The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 57 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 57, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:Where are you at? Self-sabotage can happen at any time - Take time to reflect Grab a pen and paper and write it out - what can YOU do about it?It’s all about making choices that are going to get you to your goalsJoin us tomorrow for our conversation with Dr. Paul Sandra Elia will join us on Wednesday - she is a Certified Food Addiction Counselor and Author of the book Never EnoughThe importance of Grounding yourself to set yourself up for the dayHunger cues - it’s not always hunger. What else could it be?Weight loss is not always about eating lessThere are so many reasons the scale can be up that isn’t real weight gainLet’s talk about Menopause and what’s really going onDefining Sugar AddictionThis Program is all about getting in tune with your needs over your wantsThe Food Noise in our brain and how we’re wired - rewiring your brain can be doneAllowing yourself to indulge is an opportunity to learn - it’s not about being perfectThe time change can affect your hunger The Program is about learning how to navigate life and still be able to enjoy yourselfJust because you have less weight to lose doesn't mean you don’t have strugglesThe effects of alcohol - how does it make you feel?What language are you using? The universe is talking to you!Join us at the National Women’s Show this weekend in TorontoTo learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Day 57, eight weeks into the program. What is going on with you? Where are you at? Are you feeling great? Are you crushing it? Just like you're on a roll, you are moving and grooving, your weight is dropping, your body is changing, you're feeling super confident, or do you just feel like you're a big fucking disaster? Where are you at? And if you are feeling like you've dropped the ball, you're behind, you can't get your shit together, what can you do about it? What can you do about it? Eight weeks into the program, at this point, if the scale isn't moving for you, we've told you why. We've told you why. We've had the conversations, reasons why your weight might be slower to move. That might mean for some of you having a conversation with your healthcare providers, digging deeper. That freaking sucks. But that's

your reality. Here's what I know. If you start to address the things that you need to address, you will reach your weight loss goals. There is absolutely no reason why every single person in this group right now, anyone listening, can't be successful, but it's up to you really to figure out, okay, what do I need to do? In the group today, we're talking about self-sabotage because that can happen. It can happen at the beginning of the program, can happen at the end of the program, midway through the program at any time. I mean, you could feel like you are just doing amazing. And then all of a sudden you're having a hard time. I mean, you could feel like you are just doing amazing. And then all of a sudden you're having a hard time. You're like, what is going on with me? Maybe some deep feels

are starting to pop up. Maybe you're being triggered. Maybe you got some things going on. You're not even really aware of, and you're just like, what is going on? That is the question. It is for you to tell us how we can help you. But here's the thing. I find that when people do that, they already know. So for example, I saw a comment in the group today, I'm behind, I'm this, I'm that, this is happening, this is happening, that's happening, help me. Okay, so let's break that down for a sec. We can help give you suggestions. We can guide you to certain posts, but this is for you to take a minute, take a minute and sit with yourself and be like, okay, what's going on? What are the thoughts that are popping up in my mind? What are, what, what are the feels that I'm having? What's going on in my life right now? So for example, last week was

Halloween. That was probably very triggering for some of you. It started you down a path of indulging and craving sugar. You're probably feeling like things are a bit chaotic. Today's Monday. So you're like, okay, I'm going to get back at it. But you're probably feeling like so far removed from where you were maybe a couple weeks ago before Halloween. What I love about the Libby Method is you actually get so used to feeling good that when you feel even slightly off, you feel really, really off. So this is where grab a pen, grab a paper, right? What are the thoughts? What are the words I keep saying? How am I feeling? What's going on in my life? Like,

am I extra busy this week? Have my kids been just crazy? Like, am I nervous about the holidays coming? Like what's going on in my life? And then this is where you say, what can I do about it? What can I do about it? Right? Maybe it's go back and, and, and, you know, review some of the information we've already posted. In fact, we're going to actually start revisiting some posts because at this point in the program, it's just following the tweaks and maximizing your ass off and figuring out what you need to do in order to keep moving forward and keep yourself on track for lack of a better word. It's all about making as many choices as possible every day that are going to get you one step closer to your goal. It doesn't matter if it's weight loss. It doesn't matter if it's like me and my goal is to have the number one weight loss company in the world.

There are some days where I feel like I'm never going to get there. There's some days I'm not really all that productive. Then there's other days where I'm doing the things I need to do begrudgingly. And there are some days where I feel like I'm a rock star. That is normal with anything that you're trying to achieve in life. You probably see this in your kids going to school. Some days they're excited to go to school. They did great on tests. Other days they didn't do the homework. They're behind. They don't want to go. Other days they have a bellyache like my kid who's sick and can't go even if you wanted to go, right? So it's no different. And so weight loss is no different. We've been taught that weight loss is calories in versus calories out. We've oversimplified dieting and which makes all the stuff we actually need to focus on seem more complicated. So it's just every single day trying to make as many choices as

possible, fall in line with your goals. But how can you set yourself up for success? Like what's going on with your water, right? It's gotten really cold lately. Maybe it's hard to drink your water. You know, you were drinking it with, you know, cold with ice cubes and now you're cold all the time. That's not appealing. So what can you do? Start drinking more tea, set alarms, set reminders, right? Maybe you're just dropped the ball and making your food choices as nutrient rich or falling back into old habits, quick, easy, convenient. Maybe you need to take some time, assess what your why is. Why did you sign up? Remember, you're not going to be motivated every day. You're not even going to be motivated to finish this program. Your motivation comes from why you signed up in the first place,

ultimately wanting to lose this weight, right? What's going on there? What's going on in my environment? Is it things really chaotic right now? So maybe I can't find the time to get to the gym, but I can go for a walk. What can I do? Can I start journaling? Can I call a friend? Like, what do I need? But sometimes I think that we just don't take the time to do that. We're like, go, go, go, go, go, go. Got to do this. Got to do this. We put the pressure on ourselves, but don't actually take the time and sit with ourselves and be like, okay, what do I need right now? What's going on right now? So as much as we are here to help you answer any questions that you have, you have to do a lot of the work. You have to do a lot of the work. So a couple things. Check out that post on Sabotage Today. Join me for my conversation with Dr. Paul tomorrow.

We're going to talk about how to level up the things that you are doing that are going to help not just with weight loss, but your health and wellness. And I always like to say it's not about doing more and more. It's being more focused on the things that you can do to be as proactive as possible. And then Sandra Elia, this is interesting. So where's her book? I had her book around here somewhere. Sandra Elia. I actually met Sandra at the Canadian Obesity Summit a year and a half ago.

And she's actually the founder of the Food Addiction Recovery Program. She is legit. She is the author of the book Never Enough, but she's going to join us and talk about food addiction. So it was interesting when I was last at the Canadian Obesity Summit, my conversations with her, is that it's not actually food addiction is not really recognized by the who's who of recognizing as a real thing. I guess it'd be different than drugs and alcohol. And the difference with food is that you need food. And so are you being triggered? Is it habits?

Is it just some sugar cravings? Or is it true food addiction? We're going to talk to her about that on Wednesday. So I see a lot of you talking about how you are excited about this conversation. Another way to level up, another way to level up. Okay, let's get into your questions and where you are at today. Week eight of the program. I know what you start doing at this point.

You get out your calendars. You mark how much weight you need to lose by the end. You know what you start doing at this point. You get out your calendars, you mark how much weight you need to lose by the end. You start X-ing it off. You start stressing yourself out. Try not to do that. It's not very productive. Shift those expectations that you had in the first weeks of the program to the end. This is where everything really starts to come together. So it's really about the momentum of that. At this point, eight weeks in, we still have a lot of time. Remember the expectations you had in the first four weeks of the program, right? Shift those to the back end of the program. So this is really where the magic happens. This is really where your efforts pay off. It's just really a matter of being

consistent about it. Yeah, you guys are all talking about her book. I think it's, I don't know where it's available, but we added the link in her book. I think it's a I don't know where it's available. But we added the link in the post if you got questions for her. Sugar addiction, will she address that on Wednesday? I'm not really sure joy what the conversation with her is going to be. I said to her, it's the first time we're having her on. No doubt she'll will be a regular guest with us. I think she's going to share a bit of her story and let you know what she's all about. We'll have probably a general conversation about food addiction. What is it? I know that I am also planning on having her back because I have a feeling it's going to

be a two-part conversation. So we'll see. What we usually do with our guests is we bring them on and see if we like them. See if they're resonating with us. I have a feeling she's going to already. And then we let the conversation evolve based on the kinds of questions that you want me to ask her and your response to the conversation that we have. And so that's sort of been what I what I suggested to her is let's get to know her. I think there's some trust involved there. We want to make sure that we really like and respect this person who is offering advice as qualified as she is. I already know you're going to love her. I already know you're going to love her.

But this is for you to make that connection with her. So probably be a little bit more about her and an overview of what food addiction is. But what I would do is if you have questions for her, add them to the post. And then from there, we'll invite her back and we'll just sort of see how the conversation evolves. That's one of the things with our guests where the conversation is just like leveled up, leveled up, leveled up. It's just evolved out of the questions that you ask and how you respond to the guests

that we're having. It's really our members that have been elevating the conversation group over group over group. It's actually really tangible and really cool. If you take it back to my first program, people ask the basics, can I have cream in my coffee? Can I do this? Can I do that? Now people hit us up really early in the program with some heavy hitting questions. And that's because I think, you know, as members, you're learning a lot, you'll be getting more savvy, more understanding, you're digging deeper, you're leveling up even more. And then I also think the conversation that we're having out there in the world is evolving, is evolving too. But I think this is a great time to add Sandra to the conversation. It's a great time for her to be having a

conversation out there where people are recognizing it's not your willpower. It isn't will, it's not that you don't have willpower. Chances are there's something else going on there, whether it's physical or mental that's feeding into the choices that you're making or your body's ability to focus on fat loss or not, right? So I'm looking forward to that. Having delayed challenges with the messy middle, not panicking or thinking of throwing the baby out with the bathwater though, I'm refocusing instead and simply treading forward. So this is it, right, Juanita? This is exactly it. Gather your feels. If you're just kind of chaotic and festering in your funk and I don't know what the fuck's going on and where I'm at, just take a minute.

Ground yourself. Center yourself. Before you get out of bed every day, this is what I do. Before I get up, I get up and immediately my brain starts, oh, I got to do this. I got to do that. I'm like, no, that's not how I'm starting my day. Let me just ground myself. And sometimes that's hard because I'm starting my day. Let me just ground myself. And sometimes that's hard

because I don't have the patience for it. And what I do is I'm like, I don't get up and walk around on my bare feet, although you can do that. I just lie in my bed and I just am like, let's just calm. Let's connect to mother earth. Let's connect up to the divine. Let's just ground myself or, you know, our picture, I sometimes I picture a triangle and I am in the center of it. Sometimes I can tell if I'm a little off and just visually kind of like centering myself, grounding myself, being in the moment, calming my mind, however you want to frame it, whatever resonates with you. And then I just think about my day, not all the million things that I'm going to do, but

the tone of my day. I'm going to have just a nice, my day is just going to flow today. It's going to be calm today. Other days it's, I'm going to be more productive. Other days I'm going to have just a nice, my day is just going to flow today. It's going to be calm today. Other days it's, I'm going to be more productive. Other days I'm going to have a fun day. I'm going to have a whatever day. I just, I'm not looking for any of that today. I'm just going to go from meeting to meeting to meeting. I'm going to get my work done. I'm going to make time to go for my walk. I got my Apple watch on. I'm monitoring my steps. I'm just going to make an effort to take my supplements. I got them all organized upstairs. I'm going to simplify my food choices

this week. Things have gotten a little out of control for me. So I'm going to get back to basics, going to simplify. Everything's all good. That's it. And that's sort of my mind. I don't go into great detail, but sort of like I have a busy week this week. We have the National Women's Show. Who's coming up? Hands up if you're coming to the National Women's Show on the weekend. We're going to be there Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm on the main stage. I got to talk for a half hour. I mean, for some reason, I'm freaked out about that. But yet I can't help myself but talk longer than a half hour every day. I don't know what I'm going to say. You know, like, are people actually going to come and see me?

What? What's that about? So I got a lot going on there. I got the menopause add-on that we're doing that I'm really excited. It's a lot of new information. My brain is loving it. We got an amazing guest this week. So I got a lot going on, right? So taking that moment and grounding

yourself or whatever you want to call it every single day and just reminding yourself what's important to you, what you got going on. Also reinforce the fact you got this. You can handle this. If it's a really busy day where you don't have a lot of time for yourself, recognize that and then really take advantage of the time that you do have and make the most of it, right? Just bring some, I guess the theme today is bring some realness. Bring some realness. Bring some reality. Let's like ground ourselves in the reality of what's going on with us and what we need and what we can do. And, you know, keeping in mind that on top of everything else we got going on in life, we're trying to lose weight, right? Second time on the program and getting in tune with my satiety cues, but I'm finding I get hungry

quickly after eating dissatisfaction and at times hardly waiting for my snack. Is this normal at this point? I know what's coming in terms of maintenance and I don't want to keep eating six times a day, but I feel like I still need to. So is this normal at this point? I mean, that's such a loaded question because everyone's different. It could be that you're not drinking enough water and you're dehydrated because like, are you tracking your water? Do you know you're drinking enough and it's cold outside and you're just craving carbs and sugar so you feel extra hungry? Are you extra stressed this time of year? You're using a lot of brain power. Have you dropped the ball on the supplements? Were you taking your omega-3 and now you're not? Have you dropped the ball in making your food

choices as nutrient rich? The splitting up of the meals and snacks part called feeding the metabolism actually is making your body work extra hard. And so being hungry is not a bad thing. It could have to do with though, if you are not drinking enough water, that's going to make you feel extra hungry. If you're not making your food choices as nutrient rich as possible, that will make you extra hungry. Did you do a workout a couple days ago? Were you really active? You know, even just like, I don't know, we took down all of our Halloween stuff. We were outside, you know, or did you have an extra active weekend, right? So maybe you're a little extra hungry after that. How's your sleep been? Did the

time change fuck you up? Are you tired? And then is this just happening a couple days? Or is this happening all day every day? What's going on? So remember the basics of hunger, hunger is not an immediate need for food. So hunger can be triggers, hunger can be sugars, hunger can be your migrating motor complex, which actually isn't hungry hunger at all. So and remember, it takes time. So if you eat at 12 o'clock, right, it's going to take you a couple of hours for your body to process and digest that food before it's stored in like broken down into glycogen and stored in your body for usable energy. So eating more food isn't necessarily going to help you right now, you may just be noticing

that your body's being more clear about when you are hungry, but when you do eat, you actually get satisfied on a smaller amount of food. It could just be you like stressing and fixating actually on the fact that, oh my God, am I hungry again? You have another meal and snack coming down the pipeline. So what's interesting is that in having done the program before, you know that at the end of the program, we're not eating six times a day, right? So it's about really getting in tune with that. Next week, we're going to drop your afternoon snack down to one, right? We're going to make some other adjustments with the food plan itself.

And the end of the program is really about getting in tune to your body's needs. Now, it could come down to whether you like it or not, your body loves this style of eating. And that's what works for you. Or it could just be that you've created the habit of that. And you're not really digging into I might actually hungry, you're just on the surface, oh, my God, I'm hungry again. It's so inconvenient. So this is so whatever, especially off the heels of feeding the metabolism when you're thinking about eating so often, right? So is this actually a physical thing? Is it actually a mental thing? Is it a combination of both? Like what's going on there? And so that's where you really want to figure that out. If you feel like you still need to, that's fine, right? Like your two programs in is not a lot of

time. Look, I don't know the state of your body when you started, but if you're coming off starving, depriving, neglecting yourself, you know, broken down, that's not a long time for your body to repair, rebuild, heal, boost your metabolism. So you're increasing your metabolism. And sometimes what your body needs actually is more. Someone asked me on the weekend, they're like, I'm like extra hungry eating more often and yet my weight is dropping. Why? I'm like, well, this is just a testament to the fact that weight loss is not always about eating less. It's about being in tune to your body's needs. And so it would make sense in feeding the metabolism, we really are ramping up. The consistency at this point is really ramping up and boosting or increasing

your metabolism. It's actually doing that, which means that your body is using more energy throughout the day, which means that you might notice that you are hungrier. You are following a process that is causing the body to make change. Making change is hard. And so once you're done losing weight or focused on helping your body focus on fat loss, your body's not going to be working as hard anymore. It's not going to be in the pursuit of change. And that's where things will sort of stabilize and regulate.

Once you've lost your weight, it's a totally different thing, right? That's why we have our maintenance program that you follow through to get in tune to what maintenance then looks like and feels like to you. So there could be a variety of things going on. And this is a perfect example of the conversation today. Like, let's figure out what that is, right? Am I actually truly hungry? Is it just something I'm thinking about? Do I actually feel hungry? Like what's happening there? Am I drinking enough water? How's my sleep? What am I doing physically? You know, are you extra stressed? This can be an extra stressful period of time for people. You mentally got a lot going on, your body's using a lot of

energy. So bumping up your omega three, adding in some MCT oil, maybe what you need, not actually more food, but giving your body more that good fat that's going to give you that more sustaining energy, right? But it is normal when we're splitting up the meals and snacks to feel extra hungry, to feel extra hungry. Good morning, up 1.7 pounds today and just don't get it. Lots of exercise on the weekend. Well, that'll do it. Splitting up my meals and drinking so much water, that'll do it. If your weight's about to drop, I've never had a gain than a big drop. Must have to do with post-menopause. Frustrating, but carry on. I just think that's horse shit, Lynn. I'm like, what?

Your weight can be up because of the time change. And not you are full of shit or you are horse shit. I just think, no, I'm not. No, that's not it. That's not it at all. Don't blame it on postmenopause. I would not say that at all. It makes total sense.

Lots of exercise in the weekend if your body's sore, weight is going to be up. Time change this weekend, that'll mess you up. Even though it's an extra hour of sleep, your body, that'll still mess you up. Spitting my meals and snacks, drinking so much water. Um, your scale can go up before it drops. Like I, I like menopause. Like I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, do you know, let's talk about menopause for a second. And I'm glad that you brought this up. Um, I'm just not, I'm not like you, if you're frustrated, I'm not, chances are it's because you're doing the work, not because of anything you're not doing and not because your body, your body doesn't want you to gain weight. Um, and the reality with menopause, let's talk about that for a second is it's not a lot of weight gain.

Like, it's not like you just go into menopause and your weight drops, right? I'm sorry, you gain the weights. It's usually because of lack of muscle mass. It's usually because of, yes, it can be your estrogen levels dropping. But for example, going on HRT, if you were to address the hormone part of it, not going to cause your weight to drop. And we know that, that's a big conversation. So is it what's going on with your sleep? What's going on with your body? Where are you at? Any fluctuation on the scale like that while you're trying to lose weight, chances are it's just going to be fluctuation. You're not going to gain real weight when following the program, especially if you're being mindful of your foods, you're

drinking your water, you're adding in your supplements, anything like that. So any up is just literally a superficial up. So as much as you're going to feel frustrated anyway, it's not real weight gain. By the way, no matter what it is, it's not real weight gain. I'm going to guess that your weight is probably going to come down over the next couple of days. I don't know what's going on with Halloween. If you had any candy there, that can cause inflammation that can cause like a delayed response in the body and that can come down a little bit. So I would assess how you're feeling. It could also be, it could also be that there's a massive cold and flu, uh, flu going around.

And sometimes we don't know what our body is going, like is, is dealing with. And we're like, I don't know what's going on. And your body's telling you the signs. Maybe you feel like to run down. Maybe you know, you know what I mean? Water's not appealing, like there's some things going on. It could be that you also have something else that your body is focused on at the time. But I'm going to expect and then check in with me a couple days that you just keep moving forward, your weight is going to be right back down and then some and then some and then some. So hang in there, especially because it's just like, if it's just up 1.7 today, right? You could have had also hard to digest food,

salty food, like depending on what's going on. So this is not real weight gain. This is not real weight gain. It's almost impossible for your body to take the foods that you're eating, convert them into fat. So I would guess that's not what's going on. So no, that's not it. That's not it. It's just, I'm just bringing some reality to the conversation. It can feel like, it can feel like, but chances are it's not.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. No, no, no. You got this. You got this. Don't go, don't go to that place. You got this. Just keep doing what you're doing. And that will drop right back down.

I have a big time sugar addiction, but really, uh, when it's in reach, but really when it's in reach. Yeah. So, so you get triggered by sugar, right? So you don't think about, so this is the thing, this will be interesting, right? Because we don't have a sugar. Like if you had a true sugar addiction, you would probably be eating sugar out of your, you would probably be eating sugar out of your cupboard. Think about that for a second, right? Like if you had a true sugar addiction, you'd probably be eating just straight

up sugar. And that's not normally what happens. I think what they mean by addiction, and I think this is why they don't recognize it, food as a true addiction, our bodies don't become addicted to it. Although you do hear people talking about how sugar is like cocaine. When you have sugar, you're it's not like sugar like is like cocaine. Addiction was your brain acts similar to when you have it. And I think that's, that's why with food addiction, there's no there's there isn't that chemical reaction that's happening. Although you could, you could argue that they are trying to make our foods as addictive as possible, but that's more in the moment when we are eating them. So when you have sugar, you want more sugar, right? And so it's a, it's a very interesting, it's a very interesting conversation, this whole sugar addiction. So I, it's, it's, it's very, there's no,

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So no matter your era, make it your best with Peloton. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Anyway, I have a big time sugar addiction, but really when it's in reach. If I have it in the house, if I go to a gathering and there's dessert, if I'm on the road, yes, I'll have a craving for DQ. Well, you're on your road, you're probably, that's your association, right? Road trip, stop, have Dairy Queen, have whatever, see a sign, get triggered, craving for baked goods if I have it nearby. I wish I didn't want to eat this food. So that's the thing, right? You have to, this is what this program is about, getting in tune with wants over actual needs. And I want you to get to a point where, and you have complete control over your

cognitive behavior. You can rewire how your brain has come to function, whether it's therapy or a structured addiction type program, like something that Sandra offers, or simply doing the work that you're doing here. I would imagine that what's what Sandra and I do is not that much different. It's the same just presented, maybe we use different language. It's all about recognizing this why this conversation today is about getting real, right? But that's why it's about having a real conversation, what's really going on in your body, how you're really showing up for yourself, what you're really doing and not doing. And it's recognizing when you are doing the things, okay, yes, you're doing the things.

You're doing the things. No, let's not think that it's this, it's that. Whatever you're doing it, you're doing it. Some people are thinking that they're doing all the things, but they're not doing all the things, right? So it's bringing reality to really bringing that reality to it. It's awareness. And then it's time. And then it's reconnecting. And the thing is that reconnecting takes time. It's like, so the conversation with Ozempic, for example, or any of the weight loss drugs, let's just talk. Ozempic is just one now of many. Ozempic is kind of old

news. All the GLP ones, right? And if you, if you watch that conversation with, uh, Oprah, which is really interesting, you heard people come on and say, well, it's about the food noise. I remember that space in my brain too. What am I going to eat? What am I not going to eat? Why did I eat that? I'm going to bed, plan what I was going to not eat the next day when I woke up. What am I going to eat?

What am I not eating? Eat breakfast. Okay. That, what am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, what am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next? What am I eating next? Right? Like that was just like, I remember that standing in line, right? To get a coffee. Okay. Get a coffee. Oh, there's cake pop. Should I get a cake pop? No, you don't want a cake pop. You doesn't want a cake pop. Okay. I was just going to have one. Well, maybe I'll get two. Okay. We'll eat it later. I'll save it for this. I'll save it for that. Like fucking constant nonstop in my brain. It's also how I've wired my brain, constantly obsessing about my weight, constantly obsessing about counting and weighing and measuring and you looking at food as this thing, rather than something I actually need, you know, in order to survive all my associations to I can't have it, I can't have it, can't have it berating myself afterwards like that I have wired my brain to think about food in that way. Not just, oh, I am hungry. What feels most appealing

to me now? Like, let me prepare to eat something. Let me be in tune to if I've had enough rather than constantly trying to not eat more than I need or berate myself if I've eaten too much. Like it's a lot. It's a lot, right? But here's the thing, you absolutely can retrain your brain. We are rewiring how your body's come to function physically. What that means is how your body utilizes and feels the need to store food based on your set point theory and the fact you've starved and deprived it. Your body's caught onto that, which is why it's about giving your body what it needs. And mentally, right? All the thoughts in your brain get wired, you absolutely can rewire

your brain. That's what cognitive behavioral therapy is all about. That's why you have to bring some reality to this and be like, what is going on? Is it emotional? Is it behavioral? Is it physical? What is going like, what is going on? Can I name it? If I'm struggling, what am I struggling with? That's really the work. That's where the work is. So I actually talked to someone, someone who was doing a presentation. I forget his name. Brilliant guy. And talking about this cognitive behavioral therapy piece. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

People follow a diet. It's what's going on in their brain. And just really negative conversation about it. Just really doom and gloom and how our bodies are just, they're wired and this is that. And I said to him afterwards, yeah, but can't we change this? He's like, oh yeah, I can change this when I'm changing this with my clients. He's like, yeah, of course, but you know, I'm not going to change obesity rates seeing one person at a time. I'm like, yeah, but you can teach it en masse. And he's like, do you know the kind of work that would take to be able to teach people how to make change like that on mass? Yeah. Yeah, I do. I'm over here doing it. And not just me,

but our guest experts and not just me and our guest experts, but you, you are doing the work showing up every day, you know, setting your intentions, end of day reflections. How many of you are still doing that? How many of you are still doing that? How many, did you drop the ball on that? Get back to it, right? Like owning what you are doing, setting yourself up for success, supporting yourself, recognizing where you are at, not just fluffing around in your emotions, getting deep centered into it. You are doing that work. You are actually changing who you are physically, mentally, the kind of energy you're showing up with, your relationship with food. Yes, your relationship with yourself, your relationship with other people. And so it is absolutely possible to make that kind of change in your brain. It takes consistency. Number one,

and it takes time. And it takes you purposely intentionally doing the work to make that kind of change. But that's what you're doing here. That's what you're doing here, right? That's what you're doing here. So it's not a matter of wishing you didn't want the food. It's recognizing why do I want the food? What is going on? Because if you got out of your head, got into your body and asked your body, do you want the Dairy Queen? Your body would be like, no, no, I don't. And a lot of people don't trust. They think you have the relationship maybe with yourself that you think your body's just trying to make you fat. Your body wants you to be miserable. It's trying to make you fat. And the reality is your body wants you, your body's,

your body's like, bitch, are you for real? Every fucking millisecond of the day, I'm repairing, rebuilding, regenerating. I'm trying to make you healthy, right? Your body doesn't want that. But we've, we, we feel like it is. We feel like we, and that's the thing with addictions, we feel like we need to have it because we're being triggered by it because there actually is, you know, addictive, not addictive, but when you have sugar, you want sugar. And then if you're, if you are not drinking your water that day, what do you do? You crave carbs and sugar, right? If you're not eating nutrient rich foods, what's happening? You're going to be extra hungry, right? If you're stressed out and you're not managing your stress, what are you doing craving carbs and sugar, you don't get

a good night's sleep, what happens crave carbs and sugar, don't get a good night's sleep, what happens body's more sensitive to insulin. So all of that in combination can make you feel like you have no control. The reality is you actually do. It just takes a lot more work than what we probably would like. It takes a lot longer than what we would like to take to actually do the work. And so that's what these GLP-1s are doing. They're helping people to calm down that noise. The reality is the minute, the minute you stop taking those, that all comes back. Because if you're not doing the kind of work that you are doing or need to do on this program, then you're not doing the work that's going to lead into being able to sustain and maintain your weight. This program is less about the food. It's all about this. This is exactly the work.

This is exactly the work that you want to do, right? First Halloween, I haven't stuffed my face with all the candy. I enjoyed a piece of my favorite peanut butter cups and was underwhelmed. I have a massive, so that's it. So when you allow yourself, I'm going to have it. And then you're like, oh, wow, this isn't actually doing for me what I thought it was going to do. That's why it's not about being perfect. This is why when you are in yourself, right? And taking a moment and being like, okay, I'm a grown up. I can have that candy. I'm going to have it. I'm going to enjoy it. Oh, I didn't actually think it was what it was going to be. My thought or my association with it, oh, it's going to be fun.

Yummy. This is the best. And then you have it and you're like, yeah, okay, no, didn't do that for me. Or you realize you had it, it was delicious. Okay, you enjoyed that, move it along, no big deal. Right? So this is why it's not about being perfect. I'll say that time and time and time again, because people have this need to be perfect when you actually learn the most when you are not perfect, right? I have a massive bag for my kids sitting in my house. I finally don't have food noise, the food noise. But I do want to say that this takes work to get to this place that food noise is real. First of all, we have to recognize it is real. It is an accumulation of your past and your issues and associations and your habits and your beliefs

and how your body's physically come to be wired. But absolutely, you can get a handle on that. This is also why don't get too hard on yourself. And you want to practice Dr. Beverly's capture, cancel, correct technique, right? Like this is where if you find yourself getting on yourself, like, oh my God, I'm a failure. I had dodged in Halloween. I'm never going to, I can feel a lot of people with really heavy feels this Monday because you kept the Halloween party going and now you're feeling, oh my God, you're so far back. You got to, you need some sort of miracle to get you back. That's not true. You didn't ruin anything, right? Just get back at it. You're going to reach your goal. All part of the process, right? All part of the process. All part of the process. Always a challenge celebrating my birthday two days after Halloween.

Oh, I bet. Every year while on the program, I make a plan to succeed and then no kids showed up at our door and hubby and I ate all the chocolate. That's okay. Then my sweet sister sends me a box of Purdy's chocolate for my birthday. I will get through it. But after nine programs, I still have that I'm a failure feeling, right? Okay, let's break this down. It's Halloween. Eat the candy. Eat it. Right? Eat it. Recognize, oh shit, when I eat candy, I want more candy. Just eat it. At some point, you're going to stop eating it. Probably don't feel great. Let me just go into your belly right now. Let's talk. Let, let me and you, let me and your belly have a conversation. Sometimes we're in our head and sometimes we're in our head feeling like a failure because we're distracting from the fact that we feel like garbage. We feel like garbage.

So have a moment with your belly right now and ask your body, how you feeling? How are you feeling? How, how, cause you know how to handle the mental part. You just feel down. You feel frustrated. You get on yourself. You break yourself. That feels productive. That feels productive. So you feel like you're doing the work. Let's just take a minute and have a conversation with your, with your body right now and be like, how, how are you feeling, honey? How are we doing? Your body's probably being like, okay, like that was fun. Can we just get back? No, I don't want this. I'm not into this, right? So feel your body physically, make that connection and just be like, oh yeah. Okay. Have you had enough? Have you had enough? How's that working for you? Because sometimes we get caught up in our emotions. Don't just put

your emotions aside. Let's be physical for a second. Have you had enough? There is nothing wrong with having the Halloween candy at Halloween. There is nothing wrong with having the chocolate or the birthday cake at your birthday. Nothing wrong. Halloween and your birthday are not going to cause you to gain weight. They're not. They're not. Make you feel like shit.

Make you feel like disappointed in yourself because you're making choices that go against what you're trying to accomplish. But look what you've learned. Let's turn this around and be like, okay, you have learned. How's that working for you? Because if you just go in the berate, berate, berate, berate, the berate, the berate, the berate, the feeling like a failure, you never really deal in a call, like never really move forward from it. How you move forward from that is take a minute and see, how's that working for me? Was it fun? Okay. There's nothing

wrong with that. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, I actually did. Okay. Right. How was your birthday? Do you love those chocolates? Did you enjoy them? Yeah, I did. Okay. Moving along. Today's a new day. Recognizing because you had the sugar, you'll probably crave more sugar, right? When you have sugar, you want more sugar. Recognize you got to get that water in. You got to get back on those snacks, but not from a way that you're trying to punish yourself, berate yourself. None of that. None of that, right? Just say to yourself, was that hashtag worth it? Meaning like, was it fun? Was it fun? Yes, it was. I had a great Halloween, had a great birthday, loved it, move it along. Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to

really enjoy the things that we're enjoying. So we don't feel like, oh my God, next time it's something we can't have. Ooh, it's taboo. I can't have this again. Right? So, so, so what is that feelings of failure about? So let's go into that for a second. What, what is happening? Do you feel like you're a failure in life? Usually failure is not about our foods. Usually it's about something else that's going on. Maybe you're like me and your fucking house is a disaster. A disaster. Every room in my house feels like a bomb went off, including my bedroom. Can I just get my shit together or what? I feel like there's a lot going on in my life. I'm doing a lot of things. I don't know that anything is adding up to amount to anything right now.

I feel like it is, but I'm not really sure because I should know that it is. I know that it is, but I don't know that it is because everything feels a little bit chaotic right now. Right? Am I, am I, you know what I mean? Like I got a lot going on, like with my kids, like am I, am I a failure there? Is anything I'm doing making a difference? What is that feeling about? What is that feeling about? And again, sit with that,

sit with that, because you're not a failure. You're not a failure. You showed up today. You showed up today. But the feeling is real. The feeling is real. So many of you coming on the weekend. Yeah. So again, if you missed it, we're going to be the national women's show. I hate this time change. Yeah. This time change is stupid because it just means that it's dark when we go to bed. It's dark when we wake up, it's dark all the time. That is, that can affect how you feel. That can affect the timing of your hunger levels, right? That can affect your hunger. If you're, if your sleep's all messed up, Tony and I did that whole, we thought we were going to get ahead last night. We thought we're going to get ahead on our sleep, but no, all we did was stay up extra late. And then we feel just

as tired today. We messed that up. We messed that up. I'm feeling good, but I'm disappointed that one night of drinking, I've been so vigilant with food and prep, uh, packing snacks, having tons of water. I gained three pounds this weekend. You didn't gain three pounds. Horseshit. I'm calling horseshit. Horseshit. Call horseshit on yourself. You didn't gain three pounds. Did not happen. Scale went up three pounds. Scale went up three pounds. You did not gain three pounds. Uh, might be false weight, but discouraging. So honor the feels right. Honor the feels. So this is why I don't want to, this is why your feels are real. Your feels are valid, but it's, you did not horse shit. You did not gain three pounds. Your feels, however, very valid, very

valid. Might be false weight, but discouraging. I want to still be able to live and enjoy my life from time. Oh no, that's not it. I'm going to call you out on that. That is not it. I want to be able to live, but still enjoy myself from time to time. Come on. Right? First of all, I love that you shared this. I'm generalizing when I'm talking to anybody else, other people. This is not about that. This is not about that. This is about, you're trying to lose the weight. You've set aside 91 days. When you signed up, you probably wanted to reach your goal. This is about being really real with your ass, holding your ass accountable. You can still indulge. Is it going to take you longer? Yeah. But you have to be okay with that. You have to be okay with the fact that if you're going to indulge along the way, and yes, there's

a lot to learn from that. And yes, it's part of the program, the process. It might take you a little bit longer. This isn't about, I still want to enjoy myself from time to time. That's not about that's not it. Because you having whatever you having having some alcohol, eating some food, whatever that might be, it's not going to cause you to gain real weight. At the end of the day, it's not this about losing your weight in a way physically, mentally, that you're calm around food that you're going to be able to enjoy the foods that you enjoy. Here's what I will tell you. It doesn't matter whether you are losing weight or maintaining your weight. Shitty, crappy fucking foods are going to cause your weight to be up because they cause inflammation. They cause inflammation, makes your body feel like shit.

When you drink, it's messing with your sleep. When you drink, it's dehydrating you. It doesn't matter. That's always, always, always going to happen. So this whole program is about being able to have cake on your birthday, have Halloween candy. You know, at Halloween is learning how to navigate those things, right? It's all about losing your weight in a way that you're going to be able to enjoy your life. So that's not it, right?

So those two connecting feelings, because what you're probably also doing today is ragging on yourself that the scale hasn't moved, yet you want to be able to eat, have your cake and eat it too. So this is where you got to break down and be like, okay, let's get real about this. Which one is it, right? Am I putting the pressure on myself to reach my goals and do the things? Or do I want to have my cake and eat it too right now? Because it's not about this whole program is about being able to live and enjoy yourself from time to time, right? I didn't have much weight to lose and therefore I have lost very little weight,

but I have lost a few pounds. So I didn't have a lot, I don't have very much weight to lose, but then I've lost a few pounds, right? So just because you have less weight to lose than someone else doesn't make it easier for you as well. So that's really important to be really grounded in that. You could have the weight that you're carrying. It's all about the percentage of weight that you want to lose. So it's all relative,

right? And I've talked to people who only have 10 pounds. So I have, I had talked, I had someone on my, on Spill It To You a while ago, a few years ago, where she was like, I don't get it. Like, I have the least amount of weight to lose of all my friends. I only have 10 pounds to lose. My friends are, have so much more weight to lose. They're losing so much. There's losing so much weight. Well, when you have more weight to lose, you have a bit more wiggle room. You have a bit more wiggle room. Your body's more inclined to lose that excess, excess, excess, excess, excess fat that it doesn't need, right? Where you don't have excess, excess, excess, excess, but you do have excess fat. And also it could be your stress, right? It could be your stress. It could be hormones, could be a variety of things that you got going

on, whatever you have, you got going on. It could, you could have food sensitivities, right? Could your microbiome could be messed up because maybe you've been sick and you got antibiotics or whatever. So you got to really ditch the concept that it should be easier for you because you have weight, less weight to lose because that's not real life at the end of the day. So really like allow yourself to struggle just like everybody else. That's really important. Just because you have less weight to lose doesn't mean that your struggles are less than anyone. So this is where you might have to be patient with yourself. You might have to show compassion for yourself. This is where you might have to be like, just be like, okay, do you know what I mean? Like you're entitled to have your own issues. In fact, Marie, um, who I'm talking to

on, on Tuesday down nine pounds, but really working through some big stuff, right? So, so this is where you have to like give yourself that compassion and be like, just because you have less to lose, you shouldn't be, you shouldn't be harder on yourself because of what you lost and you haven't lost, you know? So discouraged to have one night of wine and up. So also let's just talk about the fact, if you really are doing all the things, it could be that your weight is up before it goes down. And again, it could be as simple as a time change.

Also, it could be the wine. And so the reality is that wine is inflammatory. And it's not about the foods. It's not about anything like that. But I've had to take out wine. I want to have a real conversation about this. I had to take out wine because it just didn't agree with me. I love wine. And it just it messed with my sleep, which will have your weight up. It messes with my hormones, it messed with my digestive system, we know that it takes at least five days to for your body to recover from any kind of alcohol, they are now saying that we will 10 years from now, we will look back on alcohol like we did cigarettes. And it's just, it's just it sucks. Right. And so this might be something where this is deeper, like you want to

be able to live and enjoy myself from time to time. And this might be where you because I this is a deeper thing than what's happening on the program. Right? Maybe you don't have a lot. So for me, my wine was my me time. That was like my me time. As a parent, single mom, that was like when I busted out my, you know, my, what was it that I had? I can't remember. Yellow label wine and my Grey's Anatomy Thursday night. That was like my signal to the whole family.

Leave me alone. Don't talk to me. Leave me alone. That is my, like I live for Thursday night wine nights. And then what happened, it became every night wine night, because those were the moments when I was and it became just about holding the wine, I realized that I do love wine, and I could easily drink a bottle or two. It came about holding the wine represented like it's me just pouring the wine, holding the wine. Like it was what it was really representing. So I stopped drinking alcohol. I'm on seven weeks now without it. Very difficult. I am going through

with a friend, however, and we have been to concerts, we've been golfing, we've been to parties. I had a Halloween party on this weekend. I didn't drink. I am now to the point where I realized it wasn't doing something for myself I was enjoying. And now I find joy in how I feel after I go for a walk. Now I find joy in how I feel after the next day when I chose not to drink, how I feel, right? And so you could just be recognizing this isn't working for you anymore. Like if beyond just the scale being up, because it's not going to stop you, right? Your way will come right back down. But what's sort of happening also the way you feel mentally after drinking. So, so it could be just be like, what

is this about? Right? Like this is a perfect example of what's going on here. So it's not about you. You're showing up in the program. You're doing all the things you're doing all of the things. It's not about you, um, not being able to enjoy life because everything you're doing on the program is leading into you being able to enjoy life. So what is that feeling? Right? What, what is that? What is that deepness? What is that about? It's bigger than what you're doing on the program. And so this comes down to taking that time. And so I love all of these examples today. I think our examples, this is the surface feeling. This is what I think it's about. It's probably a lot deeper than that. And that's like the insight. So everything you're thinking,

everything you're feeling totally valid. Also, all a message for you highlighting the things you need to work on and work through, right? This, this, this, this right here, Andre. Andre, is it Andre? This is the real work. This is the real work. This is the real work. But don't dismiss the discouraged. Don't dismiss the discouraged. So disappointed and discouraged. Those are the words that you're dealing with today. And where is, what is the deeper, what is deeper than that? Is that actually the real words or is there another word? So the surface words or is it something deeper? And then where is that coming from? Because you are showing up and you are doing the work and

you're right. You should be able to have a glass of wine and that's not ruining anything, right? So yes, look at the physical, but the real work is in the deeper. So if you are, if you are showing up today and you've used any of these words, if you're using some big words, that's the message. That's the universe saying, I'm trying to tell you what you need to do and focus on here. I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to tell you. And so I always notice this.

The same words keep popping up, popping up, popping up. I keep using the same words. People will actually reflect back the same words for me. I'm like, okay, I got to deal with this. Whatever I'm saying right now that I'm obviously I'm dealing with it. Not just at the program in life. This is my, this is my message. The universe is throwing at you.

Every, everything you're dealing with, you can handle, you can handle. You wouldn't be dealing with it if you couldn't handle it. And you have set upon a goal. Just like I have this goal of having the number one weight loss company in the world. So everything the universe is throwing at me right now is like, okay, honey, I hear you. I see you. I, yeah, loud and clear, but, but you do not have the skills. You do not know yet what you need to know. You have not worked through the things that you need to work through to be who you need to be to have the number one weight loss company in the world. That's what's happening to me. And so people are coming into my life. I am being challenged in ways

that are going to help me reach my goal. And the same with all of you. And this is just broken down a really condensed 91 day. Let's focus specifically on weights, but this is what's happening in your life. So things are being thrown at you for you to pick up what the universe is putting down and be like, okay, these are the things that I'm being challenged with. What are you being challenged with? That's the question. I'm going to leave that with you today. Um, thanks to everyone who comments again, I'm always talking generalized to the whole group. I, and I think it takes so much to share where you are at. And when I'm talking, I'm just hoping that something is going to stick. And you pick up some of what I'm putting down and something is triggering. Something is you're having that aha

moment. It's getting you to see something from a different angle, right? What is challenging you? That's the conversation today. Let's get real. Let's bring some real energy and get real with the time that we have left in the program, which is a lot of time, because this is the real work. This is work. What are you being challenged with? What are the words that are coming up for you in your life today, this week? And what do they mean? Go deeper.

Pull out those pens. Pull out those papers. I'm going to be back tonight, 7 p.m. If you can't tell, I'm super jazzed about where we're at. Like each week, as we inch closer, we are bringing forward people who are here. You're doing the work. You're going to be here at the end, right? It's just about like leveling up a little bit more, digging a little deeper.

That's what it's all about. The program part of it is just to follow the tweaks. That's it. That will take care of itself. It's the rest of the work. It's the rest of the work. Have an incredible rest of your day. If you're feeling feels, figure out what that is about. Set yourself up for success moving forward. I'm going to be back tonight at 7 PM. Um, and then Dr. Paul is joining

us tomorrow. Um, and then Sandra Elia. So we'll talk about prepping for some big feels before you go into this conversation with Sandra Elia. It'd be great for you to do some prep week prep work for that conversation, right? That's a, that's a really productive way to, to listen and be open to that conversation, um, that we're having with her. Okay. I got to go. Um, remember we are also going to be at the national women's show this weekend in Toronto, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'll be there all three days. I'll be hitting the main stage. If you want to come hang out with me, please come. I have like nightmares that no one's going to show up. I don't know what I'm going to talk about, but I'll figure it out. In fact, Dr. Dina, Dr. Beverly and Dr. Alinka are going to join me on Saturday.

So they are also going to be there as well. You can come hang out. If you missed us at the National Menopause Show, it was just a whole vibe being there, hanging out. Come by yourself. You don't need to come with anybody. Trust me, you will not feel alone. You will feel welcomed. Come, you'll meet other, other members. Uh, it's going to be a whole vibe. It's going to be whole time. You can get tickets, um,

at the national menopause, no national, national women's show website, and you can use the code Gina NWS 24 and get a bit of a discount. I think three bucks off tickets are like 15 bucks. So you can get a bit of a discount. Okay. Have an amazing day, everyone. Thanks for joining me today. Thanks for everyone who commented, asked questions. If we didn't get your questions, pop them over again on the question of the day page. I also want to remind you that we have this whole podcast, the Libby Method, where you can download and listen to all of our podcasts. I also was only going to go for a half hour today, but here I am.

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