The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 64 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring/Summer 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 64, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:We're not done yet! It's Revamp week! This is not keto! It's about giving the body what it needs and getting even more in tune with ourselves! Noticing your body changing - how 9 pounds looks like 20 when you lose it in a healthy way over time. Working behind? Ask all the questions that you need. We're here for you! This is life! How setbacks can be the set up for levelling up. Building strength and muscle mass for better stability. Time and trust: learning from our indulgences with curiosity and self-compassion. Check your summer Whys! How short-term whys fit into our long-term whys and motivation to keep going. Reframing habits by catching the feeling - how did that work for you? Being on a mission to make change and be your best self. Normalizing plateaus - putting the necessary time in that your body and mind need. Destination YUM! Check out our Recipe Share pages in the Facebook Support Group. Dressing your changing body - it's about meeting and celebrating where you are at with confidence! Trying to help - making the most from influencers online and in stores when shopping for your personal style. Improves with age: confidence, a sense of self, and our communication clarity with our body. Far from done! There is still time to lose the weight. Take a day-by-day approach and keep moving forward! 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. Hello, it is day 64 of the program. It's also a Monday. It's a whole new week and tweak. One of my favorites, this is where we are starting to revamp the food plan on a mission to get even more in tune to your body's needs. You know what your body needs in order to get and keep that scale moving and grooving. You have learned a lot over the last eight weeks. We have four solid weeks, four solid weeks for you to continue to work towards your goals. We are going to set you up for success at the end of the program so that no matter whether you are moving into maintenance because you've reached your goals and you're ready for that, or you are looking to kind of maintain over the summer because

you just want to just not worry about it and you're just going to hit us back up in the fall, or you want to keep focusing on moving the dial on the scale over the summer time, I've got you. I've got you. We are going to go through everything that you need. I'm going to make sure that you leave this program feeling successful and confident on next step. So don't stress about that. Here's what I would love for you to do is just focus on the day to day to day over the next four weeks of the program. You can accomplish a lot in the back end. And the reality is, it's going to take you as long as it's going to take you in order

to reach your goal. So as much as you would like to reach your goal in the timeframe that we have, maybe you will. Also, maybe you won't. But at the end of the program, you'll be one step closer. The Living Method is no different than any other diet. You start it and you keep doing it until you reach your goal. Except on the back end of that, we have a whole like system in play to help you be able to maintain and sustain your weight. Also, we break it up in these 91 day digestible bits, right? These digestible chunks of time where there's a start, there's a middle, and then there's an end. Each program is going to have a different feel to it. It's going to work just as well when it comes to losing weight in a healthy, sustainable way. Someone

might need only need one program and then someone else might need 16 programs depending on what they have going on and you know how much weight they have to lose and whatnot. So this is sort of where you're tailoring it to your needs. You are definitely still following all the guidelines and doing all the things with this week. So a bit more flexibility this week, making it really easy for the body to get the nutrients it needs off the heels of splitting up those meals and snacks. So we are going to move past the feeding the metabolism part. There was so much rhyme and reason to that.

So when you go to be in tune to those portions today, you are doubling down on those four questions. What tends to happen with this tweak is people are noticing with that slight bump up in protein and fat and switching up some of the star, the focus on your meal and your dinner and dropping down from two snacks to one, but kind of combining them, that you might notice that you feel a little heavy and a little sluggish. And people are always quick to blame it on the protein. They're like, oh, all this protein. This is not keto. We are not putting our body in ketosis. This is just making sure that you are bumping up the protein and fat to offset the fact that

we are down from two afternoon snacks down to one. Okay, so it's not keto. But what tends to happen is that people lay off the making food choices nutrient rich, they don't tend to add the leafy greens in, you are not asking the four questions, because let's face it, nine weeks in, you're like, Oh, my God, I have to ask those four questions again. So really double down on those portions, pay attention to how those slight variations are going to affect your appetite. Plus with where you're at in the program, your body is like, it's, you know, it's the, your metabolism is increasing. Your body is working on a more optimal level. So we really want to be in tune to that. So protein is still the focus at breakfast.

Ask those questions. I'm going to get to them in a second. Protein is the focus at breakfast. It always has been, but what happens is that we are just kind of doubling down on that because, you know, again, nine weeks in, people tend to fall back into what they like and what they love rather than the most bang for their buck. Now, you can still add some fruit, little bit of berries or something with your omelets or your oatmeal or whatever you're doing. It's just that you really want to make sure you are continuing to make protein the focus at breakfast. So nothing really changes there unless you sort of fell into like the avocado toast and you know what I mean? Morning snack. So you can have, the easiest way to do this is to continue

to have your fruit, which is perfect for this time of year and add a protein and fat to it. Add some nut butter to it, add some nuts, add some cheese, add a boiled egg to it. Simple. Done. For lunch, you're just making protein the star. You just want to make sure you're really focusing on getting that protein in. Still adding the vegetables, the leafy greens. It's the place to add in still those heavier carbs, but we really want to reserve that to if and when you feel like you need them. Your two afternoon snacks is down to one. So the easiest way to do that is just to have vegetables with nuts or nuts and seeds. Combine what was your two snacks before. And this is where you are not eating equal portions. So you'll have to add the four

questions in to make sure you're eating just enough with that one afternoon snack that you're feeling satisfied with that when you walk away that 10, 15 minutes later. And then dinner is just the opposite. We're really focusing on the vegetables. You're including the protein, the leafy greens, the healthy fats. It's the nuance of it. It's the nuance of it. It's dropping down from those two snacks to one. It's splitting up the, switching up the star of the meal and adding that protein and fat. So not a lot of change, but enough change that you're going to notice it. Again, these next two weeks are the setup and the lead up for our final two weeks, which is personalized in the plan. So it's all just kind of works into one.

So make sure you ask as many questions as you need. Hi, Holly, I put on a swimsuit from 2008, and it's too big. My butt has gotten so much smaller. Last summer, I could barely get it on. So this is where if you lose 20 pounds on the Libby Method, because it's healthy weight loss, healthy fat loss, it can look like 40 pounds on any of those Method because it's healthy weight loss, healthy fat loss. It can look like 40 pounds on any of those other deprivation diets because there's a big difference between weight loss and fat loss. And you'll notice that rather than losing weight in any one spot that we tend to do with those deprivation diets, you'll lose it in layers. So if you have clothes that you are waiting to wear based on a weight that you were, I would pull them out sooner rather than later. Cause this, we hear this all the time. You wait until you put

them on and next thing you know, they're too big. So pull those clothes out, pull those clothes up. Hi, Sandy. I'm down nine pounds so far. That's great. Scale moves slower than a snail. That's okay. Nine pounds in nine weeks is amazing. It's no short of amazing, especially lost in a healthy way. The average person loses one to two pounds per week on the Libby method. I think it's anywhere from 11 to 16 pounds is the average. Sure, we have people who lose 60 or more. You know, we tend to get people falling in that 20 to 60 range. But really, the average is that one to two pounds per week.

So you should be absolutely thrilled with that, honestly. And again, nine pounds, that's going to look like 20 pounds from any of those other diets, because this is the difference between fat loss and weight loss. I feel so good and confident in my body, right? That's what you get. That's what you get rather than starving and depriving and forcing your body to burn fat, all of the hard work that you put into this process, right? It pays off in so many ways, just beyond the scale. I love hearing that. I feel like my body doesn't represent my weight loss, but others see it, not me though. So this is a real thing, right? So Tanya Gelsomino is going to come on. She owns these stores called Yaya. She's like a fashionista. She's a Libby loser. I absolutely adore her. We're going to have a conversation about this because she's been on with her job.

She has been doing online social media forever. And I think she lost close to 60 pounds, I think, doing the program. And she is gorgeous. She's gorgeous now. She's gorgeous before. And we're going to talk to her how to, how to like really dress for not just your ever changing body, but your ever changing mind, your ever changing confidence. Like a lot of you are really just really rediscovering who you are, what you like,

what you don't like, because you're now starting to pay attention to yourself and prioritize yourself. So you're not just changing physically, you're changing mentally, the energy that you're putting out there, the confidence that you have. And you know, when it comes to our fashion and its style, you could have been dressing to distract, you could be dressing to hide. And now like, who are you now? Plus, there's this whole thing where even though it can seem like your weight is coming off at a snail's pace, sometimes it's actually happening quite fast. And due to the systematic nature of the program and all the work that you are doing, it can take your brain a while to catch up to where your body is at. Very similarly to, you know, you hear the

stories of you didn't really realize how much weight you had gained until you saw that picture, or you saw your reflection in the mirror or someone said something to you. You just, you didn't even like, it didn't kind of register. It didn't register. Well, the opposite happens. Once you've lost weight, sometimes it doesn't register at all either. And you can have lost a significant amount of weight and you're still going to the plus size stores where nothing fits you anymore. You're still picking up clothes thinking that's the size that you need when in reality you've dropped like six different sizes. So there is a thing where it takes your brain a while to catch up to where your body is at. Also with the Libby method, which is so great, or healthy fat loss,

you're losing it in layers. So when you do a deprivation diet, you force your body to burn fat, you starve it, deprive it, you restrict it, right? You hold back and you force it to burn fat. So it will burn and utilize that fat, but it would also take it from areas where it feels like it least needs it. So this is where you'll lose a lot in certain areas. And that's great for the wow factor. Oh my gosh, look how much weight you've lost, but not great for your skin that then needs to regenerate around where your body has dropped that fat. And so this is where the living method, you'll notice it happens in layers. But if you were to take like five pounds, right, even 10 pounds of butter. So if you just stack that up, right, 10 pounds of butter, you'd be like, wow, holy shit, that's a lot of fat. But if you were to smear it all over your body equally, it would probably only

amount to like a small layer, right? I mean, people doing the living method even can drop shoe sizes, like, you know, beyond just like your pants and your shirts and what, or rings, you'll see a lot of people, they get getting their rings back on. Whether you've whether you've lost that weight before, and you weren't able to do that. And now all of a sudden, you're losing it, you know, in a healthy way. So that's the difference. So sometimes it's like it's you, it's hard to see that. Here's what I also suggest, because a lot of people don't do this, they don't look in the mirror. And because it comes off in layers, if you stand in front of the mirror naked every day, you will start to see your people will start to say things like I can see my collarbones, I can see my, you know, this is where if you look

in the mirror every day, you will be able to see your body transforming because you're used to seeing it, but you have to actively look because there's like you see yourself every day, so you're not really paying attention. So it's a little different than that. You have to actually stand in front of the mirror and really look and look to see the difference, almost look to see that next size you shining through, right? A lot of times we're really resistant. I say this to clients all the time. Well, is your body changing? And they're like, what do you mean? I'm like, what do you mean? What do I mean? Is your body changing? I'm like, I don't know. I'm like, how do you not know? Are you not looking in the mirror? They're like, ah, no, I'm not looking. Are you crazy? I'm not looking in the mirror. So sometimes we're not looking either. And then sometimes we're not open. Our

belief system is this isn't working. It's not going to work. So you don't see what you don't want to see, right? But when you are looking to see change, guess what you see? You see more of that change, right? But that's a whole thing. That's a whole thing. Hi, Sandy. I am three weeks behind the group. So I'm downsizing this week. It's always nice to get a live live when I get a chance. Hi, hello. So for anyone working behind the group, do not be shy about asking the questions that you need with where you are at. It's not like I'm going to say to you or my team's asking the questions that you need with where you are at. It's not like I'm going to say to you or my team's going to say to you, why are you downsizing or where you've been or what you've been doing? Just ask all the questions that you need. It's so normal for us to navigate that because for so many reasons people do. I mean, in an ideal situation

and world, you want to follow. Like I would like if people follow the 91 days, even if they didn't have perfect days or they went off or whatever, you know, I think there's nothing wrong with still tracking those days because it's still part of your 91 days. But I know, you know, for a variety of reasons, people take a complete step back and they, you know, maybe they're away, they're unable to do a downsizing week. So they want to get that week in. So we are totally aware of this. We're just so excited that you're following along. This journey really is about you. It doesn't really matter where anybody else is. It's just all about what you are doing. So make sure you feel confident to ask all the questions that you need. I just want to put that out there. I just want to put

that out there. I went dress shopping this weekend for a concert and had to get a smaller size for the dress to fit. Major non-scale victory. So this is where all of your, if you are just here at this point, like even just doing the bare minimum, it's enough time that your body is actually making real change. Repairing, rebuilding, regenerating, rejuvenating, right? Like that's the beauty of giving the body the time that it, not just the resources it needs, but the time that it needs to be able to make change.

This brings us back to the fact that your body does not want this fat any more than you do. And given the opportunity, it's going to release the fat. You know, lots of people spend hours and hours and hours at the gym and their bodies never change. And their bodies never change because they never give their body the resources it needs to actually make change. And that's the nutrient rich foods. And a lot of time while people are working out, they're also starving and depriving, which just is like a recipe not only for not weight loss, but really for taking your metabolism and weight gain, right? So you'll notice your body's transforming if you're paying attention. I'm up higher than the beginning of the program due to falling hard off the wagon, but I'm back. Hi, Erin. A few weeks behind,

but the weight is coming back off. I get knocked down, but I get back. I get knocked down, but I get up again. I love it. This is life. It happens. This is like, I wish we could really normalize this. I wish there was a way where we could normalize that weight loss is not a straight line down. It is a very bumpy road. It is still drivable, you know, and this just, it happens.

You know, we've even had people who do the program and then hit their goal and then they gain weight back because something extreme happens in their life that they're dealing with. And they, so they fall back into old habits, which makes sense because it's incredibly difficult when you're dealing with extreme circumstances and you haven't put enough time into these new habits. It's great. You've created them, but you haven't really solidified them. And so, and that's, you can't, unless you've experienced this experience before and you associate that with your new habits, it's hard not to fall back. But the setback is the setup, right? The setback is the setup for success. I love a good step back. I love like a

good, sometimes you can't see the forest from the trees. I love a good step back. And I think it's good to have a set back as well. This is why throughout the program, I say it's not about being perfect. If you have the thing, there's so much to be learned. You either learn that you had it, you just get back at it, and it's not going to stop you from reaching your goals. You're going to get there. Or you're going to learn that you had it, and it didn't bring you the joy that you thought it was going to bring. And then you recognize how you berate yourself afterwards, follow through with punishing yourself. And that's a vicious cycle. Right? So this is why it's not about being perfect. So whether it's these little things that happen along the way, or a big thing that happens, I think it's

equal and opposite reaction. It's equal and opposite reaction. So out of this big, let's call it a setback for lack of a better term, because you're on a mission to reach your goal and something happened, right? Or a pause, setback, pause, whatever you want to say. I think what you learn from these big things happening can be so valuable when you're open to learning. So how did you feel? How did you navigate that? What was your coping mechanisms, right? Like how was like, what was the impact on your stress, impact on your sleep, impact on your health, not just physically, but mentally? What happened with the relationships? Did you reach out to people, right? Did you isolate yourself? This is a real opportunity to be like, okay,

so how did that, how did I do? How is that working for me? And then really be like, okay, big things are going to happen, right, in my life. I'm going to have to deal with life and stress because it just keeps coming. And that's what you want. That's why you're alive. So how can I navigate that differently next time? But without it happening, it doesn't give you the opportunity to prepare for next time and be like, how would I navigate that next time? So not only that, once you've done the program, again, it comes back to your body doesn't want that fat. So it'll get right back to it.

It's okay. Sometimes too, like the stress is like a massive challenge to your body. So if you can position yourself where like stress will hammer you and hammer you and hammer you and hammer you but if you can position yourself and do the things that you can to support your body and stress it can actually help your body rise to the occasion and your body's trying to make you healthier and more efficient and stronger and all of those things right so it can be a benefit to get you ahead. Now, here's what you need to know here for you. Reach out, let us know if you got any questions.

I can do so much more 18 pounds down over three sessions. I have more confidence and the fear of injury is almost gone. It won't be jumping out of planes or anything, but it is a real shift for me. To feel stable and strong in your body, right? It's one thing to like, yes, lose weight, obviously. But what's really important, especially as we get older, is maintaining that muscle mass and having strength, having strength to do the things

that we need to do. I was reading this thing the other day about how you have your these receptors, I don't know if they're called receptors in your feet. And how it's like how your feet know to like to feel the ground. And as we get older, we lose the kind of like the the sensitivity to it. And so this is where as we get older, we don't feel as stable because our feet are not actually sensing the ground that we walk on, which is why sometimes when you see people are older, and they're kind of like moving at a slower pace is that they don't have that same, that confidence in walking. And this is actually something you can work on and maintain by being more active. These like, it just kind of blew my mind. I'm like, man, shit, that's something that you don't think about. You think that, you know, you see people when they're

older and they're kind of moving slow, they're worried about breaking a hip or they're just kind of like creaky and stiff or whatever. No, when it can be like the fact that they're not feeling confident walking on the ground. So this is all coming to like being internally strong, like, like really grounded and really like being connected. I know that may seem like a little bit like woohoo to some of you, but really being grounded, really having a strong sense of self. And then also when you are working out and moving your body, when your body is feeling a need to store fat, it is trying to function on reserve mode. So this is where if you weren't giving this again, comes back to that working out people who work out, but their bodies never change. That's because your body's just

trying to like get the workout done. Oh, let's get it done, right? When your body is given the nutrients it needs, it's way more efficient even at your workout. So it's kind of like the workout, like the muscle train, right? When the train's going by real fast, just kind of the big muscles kind of jump on there. But when the train is going by slow, all the muscles can be involved. And this is where you might notice if you are someone who's working out and exercising, that you're actually more sore, or your workouts feel harder. That's because more muscles are being involved. So you're actually activating and using more muscles because your

body, now that it no longer feels the need to store fat and has you on reserve mode is allowing you access to utilize those muscles. And that really creates that core strength, which is which is making you feel more like, okay, I got this, I can do this, I can do that. Not only that, but you have the energy. Yeah, the energy to do it as well. That's living, that's living, that is living. I went to Montreal from Wednesday to Sunday and ate and drank a bit more refined carbs, alcohol than I usually would. Well, of course, it's Montreal. It's hard not to. Of course, we walked a ton and swam every day because of the heat. I weighed myself this morning for the first time and I'm exactly the same weight as the day I left. Vacation

win. So this is, I love this. This is what you get at this point in the program, or if you've done subsequent programs, this is what you get because you have addressed your body's need to store fat. So even with the refined carbs, you know, with the alcohol that can cause inflammation, but then at the same time, you're helping to lower that blood sugar because you're walking around, right? Like if you walk for 10 minutes after any of your biggest meals, it can be a game changer. Honestly, it can be a game changer, especially when you're adding in those refined types of carbs. So this is, you're going to learn this, right? I love people learn this when they are kind of forced to in between breaks of the program. They learn, oh my God,

I thought I was going to gain all my weight back. I didn't. They learn this when they go on vacation. You know, I went and had the best time. I came right back and my weight's right back down. Even if it was up, it's right back down. Now, if you went away and you ate your face off and you came back in a heat wave and you came back and your weight is the same, I hate to tell you, but your weight is probably on the way down. I would bet that your weight is actually down. So I would jump on and make sure you support that body and detox because after a weekend away or a week away, however many days you're there, four days or whatever, eating all of that and being in the heat, your weight should be up. And the fact that it's not up means it's probably on its way down. Right? So but this only comes with time, because a lot of you

do not trust this. A lot of you do not trust a lot of you will not trust that you're going to be able to maintain your weight, even though you went through all this rigmarole in order to lose your weight. You know, you're not going to trust it because you've been there before you've lost it before. And even though you've done it in a different way, in a healthy way, you won't trust it mentally. And this is sort of why we have those four stages. So there's lose your weight, then there's solidify your weight, put the time into helping your body make your new weight, your new like norm. Then there's like the third stage, which is, which is maintenance and testing, testing the waters and learning to trust.

And that is where you're kind of like maybe indulging here or there and learning that when you indulge, you get back on track, your weight just comes back down. You're not going to gain that weight back. You go away on holidays. This is what I actually want to talk to you guys about today with summer because next week is the long weekend here in Canada. I know you guys in the US have July 4th. I know we're like in a bunch of other countries too.

So feel free to reach out. If you have a holiday coming up, you're not sure how to navigate. So I woke up this morning and thought this is such a great week for the summer. There's a lot of flexibility in this tweak. You might want to check your why, because there is the why that sort of like motivates you to sign up and, you know, the whys that are going to get you towards the end of the program. But it's normal for your whys to change based on what you got going in your life.

And so if you are concerned about summer, for example, like you got a holiday, you're going away, like you want to go to Montreal, right? You want to have the poutine, you want to eat at the nice restaurants, you want to have the smoke, you want to go to Schwartz, you want to go to get the smoked meat, you want to like you want want to do those things because, well, to me anyway, those are like, there's destination kind of eating. Tony and I love going to restaurants. So, you know, we're going there to eat. Generally, if you go to a restaurant, it's not just like, where do we want to go?

We're going to like, we're going there and we're going, we're going to eat. So the summer is coming up, right? Whether you are wanting to be on patios or, you know, you're going to the cottage or you're going away or whatever that is. Maybe your why needs to be, I want to feel my best this summer. And feeling your best means making choices that make you feel good. And sometimes that's having the beer and the wings. Sometimes it's having the margarita or the sangria.

Sometimes it's, you know, having the poutine or the smoked meat sandwiches. But then also feeling your best means going for a walk, 10 minute walk after you eat that big meal. It means drinking extra water after you have those margaritas. It's, do you know what I mean? Sometimes when we put the pressure of like losing the weight and don't get me wrong, I know you still want to lose weight and this is going to help you lose weight but it's the mindset rather than go through summer and like oh I gotta lose the weight and the pressure then you have the thing then you're upset you have the thing and all of that sometimes if you make you're just like going away on vacation if you say to yourself okay I'm going to still

follow the plan do the do program, but at the same time, make choices that make me feel good. Of course, following the program, being mindful of portions, adding in those nutrient rich foods, moving your body, managing your stress, doing all that is going to make you feel good. It's also going to help you lose the weight. But sometimes it's that mindset, right, that you're going in there with. And this is where if you're feeling the summer and you're feeling that pull, I want to have fun and I don't know, and maybe I'll just wait to the fall. You don't have to wait to the fall. You don't have to wait to the fall. It's about you want to follow through on the rest of the program. You might

not be able to follow it perfectly because you might not want to because you have these vacations or getaways or whatever coming weddings, whatever coming up, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to be all or not. It has to be all or nothing. So this is where you can still focus on losing weight and still enjoy the bites of bits along with it. This is where you might want to change that sort of that why for the summer. What's my why for the summer? Yes, I still want to lose my weight, but what's my motivator? I want to feel good. I want to enjoy the summer. I want to feel great in my short shorts, right? But I also want to have a few indulgences here or there. So you might want to think about that if you're kind of feeling that pull, feeling that pull. I always wear clothes

too big to hide. Yeah, I still am. Yeah. The conversation that we're going to have with Erin is really interesting. Dr. Beverly is also going to be joining us on Tuesday. We're going to talk about where you are at now, where you want to go, how to bridge the gap with that and follow through and finish strong, which is such an important conversation. Working on sleep hygiene this week, I've slipped back into some questionable habits. Yeah. So it is so normal. Habits are hard to break. And they say that for a reason because they are, you can get triggered back into old habits. You can kind of just, as the time goes, you can slide back, it's slipped back into old habits. Right. But here's the thing. How did that work out for you? How are you? Like, that's great. Stayed up late, drank some wine, ate some stuff before

dinner, didn't worry about your sleep hygiene. How are you feeling? How are you feeling? So, you know, and this is where you catch the feeling of once you get that back on track, oh man, I feel, wow, I feel so much better. I feel so much better. I was talking about doing a girls getaway at some point. And I'm like, what do we want to do? Do we want to do like relaxing? Or do we want to do party? And then I was like, wait, let me preface this. My version of party means day party and in bed by 10. Right? Like, I want to party and I want to have fun. I want to get my ass to bed. I don't want to be up to like, no, I don't even got a godly hour. Like that's, you know what I mean? So you're kind of, you're reframing this, you're reframing this for yourself. Um, shoe size. Whoa. Can I look forward to going from gargantuan size 11 to a cute size six? One can dream,

but maybe like a 10 and a half, maybe like a 10 and a half. You guys are talking about your rings being loose, all the avoiding mirrors. Yes. This goes back to our conversation of noticing your body change at the top if you're just joining us now. Let me scroll down and see where you are. On the road, literally, hi, Rhonda. It's pouring rain, a little detour, but I know it'll be sunny soon. I equate everything happening to weight loss and following the program. Well, it's because you are hyper-focused and aware, and you are on a mission, not just

to lose weight, but to be your best self. You're on a mission to actually make change. And that can be bumpy because life likes to throw the things at us to help us evolve and change, right? The universe is like, okay, I see you. I see you and the things you need to work through. Okay, so you want to get there? All right, let me just toss a few things your way

that you're going to have to work through and deal with. So if you can embrace that, right? Like, okay, what is life trying to teach me? What's the message in this for me? What am I learning here, right? How do I get to the other side of this? You know, not only one step closer, we can make a weight loss, because here's the thing, what you are doing to lose weight

is no different than what I do to reach my goals in business, what someone might, you know, do to reach their goals in career, what someone else might do to reach their goals in relationships, like you want to be in a, an amazing relationship. Well, you want to take ownership of your thoughts and your feelings and your actions. You want to be in tune and know what you need. You want to have self-confidence. You want to have self-love. You want to have a great relationship with yourself in order to have a really great relationship with somebody else, right? So the things that you're working on, prioritizing yourself, being mindful, those four questions are,

mindfully eating questions, are not just gonna get you in tune with when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat. They trigger you to take a minute to think about what's working for you, where you're at. So it's gonna put you in tune with what works for you, what doesn't.

Situations, relationships, like circumstances, environment, you're going to know what works for you and what doesn't. Far beyond food. It's just a matter of keeping your attention focused on yourself long enough to actually be able to pick up on that. And then you got to trust it. And then you got to trust it, which is really super cool. This weekend, I broke my program long plateau. Hi, Kira was teetering up and down three pounds, but I broke it and finally hit a new decade of numbers. Started last fall at 276 and I'm at 248.8. Amazing.

Can't wait to join the 100s club. Stay consistent. It will come. So that's a lot of weight, body needing time to adjust, repair, rebuild, regenerate, rejuvenate, decrease inflammation, learn how to function in a whole other way. There's a lot to that, right? There's a lot to that. So this happens.

Some people have little plateaus and then lose little bits. And then some people lose a lot and then longer plateaus. And this comes down to so many factors. And it again is so normal. So here's what you've done though. You've already solidified that weight that you've lost. So you're not going to gain that back. It's going to be so, you're going to have to really try to gain that weight back because you put in the time to solidify the weight that you've lost. Now we're like, okay, let's move forward and work on the next chunk of weights, right? And then you might have the same pattern again, I hate to tell you, you might, or it might change, or it might change where again, you'll drop and drop and drop, but you're still, you put that time into solidifying and that is gold. That is gold to be

able to maintain and sustain weight that you have lost like that. I know it can be frustrating, obviously, because you want to, you want to lose the weight plus all the time that you put into all the other things, the fact that like what it took for you to stick around and keep working through the things that you need to work through mentally to be able to continue your journey after such a long plateau. Honestly, Bravo. I have so much mad respect for that. I have so much mad respect. Everyone wants it yesterday, which I totally understand. And everyone wants it so quickly, but there is so much into putting the time in that it needs, it's going to take, needs to take. Do you know what I mean? So much mad respect, honestly. It's so tough. Yeah, heck yeah it is. Going camping tomorrow for three days. Today,

I'll be planning my meals and snacks for those days. I'll be making high protein leafy green bean salad for an easy lunch. I will have all my snacks planned, packed for easy access. Love that. You know what? I want to remind you of the recipe share pages. They were so long ago. We have all those great recipe share pages. If you guys are looking to share your summer recipes, all your summer salads, your higher protein snacks and whatnot, we do have a place for that. So make sure you go check that out if you're looking. Make sure you go check that out. I'm sorry. I'm just trying to scroll through my comments here. I need to hear this today. So much good stress this round with my daughter's upcoming wedding. Oh, that's so amazing. But I'm still here. It hasn't been

perfect, but it's been better than not being here. Yes. So many ups and downs on the scale, but still below where I was when the winter program ended. This is what I'm talking about. And when I see these big things happen in our life, they don't have to be big disasters. Like your daughter has never got married before. Maybe she has, I don't know, but still, you know, like this is a big thing for you. There's a lot of emotions tied up in this.

There's a lot of great stress and excitement and feelings in all of that. So that would make sense. You know, you get caught up on that. That's a win for me. Plus so many non-scale victories in the mental game, refocusing today and getting it done. Right? Hi, Suzanne. I really need new jeans, but for some reason I'm reluctant. Congratulations on your daughter's wedding, by the way. That's exciting. I really need new jeans. This is why

you want it. This is your why. You want to feel good. You want to feel great. You want to enjoy that wedding, right? That in itself, this is where your why might want to be that. And this is where your why can change. You can have a short-term why. You have big, long-term whys at the end. Sometimes those short-term whys are pretty motivating, right? Oh, yeah, I have a wedding coming. Oh, yeah, I have a vacation coming up.

But nothing wrong with those short term whys inserted into your big why, because chances are, you're not going to, it's not vanity, right? It's not vanity. That's not what's gonna, that's not what you're showing up and doing all of this. I mean, it's a part of it. Who doesn't want to look good in their jeans and their bathing suit and their, you know, their, their, you know, wedding attire, of course. So there's nothing wrong with having those, you know, short term goals, which would really be your why short term, short term motivators within your long term motivators. Okay, back to you, Suzanne, I really need new jeans. But for some reason, I'm reluctant to go and try them on jeans have always been my trial,

where clothes go, I could never fit into the style I like. Now I have to wear a belt with the ones that I have and the legs are so loose. So now you're just, now you're wearing a style you don't like anyway. Now you've got to belt them and they're loose. No different. Now you're wearing the style of jeans that you don't like. I keep thinking I'll just wait until I'm this weight. Of course, my body is changing and solidifying, but I still have the challenge of recognizing this. So I'm okay with that, right? Because listen, jeans are expensive. You could go to Value Village. You could go to a thrift store and you can go, you know what I mean? Listen, if you got the finances, buy those jeans, honey. Buy those jeans. What are you doing? Celebrate the fact that you have lost weight in a healthy and

sustainable way. And you've worked really hard. It doesn't mean that you're giving up on your goals. Doesn't mean that you don't want to lose more. That is meeting yourself where you are at. Meet yourself where you are at. Go find, I have genes in all sizes, my, from my, my, my skinny days, my, my bigger days. Like I got, I got, I actually, I love, this is why I love, what's her name? What's that called? I can't, American. I always forget the name of them. Anyway, I get the, they have jeans that span like sizes one through four, four to like 11, 12 through whatever. And I just buy them in all the sizes. I just buy them in all the sizes. They're kind of, they're stretchy, right? So I feel like on my skinnier days, I'll wear my ones that fit a little tighter. Because fuck that shit. Fuck

that wearing those jeans that are too tight and I can't breathe. I am not doing it because I'm bloated. It's that time of month because I'm like, whatever, my hormones are out of whack or because I ate my face off or whatever that is. But meet yourself where you are at. And so maybe finances though, I'm always so mindful because I've been broke ass at sometimes, um, at times in my life. So I'm always really mindful of people's finances, but you could do, you could go to like a consignment. You can take your old clothes in to consignment, your bigger jeans that, you know, you're not going to wear anymore. You can go to thrift stores. Um, you can go, you know, there are, Tanya and I are going to talk about this. And, you know, they have salespeople. And I always look, salespeople's

always bothered me. Just leave me alone. Just leave me alone. But you know, they're also there because they want to help you like find what looks best on you. And there's some great retailers out there that will help you find jeans and pants that actually look really good on you. And there's some great retailers out there that will help you find jeans and pants that actually look really good on you. They're not just trying to sell you something, right? So this is where maybe, and maybe it's not going to be something you do in a day. It's something that you, like I'm thinking Roxy Earl. So you guys know Roxy? Roxy Earl, my size Roxy. She's luxurious Roxy. She was one of the old Toronto housewives here in Toronto. She has this app called Style Dial and it's for people

around her size or who have been. And she tries on clothes and basically shows you how they fit and gives you tips for finding, where is it on my app? Finding, um, styles that look good on you. There's a, there's some great influencers out there actually. So what you want to do is, is find some of these influencers who have the body type that you have now, because again, not if you might, if you're not at your goal and you're still on the way to go, who will have done the work for you, who show you the jeans that look good on their body size, right? So there's ways, yeah, you follow her. Yeah, okay, right? So, you know, this is where, I mean, everyone would love a stylist, but you know, we can't all afford stylists, but there's a way to

kind of do some styling. Because here's the thing, it is a whole thing to find your style. So I used to shop at winners all the time. Now I just, I don't really shop anywhere. I just kind of go online because now I, I don't know, I haven't been to winners in a really long time. And people would be like, how can you shop winners? Like, how do you, like, I just go through a whole bunch of stuff, try it on, it's a waste of time. Cause I know my style. Like there are certain things like I'm pretty solid in my style. Does it, it changes slightly as we go. But I know very clearly what I like and what I don't like because I have a great sense of self. But when you're someone who's

trying to figure out your style, you really are changing who you are or the reason why you were dressing a certain way. And now you want to celebrate the way that you are dressing. Like recognize there is a whole thing to it, right? And that's what I'm going to talk to Tanya about on Thursday. There is that mental piece of it. And maybe that is sort of where the work needs to be done, embracing who you are, being more confident with who you are. But there can be baby steps. But it's a real thing.

That's what I want you to know. There's a real thing. Good morning. My husband used to think the barefoot grounding exercises were woohoo until he tried it. Now he goes barefoot as much as possible. His mind has been calmed by doing this and he doesn't think I'm as woohoo. It's actually about those, I don't know, they're not called receptors in your feet, but it's about, you need to do this beyond just like grounding yourself and taking a moment, but to actually get your feet to work properly. It was really, I love, I love learning new shit. Is there anything that improves with age? Yes. Yes. Your confidence, I think improves with age. Um, your sense of self

improves with age, your tolerance for bullshit. Right. I guess that decreases with age, but that's actually a good thing. I think there are some things. There are some things. I noticed that after an illness a few years ago, during which I could not be very active, I felt not as steady on my feet. But over time, and by being consistent, I felt much more confident. I can walk more quickly for longer. And that feeling of unsteadiness only comes back. Yes, when I'm not feeling well. You're going to notice a lot of amazing things with your body and being in tune to it.

It's communicating with you and it's not going to stop. Your sense of self and communication, that gets better with age. That gets better with age. All right, you guys, I got to go. This is such a great week. I love that Dr. Beverly is here Tuesday, that Tanya is joining us on Thursday. We are going to continue to have some awesome conversations. We are not done. Show up day by day. Don't let the time that we have left

freak you out. Four weeks is a lot of time. You want to be here at the end. If you're someone who's just coming back, reach out. We are here for you. Don't worry about the summer or anything else. We're going to set you up for success. We got you. We know what you need. We're going to have the conversations that you need us to have for you to make sure you're feeling confident in next steps, but we are far from done. Don't be thanking me. Don't be talking about next fall yet. I mean, it is important to get your ass signed up for the next program for a variety of reasons. But even just to know that you have that in your back pocket. So if you haven't done that, make sure you do that. But other than set yourself up for success for your continued journey, but try to really take

a day by day approach, maybe reassess your why if you're feeling the stress of summer and all these engagements and things that you have coming up, there is a way you can still work towards your goals and enjoy the summer at the same time you've put in enough work at this point and built a super solid foundation. That's going to be the conversation moving forward. If you want to join me tonight, I'm going to be back at 7pm tonight. Otherwise, have an amazing day and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.