the past five days. I noticed from this talk today, feeling down and depressed is because the passing of my mom will be 11 years on Friday. Oh, yes. Right. And this is where you can have everything aligning and then you get hit with something you not even expecting, although you're expecting you're just like, what is going on with me? I love that you're feeling that. I

don't love that for you. Obviously, that's incredibly sad, but to be in tune with that and be like, and this could have been stress coming up. This could be make you more susceptible to sicknesses, right, when you just, and we don't realize the stress and it can be full of a lot of trauma. It can be full of a lot of trauma for people. This is one of the things I'm realizing this year, especially was difficult for me.

I was there when my ex passed. I spent the last couple nights of his life with him alone. There wasn't anyone else there with me. There should have been in hindsight. And I have some trauma attached to that. I think we all do in some way on resolved issues, some trauma, whether you were there, you or you weren't there.

And we hold that in our body, and we can sense that coming. And so that could have been why leading up, because me, it wasn't about the day. I can share that with you. The day came, and the day was amazing. We spent time remembering, and it wasn't the day. It was like the whole month leading up.

And I don't know your situation or how your mom passed, but it could have been the lead up to that. That is the sort of, that's where the trauma started, right? Maybe it started in January with her. Maybe she started to not feel well. And then, you know, it led to obviously the day when she passed, but this is sort of where, and that might happen to you every January

and you're just now connecting the dots, right? And so that's that deep work. How do you reconcile? What is the message in there for you? What do you need to be okay with this? Not just mentally, but physically, right? And so that's where everything could be aligning. You could be crushing the program.

You could have done the fall program, totally crushed it. And then you get into the January program, like what the fuck is going on? And you struggle a little bit more. And now you realize now in the spring summer program, OK, wow, I've been dealing with this for a while, you know, so sending you love, sending you love. Just finished my anti-inflammatories. Can't wait to see my weight drop over the next few weeks. I hope. Yeah. As you know, like inflammation, right?

Like that can be a real bugger when it's because we're going to talk hormones this week, Dr. Alinka. I know you've heard this conversation before, Dave, but they're all the chemical messengers. And the problem with inflammation is it makes it like so they can't really communicate. It's kind of like trying to communicate through the fog, right? Through really loud noise in the body. So they have a hard time communicating. And so your body has a hard time functioning on the most basic level. Weight loss meds great and have a time and a place but you run the risk of them just

suppressing more than the hunger or cravings. Yes, that's so true. Yes, but the junk that may be driving our food and weight challenges. Absolutely Gary. You know, absolutely. It's great if they can help you get a handle on that, right? But that's where that work is. And I think that's my place with this

has kind of evolved over the years and I love that they're available. I've always worked with people who've had like gastric bypass and other medical interventions. And that's one of the things it's great they lost the weight but then they kind of didn't know. It's like they didn't, it didn't change how they felt mentally.

They didn't change how they felt around food. And so I think all of the weight medications, it's going to be interesting. I'm going to have Dr. Sean Wharton join us. And yes, that's just one offering. Like GLP-1 is just one option. We're going to talk about options for people and it's going to be a good conversation. But yeah, it doesn't help you make sustainable change, right? It's kind of like if you if you are if

you have diabetes, for example, medications can really help, but it's the lifestyle changes. It's the same thing with menopause essentially too. HRT can help, but it's not gonna it's not gonna make the choices for you. So I love that we have that type of medical intervention, but you're right. It doesn't really help with making the change, working through the issues, associations, beliefs, believing that you're worthy. You can go and lose all the weight. If you don't believe that you're worthy, you're going to be in a constant state of sabotage. And if you're not, if you can't sabotage your weight, you will sabotage yourself in other areas. Think about that.

Think about that. I've helped so many people over the years lose weight. They finally reach their goal and they just, they keep sabotaging themselves and what's going on. I don't feel worthy. I don't like the attention. I'm not sure it's imposter syndrome. Who am I? Who am I? Where do I fit my friend group? Where do I fit in my relationships? Right? This shit is fucking deep. This shit is deep. This shit is deep. Hi Joan, such a revelation. I used to join weight loss programs to be accountable to those programs. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you because that's what you were sold on. You were sold on that, right?

This is my second round with you and realize I'm accountable to myself, living the lessons I learned in round one. Haven't been able to check in as regularly as I did in round one, but making sure to follow the program, food choices, water, exercise, weighing in. I know when, why the scale moves up and down.

Life lessons are awesome. Yeah. And so, you know, if you're happy with what you got going on, I love that for you. Right. My, my goal is to teach you everything that I've learned about weight loss in, in the 91 days, but that doesn't mean like, you know what I mean? You're absorbing it. There's a lot going on for everybody, but that's exactly right.

So many people would come to me, especially someone who's tried the weight loss program and they'd be like, oh, I need to work with you. And I'm like, why? Well, I'm doing your weight loss program and I'm not like, well, what's going on? Well, I'm not showing up and I'm not motivated and I need you to be accountable.

I'm like, no, no, you can't. I just, I won't work with you. You think the weight loss program is hard? I'm a fucking bitch. You don't wanna be, you know, in all the best loving ways. You don't know, that's not, and that's not how it's done. Right? Like that's the, and there's certain things.

Like this is why I ask someone, I ask people all the time, why do you wanna, you know, to me it's like, okay, I gotta figure out what's going on. I've tried other diets. I wanna go deeper. I wanna, you know, take things to the next level. I want, you know, that I that I'm like, okay, like that's like, I help people be accountable to themselves in offering a structured process.

You know, obviously answer questions help guide them. I mean, this is really what I do and put that into the process of the the living method weight loss program. This is the same process that I would help with all my personal clients over the years, you know? So yeah, I love that you figured that out. It's imposter syndrome. I know, I know. Everyone around me at the ball game on Friday night

was eating burgers and hot dogs. I chose to eat an amazing tofu bowl and it was delicious. I didn't feel like I missed out and felt satisfied with my choice. That's a huge change for me. And so happy to have an option like that at the Jays game. Yeah, it's interesting. More and more they have like good food choices there. You can find, I know at least in the stadiums that we have here in the city, there is nothing like going and having a hot dog, but you have to be prepared for like feeling like

shit afterwards. No one ever ate a huge sausage hot dog and said, wow, I feel amazing after that was fantastic. Right? So are you going to eat that hot dog? Feel crappy the whole entire time and hold your belly and be like, oh my God, why'd I eat that? And fuck it, I might as well eat a pretzel now and a this now and whatever. So you're just consumed with the food

and not even really paying attention or having fun at the game. Like that's the thing for me, right? You're there, you want to enjoy the moment, but how much of it are you being distracted by what you've eaten? And so if you eat something that makes you feel good, you're like, shit, I feel really good. And then you're more likely to have a better time and walk away being like, that was great. You know? But I do understand, like, that's the thing that makes it so hard is, is, is we do utilize food for a variety of different things and we connect memories to certain foods, the hot dog at the Jays game,

the popcorn at the movie theater, the, you know, like whatever it, the birthday cake on the birthday and life is really too short, you know, to miss out on those kinds of things if they are important to you. So, you know, I also wouldn't have blamed you if you had the hot dog and you felt like balls the next day either, but I love that you were like, hey, I just, I made this choice instead. And I feel amazing. Like this is great. I had that. It didn't really change my experience. It's kind of, I like to use the example of, let's say you go out with your friend every Friday or once a month on a Friday and you meet for for lunch and you always order burgers and fries or you know some like something whatever and a margarita and you

have a great time. There's nothing wrong with burgers and fries and a beer or a margarita. I'm just you know what I'm saying indulgent food indulgent food and you have the best time great conversations and then as soon as you're done eating, both of you start to talk about how, oh my God, I ate too much and I'm so full. And you pay the bill and you're walking to your car and you're like, oh my God, I need to go on a diet. Why do we eat that? Whatever, or you're trying to have this conversation

and you're like thinking the time about how just, should I stop eating? Should I eat more? Oh my God, I feel full. Well, how would that conversation be any different if you ordered something that you felt really good about eating and you ate enough to feel satisfied? Is it gonna change the laughs and the conversation

and the connectedness and how you feel? It won't. Chances are you're gonna feel great. You're gonna walk away feeling great and you're gonna remember the great conversation that you had, not the bellyache that you have. Right? And so this, but this is like, it's not an easy thing to do. It's a lot easier said than done. It's a lot easier said than done. But you know, how many times have you had the, I don't know how many times you go to a game, if you only

go to a game once a year, or, you know, once every few years, you know, whatever, but you know, it's, it's sort of like, there's always gonna be the hot dogs at the game or the pizza at the party and the popcorn at the movie theater. This is about losing your weight in a way where you can go and have those things and your metabolism is much higher, your digestive system is stronger,

where you can have it and don't feel like you've ruined everything, you have to punish yourself. This is where you wake up looking your best and feeling your best and you make a conscious choice, right? Not should I have it? Should I have it? Oh my God, why did I do that? Just like, yeah, no, I'm good. I'm going to order this instead. Or I am going to have it. Oh my God, that was delicious. Like that's what that's about, right? And that's where we take these chunks of time to focus on this because there's got to be an end to your weight loss journey. There's your weight, you're losing weight, and what you're learning is going to help you in maintenance,

then hopefully you do our maintenance program, put time into that, and then you go on to just live your life. And then be mindfully without all the stress and that food noise at the end of the day. Thank you for your questions and your time today. I'm going to be back later on tonight at 7pm. So we're downsizing one last time. One last time. B-O-N. Because then we're going to switch gears. What I don't want to hear next Monday is, ah, I could have done that better. Should I go back, do downsizing? And you just want to keep moving forward. You just want to keep moving forward. Again, the tweaks are designed

not for you to do them perfectly, but for you to learn more about yourself, to understand your hunger levels, what it feels like to have enough, to be satisfied, to be full, that's why it's good to learn, right? And to feel slightly unsatisfied, so that when you're done losing and maintaining, you can trust when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, right? So obviously it is still about getting in tune

to those portions. So you really wanna dig in. Don't stop asking those four mindful eating questions. You are asking them so often that when you're done losing your weight, maintaining your weight, you're just living your life. You don't have to ask them again. So dig in, assess where you're at, dig in. I am going to go live again tonight at 7 p.m. if you want to continue the conversation. Otherwise, have a fantastic day. Tomorrow, Dr. Alinka Trejo is going to start our series on hormones. It's a brilliant conversation, always is. You definitely wanna show up and listen to that.

And if you can't, the conversations are always stored in the guide section of the Facebook support group and in the app. One last thing before I go, I am gonna be, if you're in the Toronto area at the Women's Healthy Living Show, I'm gonna be opening up the show 9.15 on Saturday. So if you wanna come cheer me on, hang out with me, check out the show, which sounds like it's amazing.

You can get your tickets by heading to the website, healthylivingshow.com, I believe, and you can use the code Gina two for one to save and get like basically two for the price of one, which is amazing. Have an amazing rest of your day everyone. I'll see you later. Bye.