The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 60 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 60, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:All the different seasons of the year and of life – how are you doing on day 60? How accountability can help you be more successful.We are looking forward to seeing some members at the National Women’s Show.How The Livy Method can affect blood work results.Cholesterol, and how levels can be affected while losing weight.There are better ways to measure than BMIWhat to do when you’re not hungry – understanding satisfaction cues.A sneak peek into weeks 9-12Omega-3 and how the body can react.How your body can change on The Livy Method – Non-scale victories.Let’s be healthy at any age.Supporting your digestive system – how digestive bitters can help.Sometimes we have to do weird things to build new associations with food.How hunger levels can respond to Feeding the MetabolismIt is possible to rewire your brain.Migraines, and how to deal with them.The Week 9 Tweak – Food Plan Revamp.We hope to see you at the National Women’s Show – come alone or with friends.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.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 from my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to 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. Day 60 of the program, I was just reading the comments on the check-in post, the post that's pinned to the top or featured at the top of the page each day. And someone was saying, checking in daily to keep myself accountable. Love that. 60 days in, are you going to finish? I know I've asked you this before. I know I've asked you this before. Halloween can be tricky. And then as soon as Halloween comes, we get slammed with the festive season. I mean, there's Christmas everywhere. That can be very triggering for people. Talk about triggering. We had a great conversation with Sandra Elia yesterday, who's a food addiction specialist.

And you can be triggered for a variety of reasons. You can be seasonally triggered. You can be triggered with what's going on with a variety of things in the world right now. And I always find that this season is the happiest time of year, yet sometimes can be really stressful. And so there's different seasons, spring, summer, winter, fall. There are different seasons in your life. And some of them can represent traumatic times. They keep popping up over and over and over. If you had something traumatic this time of year, it can also have to do with your work environment this time of year with what you have going on.

Maybe it's a particularly busy time of year. So it's always a great idea to be checking yourself along the way. Again, the living method is broken down into these 91 day digestible chunks of time where there's a start, there's a finish, and there's a whole middle part of it, the magic middle, the messy middle, the motivational middle, whatever you want to call it. And sometimes it's some of those are easier than others. So checking yourself along the way and holding yourself accountable, not berating yourself

along the way and riding your ass to keep yourself accountable, checking in with yourself. So things like watching the check-in video each day, setting your intentions, end of day reflections, journaling. We know without a shadow of a doubt, because we have statistics to back this up. And we talked about this with Ruth Kane, who joined us a couple weeks ago, who's been studying the Libby method. She's also been studying not is it effective, which we know, Chuck, yes, it is. But what is the difference between people who are really successful versus people who might not be as successful. And one of the things that make people more successful is accountability by way of journaling, using the app and sense of community. So this is where

popping into the group and even just reading some of the comments, maybe you're not asking a question, but maybe you're liking some of the posts, liking some of the comments other people are making. That brings this whole process to the forefront of your mind. It makes it real. It makes it tangible. You are more grounded in the process. Therefore, you are more likely to follow through and finish and therefore more likely to actually reach your goals. So I just challenge you today to just take a minute and be like, okay, what do I need? Not on a Monday. Here we are on a Thursday. What do you need on this fine Thursday day to make sure you're going to continue to show up? Especially after regrouping after the Halloween weekend last weekend.

Yesterday, Kim and I talked about the splitting up the meals and snacks part of the good morning from the Macedonian community. See you, Tina, on the weekend. Hi. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. As you guys know, my best friend is Macedonian, Sonia. What was I talking about? I got excited there for a minute. We are going to the National Women's Show. I'm actually heading out shortly after this live today. I cannot tell you what it means to me to meet people, all of our incredible members who are, have done the program, doing the program, thinking about doing the program. That was a whole vibe. If you are in the Toronto area, and even if you are alone, please stop by, come by. I think tickets are like $15. There's, there's so much there. There's lots. I've been a couple of times. The first time I went, I went with a friend

and we just went and we ate all the food and hung out and all of that. Are you a hugger? Tony, am I a hugger? I'm a hugger. Trust me. I'm a hugger. Yeah. Hugging is my thing. Hugging is my jam. So prepare to be hugged. If you hugging is my thing. Hugging is my jam. So prepare to be hugged. If you don't want to be hugged, make sure you let me know in advance because I'm going in for the hug for sure. I love a good hug, especially with our community.

We honestly have truly the best community. What I was talking about earlier too was community. I want to remind everyone of a conversation I had with Jason, who is one of our incredible members. You might have seen him on some of our ads and whatnot. And I remember my conversation with him because he wasn't so involved in the community. And then he realized, hey, there might be something to this. And then he started to actually get involved in the community and realize what a benefit it actually is. And then bringing our community together, it's a whole vibe.

I don't even know how to explain it. It's electric, it's tangible. The best hugger ever. Be careful as she climbs all over you. When are you coming to Niagara? Well, we have been talking about, as you know, we have a lot of things we want to do. We want to do trips like cruises.

We're still working on that. We want to do our own conventions and get togethers. I think there's nothing more motivated than bringing together like-minded people, for sure. We were thinking of doing one maybe in Niagara Falls. That would be a great kind of meeting place for people, especially for people in the States to come over. My team right now is just like, hold up, wait a minute, stop it right now. Let us just get through this weekend. There's a lot involved, but there's a lot of things that we have planned coming up in the future. Dave, those who know, know I'm a big hugger. I'm a big hugger. So yeah,

so come down the National Women's Show this weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm going to be there all weekend. We actually have a talk that we have coming. I'm going to be doing a talk on the main stage, on the main stage for a full half hour, y'all, if you want to come. And I'm nervous about it. Of course, I think no one's going to show up. I said to Tony last night, what if no one comes? What if no one shows up? Oh my goodness, issues. Okay. So I want to talk to, I saw a comment coming up. You're nervous about your appointment with your doctor. You're getting blood work done. I want to see if I can find that here. Let me see if I can scroll up and find it here. Who is nervous? Who is nervous about getting their blood work done and why you shouldn't be nervous because you've really made

a lot of amazing changes showing up, doing the program, all of it. You will be amazed and surprised how much your efforts add up and make a difference. In fact, this is the point in the program where people start to say things like, I went to the doctor, got my blood work done. These are the results that I've seen coming off medications, decreasing medications, especially the men, especially the men. I used to have a post in the group about men that talked about how the program works so well for men, almost too well, I dare to say, meaning that it wouldn't be unusual. It wouldn't be unusual to, to, to have to get off blood pressure medication, cholesterol medications, that type of thing, because you're making so much change.

So this is the point where we do start to see tangible change, because it's long enough that people are checking in with their doctors and whatnot. So we usually find that when people go to their healthcare providers, it's always a good, it's a great response. We've had doctors cry because if you think if you had a doctor for a while, they've probably been telling you eat better, exercise more, lose some weight, and now you've finally done it. And look what, right? Now you've finally done it. I can't find that comment. If you want to ask again, I'm sorry. I cannot find it. I was scrolling through. I cannot find the comment. So I want to find about the one. I just got diagnosed as

pre-diabetic. I'm thinking that's why my weight is slower to drop this time as previous two years ago. Bright note, my A1C dropped 0.6 in three weeks while on the Libby method. Yeah, I bet it did. So it is quite normal. We have people who start in pre-diabetic range and go back into normal range all the time for a variety of reasons. We do have that post where we address people who have diabetes. So if you want to search that, it's in the app. It's also in the group. You might not have paid attention to that at the time. We also have that post, I believe, on insulin resistance, the conversations we may have with Dr. Paul, but this is quite normal. Going from pre-diabetic into normal range, really just balancing your blood sugars, which is

some of the things that we are doing by eating smaller portions more often, getting more in tune to our portions. Also the combinations of foods that you are incorporating, especially as that progresses. So next week, week nine, you're going to actually start to be able to add protein and fat to that fruit snack in the morning, switch it up altogether or move that fruit snack to the afternoon. We're not there yet. We still have another couple of days of feeding the metabolism, but also things like managing your stress, trying to get better sleep. As we know, that really factors into your hormones and insulin is one of those and very affected by cortisol and your hunger hormones in terms of eating. And this is where that conversation that we've had with Dr. Alinka, the hormones one-on-one

really factors into this conversation. The other day we posted a revisit on four reasons why your weight might be slower to move off the heels of our conversation with Dr. Paul a couple of days ago, right? And so you may think, well, I've gone and been doing this healthy program and now I just got diagnosed with this or diagnosed with that. A lot of that could be accumulation. Either you didn't know you had it because just when you got your testing done and you don't know that it couldn't have been worse. And you've actually made a difference over the last few months of following the program, right? So things like this are bound to come up. What I love about the fact you're following the Libby method is that you're already doing all the things you can to be proactive about it. And then that's where when you have that conversation with your doctor, it's such it's not just that

you're doing the things is that you know, you're doing the things. So when you are talking to your doctor, the energy coming from you is very like definitive. Yeah, I'm drinking my water. I'm moving my body. I'm eating healthy, nutrient rich foods. I'm being mindful of my portions. I'm trying to get the best sleep possible. I'm aware of my stress and trying to manage it better. Like these are the things you can say, yeah, doing this, doing this, doing this, doing this, doing this, not only doing it, but doing it for the last 60 days, right? The last 60 days. My last blood work showed my blood sugar is perfect. Yeah. From doing the Levy method. I know. I mean, I'm very mindful not to make those claims. But I think in the near future, we will be able to make these types of claims because our plan is to do some clinical studies and actually start studying, especially people with who have diabetes,

who have metabolic issues. This is I mean, that's the people having a hard time is the people that we want to we want to study, right? And have them try out the Livi method and then sit back and see what's going on there, what happens. Sorry, why following the Livi method is causing my cholesterol up? So this is a side effect. First of all, we used to think that cholesterol was strictly from eating saturated fats and crappy foods. And we now know it can also be from high intake of sugar or carbohydrates. And it's not necessarily from too much saturated fat. It's not enough good fats like omega-3s and whatnot. So that's one of the reasons why your cholesterol levels can be up. So if you have high cholesterol, for example, and you're not taking an omega-3, you need to

really consider taking an omega-3, which perfect timing because we are revisiting the conversation of supplements today in the group. Another reason why your cholesterol levels can be up, it is totally normal and expected if you are testing your cholesterol levels, why you are losing weight. Let me say that again. It is totally normal and expected that your cholesterol levels will be up while you losing weight. It is a side effect of your body's way it releases fat. So a lot of people don't expect that. And this is why also some people who are measuring ketones when they were doing keto, if they're measuring ketones when doing the Libby method, you're going to notice ketones while your body is releasing fat

as well. So that is totally normal. I'm not saying don't check in with your doctor. Absolutely check in with your doctor, listen to your doctor's advice and whatnot. So that's totally normal. What you'll notice is that your cholesterol levels will go up, not significantly high, it shouldn't be through the roof, and then it will come back down as your body starts to adjust to the weight that you've lost so that that in itself can be normal. You can Google it. You can Google it. You don't have to wait for your doctor's appointment to discuss that with your doctor, although definitely to have a discussion with your doctor, but you can Google it. It's out there. It's kind of a known thing. Number two can be hormones. Number two can be, I don't know where you are at if you are going through the change of life. It's so weird saying

that. But if you're on perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause, you might also notice your decline in estrogen levels can also cause an increase in cholesterol levels as well. So that's another reason. Also stress. Stress, depending on when you got your cholesterol levels checked, what's going on in your life can also attribute to that. So this is where following the living method,

some people, unfortunately, will still be diagnosed with cancers. Some people will find out that they have heart issues. Some people will find out that they have cholesterol issues. Again, these, these could be, have been things that you had going on before you started the program. And based on when you last had a physical a year ago or got these tests done a year ago, these are things that you already had going on. And then you don't know that following the Libby method or just making the changes that you're making in general haven't already made a difference, right? So this is why it's so good. This is why it's so good to be working with your healthcare provider. Your ears will be burning today as I head to my doctors to tell him to RIP that BMI chart on the wall. Yes, please. What are you, 95? No offense to people who are 95 because I plan on living

well past 95. Mad respect for people who are 95, but get with the times. Get, toss that BMI. What? Are you, what? Does he work for the army? Come on. No, that was old and archaic and used as a measure for getting into the army. And it's no longer needed. It doesn't make any sense.

I can tell you, I was at the Canadian Obesity Summit, as you guys know, and they were just like, this is such just no, we just need to be done. It's not helpful at all. What is more important is your your height versus your width of your stomach. That's that that is that is definitely more of a tell sign. So tell them to whip out a measuring tape if he wants, but get rid of that BMI. Discussing, going off more meds today. I love that. Good for you. Good for you. Listen, we all love medications. We love modern medicine. We cannot live without it. We absolutely need it for sure. But this is why a lot of times doctors prescribe these things because you can't blame them. A lot of people, and maybe this has been you yourself, your doctor says, you need to lose weight, you need to start

exercising, you need to get healthier. And then we walk away and we're like, what does that mean? So we do some crazy quick fix diet. We lose weight that makes us unhealthy. And then we get it all back plus more each time, right? So doctors are just like at a complete and utter loss. So they can only suggest what you need to do at the end of the day if you're not doing it. And if you tried it, it's not your fault because that was what was available to you at this time. This is why we literally have heard from members

that doctors will like be crying. Oh my God, look what you've done. Because not only have they lost the weight, they've made significant improvements in their health, right? Like they used to say lose weight, it was going to help you get healthier. Why? Because simply having less fat in your body decreases the amount of inflammation, right? And losing fat, it's also easier on your joints. And so yes, of course, losing the fat in a way makes you healthier. But the way we go about losing that

weight is also simultaneously unhealthy. It's not doing anything to actually level up our health and wellness at the end of the day either. Let me get into, if I'm not feeling hungry for my second portion of my meal, do I still need to have a few token bites? Absolutely. Yes, you do. That is very, very, very, very important that you do that. Again, the best thing I can say is take everything I say literally, like literally do exactly what I say when it comes to the food plan. Obviously, you can deviate. It's about progress over perfection and all of those things. But you cannot switch things around. You definitely want to take that token amount. I'll tell you why. Because you need to allow yourself to understand when you're full and then be able to

have that second portion. And then sometimes we think, okay, we've had enough. But then as soon as we start eating a little bit more, we realize, oh, actually, we need a little bit more. Sometimes you get distracted as well. And it's about taking that pressure off. And it's also about having you eat again. So it's important to know what it feels like to feel like when you're hungry, when you're unsatisfied, when you are satisfied, and when you are full. And we are just bringing awareness to all of these sensations. They were, they're all equally important. Again, it's important to know when you've had enough and you feel satisfied. It's important to know when you've eaten too much and you feel full. You need to know that feeling. You need to know unsatisfied.

You also need to understand true hunger as well, right? So these are all things you really need to gain awareness of. And so even if you've had enough and you feel satisfied and you feel like, oh, I don't really need that next portion. But what can happen if you don't have it? Maybe those also that mental thoughts of Oh, I didn't eat that I'm starting to get hungry again, did I eat enough that second guessing all of that. So this is bringing awareness and having you eat so often is part of the tweak. It's very multi, multi layered. Now next week, next week, we are going to be actually making changes to the food plan itself. So for example, we're dropping down from two afternoon

snacks down to one, we are making a few adjustments that are going to, to to get your body's attention, because then your body is going to be rolling in after eating so often, even more often than the basic food plan. And it's about the contrast of that as well, right? So you do want to be eating as often as you possibly can with this week's week. And then down the road, the last two weeks of the tweak, this is where you take everything that you have learned and all that you are aware of. And yes, I'm being really animated because I'm excited about it. And this is where you actually check in at every meal and snack time and you assess,

am I hungry and need to eat? Or is it just that I could eat in which I might? Okay, if I'm hungry and need to eat, what am I eating? Right? Following the guidelines. If it's breakfast, you're going to prioritize protein. Or could I eat? I'm not really hungry, but I could eat. So let me have a few token bites. Or I'm not hungry at all, right? But should I eat? And should I eat is, for example, maybe you had breakfast, but you chose not to have morning snack. And so it's lunchtime. You're maybe not all that hungry, but you should eat because if you don't eat, then you're letting longer than three and a half, four hours go by without eating. And so this is where we're really going to get in tune with your hunger levels and understanding how you are feeling on that hunger scale.

And you will have the option of choosing not to have meals and snacks based on how you're feeling, which is really getting in tune with the fact that your hunger levels change every day. So you really want to be consistent about if you're splitting up those meals and snacks, following through on it as consistently as possible, because it's the lead up in the setup to next week and the week after that and the week after that, which is really cool. With omega-3, I get fish burps. Is there any way to decrease this or I'm alone on this one? Sometimes if you get the fishy burps, it could be the quality of the supplement that you're taking. I take Nutra-C and I find it's not fishy at all.

I love their brand. So it could be the quality of the supplements. They shouldn't be tasting rancid or kind of gross or off. It could be that they're just not great anymore. Some people try putting them in the fridge or sorry, the freezer. So if you put your omega-3 in the freezer, that can help. I also do keep mine in the fridge. So maybe that's why they taste fine to me. You can also, I see someone suggested you can take some flax oil. There are vegan versions of omega-3s now out there, or you can do a combination 369. But 369 is not the same

as getting the amount of omega-3s you actually need. And they also have flavored types there as well. But that's what I would check is the brand, try putting them in the freezer or the fridge. That might really help. And then if you want to use a, you know, depending on what you're drinking them with, like I usually take mine with my tea as opposed to water as well. So maybe that will help. Maybe that will help. Maybe that will help. Fish burps. Yeah. Up there with the Costco hot dog burps. I take Nutra-C arthritis. It's a delicious. Yeah. I take, I take Nutra-C. I take Nutra-C. First time in over 30 years, normal colonoscopy, zero signs of disease, history of ulcerative colitis. So I believe Gina Libby times two years and biologic times 18

months, huge non-scale victory. Weight slow for a few months now, however, maintained at 19 pounds lost, 20 more to go. This, Sherry, can we just talk about this for a hot second? Actually longer than that, because that's amazing. Your body wants you to live your longest, happiest, healthiest life. It does. Its whole goal in life is to keep you alive. That's all your body's trying to do. It's constantly repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, and rejuvenating. Why doesn't our body change? Because we don't change what we're doing. We don't change the resources we're giving it. We don't change how we're thinking beyond just the foods and giving our body the resources it needs, managing our stress, right? Trying to get sleep so our body can repair and rebuild and regenerate and rejuvenate because

that's when it does that, right? Like your body is capable of amazing things, but most people just don't change the things that they are doing, which is why they never see change. And this is why I think when you go to your doctor and you're getting that blood work done or getting those tests done, and you're like, oh my God, okay, it's one thing to see what I'm seeing on the scale. It's another to see how I'm fitting into my clothes. But those are the real true non-scale victories at the end of the day, tangible results that you are seeing. This is doctors. This is why doctors are like, Oh my God, this is why we have more and more, more doctors actually telling people about the Livi method, because not only are people just losing weight, they're making significant changes in their health. I love this for you. I love this for you. Yeah, lots of people

are talking about keeping that flax oil. My mom is turning 95 this December. I love that. I love that. Not only do we want to get older, and is it such a gift, but we want to be healthy. We want to be mobile. I want to be like 100 years old and surfing because I finally have time to surf. You know what I mean? I don't want to just live to an old age. I want to be able to be healthy at that age. And listen, we know, as a matter of fact, people are living longer and longer. And humans have the capability of living much longer lives than we do. But that

will mean making significant change, not just what's happening in modern medicine, but actually, you know, making some serious changes and understanding how sedentary lifestyles can affect us, understanding how the stress that we are under and not being able to manage it and rebound from stress is affecting it. How this generation of I'll sleep when I'm dead, honestly, is putting you in an early grave. You need to sleep, right? Understanding all of that for sure. Far from perfect on following, but doing my best with that. How can I deal with the globus sensation that has become too regular for the past week? Globus,

a feeling full, high in the throat. I'm feeling this long after I'm eating a term I used to experience GERD. Okay. So that I'm, I'm not brushing everything off on hormones, but I, I had that full feeling similar to, don't know if you when if you've had children, you know, and you get to a point where you feel like I just can't I'm getting too full. I cannot eat anymore. I definitely had that. Stress was causing that for me. A lot of stress. I'm not going to blame it just on hormones. It could have coincided not something I tested. But now looking back, it could have been hormones that kind of just not being able to eat a lot of food. I just felt like I was just, it wasn't going anywhere. I would just feel full. I feel bloated. A lot of that was,

was hormones. Probiotics, prebiotics, digestive bitters was a big one. I have a terrible stomach and I never used to. So I don't know if it is hormones or if it is stress or whatever, whatever. It's maybe a side effect of the pandemic COVID. I don't know what it is. Could it be getting older? I don't really know, but I know what does help taking a probiotic and prebiotic for me makes a big difference. Digestive bitters, especially when I'm noticing it and I'm just like, I just feel full and just like, and then it just makes me not want to eat. I take my digestive bitters and digestive bitters are, do I have any here? I don't have any here. No, because I probably have

gone through all my digestive bitters. They come in like a Canadian, like a Canadian digestive bitters. What's the name of the company? St. Francis Herb Farm is where they come from. And it's just bitters, like literally they stimulate, they're bitter in your mouth, puts a few drops in, and they stimulate your saliva glands, which can help get your digestive juices flowing a lot sooner, which can help with digestion as well. Now you could also have some heartburn, acid reflux, those types of things going on. I also noticed this, honestly, when I was drinking a lot of alcohol. This was my first sign that alcohol wasn't agreeing with me,

especially as my hormones started to change. I felt the same thing. I just was just like, it's like I just kind of tied it, not necessarily when I was drinking, but just drinking alcohol. Didn't, I mean, obviously check in with your doctor on this one as well. Has anyone else feeling a bit like a hobbit on the splitting meals? Yeah, it's also, let's normalize the fact it is weird as fuck. It is weird as fuck splitting up the meals and snacks and very, very effective. We need things to like make our brain go, huh? And make our body go, huh? And

make us go like, what is happening to get out of the way to clear the bullshit? Sometimes we got to shake things up to clear away the bullshit and the habit, the monotonous thinking and how our brains have been wired around foods, right? And when you're so busy thinking about splitting up your meals and snacks, what the fuck you're doing with this tweak this week? A lot of times you're not thinking about that. And then you know what I love about this tweak is you take people who spent years and years and years trying not to eat, completely disconnecting from food, trying to ignore their body's hunger

cues. And now we're making you eat. Now you got to eat even more often. It's exhausting. It's work. Guess what you're doing? You're creating associations with that. You got to eat and eat and eat and eat.

And guess what? Now you're just like, do I really got to eat again? Do I really need this second portion? Oh my God. When is this week of eating so much over? Right? And then when you're eating and eating and eating throughout the day, it gets, it gives her the last thing you want to do at night is, oh my God, I just, I don't even want to think about food. Good. You don't want to think about food. Right? Like think about that. So all your thoughts and your feels about this tweak when you're implementing this tweak, like that's really where we're getting into. And so,

so it is weird. So we really need to normalize that. I noticed that I was hungrier last week and definitely ate most of the second portions. So that's feeding into the metabolism. There are two kinds of ways your body responds. I mean, two and two is four, but two kinds of ways your body responds. You're either going to be not hungry, but two kinds of ways your body responds. You're either going to be not hungry at all and you're just like, oh my God, no. Or you're going to be extra hungry because you're actually feeding into your metabolism and you're making your body work extra hard. So both are totally normal.

One is not better than the other. It's just the way our bodies typically tend to respond to when Joanna is so much bullshit. I know. I know. It's fucked up. It's fucked up. It's fucked up. It'll all make sense in the end. So if you're new to the program, it's going to all make sense. And it's going to, it's going to all make sense in the end. I mean, the living method is an accumulation of everything that I've learned that people need to do and work through in order to lose weight successfully. And I'm throwing it all at you in a very organized, systematic way. And some of it, you're just like,

what? But isn't that sort of what's going on? It's just a different approach. It's like therapy, right? It's like, Tony, for example, he has lost his smell probably from COVID. We're not really sure. And he, how long now babes? I'm sorry to bring it up. It's depressing for him. He lost his taste and he lost his smell. His taste is coming back. And since May, he hasn't been able to smell. I mean, good for me. So when I stink, I'm just like, eh, whatever. He doesn't notice. Good for him too. Cause we have stinky teenagers. No offense. We love them. But boy, teenagers can stink sometimes. Girls and boys. Sometimes girls worse than boys, but whatever.

Um, but he bought this kit to do smell therapy. So he bought this kit. You can get one on Amazon if that's you. And he has to smell like things that he knows, like he knows what lemon smells like in his brain, even if he can't smell it. So you're trying to connect the reconnect. So, and literally there is science behind this, that you can reconnect and rewire your brain again. And so he's lost the connection. So his brain is disconnected from the smells. And this is what a lot of you have done with food. You have disconnected from foods and eating in general.

And so this is about when I say rewiring and reworking, we're trying to reconnect, but in the right way. And so this is what his smell therapy is about. The brain knows lemon, right? He can't smell it, but he's taking the lemon essential oils and trying to smell it and have his brain connect lemon with lemon smell and reconnecting the dots, reconnecting the dots. Because his whole sense of taste is all fucked up. So we're kind of doing the same exact same thing. This is why I'm trying to get a neuroscientist to come on in the group and talked about this. Cognitive behavioral therapies is a big part of that. Neuroplasticity, it's all about how your brain becomes wired. And a lot of us around food

and physically, and more importantly, mentally, your brain has become wired in a certain way. And then habitually we do the things that reinforce that wiring. And so that's why we got to come in and do fucked up shit, shake it up, shake it up. And then we kind of go like, and the body's like, what, what, what? And then all of a sudden it's like reconnecting in new ways, reconnecting in new ways. Um, so hopefully, I mean, I don't know, that wasn't very scientific way of explaining it, but hope it, hopefully it resonated with you. Similar to brain and mobility function have to retain. Yes. So, uh, yes, exactly. Joanna. So Joanna, if you follow Joanna Hunt, one of our members,

she's been on quite a long journey. She was dealing with concussion therapy, and that's what you're doing when you're reconnecting. Also with your back, she recently had back surgery. And this is about having your back reconnect. This is how I work. This is how I function. That's what rehabilitation is all about, right? So this is I work. This is how I function. That's what rehabilitation is all about, right? So this is happening physically. It's also happening mentally in your brain as well. Yes. Who gets migraines? I haven't had one in months, but the last few weeks I've had several. My cousin said it's the season. Never heard of that before. I do have meds, but I hate taking them. So this could also be stress. It could also be hydration levels. You might be noticing because I also suffer from migraines.

And if I don't drink enough water, that's just immediately a trigger. Combine stress, also combine hormones, combine the weather. You know, when I was younger, I mean, they tested me for everything. They even tested me for like colors, certain colors that would trigger migraines for me. So the weather and just a whole bunch of smells and a whole bunch of other things. At the time, I guess when I was young, they were doing, my doctor, I guess, was like totally into trying to figure this out for me. Ended up putting me on some really hardcore medications that messed up my kidney and my liver for a while, but I recovered from that. So I try to also stay off any like prescriptive medications for that.

But it could be, and there can be lots of other reasons and lots of supplements. So I'm just coming at you from like one little angle. It's just if you, as the temperatures tend to drop, we tend not to drink as much water. So I would just recheck your water intake. But I do find seasons, especially when it gets cold and barometric pressure. Definitely. I love doing this fucked up shit. Yeah. So do I. If you can't tell, I'm totally into it. I love the tweak next week. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm not going live tomorrow. So I'm going to be down at the women's show. So I'm not going to

go live tomorrow. So that's why I'm talking about this tweak that we're going to introduce on Sunday. So week nine is our revamped. Kim and I did talk about it pretty extensively on Wednesday. So make sure you pop into the group, read over those guidelines for the week nine tweak. So basically what's going to happen is we're going to switch up the food plan a little bit. There's still a lot of structure and a lot of things are the same. But for example, we're just switching up the star of the meal for lunch and dinner. So now you're going to focus on protein at lunch, and you're going to focus more on those vegetables for dinner. Your two snacks are down to one snack. The easiest thing you can do is combine the two snacks together, but you also, you're not combining two portions. So keep that in mind. A lot of times

people just combine the portions. You're not doing that. You can combine those, that's the easiest thing to do. And then to offset that, we are prioritizing protein at lunch, not not this is not keto, none of those things. But but what you would have learned if you are separating your not just your portions, but your proteins from your carbs this week is how protein and fat feed into your satiety hormones and make you feel more satisfied. And so what we're also going to do on top of prioritizing your protein at lunch, we're also going to add protein and fat to your morning snack. Now you can just simply add some yogurt or some cheese or something to your, or not better to your fruit snack, or you can switch that up to something else altogether. And you can also switch out your afternoon snacks to something else altogether.

That slight variation is going to be mind-blowing when just like this few little changes that you make, it's really interesting how your body responds. So I love that tweak. It gives you much more flexibility when it comes to your snacks as well. Okay, I have got to get going. Heads up for anyone going down to the show.

There's a Leaf game, so it'll be busy in the evening. Okay, yeah, thanks for letting us know that. I'm just staying down there the whole weekend. I'll be down there all weekend long. And then we have Taylor Swift coming into town next week. Tony and I, we have some family coming into town, and we got some Raptors up in the rafters. I'm sure Raptors seats for nine Raptors up in the rafters. I'm sure Raptors seats

for nine of us up in the rafters, rafters of the Raptors game, I'm sure. But we also realized it's Taylor Swift. So we're trucking down with nine of us downtown during a Taylor Swift concert, which is great. Okay, I gotta go. I gotta go got to pack. I got to get ready for this weekend. Lakeshore East trains canceled Saturday and Sunday from Pickering to Union. Okay. Yeah. Good to know. Check your travel. Check your travel. I hope you can make it down for us this weekend. It would be so great to see you. And if you, I know I keep dwelling on coming alone. But when I moved from, I lived a lot of my life alone. I had a few good friends in high school and university.

I worked my way through university. And although I had friends, I spent a lot of time working. And then when I moved from university to the city, I was on my own. I lived with my aunt and uncle and didn't have any friends. And then I actually, when I moved out, kind of on my own. And so I did a lot of things on my own. I lived with my aunt and uncle and didn't have any friends. And then I actually, when I moved out, kind of on my own. And so I did a lot of things on my own. I went to the movies on my own. I went for dinner on my own. I did a lot of things on my own. And as you get older, that seems a little bit harder to do. It seems like it should be easier for us to do, but making friends is hard as you get older. And what I've seen when we bring our community

together, you come alone, you'll leave with friends. You'll leave with friends. So even if you don't have anyone to go with, come down, hang out, come by our booth. We have a place to hang out. It's a whole vibe. Come meet our team, our program specialist. Kim's going to be there. Odette's going to be there. Tony's going to be there. My mom's going to be there. Some of my kids are going to be there. We're all going to be there hanging out. So come down and hang out with us. Have an amazing rest of your day. I'm not going to see you tomorrow. So have an amazing weekend.

Make sure you pop into the group. Get caught up on some of the amazing conversations that we had this week. Dr. Paul on Tuesday. Sandra, Ilya yesterday. Marisha and Moto, Tuesday, get caught up on those conversations. You will not be sorry that you did. Well worth taking the time to listen to.

Have an amazing rest of your day, everyone. Bye.