The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 78 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring/Summer 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 78, 9 AM live.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Personalizing the Plan for the rest of The Program and the summer, reset in the fall.How to pick up after a long weekend – How did you do?Personalizing the Plan when you’re not hungry – Token bites vs. skipping a meal or snackPersonalizing the Plan is prepping you for maintenance, along with Back on Track.It’s harder than you think to gain real weight – It’s not about being perfect.Your journey will take the time that it takes, it’s not always going to happen on your timeline.The routine of The Program is important when unfamiliar things happen -now and in maintenance.How to accept compliments – Big non-scale victory!After the Group ends, access to The Program and the app.Follow through and finish, even if you didn’t crush this round – review and assess how you did.Discussing alcohol, choosing to have a drink or not – How do you feel after?Discussing core exercises – Better than crunches or sit-ups.Be so proud of yourselves, you’re still here!How to pick up where you left off – It’s never too late, don’t stress!Navigating weekends in the Summer – How are you feeling on Monday?Life can get in the way of your goals, try not to be discouraged – Reset is a mindset!Discussing people’s reactions to your weight loss – The Livy Method is different.We are not done yet, stay tuned for upcoming Guest Experts.To learn more about the Livy Method, or to join our Fall Group starting September 9th, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

and Amazon Music. Hello, hello, hello. Day 78 of the program. Week 11, we are personalizing the plan this week. Make sure you read over those guidelines that we posted yesterday. Personalizing the plan is just really taking things a step further in terms of personalizing the plan to be more specific to your needs. However, you are still very much following the program. You are following the guidelines. You are not doing your own thing. You are not adding in any new foods. Basically this week, you no longer have to force yourself to eat those token amounts if you are not hungry for them. So you're not skipping meals and snacks. I'm very mindful not to use that word. You can choose not to have a meal or snack if and when you are not hungry for that meal or snack. Now I see some of you already talking about the fall program. Well,

if you personalize the plan throughout the summer, which obviously is a great technique for continued weight loss, we're going to talk about next steps this week. But if you've signed up for the fall and you're like, okay, well, I'm personalizing the plan now. This is what I've done to get to where I'm at. Then do I reset the program in the fall? Yes, you do. You reset with the program exactly as designed in the fall. Remember, we've talked so much about routine and how the body loves routine, especially with our guest experts. And so when you do a new program, you are bringing a whole new body and a whole new mindset into the program. And basically, you're going to start the new program with fresh eyes, like you've never done a program before, and allow this new body to go through the program and the process.

Right? right so so it's like you're when you started your first program your metabolism was like here and as you did the program you worked on making your body healthier increasing your metabolism while you lost your weight along the way and now when you do your next program you're not rolling in at the same place with the same issues with the same well you might still have the same issues and associations that you're working through and beliefs and habits and whatnot but your body is working totally different so there is a rhyme and a reason to a benefit to why you are to reset with the program, regardless of where you are at in your journey. Listen, I am on a mission to help everyone lose their fucking weight already, finally, and forever.

So everything I suggest is for a rhyme and a reason because it is beneficial and going to help you not only be able to lose your weight, but be able to maintain and sustain your weight. But please don't stress about that. I've got you. We're going to talk about everything that you need to do, bridging the gap in between groups to make sure you are successful, continuing to lose throughout the summer. Or if some of you want just to be able to maintain, enjoy the summer and then be able to hit it hard in the fall as well. We do have a new, uh, bridging the gap summer club that we are working on that you'll be able to join. If you are interested in that, we're going to roll out some more information later on this week. Hi Kim. Good morning. 15 pounds down total loss across all

programs, 40 pounds. I love that. Okay. So some of you in looking to continue your weight loss journey are wondering what's going to go on with our app. So the app is going to turn into a general tracker that you can use in between programs to continue to track your foods and fluids, your sleep, your movements, your moods and daily intentions and all of that. It doesn't guide you through the program, the process, there won't be a check-in video or anything like that, but you will still be able to track all the basic information in between groups to help you stay on track as well. Hello, good morning, everyone. Good morning. This is your first time joining a live, a live. Hi, Liz. Hello. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. This is your first time joining a live, a live. Hi, Liz. Hello. Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Um, how are you as friends doing? Rolling in after the long weekend. How are you guys? Back on track. Remember back on track. If you found yourself indulging on the weekend, implement back on track for as many days as you need until you feel like you're back on track and then get right back at it, right back at it.

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Beautiful weekend. Got in a couple of 5k walks. Yeah, a lot of you out there and being active. Just got home from 10 days away camping. Didn't gain, didn't lose. Should I start back at week 10 or continue on to week 11? So if you didn't follow at all, like if you followed but you weren't perfect, all, like if you followed, but you weren't perfect, I would just keep moving forward. If you did not follow at all, like you were just like, fuck it, I'm going on, I'm going camping and you just ate whatever and you were not following, then I would absolutely start from where you left off. And then that's the beauty of using the app because you know exactly the day that you stopped following. You want to get in 91 days of the program, even if it takes you 120 days to do that, because one week leads

into the next, leads into the next, leads into the next. So ideally, you'd want to not go back, but start where you left off in the program and then follow through from there. So that means that you'll still be following the program after we are done hosting and putting on the program in the Facebook support group. If you are using the app, you will still be able to connect to all the posts. You will still have access to the Facebook support group as well. So, and then, and then what you can do is just phase into, and all the information about personalizing the plan will be here. Um, so if it's week 10, you got one week and then next week, we're also going to be personalizing the plan as well. So I would do week 10 this week and then week 11 next week and then move on and then finish up with week 12. Good morning question. I trust you, Gina. Just curious

how not eating the token bites affect us compared to when we had to have them even when we are not hungry. So this is just more than physically what's happening. This is also mentally what's happening, right? Like look at like downsizing. You feel like you have to leave a few bites on your plate. People use words like starving. Oh my God, I'm so hungry. I'm starved. Yet when they did feeding the metabolism, they were like, when they were able to leave those amounts, not only were they not starved, they were like, when they were able to leave those amounts, not only were they not starved, they were like, do I even have to eat it? And then they were like, oh, I don't even feel like eating, right? So a lot of this is really psychological. So this is about taking the next

step off the heels of giving the body what it needs routinely from the beginning, off the heels of downsizing, getting into those portions, off the heels of feeding the metabolism, which obviously had its many benefits, off the heels of the protein and fat revamp, right? So this is where really understanding bumping up your protein and fat, feeding into your satiety hormones, understanding that your body's hunger levels change day to day. Now at this point, I trust you. This is not about you trusting me. This is about at this point, I trust you to be able to be in tune to your body's needs rather than you trying to control

what you are eating or control the process or control your hunger levels, right? So this is about understanding that your body's needs change each day and then really understand what satisfaction feels like and what true hunger feels like, as opposed to feeling like you need to eat or being afraid if you don't eat, you're going to be hungry later. So this is just giving you the opportunity to kind of more customize what you are eating and when. Now, every day might look a little different or every day might look like the revamp or might look like the basic food plan, right? So this is really just giving you the opportunity to fine tune it that much more. Now, what's easier to say is why you were having those

token amounts, right? To keep that digestive system stimulated, especially as some of you were still overeating your portions. So psychologically that you knew that there was some more food coming down the pipeline to make sure that you were having that snack and not skipping it, even though you weren't hungry in the moment to understand hunger afterwards. So this is where in the beginning of the program, so many people are hungry in the evening, they would skip their afternoon snacks and be like, Oh, I don't, I'm not hungry for it. But then they find themselves extra hungry in the evening. So the fix for being extra hungry in the evening is to make sure you're eating enough throughout the day. Right? I mean,

the hungry in the evening could be also a lot of other things. It could be, you know, your body heading into detox. It could be triggering. It could be water. It could be like a variety of things, but like truly hungry because you didn't eat enough throughout the day. So those token amounts were making sure that you were eating, making sure you were eating more than enough, then rather than that, risking that your body feeling like it's not getting enough. And then you mentally going to that place where you're like, Oh my God, I didn't eat enough. So then you're going to overeat next time. So it's really about physically and mentally bringing them together. And so we've been doing that in pieces along the way. And so this is why, again, it's not skipping meals and

snacks. It's choosing to not have a meal or snack because you are not hungry for it. Now you also, I'm hoping or trusting that you are more calm about your hunger levels, right? So if you do choose to add in tune to your portions, if you do choose to not have a snack and it does leave you hungrier than normal, you're not going to go and overeat your next meal or snack. You're going to recognize that hunger, really loud hunger cues don't mean you need more food. They just mean your body is being more clear about communicating you. So if you like skipped a meal, you're not skipped, like look at the mindset even. Look at the mindset between skipping a meal and choosing not to have a meal because you're not hungry. Two totally different vibes, right? So if you skipped a meal perhaps before, they may like, oh, I'm extra

hungry for my meal or snack. And then you end up overeating it because you're like, I'm extra, I'm hungry. Whereas now you're choosing not to, and then your next meal or snack, you're more in tune to those portions. So you're going to ask those four questions. And even though you might be extra hungry or noticing that you're hungrier, you're not going to end up overeating because you're more in tune with your portions. So that's what it's all about. It's really systematic about how the body responds physically and mentally and about getting in tune to your body's needs at this point. And your body doesn't necessarily need to eat six or people using bonus snacks eight times a day, right? Like it's just, that's really not necessary. It can become what you're used to.

And this is also why we want to get more in tune to our body's needs. And that, that bit, that back on track refers to the original food plan. Back on track is not about right now. Back on track is really about when it comes to maintenance. When it comes to maintenance, you're just living your life, waking up, looking good, feeling good. And again, personalizing the plan is prepping you for maintenance. It can be very effective in terms of continuing to lose weight. It's also prepping you for maintenance, It can be very effective in terms of continuing to lose weight. It's also prepping you for maintenance, which is living, which is starting to live your life, waking up, looking, feeling good, just going about your day and making good food choices, right? So, and then back on track with that original food plan, which is why it's so important

to have it so ingrained is that whenever you do go away on vacation or find yourself indulging, your weight is creeping up, you're going to implement back on track. You're not going to need to go and lose weight again. You're just going to implement back on track. That'll help your body recover from your indulgences, bring your weight back down and off you go. So it's how it really all fits in a big picture. And then also more than that, I'm already, I'm already prepping you for maintenance. I'm already prepping you for your finally and forever. I'm already prepping you for after maintenance when you're just living your life. So that's what that's all about. I love that question, by the way. Good morning. Fun times

away last week and finally understand the scale moving up. Now back on track, drink that water and it moves. It's not real weight gain. This, yes, it's not. It's so much harder than you think to actually gain weight, to take the foods that you're eating and have your body convert them into fat when there's no need for your body in order to do that at all. It's like it's once you, this is why it's not about being perfect. That's why I want you to go away and enjoy your holidays and just really, I mean, be mindful, not because you're going to gain weight, but be mindful because you want to feel good.

You want to make good choices while you're away. You want to drink your water and you know, maybe get in some leafy greens when you can, you know, it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy margaritas or, you know, all the yummy bites of bits, um, that come with vacays and holidays, but you want to feel good during your holiday. And then when you get back, you're going to realize, oh, just like back on track and your weight will come right back down. Your body is not looking to make you fat. It doesn't want to store this excess fat. It has come to realize it needs to because you keep starving it every now and then, right? And then this comes back to what I originally talked about, that reset with each group that you do. Like that reset is so important, that routine, giving that body what it needs,

especially when your body has been wired in a way to feel like it needs to store fat, right? That's why your body's hit that set point. And it's been so hard for you to lose that weight. And then you keep going back up, right? Because your body slows your metabolism and catches on that you starve it every now and then. So three months, I mean, it's amazing what you can do with a concentrated amount of time. The three months isn't really that long to address how your body has functioned for many, many, many years, right? So keep coming back to that routine. It's just, it almost, keep coming back to that routine helps you dig even deeper so you can level up even more each time. How is it week 11? I know, Risa, let me tell you. Congratulations to all of

us for showing up for ourselves. We may not be where we hoped, but we will need to remember all the things we did in the non-scale victories. That's right. This is my third and much slower in weight, but it's all okay because this is a journey. Everything worth doing takes time. Rome wasn't built in a day. Yeah, it is a journey or an adventure or a course or a project or however you really want to frame it. I mean, nothing has ever happened on my timeline. Nothing I've ever done in life has happened on my timeline. I was trying to explain to my daughter, well, you know, we use that analogy of the house. We're the house. We're building a house, right? Every day, every week we give you the tools. Every day you're showing up, you're building the house,

the house that you're going to live in. I was talking to my daughter yesterday about houses because we have some new builds happening in our area. And she's like, how does that work? When did people buy that? Because she saw the little sales house and she's like, what is that for? I'm like, well, that's the kind of the sales center for the new subdivision that's being built. And then she's like, but it's not built yet. Why would people buy it? And then I'm like, well, they buy it. And then they, well, what do they do? Where do they live? And all these questions. And I'm like, well, normally what happens is that they expect to move in at a certain date, but then, you know, then they can't because it takes a lot longer. And this is why we have friends who live with

their parents and whatever, because they've bought new builds. And, and I was trying to explain that. And I was, I was kind of thinking about everyone building your house. It always takes longer than what you think. Hi, honey. Thank you. Can someone comment like, like this comment for me so I can find the live on my computer? Just go to the photo section, go to the photo or media section on, I guess you're not listening to that. Wait a minute. You're commenting on the live. Oh, cause you're probably switching to your computer. Just go to the photo section. Go to the photo or media section on, I guess you're not listening to that. Wait a minute. You're commenting on the live. Oh, cause you're probably switching to your computer. Eighth program. So I should know what I'm doing and I wanted to finish strong, but my brother died last week. It's been so hard to focus on what I'm eating. Sign up for the fall. Oh, Elizabeth, I'm so sorry to hear this.

You know, I'm really sorry to hear that. That's really sad. Um, so that's what, so this sort of feeds into what I've been talking about leading up to this point is like the routine, the routine and what you're addressing. And so you could have even have lost your weight. And this is what's happening in maintenance. People will lose their weight in maintenance and then something will happen that they've never encountered before. Or they roll through all the holidays now that they've lost their weight and now they have to navigate it being this person, that totally different person making different choices. And again, this is why the routine of the program in the beginning is so important and all the different stages and phases that we go through.

And it's really unraveling things in layers, right? Layers. And when something like this happens that you just, I mean, you can't prepare for, and it's so easy to fall back into old habits. Like it really is because like, fuck it, what else matters except for what's going on right now? It's so easy to fall back into those old patterns. That's just like, because old habits are hard to break. They're familiar, especially when you're in a state of unfamiliar. It's so easy to go to that familiar. And I just want to point out, Elizabeth, if you're listening right now, you know, you, you,

you say, I should know what I'm doing and I wanted to finish strong. You do know what you're doing. You showed up today and you, I think you're recognizing, okay, this is where I'm at. I'm, I'm struggling here or I'm dealing with this. Um, but you're still showing up today. And I think that in itself is massive and huge. After eight programs, you have the ability to be able to do that, to pull yourself back and be like, I need to focus on myself. I need to show up for myself here. Now you may not be doing all the things you not may not be like, you probably don't have the capacity to, to show up like you probably have in other programs. But it's like you are still showing up 110% because of where you are at and what your capacity is. Do you know what I'm saying? So I just want to say to you

like, this is amazing that you are even showing up and you are committing to following through, even though you are dealing with what you are dealing with, which is so huge, which is so huge that in itself, like this is where we're not just losing our weight right now to go to the vacation, to fit into the jeans. We are losing our weight in a way that's forever. And what does finally and forever mean? It means like forever. And in a way where you understand how to navigate when things like this happen in your life, you don't fall back and then go into that spiral. It's so easy to want to feel match our physical feelings with our mental and emotional feelings that a lot of times we

will trash ourselves physically get ourselves physically to a state where we are equally as broken as our mental state I think a lot of times because we really want to validate the pain that we're feeling or the heartache we're feeling or the sadness that we're feeling, we feel like if we don't like to really feel it, we need to feel physically feel it. Right? When when I think one of the hardest things to do is when you're going through anything like that, is to be able to show up and help keep your physical state as strong as possible. Because at the end of the day, no one is suffering. Like you are just causing more suffering for yourself by putting your physical state in a state that's not serving you,

supporting you. Right? So this is really huge. This is like to be, you're doing this because of the work you've done in the eight programs that you've been through. So you should feel nothing other than a sense of, I don't know what the right word would be, proud accomplishment, strength, strength. You should feel strong because you're able to do that today. So I'm going to send you lots of love and send you lots of love, sending you lots of love. We will also be doing, I don't know if you missed it, but we are doing a bridging the gap group. So if you're interested in signing up for that, I'm going to be here. My team's going to be here. We will be answering questions of people who are bridging the gap in between groups. Those of you who are continuing your journeys, those of you who are

trying to catch up from the past group. So we've got some more information coming around. So that might be helpful for you as well. Had lunch with my friends on WW on Saturday. Haven't seen me in a year. All the compliments I got. Wow. It just makes you know that you can do this. Yeah, fall. Round six. Let's go. I love it.

Remember, if you haven't signed up for the fall program, get your ass signed up. Get signed up. Non-scale victory. I accepted a compliment. Just that. I said thank you. I didn't talk it away or make it a but or this or that statement that I said, thank you. I didn't, didn't talk it away or make it a butt or this or that statement. I just said, thank you. This, I am, I am working on this. I am

the worst, the worst. If you compliment on my shirt, I immediately tell you where I got it and how much I paid and how you can get it to rather than saying, thank you. I am like the weirdest person with compliments. I am horrible. I am also working on learning to say, thank you very much. That's very kind. Thank you. I appreciate your comment. It's because, you know, because you're, if you don't, you're kind of taking away the nice action that the person has complimented you for. Not that they're doing it for a reason, but it's kind of, you know, but I, I just want to say, I recognize how difficult that is and good for you. It is so not easy. It's so not easy. Are the guides still available? Love the exercise guides. Yep. So once the program

is done, you'll still have access to this Facebook support group. When we start a new group, like the, um, the Bridging the Gap, uhap Summer Club, that'll be a whole new group. And then the fall program, that'll be a whole new group as well. So you still have all the information. You still have all the information in this group that you can review. Now, we don't post anymore. We don't answer any questions.

So you'll have until the final Sunday to ask all the questions that you need. The team will get them all answered and then we don't answer any more questions in the group after that. You can still use your app that it won't have the Libby AI feature, but it'll still have the search feature. And so right now, the way that we structure it is you do have access to the information and be able to use the app as a general tracker in between groups. Hi, Marie. Good morning. I have not done well. This program only lost a few pounds, have not stuck to the plan as well as I should have, but we'll be hitting it hard in the fall program. Yeah. I mean, if this is your first group too, this is a lot. This is like, you can look at this

group as the whole group is laying the foundation to your weight loss journey, right? Like now you're able to be like, oh, okay, I see. Oh, I see. I see what this is. I see the rhyme and the reason behind all the changes that I'm making. I'm able to see the mental stuff that I'm dealing with. So that is massive. That is really important to have that grasp and understanding. And then you're going into the fall program with this now knowledge of the program and the process, what's involved.

Sometimes there's this thing of belief and trust that a lot of people are working through when they don't know me, they don't know the program, even though you might know someone who's been successful at it. You also don't really trust because you might not trust the diet industry. You might not trust dieting. You might not trust yourself. You might not trust your body. And so there's a level of trust that needs to be built up for some people to really be able to like dive in. They're just like, I'm not sure. Like you want to do it. You want to lose weight. You're motivated those things, but then there's a bit of a trust issue there where you're like, you're not really sure. So this is why completing a program is so important. When you start it, you finish it. That means you can start and finish your weight loss journey, right? When you start it and you finish

it, you see it. And this is where you're going into that next program, like with that knowledge, being informed, being in tune, knowing what your body needs. This is why each time when you redo the program, it's such a massive benefit, right? So, but that doesn't mean you've had to crush the program in order to be successful with the next one. We've had this happen a lot where people do the first program. It's not like, doesn't really translate on a scale. And then they go on to crush the second program, right? So now you're going into that one in form. Now, here's what I would suggest for everybody who is sort of maybe feeling the same way. Actually, no, scratch that. This is what I suggest for everybody. At the you start the fall program and be like, okay, let's like, how did I show up for myself? What did I have a hard time with? What did I do really well? How can I best set myself up for success? Did I set my intentions and end of day reflections?

Did I start setting my intentions and end of day reflections, but trailed off. Did I start my supplements, but stopped taking them? Did I like, what was like, this is what did it was I using the app, and then I stopped using the app, right? Because we know people who use our app tend to be more successful than people who don't use our app, because they're showing up every day, they're tracking, they're mindful, they're setting intentions, end of day reflections, all of it. Just using the app naturally makes you do that. We do have people in here who are continuing to set their intentions in the morning. This morning I woke up and I went through all of the comments and they're all setting intentions and then end of day reflections.

But I noticed that end of day reflections post, the numbers start to dwindle, right? So when things were really working well for you, what were you doing? How were you setting up for your success? When they dropped off, what was happening? What was there? Just do that little assessment, that little audit before you find yourself starting the fall program. It'll truly set you up for success.

Yesterday was a write-off, but I'm here today and ready to get it. I love that. Hi, Ashley. Yes, right? Yes. We have no alcohol in Ontario. We're good. Well, first of all, let's send some love to all of our workers who are on strike. Yes,

for our US friends or people all over the world who sells the alcohol, not the beer, the liquor store have got on strike. So they um, they might be up on strike a few days or all summer. We don't know. So there is a shortage of alcohol that might bode well for us. So can I just tell you guys something? Cause you guys have been following my journey. I went to that wedding. I went to Tony's member. I was talking about, uh, check it before you wreck it, check yourself before you wreck yourself. And then we were talking, where were we talking about that? Was I talking about that on live or with a guest or who was I talking about? I can't remember, but I was talking about giving an example of that. And that's sort of me understanding where I'm at, knowing that I had this wedding coming up on Friday.

So it was Tony's best friend was getting married on Friday. I didn't drink y'all. I didn't drink. I was thinking I was the only person there who didn't drink. It was super fun. I mean, it was like so fun, but I did not drink. I, I was dealing with something with one of my kids. So I was like, didn't get much sleep the night before. And man, if I would have drank, I would have drank, I would have drank, you know what I'm talking about? You know, that messy drinking, that would have been me. So in knowing that I hadn't been feeling great from drinking still two weeks ago, um, I was like, I'm not going to drink. And so I drove purposely and man, there was so much pressure to drink. People were filling up like little shot glasses of like tequila. And I would like, you know, it gets to a point where

people don't even notice by the end of the night, there's like six full glasses of tequila shots. They're little plastic ones on the table. So I didn't drink. I just want to say that. So that's a huge, massive, non-scale victory for me. That's two weddings I've gone to. I've gone to two weddings now and I did not drink. But let me just talk about how I felt.

And listen, I know, and I also know the drinking conversation is a very complex one. So I don't like, it's a very complex conversation for some people. But for me, I had a great time. I had a great time. And it's fun being around other drunk people when they're getting drunk. It's fun. It's a bit of a hoot in a different sort of entertaining way. But I had a great time. And as I was driving Tony home, who was like, his eyes were like this, and he was like, whatever. I felt amazing. And then I woke up the next day. And yeah, I was tired because we didn't get home till like, I don't know, two to three o'clock in the morning. I felt great. I was so proud of myself. And I felt so good. And then

I've continued to work out. I'm feeling so much better. Like I'm also working because you guys know I've been dealing with stress and hormones and all of that. And yeah, I'm really just really proud of myself. So it's a whole vibe. So I'm going to catch on to that feeling that I have of how I felt after. That's really important. I've really ingrained that.

I've gone over that in my mind a few times. So if ever I'm tempted, I'm going to remember how amazing I felt at the end of the night and how I felt the next day. So I'm going to grab onto that. Grab onto that. I did a poll actually not too long ago on my Instagram account asking like, who's drinking? Who's trying to minimize? Who's not drinking? I think there was another one. And I think there's a lot, 48%, 48% of people who filled out the poll are trying to minimize their alcohol intake, which I thought was really interesting. I thought that was interesting. Let me scroll down. Let me scroll down. Let me scroll down let me scroll down i know some people listen to gina walking or exercising but about five weeks ago i started sucking in my stomach and holding it in for a 20 second count

release and then repeat i only do this during live spill the tea uh wednesday noon with kim i swear that my tummy muscles are getting tighter and my tummy is more defined than it was better than just sitting in my chair being non-productive that is a whole thing. That is a whole thing. I can tell you because I've been exercising for the last live as a personal trainer started when I was 14 years old, that there used to be an actual video. You know who was notorious for this is what's his name? Bo off of Dukes of Hazards. Is that the blonde guy? Who's the blonde guy from Dukes? I'm really showing my age right now tony does does tony even know do you even know dukes of hazards who was which one was the blonde

guy you don't know okay sure you do sure you know the car tony knows the car was it the was it the and the daisy dicks but the blonde guy i think his name's beau i don't know why i think his name's beau maybe he just looks like a beau he used to do that he used to have those rock hard abs and he used to say all i do is like i tighten my tummy muscles this is also pilates this is also core strengthening so sitting there and it's your core it's your core tummy muscles you can you're taking your core. This is what they do in Pilates and you're tightening it and strengthening it. And that's actually, it's, that's working your abs. You, that is actually more effective, can be more effective than the crunches. Like if you do a crunch, like if you sit there, if you don't have strong tummy muscles, it's kind of like Kegels, Kegels for your tummy

muscles, right? That's what it's, that's kind of what it'sels. Kegels for your tummy muscles, right? That's kind of what it's like. And if you sit there and you do it, you actually can feel it start to get fatigued. You can feel those tummy muscles going. If you don't have strong tummy muscles, it'll take you a while to start to feel them, but you will. Whereas if you'd start to do a sit up, a lot of that is neck and shoulders, right? Whereas if you're using your core muscles, so that's what that's about. That's what it's about. Good morning. I sent my mom yesterday to David's Bridal and tried on 18 dresses for my son's wedding. So emotional, not just because of the upcoming wedding, but because I felt so proud slipping on these dresses

with Gina. I went from a size with Gina. I went from a size 16 and a very comfortably sit into a size 10. Polly, all that hard work has paid off. What a feeling that is. There are no words. Oh my gosh. I love this for you. I love it. I love it all for everybody and how you're feeling. And even if the scale didn't move in a way that you'd like, you should really all be really proud of the fact that you've made it this far. You want to follow through on the next two weeks. You want to be here at the end. The sense of accomplishment that you get through following through and finishing, like there's a lot of shit we got to work through and a lot of baggage from spending any time at all in the diet industry and dieting and being able to start and finish like really the program

in its entirety will say so much for your soul in terms of starting and finishing your weight loss journey. Should all take a moment to be proud. That's amazing, Paul. I am so excited for you. That's awesome. Yay. Yay. That's a whole vibe. That is a whole vibe. That's a whole vibe. How long is too long to jump back in where we fell off? I'm roughly two weeks from following. Can I still restart where I left off? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. If you just made it through the first month, go back and start where, pick up where you left off. Like there's so, listen, all this information is going to, if you want, listen, I highly suggest you, if you're falling behind that you join our Bridging the Gap group.

We're going to roll out information on that in the next couple of days. We're just finishing up fine details. There's going to be a group that you can join where there will be people who can continue to answer your questions if you are falling behind in the program. Or, you know, you're personalizing the plan throughout the summer. Or you're just trying to maintain throughout the summer. Set yourself up for success for the fall. Whatever that might be. But yeah, I mean, this is about you and your journey. So the easiest way to do that is just if you started using your app, or you like you, if you didn't start using your app, you can start using your app. If you

started using your app, and then you stopped, just go open up your app again and pick up where you left off. So don't skip ahead to where we're at now. Just pick up from where you left off. But all the information is in the group. Get the book. Get the book, right? The book is really easy. So if you are, you know, if you don't have the book or you're going to be going it on your own in the summer, you want to follow through and finish up on your own. Get the book because it's an easy way to read the information that you need that will guide you through the program. There is a ton of information like in the group, you'll still have access to the group. So you can pop in and still watch the lives from each day. You can watch the check-ins from each day. You can read the comments and the questions on the posts on the check-ins. And

chances are, if you have a question, it's already been asked on there and answered as well, right? So don't stress about being behind in the program. You have whole summer to catch up, especially if you're joining us again in the fall. Now, regardless of where you are at, what you want to do is reset with us in the fall. Everyone starts just do a reset in the fall. But yeah, there's never too, it's never too late. It's never too late. It's never too late. So what you would do, and because this happens a lot, for example, there are people who did the winter program and then they were following behind. And so then what they, what they did, because there was only a two week gap in between the winter program and the spring program, let's say they only made it to

week seven by the time the new program started, then they just started again with us. And then they'll have an opportunity to finish out and follow the full 12 weeks of the program with this program. So you just wherever you are when the next program starts, you just start again and do a new reset. But we're here. So if you have any questions about that, because I know there's some in here that obviously I'm unable to answer everyone's questions. So if you have a question about this, not sure about where you're at, make sure you ask. I know there's a lot of you listening right now who have never asked a question, never commented, and you're going along. Please don't be shy about asking all the questions that you need to make sure you know exactly what you need to do when the group is done. We are here for you. We are happy. Now, I also know there are a lot of people who are coming back who didn't follow for whatever reason. Do not be shy about letting us know where you are at. We are not going to be like, oh, how come you didn't follow?

Oh, where have you been? Like, how come you don't know that? We're not going to be like that. We're not going to be like that. I promise. We're just going to be like, hey. So if you're like, hey, I dropped off on week two. How do I get sorted?

What do I, how do I move forward? We're just going to, Hey, welcome back. This is what you need to know. This is how it works. This is what you can do. So don't be shy about that. We are not going to judge you. We know for a variety of reasons why people stop following. We doesn't matter. We don't care. We are just happy to help. We also don't assume what you know, what you don't know. This is why a lot of times people will make sure, like they'll mention a post, like you maybe read it 10 times, but we don't know. So we just want to make sure you do. Don't be shy about that.

Don't be shy about asking all the questions that you need. I'm finding the busier social life in the summer makes it feel like every Monday is back on track kind of day while I'm still on my weight loss journey. That might be. That might be. The summer is so short, right? We don't want to stress away the summer. How are you feeling every Monday? Are you happy with how you feel? Do you feel good? Are you content with the choices that you made on the weekend? If not, that might be something for you to look into. So it's great that back

on track is there, but is it aligning with how you feel and how you want to feel, right? Are you getting on the scale every Monday and being like, oh my God, this isn't working or whatever, even though you know you're indulging in back on track? If so, you want to maybe give some thought to that, right? Especially before you go into the weekend, plan your weekend. But if you're like, this is cool, man, look at this, right? Like I get to work towards my goals and then enjoy the weekend and then just back on track for a couple of days. Like you'll still lose weight that way. It'll be obviously a much slower process because it's kind of like step back and then whatever. But hey, what you're learning is I can focus on weight loss or I can indulge on the weekend or on

vacation or whatever, and then get right back at it. And my weight that's up comes right back down. There's so much to be so much value in learning that. So it's really about how you're feeling. So I'm totally okay with this. This is a great, this is a totally okay way to navigate the summer if you want, right? Like kind of work towards, you know, feeling good and making choices that fall in with your goals during the summer and enjoy the week during the week and on the weekends indulge. I'm okay with that as long as you're okay with that. What you can't do is indulge and then get on yourself on Monday and then rag on yourself and all of that or whatever. But like that's exactly what Back on Track is there for, especially in the summer. Summer's a little different. Summer is different. Tried to push through the program even after

dental work now discouraged as weight is up and not on track. I need to look at getting back at it and working behind the group feeling discouraged as I need to proceed my brain this so many things in life are going to get in your way of you wanting to feel your best reach your goals do your things right this is no different so take take weight loss out of the equation this is building a house and you were you've been unable to show up and build your house, right? Like this is like, it doesn't mean just, it's not just weight loss. It's anything that you're trying to do or accomplish in life. Things get in the way and you can't do the things that you want to do sometimes and can't get them done on the timeline that you want. So I wouldn't be discouraged. I would be like, ah, fuck, man. Like, that sucks. Right? Sucks.

But maybe discouraged because you should be encouraged. Right? So discouraged is the wrong word because the opposite of discouraged is encouraged. So this is where, why are you not encouraged to work towards your goal? So maybe it's your why and reassess your why, right? So maybe you want to start with that, reassess your why. So you hit a roadblock, you're on the road to Disneyland. Perfect example, right? You're on the road to Disneyland, you're driving there, you get a flat tire, or your car breaks down. And so then your car needs to be fixed. And then once it's fixed, you get back on the road. Now, are you discouraged about continuing to drive to Disneyland? See my point? It's not

quite the right words. Not that I'm not trying to invalidate how you feel, but you do want to recognize the words that you're using. And so this is where, where's that thing that, you know, you might want to look at. What's that called you guys, the cognitive behavioral therapy model. I don't have it here. So we did a session with Dr. Beverly, actually the last one we did, this might be a good one for you to watch. And it's about doing the cognitive behavioral therapy model where you put like your emotions and your behavior and your physical and your whatever it is. And you try to use words to really better describe like truly how you're feeling. And then that will really help you set your false self up for success because you're going forward with this kind of, right? This is

what I mean. Like you're coming back and it's, so what can we do to have you come back and be like, all right, I'm back, bitches. Let's go. Like I'm back. I got this, right? Because dental work is so hard. It's side talk to you. Inflammation is so important to take care of our mouth. Our oral hygiene is so important, by the way. So in order to reset, this is where I think you need that mindset. In order to reset, it's the mindset that you need. So I would highly suggest you go back and listen to that conversation. The last one we did with Dr. Beverly, it was a really good one. I think this is going to really help. I totally get how you're feeling. I totally get what you're saying, but that in defining exactly what it is can really help in terms of your motivation moving forward. Cause you got to get

back in. Cause that's hard, right? Cause you're feeling like you're coming in at like, where you want this, you want to get it done. You can do this. This was just a bit of a, this is a flat tire or your car breaking down, right? So you just need to fix it. Now you're back and then you need to get, just get back at it, back at it. But you know what I think? Do you know what I think, Martha, is if you just get it back a couple of days of back on, back on track, you're going to start to feel like, again, full circle moment. With this program, you get to feel so good that you get to really feel, you really feel when you're not, like it's almost exaggerated. The downside of the program is that when you feel amazing, you feel rockstar amazing.

But when you feel slightly off, you feel like really, really, really off because your body's talking to you. It doesn't shut up. And so when you don't feel great, your body's really letting you know. And it's letting you know so you can step up and take care of it and do the things that you need to do. But what's really exciting is like a couple of days back on track, you are going to go from like zero to a hundred. You're going to go from like not feeling motivated to like, oh my God, I'm never going to get there to like, I'm back bitches. Like that, that that's what that,

that routine, that constant routine, that reset of the program. That's what that'll do for you. Constantly working the first few weeks of the, of, of the program that back on track. So when you do that, it's allowing you to get back on track with decreasing the stress, which is good with where you're at. And then after a couple of days, you're going to be like, okay, I'm right back at this. Your body will be like, oh, this is what we're doing. We're back at this. Okay, here we go. And you're going to feel a million times better, million times better, million times better. Let me scroll down. Who is that? Victoria, I had major foot surgery and wasn't able to do anything foot wise for eight weeks. I did, however, do lightweight upper body exercises a few times a week and

tried to stretch. It wasn't easy. And then I had another six weeks set back a foot still. Definitely talk to your doctor and physio is very helpful. Yeah. This is looking for exercise ideas why I cannot bear weight. I found some chair exercises on YouTube. Has anyone used a mat and exercise bands for legs while healing from a foot surgery? There's all sorts of great exercise resources out there, especially free ones on YouTube. We do have a few. We do have a few. What is reading? Who's this? What is this? I had a compliment about how good I look said I'm trying to eat healthy. And then she said, well, keep your old clothes because you'll gain it back. Fuck you, bitch. People are assholes sometimes. But I think people are, that's, you know, that pisses me off. Let me say that is, that's how they feel. That's how they

feel. Right? That's how they feel. I said this program is finally in forever, but her comment still eats at me. This program is finally in forever. And I'll tell you why it's not a magic pill. It's about you learning what you need to learn and about you doing the hard work in order to lose your weight in a healthy, sustainable way. There are people who gain weight back after because life happens to them. Situational change. People lose jobs.

People die. They go back into their old habits, but you know what they do? They come back and they work on those habits. They work on those coping mechanisms so that the next time it happens, they have the skills and the tools in order to manage and navigate, right? You don't have to gain your weight back if you learn what you need to learn in order to not gain your weight back. Three reasons why people gain their weight back, right? One, you don't put in time into solidifying your weight. You have got to give your body time to adjust to your new weight. This is why following through on the maintenance protocol, joining the maintenance group, I think is essential. I'm actually working on a maintenance

program proper. I'm hoping to have it ready to go for fall, but the next best thing is to sign up, join the maintenance group and follow through on the stages of maintenance. So there's four stages to the living method, lose your weight, solidify your weight, maintain your weight, move on and live your life for the rest of your life, the living way, right? Because that's what you're doing, you're creating a new lifestyle. So not putting time into maintenance, it's really important because your body has to adjust to your new weight, your blood, your body temperature, your blood flow, your hormones, like the size of your heart, all of it. The next is situational change. So something like someone, you know,

passing away, losing your job, moving, all of a sudden dealing with stress, whatever that is, and then not helping yourself, your body adjust to that stress. That's where you need to recognize, okay, what does my body need in this moment? If you feel your weight going up, what is happening? Am I falling back into old coping mechanisms? Am I not getting any sleep? Are my hormones just completely off? Do I need to bump up my omega-3? I'm like, what is it, right? And that's what you're learning with this program. You are learning what your body needs. This is what this week is about, personalizing the plan, being really in tune, extra in tune with really truly trying to understand your body's needs, right? The other one is not being mindful, which really just feeds into the first two, right?

Wake up, look good, feel good is not like just not being mindful. I'm in tune. Am I hungry? Do I need to eat? Should I eat? Could I eat? What am I hungry for? But it happens within seconds, right?

Same thing with portions. I don't have to ask those four questions anymore because I've done it so often. I don't need to ask them. I can see the waiter coming with my food. I already know it's too much, right? If sit down, I plate my food. I even plate my food. I know it's too much, right? I'll know when it's done enough. So this is that mindful part, right? This is, this is like finally and forever is in like a magic pill. It's the work that you have done. It's the way you have lost your weight. It's all that. It's the struggling that you have worked through. It's the continuing to show up when life is really difficult, right? But how do you explain that to somebody? The reality is you can't, right? And this is your answer. Like, wow, I feel really bad for you that you feel that way. Oh, you know, like I'm good, but this is where people, this is not about you. Let me just say

that this is about people's beliefs when it comes to diets, because I bet that that person has lost their weight and gained it back so many times that they just believe that diets don't work, that diets don't work. And then even now we have, we have Ozempic, we have all the weight loss medications that also we know that when you stop taking those, you gain those weight back. So there is this consensus out there that you will never be able to sustain and maintain your weight. But this is where I look out world because the living method is coming at you. The living method is here. It's here to say, this is where I'm on a mission to let everyone know that there is a different way of losing weight.

There is a way that you can lose weight in a healthy way, physically, mentally, that you're going to be able to maintain and sustain. People don't know this. People don't know this, right? Yeah, it was disappointing and rude. She had lost weight and gained it. Obviously not the Gina Livy way and I've been getting new clothes as 30 pounds down. Shorts are falling off.

This goes back to that post we had the other day about people's reactions to your weight, your weight loss. People can be really weird about this. That's why you need to feel really solid in what you've done. And what you say to other people is so important because it's what you're saying to yourself. So think what she, what you're saying to other people is what you're saying to yourself. So look what she was saying. She was saying to you, well, you may be able to lose your weight, but you're going to gain it back. That is her belief. That is her belief. That is what she is saying, or they are saying to themselves is that they believe that they can lose the weight, but they will gain it back. And that I totally understand that. I totally understand that. Totally understand that.

Okay. I got to go. Got to go. Y'all. I was only going to come on for a half hour. I totally understand that. Totally understand that. Okay. I got to go. Got to go, y'all. I was only going to come on for a half hour. I have failed miserably this group at trying to keep these lives to a half hour. I appreciate everyone sticking around, but don't be afraid to bail on me. Don't be afraid to bail on me if you need to go. I don't want to stress anybody out about the time that they need to stick around because remember that you don't. But I'm happy to be here. We are not done. Dr. Ruth Kane is going to join me tomorrow. I'm so excited about that conversation. I've not spoken to Ruth in a while while she has been studying the maintenance program and process. She got some great tips for me, actually. I'm talking to her later today. And then Dr. Dina,

Dr. Beverly, and Dr. Alinka are going to join us on Thursday if you want to come hang out. No doubt that's going to be a fun conversation. We are not done. Stick around. Dig those heels in. Level up even more. Really embrace this, personalize the plan as we don't overthink it. Again, the biggest takeaway is you no longer have to force yourself to eat those token amounts unless you're going to run the risk of going longer than three and a half, four and a half hours. We're kind of extending that time a little bit without eating. Have an amazing day, everyone. I will see you later. Bye.