The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 5 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: April 26, 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 5, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Be mindful of planting the seeds of doubt The importance of focusing on progress over perfection as we get startedUnpacking the baggage of our past dieting historyUtilize all the resources available to support you - the Companion book, Livy Method app and our team in the Facebook Support groupA message to our returning membersNavigating our first weekend of the Spring/Summer ProgramWhere to find inspiration for meals and snacksCheck out our Livy Loser community at #livylosers on Instagram for amazing member sharesAnnouncement - 1,000 spots have opened up for the Spring Summer Group!Reviewing the order of The Food PlanStarting to understand hunger and our habitsThe importance of giving your body what it needs and not going long stretches without eatingThe differences between The Livy Method and other dieting methodsHow starting our day with apple cider vinegar and/or lemon water affects us Getting in tune with our wants vs what our body is asking forStarting to work through our emotions and coping mechanisms How digestion is impacted when your gall bladder is removedThe effects of the diets we’ve tried over the yearsDemographics of the members of our Livy communityAging, The Livy Method and your sex life! To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello. Happy day five of the program. How are you doing? How are you feeling? I'm seeing it all as I pop into the group. I am seeing people who are like so excited, surprised by themselves. I see people who feel overwhelmed. I see people who are making a lot of excuses who aren't going to last very long because they are doing what I call planting the seeds of doubt. Oh, this is too much information. I don't have time. I don't know what to do. You don't have this. You don't have that. How come you don't this? How come you don't do that? Okay. Let me just tell you right now, we are very good at what we do around here. I've been helping people lose weight for over 30 years. Yes. Toot, toot my fucking horn. Because if there's one thing I am good at in life, it is weight loss.

Okay. I am claiming that. I am owning that unapologetically. This is our 22nd program. We have a great team behind the scenes. There's a lot that goes into the rhyme and the reason behind the program. Like I know a lot of you want like to be told exactly what to eat for every single meal and snack. That's not going to work. That it will never work for you because it's not reality. You have to figure out what foods work for you. You have to figure out the timing of the foods that work for you. You have to figure out your, do you like to cook? Do you not like to cook? Like you're not going to go change all of these things. Like if you don't like certain foods, you're not going to all of a sudden start liking them. So pick the vegetables that work for you.

Pick the proteins that work for you. Do you eat meat? Do you not eat meat? You don't have to be overcomplicated about it. You ate protein before. What the fuck were you eating? Especially if you're a vegan, what the fuck were you eating? It seems like a lot of times vegans come in here and they're like, what do we eat for protein? How do you not know this? You need to know this. And I'm happy that you are here because you need to learn this. So there is a bit of a learning curve, right? Like you have to do the work. You have to figure out what you need to do or why you're having a hard time doing it. So in knowing what you need to do and being like, this is hard. Why is it hard? Is it hard because your life is so damn busy? Is it hard because you don't make time for yourself or you're not

used to doing that? Or when you do that, that makes you feel guilty, right? Like what's hard about it? Why don't you have enough time? What did you think this was going to be? What did you think it was going to be? Did you think it was going to be? Have you been trying to lose weight for 20 years and you thought this was going to be like so easy because you saw someone's before and after because they were successful and you can be successful too.

Yeah, you're darn right. You can be successful and you're going to be successful if you stick around. So watch for this. This is what I call planting the seeds of doubt. So what I see is people making excuses. They come into the group and they say, well, there's so much information or I don't know where to find this or how come you don't have a specific food plan

I can follow or how come you don't do that? Or like, there's no real questions about the program in terms of what they can do. It's not like, hey, do you know, I'm having a hard time with breakfast. Do you have some ideas? Or hey, my hours make it very difficult for me to fit that in. How do I do that? So don't actually ask for help. They just

come in and make these statements about how hard it is. And that is what I call planting the seeds of doubt. So that when you quit, and chances are you're going to want to quit when you do, you're going to want to quit this because you're just fucking tired of it already. You've been trying to lose weight forever. Like, come on, you're done. So many reasons to want to quit. So chances are you're going to want to quit at some point. You're going to think about it in the program.

But planting the seeds of doubt are like when you do quit, you can look back and be like, yeah, well, I quit because I couldn't watch all those lives, even though they're not mandatory. Well, I couldn't find the information,, even though they're not mandatory. Well, I couldn't find the information, even though we have a whole team of people here to help you figure out, direct you. You can ask a hundred questions. Well, I didn't like that Gina girl. She talks too fast and she swears a lot. Who fucking cares about me? Make this about you. You don't have to listen to me. You can read the information, do what you need to do, ask your questions in the group, and I don't even have to do anything with that. Right? So watch for those planting of the seeds of doubt. Now I'm not saying that your feels are not valid, right? Like you can be frustrated. You can be like, Oh, this, but if you, if you're coming with any kind of

feels other than like, I'm excited, I got this, This is cool. I'm loving this. Spend some time on that because chances are that's where the work is for you. That's where the work is for you. If it's hard for you to make time for yourself, you're going to need to make time for yourself in your life. Maybe you're just not used to it, right? Like there are so many things that you can do to set yourself up for success where there is a will, there is a way. And the cool thing about the program is we have so many people here to help you figure it out. So this first week, prep week, all about you taking the time to see how this is going to work, how you're going to fit it into your life to understand the changes that you need to make and start making the changes. You knew you had to make change, right? In order to change, you have to make change to change. You can't come in doing the

same old things you want to do and eat the same things you want to eat and not make any change and see change. So this week is about that, especially if you are a returning member. It's not about being perfect. It's about reading the information, really trying to understand it, ask questions, run out and grab anything that you need, start understanding what you need to do, and then start slowly pulling the things in that you need to do. Do not let your feelings take you out of this game, because here's what I'm going to say to you. If you don't do this, because this is different than any other diet you've ever done. I know, I know what's out there. This is a lot of information. It's a lot of information because I want this to be the last

stinking diet you ever do, right? But don't let your feels about it take you out of the game because then what? Then what are you going to do? So maybe you're like, well, I'm going to go get surgery, right? Maybe I'm going to get liposuction or whatever. We've talked to plastic surgeons. Liposuction is not for weight loss. And if you don't change anything that you're doing, you're just going to gain all that weight back. It just comes back in other spots, right?

Maybe you are going to go get gastro, right? I've had lots of clients have gastro surgery. Nothing wrong with that. It can be a real lifesaver for people. But here's the thing. You have to learn how to be in tune to your body. You have to learn how to prioritize yourself. You have to be in tune to your portions. You have to work through old habits and create new ones that sustain your weight loss. It's not any easier. In fact, it's a lot harder. I have a lot of respect for people who have gone through gastric bypass because it's a lot harder because you have to deal with your new body. You have to

figure out what's going on. You have to spend more time helping your body get to a place where it's functioning on an optimal level. And then you have to still do all the things that you're doing here. Same thing with Ozempic. You can go take weight loss medications. They are like a miracle for some people, but that doesn't mean that you are learning how to prioritize yourself, work through your shit, work through your issues, work through your associations, work through your beliefs. Doesn't mean that you're going to feel worthy of your weight loss. Doesn't mean that you're not going to sabotage yourself. And it doesn't mean that you're not going to get it all back, right? The minute you stop taking that medication, if you don't do the work that you are doing here.

So this is where I post you and then what, right? So if you ever think of quitting, ask yourself, then what? So what I'm trying to say is this prep week comes with a lot of feels. If you're feeling anything other than excited, please be kind to yourself. And please understand that it's the feelings are all part of it. A lot of you are bringing baggage from 20 years of dieting, two years, you know, 12 years, 20 years. The diet industry has been really detrimental, not to our, just our physical health, but our mental health. So this diet is different in the sense that we give you this week.

This is like, okay, here's what you're going to need to do. Let's kind of ease into this process. Let's start pulling the things together. And then as we move forward, you're going to build on the things and you're still, you know, weeks, months into it, you're still going to have days where, yeah, you're crushing it. And you're going to have other days where life makes it so incredibly hard for you just to get through your day, let alone worry about what you're going to eat and not. And then other days you're going to be eating chips for breakfast. So cut yourself some slack, sit with yourself, take note of your feels and be like, okay, what do I need to focus

on? What am I feeling? How can I set myself up for success? Maybe it's journaling. Are you using the Living Method app? Have you gotten the book, right? If you're overwhelmed by the information you are seeing on the screen and how we are organizing it in the Facebook support group, get the book, get the book. It makes it so much easier to sit down with a cup of tea and, you know, highlight and make notes. The, the book, I guarantee you is at a price cheaper than if you can print it off on your own.

Like get the book. If you are, why aren't you using our app? It's so easy to use. Are you afraid of technology? Right? Are you afraid of technology? Don't be because we have a whole tech team that will help you figure it out. Right? Like what do you need to do? Are you participating in the group? Are you like, you know, it's so great not to just come in and watch a check-in video, but say, hello, good morning. Even just doing that, you've taken action on something that you are doing. What you were saying quietly to your soul is I am here. I am doing this. And I guarantee you, if you just do that every single day, that's going to help you keep

showing up. And more importantly, don't just focus on the things that you're not doing. Focus on the things that you are doing, right? Look for those glimmers. Like if you are watching this right now, or you are listening and you are here on day five, that right there is enough reason to be super proud of yourself. That right there is enough because there are some people who didn't make it past the first day, second day, third day, right? There's a lot of people also who feel like because they didn't get off to a perfect start or because they haven't been perfect, that it's not worth doing. It hurts my soul. Every single group, people reach out and they're like, well, I'm already feel like I'm behind or I haven't been perfect. I've already messed up. Should I

just wait and do your next program? I'm like, you are never going to reach your goal. You are never going to accomplish anything in your life if you wait until everything is perfect. And then before I get into your questions, I'm going to roll through them. I see them adding up here. I want to also talk to our returning members. Yeah, just because you've been here before doesn't mean that it's going to be easy peasy for you, right? Just because you've done 10 groups doesn't mean you aren't going to come in and struggle with some feels, maybe some new feels, but you got feels, right? Like don't be hard on yourself because you know what you need to do because you know better than that, right? It's all about what's going on in your life. And it's all about like unraveling and revealing all the new things

to focus on and all the new feels that are going to pop up. And for some of you, there's some deep shit. This is kind of how it works. I find like you're doing things, right? And you have these aha moments. And this is why it's good to have these conversations with yourself. Why do I do that? Why am I feeling this? Why am I thinking that? What's going on? Oh, I get it. And we're going to have some really great experts that are going to help us like really dive into this. But for me, it's like, as soon as I clear like some shit, I'm like, oh, okay. I got that. Like just, I had an aha moment with Tony this morning. I keep fixating on making the groups perfect and they're never going to be perfect because it's just, it's,

sometimes it's human error and we do the best we can and no one's trying to like make mistakes and no one's trying to fuck people over and everyone's just doing their best, right? To help all of our amazing members and put on these amazing groups. And I keep trying to make it perfect. And I'm so fixated on that. I'm never going to move past that. So whenever I have these aha moments, I'm like, okay, great. I had to, wow, okay, let's clear that off my plate. And guess what? A whole big new stinking ass pile of shit lands on my lap for me to deal with. So it's going to be ongoing. It's going to be ongoing. So whether you're a new member or you're a

returning member, take a deep breath, cut yourself some slack, focus on the things that you think you might need to work on. How can you set yourself up for success? And more importantly, reflect back this week on all the amazing things that you have done. Okay. So it's Friday. It's the weekend. We have a post today on how to navigate weekends. Don't stress about the weekend. You'll get weekends. Weekends are off routine. They tend to be a little bit trickier. You're going to be fine. Here's what you don't do. You don't blow off your whole day or your whole weekend because of a few bites of bits here and there. Not a big deal. Just keep moving forward. On the weekend, we do tend to keep

things really light, really light. So we're going to have some recipes for you every Saturday. We are going to have some inspirational posts. We're going to be highlighting the members on our team, the people who are helping you on your journey. We're going to roll out the science Saturday post, which is really cool. I highly suggest that you review the science behind the program. The first one we're starting out with is Setpoint. On the weekend too, we're going to roll out some meal plan share pages. This is a place for you, our members, our returning members to share your tips, favorite recipes. And heck, if you're a new member and you know great people who are making good stuff, any kind of resource whatsoever in terms of helping you put your meals together, that's the place

it's going to be. So we're going to do that on the weekend. And then on the Sunday, this is where we roll out the guidelines. So the new guidelines for each new week, which is really what you want to pay attention to. So on Sundays or the seventh day of every week, we roll out the guidelines. So spoiler alert, next week is just more of the same. So we're not going to throw anything else at you next week. It's just being more consistent with what you are doing. So we've given you this week to get it together. Next week is all about being as consistent as possible and doing the things that you need to do so the body can calm down, adjust to the changes that you've made.

This is where you're going to start to notice your portions are going to start to naturally decrease. You're going to start to notice that, yes, you might be getting hungrier, but then you're starting to notice that your body's letting you know when you are more satisfied. This is when you're going to really be like, okay, maybe I'm sleeping better. I'm starting to have better energy. I'm feeling a lot leaner. I'm starting to notice my body adapt to the program and the process, which is really cool. Let's get into your questions. Hi, Gina. Hi, Robin. Just want to say you look fabulous this morning. Oh,

smoke and mirrors. I just finished a workout. So I'm like glowing from like feeling really great about myself, even though like it wasn't the hardest workout, but I feel really good. Three days in a row now I've gotten back into working out. I had my back through my back out for weeks and then I had gum surgery last week. So I'm back at it feeling pretty good. So thank you so much. Love the share pages. Looking to change up my meals a little this time around as I find I'm in a rut of eating the same foods every day. I love this. I was just on Instagram this morning. If you're over on Instagram, don't just give our page a follow. We have a great community content page called Livvy Losers.

But because I'm following a lot of people posting food stuff, I'm starting to notice these food pages coming up. And there's some really cool this morning, I posted like a wrap, making a wrap, but it was out of spinach and an egg. And that was it. I thought that was really cool. There's some, man, people are getting pretty savvy when it comes to eating healthy. They're taking it to a whole other level. There's some great ideas out there. Also, don't forget about all the recipes we have in our app. You don't have to make the recipes. It's just about being inspired. Oh yeah, like beets. I love beets. And it's so easy. You can actually get like pre-packaged already cooked beets and you can just cut those up and you can

throw them like in a salad or you can just eat them for a veg snack with maybe a little bit of like goat cheese on the side, right? You can throw them the side of dinner and saute them with a little bit of butter. Like I always forget about that. Like hemp hearts. I have totally forgotten about hemp hearts. I know we love our sprouted love around here. It's so easy. Everything's packaged together, but I love, I forgot that I love hemp hearts. They're so easy to make your meals nutrient rich, right? So think of getting inspired, right? That's what, it's getting easier and easier to do, especially if you're over on social media.

Returning after 18 months, not, oh, where'd that go? I love beets. Where'd that go? Where did that go? Oh, my God, this is getting old me trying to find these posts. My goodness. All right. Okay, bear with me here. Every morning. I got to get better at this. What is going on? Someone shared an amazing lentil pizza base before, and that's my go-to now Friday nights. I will share the link and share the recipes. Yeah. So amazing people like Pam who are, you can find people. So if you go to our Libby loser Instagram page, you can find our members who are following it and tagging us and posting their great ideas. Yeah. Beets and goat cheese,

right? Such a great, this delicious combination. I am six months postpartum and I'm finding I'm getting super hungry around 10pm-ish, usually getting to bed between 11 and 12. Oh my God, I've lost that comment again. What the heck? Bear with me here. Sorry, you guys. What is going on? This is making me crazy. Oh, geez. I am from Peterborough. Yes. Hello. Hi, Laura. Born and raised. Born and raised. I'm trying to find that. Experiencing pain. Third program. First time here. Loving the app. I hate using apps. Very proud of myself for getting outside every day this week, feeling like I am ready to go. Yeah. Stop sabotaging myself and get her done. We're going to talk a lot about self-sabotage. It's going to be a hot topic

around here. Round three for me. I'm super stoked for this next part of my journey. I just have to say I'll be forever grateful to Andrea Murray for introducing me to this program. It's been a game changer, right? Yes. Thank the people who've introduced you. So did you hear yesterday that we have opened up a thousand, I don't know where we're even at. We could be sold out for all I know, but yesterday we opened up a thousand spots. We find so many people are just using the Facebook, just using the app and not in the Facebook support group. So we've opened up some more spots.

If you know anybody, make sure you let them know. Newbie here and loving the program. I can't believe how easy this has been. I feel amazing. Okay. So I watched the day five check-in video and until Gina said out loud the order of the food plan eating, I didn't realize I was doing things wonky. Okay. I've been eating PM snack, um, dinner, then PM snack too. Yeah. I don't know what that is. I don't

know what's going on with that. So I think it's the PM snack. I mean, like I'm thinking afternoon snack and we've had, this is the first group where people keep asking about that second snack thinking it's after dinner. I'm not really sure what's going on there. So you're not the only one. Yeah, so get to know that food plan. Breakfast, protein focused, but you can add fruits and you can add vegetables. You don't have to have breakfast, but it's such a benefit starting your day, breaking

the fast with that high protein. Fruit on its own for morning snack, you can have fresh fruit, frozen fruit, canned fruit and mix and match your fruit. And then of course, lunch, right? Vegetables, proteins, leafy greens, healthy fats, and that's where you add any of your heavier carbohydrates, rices, potatoes, those types of things, quinoa. And then there's your afternoon snack, which is vegetables. If you can have them raw, great, but you can also cook them. You can also just have like a salad and put veggies in it with a dressing. That would work. You could do fermented foods, pickles, kimchi. You can also add like a boiled egg. So protein and fat with it. You could do cheese,

cheese and some vegetables. You could do some dip with it and then nuts and seeds in the afternoon, any kind of nuts, any kind of seeds. I prefer unsalted because, you know, adding in that extra salt can help your body retain water, but you also need salt in your diet as well. So if you're not getting a lot of salt in your diet, you can get salted nuts. Look for sea salt when it comes to the nuts. And then your dinner is the focuses on same as lunch, but the focus is on protein, then your vegetables, then your leafy greens. And then unless you're being more active, unless you feel you need those heavier carbs, you just kind of want to, you know, kind of just keep them out. You've really eaten enough throughout the day by eating breakfast,

snack, lunch, snack, snack, and then dinner, and then making those food choices as nutrient rich as possible. Some of you are starting to notice that you are feeling full, you're saying like, I'm so full that I'm not hungry for my snacks. And so we talked about this the other day, where sometimes we just eat everything on our plate, because that's what we're used to. And we're going to work through that in the weeks to come or you pack your lunch, and you're just used to eating everything in your lunch because that's what you do. We get in these habits and we just get used to doing what we're doing.

And so we're eating all of our food and then we're realizing after, I feel full. And so what you can start doing, because your body is going to start, you're going to start noticing. So what you're going to notice is you're actually going to start to get hungry. And that can freak some people out. But then you're also going to notice your body's going to tell you when you've had enough, when you're satisfied and you're full. So if you're noticing that you're having a hard time finishing your meals, you don't

have to finish your meals. You can, and then here's the thing, though. Some of you are noticing that you're getting full and you're like, okay, well, yeah, I could stop eating. But what you don't realize is that you are also dealing with some food waste issues, right? Or some food scarcity issues. And so you feel very uncomfortable or you've been taught to finish your plate.

So you feel very uncomfortable leaving food on your plate. So it's not seeming as an option for you. Well, this is what I packed. This is what I made. This is what I made on my plate. So you feel very uncomfortable leaving food on your plate. So it's not seeming as an option for you. Well, this is what I packed. This is what I made. This is what I made on my plate. So I need to eat it. And then you're just eating it. And then you're realizing afterwards, oh, I'm full. And now I'm too full from eating that. So now I don't want to eat my, I'm not hungry for my snack. But when you overeat, you want to stimulate your digestive system that keeps your digestive system moving and grooving so that your body processes the food that you overate. And then the worst thing you could do is overeat and then undereat afterwards, right?

People do that. You overeat and then you're like, okay, now I'm not going to eat for whatever the rest of the day because I overate. And that actually, that messaging is really, you know, reinforces the need for fat. Because when you overeat, your body doesn't understand why you're overeating. Our body's still working at a really primitive level. So when you overeat, like you have in the past, right, where you really indulge and then you just starve yourself afterwards, right? Like, oh, I overate, so let me just not eat. Well, what that does is that like,

it messes with your insulin levels, your body has to now, you know, process and digest this overload of food, it thinks that you're doing it because you want to store fat. Otherwise, why would you be overeating? Or, right, this is like the last meal that you're going to have. And then that's reinforced by going long periods of time. Let's talk about the weekend for a second. So the worst thing you can do on the weekend is say, let's say Saturday night, you got a wedding to go to, or you, you know, you got something where, you know, you're going to want to indulge. And what we do is we go all day long without eating in anticipation of a big meal later.

So you wake up, you don't eat, your body has to, has to get energy from somewhere. So it uses your stored fat, right? So you're making your body use your stored fat. Then when you get to the event, have you ever done that? Go all day long without eating and then you eat and all of a sudden like you eat and you just don't feel well afterwards is because your digestive system hasn't been stimulated heading into that meal. So that when you do eat, it's like you, you, that's where you'd be like, Oh, I don't feel good. Not just because you overate, but because you, your digestive system hasn't been stimulated all day. So you go to that event, you're really hungry. You're more

likely to overeat because you didn't eat all day. So now you have told the body that there's not enough food, which is why it's using your fat during the day. And then you have told the body that like you overeat and your body's like, well, why are we now overeating? Right? So your insulins go up, your high insulin levels signal weight gain. And then the next day, you starve yourself again, because you overate the night before. And so now you're back to telling your body that, yeah, we overate last night, because now there's now there's not enough food, and we're back to telling your body that, yeah, we overate last night because now there's not enough food and we're back to starving again. So three times you tell your body or reinforce the fact that you need your fat. Starving all day, overeating when you do eat, and then starving again.

Right? So people think that they're getting ahead, like overate, starve myself. And really all you're doing is reinforcing the need. If you do that over and over and over and over for years and years and years, you're just reinforcing the fact that your body needs that fat. So now you, if you have something planned, you want to eat normally leading up, even if you know you're going to eat your face off and indulge whatever you're going to have burger, onion rings, whatever it's going to be, have a normal eating day. You have breakfast, you have snack, you go out for lunch, you end up

eating burgers and fries. So what? No big deal. Eating burgers and fries, not going to cause you to gain weight, not going to stop you from losing your weight if you continue with the rest of your day. Unless you go back into, I overate, had the burger and fries, now I'm going to starve myself after. Again, reinforcing the need to store fat. So what we're doing with the basic food plan is trying to, and this has been a lot of people's history, burning fat, using your fat reserves, starving, depriving. We want your body to trust that you are going to continue to give it what it needs so that it no longer feels the need to store this fat because your body doesn't want the fat. Every extra pound is hard on you, especially if you have health issues and your body definitely doesn't want the fat. Your body stored the fat because you taught it to store the fat.

And so now you want to be as consistent as possible in giving the body what it needs so it no longer feels the need to store fat. And then that's step one of the program. That's laying that foundation. And then moving forward, we're going to help the body specifically focus on fat loss. So the order of the food plan is really important. The timing, not so much. So if there's one thing that you can do to set yourself up for success rolling into next week is to make sure that you are super clear about following the food plan. Like so clear, you know exactly what you need to do. And you use this weekend to ask as many questions as you need to be super clear on it. So I'm just going to go and go back to my old

school way of answering questions because this is making me crazy with what's happening on my computer. It's been happening all week. You think I would learn that, but no. Great explanation, Gina. Bang on. I wish I can explain it that logically. It's hard to explain. Talk about telling friends and family. It's hard. Like, so the living method, people are like, explain the living method. And I'm like, oh gosh. The thing is, is that weight loss is complicated. There's a lot of working parts to it. Oh, I was watching some joker on Instagram today who was like, I don't know, he's teaching people how to, if you're hungry at night, have a yogurt and then throw like a kick cat in it and teach. I was just like, dude. And then of course,

people in the comments came at him, like, what are you, chocolate bar at, like, what, what are you talking about? And the guy's like, calories in versus calories out, man, sugar, sugar. I'm like, oh my God. And of course, you know, like he's like 25 and he's got ripped abs and he fucking knows nothing about being like my age. I don't want to say older because we're not old, but you know what I mean? Like, dude, come at me when you have spent 20 years dieting and your metabolism is in the shitter. Oh my gosh. Anyway, there's so much to it.

There's so much to weight loss that hit a nerve with me you can tell when people just make weight loss when people are like it's so easy calories in versus calories out if it was so easy we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic if it was so easy with all the access to all of the diets all of the information with all the fucking calculators in the world, obesity rates would be declining year over year, not increasing year over year. And so much more complicated than that. It's not just what you are eating and exercising. It is your issues and associations. It is your habits. It is your beliefs. It is traumas, it is your health issues, it is how your body has become wired, it's hormones, it's like there's so much to it. And you know, one of the things that people

are starting to talk a lot about now is how diets have been detrimental, especially as you get older and why you're gaining more weight year over year over year is the amount of muscle loss. Because diet, starving and depriving, yes, you lose fat, but you also lose muscle as well. And that becomes very detrimental as you get older, because when your body's breaking down your foods and, you know, trying to figure out where to store the glycogen, it stores it in your liver, yes, also in your muscle. And if you don't have the muscle there, it's going to store it in your fat. Yeah, hormones. We're going to talk about hormones. We're going to talk about hormones.

Give the guy another 15 years and let's see if he thinks the same. You know, and I'm not trying to blow off his education, but it's like, it's not that easy. It's not, it's not that easy. I hope following the Libby method is easy once you get into the moving and the grooving with it. It can be a lot, like I said, because your life is crazy and you don't have a lot of time and you got some issues, you know, a lot of stuff. But I'm hoping that, you know, my biggest compliment is people are like, oh, I did that. Like, that was easy. You may not think it now, but at the end of the program, I want you to reflect back and think, okay, that was easy. There might have been a lot of hard moments. There might have been a lot

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And Peloton has everything you need, whenever you need it. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. I had apple cider vinegar with water for the first time. I find that it makes me not want to have coffee, which is interesting as I usually have several cups in the morning. Same thing happened with lemon and water. I wonder why. Okay, this. So apple cider vinegar, lemon water doesn't do any of the magical things that the diet industry, it doesn't, it's not burning your fat. It's not none of those things. But it's a great way to start new habits. So the apple cider vinegar is bacteria based. That's that

mother, the cloudy stuff that's in it that makes you go, huh, can I actually have this? And then the lemon water is enzyme based. And if you think about lemon water and apple cider vinegar, immediately the sourness, you go like blah, and you get like you get your saliva glands going. So that can really help to stimulate your digestive system, especially when you're skipping breakfast, because you want to stimulate your digestive system, especially when you're skipping breakfast because you want to stimulate your digestive system and kind of like wake your body up. Nothing like some apple cider vinegar and lemon water to wake your ass up. They're also very palate cleansing. So when you start your day with apple cider or lemon water, you don't want to go and grab your coffee. You

are more likely to drink water. And so therefore start your day being more hydrated. Also, you are more likely to reach for healthier foods, not like the, you know, a muffin or a bagel or whatever, whereas you start your day with a coffee, what goes great with coffee, right? Yeah, okay, bacon and eggs goes good with coffee. That's not so bad. That's totally, you know, you can have that, but yeah. Right. Like that muffin or that donut or that whatever you're grabbing. So, so it also can be great for your digestive system as well. There is actually a lot of science behind this that has been emerging in the last couple of years is the diet industry. So I've been fixated on using it as a, like a crazy wackadoo miracle thing, but there are benefits in having both the lemon water and apple cider vinegar, especially for people missing their gallbladder. It can be beneficial or people

who have acid reflux, heartburn and whatnot. Now there's different variations to that because some people have hardcore medical courses where they're taking medications and you know, it doesn't, it has the opposite effect for them. So you have to figure out what works for you. This is why, you know, maybe apple cider vinegar isn't your jam, but the lemon water, right? So it's a combination of kind of new habits, cleansing that palate, starting your day hydrated and stimulating your digestive system. So that's why. Also, the healthier you get, like we think that we need coffee, and we

need that square piece of chocolate, and we need to have that snack before bed, and we need to have these things. We don't actually need them. We want them, but our body doesn't need them. Same thing with a Diet Coke, right? And this is why I'm not like, have your coffee. What you'll probably notice, though, is like, say if you have your coffee every day with cream and two sugar, as you go on throughout the program, you're going to start drinking your coffee and being like, my coffee is really sweet. My coffee is really sweet. And then you'll drink it. And then again, the next day, my coffee, why is my coffee so sweet? And then you'll drink it without actually thinking, okay, maybe I should just decrease the sugar in my coffee because it's just two sugars is what you're used to. And so you're going to notice that your, um, your taste buds are more enhanced

and your taste buds are really cool. This is like, oh my God, the body is so cool. The way, like when you start to get in tune with it. So taste buds are a way of your body communicating with you, right? Like it's the taste buds are there to help you taste rotten food. So you don't eat rotten food. Taste buds will also tell you when you've had enough food. And this is something we don't pay attention to. So when it comes to portions, right now, the goal is to eat enough to feel satisfied. If you're a returning member, dive into those portions, ask yourself those four questions. So we don't count, we don't weigh, we don't measure. Right now, I don't want you to be too concerned about portions. I want you to make sure you're eating enough to feel satisfied.

And if you're not hungry, still have those token amounts. But we are going to really dive into those portions in the next couple weeks. And it's all about really being really in tune to them. But your taste buds, you will notice, like say you go eat that chocolate bar or your first bite of food and it's delicious. And then you have another bite and another bite. And then it gets to a point where you are eating and you are not even tasting your food. And this happens with like high sugar foods, high saturated foods, like a chocolate bar. You eat that first piece. This is delicious. Yummy. You eat the next piece. Okay. Next piece. And by then you're eating it and you're not even really tasting it. In fact, you're trying to eat it, trying to get

the flavor that you got from the first bite. And what's happened is your taste buds actually will be like, no, we're done. We're good. We're good. We've had enough. So you're going to notice that you're in your body now communicating with you in a variety of different ways, that your taste buds are one of the ways it's going to do that, which is really cool. Got moody yesterday and angry and caught myself wanting to eat anything, but I didn't. I filled up on my water bowl and sipped my anger away. Right? So coping, coping, coping, eating when you're bored, eating when you're bored, eating when you're emotional, eating when you're angry. Oh, I do. I'm more like an angry drinker. I love to

drink. I sometimes I just say it out loud. I just want to drink a whole bottle of wine. I don't. I don't. The other day, I like poured myself a glass of scotch and just sat there and I'm like, I'm not even drinking this. I felt very satisfied in pouring it because that was like, okay, I'm taking some time for me. Enough, right? But so this is where you're going to have to look at, okay, what's my, because is eating everything going to make you feel good? And a lot of times we're angry at other things and other people and other situations that we can't control. And we just make it worse by eating or drinking to which we feel like shit the next day. Like that's not helpful, but we keep doing it over and over because all we think about is that satisfaction in the moment that gets to take my mind off this one thing for a moment.

And we don't really realize the aftermath of that. And that's really how you get to rewire and rework how your brain has come to function. A big part of this process is rewiring how your body's come to function, but also your brain has come to function. And so if you are new and you're reading this and be like, oh my God, I wish, this is where you're going to get to. You're going to acquire the tools and the skills to be able to recognize when you are eating when you're bored or eating out of anger or eating emotionally. And this is where you're going to slowly start implementing other ways to cope, other ways to manage,

other ways to honor and recognize your feels. We have a saying around here, honor your feels, but follow the plan or honor your mood, but follow the plan. Feel how you feel, but do what you need to do, right? Like you, you want, you don't want to be like, push your feelings away. You want to honor them. You want to be like, why am I, even your feels about this program? What are your feel? That's where I started with this week. That's why I started, uh, this live today, right? How are you feeling? Take a minute and good feels, or I'm not into good and bad. There's not good food, bad food. There's not good energy, bad energy. There's not good feels, bad feels. It's just all the same. It's all energy at the end of the day. But like, what are your

thoughts? What are your feelings? Like take a minute this week, right? First of all, be real proud that you're here and you're listening. You made it five days in. You're still here. You're still here. And then reflect on your feels. And then don't judge yourself on your feels because your feelings are valid. Your feelings are your body's way of communicating with you, right? So don't judge them. Oh, why am I doing that? You could say, okay, why am I feeling like this? Like I was excited when I started. I knew it wasn't going to be easy. What is happening? Like maybe your anger lies in the fact that you've done this so many times, you spent so much time and energy and money,

and you're just mad at the world about it. And you have every right. Diets suck. So then try to embrace how we are doing that a little differently and be like, yeah, you found this one. This one is going to be different, right? Maybe you are starting to recognize that your job is so all-consuming and you don't have two minutes to eat throughout the day. And that's like, wait, what? Like, you know what I mean? I'm working so hard. I'm stressing whatever for this company or doing this thing. And I don't even, they can't even give me two minutes to eat. I'm going to start taking time to eat. I've worked with a lot of really high powered people and I would work, especially the men, like the men who run these big companies. And they would say to me, I'm not going to eat. Will you expect me to eat carrot sticks and drink water in a meeting? And I'm like, yeah, I do. And next thing you know, they're in their board

meetings with their carrot sticks and drinking their water because they feel fucking amazing. They're like, I feel good. And they want to keep doing what makes them feel good. And the next thing you know, rather than ordering, you know, a bunch of sandwiches and donuts for everybody in that meeting to eat, they're like, okay, let's like, let's figure out how to... I worked with one company where they literally overhauled their whole catering program because the CEO, the VP CEO at the time was just like, we can't feed people shit in these. We can't expect people to work their best when they feel like shit. And because this person had made all this change and realized you can eat and feel freaking

amazing that they overhauled all their catering when it came to all of their meetings moving forward. And they actually started providing fruits and vegetables and veggies and healthy meals for their company. You know, so you may think, oh, I'm not going to do that. It's like, I know there's a lot of teachers in here too. Like it's hard. You don't get bathroom breaks. It's hard. You know what I mean? Like, but there are ways to do it. You know, like there's like, if you tell someone, I, I'm going to shit my pants, I have diarrhea, they're going to let you go to the bathroom. And if you grab your purse, and there happens to be a boiling in there, some vegetable sticks or some, you know, whatever that is, you can get it in, you know, every day. And here's

the thing, if you do have days where you can't do all the things, you can offset that by doing the things that you can do when you can do them as well, you know, so where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah, step out of your meeting. Yeah, right. Okay, let me get through a few more questions. Next week, I'm going to try to keep these shorter and sweeter. It's been a lot of like me trying to think about what can I share with you to get you, you know, in a good space to tell you what you need to know that's going to be a value. Oh my gosh, there's so much to talk about. Next week, I'm going to really get into your questions. Questions, questions, questions, questions. I had someone on here the other day who was like,

you're not answering any of the important questions. Well, I have a team of amazing people who will answer, can you have cream in your coffee? Can you do this? Can you do that? Can you whatever, right? I want to get you the deeper shit. I want to talk about the fields, the obstacles, the I this is what I want to get into here. Yeah, I'll still add the you know, you know, I can't eat leafy vegetables raw,

cook them, right? saute them, cook them leafy greens, add them to your soup, mix them in with stuff. You know, there's a way that you can do that. I will still answer those questions, but this is really about what is the apple cider vinegar and lemon drink? So you can mix apple cider vinegar and lemon together if you want, or you can have one or the other. I had my gallbladder out eight years ago and I didn't understand what it would change about my digestion. Can you help me with that?

Yeah. Isn't it amazing that people get their gallbladder removed? And then like, I was in the hospital for a few weeks, a couple of years ago and I had some, yeah, I mean, I didn't think I was like, it was bad. Like I didn't, I lost like 30 pounds. I didn't know that I was going to make it out. Like, and then they just let me go when I was feeling better. That was it. I was like, now I'm on my own. And they're like, yeah, go check in with your doctor, whatever. Go get your blood work, make sure you're fine. And I'm just like, but that's what, that's what that's for, right? You, they fixed you, you got to figure it out. So a lot of times you're not given. Now you might have been given,

you might, I love the directive crank, cranking it. Um, you might've been, you might've been given like, um, a piece of paper that would tell you that after you have your gallbladder removed, it can be very hard for you, um, for your body to be processing fats, especially saturated fats, um, high fat foods, healthy fats like fishes and, you know, avocados and, you know, olives and things like that are a little bit. You can also have nuts and seeds, but you want to watch the portion of nuts and seeds because it's very hard to digest. And you want to avoid those things for the first little while after you have your gallbladder removed. So it's really amazing. Like, I don't know if that people aren't being told these types of things, or you you get that handout, and then you forget, because like, you've just had surgery and recovery is hard and whatever. And so with gallbladders, it's, you know,

it's, it makes it more difficult for you to process fats, but healthy fats, we are learning are fine for you. It's all about getting the right type of healthy fats. I mean, you need more of those because your body's inability to break those down. Your gallbladder kind of holds in the most simplistic form and like an extra cup of bile for digesting your foods. So it's a bit harder for your body missing your gallbladder to digest your foods. A lot of people have to get their gallbladder removed because they've been successful at dieting. They lose weight a lot quickly through deprivation, starvation diets. You force your body to burn fat, you will, your body will burn that fat. But the problem is, is that there are toxins that are stored in your fat. Those toxins can get into your gallbladder essentially and gunk it up.

And then you have to get your gallbladder removed. And so that's what's different about the living method is one, you're eating healthy, nutrient rich foods, you're giving the body what it needs, and you're helping your body to release that fat. And that's why you feel detox symptoms, because those same toxins are being released to that natural metabolic process, which is why the Livi method is such a healthier way. So you want to lose your weight in a healthy, sustainable way, not in a quick fix, burn the fat, starve yourself way. There are other detriments to it other than just getting it back every single time and losing some muscle. You can lose your gallbladder. And that's not your fault, by the way. Every time I say that, I want to make it very clear that that is how you were told to lose weight. So if you

lost weight and you were successful, great, because that's what you were told what to do. But it is a byproduct. So we have a lot of people who do the program missing their gallbladder. There are things like apple cider vinegar and lemon water stimulating their digestive system, not just first thing in the morning, but also right before any of your bigger meals. You can also add in enzymes. I like digested bitters. Do I have any here? I don't have any here. Um, in our, on our supplement list that we're going to talk about next, next week, uh, week two of the program, digestive bitters. So digestive bitters are great. Cause again, they they're bitter. So they stimulate your digestive system. Um, bile salts. That's a big one. I'm always amazed at the people missing

their gallbladder bile salts. You should, You should talk to your doctor or your pharmacist. See lots of you, right? So many of you, I had my gallbladder, so many of you removed 22 years ago. I was told absolutely nothing. Me too. No idea. Mine removed over 40 years ago. Same thing. I know, right? I know. I know. It's craziness. But also 20 years ago, 40 years ago, like I, I've been helping people lose weight for so long that, you know, a couple of things, like people are always like, don't you have more before photos? And I'm just like, okay, I'm old. I come from a generation that we didn't walk around with phones with cameras in them. You brought like a camera, maybe when you traveled or a camera, maybe to like, I don't know, like an event. And then if you had a camera, how many of you actually like took the roll of film? You know what I mean?

Boxes, rolls of film. And then also people don't really understand that there wasn't that whole big body positivity movement like we have all over social media now where people are loud and proud and all of that. And, you know, we didn't have this selfie post a photo of you society. So when I was overweight, I would be in the back of photos. I would like find a place to hide. And so people are like, how come there's not? How come that way? If you're really overweight, how come there's no photos of you? Like, bitch, I'm fucking old. That's why there are no,

there are no photos of me. Also, um, it might be a little grabby today. I think I'm getting my period. I don't know. It's supposed to come like a month ago. You know what I mean? I'm in one of those situations where it hasn't come and I'm just like, ah, um, what else was it talking about? Oh yeah. So, so back in the day, right. People, when it came to dieting, look at the whole diet industry is messed up because they didn't understand the effects of dieting. Right. And so, um, there was no lifestyle. No one was talking about lifestyle. No one was talking about insulin, cortisol. No one was talking about digestive bitters. No one was talking about digestive system.

You know, that's one of the things like I was like, okay, how does your body even work? I was like, so you eat food and then what happens? Like what happens, you know? Why does your body store fat? Like that's where I sort of like, when I started to like investigate what was going on with me, that's some of the rabbit holes I went into. I went to, I did this whole like toxic thing, like all about the food additives and stuff that they add to our food. I went down so many different rabbit holes, you know, but there

was a lot that we now know that we didn't know back then, you know, and that's, that, that holds true with diets too. So, so yeah, a lot of people, yeah, I, I take the pick. So I'm not, I'm not in many. Yeah, I know. Right. I'm not old. I'm old school.

There you go, Rachel. That, that's what I'm going to use. I, I definitely, I definitely am an old school, right? Yeah, I know. So things have really changed. Have you heard of happy juice? Just curious if you, if you, your take on it. I have not. I, I've not. Someone's just saying, uh, you're not old if you're still wondering whether you're getting your period.

Listen, so, so to me, so I won't, you'll always know, you'll notice that I get, I joke, but I get really weird when it comes to talking about being older. Because so once I worked at a, it's a Friday, I got to get going. But once I worked at a hair salon, and it was for older women. And so, and I say that because it'd be a lot of women come in who would get the big scrub once a week at their hair. They had white hair and I put a lot of rinses, like a purple rinse, pink rinse, blue rinse in people's hair. So it was a lot of older. It was that that's who the salon catered to. And I was young, I was like 13. And there was this woman who was a hundred years old and she would just open up the door and fly in. It's like she floated into the salon and she would sit and she would just open up the door and fly in. It's like she floated into the salon and she would sit

and she would like cross her legs in the chair. And I remember just being like, wow, like that. She just blew my mind. Like she just blew apart my whole image of old. And, and then since then, I'm like, I don't even know how old she lived to I'm going to guess like 100. In my mind, she lived to like 125 150. She might fuck she might still be alive today. I don't I don't even know. And so that so I was people are always like, when I talk about being old, like, I'm just like, I'm gonna live to 125. Like, and I'm gonna the day I die, I'm gonna have gone surfing in the morning. And you know, I'm just like, I'm going to live to 125. Like, and I'm going to, the day I die, I'm going to have gone surfing in the morning and, you know, I'm going to have wild sex with my husband who I insist will still be alive. And then we're going to have a big party and then that's, I'm going to go to sleep and that'll be it. And I will, I will decide, you know,

like, I know it's crazy, but in my mind, that's how it's all going to go down. And so, yeah, you're right. And this is what I love about our program. So first of all, we do have a lot of younger people do our program. Okay. Our main demographic though, statistically is 45 to 55, then 35 to 45, and then 55 to 65. What I loved about last group is we've had so many, I'm 78, I'm 82, I'm this, I'm whatever. Like I have such a passion for helping people who I know have gone to their doctors and doctors are like, or you're just old deal with it. Oh, it's just how you is how it is. Oh, you just it's normal, you gain weight. You know, when you're menopausal, postmenopausal, like this is how it's gonna be. You know what I mean? Like, no, that's

not No, that's not how it needs to be, you know? So, so, so I hear you on this. So yeah, I'm weird about it. Okay. Sex distracted me and made me stay. Hey, this, this program is great for your sex life too, for many reasons, because one, you just physically feel better to you have better energy. And you know what you'll realize, especially like if you it's never probably been about what you look like, it's always been about how you feel like, you know, when you just feel bloated and gross, and you just feel like having sex is the last thing that I feel like, but then you'll realize you're going to come to love your body, how you come to love your body. This is what's really interesting about the body positivity movement.

And I think they got it a little bit mixed up there because you should love yourself right now, the way you are. It's not about your size, your genes. It's none of that. You can love yours. Here's the big thing. You can love yourself and still want to make change. But you know, we love ourselves more when we are prioritizing ourselves, when we are taking care of ourselves, when we are showing ourselves self-love. And this program is really cool because it really is a lesson in self-love. It's about you taking the time for yourself, prioritizing yourself. It's like sometimes people are like, well, they're constantly thinking about food. Good. I hope you are because that means you are constantly thinking about what you are eating and when you're constantly thinking about, am I hungry?

Am I satisfied? You're constantly thinking about giving your body nutrient rich food that make you feel good. Great. I love that for you. Do you know, like, oh, I'm constantly this, I'm constantly that. Great. If you're bringing up fields and you're, and you know, like, Oh, I'm constantly this, I'm constantly that great. If you're bringing up fields and you're, and you're working through these things, like you deserve to get, like, if you get on the scale and it's ruining your whole day, you deserve to get to a place where a piece of metal on the ground does not dictate your whole day. You are more worthy and whole than that. You know, like, so to me, if like you're getting on the scale, and you have those feels, you want to work through those feels, you don't want to live your life

having a piece of metal dictate, you know, how you feel, that's not how you want, you are so much more than that you are so much more worthy than that, you know, and so this, this program really is an opportunity to really get to know and understand yourself, to really connect yourself, to be in tune with yourself, to know what you need. Cause it, it can be all consuming because it makes you keep your energy directed at yourself. We always see the memes, right? Like you don't have, you don't have time for drama, drink so much water that you don't have time for drama. Cause you're always just in the bathroom the whole time. This whole program is kind of like that. You don't have time for anyone else's shit when you're doing the Libby method because you got so much more shit to do. Got to go have an appointment. But

thanks, Gina. Enjoy this glorious sunshine. Have a great weekend. The sun is shining. It snowed the other day, whatever. Okay. Hopefully wherever you are, the sun is shining. I went for a colonoscopy this morning, right? I described all my non-scale victors. I was so happy that he took your name down. Well, I love that. I once went to the doctor, you know, I had to get a pap done and I shit you not, she looks at me, she's like, with my legs spread, she's like, are you Gina Livy? Are you the weight loss girl? And I'm like, yeah. Hi. Anyway, that's the story for a whole other day. I love when doctors get to understand and share the Livy Method because it's such a healthy way. People really need to

know about it. So if you have any friends or family who need to know about the Livy Method and you think they would love this, make sure you tell them how to, I don't even know if there's spots open. They're going to go fast. We've opened up to a thousand spots, every program, thousands of people miss out. So tell them to go. I hope that you've enjoyed hanging out with me this past week. Like I said, I just, what I'm trying to get across is this is going to be so much more than what you are eating. When, if you have those,

what you are eating and when questions pop into the group at any time or open up and use that amazing Livi AI app. The book is still available on Amazon. Also, don't forget that we turn these lives into podcasts. Hello to everyone just listening to our podcast. Hi, hello. So you can download and listen. Remember, we now have two podcasts. We have our Old Way of Magina podcast that's now turned into a more general conversation

about weight loss and health and wellness, where I got some fun topics that I'm going to talk on and speak on. And then we have our new Living Method podcast. That's where all of the podcasts from the program are now being uploaded to our Living Method podcast, which is also available on all podcast platforms. I'm not going to see you this weekend because I won't be going live, but please stop into the group, review the information, ask questions. The weekend's going to be a great time to get caught up. We have a whole team of people here to help. Like I said, we keep the information light other than some recipes,

the science posts, some inspirational posts. So there's nothing learning, learning for you on the weekend, except for on Sundays, which is the guideline. Spoiler alert, it's more of the same. So you've already got this. Have an amazing rest of your week, everyone. Have an amazing weekend. I will be checking in. So I will see you then.

Otherwise, I'll be back for a live Monday morning at 9am. See you. Bye.