The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 67 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 67, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina kicks things off by reminding everyone not to panic if the scale is up—especially with the heat ramping up, as the body holds onto water to keep cool. She reassures the community that there’s still a full month left to see big wins and keep building on the momentum they've created. Gina explains how leaning into protein and healthy fats right now isn’t about eating less—it’s about feeding into satiety hormones for more energy and satisfaction. She also shares how stress doesn’t have to derail your progress but can actually become a catalyst for meaningful change. Gina doubles down on the importance of sticking with the process, emphasizing that this is about learning—not winging it—and that the program structure is here to support you every step of the way. She wraps with a powerful reminder that progress is happening even when things aren’t perfect and that summer isn’t a setback; it’s an opportunity to keep moving forward or maintain with confidence.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 had a house full of kids that are going to graduate today. My son is graduating high school and we had a house full of kids that are going to graduate today. My son is graduating high school and we had a bunch of kids here last night and they were all decorating their grad hats and they were up and it was joyous and it was wonderful and it was amazing and they were super loud. So I got a big ass coffee but I am here. How are you doing? And the heat finally starting to break. I have wet hair today because I feel like I have just been Hot and sweaty all week long where we are. We've been having a heat wave So just to remind you that it is so normal for the scale to be up in the heat

I know some of you out West have been freezing your asses off. So hopefully hopefully maybe your turn will come I don't know the weather absolutely affects how your body responds on the scale. It also affects what you're craving and what you're looking for. So you might not have had much of an appetite in the heat. That's where maybe you're craving a little sugar or sweet things. What you want to do and you might not remember the seasonal tweaks post that we posted, be bumping up those things like fruits and decreasing any of those heavier carbs, which of course is perfect for this week. Now you have more

flexibility. You always could add fruit to breakfast in the morning. Of course you had fruit for your morning snack. You could always have fruit on your salad, for example, at lunch. But now you have more options. You can also add it to your afternoon snack as well So if you're feeling like you're craving something sweet, and it's really hot That's because fruits break down really quick like you can get the energy from fruit in like a half hour It doesn't take a lot of energy for your digestive system to break it down to get the nutrients from it So if you've ever just kind of been really like hot but like not hungry but craving sweets That's where fruit craving sweets, that's where fruit comes in and that's where you want to bump up your fruit, decrease any of

your heavier carbs. Last day at the lake but looking forward to getting back to my routine. You're going to find this, although it's really great to break routine to indulge, to have a good time, you'll actually start craving like getting back to feeling your best. Once you get a taste of feeling really, really good, that's sort of like the downside of the program is when you feel off, you can feel really, really, really off, but it doesn't take much time to feel back at it. Kind of like if you've ever, have you ever gone away on vacation and totally trash yourself?

Like you had the best time, but by the end of the trip, you just are like, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed. I can't wait to eat a salad. I just want to, you know, get back to my routine. That'll happen a lot with the program on a day to day. So you might go away for a couple of days or have a couple of off days and you'll actually start to crave getting back to feeling better. That's good timing on that actually because for next week we're going to

continue to follow the food plan revamp but we're also going to introduce this technique called back on track which refers to the original food plan that obviously now we're moving away from because it's so ingrained especially if you've done multiple programs. So once you're done losing your weight you put some time into maintaining your weight and you're just living your life. If you go away for the weekend, away on vacation, obviously food is a big part of that. We're gonna wanna be indulging for various reasons.

Whenever you feel like you're really off, you're gonna be able to implement a technique called back on track, which refers to the original food plan because it's so familiar that'll help you get back to feeling your best. And it really is for sort of when you're off and living your life, you obviously want to minimize

the use of back on track while you're trying to lose weight. But if you're a new member and you've heard some of our members saying, oh, I'm just going to get back on track or do back on track for a couple of days, we're going to introduce that to you on Sunday. So thankful for having all these tips to manage the weather. Also, I'm dealing with major stress at work,

and I'm glad that this side of my life is managed nicely so I can focus on work shit Yeah, it's nice to just follow a plan You know, it's not about having really rigid rules the guidelines obviously So each day the more you can make choices that fall in line with your goals the better at least that keeps you moving forward But for some people too, let's not just forget, like when you're going through a period of time like this, this is where, you know, just maintaining your weight is also a huge win.

It's, of course you sign up for a weight loss program, but sometimes it's not all about losing the weight. It's being able to maintain and sustain your weight when normally you would have gained it, because you know, life is going off the rails and whatnot. I bought some golden kiwis last night based on some comments here. Sorry I have to peel it. Dr. Paul joined us on Tuesday, was talking about, I asked him if you missed it, it's a great segment. We're also going to compile a list of all of our guest segments if you missed any of them that

can get it caught up over the summer if you might have missed them. They are also in the app as well available in the guest expert segment because I do realize it's a lot. I asked him if there's like one food that everybody should be eating, what is it? And he said kiwis. Kiwis can help with your sleep, kiwis can help with a variety of things. And then in the comments people got into, do we eat the skin? Do you not eat the skin? To me it depends on the skin like if it's a super furry like kiwi I might like I'm probably gonna like cut it in half and then I squish it but if it's like one of the ones

that have like a thin skin then I don't mind eating it so much there's probably good nutrients in the skin. Hi Dave good morning rainy day at the cottage but my wife and I have already got our workouts in and a swim. What? Andrew, did you swim across the lake? Andrew motivated me so much yesterday. Another great guest. I love Andrew Blakey. First of all, he's this young guy. He's got great energy. He's super tall. He's like seven feet tall. If you've ever met him in real life, he's like so tall. But he has this passion for helping us older, more mature folk. He has a passion for aging and he has a podcast called Aging Grace. And he's all about movements and not just like trying to get buff and you know, and you know, that perspective of fitness, which is nothing wrong with that.

But he's all about mobility and, and, and how to be practical about moving your body, depending on what your goals are. So I love talking to him. I think he's totally in line with what we're trying to do here. If you're already exercising and you already go to a gym, you know, do you kind of have a sense of what you're doing and you're probably already pretty motivated and you know how to build on your workouts. I mean, I think there is a level there where, you know, we can get someone a little bit

more advanced to talk about how to really get into it. But if you're kind of already into fitness, you have a sense of it. But so many don't or so many were into it a long time ago and we've gotten out of it. Me being one of them, there's a lot that's new in the in the fitness industry. So he's a great guest. He's actually going to be joining us over the summer in our summer club. So he's gonna be doing some fitness stuff with us over the summer. But he's doing a mastermind class this Sunday. So if you're interested, you can find him over on Instagram. I think it's I am Andrew

Blakey. And on Sunday, this Sunday, he's going to do a master class all about, you know, starting up fitness and whatnot, if you're interested in that. I love the whole program and everything is spelled out for me. Now I just need to get off my diet hang ups. Well, this takes a while Rhonda, right? Like it does. I think about it. You've spent, you've spent a while thinking one way and your association to food.

And it's really about neuroplasticity. It's about how your brain has become wired. A lot of your thoughts are wired into your habits and the things that you do. And for a lot of people, dieting is like your hobby. Dieting has become a major habit, not just like what you're eating and when, but what you think around food.

And then it can be really tied back if you go back to one of those original conversations we had with Dr. Beverly David on how your past or history of diet can affect your current journey. And so if you think back when it started way long ago, and we've just been attaching all these associations to foods over the years, you get into that diet mentality.

So many people sign up at Weight Watchers when they're 12. That's your brain for a really long time being wired one way. And so it's kind of like, it's unraveling and rewiring it a different way. And that's what I mean by rewiring how your bodies come to function. So after years of dieting,

your body can feel the need to store fat. This is where you hear experts in a variety of them, and even the obesity experts using the example of back in the day we'd run from a bear, or we go through periods where we wouldn't have food, and the stress in combination with lack of food, or periods of abundance of food, where we would have wanted to eat large amounts of foods

in order to store fat to give us that excess energy. So our bodies are very wired to survival. And that's where you sort of hear that term survival mode. Well, there is truth in that. And there is truth in set point and set point theory, which is what the program is based on. Your body gets used to functioning at a certain way. It gets used to you consuming certain size portions. And everything is built around that size. That does not mean that's where your body is happy. That means that's where your body has come to realize it needs to be. And so this is why a big part of the program is giving your body what it needs, addressing

why it's feeling you need to store fat and getting your body to a point where it's like, okay, I don't even need this fat that is factored into its every day. Your fat just doesn't sit there. Your body factors it into your body temperature, your hormones, all of that. And so we've been addressing that. So we're physically rewiring how the body has come to function. And then that's your brain. And that's where Dr. Beverly David's capture cancel correct comes in, where now you're

the sense of awareness. This is why the program can seem a little all consuming because you're eating so often and there's a lot of parts to it. But the way I look at it as, and this is why I've been opposed to people calling it a lifestyle, this isn't the lifestyle. This is you creating the lifestyle that eventually you're going to live. And this is sort of where you're getting in there and you're shaking things up. You're being aware of how your body's responding physically.

You're being aware of your thoughts and that gives you a half a chance at rewiring them. And so that's where when you notice, okay, why am I actually hungry right now? So one being in tune to your portions. And then if you're craving something, what am I, okay, I can have this, whatever it is, chips, chocolate. Do I really want it? Right, how am I gonna feel afterwards? And that's gonna bring you to a place

where you're calm around food, where if you want the chips, you're like, yeah, heck yeah, I want a few. And you can actually eat a few and then just like, you know, put it down or you're like, yeah, I'm good. I know maybe another time or you're like, yeah, I'm gonna eat the whole bag and I'm not I'm not even gonna feel any ways about it. Right.

So that takes time. That takes time. That's that takes time for sure. Hi, Suzanne. This group has been rough for me this round lots of pain and inflammation, which has affected both my scale and my mood and finally starting finally starting to feel better, sleeping better too. The scale is starting to go back down towards my starting point. I've been quiet, but showing up, I see you.

I see you. This is that season of life for you, right? And this is like sometimes we think we're doing this health and wellness program that we should just feel fantastic all the time. Or we've had women do the program and they lost weight, they feel great, and then they get slammed with menopause, right? Or you get a health issue or something happens, you know, where you think, oh man, I've worked so hard at being so healthy, but then you don't know how much that's factoring in to whatever you're dealing with, right? It could be a lot worse if you hadn't put

that time and energy and work in there. And it's so hard to show up when life is smacking us in the face. But that's what I love about the group and the program. It's a great place to show up. It keeps you focused on prioritizing yourself and the things that you need to do. So even when it's not easy, right? I understand it takes a lot to just show up and do the little bits that you can,

but you should honestly take a minute and be so proud of that. And I like seeing you here. I know you've had a rough go. You've had a real rough go. A lot of people have my goodness going on a family Alaskan cruise next week. Oh my gosh, that's so fun. Pausing the program for a week.

No Wi-Fi going to enjoy all the bites of bits be mindful and back on track when I get home and love this for you. I dreamt you were in my driveway, but my house was full of clothing that didn't fit me anymore. You dreamed the other day? Oh, I'm still freaked out by it. And it was so weird. I keep saying to Tony, I can't believe it. I had a dream that I agreed to show up at like a concert or something and play the piano

and the saxophone. And I was literally sitting there waiting to go on and then realized I can't play the piano. I can't play the freaking piano. And I played the saxophone. But back when I was like in public school and high school, like I was actually really good at it. But that doesn't mean I haven't picked it up in like 30 years.

Man, it still got me shook. It still got me shook. I always say we should do something with it is, we're gonna have Tanya Delson, you know, is gonna join me. She's like our fashion girl around here. She done the program. She lost, I think like 50 pounds.

She's now pregnant. So we were very excited for her. But she comes on and talks to us about how do you dress your changing body? That's a real big thing. We talked to Lisa on our Real People Real Journey, and she went from a size 20 to a size 6, so down 111 pounds. And you need a whole new wardrobe with that. And that's something that people don't think about is one, the cost, the one everyone's like, oh, I can't wait to buy a new wardrobe is the cost. But then to a lot of time, people have a hard time with that, especially if you're used to shopping in the plus size stores. And now it's a whole new world for you. And then also what is your

style? Because a lot of times when we're bigger, we dress to kind of I don't know about you, but when I was when I was living in my much larger body, those tent dresses and overall, I lived in tent dresses and overall, so they were all like just big tent dresses, overalls. That's all I wore. And so obviously my style now has changed. And so you're changing. And so maybe you were someone who just wore black all the time or maybe someone who wore

bright colors all the time. This is sort of where you have to figure out what is your style? Like who you've done so much change on the inside, how are you changing on the outside? But there's lots of great organizations if you do have clothes that don't fit you anymore that you can donate out there beyond just giving them to Value Village or whatever, where like helping women who are in shelters or whatnot from abuse to be able to get jobs and there's all sorts of great things that you can do with your clothes out there. There's raspberry kiwis. Discovered raspberry kiwi last summer.

Hoping I can find them again. So good. They have a red kiwis planted. So hope they taste similar. Ah, all right. Late on one day, I can make it live, but happy to be here. Hi, Kristy. How are you?

Hi. Hello, hello, hello. I see you around. I see you around. Quiet, but you're here. Just joining this week. This is my third round. Avoided the scale since day one.

Thought I could do it on my own and ended right back to where I started. Realized that the Gina program works if I stick with it. Here I go, four weeks to get to go." So we get this a lot, right? Like we get this a lot. Like first of all, I run a business, obviously. That's no secret. I'm an entrepreneur. I run a business. We have like 40 something, Eleni, 44, 44 employees who work full-time, part-time, who, you know, we want to be able to pay them a good living and all of that. So we do have to charge a certain amount of money. But one of the things that we are mindful is to make it as affordable as possible

for people around here. My goal, believe it or not, is to not have you keep coming back. Like I, I've been broke-ass. I guess I think it's a broke-ass thing. If you've ever been so broke, car repossessed, behind on your rent, like you know what it's like to not have money, you'll always be cognizant of that. And so I'm very mindful of that. And at the end of the day, I don't want you to have to sign up for a program, but I want you to acquire the tools and the skills that you need. And it can take a lot of work.

And I think we're so used to quick fix diets where I just do the diet, I lose my weight, but then that's the problem. You always gain it back. I mean, that's what's happening with all the new weight loss medications out there as well. They don't have a fix for this. They know that they can help you lose a lot of weight, but the minute you get off them, you will gain that back if you don't make the changes, the foundational changes. And so sometimes I think we feel like we shouldn't need to sign up again because I've, you know,

even people who've lost their weight, so many people don't sign up for maintenance. And honestly, that's really like maintenance is like you want to put your time in solidifying your weight. But I think sometimes women are like, I've spent enough time on my own, or I should know how to do this. Right. And there's a there's a lot to it. It's not just knowing what to do. I think everyone here knows what to do. It's just it's so much bigger than that. It's one being in a community. It's having the guidance, the guest experts. It also says like,

this is the time that you've taken to focus on this. It's like a course and if you want to become an expert in this, and it should be taught in schools. This is something that should be taught in schools, all of that, but it's just, you know, here we are. And so a lot of times people think, I'm going to see how I can do on my own. And I'll say to them, why? Why? And I get get like if you can't afford it, that's one thing. But if you can easily afford it, I mean, people buy sweater that costs more than our program. People are probably spending more on coffee a month than our program. And I'm like, why?

Well, I just feel like I should be able to do on my own. But why though? Like when I started, so I took took up kite boarding, which is like this, you have a kite in the sky and a board. Or golf, let me use golf. Golf, for example, I know how to golf. I have a friend who golfs, and she hasn't had any lessons, and she's actually quite good. I keep saying to her, get lessons because it's going to change your game. I started off my first year of golf, I just took lessons. I didn't even go on the course. And now two years later, I'm actually really good. But I just had a lesson again last night.

Like you could say, I should know how to golf by now, but I still have a lot more to learn about golf. Turns out I just changed my whole swing again for the second time. What I thought I knew about golf has changed. And so I just think it's help. Whether you get your accountant helps you with your finances, where your golf person helps you with your golf person, whatever it is, it's like we have this expectation that I should already know it. So I therefore am not worthy of getting help or being, or it could just be that you don't need the help, you need the community. Or it could be that you don't need the help

or the community, but you need the insight of the guest experts, right? So, for some reason, people feel like, oh, my time is up, I've had enough, I just should try to figure it out on my own. And I'm always like, why though? Where's that coming from? Or you feel like you need to just figure it out

on your own. And we have friends who golf and they're trying to figure it out on their own. And they do get a little bit better, but I watch them. I'm like, man, you could be so much better if you just got a lesson. Just get a lesson. So I'm glad that you're here

and you shouldn't feel any ways about wanting to get out. In business, I have advisors. I have women that I go to for help. I'm always like looking into groups that I can join. And you know, I know how to do business, but I still there's more I can do and more to learn, right? So I think this is no different, but we were taught like it's that you do a diet, you should be able to follow it, lose your weight.

That's it, one and done. And this is just much more complex. This is also helping with that cognitive behavioral therapy part, where if you don't have a personal trainer and you don't have a therapist, and do you know what I mean? And you don't have a doctor

that you can spend hours talking to, like that's where you're gonna get a lot of the insights. It's the showing up and the behavior part. And that's the part that the diet industry can't get because they can't figure out how to teach a lot of people at the same time how to work through their own shit. And so they know how to do this. They know that this works when you have all your different like healthcare providers and your teams in play.

And that's what they're talking about, like the Canadian obesity conferences and whatnot. Well, you got a psychologist and you got a therapist and a physiotherapist and you got an endocrinologist and you have a dietitian, all that in play. That's what you need in order to lose your weight. This is what you get while following the program. So I give you permission to do as many programs as you want. I think it's the smart thing to do. And so first of all, let me just say, Julie, reach out, ask for help.

We'll help you figure out where you need to go or what you need to focus on. We're here for you. I'm just glad you're back. We also have a lot of people at this point who do come back after not following for whatever reason. A lot of times in my experience, talking to people who've reached out after the fact they weren't losing enough in the beginning, they just wasn't sure

it was going to work, they just stopped following for whatever reason. We are just happy that you are back. Do not be shy about being honest about that, reaching out. Even Kim, who is the manager of the program, didn't make it through her first couple programs. Even she didn't make it. So if for whatever reason you weren't following, just reach out. We're happy to help you. We're not going to be like, where have you been and how come you haven't been following along? We're just happy that you're back. We're just happy that you are back.

Good morning. I added some arm movements to my walk today to work out my shoulders. I'm sure I look so strange, but who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? I saw your segment with Lisa Castile yesterday. It was inspirational. Tried adding nut butter to my yogurt this morning with nuts, seeds and apples. It tasted great. She had other great tips. Worth a listen. Let me tell you, Lisa, yes, she's lost a lot of weight, 111 pounds and four programs. She ain't messing around.

She showed up, she gave some tips, she was real honest with us. She honestly a great segment. But all of our guest segments up into this point, there are so many, I think it's so important to hear from other people's journeys because it reinforces the reality that you too can reach your goals. So it's one thing to hear from me, my guests, but if you haven't been listening to our guest experts, honestly, worth it. Really struggling to stay on track.

I've had three surgeries. I'm going to lose a kidney shortly. Yeah, Catherine, my gosh, sending you love. That's hard. I love that you're here, that you're showing up and we're here for you. It's not easy, you know, especially if you look back through the time that you've spent, you put in for a lot of people, we've heard it all here, right?

So many people struggling for a variety of reasons. And this is why just showing up and just being here, like you should be so fucking proud that you're still here. Like you need to take time and give yourself prompts for that because it's so easy to focus on the negative or what you haven't done. But the fact that some of you are still here and it's not about being here. It's like you haven't given up on yourself.

You are still showing up taking care of you. And that's not an easy thing to do. I was thinking about my son today. I started off just saying I was tired with a house full of kids and my son's graduation. I'm going to cry thinking about it. But you know, man, that kid, he made it through the pandemic. He made it through switching schools. He made it through his dad dying.

You know, that kid's been through and made it through our, you know, our family drama and everything that we've had going on. And you know, to have him graduate today and he's going to go off to Guelph. My goodness, like just like I was just sort of thinking back over the last four years of what those kids have been through, right? And many of us, we've also been through a lot ourselves. We've also been through a lot. Do we need to buy some subscriptions

to hear your podcast, Gina? No, not yet you don't, not yet you don't. So as it stands right now, you have access to our Livvy Method podcast, which will soon just be included with the purchase of the program, obviously. So right now, yeah, so right now you have access to the Livvy Method podcast that's go along with the program. Eventually, those will be part of the program itself.

You also have access to my Way in Regina podcast, which is really cool. In fact, I have a new podcast dropping today with my friend Princess Sarah. She is the Princess of Sierra Leone. And I met her during the WXN, the women, the Canada's Top 100 Award that I won a couple years ago. And we've been friends ever since and she came on my podcast. She has an incredible story.

And so my Wayne with Gina podcast are interviewing people about their lifestyles and what it takes to just live a healthy life and make change and make a difference in the world. And I think you're gonna find it super fascinating. I had a hypnotist on last week. I had Dr. Jane Morgan talking about women and heart health on a few weeks ago.

So you have access to those as well. Some of you asking about being able to use the app. So if you sign up for our fall program or our summer club, you'll be able to continue to use the app in general tracking mode. So after the program is done, you'll be able to use it in general tracking mode. That also is changing.

So we're creating a new app. Just wait. Oh my god, we have an app coming out in January. This is going to blow your mind. It's actually super incredible. So you'll still have access to that after the program is done. It's a wonderful feeling once you get to the point where you really don't want the crap anymore,

but friends and family don't understand why you don't want to eat the crap. They have no reference. So people don't know one that you can lose weight like this. People don't know that you can feel the way that you do. And people don't understand how you have, for lack of a better word, control. People don't understand how do you have control like that. They think you must be depriving yourself or, you know, come on, eat this, you're not fun or that's because that's their red.

They don't know any different. They don't know any different. They don't know that you can actually just not want to eat the chips. They don't know that you can take your kids for ice cream and actually not want the ice cream or just take a couple spoonfuls of your kids. They don't know that that's possible. So it's hard because they don't have a reference for that. They don't understand you sitting there with your meal and if you don't eat all of it,

it's because you actually feel satisfied and not that you're not trying to eat all of it because you're on some diet, you just feel satisfied and have had enough. So they don't know that because their bodies are used to needing a certain portion or they're still eating everything on their plate without recognizing that's what they need in order to feel satisfied is to eat everything on their plate. So they don't know, they don't know.

And this is why when people are done with the Libby Method, this is why we've grown so much is because when people are actually done, just wait and if you're new to the program, just wait to get to the end, you'll look back and you'll be like, huh, okay, that makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. And it's just common sense. That's why it's resonating.

But you know, with what's been happening out there in the diet industry, not a lot of common sense. So it is hard. We're actually going to start talking about I've been the universe's punching bag. I hear you. Oh my God, I hear you. I hear you on that. I hear you on that. We're actually going to start talking about other people's reactions to your weight. The more weight I lose, I feel like the more my belly sticks out. So this is because there's a big difference between fat loss and weight loss. I don't know if you saw the post that we did the other

day, but this talks about this. You are losing weight everywhere in layers. Chances are you just store more, you've started out with storing most of your fat or more of your fat in your midsection. And so with the living method or fat loss, healthy fat loss, you're gonna lose it in layers. So if you imagine you have your certain body shape and you

just start taking layers off, right? And if you stored more in your tummy area, that's going to feel like that's the last to go. It's not that it's the last to go, it's going. It's just that that is where you store more. And there is no reason why you won't be able to lose that. Also remember, right before your weight drops, it's normal to kind of feel a little extra fatty, kind of looser, kind of like, why do I feel kind of like heavier? And again, that's your body, that's the, that's kind of how it feels when your body's releasing that fat. And so it can definitely seem like that.

That's if you keep going, you're going to get around to that area as well. You can't really, you can do, You can do exercises in terms of like tummy exercises and that type of thing. Also, if you are going through menopause, that is where you have that visceral fat. That's where you have that fat intertwined into your organs and whatnot. And that's not something you can just diet off.

That is really, that's like a hormonal thing. This is where you got to get your cortisol levels in check. You got to be able to get that sleep. You got to decrease that insulin. That's where the hormones come in beyond just like your estrogen and what's going on there. That is more lifestyle change. And that we know you just can't, you can't, this is why intermittent fasting and deprivation diets don't work for women and menopause because it just reinforces that fat. So that's where you really want to work on things like your sleep, increasing muscle mass, that's a big one.

So when your body breaks down foods into glycogen, which is the energy that it stores, it stores that glycogen in your liver, in your muscle, and in your fat. And when people are doing diets, like say, for example, people losing weights, off taking weight loss medications can lose 40% of their fat that they lose or the weight that they lose can come from muscle. 40% can come from muscle. So that means that 40% more is going to your fat.

If you don't have that muscle mass for your body to store that glycogen, it gets stored in your fat. If you don't have that muscle mass for your body to store that glycogen, it gets stored in your fat. And that's sort of what causes that mid-section. So starting to lift weights will make a big difference, even like lifting arm weights, leg weights, big muscle weights, even though it's not your tummy. Yes, you can do like crossover abs and that can help because it pulls your tummy muscles across. That's where starting to lift weights and you don't kind of relate the two, okay, lifting weights with my belly fat, but the two can be very closely related.

Do do do do do. It's not easy accepting your new body. When I lost weight, my friends would remind me I'm looking at sizes that were too big. So there actually is a thing with your brain where it takes a while because even though it can seem like it's so fucking slow, you're losing your weight, it's actually really quick. It can be very quick for some people. And it takes your brain a hard time to, in a while, to actually recognize your new body.

And also, so you can lose weight and be done and reach your goal. And then three months later, when your skin, it takes about three months for your skin to start regenerating around your new frame, your skin takes a lot longer. It takes about three months to start regenerating around your new frame. So this is where people will start saying to you, oh my God, you've lost all this weight and you have it. It's just your body kind of settling into your weight and you can lose dress sizes, obviously, as your body adjusts to the weight that you've lost. It's your brain is also adjusting to the

weight that you've lost. Your everything is wired into the size of weight, that set point, everything, everything was wired into your set point. So when you lose that weight, this is why plateaus are so important. Plateaus are not just your body physically adjusting, it's you mentally and your brain adjusting to the size of your body. So it can take a while. It's actually a thing where it takes a while. Let me scroll down here. Good morning.

Hi, Christine. Still here. Continually trying down 4.5 pounds, but even better, one lost all over. Bust stomach, hips, each area. Also other non-scale victories are making me continue on and have a super day. That's what it's about, right? Your body is changing.

Sometimes life makes it harder for some of us sometimes. And it's just a matter of showing up, doing the things that you can do. Sometimes when we're so focused on the scale, we are missing the changes that are happening in our body. Taking your measurements can be a great way of adjusting to that. When I started, I needed to feel that full in my tummy. Yeah, to fill me up. Yeah, emotional. I know now it feels terribly terrible, terrible physically when I

overeat. I've done that three times since I started. Wow, from almost three times stuffing myself. Yeah. So this is I love this so much. I love this so much. And this is why it's not about being perfect. It's like, yeah, a lot of people are, they need to feel full, full, like their sense of full is like they're, they have to undo their, their pants or that, that emotional one can be your insulin. When your insulin like gets jacked up, you get this kind of insulin high, and then you're like, ah, like you ever overeat, and you're like, ah, and then you're like, aw. Right, and that can be your sense of needing to feel full.

I love the emotional part that you just added that whole layer to it. But if you hadn't overeaten, you wouldn't recognize that. So that's why it's not about being perfect all the time, because those moments where you just have that thing or you overeat and then you realize, oh, shit, like, I don't feel good. So then you know that doesn't work for you. But it's until you make that it's all about the reference that you have

until you make that connection that, oh, my goodness, this is what I was doing before. So that worked for you before. Now you're recognizing you've made enough change. It doesn't work for you anymore. And that's what that is. Well, how's that working for you? It's not. But that, and you might do it another couple of times.

And I love that you said you've done this three times because just because you make that realization doesn't mean that you don't do it again. But each time you highlight that you've done that and not in a what's wrong with you kind of way, but oh, okay, I see what's going on. And this is where you go back. So this is how you can deepen that connection and really like solidify it. It's not about like I overate, let it go, don't be hard on myself.

It's like rewind. What was going on in my life that day? Why did I choose to overeat? What was I thinking? Oh, I had a superstar, oh, this happened at work. Then I like came home and then I didn't have like whatever decent groceries. And then I just was like, fuck it. And then I just was talking to my friend on the phone

while I was eating or like whatever it was. Or I just wanted to crawl into bed and just like, just eat my feelings away. Like when you like really understand why you overate other than the food was yummy, like usually when the food is yummy, you're like, OK, this is so good. And it's like, I don't know, like maybe it's the one time that you I don't know, a restaurant that you've been waiting to go to or your favorite food that someone made, whatever. That's a little different.

But if you can like really go into deep in terms of like, kind of like grabbing all the reasons that you're understanding why you ate, like the physical, the emotional, your environment, what was going on, all of that, how you were feeling, how you felt, and then before and then after, and then also what was the aftermath

that happened the next day, or when you wake up the next day and you're like, oh my God, I feel so gross, and then also like what was the aftermath that happened the next day or when you wake up the next day and you're like, oh my God, I feel so gross. And why did I do that? You can kind of like take a minute and see that. Then that gives you the full picture. That really gives you a half a chance of breaking that behavior and actually working through that.

Cause you're understanding, oh shit, that's my go-to. That's my cope. I have a bad day. Then I feel like this. Thento, that's my cope. I have a bad day, then I feel like this, then I feel that, this triggered me, this is why I, this, but actually it didn't bring me, what did I think it was gonna do? Bring me peace, did not bring me peace.

Was it gonna bring me joy? Did not bring me joy. Did it bring me, I don't know, whatever, I thought it, but what did I think that that was gonna do for me? And that didn't give that to me. Now, you might, you're really deepening your understanding of that.

Now, you might do it again, and you might do it again, but every time you take time to realize what you're doing, it gets to a point where then you're going to go for that and you're going to be like, what am I doing? Oh yeah, this doesn't work for me. This like, so now you're on the other side of that. So rather than this is what I've always done, you kind of go through this, like this is, oh my goodness, I realizing I do it that gets you to the other side. Or this is not where you make a different choice. This is where you actually change. You are changing your connections, your associations with food.

And that's that is that is it. That is it. So what you've done here, you do this with across the board with your relationship with your with food and your associations to food and being in tomb, this is how you make change. This is how you not just lose your weight, but this is how you go on to be able to maintain and sustain your weight because it's just who you are.

Because those are the connections now that are stronger than the connections you made before. So that's what it's all about. So that's what's so huge. That's what's so huge. That's what's so huge. I'm stuck in a vicious cycle keeping me from exercise. I'm so stressed and exhausted for work that I don't have the energy to exercise after work. I can barely grab time to shove food in my face during a shift.

So taking a walk, break isn't an option. The stress leads to muscles and joint pain, which starts to stress with my sleep. I'm truly in a survival mode and my weight has stalled. I do feel better than I did before the program. I'm seeing some non-scale victories, so thank goodness. For you, Gina, well, I'm taking time to manage stress. I'm keeping a good sleep schedule. I've learned so much.

So here's what I can say. So we had a fitness challenge. We had a fitness challenge last week, and I'm a very competitive person. And it happens every year during our fitness challenge. I'm the same. I am so tired. I don't have time to exercise. I can't.

Like I'm just can't. But come this week when we do our team challenge, I find all the time in the world to get it done because I'm on a team. So what happens is we break up into teams. So all of our employees, all of our team members, employee sounds so weird, I got to get over that. We break up into teams and for every minute you exercise, we donate a dollar to charity. So the winning team gets to pick who they're donating the charity to. Half goes to the food bank, half goes to the team of choice. And so the weeks before the months before, I don't have time.

I don't have time. I literally don't have time. But during the challenge, because I would let my team down, I made time. I made a lot of time. There was a time actually where I went away to a friend's cottage and there I was stepping and dancing and moving and being like, I got to get, I was like, they're like, what are you doing? And I'm just like, I've got to get my time in. And the black flies were so bad outside.

I could not go outside. So it wasn't going for a walk. And I literally walked around and I was jumping and I was moving and I, and, and I could, I couldn't lie. So I had to put the time in. Now, was I also kind of like taking sips of wine in between doing my jumping? Yes, I was. I was.

Full of transparency. But because it was for someone else, I found the time. Like if I had, because I knew I would let down someone else, I found the time. So what does that mean? That means that I am not feeling worthy and prioritizing myself and I am so tired, I'm not taking the time. And we know that when you use your energy, it creates more energy.

It's so counterintuitive because you think I'm so tired, I don't wanna exercise, but getting outside, going for a walk, it creates energy for you. So that's my share for you. I felt compelled to share that for you. Also, this is your lifestyle and this is your life. This is where you're creating the lifestyle. For the person that you want to be

and the place you want to go and get to with your weight and the changes that you wanna to make in your health. Is this way you're living your life sustainable? Is that going to support is the way that you're living your life right now going to support the life that you want to live, how you want to look, how you want to feel. And I'm not just talking like I'm talking energy, I'm talking, you know what I mean? And so this is where sometimes you might need to look at it and be like, okay, why maybe is the world going to fall apart if you just say no?

And I don't know, right? Like I'm not, I don't know about how you're living your life. There was a time where I went live like in the morning at lunch, 7m., plus sometimes four or five times a day extra, and on the weekends, seven days a week. And I thought that I had to do that because if I didn't do that, I would be letting people down. If I didn't do that, then people wouldn't be successful. If I didn't do that, then my business would fail.

And then something happened to me where I got sick and I was unable to work at all. And my team posted old lives of me and members were just fine. And I actually had members reach out and say, you know, like, would you do so much? I feel like I have to do so much. And I'm even taking this to heart now

and looking at making changes for the fall program because it's so much information. And what really needs to be said and what can we kind of like just do without. And it's, you know, even now I went live four times. No one needs me going live four times a day. Nobody needs that. Nobody here needs to see me live four times a day because I'm in the maintenance program and I'm in the menopause group, and nobody needs that. And so it's like, I feel like if I don't do that, I'm letting other people down or I have to do that. The reality is I don't.

And so that moment made me realize like, okay, let me take a step back because this isn't healthy. Here I am teaching people like to have balance in their life and I'm not having any balance in my life because all I'm doing is working and so I thought the whole world would end and it actually made things better because it gave me more time for myself, more energy so people got the best of me because I wasn't so broken down and stressed out. Now do I still have moments where I do that? Yes, I got a lot of things on the go right now, but because I've done that and I do

this, I go into hard mode and then I'm like, okay, then I get burnt out and then I'm like, okay, I got to figure out. So because if you keep going at this pace, you're going, chances are you're going to get burnt out and you're going to be forced to take time. And so I think you know how taking some time to go for a walk, get a walking pad, put it in front of your TV, don't put it in your basement, put it in your fucking living room in front of the TV so you can watch Young and the Restless or that used to be my show, your favorite show and get on the treadmill. You don't have to walk fast, you don't have to do weights. You just got to move your body. So that's where you kind of have to figure out

what can I do? It's so important. Once you start using your energy, you're going to start feeling more energetic, but it's tough. That's that vicious cycle. That's no matter what it is, the vicious cycle of overeating, of snacking,

whatever it is, how's that working for me? How's that serving for me? And what's the hard thing that I need to do in order to make that change? That's what this is about. You know that change is possible. You know where you wanna go, how you wanna live. You know, you know, you can feel it,

but the way we are living is not aligning with us achieving that. And I'm the same boat. I'm not where I want to be. And there are little things that I need to do and big things that I need to do. I can feel it. I can taste it. I just know. But then there are the, I got to get over. I got to get out of my own way and I got to just get it done. Just got to get it done. Because I know, and this isn't being like, I just got to get it done. I know that's what I want.

And so if you have a vision for what you want, you're going to have to make space for that and you have to make hard choices. And sometimes doing what we need to do is not easy for other people. So it may mean that the time you spend helping someone else, the time that you spend doing something for someone else, you have to take that time back. I don't know. That's just, I don't know if that helps. But I feel you on this.

I feel you on that, Christy, because I'm like, I feel you on that because I'm right there with you. I got to go speaking of, I I'm like, I feel you on that because I'm right there with you. I got to go speaking of, I got to like, I got to clean my house. I got to get stuff ready for my graduation. I got to decorate. I got to do things today. I'm going to clean my room because you want to talk about a vicious cycle. Y'all, you should see my room.

I don't even know. I'm embarrassed as a grown woman. My room is such a mess. It's like, I don't even know. So I have said to myself, I can no longer live like this. And it's bad. I can no longer live like this. I am so busy. I don't have time to clean my room. And I walk in there every night and I'm just like, you got to be kidding me. This is insane. So I'm gonna go. So I can get my work done, be done by 12 today and spend like the next four hours

cleaning my bedroom. Have a great day, everyone. I will not be going live tomorrow. Just heads up. I'm heading out of town. Tony is taking me away for my birthday. I was going to go live tomorrow, but I'm not, but I'm not. I am going to take the day off and I'm going to go away with my hot, sexy husband for the weekend and going to enjoy the weekend off.

We are going to be rolling in. I will be checking in though. And we are going to be rolling in. I will be checking in though, and we are going to be rolling into Canada Day next next Tuesday. And I know y'all in the States have July 4th coming up. So we want to be making a plan for that. Have a great rest of your day, everyone. Have a great weekend. I will check in later. Bye.