The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 60 - Fall 2025

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 60, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2025.In this episode, Gina gets real about how life’s tougher moments, like getting sick, feeling stressed, or grieving a loss, can shift your body’s focus and throw your routine off track. She breaks down how your appetite and energy naturally adjust when you're healing and why that’s not something to fight, but to work with. From understanding how grief can show up physically, to getting clear on what “processed” food really means, Gina reminds listeners that this journey isn’t just about food—it’s about staying aware, giving the body what it needs, and finding grace in the process.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. Day 60 of the program. What was I going to say? Oh, first of all, it's a little dark in here. I am still in Atlanta at Obesity Week and two not feeling so hot. So I did want to remind you that we do have that whole sickness protocol. You might not have paid attention to it in the moment if you have been feeling just fine. But it is cold and flu season. There are some things going around right Now, so if you ever find yourself not feeling so hot, to the point where it's affecting your appetite, we have a sickness protocol. So we just have a way to follow the program that allows your body to focus on healing. A lot of the times when people are not feeling so hot, but still motivated to reach their goals, they're like, I'm still doing all the things.

They're forcing themselves to eat. They're still continuing to work out all those things. The most important thing to do when you're not feeling so hot is to help your body heal. because your body needs to be healthy in order to focus on losing weight. With that said, though, sickness can be like its own tweak. So these tweaks are designed to like the splitting up the meals and snacks, downsizing all of that, is to kind of approach weight loss from a different perspective. Yes, it brings up the feels and whatnot,

but it also helps things progress a little bit quicker and helps the body specifically focus on fat loss. When you are sick, you are either going to crave carbs and sugar, which is really just your body screaming at you to drink, more water because your body has to detox the sickness out of your body. And of course, water is a big part part of that. Or you won't be hungry at all. Or you won't have an appetite at all. And so forcing yourself to eat when you're not hungry when you are not sick is not the best idea. Now you may think, well, I want to make sure I eat. If I'm not eating, my body's going

to feel a need to store fat. Big difference between like starving and depriving yourself when your body is fully functioning and your body being sick or fighting a cold or flu or virus or something like that and having you not be hungry because it's focused on healing, focused on getting that virus or whatever out of your body. So sickness is like its own kind of tweak in a sense because when you're sick, your body's trying to repair and rebuild and regenerate and rejuvenate and heal your body so sickness itself is not really setting you back it's it's it's i mean not that you want you to be sick or anything like that um but you're it's a good opportunity to continue to focus on fat loss so don't worry if you're sick and you're not hungry um do the best you can

keep a nice and light liquids and whatnot so uh we have that sickness protocol in the group you can search it out uh in the group or you can also search it up in the app but you can also use it for as well. So it's not just physically when you don't feel like eating. It can also be used for mentally when you're not feel like eating. You're just body's completely taxed. Like I said, big difference between not eating because your body is telling you you're not hungry so it can focus on, on, you know, healing. And you purposely trying to not eat because, you know, you're trying to, you know, force your body to burn fat or whatnot. So that's what your emergency reserves are there for these moments where your body would rather focus on other things, right? So I also want to

talk about that grief post today. I see some of you really connecting with it. Again, I had a great podcast the other day with Dr. Fiona Lovely. It's going to be available soon. I'll let you guys know about. But we're talking about grief. We're talking about the brain and what's going on in the brain. Yes, through menopause and as we age and whatnot. But grief is a really big thing that no one really talks enough about, especially the part of still trying to show up and get through life while you're dealing with grief. And of course, grief can come in in many forms. You know, it's really individual. But yeah, something to be something to consider while you're on your journey. Because when we talk about stress, sometimes people don't connect grief with stress, right? We think

stress, I'm stressed out. I got to pay bills. I got to do work. I got to do this. I got to do that. and not really thinking about grief as being a big part of that stress. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly suggest you do. Let me see, let me get into my questions today and see where I'm at. Good morning, good morning. Not a scale victory, I don't see my lower belly bump in my high leg cut undies anymore. So again, you know, I just want to remind you. I love this.

This is why taking your measurements can be great. you know yes we want the scale to move but the same time non-scale victory something that we actually haven't talked a lot about either and i think people tend to forget especially as we get into the end of the program and you kind of feel that pressure always at the end of the program people put pressure on themselves that you know you have those calendars and you have the start of the program the end of the program you got your goal weight there and you're marking off the calendar and you know you feel like time is ticking and you might not have enough time to reach your goal and you might not. Chances are you're going to have to continue, you know,

working towards your goal. The 91 days is like the parameters that I said, right? 91 days is enough at the end of the day to be able to make change, but chances are you going to have to continue. And so one of the things people start doing is really digging into the scale rather than digging into their non-scale victories. So you can do that in the app, keep track your non-scale victories. If you're journaling, it's a great idea just to kind of sit down one day and be like, okay what are some of the non-scale victories the things that are going on um obviously body changing is a big one doing your measurements and whatnot how you feel it in your clothes but there's so many there's so many other good ones there hi risa yes grief uh can take a toll giving ourselves

grace and grace and compassion absolutely grief is yeah grief is a bitch with an itch it creeps up on you yeah it's this underlying thing that we're all just trying to um it's there always when we're trying to get through our lives and it pops up and it really affects us and I think because we don't talk enough about it you know it's we don't talk enough about it so we don't we're not actually factoring it into our journey we don't we don't see it as part of our journey like for example I'm here at the at the obesity week there's a lot of talks there's so many talks but there's no talks on you know how to counsel clients for example um while they're you know coming to see their patients, a lot of doctors here, you know, you're talking about how you can best help them,

speak to them, newest medications, newest treatments and whatnot available, but how hard it is for people to, you know, continue on a health journey or even just prioritize themselves when they're dealing with grief. Yes, Risa, a shit year after losing my mom in February and figuring out my new role in life, taking one day at a time, but thankful this program has been my therapy and given the tools to get me through the hardest times of my life and this community is so loving and supporting just another reason right while community really is so important there's suit tomorrow's 35 years since i lost my mom still hurts like it's yesterday and this is actually something that you know you can feel in your body um you know it's like you know the date is coming

without knowing what day it is you know you can just kind of feel it and you know for grief can be very traumatic we carry a lot of that within us like when we talk about the weight that we're losing we are also carrying this enormous amount of emotional weight with us and i know that sounds a little you know whatever but it's really true it's really true and this is where you know food can be so tied into into our our journey in life and so when you have moments like this popping up and you're feeling emotional this is where you might be like making choices not even just on the day but you know maybe like you know maybe you're dealing with someone who passed away and they were sick for you know a few months beforehand and you know

the few months beforehand you start feeling off and not really understanding what it is and being like what's wrong with me what's wrong with me you know why am I not doing this why am I not doing that when they're recognizing there's something there that you're dealing with you know I lost my son five years ago, I'm still broken. Yeah, right? Like, this is what I mean. This is what I mean. You know, again, how is it affecting your journey? Like every day, you know, a lot of people are struggling with grief. So every day, it's affecting some of the choices that you're making, you know. So again, why journaling can be so great. I've been up and down with the same two pounds for the past two weeks, but I measured myself the other day with my new digital measuring tape. What?

they have a digital measuring date. And there is definitely continuous progress being made. Also noticing my rings are fitting much better. Yeah, digital. Everyone's the one. We need to know your digital. We need to know your digital measuring tape. Post a picture for us.

We need to know what that is. Yeah, emotional weight. There's a couple questions here. I'm going to go in that Kim save for me today. I'm going to check those out too. Okay, questions. So we're splitting up meals and snacks. So let's talk about this. I can't remember if you serve yourself and split it up or you can eat

half and save the half for later. Not sure that makes sense. Yes, it totally makes sense. I can program here, lost 22 pounds on my journey. So let's talk about the splitting up the meals and stacks part. If you want to go back and remember or you missed it last week, Kim and I talked about the tweak this week for the morning live. It is in the app and also in the guides. If you want to give that a little review, that's there for you too. So you are just how you've been eating. say lunch last couple days however you've been eating lunch you're going to serve it the exact same way right so you're going to put it all on a plate serve it the exact same way and just simply split it into portions and then you're going to eat the first portion and you're going to ask those

four sets of mindful eating questions and then pay attention to how you feel when you're done then you're going to wait ideally a half hour 20 minutes 15 minutes I wouldn't go any less than 10 or any more than 30, you are going to eat that second portion and you are going to mindfully ask the four questions and eat just enough so that you walk away, you're feeling satisfied, right? Now, if you are not hungry, just have a token amount. Obviously, you don't have to split that token amount, right, for the first portion. If you're not hungry for the first portion, just have that token amount. Don't worry about splitting. If you want to take it, if you, if you eat the first portion and then you wait and you're not hungry for the second portion, you still want to

have a small token amount. So either way, you're eating that that second portion when splitting up your meals and snacks unless you're not hungry to begin with and you just have a token amount. The other thing you can do is separate your proteins from your carbs and then your leafy greens and healthy fat so those can go other way. So you do the same thing. You make your lunch exactly how you made it. Eat your protein portion first and your carb portion second. Decide where you want to put your leafy greens and healthy fats. Eat the first portion. Ask the four questions. Pay attention to how you feel. Wait 20, 30 minutes. And then you're going to eat the second portion using those four sets of mindful eating questions. Try to split up the protein and the fat at least a couple

times if you haven't done that yet because that's going to be that's going to be factoring into our tweak next week or our revamp week. We're going to bump up your protein and fat, not eating more than you need or anything like that. We're going to add protein and fat to your morning fruit snack or you have options to have something else together, really focusing on that protein at lunch to feed into your satiety hormones. And we're going to drop your two afternoon snacks down to one. So this is where you're going to really pay attention to how protein and fat feed into your satiety hormones. Don't worry about next week's week's week yet.

Focus on splitting up those meals and snacks right now and we'll get into that. what you don't want to do is like serve a portion and then serve a next portion part of that is is seeing food on your plates um if you serve one portion serve the other you might end up eating just more food so it's not more food it's eating more often it's eating more often um so yeah so if you're not so to answer your question if you serve yourself and split it up or can you eat half and say for later so serve it split it up um eat the first portion eat the second portion even if you're not hungry for the second portion, it's still a token amount. Here's another one. Good morning. I've been so stressed and reaching for high fat foods. Too much cheese. I'm doing myself, I'm doing my self-care,

deep breathing, journaling, seeing a therapist, and honestly, I'm just tired of being stressed. I'm thinking about a total career change these days. Anyway, I'm here. What can I do? Okay. Um, this is where supplements can really be beneficial. When you are stressed, your magnesium tends to be the one that goes quickly and you need that magnesium when it comes to converting your foods into energy and like 300 other things in your body. And that goes in general. Your vitamin and mineral deserve, sorry, I'm tired and don't feel so hot. Your vitamin and mineral reserve can deplete. And so paying attention to any of your supplements can be a good one. But omega-3 is a big one. So omega-3 is good fat. It's brain fat. It's cellular function. That can be really great when you're

stress. Your body is getting you to crave those salty foods, right? That's why it's trying to get more good fat in your diet. So I love that you're paying attention to that. Cheese is more a saturated fat, which is okay fat, but not really a great fat. This is where you want to do olive oil, avocado, nuts and seeds are helping, you know, salmon and stuff like that. But and we do have that whole proteins, carbs, and fats list. So if you want to go into that or search that up, we had a whole list of good fats there. So cheese isn't really the kind of fat that's going to really do it for you. So this is where adding in that omega-3 can really help. Elthianine is another one. And yes, there's supplements. I mean, obviously deep breathing exercises, going for walks, going for walks

after your bigger meals. Those can be a real game changer when you are stressed, things that you don't think about because it actually helps the body process and diet adjust your foods. but supplement wise omega-3 definitely a big one magnesium to help with sleep at night obviously that's a really big one elthenin that you might have missed that was on the it's a green tea extract but it won't keep you up that was on our secondary list um that can be great for taking during the day um so those alone um and then and then also separating is it stress is it anxiety um Kyle Buchanan give us some great anxiety tips like putting your hands over your eyes some deep breathing exercises, hands over your heart,

just helping you to really be in the moments. Sometimes they're not really what you think. You know, like they're not the big things that you're doing. The being tired of being tired of being stressed, like that really hits, right? And you're seeing, you have a therapist, so that's sort of your mindset and how you're showing up. trying to change your perspective specifically with the program so maybe you're you're really driven weight loss wise and and that's like you can you're still going to lose weight regardless of changing your perspective on it um but for motivation or maybe you're in is like what's you're in uh for showing up and doing the things that you need every day because that can add an extra layer of tired and so your perspective or on on showing up and doing the program because it just can make you feel even more stressed

so how can you look at it to help you be less stressed or what's your what's your why why you are stressed right so recognizing your stress trying to make as healthy choices as possible to to help support your body in the stress like if you can kind of see that path forward that can really help but what else can help us those are big ones walking especially after dinner obviously connecting with friends and community pop in here as often as you want we're here to have happy to support you and just trying to stay connected can be a really game changer with people. More high fat foods, less cheese, more high fat foods, like good fats. Not that there's anything wrong with cheese, but omega-3 is a big one. Elthianine is a big one and

that magnesium, especially right before bed. That can really help. Here's another one. Since starting a living method, I felt hungry. I'm not losing any weight, so I'm thinking I'm eating too much. it's hard to know when I'm full if I wasn't hungry. Okay. Let me read. I know I'm just tired. Let me read this again. Since starting the Livy method, oh, I have felt hungry. I am not losing any weight, so I think I'm eating too much. Hard to know when I'm full if I wasn't hungry. Okay. So I'm not. really sure if this is just wording. So I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to break

it down into two. I'm going to assume this is correct and be like, since starting the living method, I've felt hungry. I'm not losing any weight, so I'm thinking I'm eating too much. Okay, so a couple of things there. It's normal to feel hungry. Although we're eating enough in the moment to feel satisfied, it's really important to understand that you will still feel hungry. You will, that's your body just communicating its needs. Hunger is not, I can't, I don't think I have said this once throughout this entire program. How about you? Right not. Hunger is not an immediate need for food. Let me say it again. Hunger is not an immediate need for food. So your body knows that it's going to take you time to, and we think of our body still function on really primitive

level. So your body knows it's going to take time for you to find food, although you might have it in your your cup, you know, your cupboards or your fridge or whatever. Still primitive. It's going to take you time to find food. It's going to take you time to prepare food. It's going to take your body time to process and digest food before your body can get the nutrients it needs. So your body will let you know when you're hungry when your, you know, your glycogen levels are dipping, when you're, when you, you actually, it's time for food based on your glycogen levels. And it'll be like, okay, hey, Gina, based on our glycogen levels here, you might want to start thinking about eating because your body is assuming it's going to take you time to find food, eat food,

prepare food, digestive food. And so you are going to be hungry, most people, you're going to be hungry every day while doing the program. And so even though you're eating enough in the moment to feel like you've had enough, the goal isn't to not feel hungry. The goal isn't to not feel hungry because you still want to clue into your body's cues. In fact, that's one of the things that you'll notice next week. Whenever we change, you might have noticed obviously feeling a bit hungry with downsizing, although a lot of that can be the mental aspect of that too. Some of you notice you're feeling hungrier with the tweak this week because your body's working extra hard. Also, just where you're at in the program. You know, helping your body become healthier means

it's giving you more energy. That's why you might feel a bit more energetic, feel like working out, all of those things um obviously stress can have you feeling a little hungrier too so so the goal isn't to the goal isn't to not feel hungry it is going to be totally normal to feel hungry throughout the day um again that it's not an immediate need for food and it's also not an indication that you didn't eat enough either um so that's really important also also normal to feel hungry in the evening right before the scale drops now i'm going to take the other side of this um it's hard to know when i'm full if I'm not hungry. So full, first of all, is not the word that you should be describing. So, and the reason why I say this, you know, that's really fucking nitpicky. Um, a lot of people when they start the program

associate full, full with satisfaction or with eating it. Even like satisfaction is different from eating enough. Um, so a lot of people will feed into the full either like they'll eat everything on their plate and then their sense of full is seeing everything on their plate gone or their sense of full is a physical feeling where you have to undo your pants or you feel tired like it just sort of depends what your sense of full is so full isn't really how you want to describe how you feel when you eat because you shouldn't feel anything when you walk away from eating other than just feeling like okay i had enough right even satisfaction has more of a deeper layer and meaning to it satisfaction is sort of Satisfaction is beyond eating enough.

It's also feeling satisfied with your food. And the other day I mentioned, if you're just forcing yourself to eat cold salads, and although you're walking away feeling like you had enough, you are also feeling like unsatisfied because chances are you might want something a little bit warmer, heavier, hardier, adding carbs, especially if you haven't been adding any carbs, especially to your lunchtime and really trying to just keep those out.

And that's all carbs. I'm not just talking brides and pastaas. I'm talking like rice and kinawas and potatoes and squashes and and, you know, those types of things. If you've been trying to keep those out and you are eating enough would feel unsatisfied, that could be why. And so full is not a word that you want to describe to, for your portions. But if you're not, how do, it's hard to know if I'm full if I wasn't hungry. And so this is where it really comes down to token amounts.

And if you're eating token amounts, obviously of, you know, all your meals and snacks every day because you're constantly not hungry, you know, and pretence are you're not overeating. And so a lot of times people think, well, if I'm not losing weight, it's because I'm overeating, but also you're not eating processed foods on the program. And so that's a game changer.

That's a game changer. You're not just like eating less or counting calories and then having those calories come from like whatever processed foods and whatnot. So you're not going to gain weight while eating healthy nutrient rich foods. And if you are eating healthy and nutrient rich foods, foods and giving your body what it needs. You're addressing your body's needs and you're still going to see that scale move at the end of the day. And so if you are not hungry, and the reason why I'm talking about this too is because there are a lot of people who are taking the medications

that can make you feel a lot less hungry. That's why you still want to have those small token amounts, right? So, so you really want to say if you are actually hungry, what's going on there and paying attention to that and what's your, what's your version of satisfied as opposed to full. with token amounts, if your weight isn't dropping and you're following the actual program food wise, whether you're eating too much or, you know, not unsure about that, as long as you're eating all your meals and snacks, you can feel pretty good about what you are eating. And if the scale isn't moving for you, because if you're not hungry, you're not hungry, right? If your body's not asking for more. And this is one of the things with the weight loss medications where you can

see that really rapid weight loss from not eating enough at the end of the day. You see that quick weight loss, but you're also losing that muscle mass. So in order to combine the two and actually lose weight in a healthy way, you're going to be able to maintain and sustain. You want to make sure you are giving your body what it needs. Just because you are taking a medication that messes with your hunger hormones and makes you feel more satisfied, your body still needs the nutrients it needs, right? Like it still needs that food at the end of the day. So if your weight isn't moving, I honestly wouldn't tie it to the food at this point. I mean, if you feel like you're eating too much, you can always try eating a little bit less. If you feel like you're not

eating enough. You can try eating a little bit more. But at the end of the day, if your weight isn't moving, it's probably tied into something else. So then if you are not taking weight loss medications that are making you feel less hungry, why are you not hungry? Right? Why are you not hungry? Are you really stressed? Are you dealing with grief? Are you not feeling very well? What are the reasons why you are not hungry? So that's where you really want to dig into that at the end of the day. All right, let me go back and see if there's other questions here. Thank you for bearing with me by the day. By the way, today I'm a bit of a hot mess. All right, let's go in here. Feeling full brings me memories of discomfort. I don't want to feel full again, just

satisfied. Yeah, right? I'm really understanding what that, what that actual, like, where that range is. And this is why we're asking the four sets of mind fleeting questions. It's not to drive you crazy or, you know, make it inconvenient. It's so that one day you don't have to ask. And the more you can really dig into the feeling. You want to get to a point. where you looking at your food and you know that's not enough that's too much you want to know the exact moment where you feel like you've had enough and if you eat one more bite you know exactly how you're going to feel you're going to feel like you've had too much and really really really tune into that really tune into that uh can i use can or diced tomatoes for my can those

would be processed foods but many recipes call for them uh i that's not really what we talk about with processed foods those can't you can have canned foods canned fruit can very vegetables, canned anything. They might have additives to it, like a preservative. So if you take canned tomatoes, right, this is what you're going for, a diced tomatoes. So it's still tomatoes. It's still tomatoes. Now, there might be some herbs and spices or something added to them thinking about the ones that are used for chili, for example, right?

So that's not really a processed product. Process product is taking a product and turning it into something completely different. Let's say black bean pasta, for example. But this is more the most basic form of processing of food. So black bean pasta is not the same as black beans. How your body reacts and nutrients it gets when breaking down black beans versus black bean pasta, two completely different things. Bread also processed in a sense. It's been broken down and grinded and, you know, it's not in its original form.

So if you took diced tomatoes, they are still in its original form. There might be an additive there. usually when people add additives like your diced tomatoes canned tomatoes it's a preservative um which is usually quite natural and not an issue at the end of the day so there's no reason why you can't um can foods frozen foods also really great um you know processed foods a lot of times start with you know a sugar artificial like it's got artificial flavors and colors and stuff like that in it um you know sugar obviously is not a food source so you know a product that starts with uh anything other than actual food and you know products list that they're really long but with that said um you know a lot of the things

that can be added that people because people used to say if it has a big long list of ingredients don't get it but it can be a long healthy list of ingredients and you know sometimes there's preservatives in there that are totally healthy and natural for you and it doesn't really equate to the big long names sometimes long names could be fortifying foods at the end of the day um so are you really just looking for natural food ingredients. And so if you're diced tomatoes, just say tomatoes, maybe with oil, maybe with, you know, I'm not sure what like, like beans, for example, would have EDTA in it. So EDTA is an anti-coagulant. Some of them you can get without some, you know, it's not the end of the day. It's not going to affect your weight loss, especially not in the small amounts that you would

get. So a little bit different when it comes to processes. Do you know what? We should have, we should have Alyssa, who is our dietitian come on. I know one of the things that she wants to get into is helping read food labels and whatnot. So we're going to talk to her about that. She can be coming on sharing some recipes for us. So that's a really great question for her in terms of like, you know, reading food additives and whatnot. That's a great question. That's a great question. I lost my son and will never be the same trying to get healthy for my daughters. I like to give up but cannot. Thanks for being there. Yeah, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, before I get into that, sure, sure, that's a great idea. I use the Yucca app to check additives

and other processed food products. Deli meats are processed foods too. Deli, deli meats, yeah, but you can get like more natural deli meats. Like deli meats obviously is not the most ideal form of protein at the end of the day, but it works in a pinch. And we're not trying to stress over every little thing that we're doing here, but there's some deli meat that is. is more. I just want to get back to Karen, Karen and Lori. Lori's like, I'm so with you and understand your broken heart. I too will take care of myself from my daughters and siblings. I know we should be taking care of ourselves. But if that is the motivation we need to hold on to that, yeah, you know, I'm so sorry for everyone who's dealing with loss. And this is why that post

is really important. And I hope, my hope is that you do give yourself some grace. and some patients to understand that you are carrying a weight beyond your weight. And it affects everything you do every day when you are walking through life and you're carrying out with you. And so many times people, when it comes to weight loss journey, and I know it can seem so trivial when you're dealing with grief, the living method is different in the sense that it does help you take time for yourself, prioritize yourself, the system of putting one foot in front of the other. It's a very low stress way for your body to focus on change while you give it everything that it needs to heal. That mental part of it is a big

part of it. When you are making choices or not understanding, yeah, okay, so maybe you had a stressful day at work and someone else said something to you and it's pissed you off and that's why you had thing. But then there's also this underlying grief that you're dealing with at the same time, right? So my hope today with this post is to help bring awareness and recognize really what you're going through and so we talk with the tools and the skills that we need by working through the things that we need to work through this is a big part of that this is a big part of that and you you want to reconnect with food and enjoy all the yummy bites of bits that come with life you're still here you want to spend time with your loved ones in the people that you still have around and you

want to enjoy life where you're doing that and you want to do it in a body where you feel calm and confident and so that can seem like a lot that can seem like a lot and grief can see like one more thing, but I think you have to, with grief, it's a little different because there's stress and there's lots of ways to deal with stress. And yes, there are ways to help deal with grief as well. But, you know, losing a loved one, that is never going away. That is never going away. So that's going to be something that you factor into who you are, factory into your journey and understanding how it's affecting your journey at the end of the day. So and timely too before I go because this is this is this is this is just about where we're at now week eight yes we got some new tweaks coming

down the pipeline but this is just about showing up every day this is about continuing to show up and just do the things that you need to do and that's a lot easier said than done for so many for so many reasons all right i'm going to go because my voice is going and um i got to go lie down and drink some water um thanks for bearing with me today um it's a happy conversation today but you know we're here for these conversations we can have these conversations um they're going to help us evolve and learn and grow and keep moving forward. And even if you feel like it's, it's not a message for you, there's some good tidbits and takeaways in that. So even dealing with people in your life who are dealing with grief and whatnot. So splitting up the meals and

snacks for the next couple days, I'm going to be on my way home tomorrow. Obviously, it's Friday as well. I will do a quick check in before I go and I'll be popping in over the weekend. Really try to dig into the splitting up the meals and snacks part and really open your mind to the thoughts and feels popping up, really kind of go inward and pay attention to your body and how you're feeling splitting up in meals and snacks, really digging into those four sets of mindful eating questions. Like I said, it's the lead up and the set up to next week, which is a great week, a lot more flexibility in that. We go from eating more to eating less. Pay attention to the nuance of your changing hunger levels too, and based on how you're feeling as well day to day

to day. Thanks for joining me today. Have a great rest of your day, everyone, and I'll see you later.