The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 61 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 61, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina gets into why this week’s tweak—splitting meals—is about more than food. It’s a powerful way to break habits, interrupt old patterns, and gain awareness around your choices. She explains how each tweak builds on the last and why sticking to The Program as designed is key to not just losing weight, but keeping it off. Gina talks plateaus, the importance of consistency, and how maximizing isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what matters most, more often. She also unpacks why the scale might be up from heat and not food, and how this journey goes beyond weight loss—it’s about reconnecting with yourself and creating change that sticks. If you’ve been tempted to just stick with one tweak or you're feeling discouraged by the scale, this episode is a must-listen.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm away. I am up in beautiful Muskoka, which is this kind of cottage country here in Ontario, where I live. It is Friday and I'm sure many of you also have plans to head out of town or maybe you're going to be away or traveling and whatnot. So I do want to remind you that we have those travel tips that we posted, I believe in the first or second week of the program. We are expecting you to, I'm just gonna grab my coffee, we are expecting you to be traveling while you're doing the program because it spans 91 days whether it's for work or for vacations and especially throughout the summer. If

you missed it yesterday we had this great conversation with Kyle Buchanan. And so he's a health and wellness expert nutritionist. And like he's the wellness guy on the Global Morning Show, he hosts the exhale, the exhale on SiriusXM radio, and like health and wellness is totally his jam. And it was interesting, and he's had a weight issue when he was younger, so he's been on talking with us before. If you haven't, he's just delightful, honestly it was such a great conversation.

And he talked about summertime, and it's really interesting because on Monday, we had a few days last week at the end of the week, really sunny, as you know if you live local, and it was like something switched. We had a really dark and rainy winter season. And then all of a sudden in the group on Monday, it was like nobody was here. It was super quiet.

I think people's attention span has gone elsewhere. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's noticeable. And even my team, I'm like, guys, you're noticing this? So like, it's super quiet. And it's not just where we're at in the program but it's summer and we are wired that you know summer is short at this time of year kids are winding down the school year and this is where you know things become unstructured or whatever your experiences was as a child so maybe you're just kind of feeling

like all right like screw it It's summertime or whatever. You absolutely can still work towards your goals and enjoy your time off. Enjoy the summer and whatnot. So if you're looking for a bit of a motivational boost, definitely take time and listen to that segment with Kyle yesterday. It was a good one. All right. Let me get into some of the questions that you might have to say. I know he's so great, right?

You got strep throat. Oh, no. You know, is the worst kind of like cold sore throat is in the summertime. It's like my it's my pet peeve is having a cold in the summertime. I woke up a little scratchy too, but I don't know if it was because I was up talking all night or I got something going on. I love the top. Oh, thanks. This was like leftover merch from, we did the national women's show in the fall and we created some fun swag. We're gonna actually be giving some away

at the end of the program. So if you want, we don't sell it. We started to get into selling some merchandise, it was a couple of years ago. and we did it with a company who were like they shipped and did all of that and it was it was it was fun except the shipping costs were so astronomical that people were paying like $40 for a mug and I'm like I can't I can't sell $40 mugs. Where are you now? Hi Celine, I'm I'm up in Muskoka. So I'm at a friend's cottage. I'll show you.

Maybe I shouldn't move. I shouldn't move because I lost my connection. I'm literally sitting right by the lake. I don't know if my connection is a little bit odd. So we'll see how it goes this morning. So I was gonna turn my camera, but the internet went off. So enjoying splitting meals, still haven't lost much weight but I'm learning so much. Okay, so I love that you guys are totally into splitting

the meals this week. I love that because you might go back to how you thought about it when you first read it. There was an interesting comment and I meant to screenshot it with my phone from one of our members today and she was like, I took time to split my meals and snacks yesterday and really realized how I don't make time for myself. And I think that that can be the takeaway. Yes, there's like making your body work extra hard, you know, getting your body produced in that ghrelin hormone. There's a lot to it that's happening on a physical level, but mentally, it's really

understanding the time that it takes to prioritize yourself. And if you can think about the time that you have to put into this, not just physically, but mentally, it makes you think about it. And so you'll see if I can move myself and get a better connection. A lot of our thoughts are wired by, so this is really going in and messing with your thoughts. It's very interruptive of our thought. I'm not sure if my... yeah my connection keeps going in and out. I'm not sure. Let me see

if I can find a better space. Sorry guys. It was totally fine of course. Let me go in the house and see. My connections were super spotty. Oh, this is better. There we go. Hang on. Let me go grab my coffee. That's better. That works. Is that better? Oh yeah, that's better. Hi ladies.

Say hi. Say hi. Say hi ladies. Say hi ladies. All right. Here we go. We're back in business. This is how we do things live around here.

Okay. So because you have to think about your business, you have to think about your life. Hi ladies, say hi ladies. All right, here we go, we're back in business. This is how we do things live around here. Okay, so because you have to think about eating so often, it like interrupts your connections in your brain. So that's one of the reasons why it's so effective for rewiring the part of your brain. But she noticed how she doesn't make time for herself. So that's a good takeaway at the end of the day, right?

That's like these tweaks are designed to kind of mess things up, shake things up in your world. So you recognize what's going on in your world, especially when it comes to connecting with food. I was like, what did I do? I just walked in the door there, I'm out of breath. Why am I out of breath? Do, do, do.

Let me get back to your questions. Let me see where you guys are at. I'm at my cottage too watching the hummingbirds. Hi Joanne. I had company last night for supper and forgot to split the meal. Today's another day. So another few days, literally that's it.

Today, Saturday, Sunday, and then we're going to be introducing a whole new tweak. One of my favorite weeks and tweaks called the food plan revamp. And so this is where we actually change the basic food plan, which is perfect, because it's going to give you a lot more flexibility. For sure, I was surprised again this week at how quieter the food noise is.

So that's one of the things you're going to notice week by week by week, is that because you're getting in there and you're interrupting your natural streams of thought around food especially, that you would think thinking about the food more is gonna add to it but actually thinking about the food more in a different way where it's not restrictive and you actually have to eat actually gets in there and interrupts those connections and you know this is how when we say we're rewiring how your bodies come to function physically and

rewiring how your brain has come to function and we know this from Dr. Beverly David and this is why if you can the awareness of the program if you can capture your thoughts capture cancel correct that she introduced a while back if you are talking negatively let's say you go on the scale and you start thinking about the scales up oh my goodness this isn't working and I'm never gonna lose my weight so you're capturing that that's your negative thought or your thought. And your cancel it is, that's not true at all. I'm doing really well.

I've been showing up. I'm seeing all sorts of non-scale victories. There is proof to show me that my choices are making a difference in my life. I am not a loser. I'm showing up. I'm doing what I need to do. And corrected is, I keep showing up. I'm going to reach my life. I'm not a loser. I'm showing up. I'm doing what I need to do and correct it is I keep showing up. I'm going to reach my goal. There's no reason why I can't. And so our brains especially when the scale so I love getting on the scale though

as hard as it is, it's like you're all of your brings up all of your shit right in your face. So you step on that scale, the thoughts come up, that's your opportunity to capture cancel and correct. Of course, you can use that in other areas of your life. Like if you are choosing to there's some sort of food in front of you and you're like, oh, if I eat this, I'm going to ruin everything and oh my goodness, or if you ate it, then you've ruined everything.

So it's really about taking the time to correct those thoughts. And that's what awareness is. It's big part of that awareness piece. I lose weight a pound a day almost when splitting meals. Yeah. So, oh, that's why I want to go back and respond to the previous question. So sometimes people will connect this week with yes, your weight is moving quite a bit and this is the tweak in week that did that. And yes, of course, every tweak we introduce plays a role, but it's at the timing of where we're at. It just takes your body time sometimes, whether it's your new program,

returning program, and it's sort of what you it's not sort of it's it's everything to do with what you've been doing leading up to this point. We actually had someone the other day say to us, I like this week so much I'm dropping weight. Can I just do this like throughout the rest of the summer and whatever. And you absolutely want to continue to move on because it's all about how the program you're building on each previous week. And so we're not done yet. So if this is your first time going through, even though the scale is dropping for you,

it's not going to stop dropping because we change techniques or tweaks next week. So that's a big thing. This is, this is something at the end of each week when people are losing weight, especially they're like, can I just keep doing this? Changing the tweak is just going to keep that going. So it there's no like going backwards by changing what we're doing. It's always building on what you're doing. But it's this time of year. So remember in the beginning, maybe maybe not maybe not so much. I said that people will go as long as seven weeks without seeing the scale move and that's when that's because usually their body is in a is the metabolism is really low their body's feeling the past of deprivation

diets and depriving or not that we're depriving on the living method but it's still reluctant to let go of that fat release that fat in the simplest terms and so seven weeks is enough time for your body to start making change and feeding into the metabolism. That's usually the tweak that really people will notice if they're coming off, like coming in hot off of restricted diets. But you don't want to just keep doing that tweak. It's really the time and where we're at.

One as we're switching from winter into spring summer. So that was a good period of time where your body is naturally giving you more energy. It's not wanting to keep a bunch of fat in you around anymore, especially as the temperature rises. Which today summer solstice, by the way, today is like the longest day of the year. So you have a you have a lot of time today to do work on splitting those meals and snacks. Spitting meals and snacks is my least favorite tweak. So here's what I would do about that.

I mean, can I have a sip of my coffee? Hang on just a second. Why? Why? Right? Why? Oh, there's Patty. I want to read Patty's comments.

Why is it your least, why, I would say to you, why is it your least favorite tweak? And then that's probably where there's Patty. I want to read Patty's comments. Why is it your least, why, I would say to you, why is it your least favorite tweak? And then that's probably where there's a good message for you. Other inconvenient, which are probably really busy in your life, in which you're probably a kind of person who goes all day long without eating, right?

Or why, because you are, it's weird around people and you don't want to, you don't want to hear what people have to say or whatever. And chances are, maybe you need to find some new friends. Right, like that, I mean, obviously, I'm just kind of generalizing here, but usually, and this is what Dr. Paul has said to us many times, it's the place,

it's the uncomfortable places that you don't want to go is probably where you learn the most. Where is that comment from? Oh, Pondy. I'm having the opposite. These past two weeks of splitting zero pounds down, trying to keep trusting the process fingers crossed. Okay.

So you're not going to lose weight every day. That's just not real life. I mean, there are some circumstances where people, it can seem like someone is losing a lot of weight. We had someone lose as much as 82 pounds. And he was a younger gentleman, he had quite a bit of weight to lose. And then I could tell you that I'm sure that his next few programs he didn't lose as much because at some point your body needs time to adjust

to the weight that you've lost. And so it's equal and opposite reaction. And some people, so what is your pattern? So that's where I would be at this point. What is your pattern? So if you've been logging your weights, is it normal for your weight to go up before it goes down? After it goes down, just go back up

and sit there for a couple of days? Is this it there for a week? Do you have shorter plateaus? Do you have longer plateaus? And so if you are sort of, this is your pattern, like maybe you go back and so you lost a chunk of weight, then you went on a plateau for a couple back and so you lost a chunk of weight then you went on a plateau for a couple weeks you lost a chunk of weight you went on a plateau so this could be your pattern and having short plateaus versus longer plateaus I don't know that one is any better than

the other at the end of the day you're gonna get there the average weight loss is about one to two pounds a week and so that in my experience when people do the program for a year that's generally how much they're losing because you can show someone who's lost a lot of weight but if you break it down into the number of weeks that they've been following it usually lands somewhere between one to two pounds. Their history of the program, let's say someone loses a hundred pounds, their history will look a little like 40 pounds lost in one group, 10

lost in the next group, 15 lost in the next group, 25 in the next group. I know that didn't add up to the year, but whatever, it's the morning. Right? But if you break it down into weeks, my point is you break it down into weeks, they may have had like whatever, five pounds one week, nothing for two weeks or little bits every week. So everyone's a little different. Everyone's a little different with that.

So now what do you do about that? So if you're sitting on a plateau plateau, you want, and you need plateaus and or you could have had a situation where you are, you've been losing losing losing losing losing losing losing losing losing losing losing losing And then your body just needs time Your body needs time to adjust to the weight that you've lost your blood flow your your heart rates You don't think about your heart which is a muscle that grows to the size of your body when the size of your body changes that changes your your heart rate, your hormones,

all of that need to adjust when you're losing weight. So plateaus or your body, there's actually a lot of science and statistics behind this. That's why you want plateaus. You need plateaus. That's why doing a program, having lost your weight and then doing a program where you're maintaining your weight, like there's no downside to that. There's no downside. What you're learning about maintaining your weight is hugely valuable, not just mentally, but also the time put into that physically.

And this is why we have a maintenance program at the end because you've got to you have to you have to solidify your weight at the end of the day. What's it talking about? Plateaus. So you want to make sure I had some drinks last night. If you're wondering why I'm all like weird and spacey and crazy pants. I had a couple drinks. As you know, I haven't been doing that recently and I did last night if you're wondering why I'm all like weird and spacey and crazy pants. I had a couple drinks as you know I haven't been doing that recently and I did last night. So not a lot but just enough that it's kind of messing with my brain a little bit.

Plateaus so what can you do to break a plateau? Here's where you want to look at the maximizing post and I saw a couple comments yesterday where someone was like oh the scale isn't moving and I don't want to fucking read that maximizing post one more time and I was like okay oh, the scale isn't moving and I don't want to fucking read that maximizing post one more time. And I was like, okay, well then what is it? Right? And that was my response. Like I get that.

But the maximizing post is there. And if you're just looking at the 20 questions, there's a whole there's a whole post in the file section with 154 questions, 154 questions, pretty extensive and thorough that you can go through and ask yourself and the whole point is to try to, sometimes we can't see what we're doing. Like for example, you were taking the supplements before and then weight started to move and you didn't think you needed them anymore or you just, you know, stop taking them for whatever reason and now the fact that you're not getting enough vitamin D or omega-3 or magnesium is starting to impact your journey, right? We don't think about that

You didn't work out before and you lost your weight and now you're working out and maybe the scale isn't moving But you're dropping dress sizes. Your body is changing. You're feeling fantastic Doesn't mean what you're doing isn't working. It's just you're not seeing the effect of it working There's your environment what was going on so maybe you're not seeing the effect of it working. Your environment, what was going on? So maybe you're an accountant, I think it's tax season, I think, or Tony's doing something fiscal year, I don't know what he's doing, but he seems a little stressed about it.

So I don't know about receipts, I don't know. Receipts, why would we need receipts? I don't know. So he's a little stressed. So it's a very stressful time of year for him. And so maybe this is a stressful time of year for you. Maybe there's like you got a cold or flu or sickness where you are sick, sore throat, whatever, but you're showing up and you're like, why isn't the scale moving?

So my question to you at this point, if the scale isn't moving for you, why? Why? Because all my team can do is say go and check out like unless you're giving us tons of information because this is what people do I'm doing everything to a tee and my scale isn't moving well that's not helpful for us at all and so we really want you to be successful but if you don't give us any information we can't really help you so all we can do is say well okay you know maybe it's whatever go check out the maximizing post and then people's response is, well, I'm

sick of the maximizing post and we're like, well, the fuck do you want from us? Like we want to help you, but you have to help us help you and more than that what I find when people do like, for example, post the information from the maximizing post, they give us a lot of information. Just them writing it out makes them realize what they need to do. Like that's it's the exercise of sitting down and being like, okay, what is a lot of information, just them writing it out makes them realize what they need to do. Like that's it's the exercise of sitting down and being like, okay, what is going on? Let me try to figure it out.

We've had a lot of guest experts. We've had a lot of guest experts come on. We've shared tons of information, reason why the scale isn't moving, all of that. So it's, it's for you to figure out what is going on. What are the things that you need to work on? So the scale isn't moving for you to figure out what is going on. What are the things that you need to work on? So if the scale isn't moving for you, why? In the file section, so if you go into the file section, sorry, I got my two little,

someone's asking, they're in the file section. So if you, right across the top of the Facebook support group, there's a files tab, and if you click on that, you will find the maximizing questions, and there's like a whole, because there's a files tab. And if you click on that, you will find the maximizing questions and there's like a whole, like there's pages and pages. It's also in the book. If you have the book as well,

all of those are in the book as well. Does anyone know how to use the Deep Marine collagen so it tastes better and doesn't bother your stomach? I tried coffee, tea, juice with the throw-off. Yeah, that would have been my suggestion. You could add it to your magnesium. If you're using the calm magnesium, you could add it to your calm magnesium. You can try. You can try adding it that way. That will help.

Now, I'm curious about water between my meal split. My granny always told me that water dilutes your digestive fluids. I never believed her, but I'm not so sure. It doesn't. I like to drink one or two cups in the split and wonder if it has impact is any truth to my guess. So there is no concrete evidence of this. In theory they say well you know if you're drinking water it might but your stomach your stomach juices are really strong and so there's no scientific evidence anywhere to back this up.

I've looked, it just doesn't exist. What it can do is make it, this is why people say, I drink so much water, I'm not hungry. I feel so full. So water doesn't do anything to affect your appetite and it doesn't do anything to affect your body processing and digesting your foods. If you have an issue with digesting your food you can use like digestive bitters which or

if you're missing your gallbladder this is where you can stimulate more production of your stomach acids and whatnot. What drinking water in between can make you feel like full if you're like drinking a lot of water in a concentrated amount of time. But no, there's no there's no science that backs that up. So you could I drink water between my meals all the time. So you can totally do that. You can totally do that's an old granny tale. It's a little granny tale and probably, you know, our parents, our grandparents, a lot of them came from

where you sit and you have to eat all your food. And so they probably assume that when you drink water, maybe you're not, it fills your tummy and makes you less full or whatever. So I don't know where that comes from, but it's not true. You're going on a heat wave, Crystal, finally able to listen for the first time, so much going on and now a heat wave. I wouldn't mind a heat wave. I know I wouldn't mind a heat wave, but I know an actual heat wave is not fun either.

So okay, so one of the things that we need to know about the summer, rolling into the summer is that your weight can and will be up. It will have nothing to do with the scale. Let's talk about this for a second because if you are struggling and the scale is not moving and you are in the midst of a heat wave, your body is gonna be retaining water and your weight is gonna be up no matter what you do. This is one of the reasons why I don't start

a weight loss program in the summer. We're gonna be doing our summer club if you're interested in that. So our summer club is where you'll have access to our team, we're gonna keep you motivated, we're gonna have guest experts, you'll be able to connect with the community. We'll have more information on that later. But I don't start a weight loss program in the summer because I have to spend my time convincing everyone that they haven't gained weight every time the temperature

rises. So there is something to be said about that. Getting lots of leg cramps at night, drinking lots of water, taking magnesium regularly, any ideas. Lots of reasons why we have leg cramps, especially as the temperature rises. You might want to try potassium rich foods, not potassium supplement, but adding in some avocado for your snacks, adding in banana. I say snacks because next week you can have fruit and you can add fruit in the afternoon if you want, but not yet. Add in some banana. Sweet potato is really good.

So sweet potato, banana, avocado are all really potassium rich foods. So that will usually fix. The heat wave will arrive this weekend. Oh, it's coming. Okay. Amazing. I'm into that. I'm like the kind of person where like it's never too hot, but that's just me

personally, I'm cold all the time. And I like, like and I like hot, hot, hot, hot, hot weather. Speaking of stress, last night TMI, no such thing Jackie, no such thing. Last night getting ready for bed after one day on the job, washed my face and caught myself about to moisture my face with vagina festering cream. about to moisture my face with vagina estrogen cream. Well, I'll have you know women people are doing that. They're putting estrogen cream on their face. Apparently it actually can be really good. I don't know if it's for rosacea or not, but it's a whole thing.

It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. It can be used both places. Speak to your doctor first, but that's a whole thing. That's a whole thing. That's a whole thing. No such thing as TMI around here. Hi Linda, I had a friend a fried egg. I had a friend, I had a fried egg this morning

in a mini pita. It was delicious. I did not split my breakfast in half. I usually only have a hard-boiled egg in the morning but I was okay with this. I'm doing pretty good on this program. I have already lost over 43 pounds. You're fucking crushing it. I've been on a plateau for three days but know this happens. Also okay with that. Have eight more pounds to reach my final goal. It's just taking time. Still a lot of time to achieve this. I can do it. Okay, I love this.

I love that you put this out there. I want to remind everyone about setting intentions and taking time to recognize what you've done and be really proud. There are studies to suggest that show that if you are recognizing the things that you are doing really well and you are proud of those things you are more likely to continue those things. That's a brilliant way of motivating yourself and you can be like ah this like I've you know it sucks I wish I already reached my goal whatever but at the same time the energy of

recognizing what you're doing keeps you moving forward. Yeah right I did not know yes I use preparation H on my eye bags once. Wait, that's a thing. That's a thing. That's like a TV. That's a TV trip. That's a that's actually a thing. That's a TV. Like I used to work in television and that's the thing.

They put on you put it on your your eye bags. I had those like I'm asked things on this morning because I searching cream on my face. That's yes I know okay let me see if I got any other questions do to do down 60 pounds okay who says good morning my beautiful friends I'm down 60 pounds this morning Kelly I've been 30 years since I have been this glorious person it feels so good to be in soon to understand what my body is saying Has had an amazing positive Water ripple effect in my life. This is that this is it. I'm gonna end on that note and I'll tell you why because

This is what it's about. This is this is more than just losing your weight It's in it you're losing your weight in a way that You are creating a lifestyle that you want to live the life that you know You should be living the life that you want to live, the life that you know you should be living, the life that you want to live, the life you're trying to create for yourself. When you visualize what you want your life to be, this is because food is such a big part of our lives,

because our health and wellness is such a big part of our lives. This is about bringing awareness and helping you figure out what you need to do to not just help you reach your goal, but to acquire the skills, put the tools in the toolbox that are gonna be able to help you maintain and sustain. But this was, we had a brilliant conversation

with Yvonne Baxter, if you haven't seen it yet on Tuesday. And she originally signed up to do the program for her husband, because her husband needed to get healthy to have a surgery, and so she needed to do something, so she signed up for him.

But seven programs later, it's all about her. Not only does she look amazing, she feels fantastic, and it's been life-changing. And it's not the program, it's not the program, it's the work that you are doing on the program. So congratulations, 60 pounds is freaking amazing. Honestly, that's just amazing. That's, that's amazing. That's, that's life changing.

That is life changing. So much more than weight loss program. I had no idea what I was signing up for. Glad I took, yeah, and you know what? It's interesting is we're, we're kind of like taking a look at where the industry is going and where do we fit. And when I first started doing my online groups here, it was, when I started, can you do intermittent

fasting with this program? So I mean, we are doing, we are doing. Yeah, it's not a diet. It's a lifestyle. Yeah, I'm going to get back to that in a second. We are doing our own version. So I've been obviously this the living method is something I've been doing with people for like 30 years.

Intermittent fasting was never a weight loss thing. Intermittent fasting was never a weight loss thing. There are many benefits to fasting in general, but if you think about all the diets that you've done where you've just go so long without eating, you skip breakfast, right? You skip, you don't eat until lunch. I mean, how many diets have you done in the past where you literally were doing

intermittent fasting without, without knowing it? Intermittent fasting is eating less. And so some people, their issue is eating too much, but it's very rarely, um, their weight issue is very rarely because they're eating too much food. And so we don't do intermittent fasting, but not eating after dinner is really key because when it gets dark, your body's winding down. It starts producing melatonin,

and when you go to bed is when your body repairs and rebuilds and regenerates, rejuvenates, and detoxes. And so if you're going, so it's not eating at night isn't gonna cause you to gain weight, but not eating at night really helps when it comes to weight loss because it means your body can do all the things it needs to do while you are sleeping.

When you don't get a good night's sleep because your body is focused on digestion all night long, which is me and that's part of the reason I'm a bit loopy today, not just because they had some drinks because we had like a charcuterie board going. Fork it charcuterie. It's my new business. Anyway, it interrupts your sleep. And so why not eating after dinner? And you can choose not to have breakfast,

but if you choose not to have breakfast, this is why we have that fruit snack in the morning. So whether you go high protein for breakfast and then replenish your glycogen stores with fruit, that's what we've been doing up until this point, although that's gonna change next week. That's where you wanna make sure you're eating all your meals and snacks, especially

if you choose not to have breakfast, but it's always been a benefit to go high protein for breakfast. So that can be considered not eating after dinner and then going until like your morning time, nine, 10, and then starting your day with your snack. That could be considered a form of fasting, although it was never my intention. My intention was based on how the body functions, and it functions best when you don't eat at night, which interrupts the repair and rebuild process.

But if you go any longer than that, then you're dipping into, what we're trying to get our body to believe and trust is that it doesn't need the energy reserve, doesn't need the fat that it feels like it needs to store because you're set point. And you've done all these diets. And so every time you send a message to your body that there's not enough. So it's different to follow the natural alignment of it's getting dark and I've eaten all day

and I'm prepping you for sleep and waking up in the morning. And I wait until my energy reserves start to drain slightly. Because if you've eaten the whole day, you go to bed, you don't need to wake up and necessarily eat because you're already full of energy. And so this is why you can let that drain a little bit. But people push it too far, it gets to a point

where your body has to dip in and actually use your stored fat for energy. And so on a deprivation diet, starve yourself, deprive, force your body to burn fat. Okay, yeah, that works. No one's debating that that doesn't work, but you also simultaneously reinforcing the need for fat. And this is where you even have the brightest minds

in obesity research talking about set point, how your body gets wired like that. And so we're trying to break that. We're trying to be like, no, hey, body, we don't need this fat. You don't even have to dip into it. You're not utilizing it. We don't need it.

And so when people do fasting, they push it too long, you're constantly reinforcing the need that it needs the fat because you keep forcing your body to use it. So in that sense, so in that mini version of fasting or just not eating after dinner and then you know, waking up in the morning. So, so you can totally do that if that but otherwise, I also just want to say at this point in the program,

this is where we do get people coming back who haven't been following. We always forget and this is where people will ask questions or they'll it's obvious they haven't been following not to say that you haven't but we've talked about this question before if you have not been following along and you are coming back and usually it's because people stop following and now they start to see people's results I lost 60 pounds I lost 40 pounds I whatever and then they're like oh shit what's going on make sure you reach out and let us know because you've missed a lot of information and my team is not going to be like where have you been, how come you don't know this. They will actually help you get up to speed and

help you figure out how to make the most of the time that we have left at the end of the day. So what was I talking about? Oh how we're gonna frame the program. I'm gonna get going because we have an appointment the ladies got to go. But how we frame the appointment. So the program, so when I first started it, there's a whole thing about diets calling themselves not a diet. And I didn't want to try to pretend to not be a diet because we're all about weight loss. Although the program was originally designed

as a lifestyle program. And so this is also where the world is transitioning and people are ready to follow more of a lifestyle, understanding that it's going to help you lose weight at the end of the day. And this is sort of where things are also fitting in with GLP-1s. I've never been against GLP-1 or any of the medications because I've also had clients that have gotten gastric bypass and GLP-1s are almost like the new gastric bypass, just a much safer version of it.

So I've never been against medical intervention. I think it can be a game changer and a lifesaver for people who need it. It's just that my positioning has always been, it's not a diet and it doesn't do the work for you. It doesn't work through your issues and associations, habits, beliefs, it doesn't change anything about you. And so when people get off their weight loss medication,

they go back into their old habits. And same thing when people lose weight too without Medication something happens they go back into their old habits And so you really have to put in the work and so that's why you know We're if you notice some of the verbiage and language that we're using You know whether it's a diet or lifestyle. I think that's where we're going It's more of the lifestyle that you are creating for yourself That's going to support the changes you want to see and the changes that you make at the end of it.

Okay, I hope that you guys have some good plans this weekend. Split up those meals and snacks. What are you learning from it? Do the inconvenience. Step out of your comfort zone. Give it a go, especially separating the proteins from the carbs because that's the setup and lead up for next week. We have a great week coming down the pipeline for you on Monday. Our revamp week is where we actually make changes to the food plan so much for more flexibility. We're gonna make it easy for your body to get the nutrients it needs.

I'm gonna give you more satisfying foods that feed into your satiety hormones. You're gonna feel more satisfied. It's a great place to be in the program and four solid weeks left. Four solid weeks left, so there's a lot of time to make a big difference, especially when it comes to that scale. The scale is moving for you. Ask yourself why. Hi, Mom. I love you. Have fun camping this weekend.

I love you all. See you all later. Bye. I'll check in tomorrow. What day is it? Friday? Okay, gotta go. All right. Bye, everyone. Thanks.