The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 50 - Winter 2025

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 2025 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/livymethodwinter2025Welcome to Day 50 and Week 7 of The Program! This week, it's all about doubling down on prioritizing yourself. Gina is talking Feeding the Metabolism—what it is, why it works, and how this tweak could be the game-changer if your scale hasn’t budged yet. It’s also time to reflect on your journey so far and use your awareness to make the best choices moving forward. She'll dive into satiety hormones—what they are and how to use them to your advantage—and how separating your proteins from your carbohydrates can take this tweak to the next level.To learn more about The Livy Method, or to sign up for the Spring 2025 Program, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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I went in the comment section yesterday and people are very polarized about this tweak, which I always find fascinating because you've probably done all the diets before. You've lost the weight, you've gained it back, you lost the weight, gained it back, you somewhat felt hopeless. The world feels hopeless about dieting to the point where they've created all these weight loss medications that now you have to take for the rest of your life and not only are they costly but they're side effects. The living method works. We've studied it.

Eventually, we will do clinical trials to clinically prove it. Thousands and thousands and thousands of our members have gone on to be successful, not just lose their weight, but lose it in a way that actually makes them healthier and losing it in a way that gives them a fighting chance of being able to sustain and maintain. I lost over 100 pounds, been maintaining it for over 30 something years. Every year I get older, it gets blurred. It works, but it works because it is different than any other diet. And I put my heart and my soul and my entire life

into trying to figure out what people need to do in order to lose their weight in a way that they're going to be able to maintain and sustain. And so these tweaks are not to torture you. These tweaks are not to make things inconvenient for you. They are there to help you, to help you understand yourself better. Not only the choices that you're making, but how your body responds to help you get in tune to your portions without doing math. Counting, weighing and measuring is so outside of yourself. Calories in versus calories out. It's just horse shit. If you haven't figured

that out by now, yes, you can lose weight by eating less and exercising more. At least you could when you were younger. That's forcing and starving and depriving your fat off, which just as we know, reinforces the need for it and just creates a higher set point every single time. And so this week is really interesting because it forces you to make time for yourself. Some of you have been doing a diet longer than you ever have because you need to put the time in. You just have to put the time in. That's just how it is. And I find things usually take longer than we like. But it causes you at this point, seven weeks in to double down on focusing and prioritizing

yourself, making time for yourself. Also, if you find that my life is too busy, that's probably why you're fat. It's probably why you're carrying this excess fat is because your life is so busy, you probably don't make time to eat. And this is where you need to take a look at your life and being like, well, how do I live my life? And how does the things that happen to me

and how I'm living my life affect the choices that I'm making and taking a look at that and really understanding your reality. Now some people will be able to do all of the things. Some people will be able to do half of the things. Some people will be able to do some of the things. It's all worth doing. And then it comes down to the pressure that you put on yourself. People who can only do some of the things, it will take them longer to lose their weight, but they will lose their weight. Some of the people who can do all

the things will be able to lose their weight and do it a lot quicker. Now, if they don't spend as much time doing it, that might mean that there is still things that they need to focus on on the back end, like continuing to work through their issues and associations and things. Just because you're done losing your weight physically doesn't mean that you're done losing your weight mentally, like solidifying that mindset. And so these tweaks are designed to kind of shake things up physically, mentally. So it's really cool this week where you're going to take the same portions that you're going to consume over that.

So we're going to bring it back to satisfaction for the first three days, right? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you're back to following the basic food plan, eating all your meals and snacks, making them nutrient rich, still having token amounts if you're not hungry, asking the four questions, eating just enough so that when you're walking away feeling satisfied. So you're going to take those same portions that you are working to be in tune with in terms of satisfaction, you're going to split them in two. You're going to eat that first portion, then you're going to wait 20, 30 minutes.

And then you're going to find that you're really not all that hungry for that second portion after your body starts to process and digest your foods. And yes, you still have to have a token amount of it. So you have to eat it at least a few bites, even if you're not hungry. Or if you are hungry, you're going to ask those four mindful eating questions again and eat enough so that you're walking away feeling satisfied. It's really cool when you take the pressure off. I saw someone's comment on the weekend giving me feedback. I love feedback, but I like feedback at the end of the program when you see how it all works together because I just can't spend all my day hearing feedback from everybody

without truly understanding how the process works. But somebody was talking about how downsizing was very triggering. I'm like, well, yeah, that's what it's meant for. I'm not fucking around. Let's get this shit done already. So I throw a tweak at you. That's going to bring up a lot of feels. It's really going to differentiate between the people who really are here to do the work and people who are looking for a quick fix. I'm not into helping people for a quick fix. I could care less about that. I want to help people truly actually lose their weight, be able to move on in a way that they can enjoy life and all the yummy

bites of bits that come with it. So downsizing is very triggering. It's hard for people. They're going to think, oh my God, I'm starving. I'm not eating enough. I'm so hungry, even though you're eating six times a day, probably better than you ever have in your entire life. It's hard for people to leave food on their plate. They deal with food waste issues, food scarcity issues. It's the one tweak that's more resemble the diet. And now this week, I'm gonna take those same people and now you have to eat. You have to eat more often

and you're gonna separate your meals and snacks. You're gonna eat the first portion. After time goes by, you're gonna realize, oh, I'm actually pretty satisfied. Then I'm gonna make you eat that second portion, at least a few bites. And when you take that pressure off and all the things that resemble a diet, and you have the freedom to just wait and see, and you can have that second portion, it's amazing the pressure when the pressure is off, how you're in tune in a whole other way. It's a really cool tweak.

I had someone just outright say, now, I'm not doing it. That's what I think her voice said, because it sounded like it. I'm not doing it. I'm already cooking enough. All right, fine. Don't do it. I didn't ask you to sign up. What I am doing is sharing everything that I have ever learned about being a weight loss expert, helping hundreds of thousands of people. It's been my only thing I've done in my entire life because I want you to be successful. Don't do it if you don't want to do it. But don't come crying to me when the scale is not moving. Right? Just don't do it.

Because here's the thing, you could just do the basic food plan and still lose weight. But I want to work with people who want to figure this shit out. I want to work with people who are done doing those shitty diets and want to do it a different way. I want to work with people who are like, I want to just get over this weight journey already because I want to get everyone across that finish line. I want everyone to reach their weight loss goals because I got other things I want to focus on too.

Now that you, when you lose your weight and your mind is free to focus on other things, I want to talk about, let's talk a little truly living our best lives. We no longer have to focus on fat loss. So if you come from the mindset of like, let me figure, let me like, okay, let me be, let me just see what this is all about. Let me give this a go. Like keep your, a big part of this success on this program is keeping an open mind. And I think some people get very angry at this tweak and some people have gotten very angry at me.

I am not trying to fuck you over. I'm literally trying to help you be successful. Because if you are successful at not just losing your weight but you're successful at maintaining and sustaining your weight, I will be successful. That is how I achieve my success is by actually helping you truly lose your weight in a way you can maintain and sustain.

So try to be open to the rhyme and the reasons behind the tweaks. success is by actually helping you truly lose your weight in a way you can maintain and sustain. So try to be open to the rhyme and the reasons behind the tweaks. So that second part where you separate the proteins from the carbs, that is the setup for a tweak that's coming down the pipeline because we're always very forward thinking. Big picture around here. And it's really interesting how protein and fat hit differently. And they feed into your, say, tidy hormones. They make you feel more satisfied.

So carbohydrates, they break down. They give your body energy. And so does fat, but in a more sustaining way. And so you might be able to split up all your meals and snacks and separate your proteins from your carbs. You might be able to only split up some. You might only be able to split up a couple. And even then then it is still worth doing. So don't stress about the tweak. You will notice that our returning members love this week. Now, before I get into answering your

questions, if your weight still hasn't moved, and I know the people exist, but they are few and far between, there's a couple things. If downsizing wasn't your tweak, you will find this is your tweak, but this might mess you up because you're thinking, oh my goodness, now I'm going to eat more. And how's that going to work? Because this week feeds into your metabolism. And if one of the reasons why your weight is slow to move is because you've been forcing your body to store fat and you have a history of dieting, giving your body what it needs may very well be the answer to getting and keeping that scale moving. We've had people go up to seven weeks and lose any weight and then lose 30, 40 pounds

in the back end. So this is a great tweak, especially for those who feel like your history of dieting has been affecting what's going on in the scale. The other thing I want to talk about this weekend is a lot of people reaching out and being like, this isn't working for me, my weight isn't moving, what am I doing wrong, what am I, whatever. So at this point, I want you to tell me, because if your weight hasn't moved,

I'm assuming you've listened to all of our guest experts, the whole sleep series that we did, Sleep and Stress, the series that we did with Dr. Paul, the understanding the state of your body, you have gone through the maximizing 20 questions. One of the things I noticed when people say this isn't working for me, one, when I click on their profile, they haven't actually asked any questions along the way. So you really got to help us help you. You just can't come out of nowhere without any kind of background.

You got to be asking questions along the way. How is it week seven? You haven't asked a question yet. Let's figure this out. The other thing is the answers to your 20 questions maximizing. And so this is where I'll say post your 20 questions because we have a great team here to help you figure it out. But you've got to give us detailed answers, not just are you exercising and you say yes,

you tell us exactly what you're doing for exercising. And you'll find as you'll go through the 20 questions and in asking the questions yourself, you'll probably figure out the things that you need to specifically work on. But I'm going to schedule a troubleshooting session. So for those of you who are having a hard time, I'm going to actually schedule a troubleshooting session, take you through those 20 questions. So keep an eye out for that. All right, let's go.

Feeding the metabolism week is the week you guys were waiting for. Down seven pounds on this week last time. Yeah, it's a cool. But it doesn't work unless you've done the groundwork of all the weeks leading up, right? That's what people will look at any certain week and be like, oh my God, this week is amazing. But it's because of the work that you've done up until this point. Okay, let me scroll back and see where you guys are in the comments.

I've done the program two to three times and this is the first time I've made it to day 50. Yeah, that happens a lot because you know, sometimes you get to sticking points where you just, you don't have the capacity or not ready to work through some things that you need to work through or life, just the season of the life that you're living, isn't it making easy for you? So non-scale victory for me. Absolutely.

I love that. I've lost and gained the same five pounds 50 days in, and I've been so frustrated, but I'm here and working hard and continuing to show up and not quit this time. The feeling that you will have, the feeling that you will have when you make it to the end, this is one of the reasons why I've broken it down into 91 day digestible chunks of time is that there's got to be a start to your weight loss journey and there's got to be an end. There has to be an end to it.

And so there's a start of the program and then there's an end of the program. And then there's the middle, the middle of your weight loss journey, the middle of these programs and the feeling that you're going to get by starting this and following through and finishing at the end, no matter what is happening on the scale, you will walk away just feeling so proud of yourself and empowered because simply just putting this much time into self-awareness, into being hydrated, into eating healthy, nutrient-rich foods,

into managing your stress and moving your body, all of the little things you're doing will add up and make a difference. It's about that breaking point. It's about having all the things that you're doing, adding up, starting to slowly pull everything in. And this is the point where a lot of you are starting to really notice those little bits on the scale. Holy shit, that's actually adding up to a significant amount of weight. Or you're noticing your body change. The scale may not be moving much, but you're like down

dress sizes and you're like, wow, what is going on here? So getting to the end of the program, I think is something that you should do for yourself. You committed to the 91 days. There was a reason why you signed up. It's important what it says to your soul when you follow through and you finish. Really especially if you have a history of dieting where you've started and quit and started to quit. Now you probably were in tune to the fact those are pretty shitty diets and there's probably a reason why you stopped following.

But the living method is different, right? Just in showing up and doing all those things, you're going to walk away feeling a lot healthier at the end of the day. I just want to get over this fat loss journey, right? Right? Like you've been probably at it for so long, so many people that you just want it done already and those are the feelings that make us frustrated. And that's why you don't want to fester in your funk,

because you probably have a lot of feels about, okay, I just want to get this done already. I just want to, I want to just, I want to fucking retire and be a billionaire already. It's taken forever. You know what I'm saying? Things take, you want, you've been building a house. Always, you know, I always have friends

or people I know building a house. Oh, it'll be done in like two years, three years later, they're still living in their parents' basement. Everything takes longer than what we would like. Anything I've ever accomplished in my life has taken longer than I wanted it to be. Our weight loss journey's chances are going to be no different. Now, there are some people who will just easy peasy, one and done. I don't want to just go on and on and on about how it's so hard because

at the end of the program, we do a survey and a lot of people will tell us that that was just so easy. Like as a big takeaway, oh, that was so easy. Thank you. That was so easy. Wow. That was so easy. That was so easy. So I tend to really focus on people who are struggling because I want to get everyone across the finish line. But for the people who just kind of take this, just do what they need to do, and that's why I say those A type people, they follow the rules, for lack of a better word.

They just follow through and finish. So the type of people who follow through and finish, they always will do really well in the program. Now they tend to struggle more in maintenance, because they were so perfect about following that there's a lot to be learned about not being perfect. Sometimes when you're just following the rules and there are no rules anymore, then that is where you're left to deal with some underlying issues. Whether you do the work now and when the weight loss or do the work later in maintenance, at some

point you got to do the work now and when the weight loss or do the work later in maintenance, at some point you're gonna do the work. Gina, I haven't been all in, but I am now. You know, yeah, there comes a point, so let's reflect halfway through and be like, okay, so why did I sign up, right? I signed up, what did I think I was gonna get out of this program? Why did I sign up?

What did I think I was gonna get out of it? What do I want to get out of it? So what is your why? You know, it's been seven weeks. Okay, I'm starting to understand out of it? What do I want to get out of it? So what is your why? It's been seven weeks. OK, I'm starting to understand this Gina girl is like the real deal. She doesn't bullshit, doesn't try to sell us on nothing, blow smoke up her ass. If anything, she's like, I'm definitely not the best salesperson for my program.

I put a lot of it on you. I know my program works, but I can't help what you do when you show up. How have you been showing up for yourself? Not in a criticizing way, not a criticizing way. What is the mindset you've been showing up with? How have you been with setting yourself up for success? Are you journaling? Did you buy the journal and now you stopped using it?

Open that shit back up again and start journaling. Did you start setting intentions and now you've stopped? A lot of you stopped using it, open that ship back up again and start journaling. Did you start setting intentions and now you've stopped? A lot of you stopped. I checked the intentions in the morning. I checked the end of day reflections. The numbers are dwindling. And here's one thing we know for sure. People who stick around are successful.

People who use the app every single day are more successful than people who don't. People who journal are more successful than people who don't. People who journal are more successful than people who don't. People who set intentions and today reflections more successful than people who don't. People who chuck their weight every day more successful than people who don't. I'll tell you why. Because it keeps you accountable. It keeps this process in the forefront of your mind. It reminds you every single day that you are doing this program. This is where week seven is reminding you at every single meal and day that you are doing this program. And this is where week seven is reminding you at every single meal and snack that you are here for a reason because you want this fucking weight off already and you want to move on with your life. Right. And so how have you been showing

up for yourself? How have you been showing up for yourself? Have you been miss pissy pants or Mr. pissy pants the last seven weeks showing up. pissy pants, the last seven weeks, showing up begrudgingly, showing up irritated, whatever, or you excited about making change in your life? What is the energy that you're showing up with? How are you? How are you supporting yourself? What are the words that you would use to describe your journey? And then take a minute. I have these pep talks with myself all the time. all the time. Even just this morning. I'm not feeling so hot. You might, might, might, might feel it in my voice. I don't even know what I'm saying because I'm jacked up on all the drugs. And I was like, okay, I just,

I got to get through my day. And I'm like, Gina, get your ass out of bed. Right? I didn't do my hair. I didn't put my coffee in a nice mug. I'm just like, fuck it. Didn't put any makeup on through some lipstick last time. I'm like, just get your ass in gear. Let's go. Just go. And I'm not expecting wonderful stuff for myself. So I'm just like, didn't set the bar too high today. I'm like, here I am. Here I am. Did I want a sick day to lie in bed? Yes, because I have not. I've just been on the go. But I asked to be on the go. I was flying here, flying there, doing this, doing that, having these meetings, everything I've hoped and dreamed and wished my life would be. And now I'm fucking tired and I just want to stay in bed all day.

So I'm like, okay, let's go, honey. Like let's go. And you don't have to like be rah rah, sis boom bah, but you got to get your ass out of bed. Let's go. So you got to be your own cheerleader. You got to be your own cheerleader sometimes. And sometimes that's just getting yourself in the mind frame every day.

So every morning before I get out of bed, I recognize how do I feel. I open up my eyes. How do I feel? Physically, how am I feeling? What do I need? Mentally, how am I feeling? I was all crying. I was watching that new Bridget Jones movie.

Oh God, she's so good, right? Renee Zellweger, where she been? So I was watching the new Bridget Jones movie. And I don't know, I'm there, I'm crying. I am this morning crying, five minutes before I'm trying to get ready. I've put my contacts in and I'm just like, okay, today you are emotional. I don't know why. I don't know why, but so I'm going to just kind of be kind to myself today. I'm going to take it easy.

I'm going to say nice things to myself I'm gonna say, you know, you don't have to figure out what's going on with you You just got to get through your day You just got to get through your day and so that's it and that's where you take a day by day and assess where you're at and what you need and what is Going on because how you are feeling and what you are thinking is gonna affect the choices that you're making So I'm gonna have to try extra hard today to make sure I take time to get my water in I'm gonna have to try extra hard today to make sure I take time to get my water in. I'm gonna have to try extra hard today to make sure I'm not just like stressing all day and I am taking that time for myself. Let's take a minute to hear from our podcast

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Where am I at? What do I need? And so you have an opportunity to choose again. If you look back and feel like, oh my God, I've not been really showing up, then choose to show up. Turn the page, choose to show up. I am choosing to show up. And I'm going to take it day by day. I'm going to do the best I can. Choose how you like right now in this moment, how do you want to feel on day 91 of the program? Like, do you actually believe you're going to be here

day 91 of the program? Some of you might actually believe you're going to be here day 91 of the program? Some of you might still be a little shaky on that. Imagine what it would feel like. Let's take the scale out of the equation. Take the scale out of the equation. What is it going to feel like to finish on day 91 looking back and knowing that I spent 91 days on trying to help myself just be healthier, take weight loss under the equation, be healthier. Right, out of all the starving and depriving and the neglecting and all the things I've done to myself in the years,

what's it gonna feel like to be here 91 days taking care of, not just finishing something in 91 days. It's gonna feel very powerful. So you have lots of time, lots of time to be all in. And here's what I gotta say too. A lot of times people will come to me and like, oh, I failed the first program. I failed the last whatever I didn't.

And I'll say to them, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're still here. If you are listening right now, you are still here. What has been going on in your life? What has been going on in your life that's that got in the way of you showing up in the way you would have liked to show up? You probably were really busy with kids or really busy with work or maybe you weren't

feeling so hot or you had a lot going on or you're dealing with this or you're dealing with that or even maybe you didn't have anything going on but the stuff that was being brought up by doing the program was a lot. It's a lot. Maybe you got some past trauma tied into your weight issue. You got some real deep issues when it comes to your associations with foods. So you just take a minute and be like, okay, why haven't I been showing up in the way that I want? And sometimes it's like for me, there's a couple of programs and I was just like, what

is going on with me? And I watched this series on Jamie Kern Lima on worthiness. I was on the treadmill one day watching it. It was on YouTube. I never would have thought that I had issues with worthiness because I'm successful and I get out of bed and I do things. I think people who felt unworthy are just sad and mopey and whatever. That's not the case at all. You can be very successful and feel unworthy. I was just getting in my way. And then I realized, wow, I didn't actually feel worthy of achieving my success, worthy of sitting here every day, worthy of whatever it was. And so that was a big thing for me that I uncovered. I'm like, wow, this, this, I didn't really think I had an issue.

And I'm like, this thought that was it. I didn't feel worthy, things were going well for me. and I didn't feel worthy of things going well for me. So I almost in a way started to sabotage myself. Right? So really get into what, why haven't you been showing up? And if you have been showing up and been crushing it, my goodness, good for you. That's awesome. Keep building, keep going. Like honestly, when you get to the end, your mind is going to be blown. Can you please explain what your satiety, excuse the spelling is all about? You have hormones, you have hormones, hunger hormones and satisfaction hormones. Hormones that when you, so eating protein and fat feeds into your like satisfaction

hormones makes you feel more satisfied. So that's why we call satiety hormones, whether our hunger hormones, those hormones that tell you when you are hungry and hormones that tell you when you've had enough. And it's not just about more and more and more and more food. It's about the kinds of foods that triggered you feeling more satisfied because they have more nutrient value in them. So that's what I mean by that. They make you, they're foods that make you feel more satisfied. Whereas if you have sugar, you actually want more sugar. And so, and these are sort of where the GLP-1 medications come in is that they, GLP-1 is a hormone that floods your body that lets you know when you've had enough, when you've

eaten enough food. And so you can get like leptin resistance, for example, by overeating large portions, your body gets used to consuming large portions. And so you're not really in tune with when you have had enough and when you are still hungry and when you are feeling satisfied. So because you can eat a large amount of food, but walk away feel unsatisfied. And so this is sort of like vegans, people who are vegans don't eat meat. And listen, if you are a vegan, yes, a lot of the proteins that you're ingesting have carbs in them, but this is where you really want to be really minimizing your heavier

carbs along with that because you've got to recognize you're getting a lot of carbohydrates in the proteins that you are choosing to eat as well, right? So this is where you have to kind of work to offset that. So if you have any questions, because someone on the weekend was like, maybe I'm not losing weight because I'm vegan and a lot of my proteins have carbs in them. Well, so this is where you need to factor that in and then minimize the heavier carbs,

like the potatoes, the rices, definitely get off the breads and pastas and those types of things. So in our tweak after this tweak, the feeding the metabolism tweak, where we're making the body work really hard for its food, our week nine tweak is all about making it really easy for the body to get the nutrients it needs. And that's where we're going to, one of the things we're going to do is decreasing the

number of times you're going to eat, bumping up your protein and fat content. It's not keto or any of those things, but it's making sure your body is getting the right combination. And so this is where you will notice, if you are able to separate your proteins from your carbohydrates, you'll notice that you actually feel way more satisfied on your proteins. It's a different feeling. And so a lot of times if you've ever gone on a vegan diet or you haven't got enough protein in your day and you're like, I just need some meat, right?

I need something heavy. I need something of substance that's kind of like you're eating, but you're not getting what you're needing. So it's kind of hard to explain, but that's the difference. Not satisfied in a sense of like eating enough satisfaction. It's like feeling like you've gotten what you need. Gotten what you need. You got what you need.

First timer and I'm nervous about this new tweak, but I see the logic. Yeah. And so I, you know what I love? I love that you get used to following the food plan and eating to satisfaction and giving your body what it needs. You, I think, I think you instinctually know that that is so good for you, that you get used to that. And so you're resistant to switching that up.

And I love that. That's amazing. Like these tweaks are designed to get the body's attention physically, mentally, they are meant to keep things moving and grooving. And that's why people can lose a pretty large amount of weight in such a short period of time. Now the average is still one to two pounds a week. That is still incredible.

One pound a week, still insanely amazing. But some people can lose a significant amount of weight in the program because it's designed to work and these tweaks really help keep things progressing. Again, not just physically, but also mentally. But yeah, and so this is where I say, what are you nervous about, right, what are you nervous about? Right? What are you nervous about? And that's what you want to figure out. And some people are still

afraid that if they eat more food, it's going to cause them to gain weight, right? You're still afraid of food, still afraid of eating all this nutrient rich food and eating it often. So you're not necessarily, you're not going to end up eating more food this week. You're probably going to end up eating less food this week. And so give it a go, give it a go. So on Wednesday, Kim and I are going to talk about the tweaks. So on Wednesday, we're going to start the splitting up the meals and snacks part on Thursday. And so on Wednesday, we're going to have a post that talks more about the splitting up

part. And then Kim and I are going to talk about it on the tweak this week. So yeah, that's where I'm working on mental ties to food. I feel this is why I've been on lots of diets because I returned to the old habits. Those habits need to rebound. People love to go back to what they know. I used an example last week of my daughter when she was learning to ski. She's been been learning on sort of Mount St. Louis, which is just kind of hills, they're not mountains. And she got very good and she was so confident.

She's just so confident. I'm amazing and I'm whatever and I'm like, okay. And we knew that we were gonna go to Banff, which is mountains. We knew that we were gonna go ski in mountains. We wanted her to not die. And so this is her first year skiing as a family. Tony and I are two other children.

We've been skiing for a while. And we said, okay, if you want to come on this trip, you need to learn how to ski and take it seriously. And she really surprised us. She really embraced it, but she thought she was hot shit on those Mount St. Louis Hills. And then we took her to Blue Mountain and she was like, and Blue Mountain is like, it's a bigger hill,

still not a mountain, but whatever. It's like much bigger hills. And she was like, and Blue Mountain is like, it's a bigger hill, still not a mountain, but whatever. And it's like much bigger hills. And she was like, she freaked out. She's like, I want to go back. I just want to ski Mount St. Louis. I'm like, you can't go back because you need to take it to the next level. Because after Blue Mountain is an actual freaking mountain. And she was just in her mind. And she just wanted to go back. She didn't feel safe. She's like, I, and not that she's didn't feel safe because she wasn't a good skier. She has, we never would have taken her if she didn't have the skills,

but she was so in her head and she was so nervous. And she was just like, I just want to go back, just want to go back. I said, you can go back, but that means that you're not moving forward with us and coming on the trip and skiing the mountain. And so then she just, oh, she, I was like, you just need to take a deep breath. You can do this. Right. And then we took the easy hills and we went back up again and got confident, but she was all in her head because she just wanted to go back.

But going back isn't going to help you move forward. And so falling back, and this is why the person on the weekend that was just like, no, I'm not doing this. I was like, okay, Everyone else was very supportive. And I was just like, I kind of laughed. I'm like, then don't. Like I'm not here to convince anyone. I'm not here to convince anyone.

And so you know what you've done to try to lose weight. How did that work for you? If you've been doing quick fixes and all those things, how'd that work for you? And chances are in order for you to really, really make change, you're going to have to do things differently. You're going to have to do things, you're going to have to dig deep, you're going to have to do things differently, you're going to have to do things in a way you've never

done before. But it's really exciting as I've laid it all out for you. But that doesn't mean that you won't have the feels. That doesn't mean that you won't have the feels, right? Question about splitting the meals during protein first and then later the veg and carbs. Wondering if this is required or if I can split my meals halfway for all foods on my plate. I feel like I may end up having way less veg. Okay, so four days. So this is really overthinking it and really tries trying to, you don't feel calm. Like, so you're not going to get scurvy or vitamin deficiency by not, I mean, people

do the keto diet, right? And they're just constantly eating proteins and hardly any vegetables or anything and they're fine. And so this is really overthinking it. This is you trying to control it. Well, I'm going to feel like I'm not getting enough vegetables. So if you separate your, so you don't have to, first of all, you don't have to, but ask yourself why, what this is all about. And is there something to be learned about doing it in the way that Gina is suggesting?

Because people, I think people try to control in little ways, they just want to do their own thing, which is fine. So you can just split up your meals and snacks. And we've said that in the notes, right? So I've said that in the notes. And so if you want to take things to the next level, but I'm not, you're not going to get the same results. So what you're not going to get from me is like, yeah, that's fine. It's the same results. No, there are people who are going to see results. You're going to do all the things and see the results

quicker. People are going to do some of the things and people are going to do, you know, a little bit of things, whatever it's going to take effect, how much you're getting out of it. You get out of it, what you put into it and you will understand. you may not understand now, and I know there's that trust factor, but you will understand looking back. And this is why you'll come back and do another program. Because if you don't, you want to do as many programs as you need in order to reach your goals, you'll look back and be like, Oh yeah, I see why Gina said that. That makes a lot of sense. Now, you can either have faith and be all in now, or you can just do it in a way that you're comfortable. And then next time you'll be like, okay, I get it, that makes sense.

And so when you separate your proteins from your carbohydrates, your vegetables, your leafy greens and your healthy fats can go either way. So you're still getting nutrient value there. You're still going to have a token amount of whatever that second portion is. So if you eat all your protein and you want to put your leafy greens and your healthy fats with your protein, you can do that. And then if that second portion is your vegetables, you might not eat all your vegetables. And if you're not hungry for them, it's because you don't fucking need them. Think about that for a second. If you take the same meals that you've been eating to satisfaction, you separate them, take the exact same meals

and you eat the protein portion first with the leafy greens, healthy fats or whatever you choose and you are not hungry for that second portion, it's because you don't fucking need it because you're not actually hungry for it. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. See what I'm saying? But let's get back to your question. So you can just eat that token bite of vegetables if you want. Now let's take it back to what you're eating throughout the day. You're also getting your fruit, right? You're also getting your veg snack, which is your vegetables, right?

And same thing at dinner. So you are getting a serving of your vegetables, but how much serving? Now that you're back into your head about how much you think that you need, rather actually being in tune to How much you actually need and so it's only for four days. You're not going to die You're not going to get a vitamin deficiency None of that and I just want to say before I go that What you're eating now is is not how you're going to eat at the end of the program or after you're done losing your weight

You're not gonna be eating breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, dinner, I mean, sometimes maybe you will. All of this is big picture, so don't get stuck on right now. It's all big picture to once you've lost the weight, how you're gonna live your life when you're maintaining and sustaining your weight, being in tune to your body's needs. Am I hungry for breakfast? Yes, no, maybe not.

Am I hungry for morning snack? Mm, I don't know, I'm really sure. Maybe I'll have a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Am I hungry for lunch? Yes, I'm hungry for breakfast? Yes, no, maybe not. Am I hungry for morning snack? I don't know. I'm really sure. Maybe I'll have a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Am I hungry for lunch? Yes, I'm hungry for lunch. Let me make the best choice. So we actually towards the end of the program, get you in tune to your body's needs where every day can look a little bit different. But in order to get there, you have to really understand what your body needs in the first place. And so don't let your mind and what your unrealistic issues, which really just you're also, can I just say, probably most of you have been eating

better over the last seven weeks than you have in your entire life because you're used to eating also processed foods, skipping meals and snacks. And now we're nitpicking, making sure we're getting enough vegetables. I mean, I love it. I love that we start to recognize what our bodies actually needs, but let's bring a dose of reality to this as well. These tweaks are not designed to be like if you took, if you took any of these tweaks. So if anybody out there in the world took the tweaks and try to dissect the program based on the tweaks, I would look like a fucking, I don't even know. I would look so crazy.

People were like, this girl has crazy pants. It's not anyone weak, it's how it's all working together throughout the 91 days and not just physically but mentally. And so yeah, I mean, you don't have to do anything if you're not comfortable doing it, but also why wouldn't you give it a try and see what it's all about at the end of the day? So that's what I have to say to that. You cannot switch days, switching days. I mean,

I don't want you doing weird shit. Like if you're having a bowl of chili, I don't want you picking the protein out of the chili and separating that. Like if you, if and when you can and the opportunity presents itself, try separating your proteins from, and you don't have to do all meals and snacks either, right? You don't have to do all the meals and snacks. You can just do some of them. So maybe try one, your lunch or your dinner where you're separating your proteins, but don't put limitations on yourself already. That's what I'm, that's what I guess what I'm saying, right? You're introduced to something new, you're unsure about it. So then you're trying to control it or put limitations on it. I would never suggest you

do anything that's unhealthy. We've studied the Living Method. There's actually zero. This is one of the only diets that exist where there is zero downside for following that. And that's why I can sit up here confidently telling you guys to try to have some faith. Try to have some faith. Try to have some. True.

I've never been a better eater. I'm stunned at the amount of vegetables in my fridge. Right? I know. Absolutely. I'm already looking forward to the spring session. I'm doing really well now, but I know I can do better next time around. It's a learning curve. Yeah. I mean, just like any other diet, right? You start, you finish, you do as many programs as you need in order to reach your goals. Then when you're done that, we've got maintenance for you. We'll set you up for success. I got to go. Ah, look at that. I felt like absolute garbage before I started this conversation today.

And my adrenaline is going, this is my happy place. Thank you for joining me today. I am really excited about where you are. This is what it is. This is just like just showing up and doing the things that you need to do and continuing to maximize, figure out what you need at the end of the day. We got some great conversations. I'm going to be back later on today. Cynthia Loist, who is one of the hosts of a national daytime show here in Canada

called The Social. She's amazing. I love her. We're going to have a great chat about burnout because of course she's been through burnout. We're going to talk about burnout with her. So that's going to be today at 3.30. If you can't join us live, we'll repost the segment in the guides. I'll be back tonight at 7 p.m. as well. Dr. Dena and Dr. Beverly, David are going to join us this week. Talk about getting into our heads. They're going to give us the total vibe and energy that we need to keep going this week. Andrew Blakey, who is an exercise and aging expert, is going to join us as well.

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