The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 71 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 71, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina reminds listeners that real progress often shows up when you keep going, even when it feels tough. She highlights the importance of sticking with it until the end, even if the scale isn’t moving. Each tweak has a reason, and now’s the time to trust the process, not rush through it. Gina encourages listeners to focus on the wins that matter—like better sleep, more energy, and improved mood—and to recommit to the basics. It’s not about doing more, it’s about doing what works. You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to finish in a way that feels good.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Good morning! It is day 71 of the program which has us rolling into week 10. First of all, I am away. I'm at Cobble Beach up in Owen Sound, which is located on a golf course. And there is a guy rolling around with a big blower, I guess. I've never seen it. So if it's a little loud for a hot second, hopefully he will be done soon. It's kind of the long weekend here in Canada, Canada because our Canada day is tomorrow. So I think it's like, I don't know if it's official long weekend, but I would imagine many of us are

taking the long weekend. And then of course, all of our friends in the US, you have July 4th coming up. Just reading the comments in the check-in video today, talking about your weekends and getting away and going away and whatnot. So it's very timely that we introduced Back On Track yesterday. A lot of questions about Back On Track. I see that we have a kind of a summary post talking specifically about it today. So if you missed that, be sure to check that out. So big picture has always been that it's not just losing your weight, it's losing your weight in a way you're going to be able to maintain and sustain. So I've been able to maintain my weight for over 30 years.

The basic food plan is something that if you just followed, of course eventually you'd lose your weight. It's very effective, it's balanced, it's healthy, but it's not so proactive. And so each week builds on the previous week. And the reason why we do so many weeks of back on track, if you're a new member, is to lay that foundation, a returning member to kind of reset the body. But back on track is really effective as kind of a reset button.

So if you go away on vacation for the weekend or this is five years from now and you're just living your life, you're waking up looking good, feeling good, willing to trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat, then you're gonna implement on back on track after you go away, after the long weekend,

after you find yourself indulging to the point that you feel like you're really off and it's gonna help you get back to feeling your best. So while you're trying to lose weight, it'll help you get back to focusing on weight loss. While you're maintaining your weight, it's gonna help you get back to feeling your best.

So this isn't necessarily for what you need to implement today just because you had a few drinks and some extra bites of bits on the weekend. This is for when you really do a number on yourself because for where we're at in the program, it's always best just to keep move forward. Just keep move forward there. That's where my brain's at. Just to keep moving forward. So you don't want to the question that we get about back on track a lot for people is can I, why can't I just continue to use back on track? Well, you can and you always could. It's just that the tweaks that we use are there to shake things up physically, to help you get even more in tune physically and to help you bring up some of the issues and associations

and learn the things that you need to learn. Those tools and the skills that you're putting in your toolbox to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. So read over the back on track post. Let me know if you have any questions about it. Again, it's not necessarily to be used often while losing weight. While you're trying to lose weight, the best thing you can do is stay following the program and the plan. There's a few bites of bits here and there, just like our weekends previously. Don't blow off your whole day or your whole weekend because of a few bites of bits, and just keep moving forward. But it's there if you need it.

It's there if you need it. Good morning, good morning, good morning. School's out so you can catch the 9 a.m. I know, so just trying to gauge where everybody is at the holidays. Well, you'll notice that the groups are a lot quieter, but people are checking in behind the scenes. People are checking in using our app and whatnot. So we're going to be here right to the very last day.

We don't slow down. We still have guests that are going to be joining us week to week to week. We still have tweaks that we're going to want to uh introduce to all of our new members. You absolutely want to stick around to the end of the program. Heading to Toronto. Hi, Marnie. Heading to Toronto to go see the Jays game and then the cottage July 4th to the 12th. This information will really come in handy. Yeah, that's exactly that's exactly that's exactly what it's there for. It's it's while you're losing weight, if you find that you really go off the rails, I'm talking like to the point you'll know because you'll feel it because people like, well, how do I know? You'll just know you'll feel really off. Your stomach will be kind of just upset. you'll feel it because people are like, well, how do I know? You'll just know you'll feel really off.

Your stomach will be kind of just upset. You'll feel inflamed. You'll just your weight will be up. But this isn't just what's really important about back on track is it's not just for your weight when your weight goes up. So you don't want to be using back on track. The scale goes up and think, oh my goodness, I have to do back on track to get it back down.

It's always best to just get back to the tweak that we're following. So you're gonna follow that revamp. So let's say you went off the rails. Let's say for example, if you really went off the rails this weekend and you just ate your face off and your weight is up and you feel off and you just are like, blah.

You can add in a day or two of the basic food plan. So back on track and then you want to get back to following that revamp again or when it comes to the tweak that we're introducing next week you want to get back to personalizing the plan. This is where you may have seen or heard if you're a new member some of our returning members talk about back on track throughout the program I went away on vacation I need to get back on track and then get back at it. So moving forward you'll be able to implement back on track while you're doing the program but

it's really best to keep obviously that to a minimum and it's best to just keep moving forward but there are those times where you feel like you might need it. And more so though it's really for once you've lost your weight and you're just living your life, you are trusting when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, and then that's it. And then when you go away on vacation or feel like you want to indulge, or you feel really off,

a couple of days to implement back on track, and then you're just back to feeling your best. What you'll notice with the living method and how you're losing weight this way is that, I mean, when you feel off, you feel really with the Libby Method and how you're losing weight this way is that I mean When you feel off you feel really really really off But it only takes a couple days of getting back for you to start feeling a lot better And so you'll know when you need to use it. Okay, I see some questions

Adding up here There was one earlier where was it here we are Good morning. We continue our journey east would be driving through Quebec today back on track is perfect timing We just spent two days visiting my son his family and they ate and drank all the things That's exactly what it's there for exactly what it's there for There was a question here. Let me see I have my baby girls wedding this Saturday Saturday and I've not been very consistent and sadly did not hit my weight loss goals for the wedding.

That's okay, she's still getting married and it's still gonna be amazing. And I would imagine that any attempt that you made has got you feeling better than you would have felt if you didn't do anything at all at the end of the day, right? I will continue to do this program until I can have the devotion to myself that I need so I can follow the method despite

The busyness of my life. I'm so excited for her day and that's exactly what it is Her cuddly mama bear will be so proud and happy and i'll be back In the fall i'm gonna finish this one. Yeah, this is we talk about this a lot that we really need to normalize It's not about Crushing the program and just like there's seasons of the program, there's seasons of your life. Some man, I've had some pretty shitty seasons and just the fact that I'm still here and hanging on by the skin of my teeth some days, right? And that's how it is for some people. Sometimes you'll have a program where it's

smooth sailing and you feel like you can do all the things and everything is aligning and it's just all coming together. And they're gonna have other programs that you do that you feel like you're you're fighting and you're barely hanging in there and you're failing and you're not as long as you keep showing up because the thing about what we're doing is being mindful to understand what you're going through in life being mindful to try to drink some water rather than just a whole bottle of wine every night, being mindful to try to eat a little healthier than you normally would, just be mindful of what you need in the moment and that's what this program does.

And we know this from Ruth Cain studying the program that there's no downside to doing the Libby Method. With every other diet out there, there's downsides. And with the Libby Method, there's no downside it, because it's just you eating in tune, giving your body healthy, nutrient-rich foods, trying to manage your stress, your sleep, move your body a little bit, and drink your water at the end of the day. So have the best time at the wedding. I mean, that's what really matters in life, right?

That's it. It's not a better weight. You're going to have a great time no matter what weight you are at. Your daughter's going to love you the same same no matter what weight that you are at. And then yeah, just keep working towards it just like any other goal. Just keep working towards it. I started this program hoping to get under 170 and pushing or exceeding 180 for the last 80 years.

Today I'm 158 pounds! Christine! I thought I was trying hard for years. This program is just what I needed, what for the for the for weight loss and physical health Thank goodness. So you thank you to Pam Woods. She got you to sign up to shadow of him. So you Started the program at 170 After being 180 for the last eight years and now you're 158 good for you. That's amazing Stick around, stick

around. Trust me no matter what the scale says you're gonna be happy that you stuck around to the end of the program and we're gonna help set you up for success not just through the summer but ongoing so whether you're looking to continue to lose over the summer or you're just looking to maintain over the summer we're gonna talk about next steps for those of you are ready for maintenance we're also gonna talk maintenance for those of you who are ready. So we'll have all the information, everything you need

at the end of the program. This is where people start asking me about the end of the program. So you'll still have access to all the information in the Facebook support group, so that's not going anywhere. You won't be able to comment or ask questions because we turn all those off after we're done. We're going to be moving into the summer club.

So we're doing a six-week summer club if you're interested in joining that. That's where you're going to be able to have our team answer your questions. I'm going to go live do some fun segments and giveaways and some motivation and whatnot and of course then we're going to start up in the fall. So if you're new to the program the fall will have its own separate group. So this one will shut down and then you can just move into the fall program Good morning caught my first live ever. Hi. Hi. Hi Katari Katari. Thank you so much for being here. Gina. You're amazing Thank you Visiting my sister for five days tend to think of seeing her as sweets time

We'll probably do back on track a couple days after this depending how I feel. We'll make a plan for that now Before when you used to visit maybe you weren't drinking water and you felt a little dehydrated, so the sweets were a little bit more appealing. So now you're gonna go, make sure you have breakfast, have a good day leading up. You can still enjoy all the bites of bits, but try to follow the plan the best you possibly can. So don't go back to not eating all day long

in anticipation of, like don't stop eating, in anticipation of going and eating all the sweets. And remember you don't have to eat them all meaning like you can have a bite of this a bite of that like I would go there because we tend to revert back to how we are especially when we go back to visit our parents or we go back to visit familiar situations we tend to revert back to those moments and so just like you don't have to drink the whole bottle of whatever if you go and hang out with some old friends that you used to party and have a good time with, you don't have to do all the drugs, you can just have a few bites. So go with your new sense of self and go to enjoy

and have a good time because you're gonna, the better you feel, the better time you're gonna have. And have a good time. I mean that's what it's all about right? Especially with the summer it a good time. I mean, that's what it's all about, right? Especially with the summer, it's so short. I've been struggling with all the events, birthdays, graduations, stressful situations, and shift work, but what's different this third round is I'm just pushing through where I can.

Okay, this is perfect, after what I just said. Doing what I can and learning to live myself with ebbs and flows. I'm here for it, I can do it, and slow and steady wins the race. This is exactly it, right? So the birthdays, oh, my hair's driving me nuts. I'm here for it. I can do it and slow and steady wins the race. This is exactly it, right? So the birthdays on my hair is driving me nuts. I need an elastic. Tony, I don't think he might be going to hit some golf balls. The birthdays and the holidays

and the events and that they're not going to stop. They're not going anywhere. They're not going to stop. They're just going to keep coming around, keep coming around. That's one of the things that we're learning in maintenance actually, is that once you've lost your weight, it's about maintaining your weight and then it's navigating through the summer again, birthdays again, holidays again, like moments in life that hold a lot of memory, which can either bring joy,

it can bring sadness and grief at the same time. So it's all about learning to navigate those. So this is why learning to navigate them while you're losing, this is about the tools and the skills again that you need to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. So that's what it's about. You can feel like there's always something because there's usually always something. Babes, can you grab me an elastic if you see one? I just did Andrew Blakey's

master class yesterday. It was great, a great guideline to get into exercise. Oh I love hearing that, I love Andrew. We are, because we don't pay our guests, as you guys know, we don't pay our guests. We are, and they're amazing people. They also offer their own services and whatnot. So we're trying to help sort of promote, not sort of, we're trying to help promote

what any of our guests have going on, because they're amazing amazing and why not? So Andrew did a master class, an exercise master class. Yesterday I was wondering how it went. I was gonna reach out and ask him, but I love hearing that. Good morning, I had a wonderful weekend. I got off track, but I was okay with it.

I had a few days and enjoyed every minute on my last five pounds to go and just feeling very proud of myself for getting back to feeling the me I was before. Yeah, I just feel fantastic. Linda, I love this. This is it, right? Whether it's like you're doing the whole program to get back to feeling yourself, you know what I mean? Or get back to feeling yourself after the weekend. I love hearing that. In my first in-person life, hi Trudy! 50 years ago I graduated high school and last week I hit the same weight. My weight has been up, way up and down many times over the years but

feeling very happy with my progress. Less than 10 pounds for my goal and finally seems reachable. That's amazing. That's amazing. This is what I mean by the end of the program, is like you're one step closer. So many of you will have to come back because it's the 91 days. Not all of you are gonna be able to lose your weight in the 91 days that we have.

It's just the way we structure the program. You're not supposed to fit your whole journey inside the 91 days. But each time you do the program and you get that sense this way it's so important to finish because there's a start to your weight journey and there's going to be an end and of course there's the middle. And you want to follow through and finish. And every time you get to the end of a program it gives you faith and trust that you're going to get to the end of your weight loss journey. Because in reality even though you have to continue on you're going to get there. At some point you're going to get there the end of your weight loss journey. Because in reality, even though you have to continue on, you're going to get there. At some point, you're going to get

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Yeah, I got lots. Okay. So, going up and down, it's normal for your weight to go up before it drops. So that could be it. It depends. Are you doing the things things are you not doing the things if you are not doing the things can't stick with it So I'm assuming that Why and so break it down? Sometimes I think when people are trying to do all the things they try to do all the things

Rather than just take it like day by day and then meal by meal snack by snack So wake up in the morning, drink a glass of water. That's great for one day. The next day, wake up, drink a glass of water, try to get some protein in for breakfast. That's great. The next day, drink water, get protein in for breakfast. Try to get that morning snack in.

And so it's just a matter of kind of stacking. I don't know if you've read James Clear Atomic Habits, first of all, buy that book. If you haven't read it, you don't have it, buy the book. It's all about habit stacking. It's all about trying to do the things that we want to do and make them just part of our lives and who we are. But life can be so busy, it makes it very difficult.

I was talking about this last week because it was our, was it last week or the week before? It was our team challenge. So it's where our whole team breaks into smaller teams and we do a movement challenge. And for every minute of movement, we, the company, donates a dollar to charity. And so it's all about how many minutes you can get in. The week before last, when we weren't doing the challenge, I was too busy.

I couldn't find time, I have a million things to do, I was just way too busy, I couldn't find time. I have a million things to do. I was just way too busy I couldn't fit it in during the challenge Because if I didn't I remember the first day and I'm just like it was at the end of the day and I'm like What am I gonna do here? Because I have to get some movement in or I'm gonna let the team down and You'll be amazed the time that I found to get the movement in or whatever it is that you're trying to do when it came down to me, if I didn't do it, I was letting someone else

down. So because I was doing it for someone else, I found all the time in the world to move my body last week. And so I spent a lot of time thinking about that. Every time this challenge comes around, it's always a bit thought provoking for me because I'm always so busy and yet not only do I find like 20 minutes I can find like an hour and a half two hours three hours I don't know if it's the competitiveness or it's just not wanting to let my team down at the end of the day so I hate to say there where there's a will there's a way but probably what's going on in your life right now has probably led to you you carrying extra weight in the first place so you're the

lifestyle that you're living facilitates the weight that you're at and facilitates your health and wellness and how you're feeling so this could be an opportunity for you to take a step back and be like where do I want to go? Who do I want to be? How do I want to feel? How do I want to live my life? And how does my life need to align with that? And I think the problem is people look at all the big things and it's too much. If I can't do all of them it's not worth doing. Remember Dr. Beverly, not Dr. Dina, little and often. Little and often.

So if this is where, I think it's not about not drinking enough water. I think it's like I can't stick with it right now. Is it right now or is this something that always comes up? Is this just what you're dealing with because maybe it's the end of the school year and you're marking tests or is this, do you know what I mean? Is this just a concentrated period time of your life that happens every year at this time and in that case you just do what you can because before you know it you're

going to get back to your regular routine or is this something that will always, is it bigger than that and something that always comes up? So this comes down to like when it comes to ideas, drinking water definitely will help. Because if you're craving carbs and sugar, that's probably because you're dehydrated. Or coming in off the heat wave too, so I don't know where you live, but we just had a really,

we had a couple days where it was really, really, really hot and then your weight will be up. It's gonna take a couple days for your weight to go back down, and it's hard to get hydrated after being really dehydrated. And so Tony and I at the beginning of last week went golfing like fools during the heat wave because we were trying to get our challenge in. You're like what are we gonna do? Let's go golfing. I was really dehydrated the whole week. It really affected my energy levels. I felt off. I didn't drink enough water.

It was hard to get hydrated. Putting some cucumbers or some mint or some lemon or something in your water, anything you can, setting alarms to try to get it in, that will help with the cravings at the end of the day. Sometimes when it's really hot though, and in the summertime, you tend to crave sugar because your body's looking for kind of quick pick-me-up foods like fruits so this is where you want to

decrease any heavier carbs and bump up your fruit intake so fruit for your morning snack afternoon snack throw some strawberries on a salad whatever of course add some protein and fat with it this week but sometimes that's what it is if it's like really hot and drain your low energy and you want like a quick pick-me-up because fruits break down quickly in your systems like a half hour as opposed to something else like nuts and seeds that can take like 90 minutes or so. So first take a step back and be like okay what is it? What's going on?

Is it just this right now? Is it bigger pitcher? Is it just I need to drink more water or it like what is it to what to what depth is this going right so those are my ideas hopefully there's something in there for you oops where's my comments here where they go just got a friend my comments hang on just looking at me okay I was doing the burnout free year with Dina Beverly and Olica who is doing the burnout free year with Dina Beverly and Olica. Who is doing the burnout free year with...

Are they doing something? Those ladies, they didn't even tell me. I want to do it but have to put off signing up because it will be hard to be there live and I want to be there live. Oh, well, if the information is... If the information is... I'm laughing at Dave if the information is good always watching it after the fact I have a gin and tea o'clock alarm does that count that counts Dave that counts So good to know the things that can affect weight loss like high hot weather also understanding that plateaus are your body adjusting to your new

Weight, this has helped me a lot. Yeah, it's you want to need plateaus adjusting to your new weight this has helped me a lot. Yeah it's you want to need plant-toes. So the problem with the weight loss industry, the diet industry, is not the losing the weight part. There's never been an issue with the losing the weight part. You starve yourself, deprive yourself, you lose the weight. You take the new weight loss medications that help you not eat, you lose the weight. You do keto but put your body in ketosis, you lose the weight. So count, weigh, measure, lose the weight. As you get older put your body in ketosis you lose the weight. So count, weigh, measure, lose the weight. As you get older as we know that gets a little

bit trickier as you go through menopause and what not hormones it makes a little little it's not as easy to just starve yourself and lose the weight. You'll lose that big chunk in the beginning and then you won't be able to go lower than that and then you'll gain it back. So I mean there's a couple reasons for that. The difference between weight loss which is yes fat but also muscle as well and fat loss and if you didn't see that post I would go back and read it. We posted it a couple a couple weeks ago but it really is about losing the weight in a healthy way allowing your body time to adjust to your new weight

And then this is why you don't want to dig in even deeper starve yourself even more Exercise even more not try to dig in deeper and force your body to burn the fat because it will It's about allowing your body to adjust to your new weight And you lose more weight and your body adjusts you lose more weight your body adjust If you were to go to the store and pick up a couple pounds of butter and look at the butter you'd be like, holy shit like this is a lot of weight but we don't like this is a lot of fat but we don't like look at that we only look at oh it's just one or two pounds. So that stack of butter for example that your body factors your weight into its everyday

working so it's not like your fat is just sitting there doing nothing. So you can't have your body release this fat and not have it take time to adjust. And so this is what set point is all about. Your set point is the weight that your body has learned to function at which includes the weight that you're carrying. And so this is why you'll lose it by starving and depriving, by forcing your body to use that energy reserve. It will use it. And then the minute, the first chance it gets,

it stores it all back to bring you back to that set point, because the body thinks it's doing you a favor. And then it stores a little extra more to make sure that doesn't happen again. And so this is where when you hear talking about the body feeling safe, we spend so much time giving the body what it needs so it doesn't feel the need to store fat

and that's just helping it specifically focus on fat loss. Really towards the end of the program, you're just supporting the body and its needs. And so this is where you lose weight, you have a plateau, you lose weight, you have a plateau, you lose weight, you have a plateau, you lose weight, you have a plateau, you lose weight, you have a plateau, you lose weight, you reach your goal, and then maintenance is like a three month long

like purposeful plateau, so that you understand what maintenance now looks like and feels like to you. Your body's had time to adjust your weight, and then you're learning to continue to trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat, so that you can just go on with your day. You'll know when you make a choice

that makes you feel off. Tony and I went to this restaurant last night. Oh my gosh, it was so good. It's called Shanny's Kitchen in Owen Town. They literally had crispy chicken skin. We ate a whole massive bowl of chicken skin, fried chicken skin. That's what it was. It was so delicious. Oh my goodness. We definitely ate way too much. So it came back and tried to drink a bit of water. So today I'm not gonna go. We're gonna

go for breakfast as soon as I've done this. So there are gonna be times where you're gonna purposely overeat, but you're gonna be in control of that. You're not trying to control the food, moderate yourself. You're trying to be in tune and know what's going on, and you are in control of being in tune and knowing what's going on. So yeah, so you want plateaus, you need plateaus.

Some people, everyone's looking a little different. So you might be someone who loses a little bit then have little plateaus or maybe this is larger chunks It has larger plateaus and then you have people who like lose lose lose lose lose lose lose loose wrote an entire program And then come back into the next program and that entire program is a plateau and then they come back for the next program So everyone's a little different if you've ever noticed whenever we have anyone who has lost a significant amount of weight, like a hundred pounds, and it seems like, wow, that like happened really fast. Like Lisa, for example, 111 pounds, but in four months.

So if you do the math on 111 pounds in four months, that's that one to two pounds per week Now she might have had a month where she lost a lot more in a month where she plateaued So that's where you have to take a step back and look at the big picture But you want to need plateaus and that's the problem with all of the weight loss medications that are happening out there Which is why this is such a great program for people to do while taking, because weight loss medications is not the diet. It's no different than starving and depriving and forcing your body to burn fat at the end

of the day. It's not about the losing, it's to be being able to maintain and sustain. So it's all about the tools and skills. Question, should I do back on track or just move forward as I haven't been able to follow the tweaks as my mind and life have been in a way and therefore I'm gaining weight." So hi Kim. So it depends if you've been following but not great, like why are you gaining weight? So that's where, like what's going on in your life?

I would imagine your stress levels are probably a little out of whack, maybe your hormones haven't been sleeping, whatever you've got going on. So if you, if the reason why you're gaining weight, I mean, look, I've got so many questions. Like how much is, is it actually gaining weight or is it just a couple pounds up on the scale that's maybe from the heat this past week? Right? Like it's normal for people's weight to be up. My weight can be up like five to seven pounds in the heat Sometimes even more so I don't know what your reference of gaining weight because if you're just eating good healthy food You wouldn't gain any real weight so

So I'm gonna I don't have enough information to answer that part of it because it depends on how much your weight is up And then why right why because you have to work really hard to actually gain weight That's the thing about weight gain. It's like it's not as easy as you think to just gain weight The scale will fluctuate a lot but to actually gain weight You have to have quite a few things aligning and working for you to actually gain weight So where are you at in the program? What I would do is reach out in the group and just give us a little bit more detail like where you add in the program Have you not followed at all?

Have you been following along but just kind of sort of haven't been able to follow the tweaks as my mind and life has been in a way and therefore I'm gaining weight so so yeah the reason why it's gonna be able a lot of people who will who will not do the program then show up after the fact we're at now and they'd be like where should I do where should I start. I think with the time that we have left back on track can be good. What's your plan for the summer? So you have access to all the information in the group you could pick up where you left off and follow through on your own timeline like you could totally do that. If you just don't have the capacity because life is off

right now then you could do back on track So we're gonna talk about the summer We're gonna talk about the summer for those of you who've done the program you're gonna want to get to the end and use this technique called personalized in the plan to Continue to lose weight over the summer. Some people won't have capacity for that. So you can just work the basic food plan I would say which one brings you less stress given what you've got going on in your life right now. If you got a lot going on in your life right now you're just like I don't even know what's up then you can just follow the basic food plan and maybe just toe the line and then when

you feel like you're ready to kind of be more proactive about it you want to do the tweaks with intention and so without knowing where you are at what you missed I would probably either give either pop into the group, give us more information, or go with whatever feels less stressful. I would imagine not following because you have a lot going on in your life. Continuing to show up though, right?

Continuing to show up and just do the best you can given whatever you're dealing with in the moment, that's enough. How do you choose your final goal weight? I know I don't want to be the size as in high school, I want to be a weight that I can maintain. One has nothing to do with the other. One has nothing to do with the other. Your ability to maintain your weight would be what you're learning while losing weight. To be in tune, to understand and trust when to eat, what to

eat, how much to eat. Like it's what you're learning. It doesn't matter what the end weight is because if you're doing the living method you're losing weight your weight in a healthy way so it doesn't matter what your end weight is also there's no reason why you can't as we just had a member talk about how they're the same weight they were when they were got married or when we're in high school you so that we have a post for this if you want to go back into the group and Search it's also in the app just to search goal weight. It'll come up

So when I work with clients, I will ask them What's the least they amount they weighed after the age of 21? That they were able to to easily maintain and sustain and they'll have members like ah i was doing drugs smoking You know drink surviving on diet coke and cigarettes like I don't want to be that weight But it's not about what you were doing at that weight. It's where you feel confident and comfortable in your body. It also depends on how you are motivated. So I'm motivated by big massive goals. End game goals, some people are more motivated

by short term goals. So are you an end goal motivator, like a big goal or a short term goal motivator? Is that more motivating for you to set smaller goals and to reach them along the way? For all the time that I've done how people lose weight, because your body is not a machine, your goal weight has always been... They just know. And so I'll have someone who says, my goal weight's 140.

They'll get to 160 and they'll be like, I feel good, this is where I wanna stay. And then I'll have another person whose goal is 160 and then they decide they wanna go for 140. And so there's no reason why you can't be the same weight that you weighed when you were younger. and if you've always had a weight issues there's no reason why you can't weigh less than you ever had at the age of 21 and so your body is not meant to store excess fat. Obviously the shape and

toneness of your body is gonna be different you know at 59 than it was at 29 for example but when it comes to weight your body's not meant to carry excess fat at all so it's not looking to store excess fat and so there's no reason why you wait as long as it's I have to say reasonable because I also have to assume that there aren't people following who have disordered eating in the program because that is out of our scope but as long as you're looking to maintain a healthy body weight there's no like there's no reason why like if you're carrying fat that you like I can grab a lot of fat here but this is a lot

of skin from having this is like four this is I'm grabbing that but that's skin from having four kids you there's no reason why you can't lose the weight that you want to lose but they're also gonna not lose weight more weight than you need either at the end of the day so I would say your ideal weight is your ideal weight is whatever you whenever you feel confident and comfortable in your body and so that's up to you So that's a personal personal look because they don't use VMI anymore And yeah, and it really just comes down to what your motive I don't know if that answered your question

But we have a whole post on goal weight if you want to check that out Can you do the GLP ones if you're not hugely overweight? Yeah, so remember that GLP one stem from ozempic ozempic was used We've had members using that for years to manage diabetes, right? So blood sugar and whatnot. There's a lot more research now being done on microdosing, so smaller doses, which can be beneficial for a variety of reasons. One of them is insulin resistance, helping with blood sugar and whatnot. I mean, at the end of the day, you can't just eat whatever you want and then just take weight loss medications.

It will help you lose weight because you'll eat less of what you are eating, but this is what I mean by it's not a diet. And then you also wanna make sure that you are working to maintain your muscle mass at the end of the day. But there's a lot of research behind, more and more research coming down the pipeline with microdosing

smaller amounts, especially when it comes to menopause and hormones. And there's quite a few benefits that they're starting to realize. Before they just thought that if you lost the weight, there was a benefit because of less fat in your body, the healthier you're going to be, which is true because it affects in less body fat means less inflammation. But now that they're realizing that there are, for all the side effects that you are hearing that some people experience,

there are also health benefits that they're uncovering. But then also, you just, I think it's too early to tell with any of the information, but it seems like there are some benefits to doing like microdosing of the GLP ones. Or the GLP ones. Or the GLP ones. Time, time, time, time. Okay, let me just scroll down to a couple at the bottom.

Tony's telling me it's time to go. You probably need to eat then get out of here. Do, do, do. Okay. Who's Pam? I hit my goal weight, but now I look like a deflated balloon. I'm here to tell the 40 year olds to lose weight now because the skin doesn't get back to your 50s. I'm learning to love my wrinkles in my arms. Learn from my mistakes. Hi Pam! Okay, so first of

all when it does come to your skin, you're going to find that it takes a while for your after you're done losing, your skin is constantly regenerating. You cut your your hand cut your hand you don't sit there and look at it and be like oh my goodness my hand is never going to heal and so your skin is constantly regenerating rejuvenating and your skin will also regenerate around your new frame it just takes a lot longer there are some things that can definitely make a difference like dry brushing is one one of them using natural creams oils resistance traininging, all of that. We did have a conversation, we actually talked to Lisa

on our last Real People Real Journey segment, and she talked about this. She talked about how, yes, she does have loose skin, but she would do it a million times over again at the end of the day, so you're not the only one. You're not the only one. What matters is that you're healthy at the end of the day, right, not just no matter what your skin looks like.

Look at my wrinkles, my face is all dry and dehydrated. But here I am, and I'm grateful to be here. Okay, I gotta go. Not gonna be jumping on tomorrow because it's Canada Day. So I hope everyone has a great Canada Day. If you live anywhere else in the country, you can pop in, ask any questions that you have.

The team will get back around to Answering them on Wednesday. You absolutely want to stick around this week. We're revamping Tanya Jelci Mino is going to join us on Friday for how to dress your changing body What are you gonna do if you need a whole new wardrobe? How does that affect your sense of self and style and all of that which is always a really cool conversation? And of course for the next couple weeks, we're gonna talk about personalized and plan and next steps over the summer. Have a great day everyone thanks for joining me. It wasn't too loud, it wasn't too loud and my wi-fi worked pretty well so yay! Have a great day. I will be going live later. I'm on my way home today. Tonight you want to join me then but hopefully

you're off and enjoying a cocktail or enjoying your night. Have a great rest of your day and I will see you later. Bye!