The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 50 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: June 10, 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 50, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Coming out of the weekend - the value of getting back into routineHeading into Feeding the Metabolism - here’s what you need to know for Week 7This week’s tweak - how it shakes things up mentally 7 weeks in - if you’re still here, you’re learning The Livy Method is about so much more than what you eat and whenCommunity is everything around here - Gina will be spilling the tea with Jennifer Greig tomorrow, be sure to join us!Taste buds - how your taste preferences change with this ProgramWeekends - full of regrets or mindful indulging?Being investigative - assessing where you’re at right now and what is affecting your journey Reached your goal? - things to continue focusing onSplitting up proteins and carbohydrates this week - how to come at this week's tweakStress and our relationship with ourselves - emotional comfort and the connection to our issues and associations with eating Blood work - working with your healthcare provider to assess where you’re at, where you came from and where you’re headedWhen our habits change - recognizing when we’re reacting differently to foods/habits than we did in the pastLevelling up - doesn’t need to mean doing more, it means doing even 1% betterPlateaus - the importance of looking at stress, hormones, sleep and body composition changesTo 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. Hi, everyone. Happy day 50 of the program. We are having some technical issues jumping on live the way we normally do. So hopefully this works. Okay, there we go. Okay, I can see myself. Okay, I'm there. Yeah, I'm good. Okay, so first of all, how was your weekend? We are rolling into a brand new week off the heels of the weekend, which is always tricky, of course, given the fact that we are rolling into summer. You know, I know some of you have weddings, vacays, trying to get away even just for the weekend. Remember that there is nothing that you can do on a weekend that can't be undone by getting right back at it so you don't want to go back you don't want to repeat steps you don't want to punish yourself today if you did find yourself indulging the best thing for you to do is to get back into

that routine especially with where we are at at this point in the program your body has come to really enjoy that routine it expects what what it expects. So whenever you kind of stress it out by going off routine, the best thing you could do to calm that body down, especially if your weight is up, is to get back on routine. So if we go back to the original food plan, there's a rhyme and a reason behind what you are eating and when. A big part of that is stimulating your digestive system and making your body work harder for its foods, which is really great at helping to process any backlog. So if you indulge in the weekend and your weight is up, part of that is just food that just needs to be processed for your digestive system. It could be salty food,

so your body's retaining water. It also could be inflammation based on the foods that you ate. So your body's feeling a little inflamed and therefore a little bloated. So right back at it today is the best way to get back on track. So this week we are feeding the metabolism. I'm not sure how you are feeling about that. Do not stress. So I find with this week, people tend to really overthink it. They get stressed out about splitting up their meals and snacks, especially when it comes to separating the proteins from the carbs. So first thing you want to do is, where's Tony? Am I good?

Can you guys hear, you guys can hear me okay? I had to kind of jump on a little different way today. We had some technical issues. So let me know if you have any issues hearing me. So we want to get back to eating dissatisfaction off the heels of downsizing, just like we did last time, but not like just go back. We want to like double down on asking those four mindful eating questions. That's why in the group today, we have a review of that. Let's revisit the four mindful eating questions. You want to

make sure you are maximizing your efforts. So pull up that maximizing 20 questions checklist. You want to make sure you are literally doing all the things that you can do to be as proactive as possible. Even if you do not do the splitting up the meals and snacks part, you should still expect the scale to move because just by following the basic food plan, you're doing a lot. So first three days, you are following the basic food plan, asking those four questions portion-wise just enough so that you're walking away feeling satisfied, right? So really dig into that. You'll notice again off the heels of downsizing, just like the last time, that you are going to feel just as satisfied on smaller portions. Then mid-week on Wednesday, we are going to post a

post about the splitting up the meals and snacks part. So we have a post that goes more in-depth about this, plus Kim and I are going to talk about the tweak this week, the splitting up the meals and snacks part. So the biggest thing people ask is, well, there's a couple things that people ask. One, can we switch up the order? No, you can't. You can't switch up the order because coming off a downsizing, we want to reestablish that routine. So you can't switch up the order. No, you can't. You can't switch up the order because coming off a downsizing, we want to reestablish that routine. So you can't switch up the order. What if you can't split up all the meals and snacks? That's okay. As long as you can split up some of the meals and snacks, you are

doing the tweak. But even if you can't split up any, which I can't understand why you wouldn't be able to split up any of your meals and snacks, you're still doing a lot to be proactive when it comes to getting and keeping that scale moving. Third, people are concerned about not getting vegetables in if their vegetables are the star of the show, if they're separating their proteins from their carbs when it comes to their lunch. We're not really concerned about that. Mentally, I want you preparing the same type of meals that you've been eating in the days before we start splitting up the meals and snacks, because it's just going to stress you out to switch things up. So whatever you eat for lunch on Wednesday, you can pretty much eat the same thing on Thursday. On Thursday, when it comes to splitting

up the meals and snacks, you simply split that meal in two. You eat the first portion mindfully, then you wait 20 to 30 minutes, which is about as long as it takes for your body to start registering the fact that you are eating. Then eat that second portion asking those four questions eating just enough so that you're walking away you're feeling satisfied if you're not hungry for that second portion you're just going to have a token amount now if you're going to separate your proteins from your carbs if and when you can right like if you have a soup i don't want you picking out the the protein or anything like that like if and when you can you're going to take that protein and separate it from your carbs.

Your leafy greens and healthy fats can go either way, right? You're going to eat that protein first. You're going to wait that 20 to 30 minutes and then you're going to eat those carbs second, right? Mindfully asking the four questions and whatnot. So I'm not worried about vegetables being the star of the meal and you not getting those vegetables in because this wasn't a thing that you were worried about with downsizing. Think about this, right? With downsizing, you were taking that same lunch, vegetables were the star

of the meal and you were eating it and you were leaving a few bites less. So you weren't worried about your vegetables then, right? So you don't need to worry about them this time as well. So I know a lot of times people don't understand the rhyme, the reason behind the tweak until we've done the tweak and then you will really understand it, right? So a lot of this is, okay, this is the tweak. Let me trust this. I will do my best to explain the rhyme and reason behind it. You may not understand it until after we're done and then you're going to be like, okay, now I get it. You may not understand it until after we're done and then you're going to be like, okay, now I get it. So this tweak does a few things. It makes you think about food even more often, right? So you take people who have dieted for most of their lives, trying not to eat, and now you have to eat.

So just mentally what that does is really shake things up. So you go from trying not to eat on a diet to you're having to eat and be mindful, right? It makes you ask those four questions and be even more mindful now that you have to eat more often. It helps you get even more in tune to your portions. Now that you're separating your portions, there's a big difference between not being able to eat the rest of your food, splitting them into recognizing that you're satisfied on that first portion, and having the option, and having to eat that second portion. So what that does mentally is allows us to get even more in tune with your portions in a different way. Downsizing most reflected a diet, so it brought up a lot of feels. It was pretty stressful for some people,

food waste issues, food scarcity issues, fear of being hungry. Now we don't have those with the splitting up the meals and snacks. Now it's the complete opposite, but it allows you to get even more in tune to your portions. Also with the protein part first, this is where you're going to really understand the tweak that's coming down the pipeline in the next couple weeks, how protein feeds into your satiety hormones, your leptin, your ghrelin, and makes you feel more satisfied with the foods that you're eating. So there's a lot going on with this tweak this week, but don't stress about it. Don't stress about the splitting up the meals and snacks part until Wednesday. Don't stress about it at all. We

got you. Make sure you ask as many questions as you need. Use a timer. So this is very time consuming, right? But think about this. Some of you are like, oh timer. So this is very time consuming, right? But think about this. Some of you are like, oh my God, this is so time consuming. This is so inconvenient. But you're on a diet where you get to eat, where you've probably spent so much time on other diets where you're literally starving and depriving yourself. So it's what you will learn from doing this tweak as well. So it's not just about the physical things that you're doing with the tweak, what you are eating and when. It's also mentally what you are learning with this tweak as well. So it's not just about the physical things that you're doing with the tweak, what you are eating and when it's also mentally what you are learning with this tweak as well. So it's only for four days split up as many meals and snacks as you possibly can. It is a little

inconvenient, but that's okay. It's only for four days. Then we're going to bring it back to satisfaction next week. We're going to do it one more time and then we're going to, we're going to leave it behind us and move forward. All right, Let's see where you guys are at. Good morning. Good morning. Hi, Brenda Huxley. Hi, I got your email. Thank you so much for giving me an update. I've been thinking about you. Remember the other day I mentioned you and I said, I hadn't seen you for a while, so I'm just going to send you love. I'm thinking about you. Hi, Debbie. Good morning. So Brenda, um, Brenda is having a moment right now. Patty Thompson having a moment right now. Joanna Hunt, some of our more standout members who've been with us for a while,

really engaged in the program, the process. We do get to know our members. Just, you know, going through it right now. We are cheering you on. I just want you to know that we are here for you. I want everyone who's listening at this point, let me calm down a little bit. I'm quite trying to use some adrenaline. I was sick all weekend. So I'm just getting back at it. I want to take a moment and I want to let you know at this point, seven weeks in, we've all been on this mission to show up each day and we're in this pursuit of making change.

And yes, it's weight loss. But if you're still here at this point, I think you're recognizing it's so much more than weight loss. It's about your health. It's about your wellness. It's about it's about you being healthy and happy. And, you know, trying to most of us are just trying to wake up every day and live our best lives. And it's not easy all the time with just life in general. And with this program and process, you really have to dig deep. You really have to keep your energy directed at yourself. Only you are going to make this happen for you. There's a lot that we're all going through together in our own individual ways. You know, this process for people is very individual.

It can be very profound at the same time. So I just want to say that we really truly are here for you. If ever you're feeling ways or you're just like, ah, whatever that is, we really are here for you. We have a team. I have a team. Tony, can you grab me some water? We have a team of really amazing, supportive people.

We've been introducing them every weekend who really are here to help. So reach out. And if you can give us as much detailed information as possible, we will try to give you as much detailed, um, assistance as possible at the end of the day, but we really do care for you guys. And if you're here at week seven, I say, if you're here at week seven, you're going to be success story at the end. More than that, if you're here at week seven, we know the kind of time and energy and effort, not just physically, but mentally you've put into this process.

And so we really are excited that you're here. We really do truly want you to be a success story at the end beyond just reaching your goal weight. So whatever we can do, whatever we can do to help you out. Hi, Jennifer Craig. Good morning, friends. Thank you for all the love you're leaving on the Spill the Tea poster. I'm humbled and emotional reading all the comments. We are the best community. So Jennifer Craig is joining me tomorrow for our Spill the Tea. So we're going to sit down and we're going to spill some serious tea, I think, Jennifer and I. So Jennifer, another vocal member of the community. so I'm looking forward to chatting with her. So here's, I want to take a minute and talk to all of our non-vocal members of our community, because it's such a small percentage of the people who are vocal, but here's the thing,

the people who are vocal, thank you. You create the community and you'll start to hear this at the end where we have people who don't say one word, but they so appreciate you asking the questions and you sharing and commenting. So many people will be like, I didn't I didn't have to ask a question because so many other people ask that question. I was able to learn off the questions that people were asking. I was able to learn after the, you know, in the ways that people were sharing. So it just goes beyond, you know, you stepping up and asking a question, are you sharing? Everybody in the community is really benefiting from that. So I appreciate, although I don't answer a lot of questions every day, the questions that are asked,

the conversation that's happening behind the scenes, and those of you who are taking time to share. Elizabeth, went to Midland's annual Butter T tart festival on Saturday. Yeah, it's this is the season right for butter tarts. And yes, I did have one butter tart pecan, my favorite. It tasted so sweet. And normally I would have had two or three, but one was enough progress over perfection. So you're going to notice that your taste buds are more enhanced and also your taste buds will shut down. Your taste buds are there for a reason. Yes, for you to enjoy your food, but your taste buds are also there for you to recognize this food is bad to prevent you from eating the food that you shouldn't eat because you might get food poisoning.

It's also there to let you know when you've had enough. So if you pay attention to this, you will notice that when you're eating something really sweet or when you're getting to the end of your meal, you don't taste it in the same way that you taste it when you're starting it. And that's your taste buds shutting down and letting you know, we're good. We've had enough. So you know how you had the butter tart? Ooh, it was really sweet. And then you had it and you're like, okay, that's good, right? I've had enough. Same thing if you were to try this with chocolate or whatever it is that you like eating, chips, the first couple, really yummy, really flavorful, and then you have the next piece and the next piece, and it gets to the point that you keep trying to eat it, trying to get the same

satisfaction from that first piece, which isn't there anymore because your taste buds shut down and let you know, hey, we've had enough. So in many ways, your body is communicating with you. Ate my face off on Saturday, way up today, back on track today. Okay. So that happens, right? So if this is like hashtag worth it, just move it along. It's as simple as that. If this is like full of regrets or like, I wish I wouldn't have this or that, um, take some time, rewind, right? Go back to someone asked me on this weekend. Well, how do you like stop the mind? Like, how do you, how do you, like they said they physically know when they've had enough, but they keep going in their mind. And how do you switch that? You switch that by like re like rewiring and

reconnecting. You have to kind of connect the dots, understand why you keep overeating or understand why you keep making choices that don't fall in line with your goals. And you can't sometimes do that in the moment yet you will be able to. So this is where you have to backtrack and go back to, okay, what was my thought process when I had that? Then what, at what point did I know I was like eating more than I wanted to? And then did I like continue that? Because I figure, well, fuck it. I've already messed everything up. And then what happened afterwards in your mind? Did you start that internal dialogue of like, you know, why did I do this? Why did I do that?

And then when you carry that over into today, when you woke up, how did you feel? You know, or that on Sunday, how did you feel? And then what was your thought process, right? Now, what we want you to get to is you overate because it was delicious. It was worth it because you made a conscious choice to overeat and then you just carry on and move along. So that's where we want you to get. It's never been the indulgences that cause you to gain weight. It's usually the aftermath of, well, I indulged on a Friday night, so I might as well just keep it going through the

weekend. Or I indulged and so now I'm going to starve myself, right? Or I don't eat leading up to when I'm going to indulge, and then I overindulge, and then I starve myself the next day. Usually, it's the pattern that happens afterwards that really is what causes the body to feel the need to starve back. So just getting right back at it. Looking forward to this tweak. Good. It's a good tweak. It's a super cool tweak. So downsizing wasn't your jam, then feeding the metabolism is. Okay, so let's be straight up right now. Let me just take a sip of my water. If your weight hasn't been moving for you or is fast, right? Hopefully you have, you've listened to the Dr. Paul conversation for reasons

why your weight might be slower to move, like really listened to and dug into that. You have looked at the supplement list, but the, the, for sure, the basic supplement, secondary supplement, you have listened to the street sleep stress conversation that we had, especially where it's tied into hormones. And you listened to the hormone conversation yesterday. I mean, that's pretty much it, right? Like if your weight isn't moving and the way that you like, there's something in there, right? There's something in there for you to help you figure out what you need to focus on and why your weight might be slower to move. There is something to be said about the state of your body when you start and previous history with dieting. And so this is where especially coming off any real restrictive

dieting, it can take your body a while just to kind of trust that it's going to continue to get what it needs. And so this is where if you haven't seen much movement, and you thought downsizing was going to be it, feeding the metabolism tends to be, this is where people won't wouldn't have lost any weight till week seven of the program. And then they start losing on the back end of the program. So this week is really like, if you haven't lost any weight up until this point, or it's been really slow, really dig into the tweak this week. And if you notice that your weight starts moving with the tweak this week, chances are it's your lack of movement has been due to your metabolism just probably being in a shitter. That happens from years and years of starvation diets, restricting intermittent fasting, you know, that really causes the body the need to store fat.

So this sort of is the week for you. So really be all in with this week. But that doesn't mean that I would wait on this week, like really get investigative about what is going on at this point in the program. If your weight isn't moving, you should be able to tell us why you think that is, especially after all the conversations that we've had. This is kind of it at this point. It's a matter of showing up, figuring out what you need to focus on, whether it's your hormones or your microbiome or food sensitivities, or you've got inflammation happening in the body. What can you do to address those things while obviously continuing to follow the program. Good morning. This is my first program. Hi, Carol. Down 19.5 pounds as of right now. I'm so thrilled.

20 pounds was my goal, but we'll be adjusting that. Love this. It makes so much sense. Love the science. Yes. I love the Science Saturday post. If you have not been reading the Science Saturday, they do a great job of kind of really pulling things all together. In the Science Saturday post, we do talk about hormones. We've talked about insulin. We've talked about hunger. We've talked about quite a few things in our science post. It just kind of takes things to the next level. Some people are like, just tell me what to eat and what to do and I'm good.

Other people want to go down that rabbit hole of information and really understanding why, right? So if you have not been, if you have not been, um, taking the time to read over those, I highly suggest that you do. Someone asked the other day, uh, what to do if you've already reached this, already reached your goal. So first of all, um, let me go back to that. Carol, congrats, Carol. That's amazing. Hard work paying off. Someone asked me what to do the other day about if you reached your goal and you like you've reached your goal. And this is so if this is your first program and you've reached your goal, just because you're done losing weight doesn't mean you're done the work of getting even more in tune to your portions of leveling up your health and wellness, increasing, you know, boosting that, not boosting, but you know, maximizing your metabolism,

working through your issues and associations and whatnot. So I do suggest you follow through on the rest of the program. Now they said, well, I don't want to lose any more weight. Here's the thing is that it's great that you have a number in mind, but if you follow through on the program, that's all about losing weight in a healthy way and you lose a few more pounds, that's your body. That's your body wanting you to be as healthy as possible. You're not going to lose any more weight than you need. Now with whenever I say that I'm always mindful of people like I knew it, I'm not going to lose any more weight. If you have clear visible fat to lose, you are going to be able to lose that fat. You have to really try with this program to lose weight. So it's not like, you know, people try really hard to get that scale to move. So even

in just going through the motions of the program, it's not going to, you're not going to lose more weight than you like. Even if you do, here's the thing is that once you're in maintenance, everyone thinks you reach your goal weight and you stay at that weight. You're, you want, you are, you are reaching your goal weight by trying to see that goal weight every day, right? You're trying to live in a way that you are seeing your lowest low every day, maximize your efforts, drinking your water, doing all the things. Once you reach your goal weight, your weight is going to sit about three to five pounds above that just by normally processing foods in and out by not trying to see your lowest low every day. Cause you don't want to live a life where you're trying to see your lowest low on the scale every day. Right? So, I mean, you can still do all the things, but now you're doing them in order to like, you can still focus on getting

better sleep and managing your stress and moving your body, but for the sake of feeling your best. And so that's something people don't really realize. Once you reach that goal weight, your weight will sit about three to five pounds up. It's not that you've gained that weight back. It's just this is generally when people start to add in more carbs, they tend to be more relaxed about the things that they are doing. And that's where their weight will sit about, they defluctuate. So your set point isn't one number, it's a range of about 10 pounds. And so that's something to keep in mind. But also more than that, you want to follow through on the steps of maintenance. So the living method is four stages. One is lose your weight, step one. Two is to

solidify your weight. So you want to put at least three months into solidifying your weight. You'll do that by doing another round of the program or by doing this thing called personalize the plan, which we'll outline at the end of the program. Then you want to maintain your weight, put some time into maintenance, testing the waters, getting to understand what maintenance looks like to feels like to you before you move on and just live your life the living way. Right? So you are kind of throughout this program, creating a new lifestyle for you. Someone asked the other day, what do you mean by working through old habits, issues and associations by creating new ones? I thought that was a really great question. So what that means is your old habits, right? Those are the ones that supported your old

way of living, how you felt before you started the program, snacking at night, not prioritizing yourself, not moving your body, not being mindful of your stress, you know, not like not necessarily the things you weren't doing, but it was you the habits that you have created, right? This one may be like after dinner, I go for a walk when I'm hungry at night, I have some tea, I, you know, created a whole nighttime routine to help me sleep better, right? So these, these habits or these things that you are doing in order to reach this goal, this is creating the new lifestyle that you're going to live that once you have done losing your weight solidifying your weight maintaining your weight you get to a place where you wake up you

look good you feel good you go about your day just living your life right so there's different stages and phases uh to that so you want to stick around to the very end of the program now if you've done the program before and you have you know you've reached your goal halfway through your second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, whatever, tenth program, then you can roll into maintenance. If you're deciding to just personalize the plan, you can do that or just follow out the rest of the program in order to solidify your weight. So we are working on a new maintenance program. So right now people are doing the weight loss program again for the sake of maintenance, but they're in the maintenance group, understanding it relevant to, so what does feeding the metabolism mean in maintenance, right? Same thing, prioritizing, practicing those four questions, really getting even more in tune to those portions and whatnot. So we're working on a maintenance program. Right now, people are repeating the weight loss program in order to solidify the weight. I know it might sound complicated. It's actually not. We're going to go over it at the end. So if you reach your

goal, still keep working towards right to the end, right to the end, making all the tweets. So you eat protein and leafy salad, then 20 to 30 minutes. So you eat, if you're going to split up your meals and snacks, you can separate your protein from your carbohydrates. And let's say you had some vegetables, some chicken, leafy greens, your healthy fats, or like your avocados on a salad. And then you have, say it's lunch, so you add in some rice or some quinoa, right? So what you're going to do is you're going to take your chicken and you're going to eat that first. Now you can also take your leafy greens and your avocado and eat that with your protein and then have your vegetables and your quinoa or your rice, whatever you choose to have second, right? So that's where

you want to split it up. So your protein first and then your carbohydrates second and then your leafy greens and healthy fats can go either way. So whatever you prefer with that, whatever you prefer that. Um, and my coworkers laugh every time this week comes up when my timer goes off, they cheer. Yeah. It's a, listen, it's, um, it's a, it's a weird tweak. It's super effective. Again, there's so much rhyme and reason to it. On other diets, you starve and deprive and you count and you weigh and you measure. And for our purposes, we approach weight loss from a variety of different angles each week. So the feeding the metabolism, it's a little bit inconvenient for sure, but what you learn from it, I 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. Downsizing week was great for me. 3.2 pounds down. Yeah. So now it could have been downsizing week or it could have been the weeks in between, or it could be the time that you've put into the process so far. That's the thing about looking at each week as working better, like working for you or not working for you. a lot of times people don't account for the fact that weight loss is based on momentum, right? So even if losing your weight during the feeding the metabolism part of the tweak, it could have been what you've done leading up to this point.

It could be that breaking point. Remember that post that we posted about the ice cube, the what, you know, the weight loss really looks like that from the James Clear book, where it's like there's a threshold and a breaking point, right? So you're trying to melt an ice cube and you keep turning up the temperature in the room by one degrees. And it's just, it's still solid. It's still solid. It's still solid. It's still solid. So each time you turn that up, it's not like it's adding up, but at some point you get to a certain temperature, there's a breaking point and the ice starts to melt. So it's kind of very similar with our bodies, right? Like think of the conversations that we've

had with our guest experts, especially when it comes to hormones and our body's feeling the need to store fat, right? Addressing your body's needs until your body's like, okay, I keep getting what I need here. What I don't need is this excess fat. So let me start to release that fat. So it could just be that breaking point too. I love this tweak. I didn't do downsizing second time around. Life got in the way, but I realized I don't have issues with food waste. I am okay with not eating all on my plate. However, I didn't feel the hunger as I should have. I will work hard this week to feel anything I know will help me look at my portion sizes. Yeah. So the tweak is it? Yeah. So it's less

about eating less. It is about those issues that can come up, but it also is about getting in tune to those portions as well. Right. In a very low stress way, trying to decrease the amount of food that your body is used to consuming or the amounts of insulin your body is producing based on that amount of food. Hi Liz, I'm almost at my original start weight for this session. My number went up three pounds on the scale this week alone. My son was in town for six days. We have a very strained relationship. I got 80 active zone minutes in my Fitbit because of the anxiety I felt. Well, there you go. You know what? That's really important to understand is that when you're stressed, how much energy output that you have right Saturday night I wanted chips and dip my

old standby for emotional comfort and my husband said no you don't need that if you're going to have anything just eat what's here in the house uh he goes you don't need anything at all but eat what we have here because it's more healthy I love him for that I love him for saying no you know I would do this for two right like some of might be like, don't tell me what I need to do. You need to figure it out on this own. And there is still people in our lives who are really are there to support us. Like Tony, for me, I'm always like, okay, tomorrow, if I have to get up, I have to move my body. If I say I don't want to just remind me that I'm, this is my goal. And he's respects. If I say, no, I'm not going to do it. And he's like,

okay, just reminding you like you told me to, right? So there's nothing wrong with that. So today I'm treating myself with grace and self-love and compassion. I'm going to add compassion to that one, right? Grace is great. Self-love is great, but you should add compassion in there as well. I know what that's like to have a strained relationship with your your child. I one of my kids has mental health issues. And there was a year not last year, but the year before was probably one of the hardest times in my life that I had ever gone through. So I can really kind of I can relate with the stress of that when you just want the best for them and you know they're just whatever that they're doing so it's it's very stressful I I would I would say I'm still trying

to get over the stress of that um because it's still obviously they're still my kid and there's a still an ongoing situation which is like forever stressful I hope it gets better but it's just so tough. It's so tough. Um, it can literally break you down because especially as a parent, it's not just when you're having the conversations with them or what's happening. It's when you go to bed, it's all day, every day, it's all consuming. And we are so taught instinctually to put ourselves, you know, to put our children first, right? Like their needs. Um, and it's really tough because you really try to just still live life and everyone tells you like, Oh, well,

they're just going to whatever. And you got to focus on yourself or whatever, but it's, it's really, uh, it's, it's super disheartening and it's super stressful and it can really break you down. So I love that you're recognizing this. So I'm going to add compassion and let go of the anxiety I felt. I know I'll get back down and get back on track. If anything, I learned that I really need to work on my relationship with my son. I'm not willing to walk away from him like everybody else in my life who I feel hurt from. Okay, so you know what I thought you were going to say there?

I thought you were going to say, if anything, I really need to work on my relationship with myself. Cause that in my experience is what like I had to say to myself, okay, I'm a good mom. I want the most for my kid. I want to be there for them. I want to help them. I, I, of course I want to do everything I possibly can for them. I love them the most out of anybody in the entire world. But what I needed to heal was really not my relationship with them, but my relationship with myself. So that when I had conversations with them, I'm coming from a place of like, self compassion, self grace, like grace and love for myself. And I noticed that that is when I started to actually be able to change my communication with them was when I really like also boundaries

and not like hardcore boundaries, but I had to realize that I was good enough. I had to realize that maybe I wasn't perfect, but I did my best. I was the one that needed to let go of what I did or what I didn't in the past when it came to how it affected them. And when I healed that with myself, that really enabled me to have the conversations that I needed to have in the way I needed to have them with my child. I don't know your situation, but I'm just saying that you might want to consider that as well. But this is so tough. So this is where you need to prioritize yourself, make time for yourself. Like, so I've had to do things like I've had to say like, nope, because I have to with my other kids too. I can't do this. I don't have a capacity right now. I love you guys, but I am right now because

I could tell when I would be at a tipping point that I'd be like, I right now I can't. And then they didn't understand. They had a really hard time of understanding like why I was doing that. And sometimes they felt a little hurt, but then later on, they came to really understand, like I was doing that for me so that I could show up and be the best me that I possibly could. So, Oh my gosh, that's so tough. Hi, Judy. Good morning. I did recent blood work and my sodium potassium levels are low. So my doctor recommended Gatorade once per day. So that would be the same as, so your sodium levels. So here's a couple of things. I would highly suggest that you go back and read over the posts that we have on low sodium and read over the post and watch the

video with Dr. Pfeiffer. And so rather than Gatorade, which no offense to your doctor, but Gatorade is a bunch of sugar and food coloring, you can literally pick up trace minerals, or add some salt to your water. And this would do the exact same thing. So there are many reasons why let me finish reading this because I know what's going to happen here. Let me just read this. Okay. I just did recent blood work. Sodium potassium levels are low, so my doctor recommended Gatorade once per day. But what also came back was my result in my blood glucose level was up two points from when I started the program. I'm just really confused about that. Why would this happen? So blood glucose is based on what you've eaten that day and what time you're getting your test

done. That is really important. Also, your glucose levels isn't based on your carbohydrate intake or anything like that. Um, so this is a conversation that you would want to have with your doctor. Um, why would this happen? What did your doctor say? That's what I, because there's so many variables to this. So that would be what I would want to know is what did your doctor say? What was your doctor's reason for this? Has anyone else happened to them? I'm very concerned that this level going up for diabetes. So why would you think that, right? So there could be that before you went and had your blood tested, your levels were way higher than what they are right now. Like what exactly do you think would put you at risk for diabetes, right? Like eating good, healthy, nutrient-rich

foods, you know, drinking enough water to be hydrated, managing your stress, your sleep, trying to move like it. What exactly is it? So I think before you do a shout out and a call out to the whole community, one about has this happened to you before, you can't trust what anybody else says to you because there's so many variables to this that what's happening with you could be totally different than what's happened with someone else. So why didn't you ask your doctor, right? Like this is where you want to be an advocate for yourself. I know sometimes in the moment we don't know what to ask, but make a follow-up appointment with your doctor and say this to them, right? Say this to them because you could have an

underlying issue that is causing this that no one else in the group can speak on that, right? And neither can me or my team. But when it concerns about the program, you have to kind of really break it down and be realistic about what am I actually doing here? How did I eat before versus how I'm eating now? Like the program, there is zero negative side effect. We've studied this from following the Libby method. It's really just about getting healthy at the end of the day and helping you to make the choices that you need to make in order for your body to function at the most optimal levels. I joined this program so I wouldn't get up to that point. So I'm not sure what I may be doing wrong or missing. So this is such a loaded conversation. It's not anything that you're doing wrong or missing. It could be the time of day that you tested. It could be your

stress levels. Your stress levels can affect what's going on in your body. It could be the state of your body when you started., when was the last time you got your blood taken? What were your results then? And if you didn't, you know, it could be that you've actually made improvements rather than like things obviously haven't gotten worse. And if they have, then you obviously have some sort of underlying health issue happening. I do want to talk about the low sodium and potassium levels. So low potassium, hyperkalemia, low potassium is no joke. Low potassium could be a signal for a variety of things. So to me, I don't know if maybe you just got the blood work and you haven't talked to your doctor, but you don't want to mess around with potassium levels because high potassium, low potassium, that's concerning. And so I would imagine whatever's going on might have something to do that there's some underlying. I'm not a

doctor. I'm trying to just kind of just open your mind to what be going on. Sodium is something that we talk about in the program and not because the program causes low sodium issues, medications that you take can cause low sodium issues as you age, especially as you tend to eat, um, clean up your diet for lack of a better word and not getting the sodium that you normally get, uh, in your diet. So this is why we do suggest, um, trace minerals is on the supplement list that you just add these to your water and that'll help with that, especially when it comes to, um, uh, the warmer temperatures. So, I mean, Judy, if what we can do for you from our end, if you want to go through sort of like how, if you want to post your answers to the 20 questions and obviously add any health issues that you're having, anything like that, we can sort of help maybe from our part,

make any kind of tweaks to anything that you're doing. But really at the end of the day, it's a conversation for your doctor. We're not here. We're not, we're not here to provide medical advice and nor do you really want to be asking the community as well. This is really where you really want to go to your, um, where your go to your, um, healthcare provider. Uh, technical issues, your mouth and words are not conciding. Yeah, so today when I started the live, we started with some technical issues. I couldn't jump on in the way that I normally do. Yeah, low sodium and high potassium is also something to watch out for. It's a bad combination. Yeah, that's why I'm like, that's why you got to really talk to your doctor. Do we add trace minerals to our water one to two times a day? So what you can, what you can do is either add small drops in your water

throughout the day, or you don't want, you want to be mindful of adding too many drops in such a small period of time. Yeah. You guys are all giving suggestions, right? So if you have low sodium, what you want to do is decrease the amount of water until you get your sodium levels back up. So it's not from drinking more water. It's usually from not getting enough sodium in your diet and or sweating and whatnot. Um, yes. And you can add, you can add a banana, like low sodium, low potassium, like potassium, your potassium being low in a sense that you're getting cramps, adding in a banana, avocado, something like that, but potassium low on your blood levels, that's where you really want to have a conversation with your doctors.

I went to my doctor a week ago and she was so excited about my weight loss and she went through my blood work and compared it to before I started the program. She was amazed at the improvement. She asked what I was doing and took down the name of the program. She's very excited to see me again in three months to see how things are going. That should be the result of following the Livi method. But here's the thing. I think what I'm trying to say is you could have had underlying issues like before you started the program that you were unaware of. And, you know, even while doing the program and losing this weight in a healthy way and becoming healthy, God forbid, some people might still be diagnosed with, you know, certain, we've had people diagnosed with cancers, with MS, with, you know, you know, lifestyle, you know,

diseases, even though they are on this mission to be as healthy as possible, right? So although doing the living method is a great way of how to get healthy and lose your weight in a healthy way, there could be still underlying issues that you're dealing with. Planning for knee replacement surgery next Monday. I'm solidifying my weight, but know that surgery and pain medications, hi Terry, can screw up the metabolism. We'll have to focus on recovery and lots of physio for the next three months. Going, I can drive in six weeks, hoping you can drive in six weeks. Okay, so let me put your mind at ease. So I have helped people or had people do the program because they were heavily into exercise. And then they were concerned that if all of a sudden they were going to be inactive,

they would gain all this weight. Not only did they not gain weight, but they ended up losing weight. So your body, remember, has no need to store that extra fat, but you're right about medications. Medications can cause your body to retain more water for a variety of reasons. Your, whatever you're dealing with can cause inflammation in your body. So, you know, as long as you are, you know, still following the plan the best you can, any increase in weight, obviously, as you know, is just going to be your body reacting to stress, right? You guys are talking about stress. Yeah, stress is pretty crazy. Stress, stress, it's amazing. My body usually loves this round. This, my body usually loves maximizing weight. I hope this round

is no different. I'll be focused on it being consistent. I've had a heck of a bouncy ride, which has affected my mindset, but I am the only one who can fix this. Hi, Pamela. Remember, here's the thing. So when you say my body usually loves, right? So this is where I know you've done a few programs with us and we get so stuck on what we know works. This is where I think you really want to take a minute, because it's been a bumpy ride for you, why is that life has been happening, and if life is happening, what can I do to balance that out, manage my stress, go for more walks, do some deep breathing exercises, what is it, right, what can I, and then also you don't want to just keep repeating what you did last time, you want to make sure you are doing what you need to do this time to meet your body's needs where you need to do this time to meet

your body's needs where you're at, right? So just something to think about. You know, also we're here for you just because you are a rock star at this program, which I know that you are, doesn't mean it's not worth still you reaching out as often as you need. So make sure you reach out. Make sure you reach out. My husband brought red velvet brownies at Costco two two weeks ago i've walked by the box and had not had one normally i would have ate a lot by now loving how i eat so much better that right that's a huge non-scale victory is just recognizing you don't really want it you don't want it you also don't need it you never needed it but now you don't want it. You also don't need it. You never needed it, but now you don't want it. That's,

that is a sign of the work that you are doing far beyond what you are eating and when, like really getting in tune with your body's needs. That's also, that's working through triggers, right? Habits, associations, right? To that. So that, that brownie, you know, you would have, you know, normally you would have eaten the whole box and now you haven't. So that is really rewiring your brain and how you're associating with how you're feeling with those foods now versus associating with how you felt about those foods before, you know, that in itself is huge. Dr. Beverly David's going to join us on Thursday. We're going to talk about that internal dialogue, how to kind of switch that around, which is going to be interesting on Thursday. Let me scroll down.

Let me scroll down. Week 7 and down 8.7 pounds, but more than that, I sleep great. No eating at night, no cravings, even wine. What an awesome feeling coming into Monday without the inflammation. Looking forward to this week. Sounds so interesting. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I trust you. I love that.

I love that. You guys, sorry. You guys know I'm not on blind faith, but I love that. Trust, trust, trust. Have a little, have a little trust. Have a little trust. That's a whole vibe. That's a whole vibe.

I don't have time for a science Saturday. Too busy with psychotic child Saturdays. I hear you. I am going to work on putting them in an audio version. Not obviously not today because you can tell by my voice I won't be able to do that. But somehow I'm going to try to figure out a way because they are long. Last week, Gina made a comment. Leveling up doesn't necessarily mean doing more. It could also mean doing better. This is a new intention I look at every day while incorporating the science Saturday post on effort. Oh, you know, I love that so much. Yes, leveling up doesn't mean more.

Maximizing doesn't mean more either, right? Like it means if you even just level up by 1%, all the little things that you do, that's going to make a big difference in everything that you are doing, right? It's all the little things that you're doing. Okay, let me go through this. Without going on into a novel here, I have been on a plateau since the winter program, bouncing up and down and now feels like dead stand still. Roughly the same weight within or less than a pound for the last 11 days very what is that you've been on a plateau since winter bounced up and down and now feels like a dead stand still roughly the exact same weight within or less a pound for the

last 11 days very consistent but scales got me like what eating and drinking 3.5 liters on plan exercising some resistance training change batteries batters in the scale, visited my doctor, did the blood test. I know I've got stress, but I try taking time to breathe and meditate. I've made so many non-scale victories, but mentally very frustrating when I'm feeling stuck. I keep seeking to it because I've noticed if anything, I feel better health wise. Okay. I have so many questions for you. What is happening on your life that's causing you the stress, right? Like that's where you really have to take a look at your situation. Um, is like really, you're just, maybe this is the best that you can possibly do. Did you lose weight? Like when you did the winter program, did you

lose weight? Did you do the fall program and lost a lot of weight? Like I have a lot of questions, right? Because sometimes people can lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, and their body needs a long, a big chunk of time in order to solidify the way that they've lost. So there could be that. I don't know your history there because I kind of need a novel. Like I almost need a novel to know what's going on, but I'm going to do the best that I possibly can. So what is, so blood work, as we know, your doctor did the blood test, but what is that? Did you get your cortisol levels trusted along with your stress? So you say you have high stress, but to what extent? I don't know how old you are and what's going on with your hormones

because your hormones also aren't really something that you can test or something that your blood work is going to show, right? So what is your age? Have you been listening to our conversations in regards to hormones? Is your stress affecting your sleep, right? If your stress is affecting your sleep, you're not getting great sleep, then that affects how your body is processing the foods that you are consuming. Is your body changing, right? Are you noticing your body change? It's one thing for the scale not to move, but are you noticing your body change? Are

you dropping dress sizes, right? So as long as your weight isn't moving, I'm not too concerned about that. As long as your body is changing. So where I think where the answer lies in this for you, like, why do you think this is, again, a perfect example, which I started off the top. And so if you want to, if you want to go and post this on the question of the day post and kind of a follow up to this, My thing that I would say to you is it's great that you've told me what you are doing, right? So you're drinking the water 3.5 plus. Now, oh, I don't know why that's doing that. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. I'm drinking the water. 3.5. But how tall are you? So if you're drinking 3.5 plus, I'm assuming it's 3.5 plus a little bit. So, cause if you were drinking four,

you would have said four. If you're drinking five, you would have said five, right? So I'm assuming you're drinking 3.5. So I'm assuming that you are five, seven, like five, five, maybe, maybe only have 20 pounds to lose. If you're anything taller than that, have more weight to lose than that, then you want to be drinking more water than that, right? Especially if you are, if you are exercising, then you definitely want to drink more water than that, right? Especially if you are, if you are exercising, then you definitely want to drink more water than that. So to me, you would definitely want to bump up that water. You're exercising and some resistance training. So what is exercising and some resistance training? What does that mean? Does that mean like you're walking the dog?

Or are you doing a Pilates class, yoga class? Are you getting your heart rate up? And what is some resistance training? Is that like doing, you know, resistance training like three times a week? Are you getting your heart rate up? And what is some resistance training? Is that like doing, you know, resistance training like three times a week? Are you like really trying to build muscle, right? So that's really all that you've told me is that you are eating, you are drinking 3.5 liters on plan and you're exercising. So this is where you if you want to post your questions to your answers to your 20 questions, you can do that. So what on a scale of one to 10? How is your how is your stress, right? Like you could you could be doing deep breathing exercises. But if your scale if your stress is a 10, then you have to understand the impact that it's having on your body. And maybe just being able to maintain your

weight right now is like huge, right? Like it's not always about losing depending what we have going on in your life. So if you lost a bit of weight, you're actually able to maintain and everything, you know, you're living a very stressful life, then maintaining in itself is amazing, right? So this is sort of where like I've got stress, but I'm taking time to breathe and meditate, you know, I have so many non-scale victories, but mentally very frustrating, I'm feeling stuck. So this is where I would like to know why you think that you are stuck, why you think your weight isn't moving. Um, keeping in mind the conversations that we have had, right? Those four reasons why your weight might be slow

to move. Like how are your bowel movements? Like, are you going just once a day? You're only going after you have a coffee that can be a sign that your digestive system could need a little work. Are you feeling bloated after you eat? Have you added in the basic supplements? I got so many questions for you. I got so many questions for you. So I'm not really going to be able to answer this for you unless you've responded here. I'm not really able to answer this for you at this point. It would just be really guessing. But if you want to post your questions to your 20 questions, post your answers to your 20 questions, the team will be happy to take a look. I got to go, everyone. Thanks for joining me today. I hope that you're excited about this week. It's about showing up. So at the beginning of the week,

pull out that maximizing post, kind of reset, recognize that you are still here. Give yourself a pat on the back for that. Absolutely. Do not stress about the tweak midweek. Join Kim and I for the tweak this week conversation. We're going to talk more about that. We have a whole post on the splitting up the meals and snacks part. If you are using the app or you have the book, that feeding the metabolism part is in the book. So you can look ahead and read that if you want. Make sure you reach out and ask as many questions as you need. I am planning on being back tonight at 7pm. hopefully my voice holds out um i will be here so you want to join me then i will see you then otherwise uh dr dina kara is joining us tomorrow uh no doubt going to be an amazing conversation um have an amazing rest of your day everyone and i'll see you later