The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 58 - Fall 2025

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 58, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2025.In this episode, Gina talks about how to find balance when life feels anything but. From listening to your body and managing burnout to leaning into seasonal eating and emotional awareness, she reminds us that it’s not always about pushing harder—it’s about checking in, nourishing the body, and giving it what it needs to feel supported. She shares practical ways to stay grounded through stress and change, using simple tools like food, rest, and awareness.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.

Hi, everyone. Good morning. Hello and happy Tuesday. I am actually, still my pajamas, yes, obviously. But more so, we are away in Atlanta for Obesity Week. It's a huge, ginormous conference. We're here for all of it. It'll be really interesting. So it's going to take place over the course of the next few days. So that is where I am. I'll still be checking in and going live. but I'm loving that you guys are loving the burnout post, which is really interesting. We have had Cynthia Lois come on.

She wrote a whole book on Burnout. You might know her from one of the hosts of the social. And we have done a few podcasts with her. So if you go into, I believe, the Living Method podcast on any podcast platform or in the Way Imachina podcast, there's a couple really great podcasts on burnout. Actually, what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my team to link them in the group today. but I highly suggest because there's a big difference between stressed out and burnt out. So we've talked about stress with the program.

We've also talked about anxiety with the program. But one of the things that we haven't talked about yet is just really feeling burnt out. Just like being like flat out, just you cannot get a handle on it. It's so much more than managing stress. It's where you really have to be like, okay, take a look, take a step back and take a look at your life and what is going on. and really be serious about getting a handle on it. You know, burnout is when you're just like, all of a sudden, your face is wet and you're crying

and not even realizing you're crying because it's just a whole other next level state of stress. So I'm going to get my team to post some of those links in there. So you guys can check those out and give them a listen. They're really worth listening to my thing is this. My Wi-Fi's not on here. Just having some Wi-Fi issues. So try to get that set up.

can't read it in my comments. So this week, let me just talk about where we're at this week. So this week, we are feeding the metabolism one last time. So if you, if you didn't have an opportunity to separate your proteins from your carbs and you were just splitting your meals and snacks, that's a good thing to attempt this week because next week we're going to be revamping the food plan. We're actually going to give you a lot more flexibility in it. We're going to focus on bumping up the protein and fat, not eating more, just making sure that we're bumping up that protein and fat slightly minimizing any heavier carbs if you've been adding them in and you're going to have more flexibility in terms of your snacks. So you're going to be able to switch up that fruit

snack, add a protein and fat to it or be able to switch it up for something else altogether. So understanding how proteins and fats really feed into your satiety hormones can be super helpful on that, especially as you find that. Thank you. As you're making sure you're getting that protein in some people notice that they feel a little overly full when we make that tweak next week because of the protein and fat usually it's also because you know we're dropping the ball and asking those four sets of mindful eating questions so really digging to the tweak this week another couple days of just back to following that basic food plan asking the four questions and then don't forget about maximizing before we split up those meals and snacks okay let's see where we're at

with the comments good morning hi risa how are you where are you Gina just hopped on so I'm in Atlanta for the big obesity week conference sonya just went to go grab me a coffee she says the hotel is slammed like it's like let me show you our keys that they they gave us so we checked into the hotel and this was our this was our keys that they give us so it's a whole wagovi pack here and literally our key says come check us out at booth 517 like there's a lot going on here there's going to obviously be a lot of talk about all the new weight loss medications. We're here to also see what's new, what's going on, listening to the conversations. As you know, many of our members are using weight loss medications. They're working hand in hand with their healthcare providers.

And our program is a great complement to that due to all the lifestyle changes. Because taking weight loss medications is not a diet in itself. It does help you maybe eat less. It helps the food noise. They are, they are researching more benefits, but at the end of the day, you've got to make the lifestyle changes, not just to be able to lose weight, but to be able to maintain and sustain their weight. So we're here to have that conversation and see what's going on there. We are also going to be meeting up with our friends at obesity matters. We're also going to be seeing what obesity Canada's got going on, checking out some of their speakers. Sean Warden will be here doing a talk. So that's where we're at this week. Trying to really just stay in the know with what's going on.

in obesity care. If you missed it the other day, and I know I mentioned this on the check-in, I had an interesting conversation with Sean Wharton about the difference between obesity as a disease, because there's a lot of talk talking about obesity as a disease, which might be a little confusing for people, and he really cleared that up. There's a difference between obesity as a disease, meaning it's actually causing health issues and living in a larger body, because you can live a larger body carry extra weight and be completely healthy and so that's sort of where this debate is like can you be healthy and can you be overweight and healthy absolutely you can just like being skinny for lack of a better word or thinner or smaller whatever you want to say doesn't necessarily

make you healthier either and so i thought that was really interesting um i was at a cottage for a few days for fun hi and great company delicious foods and drinks so the tweak didn't really happen back today and feeling ambitious despite the scale telling me the truth yes it was worth it so you know what that's that's where you can get to okay so the scale is confirming that you probably drank a little too much maybe had a little fun maybe ate some foods that you know processed foods can cause inflammation in the body salty foods weight maybe you didn't get the best sleep so this scale is confirming that. You know what a great tip is? Because we talk about this a lot in maintenance is try to guess the number on the scale before you get on the scale and try to be like,

okay, based on how I am feeling, the choices that I'm making, what would I guess my weight is? And that can actually take a lot of pressure off the scale, even when you get on it, because chances are you're getting on it every single day. You're getting to know how you feel based on the number that you are seeing on the scale. So that can really help you one day. just get rid of the scale and really be able to trust that you know what your body needs and where you're at. And so yeah, right? So you got on the scale. It validated at a great time. My body reacted. So now I just got to help my body process the backlog of foods, right? Help it kind of decrease the inflammation in my body. Maybe get a little bit sleep, maybe hydrate a little bit. So if you're

dehydrated, your body's retaining water. So drink a little bit more water, right? That's what it is. just that confirmation. If you can see it, see it as that kind of tool, that can be really beneficial, especially as you roll into maintenance. I have a question, okay? I'm taking magnesium at night and taking a pre-in probiotic since the supplement conversation. I'm still kind of suffering a constipation. I go twice a day and then nothing for two to three days. If there are any other supplements to try. So here's Kelly. She said, I have the same struggle. My ND actually suggest to bumping up my con magnesium at night more than the recommended dose as your body excretes what it doesn't need. Maybe see a doctor, maybe see if your doctor's on board. So you can do

that as well. Magnesium, the con magnesium, the powder form, the citrate, works really well for that. You can also take a dose of that during the day and at night. So yes, it does work well with your body's melatonin production. Your body is calming down at the end of the night. So the con magnesium can really help increase magnesium levels. It can also help with bowel movements and sleep as well. So if you take it during the day, though, it's not going to make you tired and sleepy. So you can take some magnesium calm in the morning or earlier in your day and some at night. So what that does is draw water into your bowels and then therefore helps with going to the bathroom. We have a whole post on this. So you might have missed it. But if you go into the group or go into

the app and you search bowel movements, there's a whole post that comes up, talks about what you can do if you have loose bowel movements and what can you do if you're dealing with beds of constipation. Sillium fiber is a good one. You want to make sure that you're drinking lots of water. Obviously, we're focused on a lot of healthy fibers with fruits and veggies and whatnot with the kinds of foods that you are eating. Triphala is a good one. That's some drops that you can put into water. But you might need to go for something like more like a laxative because what can happen as we're making changes in not just what you are eating, but how you were eating. And as your body works to make changes on the inside that we're not noticing you can have like you can go from

maybe like not having any bowel movements in a week to you know a couple times a week you can go from being regular like once a day to like going every couple days and then when they come back online now you're noticing you're going twice a day so it is normal for your bowel movements to be all over the place um when you're making any changes to your food everyone thinks when you start eating healthy you're going to have like those s-shaped bowel movements like everyone's like why don't I have those you know Oprah Dr. Oz S-shaped bowel movements that is really going to happen once you sort of stabilize your weight and that's just regular everyday routine with the changes that we're making you're going to notice your bowel movements kind of being all over the place but I check out that

bowel movement post because there's some great tips on there but definitely increasing your calm will do it as splitting up your calm is a great way to do it adding in something like trifalo which is drops, increasing your fiber intake, so your cillium especially will really help with that. That'll be a game changer because if it goes in, it needs to also then buy product come out, right? If you're not going to the bathroom as regularly as you would like or should be, could be going, it can affect your energy, how you're feeling, all your appetite, all of that. So once you get that on track, that would be a game changer. um yeah fine if you get yeah your water in it issues a lot but yeah also getting on top of your water

that's a that's a really big one so this time of year you'll might notice that your water tends to drop especially when it's a little bit colder so this is where you might want to do room temp you might want to um like what i'll do is boil a big kettle in the morning and then i'll make a tea with that and then throughout the day or you know a couple hours afterwards i'll just pour like warm water into a cup because I have a hard time drinking cold water, especially when it's cold outside. So this is my way when I switch to herbal teas or warm water and lemon. You might be noticing that you're dropping the ball a little bit on the water just because the change in temperature.

Walking or movement can also help things. Yeah, absolutely, right? Especially going for walks after your larger meals. That can make a big difference as well. I am a bit discombobulated these days. I was scheduled for a cardiac stress test yesterday, but when the doctor, saw my results from two ER visits while in Newfoundland in July, he switched gears and decided I need an M-I-B-I-Skin. They injected me with radioactive isotopes to get detailed pictures that

couldn't eat for four hours. The test took two hours, no caffeine for 24 hours, which produced a massive headache. I'm back there again this morning to complete the test. I have to admit I'm worried but grateful someone is finally taking chest pain seriously. That's a lot. So that's like a lot of stress, right? That's like a lot. First of all, I'm glad that you're here today and you're sharing and you're showing up and you know you're still focused on taking care of you because it's a big thing and this is a great place to do that it's a really great place to do that um sometimes on your journey it becomes less about the scale and a lot more about your health so one really happy that you're taking care of business two that must be really like that's stressful it's waiting for results

wondering what's going on yes you're taking care of it but the same time a little unnerving right so i'm just going to send you some love and give you a big hug and say i'm happy that you're here today that can really throw you off and that's where rather than like kind of go in with the chaos maybe dig your heels in a little bit and be like what do i need today and what's my attitude for today maybe today i just need to kind of deep breaths have a nice calm day drink some tea maybe grab a book sit down for a few minutes like really be mindful of like what you need in this moment when you recognize that that's how you're feeling what can you do so discombobulated right that's that word what can you do to ground yourself in the moment so you know kind of sit in a chair

close your eyes kind of put your feet on the floor and just kind of connect with you know people say mother earth but just connect down to feel more grounded feet on the floor you could also do this lying your feet don't actually have to be on the floor um kind of feeling your energy going up feeling your energy going down really focus on some deep breathing another good one that kyle talked about with our anxiety post is putting your palms over your eyes and then taking some deep breath right so you can do like the the box breathing like four in four out four in four out or or take a deeper breath in than your actual exhale or exhale deeper than your inhale there's a few ways that you can do it just deep breathing in general is really good um you're doing your senses uh thinking

about something that you can try to smell something try to like see something hear something touch something that can help you bring you back into the moment so the more that you can do that throughout the day and keep yourself a little bit more grounded. But these are the tools and the skills. When we talk about the tools and the skills to be able to maintain your weight, that's beyond just when to eat what to eat, what to eat, it's really recognizing what the fuck's going on in your life and how to help yourself get through or navigate certain situations because it's all tied into our stress, right? And the choices that we're making and how we're feeling and how we're sleeping and all of that. And then, and this is exactly, these are exactly the conversations that we're

going to be having moving forward right like the food part you're kind of getting the portions the hunger this that satisfaction the unsatisfaction like you're you're going through the motions of all that adding an exercise that's a big one i'm so excited to introduce amanda theb next week so she's a fitness expert but she also specialized in menopause um she's going to join us to talk about exercise next week so i'm really looking forward to that so she's going to be coming on talk about how to take care of our bodies i'm feeling a stronger craving for bread and wondering if this is a seasonal change thing or result of indulging in Halloween kid. So I share this all the time this time of year because I've worked with so many clients.

When I work with my personal clients, it was like all of a sudden one day, everyone was like, can I have bread, can I have potatoes, can I have this, can I have that? So your body is wired to seasonal change. So in the winter time, there's a like as we transition from summer into winter, our bodies are transitioning into our digestive system working like more like a heater rather than an air conditioner. So in the summertime, you crave foods that can keep you cool. So fruits, for example, that's why we crave a lot of sweets sometimes in the summertime. Your body's looking for high water content foods like sweets that replenish your glycogen stores,

but also have a high water content in them. You tend to not want heavy foods. You want lighter, salads, fruits, veggies, those types of things in the summertime. Things that when you eat them actually help cool your digestive system. Or also when you're, you're in the summer when it's really, really hot, you'll either create those, those carbs and sugar, which really is a call for water, or you won't be hungry at all. So you'll notice in like the high, high heat, you don't have much of an appetite. And so in the wintertime, as we transition, that our vitamin D levels are dropping. This is why it's important to make sure your vitamin D levels are up, because that can signal weight gain in the winter when your vitamin D levels drop, weight,

insulation, help keeping you warm, right? So as we transition, this is where you, you're up. You You might start to crave like bread, pastas, heavy, like heavier carbs. You don't obviously want to avoid breads and pastas. We want to go for quinoas, rice, potatoes are also really great. Also fatty meats, soups, stews, chilies, actually hot foods, warm foods, spicy foods. We tend to crave more of those in the wintertime. And that's your body looking to create heat in your digestive system. So this is where if you are like forcing yourself to eat a cold,

hold salad every day, you might actually feel like satisfied, like got the food wise, but actually feeling unsatisfied with your food choices because it's not really fitting a need for your body. So this is where you can still do salads, but maybe do like a warm salad. Like I like making a salad and then sauteing some mushrooms and a little bit of quinoa or rice and then heating that up and then actually putting that on top of my salad. So it's not like you can't still have salads, but, you know, warming them up a little bit, adding a little bit more carbohydrates in them again this is not low carbs this is right carbs at the right time so if you're feeling really unsatisfied with your food choices just that slight tweak into seasonal tweaks that

can make a difference um i believe we did talk about seasonal tweaks but we posted that post a while ago so if you go into the app or the group and you and you search up seasonal tweaks that post will come up there's all sorts of so it's great idea to eat seasonal foods foods that are in season and then making sure that you are kind of helping your body choose foods that, you know, sort of fit your body's needs. So like soups and stews and chilies are great for this time of year. Winter time into spring, also a great time to lose weight, a really great time to lose weight. As your transition in the spring, your body would go naturally looking to release any of that fat. It would have naturally storted the winter time to keep you warm.

So even though you will have been working towards your weight loss goals, that spring transition, transition can be really helpful for that. And that's where you start to actually crave those lighter, fresher foods again that can really help. So yeah, so seasonal trade. And you're picking up on that, let's talk about that. The fact that you're actually picking what's going on. Why am I craving these foods? Why am I feeling so unsatisfied with my same old salad that I used to love? And picking up on that, that's part of being in tune. That's part of being in tune, you know. How much protein should we be having daily? Okay, so there's been a kind of, I just take a sip of my coffee for a second.

A lot of people talking about protein lately and making sure you're getting enough. And here's why, because they realize that diets are shit. They eat last, exercise more, just count, weigh, measure your food, doesn't take into account where you're getting your calories from. So historically, people would just go low fat, no fat, low carb, no carb, carb, you know, a lot of processed low cal foods. And so people weren't really concerned about where they were getting their nutrients from. And that is such horseshit. A calorie is not a calorie. Yes. And energy expenditure, yes, but the way your body processes those foods and those calories, there's

science behind that. And so what you do eat matter. So with the diet industry getting to a place where it is and realizing that counting calories is not the way to do it anymore, they're starting to talk about protein because you want to make sure. you're getting enough nutrients while you're a losing weight. Your body needs protein. Your body needs carbohydrates for energy foods. Your body needs protein to build muscle, maintain muscle, needs fat for cellular function. So all those things are really important. So that's one of the, you can't just eat trisketes and drink Diet Coke and lose your weight that way. The other reason is menopause has caused a resurgence in understanding what we're

eating as your body, you know, your body mass in terms of your muscle mass starts to decline. that's not necessarily menopause, that's more so aging and then it's a bit accelerated in menopause. So it's more of the state of our body once we hit menopause and we're realizing when we don't have that muscle mass. So when your body breaks down your foods, your glycogen gets stored in your liver into your muscle and into your fat, primarily in your muscle. So if you don't have that muscle mass anymore, it gets stored more in your fat. And that's where when you're going through menopause, women are noticing the fat accumulating in their midsection. And so, so, so when people talk about making sure you're getting enough protein in your diet,

they are not assuming that you are following a diet or like the living method, where you're focusing on protein for breakfast, right? That's your main focus. Fruit in the morning, yes, but that's to replenish your glycogen stores right now. Next week, you can add more protein and fat to that if you want. Vegetables are the focus at lunch because that's when you need your carbohydrates, but that's also where you want to get your protein in. for your veg snack, you can add protein there. So you can add dip like a hummus,

boiled egg, whatever you want. So vegetables, yes, but you can add protein. Nuts and seeds, obviously protein. And then protein is the focus at dinner. So if you are eating enough to feel satisfied and going through the process. So following the food plan, eating enough to feel satisfied, even with downsizing, splitting up meals and snacks, you're getting probably more than enough protein because it's not a benefit for you to eat more protein than you need. And how much protein you need depends on a few variables. If you're working out, you're exercising, how tall you are, like there's a lot going on there. Metabolism, all of that. So, but the average is, and they say try to aim for about 20 to 30 grams per main meal. So that

would be breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but also remember, you're also getting that in your snacks as well, right? So it's not really anything someone who's doing the program here would need to worry about because it's not just getting in your protein. It's making sure you're getting enough good fats. Also making sure you're getting your carbohydrate. So there's a mathematical equation for that, but everyone's a little different. But probably about 100 grams of protein a day, 30 at meals and some split in your snacks. But then again, if you're sitting there or you're counting your protein and you're eating more than you need, then it's not like you're building more muscle because of that. That will still get stored as fat at the end of the day, right? So,

Um, I believe we have that actually on our, our post. If you, I think it's our protein carbs and fats post. If you go in there, it talks about that there. Um, I've been going through a lot of pain issues. Had three full months, uh, had three had a fall three months ago and not getting better. But since starting the program, instead of continuing, uh, comfort eating through the pain, this program has helped me refocus my eating habits. Hi, sorry. Even though struggling with pain, the program is working for me losing weight. That's incredible. Because when you have pain, you have inflammation and you're right it's so easy when you're dealing with chronic pain to just try to just deal and be in the moment so mad respect for you for showing up and you that's really giving the body the nutrients that it needs to repair to rebuild to regenerate to rejuvenate and to heal and sleep is really really important so it'd be so easy at the end of the night to feel like oh fuck I can't believe that to deal with this and then you know indulge at night that not eating after dinner probably the best thing you can do because the sleep is really when your body makes change And so that's where you want to make sure you're really being really protective of your sleep.

And that's probably, I'm assuming, why you're able to get actually your weight moving while you're dealing with an injury. Absolutely possible. Injuries and chronic pain do cause stress and inflammation in the body, but getting a good night's sleep, giving your body nutrient rich foods. Your excess fat also carries inflammation as well. So your body doesn't want to carry extra fat, like your body doesn't want to carry excess fat, especially when you're dealing with chronic pain. So good on you. Good on you. That's a testament to, that's a good testament. Sorry, I'm just reading it. That's a good testament to your hard work. Don't cover your eyes. Take off your glasses before you cover your eyes.

Yeah, so Troy didn't realize this, but I'm craving rice like you wouldn't believe. Yeah, right? Is it normal to feel hungrier this week coming off a downsizing? I did pretty good splitting my meals, then salty snack Saturday night. Dang it, Jays. I hear you. But then that, that slate increase came right off. I'm just finding I want to eat my whole portion even asking the four questions. Okay. Okay. Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. I'm finding that I want to eat my whole portion even after asking the four questions. Okay. So, so there's a couple things going on there. This is, I'm so glad that you asked us. Okay, so first of all, portions are always what they feel like, not about what they look like. So we're not trying to keep them

small or make them smaller so your four questions shouldn't be based on your portion size your four questions should be how you feel so right now this week we're eating dissatisfaction so you portion out your food and you're asking the four questions and you're still hungry you want to you can go back for seconds and then and then focus on eating just enough from that second portion the same thing was splitting up meals and snacks right like you can take your portion split up your meals and snacks eat that first portion, wait, eat the second portion, still hungry, go back for more. You don't have to wait another half hour, just go back for more and eat enough to feel satisfied. So that's really important. So for example, one day, maybe you woke up today and you're really hungry and

you're having eggs, so you need three eggs in order to feel like that you had enough. Whereas tomorrow, you wake up and you're not really all that hungry and, you know, you find yourself barely needing one egg. So that's really, really important because we still want to give our body what it needs. and your body's hunger levels change every day. So if you are, first of all, if you're extra, extra hungry, there could be a couple of things. It is normal to feel extra hungry, especially in the evening right before your weight's about to drop.

So that's normal. That can be a sign metabolism increasing. That's a normal for your weight about to drop. Could be dropping the ball on water, especially as the temperatures kind of like, you know, start to drop and it gets a little colder. You're not drinking your water like we were just talking about. Make sure you're getting your water in because you're,

if you're dehydrated, that can cause you to start craving carbs and sugar and make you feel a little hungry as well. How has your sleep been? So if you were like kind of partying on the weekend, that could really mess with your sleep. So I just started wearing my aura ring. And so I drank a lot Saturday night, totally mess with my sleep. And on Sunday, it was like your body temperatures were up today. What's going on? I'm like, I'm fucking hung over. That's what's going on. So has your sleep been interrupted? Because so those things can cause you to feel extra hungry. Those things can cause you to feel extra hungry. Um, and then the salty snacks are a day increase, um, but I'm just finding I want to eat my whole portion. So also eating,

so we're not feeding the metabolism right now. We're just doing single portions. But the feeding the metabolism, splitting up the meals and snacks part, that can actually have your body working extra hard. So that can have you feeling hungry or two. So a couple of things to do. Make sure you're drinking your water, right? Make sure you're getting, you're trying to get that sleep. So really important not to eat at night. Bump up your protein and fat. Make sure you're getting your protein fat in your meals. That'll feed into your satiety hormones and make you feel more satisfied. Coming off at Halloween could have started a sugar craving too. So if there's any residuals or anything that you ate on the weekend, so you're still, you know, you're still kind of craving

the sugary foods. I know you said salty. If the salty foods were more appealing for you, it could be that you're feeling a little stressed. So bumping up your good fats or your omega-3 can make a big difference. And I love that. That's like, okay, what's going on with me, right? so let's put all the pieces what's happening in my environment my you know my situation um my food choices how am i feeling so stress lack of sleep indulging um salty food that can have you dehydrated drinking alcohol dehydrated so you could be extra hungry because you're dehydrated extra hungry because you're not sleeping um extra hungry because you had um carbs and sugar um also extra hungry because your weight is about to drop as well right so it so it could be any of

things. So it's just a matter of figuring that out. But make sure when it comes to those portions, you're in tune to like, make sure you're, it's, it's about what they feel like, when you especially when you ask those four questions, not about what they look like. So you might need more and you might need less. That's okay. That's okay. And that's where you really want to adjust to that. If we dress warm in the winter, will our bodies be good with getting rid of thought? The biggest thing is so winter is also a great, like, there's no reason why you can't lose weight in the wintertime, but this is where you have to like, meet your body, your body never wants extra fat. It's a great question. Your body is not like,

oh, I need this fat unless it feels like it needs the fat, right? And so this is what we're trying to address. Like this is where we're giving our body when it needs all these good nutrient rich foods and whatnot. We also do have to adjust our portions and there's things that we need to do to help our body focus on fat laws. But your body's never looking to store fat. So it's always about giving it what it needs. And so in the wintertime, satisfaction wise and giving your body the foods that it needs that's just more that's just another layer of being in tune it's really not about wearing warm jackets um it's it's like just how the the it's like it's so in our bodies are so much it's like the fish swimming upstream or the geese flying south like that's right like

it's just kind of like how our bodies are tied into seasonal change lunar phases all of that um and so wearing a warm jacket obviously dressing warm can really help because they say if you dress not warm your body's burning more calories right my body's working harder to keep you warm it's just really about your vitamin d levels and so if you're not getting full sun on your whole body for like 15 20 minutes your vitamin D levels can be really low and this is where one of the reasons why low vitamin D levels and I'm really oversimplifying can signal weight gain because the darker days it gets darker earlier lower vitamin D levels are are meant to draw back in the day when we didn't supplement vitamin D, probably got a lot more sun, but in the winter time, right,

the darker days, getting less sun, vitamin D levels will drop. And then that signals, okay, let's store some fat for the wintertime. Our bodies, again, still work on a very primitive level. So I'm not really sure in terms of, like, wearing a warm jacket. This is more a hormonal thing than anything. And your body just being in tune to that. I know it sounds like I'm oversimplifying, but there's science behind that. um i always try to get enough protein but that means i overeat sometimes yeah and that's that's why this whole talk about making sure you're getting enough protein it's coming from a place where people are assuming you are starving and depriving if you are on a diet and you are not concerned

about getting protein in at all like your body's not a machine it's not about math it's not about math and weighing and measuring how much protein it's just making sure you're making an effort to get protein in and then some protein sources are better than others at the end of the day um so that's just a guide i only throw that number out and i don't like talking in numbers because i think for some people they're numbers people it's good for them to figure out but yeah eating more protein than you need is not is not beneficial um all right um is there any posts on binge eating um no no not in a sense of there's a lot there's a lot of conversation so Sandra Elia she's a food addiction counselor so we've had her come on

you might want to listen to a couple of the conversations that we've had with her if you go into the guide section there's a conversation we had with her if you go into our podcast The Living Method there's all of our older conversations that we've had with her we have talked to Dr. Beverly in regards to coping you'llize in binge eating by way of food addiction, by way of coping as well, and really getting to understand where you are at if you are being triggered, if it's out a habit, if it's coping mechanisms. But in terms of binge eating, we have to be really careful there because we have to assume anyone coming into the program because we are not, I am not, I stay in my lane.

I know a lot and learned a lot about helping people lose weight and what that takes, but this is why we have doctors and psychologists and and dietitians that want to come in the program. So we have to assume that nobody in here is dealing with disordered eating, although we all have our own way of disordered eating, right? We really do. If we're going all day long without eating, we're ignoring our hunger cues, all of that. But on binge eating specifically, we don't have a post on it, but we have had lots of conversations about it in the sense of how we utilize food to cope.

So you probably find those conversations with Dr. Beverly and Dr. and, sorry, and Sandra Aaliyah, her especially would be really beneficial for you. Okay, I'm going to go, you guys. Thanks for the conversation today. I'm really looking forward to this conference, kind of see what's new. I think it's really important that we're staying up to date and what's happening out there in our world. I will relay anything cool that I find or anything interesting that I can share.

I'm going to be going live again tomorrow. So I'll be here all week and checking in and whatnot. I'm trying to think what we got going on, but I think it's a pretty, this is a week, week, week, week eight is a week of just like really digging in, figuring out where you at, what you need, feeding that metabolism at the end of the week one last time before we completely switch gears next week, which is going to be really cool. You're going to love this week next week. It's great for the season. It's great for the busy season rolling into the holidays. It's also great for flexibility and whatnot, which is really cool. And again, we're phasing you off, right? We got it. The end game of this is to help you actually eat in, in tune to your body's needs and your body's needs can change day to day. So we're getting closer and closer to inching towards that. We don't want you following a program for the rest of your life. You're living the living way in a sense of like the changing the habits that you've made and continuing to reinforce those. Okay, got to go. Have a great rest of your day. Thanks everyone for joining me. Oh, thank you for everyone who took time to share a review. So we redesigned our

website and on it you can now leave us a review. So if you feel so inclined to leave us a review, we would absolutely love that. So you can click the link on that. You'll have an opportunity to give us feedback. I saw some people giving us feedback. This is a little different. Reviews are a little different. Feedback, if you want to tell us, you know,

things that you'd like to see added, change to the pro. Like if you would like more conversation on, you know, whatever that is, things that you'd like to see added or change. You'll have an opportunity to do that at the end of the program. We send out a survey and we want to hear it all from you. What you like, what you didn't like. all of that. So that's where you'll have an opportunity to do more feedback. We've actually taken that feedback and make a lot of changes to the program. So we love all the feedback.

Good, bad, ugly feedback. But this is more reviews for our website and the program itself. If you want to give us feedback, you know, at the end of the program, I mean, you can always send us an email in terms of feedback, but really at the end of the program with that survey, we actually go through the through them. After the program is done, we sit down, we make notes of all the feedback, and then we actually have a meeting about it. and that's like we actually take the feedback real seriously so that's more at the end of the program but thank you for everyone who's taking time um we're seeing all these new new uh walking squad pop up all over the place i love that we're going to try to figure out a way to keep everyone

up to date or involved where you can find uh one of our uh walking squad near you so keep an eye up for that okay have an amazing day everyone thanks for joining me i'll see you tomorrow bye