The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 50 - Winter 2026

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

In this Day 50 live, Gina reflects on the reality that being healthy will always require effort until it becomes part of who you are, challenging listeners to consider how they want to feel four months from now heading into summer. She shares honest insight into why people often let habits slide once the scale stops moving, especially in maintenance, and reminds members that feeling their best comes from continuing with the same intention they had while actively losing weight. Gina also introduces the week’s tweak of splitting meals and snacks to feed the metabolism, offering practical travel tips and reinforcing that consistency with the basic Food Plan is what drives results, while tweaks simply help keep things progressing.This is a recording of the Day 50, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2026.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams for 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 re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on ACAST, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music. I'm excited. I'm excited to get into this week.

There's a couple of things I was thinking about as I woke up at like 4 o'clock in the morning this morning. I don't know why. I couldn't get back to sleep. One was there are four months until summer. I mean, technically it starts like June. But really, four solid months before we find ourselves wearing our short shorts. I'm excited about that. Four months is a lot of time to make a lot of change. The other thing I thought about is that it's always going to be work. Being healthy is always going to be work unless you live a healthy lifestyle.

That's what this is about. It's about creating a lifestyle that fits how you want to look and feel. That's what it's about. Why don't we do the things that we know we should do to. to make us healthier? Why aren't we consistently taking our supplements? Why do we continue to eat after dinner when we know how it makes us feel the next day and goes against working towards our goals? Why do we find ourselves indulging in things that we feel in the moment are going to make us feel better? That just don't. We know it doesn't make us feel better. Right? We make lots of

excuses for ourselves. Life is sure. We want to indulge. But then we feel shitty. We feel shitty. Physically and mentally because of the choices that we're making. We want to stay up. We want to watch that show and have some me time with Netflix and then we're fucking tired and exhausted the next day, dragging our asses through the day, can't wait to get to bed, just to get to bed and we're so stressed out and wired that we can't sleep anyway, right? It's always going to be way more work until you make the changes that you need to make, and it becomes part of who you are. It needs to become part of who you are. It's interesting because we're in the maintenance program.

People are able to maintain and sustain their weight fairly easily, but one of the big topics of conversation is that they don't feel as good as they felt while trying to lose weight. And why is that? Because when they were trying to lose weight, they put extra time and attention and energy into moving their body. They spent more time trying to manage their stress for the sake of getting that scale to move. They made more of an effort to get better quality sleep when they wanted to see the scale move.

And now that the scale no longer needs to move, why are they doing those things? And unless they have a really strong motivation, chances are they're not doing them to the same degree that they did them while trying to lose weight. And so I find that really fascinating, right? Because you're able to maintain your weight, but it's not really about that. It's about feeling your best. When you feel your best, you look, you look your best because you feel great. And it becomes less and less about how you look at the end of the day. So four solid months, four solid months.

That's a lot of time before summer. How do you want to feel rolling into the summer? How do you want to feel when you put your shorts on and your bathing suit on and your clothes on or your coolots or whatever the heck you're wearing? How do you want to feel? I'm excited about that. I'm excited about that. We are introducing our new tweak this week. I love where some of you are already,

it's so interesting. I hope you get excited about the tweak. I'm excited about it. I love a good new tweak. Kim and I are going to get together for the tweak this week, and we're going to talk about the splitting up the meals and snacks part that we're going to start Thursday. So that starts Thursday. And so the first couple of days of the week you are bringing it back to satisfaction,

following that basic food plan. And then the next tweak that is coming along. We're actually switching up the food plan. You got questions. Let me know. I'm going to get into them, but there's a couple that were asked here. One is I'm traveling out of the country this week, suggestions on how to work this tweak, particularly splitting meals.

Where there's a wheel, there's a way, right? Like it's for only four days of the week where you can split your meals and snacks, try to split your meals and snacks. I have traveled with people doing this tweak before where we were sitting in an airport lounge and, you know, or wherever restaurant and, you know, someone ordered something to eat or got something to eat. And then they ate the first part of it. And then we sat and we chatted 20 minutes goes by so quickly. And then they ate the other half. Like, think about this, that we cannot wait 20 to 30 minutes. What are we doing at our dinners? Right? We're just like wolfing our dinners down.

We go through all this effort to make beautiful meals for ourselves. And then we finish eating them in what, 10 minutes, right? So that's an opportunity at dinner, for example, when you're sitting there, even if you're at a restaurant. I mean, I do this all the time where I'll sit and eat for a bit and then I'll, you know, just take a break and sit and chat because I want the dinner to linger longer or I'm enjoying conversation. Then I continue to eat the rest of my meal, right? So it's about being intentional about it. Here's what I want to say when I sit on the check-in this morning is that you're already doing so much just following the basic food plan and working towards maximizing your efforts. If that's all you did, you would still lose weight. The tweaks each week,

just keep it moving quicker. It's like a concentrated effort and system to keep things moving faster and help you dig deeper and level up even more, right? But even just following the basic food plan, eventually you'll get there and lose your weight. So if you can't do all of the things, I wouldn't stress out too much about that. I would just really make an effort to be as consistent as possible. Like I've worked with a lot of people who like airplane pilots, for example, crazy hours, you name it, people who travel, who used to just go through pick up foods, drive-thers, whatever, who will now stop and get a case of water if they're in a, you know, a country where the water isn't, they can't just drink tap water, they will stop at the grocery

store and pick up snacks or pop in and grab, you know, quick-to-go foods that are, you know, if they have a hot table or whatever. So it's about, again, this is always going to be work. unless you make it part of your lifestyle, right? So if you're traveling and you're having a hard time, you know, you can't split up meals and snacks, you can still make really healthy food choices, right? So I thought that was a great question. Again, just Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we're going to split out meals and snacks. Okay. Here's another one. I've been making sure I eat my greens first. So when I eat dissatisfaction or just below, I know I got my greens in and protein has been what's left on my plate. That's really interesting because you do want to make sure you're getting enough

protein in your diet. Leafy greens obviously great and a huge bonus, but it's the protein. You want to make sure that you're getting in for sure. Or your, if it's at lunch, what was your vegetables, right? So I wonder what effect this will have on the scale. I thought this was really interesting because the whole program is about having the effect on the scale. This is interesting because this is where people start to second guess. What the fuck am I asking them to do, right? Like, everything is for a rhyme and a reason and I want you to be as successful as possible. So I've designed a method in order to do that. So the effect that it will have on the scale is the same effect you want it to have on the

scale, which is fat loss at the end of the day, right? I just thought that was really interesting. Do I need to eat any of my veg and greens if I am satisfied after just eating one portion? Okay, this is what I freaking love. So bear with me on this one. So that's someone concerned about not getting their veg or the leafy greens in or their protein or whatever by splitting up the meals and snacks. Okay. Here's another one that is saying the same thing. If you eat the protein first, then wait and then aren't hungry, that flies in the face of having

all the nutrients. Hmm. I'm sure there will be a clarification. Hmm, it's interesting that you're thinking like this. So again, worried about the components. Interesting. Okay. What if I dividing the meal in half and you eat the protein and leafy greens and wait 20 to 30 minutes, you're not hungry for the carb portion? Do you leave it feeling satisfied? Or do you? do you have a few bites? Okay, this is really, can think about this for a second. You are taking the exact same portions that you're going to be eating for the next three days. Right? Exact same portions. And now with the thought it's splitting them, eating the first one and then the second one, you're like, but what if I'm not hungry for it?

Think about downsizing. Think about downsizing. This is where I want you to think about downsizing and what was going through your mind, all the thoughts and feels that you had while you were downsizing, going from eating to satisfaction to slightly unsatisfied

where you were simply just eating a few bites less, or leaving a few bites left on your plate. I want you to remember the thoughts and feels that went through your mind. Because when you were downsizing or when you were eating dissatisfaction these last couple days, you weren't thinking about what am I going to eat first, what am I going to eat second,

what am I going to eat third? You were just preparing your meals and then probably just eating them. Right? So at lunch, yeah, you were preparing your meal to be protein, sorry, vegetables as the star, and then you were preparing your dinner as protein as a star, but were you really thinking about all the components that you were eating or not eating.

Right? So this is where people tend to overthink, that, oh my goodness, what if I can't get my carbs in my vegetables, in my leafy greens, in my, right? And then people are like, already, well, if I eat the first person portion, do I have to eat the second portion? Keeping in mind, that's the portion that you were eating in the first few days of the week. Do you see how that changes your approach and what's going on mentally? Right? You're not, you're not stressing about, here's putting your meals together. when you're eating dissatisfaction, you're not stressing about what am I eating first, what I'm eating

second, what am I eating, whatever, right? You're just asking the four questions. You're not even giving that a thought. And then now when it comes to splitting up your meals and snacks, you're all concerned about, well, what if I don't get enough this? What if I don't get enough that? Or do I even have to eat that second portion when probably last week in downsizing, you thought you were starving without it? It's so interesting that when you have to have that second portion and it kind of lifts the pressure where you don't have to worry about being hungry, food waste, food, you know, food scarcity issues. That's what's really cool about it. So you're going to just put your meals together the way you've even put them together, just in the way that you know the whole time.

Dig into those four sets of mindful eating questions, eating just enough, right? Just enough that you're feeling satisfied when you check in 10, 15 minutes later. And so then midweek, you're just going to take the exact, you're going to make your foods exactly the same way. some things you're not going to be able to split. Let's say if you like ate a soup. If you had a soup, you're probably not like, I don't want anyone doing weird stuff like picking, picking the protein out of their chili or like, you know, splitting up their soup. There will be times or it just doesn't make sense to split up what you're splitting. And then if you're not even hungry in the first place, so if you're not hungry for a snack, you can just have a token amount and that's it.

So you don't have to split up snacks. If you're not even hungry for them, just have a small token amount of it, right? And then you're going to simply split your portion into. And then just to eat the first one, see how you feel. And then really it's about taking time. It's doing a couple things, taking time to see how you feel after you give your body that 20 to 30 minutes time. And we talked about this with Dr. Olinka with our hunger hormones last week,

once you give your body time to start to process and digest your foods. And you're giving it that time without the pressure of having to leave yourself feeling slightly unsatisfied. So it's really interesting. This people tend to really overthink this which is which I think is whatever your thoughts and feels that pop up are giving you insight into things that you need to work on

and work through. So it's going to help you get even more in tune to your portions making your body work extra hard throughout the day. You don't have to worry about it jacking insulin or anything like that because it's not about eating often. It's about what you are eating often so that's not a thing. It's a very cool tweak. So if you are one of the few people who haven't seen any movement on the scale and you thought downsizing was going to do it for you, chances are this is your tweak.

This tweak works really well for people who have spent time on starvation diets and their metabolism is really low coming into the program because this is really feeding into that, which is really cool. So yeah, even though you're still going to put your lunch together and the second part of, with vegetables is the focus, the second part of this tweak is to put your meals together. and if you are inclined to do so, because this is the setup for the next week coming down in the pipeline, is to separate your proteins from your carbs. So you can have your protein first, and then you're going to wait 20 to 30 minutes and then have your carbohydrates or your vegetables if you're not having any rice or, you know, heavier carbs. Your leafy greens and healthy fats can go either way.

So that's kind of the setup for the following tweak that we're going to implement where you're going to really understand how proteins and fats feed into your satiety hormone. So it's a cool week and it's a cool tweak. It's a cool week and a cool tweak. Not a great weekend food-wise, but time-sout with family, new mindset this morning and took the dog for a walk before this live. I love that. Yeah, I don't know, like some people were drinking at like 8 o'clock in the morning yesterday

with the hockey game. This weekend was a great weekend, I think, for family and connection. I think a lot about Sandra Alia who came on and talked about your not just doing meal prep for the week, but how can you stay connected to people throughout the week? So it was a great week for that. Unfortunately, Canada lost that game. We do have quite a few of our U.S. members. So congratulations to you and your team.

It would have been nice if Canada won, but it was a good game regardless. Kind of had an aha moment like this recently. I woke up realizing that being healthy is work. It is. Right? You're going to constantly struggle unless you just make it part of who you are. And it's so,

think about like being unhealthy or caring, excess fat or the lifestyle that leads to that, that takes a lot of work in the sense that you're always feeling like, oh my goodness, I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I feel fat, bloated, gross, I don't feel good, don't look good, that's a lot of work. It's all consuming where if you just made the effort and then it became so like automatic that it's just part of who you are. This is a automaticity is a pillar that we talk about in the maintenance program. It just becomes so automatic. It's who you are, right?

I woke up realizing that being healthy is work, a lifelong commitment. But it is something that chain reacts so much more. It's super worth it. But sometimes you really need to dig deep and focus on that instead of the current moment. I am exhausted. I'm so fucking tired of being exhausted. I am so tired of feeling low energy like I could, you know, riding the wave of when I was younger and a personal trainer and aerobic person and all of that. I just, I want to feel fit and

healthy and amazing, you know, and I mean, you probably look at me and be like, Gina, I love to look at you. You look great. Yeah, I don't feel great. I'm so tired of that. When am I going to, when am I going to make that the priority in my life? Like, when am I going to do that, you know? You know, this all stemmed at the beginning of this program where I started to go through and declutter my home. I'm still on that mission. I have some days where everything has been chaotic and I'm slowly getting there. It has been a lot of hard work, but it is so worth doing. It's so worth doing.

We do not, you know, when we talk to, who do we talk to Don? We talked to Don on Spill the Tea. She was so great, by the way. If you didn't watch that spill the tea, it's a good one. Don spent her entire life on diets. And her parents, bless them, still doing a diet at 80 years old. I do not want to be on a fucking diet when I am 80 fucking years old. Like, what are we waiting for? What are we waiting? And of course, this is, you know, you're here. This is what you're here to do, right? Obviously,

you're here doing this, which is what's so great. And I say that because get curious about the week this week. Like, try to understand your brain and where you're coming from and how you got here and try to really get to know yourself and what makes you tick and what motivates you and what do you need to do to make the changes that you want to be and that you want to feel, you know? I found myself almost stress eating this morning. I'm supposed to go to Alcapulco, Mexico. You definitely don't want to go there. Oh my, we're just looking at that. What is it? Porta Viata, the cartels and like the airport shootings. It's crazy. And everyone is telling me to cancel. My friend who lives there, said all is good. This is so stressful. Okay, well, maybe, do you guess it depends on where you live?

Mexico is kind of a big place. I have one friend currently there with no issues and another friend leaving tomorrow from Mexico. She's headed to the opposite coast. That is stressful. But maybe it's all hype out there on the, you know, on the interweb or whatever. I mean, definitely looks like it's pretty stressful in some areas and the airport. But, you know, you got to make a decision that's right for you. I would be stress eating too. I'd be stressed eating too because I'm like, hey, I'm supposed to go on vacation and now this like really sucks because it's become, my vacation has become a stressful time. So I'm going to wrap you in a big hug. I had a few rough days. My newborn granddaughter was in the NICU. She's doing well now. Thank goodness. Should be home soon. Definitely

a challenge to look after myself the last few days, but feeling better today. You know, this is where like life is so challenging and it is all about no one is going to take care of you. And if you don't take care of you, then someone else is going to have to take care of you, right? And I had this, did you guys listen to that conversation with Michelle Malloy from the maintenance program? Because I've been dealing with this thing of grief lately and just kind of understanding the challenges that people are going through while doing the program. And I think with grief, the feeling is almost you want to validate because we do not make space for grief. we do not make space for grief, considering how prevalent it is. And loss is lost, whether it's the loss of your job, a loss of your good friend, you're no longer able to connect with

anymore, obviously loss of a loved one, whatever that might be, we are constantly dealing with grief and yet we don't talk about how it affects our day to day. And I think when it comes to our emotions because we we aren't the best at really putting it out there and people are lonely these days and don't have connection in that way or support that it's almost like we want to validate our grief validate our fields to really show how stressed we are, how sad we are, how mad we are so that we almost physically trash ourselves to the point that it matches how we feel to validate for ourselves, right? And that was one of the things that, you know, Michelle Malloy in dealing with grief validated. It's like this is something that we very much do.

You know, and again, factor in how is that a coping mechanism? I really had a learning moment when my son was in the hospital. And this is sort of where I had that first epiphany. My son was in the hospital got a few years back for like a month. I was down at sick kids. And it was very, very, he was all, like, we were told he would be in there for like, Matt, who knows, like three to six months. And it was, uh, it was very upsetting. But it was also during the pandemic. And I, because it was sick kids, you had to every day get it walk in, get your, uh, temperature taken. If you had like, a remotely had a runny nose or watery eyes, they didn't let you in. Like you, you, you were not getting into, you were not getting into the hospital. And so it's in

Toronto and I'm about an hour away. And so I would go every day and his dad at the time did the night shift. I would stay with him. But I, I just wanted to drink wine and not eat all day and just be so stressed about it. But I knew if I had done that, that I wouldn't be, I would get sick and I would be unable to go and spend time with him and take care of him. And I at the time, he was 13 years old. he's 18 now. So that was like a few, a few years ago. And that took a lot of work. It took a lot of work to drag my ass to like bring food with me to go into the, you know, the cafe and make sure I got some fruit, some veggies to drink water that I didn't. Hospitals are so dehydrating to make sure like I was taking whatever my immune boosters or whatever it was. It was a lot of work to take care of

yourself in a moment where you just want to let yourself fall apart. You know, But that was like a big, that was a big like, once I did that and I'm like, okay, right? Like you have moments. This is where I allow myself to have a day. You can have a day. You can just cry. You can be mad. You can be sad, whatever.

And then it gets to a point where you got to like, okay, let's go. Let's take care of myself. Right. So it's amazing, the small, but it's also showing yourself grace because the last thing you need to do when you're dealing with something like that is get on yourself about, I need to lose weight today. Right. And that's where sometimes things in life happen that it's like makes weight loss seem so trivial.

So that's where your why might have to change for a little bit. My why for making healthy food choices today is I want to make sure I stay healthy to help me navigate through this thing, right? Good morning, Gina, all. I have to let you know the scale is moving down three pounds since I posted two weeks ago at the scale not moving, right? Consistency staying the course is a solution. It always is.

I know it's so nerve-wracking, the scale isn't moving. You're thinking, oh, my God, my body hates me. I'm never going to be able to lose this weight, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but your body doesn't want the fat any more than you do. So if you just keep showing up, you keep helping it focus on fat loss. You will, that scale will move. It absolutely will move. The tweak this week is stressing me out as I go on vacation this week until March 6th.

So this is where I would be like, okay, well, what's, like, again, just following that basic food plan. Again, even if you go on vacation and you eat your whole face off and just eat what you want, drink what you want, you're going to get back and get back at it and you're still going to reach your goal. Like that's, you know what I mean? Let's say you just eat everything. You drink everything. It's not enough time a whole week for your body to take the foods you're eating and convert them into fat. Now, you're going to feel probably bloated, especially if you fly anywhere because flying is dehydrating. So you're probably going to come back. Your weight's going to be up. You're going to feel bloated. You're going to feel whatever.

lot of that's going to be inflammation late nights, too much alcohol, indulging in foods, whatever. And then as soon as you get back at it, your weight's going to drop all the way back down and you're going to be back to it. Right? Like that's the beauty of this. This isn't just you starved yourself, you put yourself into ketosis, you force your body to burn fat. And the minute you eat again, your body gains it all back plus more, right? That's the beauty of losing your weight in a healthy way is that all the work adds up. And so yeah, so you can't mess it up. So don't let it stress you. I mean, think about dinners, right? Like, let's think about indulging in dinner time, conversation, smelling your food, actually tasting your food.

Like, if you go out and eat, like, can you have your meal? Why don't you like, you know, enjoy the first part of your meal and then sit there and have some conversation, drink some wine, you know, whatever. And then, you know, maybe it's not 20 minutes. Maybe it's not a half an hour. Maybe it's 20 minutes. Maybe it's not 20 minutes if you can. Maybe it's 10 or 15 minutes. right so there's some there's some wiggle room there there there's some wiggle room there yeah there's a lot of people are going to mexico i guess this time of year right calua and coffee didn't help the hockey outcome i know i didn't but boy it was fun in the moment right it was fun in the moment you've captured the essence of this week where there's will there's a way being

intentional i live alone and i often think it's perhaps easier for me when i no longer have a husband to cook for it totally my choice and my decisions right right and so you might think this is weird around friends or family this is why like dinner it can you don't have to be like oh i'm splitting my meals and this is what i'm doing um you know it could be 10 minutes 15 minutes the whole idea is to give it a bit of time first and the whole idea of separating your proteins from your carbs first is to understand how protein really feeds into your satiety hormones it makes you feel more satisfied um which is also interesting in itself, right? And this is sort of maybe you're trying to just take more time to indulge your food, slow down your eating, you know, or just like a different way to approach

your portions, trying to get more in tune with your portions by, you know, not feeling the pressure of not being able to eat as much as you think that you need or food scarcity or food waste issues, you know. I'm excited about this part. Took a bit, took a bit, but back on track, what a landslide it has been. I picked myself up and said, quit the poor me party, no more sabotage, eat right, follow back on track, stay on track, concentrated and praise where I might. This, be your own champion, cheerleader. There's going to be times in life where you are crushing it, you are a freaking rock star. That's the easy part. The hard part is when you drink and wine for breakfast and want to eat chips all day and you're not taking care of yourself or life is hard or you're

dealing with something. You know, it's, that's how it goes. That's how it goes. And so what can you do to get yourself back at it? What can you do? Back on track is like back to feeling your best. That's what it is. It's not off track, on track, whatever. It's back to feeling your, what are the things that you can do to get back to feeling

your best? I love that. That's what it's about. Don't give up. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Yeah. When we were in Barcelona, I went to the corner store and bought sparkling water and a few packages of mixed sense.

Right? It's just knowing what you need. Can someone say something about digestive bitters? Are they a drink or drops you put in water, which is best? I see they come in pill form as well. Do they help with inflammation? I don't know digested bitters come in pill form? I don't think they do.

I'm trying to think if I have some. Hang on just a sec. Let me just see if my... These are digestive bitters. So they are... I got them at St. Francis Hort Farm. I think we have a bit of a discount code too in the basic. the supplements post, the first supplements post. It has all the basic supplements in it. These

digestive bitters are great. Or were they in the second supplement? Were they in the secondary? They might have been in the secondary supplements. Just go in the app and search digestive bitters. So you put these drops, you just put drops in your water about half hour before a meal and it stimulates your digestive system and just helps with digestion. Also helps. Like I always take these whenever I go on vacation. I'm drinking a lot too. This also, this helps. So it's kind of like bitter and it stimulates your digestive juices, which helps your body when it comes to processing and digesting phase. If you go into the app or you go into that supplement post, there's a whole ton of information in there as well. But all the supplements, if your weight isn't dropping,

you definitely should be looking into taking supplements at this point with where we're at week seven of the program. This is where if you're, if you haven't lost any way at this point, and you really want to be understanding why, if you're not taking any of the basic supplements, that could be why because chances are you're dealing with inflammation, food sensitivities, gut issues, hormones, or whatever. And that's where you really want the basic. So omega-3, vitamin D, magnesium, or if it's a digestive issue, your microbiome going on, probiotics, prebiotics, digestive bitters and whatnot. So it could be worth going over that supplement post again. I know we're going to be going over it again in the next couple weeks. But good morning.

blew my weekend on a 90th birthday party and comfort eating after an incredible effort by our Canadian hockey team. I know. Oh, let me reword that. I did not blow it. I celebrated back to the plan and not feeling bad, but rather optimistic. That's a win. It is such a win. It is such a win to have enjoyed food this weekend and be like, okay.

That was fun. That's such a huge win. It's a massive win to be able to be in the moment and enjoy the foods that you want to enjoy and then just be like back at back towards working towards my goals today. That's it. That's it. Right? That's exactly what it's all about.

That's exactly what it's all about. Headed to the NFL. Combine on Thursday to watch the next through go through all the skill drills in preparation for the NFL draft. I have a plan, but it's a family event with family. Family stress and commentary. So I'm already anxious about it. Deep breaths. What do you need? Take time to do some deep breathing, visualizing, harmonizing. It's going to be great. It's what a great opportunity. How fun is that? Right? Just be in your own world with your own joy about it. Make food choices that make you feel good. You know, that's like how does this version of you that you're trying to be? How does that person show up to these moments? to these family events. How does that person, I've done a lot of work to become the person I am, I have a friend, my best friend of 20 years, we're no longer friends. There was a point where I was changing and I think she wasn't really picking up on that and, you know, our friendship dynamic

was a little off and something happened and we fell out of friendship, which was fine. And somebody asked me the other day, well, you know, could you be friends with them? like if they reached out and said, you know, hey, like, I'm sorry, whatever. And I was like, I kind of miss being their friend. But at the same time, they would not be able to be friends with me. Because this version of me is going to say what I want to say, do what I want to do. You know, I'm not going to make myself feel small to make someone else feel bigger. I couldn't because I've changed so much.

And this is the same version of me that needed to be this version so I could run a company. the size I'm running. So I could have thick skin for trying to just share, share what I do and try to help people and come from a good place and then have people just interpret that as not that. Or, you know, there's lots of people. Someone reached out to me on the weekend and was saying, oh, someone said this or whatever. And I was like, you know, I just, I don't do drama. I don't get involved. Trust me, people are out there saying all kinds of things about me. You just got to be you. You got to be you. And so I wouldn't change this version of me because I worked really hard to become this version of me, but not everybody likes it. Not everybody likes

it, right? And so the version of you that you are becoming, how does that version of you show up to family events or, you know, social events or whatever? Like this is that, well, this is the, it's always going to be work until it's your life and your lifestyle. And you want to be who you want to be. You are who you are. And that's like, this is sort of really owning all of that and learning to navigate because food is so takes so much food is such a big part of our lives and being in tune is being in tune when you ask those four sets of mind fleeting questions it's not just about your portions it's knowing what works for you what doesn't work for you the people in the life your life that works for you that don't work for you situations that work for you that don't

work for you being able to really trust your gut know what works for you and what doesn't you know so you got this it's going to be great it's going to be great it's going to be great good morning have a great week. Follow the planning guidelines and Gina's direction. Yeah, you don't need to stress. I love the thought. Yeah, you don't. You definitely don't. But I love the thought process that's happening. I think it's so cool. That's what frees your mind to think, think about it eating differently. That's what it is. It's like you're learning. So because your, so your body's been wired, learn to function a certain way, right? This is that we're rewiring how your body's come to function around your set point. So we're rewiring hormones, all that, bite temperature, blood flow, blah, blah, blah.

blah, blah, blah, blah. We're also rewiring your brain and how you think, how you think about food, right? And your issues and associations tied into that. And what we're trying to do is just blow it all up. We're trying to challenge the body physically, challenge your mind mentally and blow it all up so it can rewire in a way that works better. You know, that's what it's about. So I love the, I love all the thoughts. I love, I love this tweak. It really helps with awareness and listening to what your body needs. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, grief. Some of you guys are talking about grief. Because life, yeah, there's a, there's a great, if you missed it, I highly suggest that you, Tammy, I'm so sorry. I saw your comment there. Go, go listen to the conversation with Michelle Malloy. It's a, it's a good one. It's a, it's a really good one. Just understanding grief and how it factors into everything in your life, but especially, because like you want to make choices make you feel good. You still want to reach your goals. You're on a, mission here. You want to be healthy, but at the same time you're dealing with something really, really heavy. It's just kind of giving yourself that compassion. So in the maintenance program,

we're talking about, we're talking about downsizing last week. We were also talking about compassion, having compassion for yourself. What is this all about? It's about you truly living the life you want to live, but also physically and mentally the body that you are living this life in. That's what you're trying to do here. You're trying to take this body that you are living this life in and, you know, help it be as healthy as possible and help you feel as good as possible, which ultimately is going to help you look as good as possible, you know. Okay, I got to run too. Dr. Jason Fung is going to join me tomorrow. That's going to be a really interesting conversation. So he's one of the other people in the world, I think it's just the two of us, who are talking about how it's not calories in versus

calories out. Like no one's debating you can lose weight that way. But how healthy, sustainable weight loss is so much more than that. He's got a new book coming out called The Hunger code, which is really interesting because it's his own version of like why we eat when we talk about like actually being hungry versus triggered versus habit and whatnot. So obviously if you know Jason Fung, he's known for his fasting. And you know, you can do a version of fasting with this program by not eating after dinner. If you're choosing not to have breakfast, fine. That gives you like a 17 hour window. Obviously for other health reasons, people do longer fastings and I'm not suggesting anyone fast here. This is about his book called The Hunger.

code. So not the obesity code, which is tied into fasting, but the hunger code. So it's going to be really interesting conversation. I'm really looking forward to that. And then Andrew Blake is going to join us on Thursday. And we're going to talk about fitness and longevity. So he's really interesting guy. If you haven't had an opportunity to meet him, he's super cool. So yeah, it's going to be a great week. It's going to be a great week. How do I know when I've reached my ideal weight? You'll just know. This is my second program. I've met my goal set for the first session, but this time it's taking longer to lose. I'm wondering if where I need to be now. I don't know. I wouldn't judge it by the scale. I would judge it by how do you feel?

Do you feel great? You feel amazing? You feel calm and comfortable in your body? Then that can be a good weight for you. If you have fat that you can grab. I mean, a lot of this is skin that I'm grabbing after four kids. But if you have some fat that, you know, you feel like you can lose, then there's no reason why you can't lose that. As your body percentage obviously gets a fat gets lower and lower and lower. It can seem like it's going slower and harder. It's a lot easier to lose weight when you have more of it to lose. This time is it taking longer to lose. That's why it would be like what's taking, why is it taking longer? What's going on there? And if you're stuck on what you did last time, maybe there are things you need to do this time.

Also, it could be as simple as vitamin D levels dropping, right? Because you did the program in the spring or the fall. Your vitamin D levels were jacked up because you spent some time in the summer. Now your vitamin D levels are dropping. That's making it harder. You were taking supplements, maybe you're not. I'm wondering if I am where I need to be now. Should I be looking at maintenance at this point? I'm 74 and I'm back to the weight of 50 years ago. My wedding dress fits. I love that. I think I'm good where I am. I love this for you. And don't let the scale dictate where I've had people whose goal was 140. They get to 160. They're like, I'm happy here. I get people whose goal was 160. They're like, I'm going to go for more and then go down to like 130. Right. So this is like exactly where

you want to be. What I would suggest is finish out the rest of this program because we're going to cover maintenance at the end, right? You want to go into personalize and the plan. It help to, like this week, you still want to get your metabolism as high as you possibly can. You know, you want to really understand when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat with personalize in the plan at the end. And then I would suggest switching over and doing the maintenance program in the spring, right? That helps solidify your weight, which you are also doing along the way while doing the program as well. So yeah, that's what I would do. Congratulations. If you feel like you're doing, done good for you that's a good that's a good way to end this that's a good way to end this

where are you at how are you feeling what do you need we have four months before we're we're putting our short shorts on in the summertime that's a lot of time like I love that framing right because you don't want to be stressed now in the summer you want to roll into summer feeling your best it's a great goal speaking of goals um we are far from done around here far from done week seven um try to be curious about it try to have fun with it I'll be back later tonight if you want to join me, come hanging out with me tonight. I'll see then. Otherwise, have a fantastic rest of your day, everyone, and I will see you. Oh, one more thing, Greta's new book. You know Greta Podleski, her new book is going to be available in the U.S. I got a link for you guys tomorrow. So all of our U.S.

members or elsewhere in the world, you've been trying to get a hold of Greta's book because it's only here in Canada. I got a link for you if you want to pre-order. Anyway, have a great day, everyone. I'll see you later.