The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 43 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring/Summer 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 43, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Midway Motivation – losing your motivation, the importance of having a really strong whyHow are you framing these 91 days?The difference between inspiration and motivationThere is no shortage of inspiration over here! -  Livy Loser Spotlights and Spill the Tea SpotlightsReinventing yourself and refocusing – assess where you’re at!Your body is on your side! – Stay tuned for the two-part series on Hormones and Weight Loss with Dr. Olinca this weekYour weight can be on the way down and still be up on the scaleSupport your body in detox!The importance of acknowledging and celebrating your winsConsistency - How “Atomic Habits – James Clear” is a great compliment to the programJust because you are done physically losing the weight, doesn’t mean you are done mentallyYour body is communicating with youYou can still enjoy the things you want to enjoy and see your scale moveUtilizing the sickness protocol  Returning members – Get to know the new you!Falling back into old habits - finding new coping techniquesThe hard work you are putting into this program pays offSelf-Talk – Checking in with yourself, getting in tune with your body and understanding its needsReassessing food associationsStrengthen your inner voice - Turn up the volume!Dr. Olinca is joining us tomorrow for our two-part series on Weight Loss and HormonesIf you’re six weeks in, you’ve got this! The next 6 weeks of the program are going to fly byTo learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Let's get this week's six party started. Okay, so we are rolling into a whole new week. We are also downsizing this week one last time. Now, I was just in the comment section of the post today, and I was checking out the Midway motivation post. And I saw a few of you saying, I need this so bad. I'm losing my motivation. Well, that's why we posted the post. So if you are a returning member, please go to that post. Share some words of wisdom.

I mean, listen, you don't have to be a new member. You need some motivation. You can be on your 10th group and need motivation. So here's what I want to say about motivation though. Really important to understand. At the beginning of the program, I talked about a few things that you're going to want to do. And if you haven't done them yet, I highly suggest you do. So one of the things you're going to want to do is go back and track your weight loss journey or your weight journey. Did you have a weight issue when you were younger? When did you gain your weight? What were you doing to lose your weight? Then what happened when you gained it back?

Like what is your weight loss gain story? It's really important, I think, to reflect on where you're coming from and to really know where you are at and to know where you want to go. So that's really important. The other thing that I suggest is, is making sure you have a really strong why. Now what happens at six weeks into the program is your why for why you signed up might be different than your why today, because your why can change, especially once you really get into it and you're like, okay, now that I've been doing this, like, oh, I think I can really do this. Maybe your why was to lose a few pounds and fit your butt into your bikini to go on your vacation next week. I don't know. But your why is your motivator,

because you are not going to be motivated to do the things that you need to do every day. So you cannot use motivation as your excuse for not showing up and not following through, right? This is not a judgment. If you're saying that you're not motivated, what I'm saying to you is the motivation isn't like, well, I'm not motivated and I don't really feel like doing the things I need to do. You're not going to feel like doing the things that you need to do most of the time. So your, your motivator was your why that's why you signed up, right? That, that got you motivated to go to our website, pay us your money, click join, get into the group, start doing your program. So you're, you are motivated to lose weight, yes, but not necessarily motivated every single day to do the things that you need to do.

It is no different than going to your job. I am sure you love your job, but you are not motivated necessarily to go there every day and to do the things that you need to do in order to do your job, right? Like you're motivated to have a job because you got to pay your bills, you want to do in order to do your job, right? Like you're motivated to have a job because you got to pay your bills. You want to travel, you want to do, do and have all the things that money can buy you, but you're not motivated every single day. It's also like your kids in school. So your kids need to go to school. They need to graduate. That's what they're there to do. And they're not going to be motivated every single day to do the work that they need to do.

So weight loss is no different. The other thing I suggested is that, so track your history, have a really strong why, and frame it in a way that makes sense for you. Is this a project? Are you the project? You're working on the project. Is this a journey, right? Just kind of trying to see what's coming your way. Like how are you framing this 91 days? So you want to make it resonate to you. Maybe it's an adventure. Like you have to make it resonate to you, right? Because if you're just looking for the, well, I'm not motivated to drink my water today. You're not, you're not going to probably drink your water. I'm not motivated to do the things I need to do. You're probably not going to do them. So this is where you want to remind yourself of that, why that goal frame it in a way that

resonates with you and recognize you don't want to go back. You don't want to do any more of those shitty diets. You don't want to, you know, you don't want to spend the next 20 years of your life gaining and losing and gaining and losing and gaining and losing. So then there's that, right? And then, oh, I love this. Having an accountability has been super motivating for me. So if you don't have a person, we are your people, right? Like I saw someone in the comments today.

Well, I don't really comment and I'm nervous to comment. Do not be shy about commenting. There is a whole team of people who want you to be successful. I want you to be successful. So you don't have a person. Let us be your person. So show up every day and say hello in the check-in video, right? Or set your intentions and your end of day reflections, whether you're doing that in the group or in the app, that's going to remind you if you make a habit of that, like if you make setting your intentions and end of day reflections, you're non-negotiable because you can do that anywhere, right? Make that your non-negotiable. Oh, I'm at the very

least going to set my intentions each day and end of day reflections. It's like you're waking up and you're like, this is the shit I'm focused on today. This is, I'm reminding myself that this is what I am doing. I am reminding myself that this is what I am doing. I am reminding myself that this is my goal. That's what you write out those set those intentions every day. That's what the routine of using the app, the routine of popping into the Facebook support group, even your routine of your lemon water in the morning, the routine of the food plan is all there to remind you that you are on a mission to lose this weight finally and forever. So just a little bit about motivation. Of course, if you are looking for inspiration,

now there's a difference between motivation and then there's inspiration. Somebody's words aren't necessarily going to motivate you, but they may inspire you because you have to figure out what you need. No one else can really motivate you. And in the past, we've done that, right? We think like shouting at ourselves or someone else, you know, saying whatever to us is, is, you know, going to be the thing that we need. Like I can show up every day, every single day, I'm showing up to share everything that I know with you. I'm like, here's what I know. Go be successful, lose your weight, but you have to make it more personal than that. You have to make it resonate with you. So if you haven't done it yet, head over to that midway motivation post.

Speaking of fucking inspiration, go check out our Libby loser spotlight today, Patsy down 62.7 pounds. So we will do things like try to keep you sort of inspired our Libby loser spotlight or spill the teas. You know, there thereas. There's no shortage of inspiration over on our Instagram posts and our Facebook's main page posts and whatnot. We have a ton of before and afters over on our website. But think about that. You know people can lose weight, right? That's why you're here. You know you can lose weight, but again, not necessarily going to be what motivates you at the end of the day. Needing this so much, needing to refocus, two birthdays, two weekends in a row, and my youngest leaving for the summer to work in Alberta. All the fields, turning 58 has me reevaluating a lot. Yeah, I love reinventing

myself, reevaluating my life. Where am I at? What's going on? What am I doing? What do I want? What makes me happy? I love a fresh new week for that. I'm not big on the fresh new start again, your diet plan, because it's just one big continuation. But I think in many ways, you can do this each week, right? This is why I love that maximizing post. What do I need? How am I feeling today? Okay. So I've had a lot of fun these past two weekends. You want to celebrate people's birthdays. You want to celebrate life. You've got some feels going on. It's feeling a little bit like feely, which can be stress, right? Even those are those great things. Birthdays are great things. Your son going away. He's independent.

He's going to Alberta. That's amazing, right? Like that, that's great stuff, but good, there's good stress. There's bad stress. It's all stressful. So what do you need this week, right? Carving extra time for you, maybe moving your body a little bit more, you know, really working on that nighttime routine, you know, making a date with a friend to go chat. Like this is where you want to be like, okay, where am I at today? And what do I need? I'm also on a mission to reach this goal. So what I don't need probably is a bottle of wine and a bag of sour cream and onion chips. That's not going to do it for me, you know? So really like assess where you're at, right? I think it's, I think do, and if you can do that, really, that's what setting intentions every day or, or, or roll it back before you even set intentions,

roll it back to even getting out of bed. So when you're lying there in the morning and you open your eyes, don't rush to jump out of bed and start your day. Be like, how do I feel today? Where am I at today? What's going on in my mind? What have I been dealing with? What do I got going on?

That was a busy weekend. So that was a busy weekend. There was a lot going on? Or, whew, that was a busy weekend, you know? So that was a busy weekend. There was a lot going on. So maybe I don't just need to jump right into my day to day. Maybe I can just kind of like, yeah, maybe I still got to go to work and I got to drop my kids off, but maybe I can do it with a different frame of mind of like, okay, you know, ah, I just need a minute. So, you know, you're not frantically doing this and frantically and trying to get it all done because you didn't do on the weekend. Give yourself a minute, you know, give yourself a moment. After a year the same way, long as plateau, another lowest low, even with a few indulgences this weekend. Yeah. So Helen, like you've been showing up, right?

I've been seeing you. We've been chatting. You have been consistent in showing up. I'm sure now if you reflect back on that year of your life, what was going on with your life and your environment in your, you know, your even your body, what was happening, you know what I mean? This is where like, in hindsight, we could be like, Oh, yeah, like I had a lot going on. Or, you know, my body just needed a minute, or that was a lot of repairing and rebuilding after years of this and this and that. So your body is on your side. I saw, I had a conversation with someone on the weekend, I'm glad that they brought this up. And they just feel like, so they had done the program before they'd lost quite a bit of weight, and then been trying ever since they're going through the pause, right, the perimenopause, menopause are going through the hormones and they're just like, I'm never

going to be able to lose my weight. And so what I suggested was menopause, perimenopause, menopause, isn't one thing that's causing you to gain weight or stopping you from losing weight. It's not like one thing. It's not like the pause has like invaded you. It's not a virus. It's not a thing, which you're going to find out tomorrow. This week, we're actually going to have this conversation with Dr. Olenka. We're going to break down. We're going to have a two-part series on hormones tomorrow, Hormones 101. You have got to listen to that. And if you

can't join us live, make sure you listen after the fact. And the other one, we're going to talk specifically about perimenopause, menopause. So I said, it's not the pause. That's not what it is. It's not like this virus attacking your system, take a pill and that's it. It's like, what is it, right? Is it the stress? Is it the sleep?

Is it the lack of movement? Is it the lack of muscle mass? Have you done years of dieting and then you're not, you're just doing cardio and you're not, you know, increasing your muscle mass so that your body knows where to, you know, do what it needs to do. Right. Like, so, so there's things, this is like, you may, you may be going through that transition. You got your hormones, which could be insulin and cortisol, you know, um, you have to figure out what is it that I need to do? So if you're having insulin issues, you have to decrease your foods that cause those spikes in having insulin issues, you have to decrease your foods that cause those

spikes in insulin, right? You have to decrease your inflammation. And so this is where, you know, moving forward, you really want to be investigative about figuring out what is going on with you and what you need. At this point in the program, we've given you a lot. So just so you know, with the book, a lot of the book, let me grab the, just let me scroll back. Let me go scroll back and grab the book. So still have to watch my back. It's getting better, but I still have a bit of a tweak. So if you have the book and if you don't have the book, that's okay. I just going to show you, um, where we're at. So let me go through and show you where we are with the book. This is all, this is all, um, science. So the science post in the back, and then we have some recipes here.

Let me go through these because I'm going to show you a visual. If you're listening, you can't really see the visual, but I will explain to you. We are in week six of the program right now. Okay. Week six. So this is where my way to, Oh, we did this. All right. So this is what we've covered so far. If you're watching, it's like more than half the book, half of the book we've covered already. And so moving forward, it's a lot of just review. So we've told you about water. We've told you about alcohol. We told you about breads and pastas. We told you, we've given you a grocery list, breakdown of proteins, carbs, and fats. We've talked about if you are pregnant, nursing, have fertility issues. We talked about if you have diabetes, we talked about, I mean,

we've talked so many things and this is the, the hard part of the program is over. So this back end of the program, that is recipes and science. So in the, in the last half of the program, you have this tiny like quarter of the book. That's it. That's it. So you already have gone through a lot of the information at this point in the program. It's just showing up and yes, making the tweaks and changes each week, but really pulling out that maximizing post and assessing where you're at, what you're going on, what you got going on and what you need to do, right? Who's this MJ, good morning. Hit my lowest low in years. It's been slow going and lots of ups and smaller downs, but I'm getting there. 40 pounds down and 10 more to go. 40 pounds down, not just 40 fucking pounds down, 40 pounds lost in the

healthiest way possible. 40 pounds by eating good nutrient rich foods, 40 pounds by not starving and depriving yourself, 40 pounds by prioritizing yourself, 40 pounds by hydrating, 40 pounds by giving your body the nutrients it needs to actually make change, 40 pounds by giving your body the time that it needs to lose weight in a healthy way. 40 pounds of working through your issues and associations and 40 pounds of habit changing, right? And working through beliefs like this isn't just 40 pounds. This is 40 pounds lost in the most healthiest way, not just physically, but mentally. That is huge, right? Huge. I had a breakthrough moment this weekend. Went to a Blue Jays game with family.

Had a few drinks, some popcorn. Ate a few bites of my kid's pasta afterwards. In addition to my living method dinner of steak salad. Was super thirsty from all the salt and alcohol. But I managed to have enough ounces of water per alcohol. And was only up a few ounces the next day. And today I'm down. Yes, I didn't regret my choices and enjoyed my time with family without punishing myself the next day. So this is like eating that food, making those choices is not

going to cause you to gain weight. It's not. Now, chances are it's all of your hard work and consistency that you put up into the days leading up to that game. Chances are you are going to lose weight anyway. That scale was going to start to drop. And even though you have those indulgences, your scale was still down. Because at this point, six weeks of momentum, six weeks of giving your body what it needs has added up and made a difference. Your body no longer wants to store fat. It's trying to release it and get rid of it because it no longer needs it.

And it will still do that even with a few indulgences here and there. Now, would the scale maybe have been down a little bit more today if it was scale wasn't up because it's salty? But here's the thing. Your weight can be on the way down and still up at the same time. So chances are, you're actually even lower on that scale. So as soon as you know, you get that salt out of your system, you get hydrated, whatever you get over that kind of backlog of any indulgences, and you're going to see that scale continue to drop. So remember

supporting the body and detox everyone, I want to remind you of this because we forget we work so hard to get that scale moving. You want to make sure you're showing up supporting that body to help it release that fat for as many days as possible. So no matter what's happening with the scale, you want to keep showing up for at least three to five days, drinking that water, trying to get some sleep, moving your body, doing all the things. And you're going to hear that more and more as we go. This is just one example. And I love that you shared that Kimberly, because you're going to hear that more and more as we go. This is just one example. And I love that you shared that Kimberly, because you're going to hear that more and more. I totally indulge this weekend and the scale is still down. What's up? What's up is your body doesn't want this fat anymore than you do. So if you just address its needs and you give it the time and opportunity

and the resources to release that fat, it will for you, even when you're indulging. Not that I suggest that you indulge all the time, but this is also why a few indulgences here and there are not, they're not going to stop you. They're not going to stop. They might slow you down a little bit, but it just, that's the trade-off. There are some people who are going to be perfect. They're going to do all the things. They're never going to falter. And then they're going to have to deal with making those choices after they've lost their weight. So it's not any easier.

It's not any less work, right? Or you can be someone who like indulges along the way, recognize what's happening mentally, really understand what's happening physically with your body. So you always felt like that. If you're going to go out and drink or whatever, you're always going to feel bloated. You're always going to feel off the next day. Just you probably never noticed before because we just felt like all the time, right? So that's a huge win. This is why you never want to stress yourself about indulging. If you take those moments and really use them as like opportunities

to learn and be aware and be like, all right, I made that choice. How do I feel? What's going on mentally? Am I ragging on myself about it? Did I choose it because it was fun and it was going to bring me joy, but then I was just in my head the whole time talking about what a horrible person I was. I'm going to be forever. I'm never going to lose my weight, right? Or did I eat it, enjoy it, and then sure, maybe the scale was up the next day or maybe it's down. And then if it was up, it's just going to come right back down. And you didn't ruin nothing, right?

So that's why indulging, never get on yourself about it. Now, if you recognize it's a sabotaging pattern, then that's something else. The scale goes down, you indulge, you celebrate, you know, whatever that is, right? You get in your head, you indulge, you sabotage. It's that sabotaging thing. But it's good to indulge every you sabotage. It's that sabotaging thing, but it's good to indulge every now and then. Hit my first 10 pound milestone this weekend, treated myself to a pedicure and I did an ice cream cone. Exactly. That's what I'm talking about, right? Because how many times have

we done that? The scale is down. So I'm going to celebrate with an ice cream cone. So celebrate in other ways. It's really important to acknowledge your wins. It's really important not just to focus on the ups on the scale, but really celebrate the downs beyond celebrating the downs, what you did to lose that 10 pounds in the first place, because chances are that was that was changing habits that was being consistent, that was mindset. And so when we reflect on the fact that we're proud of doing those things, we are more likely to continue to do those things. Eight pounds down and feeling so much better. Fix my gut issues and getting my energy back. Yeah, you did. Consistency. At 70, I didn't think I could lose weight. 10 pounds is all I wanted. I tried everything until the living method. I got

to my goal and solidifying my weight. It's tough because my bad habits are coming back. Yes, but I am still here and refocusing on my why ups and downs have stayed the same. So this is this happens, right? So this happens. So you lose your weight. We talked about this in the maintenance group, which you want to definitely join the maintenance group after you're done. You've got to take maintenance real serious around here. But this can happen because it's so easy to fall back into those habits. But you know what you can recognize? Like it's one thing to be like, I'm motivated. This is my why.

I'm reaching my goal. I'm doing all the things. So then you do all of the things, right? And then you're going along and then you don't have that same motivation because you've reached your goal. So then why are you showing up? And you know, why are you doing the things that you need to do now? Right? So this is where you got to change that why? Because

what is your motivator? If you no longer looking to lose, what's your motivator for doing the things that that you need to do. And so a couple things that happen in maintenance, people realize that they stopped doing the things that they needed to do to lose weight. And although they're able to maintain their weight, they don't feel as great. They felt so much better when they were prioritizing themselves and managing their stress and their sleep and the whatever. So then they're like, Oh, so maybe my why now is to feel my best just to live the happiest life, long life, whatever, whatever that might be. Right. But if you don't fall back into those old habits, Rhonda, how do you know that they, how do you know they don't work for you? Right? Like that falling back is that Oh, shit, I'm doing that. That doesn't work for me. What?

I don't want to do that. Habits are really difficult to break. This is why we the body loves routine. I do highly suggest that book. Do I have it here? I don't I should keep it. It's over there. Atomic Habits, James Clear, Atomic Habits, such a great compliment to the program. But it's good to fall back into those old habits to recognize, oh yeah, they no longer serve me, no longer serve me. So let me double down on my new routines, my new habits. Because even though if you put a year, let's say, into losing weight, that's not a long time to be with these new habits where you spend a lifetime with your old habits. So it definitely will take time. And that's one of the things that we're learning in maintenance,

just because you're done physically losing the weight doesn't mean that you're done mentally working on the things that you need to work through that are going to help you sustain that weight. Um, I similar here, Kim says, I wonder if the longer we've been on a diet merry-go-round, the more we have to heal. Yes, I'll be 70 in October. Lots of issues to work through. Slow and steady wins the race. Yeah, I mean, so here's what I can tell you about people who are older is that when they do the program, they're like, I wish I found you when I was 30.

I wish, like, where were you? You know? Um, the other thing is though, when you tend to be a little bit older and this is what we're finding in the maintenance group, you also, once you've lost your weight doing the living method or more confidence in your ability to be able to sustain it. Cause you're like, fuck that shit. I ain't ever going back. Like you, you were really able to be like, okay, I see it. That's what was done. Right? You did the diets, you did what you were told. Now that you figure it out, you're like, I'm never going back. Like, I don't, no, I'm not going back. I don't got time for that. I'm so done with that. And so there's a confidence level in our older members once they've lost their weight, that they're going to be able to easily maintain and sustain it. They're just like, yeah, I got there. So it's not when you're,

you know, whereas other people are a little nervous or like, I'm not sure, like they have a hard time trusting themselves and, you know, like really nervous about main, rightfully so because they've lost and gained it back before. Whereas if you're able to really reflect on how different and what you are actually doing with the living method and really understanding the process, you're like, yeah, shit, I'm never going back there. I'm never going back there for sure. Was at a barbecue on Saturday. Hi, Kelly. And had a hamburger with a bun. My stomach hurt so bad after it just wasn't worth the pain. My tummy cannot handle bread anymore. Yeah. And so you always felt like that after having the bread, but chances are you just felt all the time that you didn't really like discern from feeling really with this program. You get moments of feeling really, really good. And then you understand, oh, plus your body is now

communicating with you where it would have been sort of numb before. And it's communicating. Now it's letting you know, I don't, I'm not a fan of that. Didn't make me feel good. Now this could be, this could be an inkling of a gluten allergy or gluten sensitivity. Wouldn't be an allergy, gluten sensitivity, but also breads and those, they are hard to digest on our system a lot of times, right? So this is maybe where you can switch out, maybe try some gluten-free bread, maybe try the Ezekiel has Ezekiel buns. And so I don't know if you're into bringing your own buns or barbecues, if it was your house or whatever, but I love a burger with the lettuce wrap. Like to me, I don't know. I find if you put enough lettuce around you,

around it, it's kind of crispy. I put my mayonnaise and my mustard and my pickles and everything in that. And to me, the bread doesn't really, I just love the flavor. The bread doesn't have much of a flavor. To me, the bread doesn't really, I just love the flavor. The bread doesn't really have much of a flavor. To me, the flavor of the burger. If you're looking for flexible workouts, Peloton's got you covered. Summer runs or playoff season meditations, whatever your vibe, Peloton has thousands of classes built to push you. We know how life goes. New father, new routines, new locations.

What matters is that you have something there to adapt with you, whether you need a challenge or rest. And Peloton has everything you need, whenever you need it. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Celebrated our 33rd anniversary in Toronto this past weekend. I had a delicious steak at Ruth Crist and the Jays game on Sunday. Totally enjoyed the dinner, ate to satisfaction, had a small dessert and had no guilt after. Isn't that lovely? Yes. This is a huge non-scale victory for me. Only up one pound surprisingly after not getting all my water in and indulging. Really

ready for a great week of downsizing that's it and this is what I mean by summer because summer is here we're going to go into barbecues and jays games and we're going to be out on patios and doing whatever here there and everywhere there is a way where you can still enjoy the things you want to enjoy and still see the scale move this is where you have to like what what is worth it? Meaning like, you know, you, you kind of know, like there are certain you, okay, let me just say this. Okay. So, you know, those four questions that you're asking them for mindful eating questions about portions. Am I hungry? How would I feel if I eat all of this? You know, how do I feel now that I'm starting to

eat? How did I know I was done? How am I feeling walking a while? Right? So that's not only going to be put you in tune with your portions. It's going to put you in tune with when to eat what to eat and how much to eat. Eventually, you're just going to ask it so many times, you're just going to know more than that. You can look at your food. So let's go back to the burger, think about the burger and the the bun, right? Like think about eating that like, I love the idea, the initial idea. It's juicy. I love that. My stomach instantly is going like, no, no, just no, not right now. What? My stomach is like, are you crazy? No, we are not eating a burger right now. Uh-uh. No. So you think about, and this is how I attribute to this. So you know the alcohol that you drank when you were young or maybe when you were older

and you got so sick, the thought of it, the smell of it, or if you ever had food poisoning, maybe you never eat oysters ever again or whatever that was that you got so sick on. Think of it right now. Your mouth is like, well, mine's lemon gin, right? 20, 21, 20 programs later and every 21 programs later, every time. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself, but it's a great example. My mouth is starting to salivate lemon gin. It was so bad. I might, my whole body's every time I say it. So your body has this memory. And so you can pull this up with food, right? How did I feel last time I ate the pizza, the pizza or whatever, or when I really indulged and ate that whole bucket of ice cream, right? What? It did not feel good. Not the initial in your head memory, right? So it's not, oh, that was fun. We were at

Bob's place, the music we were playing, we were dancing. It was great. It was good old times. No, it's not the memory of the food. It's the physical feeling in your body. You will be able to pull that up and be like, how am I? So before you even eat something now, not only am I hungry, how am I going to feel if I eat this? Is this appealing to me right now? Do I want to eat this? Is this appealing to me right now? A lot of times we just going off the memory of it. It's fun. I love that yummy food. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gonna have, gonna have, gonna have. Soon as we eat it, we're like, nah, what? Why? I didn't want that. I didn't want that. Cause you're going off the memory and the fun and the triggers and that, and the associations to it. But you also

have this physical body that if you were just to ask your belly, how, how do I want that? No, I actually really don't. I really don't. Right. So, so you can get so in tune to that. So in tune to that. Happy to be back from two weeks of viral bronchitis. Oh no, coughing and feeling unwell, left little time to eat or follow along property. I lost 2.4 pounds and excited to get back at it. So sickness protocol. So if you give your body what it needs and address why it's feeling the need to store fat. So there's a big difference between you are fully functioning and you are starving yourself

and not giving yourself enough food to survive. So then that causes the body a need to store fat and hold on to it. Totally different than you are sick, and you have this extra reserve. And this is the time when your body's going to dip it and utilize it. Now, if you've already addressed your body's need to store fat, which you are doing with the program, and you have excess fat, your body when you are sick will feel free to utilize that fat and not feel a need to store it back because it's just another detox process. It's like, oh, I had this extra fat, I don't need it. So it's not like it's gonna be like, oh, I used it, let me store it back, your body's gonna be like, no, I can I use that I have an excess amount of fat here. I'm good.

Because you've addressed its need to store fat. So, so again, being fully functioning and starving yourself versus actually, you know, your body keeping you low energy. So when you are sick, two things will happen. You'll either be really hungry, craving carbs and sugar, or you won't be hungry at all. When you are really hungry, craving carbs and sugar, your body's trying to get you to drink the water because whatever is making you sick, your body needs to detox out of its system. So that's people like, Oh, I'm so hungry. I'm craving sugar. I need sugar. I'm like, just drink more water. That's why they tell you to drink liquids because your body's trying to detox whatever it is that's making you sick. So yeah, someone's like, Oh my God, lemon gin. I know horrible, right? Hi Lynn. I need you

in the back of my head. Like my first program. Well, you've been with us for a while, Lynn. Should I swear more? What should I do? First program, Gina is a lot different than this, Gina. I'm a little bit more refined these days. Man, I was a crazy person. I was a straight up bitch. I was so hardcore. I used to swear all the time. Man, I've learned to like, I've learned some grace. This is me, reserve, just so you know, this is me, reserve. But let's get back to you, Lynn. This morning, I couldn't decide what I wanted for breakfast. Opened the fridge and I heard Gina have an egg or two. Thanks, Kim Spink, for reminding me that context is everything. Lynn, you, man, you are, let me just remind you of something because Lynn's been through some hard times, especially in the last year and a bit. You are a fucking rock star. You know what

you need to do. You could sit up here and run this program for me. That doesn't mean that you aren't going to have your moments. That doesn't mean that you don't need help. Do you know what I mean? That doesn't mean any of those things. But I just want to say to you, you've got this. And maybe this is like a renewal for you. You've been through a lot. So maybe this is like getting to know the new you. Maybe this is coming to my mind right now. This is like you not going back. This is not like you not knowing. This might be you recognizing that you have changed. You have made some really serious change. You are not the same. You are not the same person that you were when you did your first program. You're not. And maybe it's a matter of taking a step back and being like, holy shit,

like I've worked a lot on myself. I've been through a lot. Like I am not the same person that I was. Maybe I have new tastes. Maybe I have new needs. Maybe I want to create a new routine in my life that serves me. Maybe I spent the last, I don't know how long taking care of everybody else, worrying about everybody else, stressing about everybody else. I got to get back to me. Sometimes when we spend some so much time outside of ourselves, helping other people doing whatever, and like we've really been in the mode of that, we've forgotten who we are and forgotten what we need. And we need to get back to ourselves. Right? So this is what I would do if I were you. This is you. So I would grab a pen and paper

and write down who you want to be at the end of, you know, the next however many days we have left, right? How do you want to feel like physically, mentally? How do you want to be in a year, right? How do you want to feel physically, mentally? What is, what, how do you envision your life getting up in the morning? What, what's your routine? What are you, what's that spark? What's that thing you want to, you know, what is, what is it? What do you need? That's what it is. I think this is it, right? Get my head back in the first program. Maybe you just need to like be really grounded where you are at today and be like, okay, where, what do I need today? What kind of mindset is Lynn bringing to the table this week, today, right now, moving forward in my life, right? Because

you're probably like, well, back then I was this back then, back then there were a lot of other things that you didn't go through that you've gone through, right? Like that's, you've gone through a lot. So back then you didn't have those things. You didn't have any of those things going on. So now you've got to be like, what do I need to regroup right what I need not to regroup you don't need to regroup nothing you need to prioritize yourself be in the moment be where you are at today and be like I know this bitch I got this what do I need what does Lynn need today what what does she need what what do you want find the passion and spark in you and write it down right like? Like, what do I want? How do I want to feel?

What do I need to do to get what I want and feel how I feel? And be fresh and new about it. Just like cut the cord on your last However Money programs, right? Like, just let go of that baggage. Cut the cord on it. Be right here today. Turn the page. Move forward and be like, what do I need now?

Today. Let me show up in all the ways that I want to show up, that I know I can show up. Right? Probably just got some baggage that you're hanging on there. You know, I'm here for you. You know, I'm here for you. So I'm here for you. Going through some rough emotional stuff with my parents and had a breakdown last night with a good cry, wanted to eat all the things that didn't, but didn't. Okay. So that's really important because that just would have made you feel like shit today, right? Then you would have just, especially if you add some alcohol to that, you're just waking up all depressed and bloated and feeling gross and just being like, fuck, great. That's helpful. Sat on my porch with water, then made my natural calm and headed to bed. Huge

non-scale victory. Huge non-scale victory. I'm sorry that you're going through some stuff. That's really tough. That's really tough. Yes. But that is not, you know, trashing ourselves is not going to help us with any of it. In fact, you know, what's going to happen, the more that you do that, the more calm you're going to feel, the better you're going to be able to handle situations. Right. And this is like a new coping technique for you, right? That go for a walk, you know, go for, I got our pool open. So I'm doing like 90 days of swimming. And so I was inspired by that. Do you guys see that?

What's that story about the woman who, Jodie Foster and what's her name are in it? Nygaard, Nygaard, Nygaard, I'm butchering it. Anyway, it was this woman who wanted to swim across the ocean. And I was thinking about her and, you know, my pool. I have it heated, so it's nice. And then I'm thinking, like, it was raining yesterday. It's raining. And I'm like, man, she swam across the ocean with, like, sharks and jellyfish stinging her and, you know, all this shit in the water.

Like, you know, I can get in with some little bit of rain and some leaves and some bugs and like, yeah, Nyland, Diana Nyland. Yeah, it was so good. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It's on Netflix. It's so good. And I thought, man, if she can do that, I can like get in my warm, clean, cleanish pool every day and swim. But not only that, but you guys know, it's no secret. I got a lot of stress and stuff going on and I love swimming and in the water, I just feel like I am just, I don't know what it is about. I feel calm. We know, we know water has a physical calming effect. And so I just swim back and forth. And the first couple of times I'm like, oh, this is so boring or whatever. And now I've just really got into the zone of it. And I need to, I need to cope better. You guys, I've come to the

realization, you guys have been with me on this because I've been talking about it, right? Last week, I was out under that realization when I, my back was bothering me that my stress has gotten to me. I've been a hypervigilant state of stress for two years now. Um, especially the last year, I've had amazing good things happening, still stressful, had some really crappy things happening, stressful. And so then what am I going to do about it? Right? And so this is where like I was doing the you know, I'm doing the treadmill, which is fine in the winter time and doing the weights, I got to double down, I have to make that my, my mental health and physical health need to be the most important things moving forward. So I've been kind of taking a step back from work, my poor team that just kind of like, I haven't even really been because I knew I needed

to do that. And that but this is where I know already. So this is what I'm saying, right to Lynn, I know already that I found, okay, this is like, if I think about doing the things that I need to do in my mind, but also feel them in my body, I already know it's going to be so good for me. I already know it's so calming for me. And so now that you got that experience of I was going to, I was going to cause, cause go into how you would feel. You know what I would do? So Heather, I would do this. So even though you feel amazing today, right? Like feel that I feel good. So I conned myself. I had my con magnesium. I went to bed. This is, this is the result of that. Now go back and imagine, because again, you're going to be able to feel this. If you had, I don't know if you drank,

but drank the wine, eaten the stuff, you would have got a crappy sleep. You would have, your eyes would have been puffier from crying in the salted food or whatever, the sugar, you would have felt hungover, even just if you didn't drink and from the food, your belly would have been bloated, your mindset would have been like, fuck, right? Like feel that because it's really important to know what you don't want. And know that doesn't not only have you found this and that was really great, that doesn't work for me anymore. So this comes back to the first conversation that we had about falling back into old habits, right? Falling back, was it Rhonda? Falling back into old habits.

So you don't have to like fall back into them to realize that. You can also make a choice and recognize what your old choice would have been, feel the energy of what would have happened physically and mentally with that old choice, and then now kind of sit in the glory of your new choice. Okay, this, this works for me. That doesn't work for me anymore. Right? It's the same thing, even like eat snacking at night. So many of you used to snack at night, and now you're feeling so amazing, because you're actually getting sleep. Once you catch that feeling of what it feels like to wake up, wake up having not snacked before bed, you're like, man, I feel like a million bucks today. I feel so much better today. So catch those feels, catch those

feels, catch those feels, catch those feels. There you go. I was away living in a hotel and eating out for seven days, jumped on the scale the day after I got home and was only up 0.8 pounds. So call that a win. This is a whole vibe today. You guys are realizing the shit that you and the hard work that you're putting into this program pays off so that when you do have your little bites of bits here and there, it's not going to have the, it's not going to cause you to gain all this weight. It's not going to stop you from reaching your goals. I mean, you definitely want to keep it together when you can keep it together, right? Like I love this whole vibe. This is because you have put six weeks into this. You actually have made a change. You haven't just starved yourself,

deprived yourself and forced your body to burn fat. You've made, you've addressed your body's needs. You've given an opportunity to really make change. Even your digestive system, your digestive system now and how it can handle those indulgences versus when you started, first started the program, you've made a real change. Now, if you can imagine with where we are at in the program, six weeks in, right? One week building on the next, building on the next, building on the next, just keeping, keeping it moving forward. You have such a strong foundation and solid base, whether you're a new member or returning member, I hope that you can see that. And now with the tweaks, right, downsizing this week, and then it's just Tweak City moving forward. We just keep rolling out the tweaks,

the tweaks, the tweaks. This is where you want to level up, dive in, you've got this, and have fun with that, right? But this is where that strong foundation is paying off, which is also perfect timing. Perfect timing, perfect timing, perfect timing. My body used to scream at me, what the heck are you doing to me? Now it talks me in gentle whispers. Yeah, thanks for what you're doing for me. It's a world of difference. Your body knows when you're doing it. That's why it lets you know, it'll let you know when you're doing something that it's not loving. It's like, no, no, thanks. No, thanks. Love the self-talk voices, Gina. It really helps me to talk out loud just like that. I am always talking out loud, always talking. What do I need?

Where am I at? Not what's wrong with me. I try to like, I try to not use what's wrong with me. I just try to use like, what's going on? Okay. What's going on with me? Why am I, why am I feeling like this physically? What's going on with me mentally? Where am I at? What do I need? What's going on? Your body, once you get in tune with your body, your body is, is, uh, your body is, it doesn't stop talking. Honestly, that's what I say to my ice cream loving family about those Yukon drumsticks. Tasty? Yes. Right? Me too. I'm like, Ooh, yeah, love those. And then in my belly immediately, my body's, my body's like, no, we don't. No, no, no, we don't. No, we don't. Do I always feel sick afters because

they are so rich? Yes. All past things, right? Yeah. And then we, but we have them because they're fun and they're yummy, but we know they, we don't feel great after it really, you really want to get to like, was that worth it? Is that not? And I don't mean worth it because of the calories. So I hate that saying, right? It wasn't worth it? Is that not? And I don't mean worth it because of the calories. So I hate that saying, right? It wasn't worth it. What is it? A moment on your lips and lifetime on your hips or some stupid saying like that. That's not what I mean. What I mean was, did you eat something you, you didn't really want to eat because you thought it was going to, but you did because you thought it was going to be like yummy or joyful, or you were going to really enjoy it or fun. And then as soon

as you had it, you don't physically feel good. You're ragging on yourself, your belly's upset, like that none of that is fun. But it's about those associations. So you'll find this with habits, you're getting triggered so much with your association with food. And then when you restrict yourself and you can't have it, what does that do makes you want it even more. So it's, well, I could, these are the foods that I couldn't eat when I'm always on a diet. So now they're just like, oh, they're like these yummy, sacred, like, woo, foods. And then we realize, oh yeah, no, they're not. I don't feel great after having that, you know? Now that doesn't mean that you can't have like, you know, a couple bites or licks of an ice cream or something. But usually a few bites or licks is enough to remind you like, no, no, thanks. No, thanks. True on that remembrance, Gina. I was 17 years old today. I'm 68, a really bad

night with vodka 51 years later, and I've never touched a drop of vodka ever since. Yeah. So that's that same force is strong. That's the memory. Your body is so smart. It's been making those associations with everything you've ever eaten in your entire life. Right? So yeah, no, maybe if you're a little younger, you still got a ways to go. But that's what those four questions are. We start with the four, we start with the routine of the program. We get into those four questions, right? That's why beyond just like, am I hungry? You know, how am I feeling? How did I know when I was done? How do I feel afterwards? You're going to be able to know, you already know how you're going to feel before you even eat something. So use that when indulging, do I really want this? Not in your head, in your belly, right? How am I going to feel after I eat it? Oh, yeah,

no, thanks. I'm good. Right? Because then then usually what happens, we eat the thing, it takes like minutes, and then we pay for it hours afterwards. So you have that in you. And this is why using this and practicing these skills, because after you're done the program, you're right, you go, you lose weight, solidify your weight, you go through a little phase of maintenance. And then you're really ready to just be like, I'm ready to just forget about losing weight, gaining weight, maintaining weight, just going to live my life. Obviously, you know, using the new habits and the skills and stuff that you've learned. This is where you're going to be able to trust when to eat. Oh, I'm hungry. Oh, am I

hungry? Yeah. Okay. I'm hungry. I want to eat something. Okay. What do I feel like eating? I'm going to go open my fridge. I do want some fruit, some veggies, some protein, some whatever, whatever. What do I feel like? Okay. Then I sort of make a portion. How's this for me before I even eat it? Oh, that's gonna be way too much. Oh, I'm gonna need a little bit more of that. Let me grab this. Then when I'm eating, I'm doing whatever. And all of a sudden, I'm done. I'm good. Like, that's it. Right? That's it. That is where you're like, you're driving through and or you're, you don't know, you're going up to the cottage or something like that. And you drive by Weber's or whatever burger place. And then you're like, do I want a burger? Oh yeah, it's fun. Then you're like, yeah, I'm good. No,

thanks. I'm good. I'm done. Right. Someone, someone's going to pick me. Someone brings in donuts to your office. Hey, you want a donut? Uh, no, actually, no, thanks. I'm great. Or you know what? I'm going to feel like something a little sweet. I'm going to bite. I'm going to take it that, but you have a bite and you're like oh this is this is like oh that's sweet might have another bite and then you just leave it sitting there because you're done you're done right you're not even looking at it like oh should i eat more donut should i not eat more donut oh there's a donut i had two bites of donut everyone everything should i eat the whole donut now no you're just like oh i'm good i'm good so that is where like asking those four questions

and and being in tune and like really getting to like work with your body and really strengthen that inner voice where you want to turn, you want to do a place where you're turning up the volume. What we try to do some of us is we want to like turn down the volume with that chatter and that whatever we try to like stuff it away, ignore it. When you do want to get to a play, like you can turn it down or soften it, right? You can soften that voice, soften the voice, go from like angry football coach to like your sweet little Nana. You know what I mean? And then you want to turn up the volume on the rest because that your body is on your side. It's there for you. It is there for you. Melody. My second name is Lynn. Why do I feel like you're talking to me too? I am talking to you too. I am talking to you too. I am talking to you. This is my first program and today I've lost 20

pounds. Hi, Jane. Good for you. Love that. Things are going to add up. Things are going to add up. I hear you. I hear you. What I'm going to do about it. Take care of ourselves first. That's exactly right. You guys got this. Listen, if you were here, this is why I'm so excited today. You might notice I'm a little bit, I'm like, I'm feeling so much better because I've been doing the things. Not only that, we are six weeks in. Six weeks in. Six weeks in. I'm going to read this first from Karen. Hi, you loser friends. I was at arts camp last week, which I was somewhat worried because I couldn't weigh myself and wasn't in charge of the meals, but I lost two pounds. I was able to follow

the plan easily because of the awesome salad bar and I logged at least 20,000 steps a day. Yes, and got the water in. I love this. I love this. I love this. Okay. Um, I forget what I was just talking about there, but tomorrow Dr. Linka is joining us for her first part of her two part series on hormones. We're also working. I told you guys, I'm going to work on something with her, um, specifically to talk about the, all the pauses, um, see if you can learn something level up. So tomorrow, uh, Dr., 9 a.m. We're going to talk hormones 101, such an important conversation. And then she'll be back on Thursday. Good vibes today, you guys. This is like, oh, I was talking about if you're six weeks in, you're here,

you're gold. You got this. You already have that strong foundation. It gets easier as you go physically, maybe harder mentally as you start to really dig into things. But you've got this. You're going to be here. I guarantee you the next six weeks of the program is going to fly by. It always does. People are like, what, how'd that happen? At the end, you're going to be like, wow, look what I've done. I guarantee you, you stick around to the end. You'll be so happy that you did. You'll be so proud of yourself. Do not stress about next steps. We're going to talk about next steps at the end of the program. Have an amazing day, everyone. I'll be back tonight. If you want to join me then otherwise, uh, I will see y'all tomorrow. Bye.