The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 73 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 73, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:What is success to you? Let’s finish strong!RPRJ - Jenny Sawicki - give it a listen - you will walk away feeling motivated and inspired. Derailed? Gina offers tips for getting back on track. What’s your sleep ratio? Lacking Motivation - Reassess and deepen your WHY. Check out our Member Spotlights every Monday. Take a moment to thank YOURSELF! Make a list and read it over and over! Expanding on the conversation around GLP1’s. How to navigate being behind the Group. Travel talk and quality of life with family. How to navigate the holidays and the time between Groups. Understanding hunger and making the necessary adjustments. To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams from my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on Acast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple,

and Amazon Music. 73 of the program. Are you going to be here at the end? Are you going to be a success story? Heck yeah, you will. Because if you're listening to this right now, chances are you are well on your way. But what does success mean to you? So many people put pressure on themselves to reach their total goal weight in the timeframe that we have when one that's not really realistic to begin with. But two, it's going to be it is what it is, it's going to be what it's going to be. This is the point in the program, you want to put pedal to the metal, you want to be what it's going to be. This is the point in the program you want to put pedal to the metal. You want to be all in. You want to continue your journey in a way that sets you up for success moving forward. You want to finish this program stronger, stronger than the day

that you started because look what you've done. Look what you know. Look what the changes that you've made already, right? So what is success to you? Is it just seeing that number that you want to see on the scale or is it so much more than that? The theme for this week has been you figuring out what's going on with you, you figuring out what you need, you figuring out what you need to do. It's really all about you at this point. We had a really interesting conversation. I had a really interesting conversation with Jen Sawicki, our guest yesterday on the Real People, Real Journey. If you have not had an opportunity

to watch or listen, I highly suggest you do. So diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was 11 months old. Obviously, she's had a lifetime of challenges. And the Libby Method, when she was 11 months old. Obviously she's had a lifetime of challenges and the Libby method, when it was introduced to her, she figured she was about 300 pounds, not mobile. She depends on a wheelchair, didn't have, can't even access her kitchen, depends on other people for her food choices. And you may think, oh, that's so easy. I would love for someone to make my food, but she's had to educate the people making her food for her to get them to do what she needs them to do. And that's not always an easy thing, battling what other people think and how other people feel and other people's food issues as well. The inability to go to the bathroom on demand. Can you imagine trying to drink more water? We hear so many people complaining about having to go to the bathroom. Well, she can't get to the bathroom on her own. And man, she had, she has every excuse in the book

that she can use and she doesn't use any of them, which is obviously why she's as amazing as she is and has the support system around her that she has. She's absolutely lovely. You will walk away feeling motivated and inspired. But I had an aha moment in the sense that sometimes we try to overcomplicate things. And I had this moment of clarity where, okay, let's just say you do have someone take over all the food stuff for you. Okay. And what do they need to know? They need to know the food plan.

They need to know the basic guidelines each week, that food part of it. So let's just say that you take the food part of it away. What have you, what are you left with? Everything else, everything else. And you may think, oh, it's so easy if I just had someone just making the food for me. Well, that doesn't mean that person is, is making the portions that you need. That portion, that person is taking care of your cravings, that person is addressing your issues and associations, that person is addressing how you've utilized food to cope. None of those things,

none of those things, right? And so I just thought if you separate the food part of it from the rest of it, it leaves you with quite a bit. And I think that's what's happening right now with a lot of you, you're starting to really recognize at this point, 10 weeks in, you've got the food part down. It's just a matter of putting together the foods and time and the foods. That's it. You've got the food part down. And then even next week, when we introduce our next week, nothing really changes in the sense that you're still following all the guidelines. You're going to check in at every meal and snack where you're not introducing any new foods. Nothing really crazy is happening.

So just make the switch with the food plan next week. And then you're left with all the rest. And I think that's what you're starting to realize. When you no longer have the distraction of the food plan and what's going on there, you are really left with the real work that you need to do at the end of the day. And let me tell you, baby, that's all you. That's all you. It is all up to you, whether you're going to be successful or not, especially at this point in the program. An exciting place to be, but also a very feely place to be. Help, I fall and I can't get up.

I spent this program solidifying my weight loss over the last three programs. And for the last five days, I've had insomnia and the food noise at night is back. And when I'm not sleeping, the temptation to eat is getting way strong. Okay, I love that you're aware of all this. That's huge. The scale has gone up every day for the last five days. It's a vicious cycle. Any support or tips to get me back on track would be appreciated. Okay, so I love that you're reaching out. But let's take a minute deep breath in and break this It's a vicious cycle. Any support or tips to get me back on track would be appreciated. Okay. So I love that you're reaching out, but let's take a minute, deep breath in and break this down for you. What's going on with you?

Only you know what you need to do. 10 weeks in, you know this, you've already said it. You've already said it, right? So you spent this program solidifying your weight loss, right? Over the last three, you've spent the program solidifying your weight over the last three programs. So you spent this program solidifying your weight loss, right? Over the last three, you've spent the program solidifying your weight over the last three programs. So you got this. For the last five days, I've had insomnia and the food noise at night is back.

And okay, so insomnia, the food noise at night is back. And when I'm not sleeping, the temptation to eat is strong. Okay. Scale's gone up every day for the last five days. It's a vicious cycle. You're right. It's a vicious cycle. You're right. It's a vicious cycle. What's going on? Chances are this is a cycle in your life that keeps happening. Let's break it down. What's happening in your environment right now? It's happening in your

life. What's going on? What's causing you to have insomnia? A big treatment for insomnia is cognitive behavioral therapy, right? Usually it's what's going on in our brain that's causing the inability to sleep. Now it could be hormones. It could absolutely be hormones. It could be something on, you know, where you want to absolutely have a conversation with your healthcare provider. So make that appointment, check that off. Okay. At least in your mind, okay, you're addressing that. What's going on with me? What's happening there? Is there something happening physically with me? Right. But what's going on in

my environment? What's going on in my world? We can't help you with that. We can't help you with that. But what we can do is say, okay, remind your, you want to remind yourself of the things that you can do. Have you done any deep breathing exercises? Right? Just to manage your stress and what you got going on. Are you going for walks? Right? Are you getting out there going for walks? Great for stress. It's great for sleep. Are you waking up and getting the sunlight on your face? Have you stopped taking your vitamin D? Right?

Or are you not taking vitamin D? It's so dark. Right? So check those supplements. Right? What do you need there? Is this a very stressful period of time in your life right now? Right?

Add in that omega-3. What can you do to help alleviate that stress? And this is where you want to look to the maximizing post. So your need for the maximizing post can change. Yes, at the beginning of each new week, but whenever you're noticing something changing, look to the maximizing post and go through it and be like, okay, am I taking my supplements? Oh no, I stopped taking those, right? Am I journaling? No, no, I stopped journaling. And you may not think that those supplements were really making a big difference until it comes to now where you need that vitamin D, you need that omega-3. You may have thought, oh, that journaling is not doing me any good, except you were journaling

your thoughts, your intentions, at least you were getting it out there on paper and you realize, okay, that actually is helping you, right? What's going on with your water intake? So the temperature has dropped radically. It's not hot and sunny. We're not sweating. So, you know, our need for water or like the ease of drinking our water, we can't necessarily keep it in our cars because, you know, freezes or it's way too cold or whatever. So chances are your water is not as appealing. You're not drinking as much water, right? And so when you're dehydrated, what's appealing. You're not drinking as much water. Right. And so when you're dehydrated, what's happening? You're, you're craving. And then, so, so what's happened with

our bedtime routine? Is it finally the time change is keeping up with you? Are you still going to bed at exactly the same time, but you haven't actually adjusted to the time change? The fact that it gets earlier, a darker earlier, right? So this is where like, what is, what, what is, what is, what's happening in my environment? External things like stress and whatnot, physical things do actually have some physical stuff going on with me, what's happened in my routine, what's changed, what's changed, right? And then so you want to bring awareness to what's happening. So everything that you've described is the symptoms, right? The symptoms are you're not sleeping, you're tempted to eat, the food noise is back, and the scale is up. Okay, so we get all that. But why? Why? So this is not necessarily

tips to do. In order for us to give you tips, you need to figure out why this is happening in the first place, right? So that's the thing. Once you know why it's happening, then obviously you can put in place support systems or start doing the things that you could do. Obviously that can help you with that. So that's, that's the number one thing, you know, yourself best. Why are you not sleeping? And so, you know, it was interesting. I had Dr. Beverly David, you know, she's a clinical psychologist. She's also a sleep researcher. Join me in the menopause group. And she was talking about kind of your sleep ratio. And so, for example, this is me.

This has been me. I go to bed at 8 o'clock. I can't understand why I'm so tired. Oh, my God, I'm so tired. I go into my bed at 8 o'clock. I'm on my phone. I'm still working. The kids are coming in and out. Tony, I get out of bed. I got

to go pick my kid up from her job. Tony and I are trying to watch a movie. A movie ends. What time did our movie end last night? About 11. Right? Movie ends about 11. Got to get ready for bed, whatever. And then I got to get up whatever time I got to get up in the morning. And so I think, oh my God, I've been in bed since eight o'clock at night. Okay. But what time did I actually try to go to sleep? So I probably didn't even try to go to sleep till 1130. And by then, by the time I wake up, it's not enough time for me to get a good night's sleep. And here I am being like, oh my God, why am I so tired? What's going on? Well, honey, you are not even giving yourself enough time to actually get enough sleep. Going in your bed at eight o'clock doesn't mean that you are trying to get to sleep

at eight o'clock. So in my mind, I'm like, why am I so tired? Well, duh. By the time I actually attempt sleep, it is way too late. So that's on me. That is 100% on me. But I'm wandering around like, what's wrong with me? You're a dumbass. Go to bed. So sometimes we have these things going on. We're not, we're not able to see. So my point is that I didn't see that knock me over the head with a two by four until, you know, Dr. Beverly had to point it out and be like, okay, the fact that you're in bed is one thing, but what time are you actually getting ready to go to sleep? That's a totally different thing. So in our minds, we think,

oh, there's nothing has changed. Nothing has changed, right? Well, our clocks have changed. What time it gets dark out has changed. There's probably a lot going on, right? There's a lot going on there. So you got this, Kim, right? Even or sit down with that cognitive behavioral therapy model, because that's what Dr. Beverly was walking us through. Cognitive behavioral therapy is the answer to insomnia.

And yes, some people get prescribed medication, but it's that cognitive piece. So what is going on there? Is it your thoughts? Is it your feelings? Is it your, your behavior? Is it affecting your body? And of course they're all very much interconnected, right? But man, let me just say it sucks where you're not getting good night's sleep for sure. Hi, Holly. First morning live in a while. Happy to be here. Nice to see you. Hi.

I struggled last week. Lack of motivation, but I'm slowly getting back on track this week. I love the community in this program. Well, we love you right back. Thank you also for reminding people that if you're not feeling so motivated these days, it could just be as simple as your why has changed. For a lot of people, the why that you started the program with has changed. You're probably no longer motivated by that because the work that you've done, you've

actually made change. Maybe it was a superficial kind of why. And now you realize, holy shit, maybe I could actually reach my actual weight loss goal. Maybe this is actually working for me. Wow. Maybe I can actually make change. And maybe you need to deepen your why, reassess your why. So if you're not feeling so motivated, also again, whoa, if you're looking for external motivation, take time and listen to our Real People, Real Journey conversations. They're all stored in

the guide. They're also all available as podcasts. You can download and listen. Also, don't forget to check out our member spotlights every Monday. We've had phenomenal people share their stories. They're sharing their stories. They're sharing their tips. Oh my God. There's no shortage of like that outward motivation. If you're looking for people who are like, wow, like working through some real stuff and then really making a difference. Um, don't, don't be, don difference. Don't forget about those. Check those out. Check those out. Check those out. Check those out. One year and a half after starting Ozempic and the bariatric program and then joining Gina Livy, I am finally off Ozempic. Donna, good for you. Down 100 and not good for you getting off the medication,

but good for you. Not an easy thing to do and you have done the work. Love this. Down 130 pounds and feeling far more mobile. I bet I am able to continue the journey without the aid of bariatrics and Ozempic. Thank you, Gina, for making it possible for me to continue this journey and lose the additional weight that I need to lose. No, Donna, thank you. I hope you've done one of those Snoop Dogg speeches. I would like to thank me for making the changes I need to make. I would like to thank me for working through some hard stuff. I would like to thank me for being here. I hope Donna, you take a minute today and thank yourself. I would write down a whole list of all the things that you want to thank

yourself for, for the perseverance, for the wherewithal, for the, you name it. I would like to thank myself for fill in the blanks and make a whole damn list for yourself. Make a whole damn list for yourself. Make a whole damn list for yourself and read that shit over and over and over and over again. I am, um, I am, I am, I'm working on expanding the conversation of GLP ones because the reality is that people are taking them. And the reality for some people is they can be life changing and life saving. And so you may think, well, someone just needs to do it the old fashioned way. Some people, because of core morbidities, meaning that if they don't lose weight sooner

rather than later, their life is truly at risk and beyond physically, mentally as well. There's a, they just, they need that help. And some people need like, just like antidepressants or like a, you can't teach someone to swim while they are drowning. Let me say that again. You cannot teach someone to swim while they are drowning and antidepressants can be a life raft. And that's, that's what's meant when people say that that's like throw in some of the life raft, let's get them on land. And then let's start making sure they're doing the things that they can do. Let's start making sure that they're eating healthy, that they are exercising, they are journaling, they have a support system, they have a plan and all those things, right? That's like when someone's drowning,

are you journaling while they're drowning? Are you eating healthy? Drowning. Not helpful. Not helpful. And the same thing with sleep. And we talked about Dr. Beverly David. Some people, when they have extreme bouts of insomnia, are given medications to help them sleep, but that shouldn't be the be all end all. They're not meant to take forever. And sleep aids can give someone the wherewithal to start journaling, start having the mental capacity to think what's going on, to start addressing that cognitive behavioral piece. And if you think about it, GLP-1s, these weight loss medications, and we cannot continue to have the ozempic shortage conversation. We cannot have that anymore because there are so many other alternatives to that. I just want to say that. So if you're saying, yeah, but there's a shortage, we don't

have that anymore in the sense that there are other GLP-1 medications that are just made for that purpose. And so to me, GLP-1s, they can help someone to calm that noise. They can help someone get a handle on their appetite. They can help someone, they's your leg up. It is your life raft. But that does not mean, and the scientific people in the obesity space will also agree and tell you, it does not help from the cognitive behavioral side. It doesn't help you change your thoughts and behavior. Get a handle on them. Yes. Do the hard work to change them. No, it doesn't help you learn what you need to eat and when to be in tune to your body's needs. It doesn't help you with your coping of your, how you utilize food in your life. It doesn't help you with your relationship with

yourself and other people. It doesn't help you work through past traumas in your life. It doesn't help you do any of those things. And so I really want to, I want, I want members of our community to feel welcomed in this space and to not feel shame, to not feel guilt, to not feel like they're trying to take the easy route. Right. I just also want to bring reality to that. How can you best support yourself? A lot of people are just being prescribed. There's a nuance to GLP prescriptions that because it's so new, maybe your doctor isn't aware of. And not that it will take over the whole conversation, but I think it's part of the conversation. And so I am looking to add some of the brightest and best minds in obesity research, especially in the GLP-1 space to the conversation.

So I have some people joining us in January who will be talking specifically about GLP-1s. Now I will not be selling them. I am not necessarily an advocate for them. I just think just like you take thyroid medication, just like you take your diabetes medication, just like you take all your other medications, this is no different if you're being prescribed by your doctor, right? It doesn't mean that you just don't, you know, it doesn't mean that you just take your insulin meds and continue to eat what you want at the end of the day. So back to you, Dawn. I just want, and I just want to be transparent.

I want to be transparent about my thoughts about this because I see other companies like Noom has a new GLP-1 program. Like everyone's jumping on the GLP train backed by pharmaceuticals. That's not where I'm going with this. That's not where I'm going with this. I'm just going to the route of yes, that's if that's your choice. That doesn't mean you got to you, it's easier for you. Because there's still a lot of things that you need to do. And Donna, you're a massive testament to that. So my goodness, just let's take the ozempic aside, the bariatric aside, losing a hundred pounds is not an easy thing to do no matter which way you go about it. So

massive props to you, my goodness, massive props. You can tell I'm excited about this because I love this for you because this is how it should be done. Yes, I had some medical intervention, right? Now you're more mobile. Now you can get get out there you can probably be more active in your life you probably feel a lot less pain and inflammation in your body you're probably more calm in your mind not because of a drug that you're taking but because that drug helped you get a handle on actually figuring out what's going on in your mind and so that's why i want you to absolutely take a minute not just donna all of y'all all of y'all should take a minute and not just Donna, all of y'all, all of y'all should take a minute and thank yourselves for still being here at this point in the program, for still

showing up, for still working through the hard fields, for being consistent. Consistent doesn't mean perfect. Do you know what I mean? It's really important that you honor that and take time for yourself today. Good for you. My goodness. I have been derailed a few times on the program with work travel and then a long bout of COVID. I've yes. Right. That's shit. It's hard. I've maintained the core program, which has had amazing results, 20 pounds down, 20 pounds down, but I've missed all the tweak weeks. What do you recommend? Do I go back to the beginning of the tweak weeks? I would pick up where you left off. Absolutely. So Sarah, if you're going to be back with us in January, that's still like, what, where are we? Eight weeks or five, six and a half, six and a half, seven weeks. Cause the time in between, sometimes it's five weeks in between

groups. Sometimes it's six weeks. I think it's six. So I think I get, I get four weeks off. All I know is after the last week of the program, I got four weeks to get my ass recovered in time for the next four and come back super jazzed and excited. And then we have two weeks, two and a half weeks until then. So you have about six and a half weeks. That's a lot of time. So what I would do is go back to where you picked up from and then take it all the way through and then do a restart with us in January.

Or if you're a returning member, you can just get back into the back on track mode, just work the basics back on track, because with where we're out in the program, the holidays are starting, you just you want to build up that momentum. So you know, in knowing that you have done the program before, what do you feel is the best move for you, right, going back and redoing all those steps or just kind of maintaining at this point and working that back on track. Although there's enough time there to still kind of like get some real momentum going and then do a complete reset. So whatever's more motivating to you at this point, that's what I like. You've been kind of working the basics,

kind of maintaining the core of the program. So this is where maybe you could do downsizing for a week, bring it back to satisfaction, feeding the metabolism for a week, bring it back to satisfaction. I don't want to say make your own shit up, but there should be some structure to it. You could do maybe one week of each of those weeks. It sort of depends on where you're at. Here's what I would do. Pose this question over in the, uh, over on the, the post pin to the top of the page, the check-in video, and my team can kind of get into specifics with where you're at, but you can either go back to where you start and take it as far as you can go. Just maintain the basics. If you feel like that's easier or, you know, figure out the best

week for you to jump back in. Those are, that's the three alternatives. That's what I would say. That's what I would say. I'm sort of coming out, if you're a personal client of mine, what would I do? Like I wouldn't, like put it this way, like the living method, if I'm working with a personal client, I might not necessarily in 12 weeks do all, all the tweaks, right? Like I might, you know, be more specific to what they got going on in their lives and where they're at and all of that. So, you know, and having done the program before you can kind of make that assessment, but you don't want to end up doing your own thing. That's for sure. Also, welcome back. Welcome back. It's been a tough go for you,

right? It's been a tough go go I find sometimes people want to rush back before they're ready and if you're if you're dealing with long COVID you've been traveling you got you might have other things going on in your life that's why I'm saying like just working continuing to work the basics might just be where you're at right now right I think that's what's happening if I feel you and it's like you're're just kind of not, I don't want to say confused, but it's just like, Oh, I don't know what to do. And it's not so motivating and whatever, then just kind of doing exactly what you've been doing is good enough, is good enough, right? It's good enough. That's good enough. Hi, Christy boy danced my way off the scale this morning down 3.4 in the last 48 hours.

That is a huge deal. So much change in my body that didn't reflect on the scale. Yeah. And some of you might be like, oh my God, that's a lot, right? Sometimes we don't see the accumulation on the scale until it's reflected on the scale, but that's been coming for a while now.

That's been coming, but that feels good. That feels good. Yeah, you guys are talking about Jenny. Thank you for having me and being so kind. Oh my God. Jenny, you were a lesson for all of us. You are like a champion and you are a hero and your whole vibe is just, man, I can really understand why you have this amazing support system because you deserve it. You honestly deserve it. Thank you for taking the time. CBD was a huge post-concussion syndrome recovery. It's a wonderful method that works for, yeah, in your life. Yeah,

it works for a lot of things, right? Jenny, you guys talking about Jenny. Let me scroll down. Where are you headed for the holidays? And perhaps I can sneak into the suitcase. Tony, please. So we are blessed. One of the things, I mean, one of the things that we spend our money on is travel and we are like travel broke, travel broke. This year, for example, we, we, we, Tony and I did get away, but we traveled on points, points because, um, we're travel broke. That's how we, that's how we choose to spend our money. I didn't travel until I was like 40 years old. And I always wanted to travel.

After high school, my goal was to travel the world. I don't know, working at souvenir shops. I wanted to go live on a beach and work at a little, I don't know, beach hut stand. I didn't really want or need for material things in my life. I learned very early on in life that money does not make you happy. I don't know why. That was just sort of a lesson that I was learned from very young. I think it was all my friends that seemed more privileged than me.

Their lives were a mess. They were unhappy. Their parents weren't happy. They're just, it just seemed to me that money didn't, money wasn't going to qualify her for making you happy. And so I've never really been motivated by money. Listen, I've come to, I've come to appreciate it, y'all. I got four very expensive children and I want to live on this planet and do all the things

I possibly can. So make no mistake. I am an entrepreneur, but I'm an entrepreneur driven by wanting to help people and make a difference in my life. I've learned to appreciate the value of money. You want to know why? Because I have an amazing team of people that work very hard and they need money to provide for their families. And I want them to not stress about money. So I'm on a mission to definitely make as much money as I possibly can, but also in the most ethical way possible. I do have to preface that. But in my life, I have been blessed to make enough money to travel. And so Tony and I have been known to take our family, our entire, it's not about, it's about spending this quality time with our family, um, which of course quality, you don't have to leave the country to have quality. But, um, I, I, when I met Tony, he like, he loved travel. And so, um, him and I have been lucky enough to go on a variety of different travels. So anyway, I just want to preface this by saying,

because I take privilege very seriously. Um, but we're not going anywhere this year. We're not going anywhere this year because we are broke. We are travel broke. We are staying, I'm going to go to Lakefield y'all. That's, and I, and I, I don't want to be anywhere else, but Lakefield. We are going to Lakefield for Christmas and I couldn't be happier about it. So my mom's whole family gets together every other year, the family gets together. And so the odd years where everyone else goes to their independent families in the family, we travel. So I'm going to Lakefield, Joanna. So if you want to come with me to Lakefield, you're welcome to come.

You're welcome to come. You are welcome to come. Holidays will be tough, but I'll try to stay on track. Wish we could support each other in those six weeks. So, yes. So first of all, we're not done yet. So a lot of times let's not be future tripping. Cause we're going to talk about this. We're gonna talk about more about this,

how to navigate the holidays, what you're going to do in between groups, how that's going to work, how that's going to happen. All of that. We're going to make sure you're feeling pretty confident to go out there and enjoy the holidays. Enjoy the holidays. Um, the short time that you have off over the holidays is not enough time to fuck things up. It's not enough time. But you still want, you are creating your, you are learning and creating new habits, right?

You are picking up new beliefs that you can do this, new habits that support that. And so this is a matter of like, if you journal every day, keep journaling every day, right? If you checking into the group each day finds, and you're used to listening to my podcast, go back and listen to all the guests segments, man, you'll be so wowed by relisting to our guest segments with where you are at now in your journey, 10 weeks in at the end of the program, 11 weeks in 12 weeks in whatever the next couple next couple of weeks. It's about your, you're not going to miss me. You are going to miss your, the routine and you might miss the community as well. So hook up with some friends, hook up with some friends, right? Hook up with some people in, in the group. There's a lot of people create their own chat

groups and their, you know, support groups. Do not use my name when you make, if you're making a support group on Facebook, do not call it Gina Livy. Do not call it the Livy Method. Please just don't do that when you can't because we own the name. And two, it causes a lot of confusion for our new members who end up joining groups that they don't know what they're joining yet. But figure out a way, right? What are you going to need?

I think what you're doing is you're thinking about what am I going to need to set myself up for success in between groups? And that's valid. And that's valid, right? So come up with a plan. Maybe we'll do a post. Whoever's listening right now, let's do a post about what is your plan to stay on track over the holidays. They'll get you thinking. Maybe you guys can share some ideas and whatnot. I'm going to Putakana on December 5th with my kids. I love that. I want you to travel. I want you to travel. Love traveling used 800,000 points to get first class degrees with my husband. Right. And the, what is the last thing that we want to be doing while we're traveling is freaking stressing about what we're eating travel. I want to remind you, and some of you may not have paid attention to it because it was so long ago. We do have a travel post with travel tips and maybe you haven't been traveling

this whole time. You're going to be traveling over the holidays, whether it's just a car ride away, road trip, or you're getting on a plane and flying miles away, tips are tips at the end of the day. So we do have those travel tips for you. Yes, let's, yes, let's do a post on staying on track for Christmas, right? Yes, let's do a, let's do a post. Don't, no, starting a Tina Givey group, Dave. Joke's on you. I'm going to reach out to you to start my new men's program. I'm going to do a men's add on Dave. I'm going to have you, you're going to come work for us, Dave. That's what

you're going to do. I don't know how much it's going to cost me. And then I might put you on the marketing team. I might put you on the marketing team as well. Okay. I got to go. You guys, um, I'm new to the program and really liking the program and it's making me more accountable to myself, eat proper meals rather than a handful of nuts and a piece of cheese. I'm allergic to eggs. So wondering if you, oh, I saw that, Carolyn, I saw your comment last night, but by the time the team had already gone, so I'm pretty sure the team will get back to you and respond to the comment that you made last night. But let me just answer this here. First first of all I know that you're new second of all I love

that you're asking questions because I noticed that you haven't asked very many you can ask as many questions as you need so I'm glad you're reaching out today it's making you more accountable to make myself proper meals rather than a handful of nuts and piece of cheese. I'm allergic to eggs. So wondering if you can share your go-to breakfast foods that are not eggs. Also at this point, if I'm hungry between meals and snacks, should I be eating or deal with the hunger? Okay. So, so you should be dealing with the hunger, but you want to make sure you understand hunger. So you might want to go back and revisit the hunger. Are you using our living method app? Because there are a few posts you want to check out.

And this is why also I think the team will come in and, and, and, and answer your answer this question. And they'll probably link some of these posts. So you, there's a whole post on hunger that you absolutely want going to want to review. And so you do because the, that you might want to adjust the timing of your meals though, right? So a half hour to three and a half hours. So if you are if you have breakfast and you're hungry short after you

can have your morning snack a little bit earlier. But really, you want to be making sure you are eating enough to feel satisfied in the moment. So really digging in and asking those four mindful eating questions. In terms of breakfast, if you go into the app, into the guide section and you hit guides and then you go and find recipes here, you can look breakfast ideas. And if you just click on breakfast ideas,inoa um what else is there there's cauliflower there's there's a there's a special uh blend cereal so there's like cereals oats obviously overnight oats there are cereals that you can have so there are other matcha overnight oats with the hemp seeds so if you go into tropical

breakfast bowl, yogurts, Greek yogurts, that type of thing. So there are all sorts of, you don't have to necessarily follow these recipes, but you can absolutely get inspired chickpeas and vegetable hash, cottage cheese, oatmeal and cottage cheese pancakes. I don't know if you said dairy, was it dairy that you can't have? I'm allergic to eggs. So, so you can have dairy. Um, so yeah, so we'd go through there and yeah, there's a lot of egg recipes cause obviously eggs are easy for people can have them. There's a lot of non egg recipes as well in there. There is also, um, a breakfast idea share page. And so if you go into the guides in the Facebook support group and you go into the guy, if you're not using the app, you can go into the recipe guide in the,

in the Facebook support group. There is also, um, uh, breakfast idea share page. And there's a guide for that. So if you go and you scroll, go into the guide section and you scroll down, you'll find a breakfast share page and you'll be able to find all sorts of breakfast ideas that are non-eggs over there as well. Over there as well. Okay. I got to go. I know you guys are talking about a mankini. I don't even know what's going on right now. It's time for me to go. Have an amazing day. Kim and I are going to break down the tweak this week. It is Wednesday. If you want to join us for that,

we're going to talk about the sneak peek into next week's tweak. I know you got a handle on this week's tweak because there's really nothing that's changed from the previous week except more flexibility in terms of those snacks, switching up the star of the meal, making sure you're getting rid of any of those heavier carbs and really feeding into those, say, tidy hormones. But if you want an insider look into or a sneak peek into next week's tweak, join us today. Have an amazing day, everyone. I'll see you then. Okay, bye.