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

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Winter 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: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2025What’s the secret sauce to sustainable weight loss? In this episode, Gina unpacks key takeaways from the Canadian Obesity Summit, the role of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in weight loss, and why your weight fluctuates daily. She also gets real about getting Back On Track, overcoming the fear of failure, and recognizing when you're truly ready for maintenance (hint: it’s not about the number). Plus, she's bringing in new Guest Experts to elevate the conversation! You are the secret to your own success—so let’s talk about what you really need to reach your goals.To learn more about The Livy Method or to sign up for the Spring 2025 Program, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Let's talk about that. If you have any questions, load them up. I'm going to get to them in a second. So this is what I've learned. And I went to the Canadian obesity summit a few years ago. As you know, Ruth Kane has been studying the living method. So she's proven the living method is effective for losing a clinical amount of weight.

The people who are the who's who's in diet like, oh, good for you. That's great. Prove to us that people can sustain and maintain their weight. So Ruth has been studying people who've been able to maintain their weight for over two years and quite frankly, people who haven't and what are the commonalities? What enables someone to be able to maintain and sustain their weight? It's the things that you do while you are losing weight and the living method. I have so much more respect every time I go to one of these conferences.

I come back and have so much respect for the living method. Yes, I created the Living Method, but it is now beyond me. It is way bigger than me. And how I created the Living Method was taking time to talk to people, work with people day in day out, understanding what they needed, not just what to eat and when, but what was going on, why were they were having a hard time. They would go work with a health care professionals. We would then try to figure out how we can adapt things that we can do to really help get and keep that scale moving. And the living method works for everybody. If you

are human and you have a body, there is one diet that works for everyone. It's called the human diet, good whole nutrient rich foods. Now you may have some food sensitivities, some allergies and whatnot and you know, certain food preferences. Then in the day, that's why I love the flexibility of following the Libby method. And so one of the things that were the takeaway at this conference that I was at was that they said out loud that weight loss, sustainable weight loss is not eat less, exercise more. Let me say that again. Sustainable weight loss is not eat less, exercise more. Let me say that again. Sustainable weight loss is not eat less, exercise more.

Yes, what you are eating matters. Yes, moving your body is important. But so are a lot of other things. And they talked about cognitive behavioral therapy. This was a huge conversation. And they actually said, it's interesting. There is no cognitive behavioral therapy for weight loss. And I nearly shit my pants.

I was like, the fuck are you guys talking about? Yes, there is. cognitive behavioral therapy for weight loss. And I nearly shit my pants. I was like, the fuck are you guys talking about? Yes, there is. But it's hard to get a handle on the cognitive behavioral therapy piece of someone needing to lose weight without the structure of the program like the Livy Mathen. And so we start with a basic food plan, right?

And that what that does, it spreads out the foods that you're eating throughout the day. It helps your body get a handle on smaller portions as opposed to going all day long and then overeating when you do eat. It helps address cravings. It does a lot of things. And then each week we've tailored it slightly,

but it's not just the physical things that you're doing with the living method. It's the mental stuff that you're doing. It's the day in the day out trying to be consistent and the changes that you are making and what you are learning along the way. It is a lot of work to be able to lose your weight in a way that you're not going to gain it back.

You have to follow through. You have to keep going. You have to continue learning and you need to understand it is how you are losing weight, not just physically but mentally that will make all the difference when it comes to being able to maintain and sustain your weight. In fact, Ruth, she just submitted some of her research to the European obesity summit, which got accepted.

And this is what we need to really understand. Some of you are not going to make it. Even though you were here a week, Tan, you're not going to follow through. You're not going to finish. You're going to freak yourselves out. You're going to fall back into old habits. You are just, it's going to be too hard, take way too long for you. And you'll end up blaming the program or whatever.

I mean, at this point, all the conversations we've had, all of our guest experts, all of our members, the kind of support that you get, the Living Method works. It's just, you have to figure out how to make it individual to your needs. All right, so as we go into week 10, we're flip-back on the program, what you've done at this point and where you are at now and what you need to do moving forward.

Do you believe that you are going to reach your goal? Do you believe that you're able to lose your weight? But do you believe you're going to stick around long enough to accomplish that goal? Right. And then once you lose the weight, do you believe you're going to be actually be able to maintain and sustain it? So someone asked today, there's a couple of questions that I want to go through and talk about. Log into my phone. Okay. So first of all, someone talked about if after having an indulgent meal and the scale goes up the next day, it's not real weight gain, then how long might it take for the scale to return to pre-indulgent number on the scale?

So your weight is always going to fluctuate, right? This is why I think it's important that you get on the scale and really understand the scale for a tool because your weight is going to continue to fluctuate even after you reach your goal. So what people don't know fluctuate even after you reach your goal. So what people don't know in maintenance is after you are done trying to see the lowest low every day and you're just maintaining your weight, your weight sits about anywhere from like three to seven

pounds above your lowest low and that will fluctuate. So my weight for the last 30 years really was between 119 and 130 and just kind of fluctuates. That was normal. And that was like my doing times were stressful in my life times. I was just choosing how more fun and indulging more like that was sort of the standard. And whenever I got up to the the higher end, I'd be like, okay, Gina, that's fun enough chips every night for dinner. Like let's just kind of like rain it in a little bit.

Check yourself kind of thing and maybe get back to feeling my best, right? And then so through the last stress of the last couple of years, through the death of my children's father, through menopause and whatnot, my weight went up and up and up well beyond that. So I think my weight went up to about 146 pounds. And this is where I had to take a look at my life

and being like, okay, what's going on? So this is this is what it is. This is that mindful piece to have the wherewithal to understand what's going on in your life and be able to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Get yourself back to feeling your best. So this is back on track. Now this is really important because we introduced back on track on the weekend, which was very timely, especially coming off the March break for some of you.

So back on track refers to the original food plan. Back on track is for you when you really go off the rails and you really find yourself indulging. And this is going to help you be able to maintain and sustain your weight. Once you've lost your weight, you go away on vacation or like a weekend, like this weekend, I ate my face off. My sleep was off. I drank, I whatever I feel like, I'm gonna get back on track for a couple

days. But back on track is not something you want to do forever. You want to have back on track on your back pocket because it's really beneficial when you go off the rails. But while you are trying to lose weight, make no mistake that you want to keep following the program. So there's a couple things. Whenever you indulge, you're gonna feel it because a lot of the foods that you choose to indulge in are gonna cause inflammation.

So your weight is gonna be up, you're not gonna feel really great. How long does it take to come, to get back to feeling your best? Well, it depends on how consistent you are at doing the things to help your body. Drinking enough water, getting a good night's sleep, alcohol can sit in your system for like five days to a whole week and just make

you feel like garbage for the whole week. Right. But that's the reality that ain't ever going to change. It doesn't matter whether you're losing weight, maintaining your weight, or just saying, fuck it. Your body was always reactive to any indulgences that you had. Uh, increase on the scale is not real weight gain. It takes a lot longer for your body.

It takes a food that you're eating and convert. So you really these are things you really need to understand, right? So how long is it going to take? It's going to take as long as it's going to take depending on how consistent you are at helping the body recover. So this is again, what is the secret sauce to sustainable weight loss, right? What do you need to do to be able to not just lose your weight, be able to sustain it? So things that you are learning while you are losing and the skills and the takeaways that you have to be able to maintain and sustain your weight, be able to sustain it. So things that you are learning while you are losing and the skills and the takeaways that you have to be able to maintain and sustain your weight.

Here's another one I had today. A back on track question, anything wrong with staying on the back on track permanently? Why the fuck you'd wanna do that is beyond me. So again, big picture, I do understand it. It's easier, it's familiar, right? But it's not doing the work that you need to do in order to lose your weight in a sustainable way.

You're not done yet. Following the program and the routine, you gotta be able to trust yourself when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat. You don't wanna follow a plan for the rest of your life. And so if you're new to the program, you gotta stick around and wait and see what we talk about at the end of the program because it's all again big picture losing your weight being able to maintain and sustain your weight.

This type of mentality just wanting to do the basics. You're not going to get there. You're not going to get there. You have to go deeper than that. You have to level up even more. You got a lot more work to do even just asking this question. Now, the reason why I'm sharing this a lot of people ask this question. Now the reason why I'm sharing this, a lot of people ask this question. In fact, Kim and I talked about last week in the tweet this week, and I said, whatever you think about this back on track, it's way better to follow the tweaks of the program than to just do back on track. You could just do back on track and it will take you forever to lose your weight. It is the tweaks. It is the intention of you going deeper, leveling up even more. And the stuff that's being brought up mentally, that's the shit you got to work through at the

end of the day. Even if you're taking the weight loss medications, even if you're getting any weight loss surgeries, it's even more important the things that you need to learn and do and work through. So yeah, I like this back on track plan as a Permanent plan what the actual fuck no Your permanent plan is for you to be able to wake up look good feel good go about your day and Trust when to eat what to eat and how much to eat if you do not get to that place You will not be able to sustain and maintain your weight. I'm telling you that right now. Now, I'm trying to be a bummer today. No, I'm trying to set your

ass on fire and get you to understand how all your hard work that you put into this program with where you are at right now is going to pay off. That is not where you want to start slacking off, give up, it's hard, take too long. Hell no! You've worked way too hard. The secret sauce to sustainable weight loss is to keep working on it, to go deeper. To me this is just giving up. I want to just go the easy route. I just want to do this forever. Yeah, something's going to happen in your life. You're going to go right back into your old habits, right? The minute you get thrown off your plan, you don't have a plan for back on track. There's no back on track for you when you're just using back on track for your life plan.

You are not going to be able to live the rest of your life following a plan. That's not at some point you will get thrown off. And then when you don't have a I don't have a backup plan, which is back on track, then you're going to be screwed. Then you're going to be screwed. Your weight is going to come back on. So you have to want to keep moving forward. Your future is created by being in the now. Your future is created by being in the moment and it's what you are doing today right now

that is going to lead you to be able to lose your weight in a healthy, sustainable way. So I love that question. First of all, I love that question and everyone asks it and I don't understand. I do understand why you'd want to just go the easy route the easy route is not gonna get the job done It's not gonna get the job done you use back on track for as many days as you need until you feel like you're back on Start first of all, how about we just don't need to use back on track in the first place Especially while you are losing you really want to minimize that but there going to be those times where life just throws you a curve ball, you fall back into old habits,

you're just like, you're just like, fucking I'm going on vacation, I don't care. And in the moment you think, okay, I'm just going to enjoy myself and then you're going to pay for it later. And then you're going to have back on track on your back pocket. So absolutely use it if and when you need it,

but make no mistake, you want to minimize it while losing weight. It's really for, it really is for maintenance. Okay, I was waiting for 15 days. Don't do male splitting or last week's tweak. Try to stay on plan, but that faded, enjoyed my holiday. There you go. Right. Perfect situation. Don't want to be behind in the program. So should I just follow this week's tweak or do back on track for a few days? I would do back on track for a few days. That's going to calm your body down. It's going to give you a bit of a reset

because that's what it does. It calms the body down, right? It calms the body down, helps you get a handle on it. And then you're gonna get back to following the tweak. That is the quickest way for you to get back at it and to start seeing results. So what you want the quick just in, I don't wanna be behind, let me do what I need to do.

But the quickest way to start seeing results is to help the body calm down, implement back on track for a couple of days and then just keep moving it from there, moving it from there. Right. So, so again, this is that need to like, rather than doing what's best for you to keep up with where we're at in the program, then that's kind of a hard thing to juggle, but you really just want to focus on what's best for you and what's going to get the job done here.

Ah, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. How do you know when you're ready for maintenance? I signed up again in fear that I will fall off the program. How do I get that confidence? Love this question. I love all these questions by the way. How do you know when you're ready for maintenance? You will know.

You will know, you will know. And it's not, it's not based on weight either. Right. And that's really important because when people are, even when they make a decision that they're done losing, they still find themselves chasing the scale and maintenance. They're like, I don't know why I'm keep chasing the scale. I'm done. I'm happy.

Right? And so, cause sometimes it's about that number. So I've had a client, they want to be, you know, the end game is 140, they get to 160. They're like, I feel fantastic. I feel great here. Right? Or maybe their goal is 160. And then they're like, you know what, I want to go for more. So then they go for 140. So to me, when all the people have talked about maintenance, when they're ready for maintenance, it's never been about the number. That's one thing I can tell you for sure. It's

never been I reached the number and now I'm good. It's always been, they feel like this is a great weight for me. So it's gonna be a feeling that only you will know. This isn't based on what someone else is telling you, don't lose any more weight, you look great. We're still doing that Gina Livi program. Ah, this is about you, you getting to a place where you're like, I think I'm good.

I feel really great. Now that doesn't mean the work stops, right? This is where you still wanna manage your stress. You still wanna get the best sleep possible. Maybe you are into moving your body and you're building on your workout routine, right? The work doesn't stop just because you've lost weight. In fact, it can be like a whole other beast

getting into maintenance. It's a whole other thing because you have to go from the weight loss mindset, which some people have been in for years, into a maintenance mindset and then really embracing who you are. How does that lead into sustainable weight loss? Is now you've made all these changes,

not just physically, but mentally, and then you're sitting there and you're like, what do I do with this? Who am I? What is that? And it's about maintaining the lifestyle that's gonna support the new you, right? So that's not about,

it's not going back to your life before it's about continuing to move forward and being like, what do you want for your life? How do you want to feel? How do you want to move through life? What kind of relationships you want to have other people? What kind of relationships do you want to have with yourself? Right? I signed up again in fear that I will fall off the program.

How do I get that confidence? So let's go. So Dr. Beverly David is going to join us tomorrow. She can talk about where you are at now and what you need to do in order to move forward and keep going and ask, are you going to be the person who reaches their goal? Are you going to be the person who doesn't just lose the weight,

but now continues with the rest of their life, just living their new life? Are you going to be that person? Can you ask yourself right now, do you feel like you're going to be that person? Because it's really about embracing that, embracing the changes that you've made, right? Continuing to embrace the, to live the lifestyle that's going to support the changes that you've made.

Are you going to be that person or are you going to fall back into old habits? Are you going to like, are you going to be that person? If you don't know who that person is, right? That can be where the work is in maintenance. That's that leads into sustainable weight loss. The things that people don't really recognize that they're working through, that's going to really make all the difference when it comes to being able to maintain and sustain their weight. So that fear piece, right? So how do I move? What are you fearful about? So that's the first thing. I love that you have a name for it. It's, it's, you know, I, I, I signed up again in fear that I will fall off the program.

So this could be that you don't trust yourself. Do you not trust yourself? Cause this, this happens a lot in, uh, although, you know, people learn to trust the program because we proved to you that it works. We have other members who it's worked for, but there's that trust. You don't trust yourself. Right. And then I think this is where that comes back

to the first one. Can we just keep doing back on track? Because you know that routine, you trust that you can do that. Moving forward, you're not sure you can trust the choices that you're going to make. Next week is really cool. It's called Personalize in the Plan.

And a lot of people freak out by this tweet because they think, oh my God, I just, I get to do my own thing. And if that's your takeaway, you're probably A, sabotaging yourself or don't trust yourself because it's not, it's not doing your own thing. There's a lot of structure in there.

That's why you've got to keep moving forward and you have to go through this part of the program. And this is why doing round after round after round after round is so beneficial because it just helps you dig deeper, level up even more and continue to work through the things that you need to work through. So it's that fear, right? I signed up again in fear that I will fall off the program.

It's not that falling off. First of all, it's not that you're not going to fall off the program because when you are done the program, you're going to go into the maintenance program and that's where you work on all the other things that are going to help you maintain and sustain. And you're not going to learn that by just continuing to do the weight loss program over and over and over and over. The maintenance program is is is true. It's a 91 day program. It's the same tweaks, but the intention is completely different. So one that we got you in the maintenance program and then you can ask all the questions that you need.

Like, do you know what I mean? Like, I have no fear. You're not going to fall off the program because eventually you're not going to be on the program. You're just going to be living your life. That's the end game. There'll be nothing for you to fall off on. You're just going to be living your life.

Now you might fall back into old habits and then you'll realize, oh, that's not really working for me. Then you can use back on track and then get back to your feeling, your best, get back to wake up, look good, feel good. Right. Um, I know it's a lot easier said than done. So I signed up again in fear that I will fall off the program.

How do I get that confidence? So this is continuing to work through the things that you need to work through. Could be trust issues. It could be that you don't believe you are worthy. Right. It could be that you're having a hard time worthy, right? It could be that you're having a hard time with the changes that you've made and your relationships with people around you in your life,

right, your friend circle, your relationship, right? Like there's a lot that's going on here in this program. You're making a lot of change. You're making actual foundational changes in your life. And you are changing who you are and how you show up in life. And so you have to think, what is this about? Where's that fear coming from? You actually have to sit there and be like, okay, I really want to lose this weight. What is losing this weight going to mean to me that I wake up every day, I go into my closet, I feel confident, I feel comfortable in

my skin, I have great energy, I look good. I feel good. I am not afraid to be around food. I feel calm around foods. Again, this is about rewiring how your bodies come to function physically and then also rewiring your brain so that at the end you're calm around food. I want you to sit in a room full your favorite foods and not even bat an eyelash or be like, I'm going to have that donut. And maybe you just have a bite. You're like, that's good. And you don't even feel like you need to eat the rest.

Or maybe you're like, this is delicious. I'm gonna eat this. And then nothing happens in your brain afterwards. Just like, that was good. And then you don't punish yourself, none of that. You just go about your day, right? Like that's the end game. That's where we need you to get to.

And again, that's a lot of the work for some people. Now you can do that in maintenance. You can continue to learn those things in maintenance. So if you reached a weight that you think you're comfortable at, then there's still all of this work you're going to do in maintenance. So it's not like you're left

and then you got to figure it out, right? So are you done losing weight? That's really important. Are you at a weight that you're happy with? Right? That's two. And then where's the fear coming from? Right? A fear that I'm not going to be able to maintain and sustain it, fear that I can't trust the

choices that I'm making. So let me round out this conversation before I get into answering some of your questions. What is the secret sauce? What's the secret to sustainable weight loss? Is doing the work that you're doing on the program. It's honoring the thoughts that you're having the feels that you're having because that's going to give you insight into where you're at and what you need to do and work through. That's why I asked you, do you feel like you can do this? Do you feel like you're going to make it to the end of the program or are you already like, oh, there's not enough time and this is hard and I just want to do back

on track and I don't want to move forward. Like if you're nervous, if this is hard and I just want to do back on track and I don't want to move forward. Like if you're nervous, if this is your first program and you're nervous about the tweak still to come, that's great. That means you're stepping outside of your comfort zone. And that also means you have a lot more work to do. If you notice with our returning members, when we first did downsizing, they're like, fucking right. Yeah. Woo. When we first did feeding metabolism, like love this week in tweak. Yeah. When they do the revamp, they're like, all right, let me do this. I didn't do last time. Cool. Right. So it's an opportunity to test yourself, see what you got. The program is not going to mess you up. Any, any,

any keeping moving forward is always the best way to go. Some people just want to stay stuck in their happy, comfortable place, but that's not going to get you to reach your goals. It's just not. It's just not. So the big takeaway from the conference this week is the inability to access the healthcare team that people really truly need in order to help them lose weight, which are your doctors, yes, but endocrinologists talking about your hormones and not just your thyroid, not just, not just your insulin, not just your cortisol, but your hunger hormones.

There's a lot of talk about hunger hormones. There was a lot of talk about sleep, the importance of getting sleep, right? So maybe that's having a sleep expert that obviously the CBT, the cognitive behavioral therapy piece was huge. A lot of people don't have access or can't afford psychologists. There's huge massive wait lists. Rehabilitation therapists, that's a big one too, especially people dealing with chronic pain, not having access to personal trainers or the therapist or the therapy that they

need for physically to help them. And that's what the program does. The program gives you that base foundation and really the systematic nature of the program because the body loves routine. And then we have all of our guest experts who are speaking to you in a language that you can understand, relevant to where you are at and sharing their time, trying to just share everything that they know to help you in understanding what you are doing. Right. So the piece that's all about you is like, where are you at? What do you need? Because, you know, I can't read your mind or program specialist can't read your mind or guest experts can't read your mind.

So it's up to you to be like, OK, where am I at? What do I need? What am I struggling with right now? What do I need to not just finish this program but actually lose my weight, like actually give myself a fighting chance at living a life where I am not obsessed with trying to lose weight, where it doesn't consume my life. Am I, I want to be one of those people that is comfortable in their skin, comfortable in their body.

I want one of those be one of those people that's not constantly thinking about my next meal and then stressing out and berating myself. So what do you need to do to get there? What do you need to do to get there? What do you need to get there? I ordered that beautiful necklace that Gina's wearing. I'm a total copycat and it's all her fault. I love it. So Tony, someone asked me about this on the live on Friday. So this is Tony got me this for Valentine's Day. It's totally not me. It's like I, but I just, I love it for some reason. And I wasn't sure I would. So I ordered a knockoff version on Amazon for like $19. I think it's still

here. And I was like, let me see if I like this. So I wore, so I wore that and then I ended up loving it. And then Tony got it for me for about stepping out of my comfort zone. Uh, we should all get, uh, one is it's great support idea for following Gina. What are you guys talking about necklaces? If you total all of the guests, experts, all of the lives, all of the program content, where else would we get this content for under a hundred dollars? I mean, so yeah, I mean,

this is why we're the most affordable weight loss program out there. So you guys know where we are advertising. I want the world to know about the program. Everybody should be doing a program like this. Every time I go to one of these conferences just solidifies that. I'm actually going to be bringing on some of these incredible researchers and experts in their field. Dr. Sean Wharton, he's like Canada's brightest mind in obesity

research is going to come on the program, is going to come and talk. And they know very much what the program is all about. And that's what I've been able to do, help people en masse in a way that's affordable. And so we've started advertising and I love our new ad campaign. It's love like live lighter. And what I'm getting on there is a couple of things from which is always like, you know, the people on the negative, well, I did this program, it didn't work for me. And I have so many questions for them, right? Like why, and like what part of it didn't work for you? Because this is how you lose weight.

That is one thing I know for sure, coming away from another obesity conference. This is it, this is it, this is how you lose weight. Even when taking the weight loss medications It's not a guarantee that just taking the one medication is going to help you lose the weight And then when you come off the weight, it's the things that you learn That's gonna help you be able to maintain and sustain your weight because you're just gonna go you take your weight loss medication And yes, it calms the mind helps you handle on your hunger doesn't help you work through feeling worthy

Doesn't help you work through feeling worthy doesn't help you work be in a room full of your favorite route foods once you come off that medication. It doesn't help you repair that relationship with yourself doesn't do any of those things doesn't work through your issues and associations and coping mechanism just makes you not hungry and that's great and and and quiet that noise you get a handle on it, get a jump on it. Right? Same thing with same thing with any of the surgeries, I've helped people who've had bariatric surgery, okay, great, it minimizes the amounts of food that you can consume. But you still have to make the change

you have to change the coping mechanisms, the routines, how you were living your life, right? You have to make those you have to make those foundational changes. And, of the price, people are like, again, with the price increase, like I started at $60. I haven't increased my prices for years. I've added an app that is worth millions of dollars. I have an incredible team of people that I want to pay so they can live their lives, have a great paycheck,

make decent money and love their jobs. I think sometimes people forget about that. All these people who are answering your questions, they're real people who want to help you, who like to make a good living and get paid. Y'all don't do it for free. I'm sure they would love to but at the end of the day, they have jobs and their job is to help you and they have so much passion for that I want them to not only love their job. I want them to be able to afford their eggs

I want them to be able to afford their their breads and their milk, you know, and And so people are always about the program So I kept the price as low as I could go for as long as possible And at some point the price of everything is going up I have to because I have for my team, the price is going up for them too. Even with that, you're right for $99, the value, the access that you get to our guest experts

who also come on for free because they actually care and are passionate. It's fucking insane. You have everything that you need here. Every, if not this, then what? If not this, then what? And that's why I feel for people like, oh, it didn't work for me. I'm just like, ah, or people are talking about the price of the pro. I've even had members who are doing the program now talk about how great it is complaining about the price on ads. Y'all, I need people to sign up to be

successful so we can run a successful company so we can continue to help people at the end of the day. But people don't trust. I think that's what it comes down to. People don't trust. People don't trust. People don't trust, right? The program won't work for people who don't do the work.

Seriously, someone complained about you having to chop vegetables. Do you want you to go to your house and chop them for you? And this is it. And this is my conversation. I was like today, what is the takeaway? I want you to understand that if you're still here and listening, it's so worth continuing. And yes, take a minute and be proud of yourself. Because there's no easy feat to be here. But I just if there was a way that I could get people to understand how everything that you're doing, it's so worth doing. And it all is going to pay off and all factors into being able to not just lose your weight in a healthy way, but in a way where you have a fighting chance of actually being able to maintain and sustain your weight,

which I know for so many of you is going to be life-changing. All the time and energy and money that you've put into weight loss move forward in your life Put that space in your brain put it into something else Right that money that you've been spending put it into something else like that is the end game around here But you are the missing piece You are the missing piece. I can add more experts. I can add more support. I can add more videos I can try to simplify the program, add more information, try to motivate you more, but you, you are the secret sauce to sustainable, maintainable weight

loss. It's you, it's you knowing what you need. And so ask all the questions that you need, right? What haven't you done? What is the thing that you're not doing that you know is going to be a game-changer, but maybe makes you feel uncomfortable, right? Changing forever moving forward is the key on every diet I did in the past. I lost some weight and went back to old habits. Yeah. And it's so easy to do that. You know, two steps forward, two steps back, right? Two steps forward, three steps back. Hopefully it's two steps forward, two steps back, right? Two steps forward, three steps back. Hopefully it's two steps forward, one step back. Now, now don't get me wrong, falling back into those old habits.

So you recognize, oh, this isn't working for me. That's I don't want to do that. Sometimes that realization is so worth it. That's why it's truly about progress over perfection. But it's you know, today I'm just like, I want everybody to be successful. You wanna know why? Because this is weight loss, I love it. I wanna get into the, and maintenance, I love even more.

Y'all, I love, maintenance is my favorite conversation. It's so fascinating. But I wanna create a third program, where now that we're done losing and maintaining, we're just living our life, how do we truly live our best life? How do we truly, truly like life? How do we truly, truly like create the life of our dreams? That's really where we're impassioned about. So that's

where we want people to get to. But you know, again, today I woke up on my how do I, I know there are people who are just going to stop following. I know there are people who are going to think the program didn't work for them. And why I want to know why at the end of the program, we actually have a survey and it's not just for people. Ruth doesn't just study the people who do really well. We want to know why didn't it work for you? Why do you think it didn't work for you

with all of the resources, all of the information, all of the science, all of like the support, all of everything, why didn't it work for you? And if you are watching this or listening right now and you're like, well, it's not working for me. Why isn't it working for you? And if you are watching this or listening right now and you're like, well, it's not working for me. Why isn't it working for you? What's the missing piece? You tell me. I know what I can offer all of you, but you tell me what's the missing piece? What is it? A lot of times that's where you need to go. I mean, it's no different with me. I'm trying to be healthy, trying to, you know, exercise exercise and move more. And I know how I want to feel.

And I sometimes get really close to that. And then I sabotage it. I don't know why. Maybe it's I don't feel worthy. Maybe it scares me because just when I'm doing all the things, everything is starting to align and I start thinking, oh shit, maybe what I want in life is actually going to happen for me. In one sense, I feel so confident about it

I can tell the world I'm gonna have the number one weight loss company in the world and not even bad an eyelash I'm so confident about that. But yet Also deeper than that. There's a layer of me that is just maybe it'll be like I lived a life for a very long time where The shoe was always dropping just when it got good something happened Happened and I used to think that it was my ex-husband who was sabotaging. And don't get me wrong, he did his fair share of sabotaging because he was abused when he was younger. And soon as life got good for him, he did something to sabotage it. So that was a struggle his entire life. And I used to think that that was my problem.

He'd always sabotage things for me. And when he's no longer been around to sabotage things for me before he passed away, but this is when we when we went our separate ways, I realized that that was like self fulfilling prophecy. Because I lived like that for so long, I then started to sabotage myself. And then I realized not too long ago that I didn't feel worthy. I although I have successful and on the outside, it was like things are going well. Inside I didn't feel worthy. I don't feel worthy.

And so that was a big realization for me. So sometimes we think, oh, we're doing really great, we're successful and whatever, but underlying that's why I want you to go deep today and be like, let's take it beyond the end of the program. Let's visualize where what you want your life to be how you want to feel. Do you do you really believe that you're going to follow through? Are you going to continue long enough? I know it's going to be a hard arduous journey for some of you, but it's going to be if you spent 20 years doing quick fixes. How would that work for you? Right? And what I love about the living

method is right from the get people start to notice how much better they feel like all those non scale victories, at least there's proof in the pudding with that, right? And so I know when you have a lot of weight to lose, or it's been a real struggle for you, especially if you have your health issues, especially if you're struggling. If you are young, you're doing the living method. And then 93% of people do the living method just fine. And they just are like, it works. It's great. It's whatever.

But for the people who are really struggling, this is where you want to say, this sucks. This is you're having a really hard time. So if not all of this, then what? If not all of this, then what? And so that's where yes, maybe you have to go a little bit deeper. Maybe you need to go see an endocrinologist. Maybe you need to go down the medical path. Maybe you need to like, you know, but all the things that you're doing on top of that

are all the things that you need to do at the end of the day. Right? So that was sort of my takeaway and one that I wanted to share. I haven't seen much change as far as the scale number, but boy, I'm seeing some changes in my tummy. I 100% believe that the scale will start to reflect what I'm seeing. Maybe I should check the batteries but the non-scale victories are filling my cup and I can feel a positive shift in my inner connections.

This is change, right? Janice, this is like you feel you feel the change you are changing not just physically but mentally and it's all of that change. You need to change the way you do things. You need to change how you're showing up in your life. You need to change in order to make change and in order to sustain the change. You need to change the way you do things. You need to change how you're showing up in your life. You need to change in order to make change. And in order to sustain the change that you made, you have to do the things that are going to sustain the change that you made. You can't go back and do the things

that supported the life that you were living before. And I think sometimes this feels like such hard work. It feels like so much work to do that, but it's so easy like that thing. It's like you think you think we're going out and work working out and eating healthy is hard. Being sick is being is harder. You know, that saying where people say that and it's so true. Third round, I've been all in this round. I noticed my why has changed the last few weeks. Oh, yes. It just reminded me of something. When I started, it was all about losing weight on the scale. Now my Y has changed. It was like a light bulb went off. Thank you, Gina and team. Oh, joy. I love that. So they actually brought on, so there was clinicians

at this conference and they also brought on people in lived experience and people who are going through obesity. And man, you know, it's been a whole, I love that doctors are recognizing that the way they have spoken and treated people. And I know a lot of you have great doctors and some of you just have awful stories about how you were treated. And it is true. I want you to understand. I want to validate that for a lot of our members who you've gone to the doctor and you feel

like it's always just lose weight, lose weight, lose weight, brushing you off. Don't respect you any of those things. What I loved about this conference is that the doctors are recognizing that they've done that and they actually want to learn. If you've never been in a larger body, and I think that's what gives me the advantage here although it was very long ago, I do remember it was that it was that traumatizing for me that I do remember because I was fit and I was hardly eating and I just got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and I remember that and

be like, you should just, why don't you weigh less? But the doctors are actually trying to change that, but it's hard because unless you've lived in a larger body, you don't have no reference for that, right? But they had a woman there was talking about her why, and this is something that doctors don't understand. They come in, they weigh you, they treat you why and this is something that doctors don't understand they come in they weigh you They treat you they give you medicine and they don't understand the complexities of weight loss your thoughts and your feels and your beliefs Your issues and associations and your traumas tied into it, right? They're starting to talk about your why and your why is really important

They're starting to understand that what the motivator is for people is really important because it's a lot. It's a lot. I'm glad that you brought this up. What is your why today? Has your why changed? Some people when they come into the program are using the same why that they've been using for 20 years. And if it doesn't change halfway through the program, it definitely changes at the end

of the program. What's your why now? What is your motivator? What's going to keep you going? Not just your why for the end of the program But your why for truly reaching your goal doing the work that you need to do and then your why For doing the work you need to do in maintenance and your why for changing your whole lifestyle Like what is your why for that right? Just reminding yourself why you're here at the end of the day. I love that. I Love that. I love that. Okay

Oh a couple things I want to say. So so with the app, because you guys are listening, you have to update to the latest iOS. So what's happening in the tech world out there, and I don't know much about it in terms of like updates, because my phone just automatically updates for me, some people will need to update to the new version of iOS because apps not just our app but apps are no longer going to support versions under 15. So if you have any issues with the app make sure you do that. It is not too late to start using the app. It's not too late to start journaling. It's not too late to

start intentions. It's not too late to start anything. We got three solid weeks. So really dig in your heels into week 10, ask all the questions that you need, be super confident in it because it is the foundation and the setup and the lead up for next week's tweak. I know you guys got a lot of questions about what's gonna happen at the end of the program. Take it day by day, show up,

focus on where you're at now and what you need. Stay focused on that scale right to the very last day. We're gonna make sure you get all the information that you need about next steps so you'll have a lot of opportunity to talk. Obviously we have our next program signing up starting April 21st. So there's a two week break in between.

You'll be able to continue to use the app in general tracking mode. We're gonna make sure you are good to go. We're gonna tell you everything that you need to do. And I think the break is going to be great for you. It's gonna be great for you. Cause at some point you're gonna be on And I think the break is going to be great for you. It's gonna be great for you because at some point you're gonna be on your own. This will be a good little test for you.

Two weeks also not long enough to gain any weight. So you're gonna be just fine. You'll still have access to all the information in the Facebook support group. Although we stopped posting and answering questions and whatnot. You still have all that for those of you who are working behind the program.

You'll have that opportunity to still be able to get the information they need. I went off track for a few days, felt horrible. Just two days back on track eating my nutrient rich meals and feeling better already. What a difference. Normally it would have taken months, but the support was a game changer. This is my first program. Hi Louise, I love hearing that. Yes. Right. And that my first program. Hi Louise. I love hearing that. Yes.

Right. And that's what it is there for. It's always better to work the tweaks of the program, but there are going to be those times when you're going to go off the rails. It is not for a few off meals here and there. It's not for a few bites of bits here and there. And I know it's so tempting to want to just do the back on track and the easy thing, but that's just going to keep you stuck. It's not going to keep you moving forward.

So it is use it for what it is. It's great to get you back on track and the easy thing, but that's just going to keep you stuck. It's not going to keep you moving forward. So it is use it for what it is. It's great to get you back on track. Usually only takes a couple of days. And then you're like, wow, I feel so much better. Okay. I got this. And then off you go. And it's that routine.

It's also why that routine at the beginning of the next program, people are like, do I just do the same thing? Yes, you do, but it will be a totally different experience. Uh, every program is a little different, but we do that reset the beginning with where your body is at now, which is really super cool. Okay, um, I'm excited about this week. I hope you are too. I hope I hope you take a minute out today to just really have a good conversation with you about where you are at,

what you need, visualize going forward, you know, ask all the questions be all in. And that's not do more, more going forward, ask all the questions, be all in and let's not do more and more and more. It's not that you need to do any more. It's not that you're not doing anything wrong. I really want this to work for you. I want this to be the last diet that you ever do and there is work that you need to do in order to truly make that happen for yourself.

So whatever you need, give some thought about that today. Have a fantastic rest of your day everyone. I'm going to be back tonight 7 p.m. if you want to join me then we can continue the conversation. I'll make some notes. I know I didn't get to some of your questions, a lot of your questions today, but I will make a note of some of your questions and I'll go through them. And tonight, tomorrow Dr. Beverly David in the house is going to join us talking about how do we just keep going? What do we need to make sure that we are making it to the end of the program? I see on the post you guys are asking questions.

So I'm going to ask her some of those questions as well. Not too late to add yours to that post from the other day. Have a fantastic rest of your day. Everyone I'll see you tomorrow or later today. Bye.