The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 8 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 8, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025Ever have one of those weekends? It's all good—today's a fresh start, and every step forward counts. In this episode, Gina is sharing tips for settling back into routine, fine-tuning your portions without overthinking it, and how bonus snacks can help if you're up early, extra active, or working shifts. She's talking water—why it matters, how to make it easier—and the real power behind setting daily intentions and reflecting at night. She’ll also break down what to watch for with self-sabotage, when to introduce supplements, and why nighttime cravings are more about routine than true hunger. Plus, what hunger actually looks like when you’re in tune with your body, and why being kind to yourself is a non-negotiable. Change is happening even if the scale isn’t showing it yet. Keep showing up. You’re doing more right than you think.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livi and welcome to the Livi 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 relisten to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place.

This podcast is hosted on Acast cast but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple and Amazon Music. Here we are day eight of the program rolling into week one. Okay, how are you feeling after the weekends? Last weekend was our first official weekend of the program. Weekends tend to be off routine compared to our regular Monday to Friday.

So it can take a while for you to get adjusted. If you found yourself eating your face off, honestly, you have nothing to worry about. You just wanna get right back at it today. In fact, that's how it works around here if you go away for the weekend or even if you go away on vacation do the best you possibly can and then just keep moving forward. If there is an extreme circumstance where you just cannot follow at all then you can always pick

up from where you left off but honestly every day counts. Now I know we have a lot of new members joining us just over the weekend. Registration is now closed so you can no longer sign up for our program. Our next program is going to be in the fall. Now don't sweat it if you're wondering what you're gonna do in the summer we got a plan for you. Let's just focus on showing up day by day by day over the next few weeks and months. Okay so if you are new to the program, you wanna make sure that you review the food plan guide.

That is in the Facebook support group, also in the app. It talks about what to eat and when, that's the focus. So for prep week, even if you missed it, it was just an opportunity for new members to review the information, ask any questions, write out and grab anything that they need and start following that food plan. There are some posts that you might want to get caught up on. So I would take your time going over any of that information.

We're going to post a lot of information over the next few weeks and months, but really it's the guidelines that you want to pay attention to. Those are your instructions. The week one guidelines are all about more of the same with the food plan, but we're talking about fine tuning and adjusting it. Really starting to be aware of how your body has been responding

when it comes to those portions. You're still eating just enough in the moment so that when you're walking away, 10, 15 minutes later, you're feeling satisfied. You're not trying to under eat. You're not trying to under eat. You're not trying to overeat. You're trying to just eat enough.

For example, I noticed on the weekend, some people were saying, I feel just full all the time. If you feel full all the time, you're probably eating too much. So you really wanna pay attention to that. Again, we're not purposely trying to eat less or for whatever reason, purposely trying to eat more. We're just paying attention and we are adjusting when and where needed. Now we also introduce bonus snacks.

So some of you may be like more food what the actual F. So bonus snacks are for people who get up extra early. There's a big difference in someone's day when they wake up at nine o'clock in the morning versus if someone woke up at five o'clock in the morning. So if you are up for extra hours in the day or you feel like you're extra active, some people have more active jobs than others, some people are just naturally more active than others, then bonus snacks might be a good idea for you or especially if you're doing those 24 hour turnaround shifts. So for the shift workers, we have a post for you if you missed it. It talks about how to navigate the program with some crazy shift hours, especially those

24 hour shifts. We had you splitting up your meals and snacks to having them last a little longer. Now you have actual bonus snacks that you can add in. Bonus snacks are specific. They are added in at specific times and you are pulling from a specific list of snacks. So it's not like eat whatever you want at whatever time you want. They are after your morning snack and before lunch or after lunch and before your first snack and you cannot switch out your snacks. So just a heads up on that. Today

my goal is to get my water in. Why is that so hard? I know it's work. It is work. It gets easier obviously as the temperature starts to rise. Start it early, spread it out throughout the day and sip. Don't guzzle. If you start it early that makes it a lot easier. You can also use the timers in the Living Method app. You can actually set timers. And if you have an Apple watch, it will remind you when to drink your water. Also get a great water bottle or like the cup you drink out of makes all the difference.

I have certain cups in my house that I really enjoy drinking water out of. And then I have other cups that I use and the water like will literally sit there. I don't know what it is about having the right cup, but it makes all the difference. I love that you're setting your intention though. So today we're talking about setting intentions, end of day reflections. This will help you stay on track along with journaling.

So and you can set your intentions in your journal, whether it's your Libby Method, Spring Summer Journal, whether it's your intentions in the actual app, whether you're popping into the Facebook support group and putting your intentions on the check-in posts in the morning and then your reflections on the reflection posts, which is gonna be new this evening. If you pop into the group, you see that.

Or you're using your own journal. Intentions are, okay, I signed up for this weight loss program. We're on day eight. These are the things that I want to focus on today. And what that does when you write them out or type them out, it makes it come to the forefront of your mind. So you're more likely to remember the things that you want to do each day. And then I love a good end-of-day reflections at the end of the day.

Put it to bed. How was my day? What did I do really well? What do I need to work on tomorrow? How can I better set myself up for success? And then you can be like, okay, time to go to bed. Tomorrow's a new day. And I also do love a midday check-in, which you can also do in the app, by the way.

A midday check-in is, hey, hi, Gina. Set these intentions. Not too long ago, how you making out? How's that water drinking going? Did you remember to take your supplements? What's your plan for your workout? Because I see that you missed it this morning, right? So I love it.

It's basically holding yourself accountable is what it is. Now we don't want to berate ourselves, right? You don't want to at the end of the day, write out all the things you did wrong. That's not it. You want to write out all the things you did really well and maybe some things that you need to pay particular attention to the next day. You know, we're also talking about sabotage today, self-sabotage, which I know it

might seem really early, but see people are already sabotaging themselves. I can tell. So one tell for sabotage is planting seeds of doubt. So I spent a lot of time in the group and looking over comments and I can tell people who are going to do really well and people who just I'm not sure they're going to make it. People who do really well are asking questions. They may be feeling lost, they may be feeling frustrated, they may be feeling whatever, but they are sharing how they feel and they are asking for help. People who I'm concerned are not going to make it much farther are people who come in and they say, I can't this is this is too hard to follow. I'm having a hard time, or I can't get in all my meals and snacks

or having a hard time drinking the water. They're not actually asking questions. They're not asking for help. They are just making statements. So that down the road when they decide not to quit, there is a trail of excuses for them. That's like a major tell. That's a major tell. Now we want everyone to be successful.

That's my goal. We want every single person who starts the program to finish, reach out, ask for help no matter what your problem is, no matter how you're feeling, my team can help. They've been there. A lot of them had done the program themselves. They understand. They've helped so many people. They listen to the conversations with their guest experts. They really understand what you're trying to do here. So reach out, ask for help. We

will answer your questions. We will give you support. We will direct you to other posts that you might feel helpful and whatnot. Can I have the veg and nuts at the same time? No. So here's a big piece of advice for me. Follow exactly as designed. If there was a faster, quicker, better, more effective way, I would sure as shit let you know, it is in my best interest for you to be as successful as possible.

Not just losing your weight, it's my best interest that you're able to maintain and sustain your weight after. If you're new to the program, you might not understand why. So definitely find that food plan guide and in it is the food plan video. It talks about the rhyme and reason behind the food plan.

And then there's actually an individual breakdown of all the meals and snacks. So if you're reading the food plan post in the app or in the group, it has links. So when it talks about breakfast, it will actually link to the breakfast post that talks specifically about breakfast. Morning fruit snack, believe it or not,

there's a whole post that talks about your fruit snack. Well, can you do frozen? Can you do canned? Absolutely, yes you can. Can you mix and match? Yes you can. And there's a post about every single meal and snack. So the best thing that you can do for yourself

to set yourself up for success is be super clear on what you need to do for the food plan. Don't mix and match. Don't combine. Don't do your own thing. I'm assuming, listen, I'm assuming you signed up for the program because it works. 93% of people that come to us are through referral. So they've known someone who've been successful and chances are they were successful following the food plan as designed. Now I also know because of our new marketing and trying to get our word out there to the world, there's a lot of people who don't know anyone and you may not trust or you may be unsure.

So ask a lot of questions. We're happy to explain the rhyme and the reason, but a lot of times we have posts for these things that can better explain the process, the rhyme and the reason then sort of what we can, you know, write out in a few sentences. So super, super clear on the food plan this week. That is the mission, especially if you're new to the program. If you have been here for the last week and followed along with prep week, you are fine tuning it. You are adjusting it and you're working on being as consistent as possible with it. You mentioned supplements. When will we talk about what supplements to take?

So we're going to talk about supplements in week two. The reason why we hold off right now is because you want your body to adjust to the changes that you've made. Some of you are already noticing, for example, changes in how you feel as your body starts to make change, especially when the scale is moving. Some of you are noticing changes in your sleep patterns that will adjust. Some of you are noticing that you're sleeping better than ever.

Some of you are having disrupted sleeps, probably also if you're detoxing and the scale is moving. Some of you are noticing changes in your bowel movements, loose bowel movements, totally normal, especially as that scale is moving as what fills your fat cells is being released. That can cause loose bowel movements, it's normal with detox.

Of course, never blow anything off in the program, always check in with your doctor in case you feel like something is off. Some of you are experiencing constipation, that is normal whenever you make any changes in your diet, this is one to make sure you're drinking lots of water, you're adding in those leafy greens, right? You wanna make sure you're adding in all those fiber you're adding in those leafy greens, right? You want to make sure you're adding in all those

fiber rich foods, your fruits and vegetables and whatnot. And of course, if you need to take anything, you can. We have a whole post on bowel movements, a poo protocol. If you'd like to talk about it, we haven't rolled it out yet. It's coming out this week, but you can always search it in your app. Or if you have the book, you can also,

there's a table of contents in the book that you can read and find that Pooh protocol post. But what was the question? What was the question? I forgot what the question was. There was a reason why I was talking, oh, supplements, supplements. So your body is already reacting to the changes

that you've made, believe it or not, even though you're eating healthy, change is stressful on the body. So we want that to calm down and become very routine. And then week two, we're going to talk about supplements. So I'm going to have a post outlining the supplements that I suggest and why we're going to have Dr. Paul Herkel come on and talk about those supplements. And then we're expecting you to kind of take that information, assess what you feel might be beneficial for you and for you to talk to your own healthcare providers.

They are probably not what you think. They are not crazy, wackadoo, fat burners or anything like that. They are things that help the body function. Like on the more optimal level, it helps your body be as healthy as possible. Things that if you are deficient in them, make it hard for your body just to do what it needs to do on a daily basis. So things like vitamin D is a big one, omega-3, magnesium. We're going to talk about your microbiome, so probiotics, prebiotics. We're going to talk about your B complexes. Those are just to name a few. What I wouldn't do is run out and necessarily

grab those. There is no rush for those. And I wouldn't do is run out and necessarily grab those. There is no rush for those and I would hold off, allow your body to adjust to the changes with the food plan. So you can understand what is happening because of the changes you've made there. Because sometimes when people start adding in, for example, magnesium. So magnesium citrate,

you can also use bisglycinate if you want. We'll talk about the different forms of magnesium. But the citrate is a great one, or citrate, however you want to say it, is a great one. It complements the program because it helps, it helps asleep, it works with your melatonin production. It also helps when it comes to those bowel movements as well. Taking too much magnesium can cause loose bowel movements. So if you start adding in magnesium,

you might experience loose bowel movements and you think, oh my goodness, it's because of the magnesium. When in reality, it's just because your body's adjusting to the program and your weight is dropping. And so we want you to get a really good handle on what's happening right now without adding anything new in. So that's what I would suggest holding off until week two of the program,

but that's when we're going to start talking to them. Now, for those of you listening and you're like, uh-huh, I knew it. This is a supplement program. Gina is going to make me spend thousands of dollars. She probably sells them. I do not. I do not sell supplements. Not yet. Anyway, I might later on if I want to look at quality supplements for an affordable price for people I might but right now I don't sell any supplements you can buy your supplements for wherever you live There are people from all over the world following the program You do not have to take supplements to be successful or anything like that

If you are deficient in vitamin D if you are deficient in magnesium if you're not getting enough omega-3s in your diet That can just that can hinder how your body functions, that's all. Your microbiome, if you've taken a lot of, you know, antibiotics, if you've got a lot of inflammation in your body, helping your microbiome can help. There's a lot of science behind that. And again, you do not have to buy any supplements to be successful in the program, but we are going to talk about them, just like a lot of things. I find the evenings hard, try not to indulge in snacks, such a weakness.

So I wouldn't say weakness, probably a pattern or a habit, Diane. That's what, so hunger can mean a lot of things. You can be hungry because you're actually hungry. You can be hungry because you're bored. You can be hungry because you're stressed. You can be hungry because out of habit, if every night after dinner you're used to having a sweet treat, you might crave a sweet treat after dinner. Or if you sit down in the evening,

especially on the weekends, you watch a movie, there's a certain routine you follow that can be habit. You can be triggered into hunger, right? You see a Dairy Queen commercial, you, I don't know, whatever that is, you're driving along, you see a Big Mac, McDonald's, you get triggered. So hunger can be a lot of things. Hunger is not an immediate need for food. I'll tell you that.

Hunger is your body saying, hey, Gina, based on your glycogen levels, you might wanna think they're starting to get lower. You might wanna start to think about getting something to eat, but your body knows it's going to take you time to find your food, prepare your food, eat the food, process and digest your food. So a lot of times your hunger level is like,

hey, Gina, you just, you got to start thinking about this tick tock, honey. Right. So hunger in the evening, when you are eating all this nutrient rich food to satisfaction each day, when you're so if you're hungry in the evening, make sure you're eating breakfast. A lot of people choose to skip breakfast or choose not to, I don't like skipping, choose not to have breakfast because you can always beneficial to start your day higher in protein, but they might not connect the two, right? Cause they're like not connect being extra hungry in the evening because they didn't have

breakfast this morning. So if you find you're consistently hungry in the evenings, eat breakfast. That's really important. But while your weight is dropping, you can find yourself extra hungry in the evening. So if you're like, I don't know what gifts I've eaten all this food throughout the day, and I don't know why I'm hungry. So it could be that you're triggered could be out of habit, right? It could be also that your weight is about to drop. You get extra hungry right before your weight is about to drop. You get extra hungry right before your body's about to detox. Very similar if you get a menstrual cycle. The days PMS right before your flow comes, you're like extra hungry, right? That can be your body trying to get you to drink more water, especially if you're craving carbs and sugar. Try to hold off,

have some tea, try to just be miserable about it, be like, okay, I'm hungry, but I'm not going to eat damn it. Right? Like you don't have to be like, oh, this is amazing and wonderful. You can be like, okay, like I recognize I'm hungry. I eat all this nutrient rich food throughout the day. As soon as it gets dark out, your body starts pumping this melatonin through your system to signal it's time to wind down. Trust me, your body doesn't want to eat. It wants you to go to bed. It wants to go to sleep it's time to wind down. Trust me, your body doesn't want to eat. It wants you to go to bed. It wants to go to sleep.

It wants to work on repairing and rebuilding and regenerating and rejuvenating and detoxing. The last thing it wants to do is have to process some food that it doesn't need. It really wants you to get the best night's sleep. So the problem with eating in the evening isn't calories. It's not that you can totally eat in the evening, maintain your weight once you're done. It's about that sleep. It's about trying to get the best sleep possible because that's when your body makes change. So try to have some tea, try to go to bed, read a book, hold off, right? Switch up your routine, maybe go for a walk if it's earlier in the evening or after dinner. Try to

recognize what is it? Why am I hungry? Am I actually hungry or am I just bored or triggered or is it out of habit or do I need to drink more water? And I can say that because I know you're eating all this nutrient rich foods. If I had you on one of those shitty deprivation diets, you're eating 600 calories a day, I know exactly why you're hungry at night

because you're fucking starving. But that's not what's happening on this program, right? So it's not a weakness, it's probably just a habit or you're being triggered or we're gonna, so week three of the program we're gonna be really routine about the food plan and this is where your body really starts to calm down and adjust to it and this is where you start to recognize where you use food for other things. This is when like the routine is settling in, you're starting to get a bit bored. This is a good thing.

When you are bored, it means that your routine body loves routine routine is the foundation of change. This is an opportunity to start working through why you use food for other things other than nutritional requirements. When you're stressed, when you're bored and whatnot. So the program actually addresses that. You could be dealing with a little bit of that. You could be dealing with a little bit of that.

I'm new to the program. I ate breakfast, snack, lunch, but then wasn't very hungry. So after two hours, I had a stock of celery and 30 minutes later, I had 15 almonds. Two hours later was super hungry, but it was about an hour earlier for dinner. Yeah. So your hunger levels change every day. This is why counting calories makes no fucking sense. I'm sorry, I can really minimize my swearing today.

I've hit my max wear limit today. It makes no sense because your hunger levels change every day. One day you may be really hungry, and then the next day you might not be hungry at all. And this even happens during our week of downsizing. We actually start to make adjustments to our portions when you are eating less. Then people are like, how am I supposed to eat less? I'm not even hungry at all.

That's totally normal. That's where you just want to pay attention to that. Today, you might have a day where you're not really all that hungry at all and you are going longer in between meals and snacks. There are times if you have the luxury that... That's why we have that half hour to three and a half hours. You don't want to eat any sooner than half an hour and you don't want to really go any longer than three and a half hours. Now, at the end of the day, you might have been extra hungry because maybe you didn't drink enough water. So one of the reasons why you want to make sure you're drinking enough water on the program is your body needs water to process and digest your foods.

And because we're eating so often on the program, you need more water for that. So it could be that after eating all your meals and snacks throughout the day, especially if you were not just hungry, but you were craving carbs or sugar, that could be a sign that your body is actually just looking for water. So you want to make sure that you're drinking enough water. Also eating often throughout the day has your body working really hard and just because you're really hungry doesn't mean you need more food. So as you start to follow the program and give your body what it needs, it's gonna start talking to you and it's gonna let you know when you are hungry, when you're thirsty, when you're tired, like you're gonna become more in tune to that. And so really loud and clear hunger cues don't necessarily mean

that you need more food because you may find you're really hungry but then as you start to eat you actually get full quite quickly. So that's sort of that's normal. This is why you want to eat those token amounts even if you're not hungry. You still want to have that token amount. Right. So this is totally normal. This is sort of where you'll get a handle on that. This is why we want to keep the routine of the program because it kind of brings to light the nuance right behind it, the changes in your hunger levels each day. So play around with that. Play around with that.

I love the app, right? I know it's user friendly and I can use and it and you can use it easily. Anyone can. If you are not using the app, you are missing out because not only when you open up the app, can you see the check-in video? You can see all of today's posts. You can keep track. So when you click on it, it has a little circle that turns white.

So, you know, gives you a running count of the posts that you've read and any that you've missed. So there's that. Yes, you can track your weight and your food and your fluids and your moods and your movements. You can set intentions and a day reflections, but it also guides you through the program as well, which is really super cool. There's also graphs that go along with everything that you're tracking, including your weight graphs. So if you're wondering where people are getting that sort of weight graph where it's showing

what their weight journey looks like it's it's in the app and so there's also a really cool AI feature where you can pop on and ask a question about anything it's got all the information and it will literally respond within seconds so easy to use we have a whole tech support team so it will help you download the app they'll help you log into the app they will help you with anything that you need with the app we have the best tech support team. So it will help you download the app, they'll help you log into the app, they will help you with anything that you need with the app. We have the best tech support team. So if you're not using it, honestly, you're missing out. Also, we have statistics that show people who continue to use the app more often or more successful when it comes to following the program. It keeps you showing up, it keeps you accountable, it keeps you

informed. You are collecting your own data, not me, you are collecting your own data on the water that you're drinking and the foods that you're eating and what your weight is and what your mood is and what your sleep is and what's all of that. And it's giving you kind of an output every single day too. So we have these little rings similar to like an Apple watch where you can see where you're at with your water and your mood in your in your movement and all that which is really super cool. If you're not and it and it links directly into the Facebook support group so if you want to go to today's if you want to go to the check

in you can watch it and then you can link directly into the Facebook support group if you want to connect with our community or talk to real people. It links directly into the live so if you want to find lives, that's a way to do it as well, right? So it's super cool and easy to use. If you feel like having something while watching TV, is there something good to eat? Veggies, fruit, cheese, what's the best? Or we shouldn't have anything at all.

You really shouldn't have anything at all. The goal is for you right now to learn everything that you need to learn while you're losing weight, to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. And then while in maintenance, learn everything in maintenance to weight, to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. And then while in maintenance, learn everything in maintenance to be able to just live your life and be in tune. Because right now you're trying to lose weight.

Now, if you are just here to eat healthier, then sure, you can have some snacks at night, because there are people who sign up for the program just trying to eat healthier. But if you're trying to make change and actually lose weight, again, it's not the snacks that you're eating at night, even if you eat vegetables, fruits or whatever, it's that you're stimulating your digestive system. And that's going to mess with your sleep because the foods that you eat take hours to process and

digest. So it's really about getting that deep REM sleep where your body makes change. Even if you have a habit of snacking at night, if you can just make a promise to yourself to not snack for like a couple nights and pay attention to how you feel in the morning, you'll be like, whoa, I feel like my body feels better. My brain feels clear. It's like a game changer. So I'm all about let's let's take this chunk of time help you lose weight as much as possible as healthiest of possible in a way you can maintain because I want your weight loss journey to be over one day. So I'm not I don't want you to sign up for a lifetime membership. I'm not trying to teach you how to eat your cake and eat it too. I'm helping you lose this weight in a way that you walk away. Your body has no need to store fat.

Your metabolism is higher. Your set point is lower so that you can enjoy a snack in the evening feeling your best guilt free in tune to your body's needs right so that's sort of bigger picture with what we're trying to do here i know you might have followed other diets that have a cheat day or you know here's these you know low fat carbonib muffins i'm like if you're going to have a muffin just eat whatever muffin that you want if you want to have pasta just enjoy the pasta but maybe have less pasta and a side salad and some veggies and we don't have cheat days. We have choose days. If you're going to

choose to have something, have it. Don't let don't blow off your whole day or whole weekend and just kind of carry along. Right. So that's sort of more what we're about. That's why people say, Well, what can I have? I'm going to snack at night. I'm like, nothing. But you could have tea, popcorn, I guess, if you're going to have a snack, like your air pop popcorn with some butter and salt on there. You know, that's low, low sugar. It's high fiber. But again, it's not about what you're eating.

It's about when it gets dark out. And what's great about the spring summer is that you got more runway, right? It gets dark later. So that's why you want to make sure that you're getting in that breakfast and making your food choices nutrient rich. And if you've done maybe your returning member and you did our winter program, you didn't use bonus snacks, you might find that you need those bonus snacks now, especially if you're staying up and you're being more active later in your day, right? So you might want to think about that. But as soon as it gets dark, your body pumps melatonin, which is a hormone through your system. And that signals the body, hey, time to shut her down.

We're trying to shut her down. Because we're gonna get ready for a nice deep REM sleep where your body is gonna go through your circadian rhythm, it's gonna circle through all your organs, and it's just gonna do like a self cleanse, repair this, rebuild that, detox this, detox that. I mean, obviously I'm oversimplifying here. And then in the morning, that's where you break the fast right you're you're fast at night where

your body's doing all of that now I might as well since I said the word fast talk about intermittent fasting you cannot combine other diets it just doesn't work now when it comes to fasting we do our own kind of fasting, but I mean, it's not fasting because before fasting was cool and before people did it for weight loss, I was like, it's just how the body works. You need your sleep. So it's good. This is why it's good to not eat after dinner and also why you want to go high protein in

the morning when you break that fast or you have the option of not having breakfast and then picking up with your morning snack. The problem that people make with fasting is they go way too long without eating and they're like they're going into like late morning, you know, early afternoon and by then you're dipping into your fat reserves and you don't want to do that. And so you really can't combine fasting if you're going to do more than sort of like that 12 hour fasting with the program. Again, I don't like to call it fasting. It's

just called how you should eat back in the day before electricity and whatnot. Believe it or not, our eating cues were way off before we had these social eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner times of day. And so in eating, getting in tune to your body, the last thing your body wants at night is to eat more food, which is why you're never really actually hungry. Again, unless of course you're starving and depriving yourself throughout the day. Good morning. Hi, Risa. Loved and re-listened to the amazing guests over and over.

Dr. Lincoln says, stop the trash talking. Instead, treasure what you are doing. So powerful. Our body hears our thoughts. It absolutely does. It absolutely does, which is why we have the best guests for you this week. So if you missed it last week and you're new to the program, we introduced some of our guest experts.

Dr. Alinka, Dr. Beverly, Dr. Dina and Dr. Paul. Just a few of many that we're gonna have on. They talked about what they thought you needed to hear if you're just starting the program and if you're a returning member. If you missed that conversation, you can go into the guest expert guide in the group. There is also one in the app.

So if you go into the app and you go to the bottom that says guides, you click the little post at the bottom that says guides. There's a food plan guides. You can easily access that food plan guide. I was talking about. There's the daily live guides. So that's where you can find them after the fact.

And then there's our guest expert guide. So you can see there's our introducing our guest experts and you can click on that. You can watch it. If you miss it, I highly suggest you do. Um, Dr. Beverly David, clinical psychologist is joining us tomorrow to talk about how your past history of diets is,

and probably will affect your current journey. I know a lot of you right now, you're still counting and weighing and measuring, knock it off. I get it, I get it. The sooner you let that go, man, you'll never lose your weight sustainably by counting and weighing and measuring. You'll never lose your weight sustainably by counting and

weighing and measuring. You'll never maintain your weight by counting and weighing and measuring. You don't need to. You don't need to. But for so many reasons our past and our history of dieting especially can affect showing up today with where we're at right now. So she's going to join us. She's going to join us throughout the program.

We're going to talk about a lot of things with her. And then on Thursday, Dr. Dina Kara Schaeffer is going to join and talk about how to set yourself up for success, how to use the resources, how to not feel overwhelmed, how to show up on the worst of days, how to keep moving forward, how to stay motivated throughout the program and whatnot. So we have got a great guest lineup. It's more than just me. Obviously, I have a huge passion for the program and helping our members lose weight.

I'm going to show up every day, kind of be your, I'm like your cruise director. But really, it's our incredible guest experts that will know exactly where you are at. All of our guest experts know that you are starting day one. They understand what's happening with that. You trying to get things together,

trying to be consistent, trying to work through your thoughts and your feels about the process. And then throughout the program, it's the same. They'll be having these conversations with us with you knowing exactly where you're at and what you need to hear and what you're trying to work through and whatnot,

which is really, I mean, really worth the value of the program. What else, what else, what else? I've noticed that even though the scales not move much, I've noticed bowel movements are better and I'm not as bloated as much. Inflammation seems to be growing down. Yay, small wins. Inflammation is huge. Dr. Paul will be back in the weeks to come talking about four reasons why your weight might be slower to move. Inflammation is one of them. Not an easy thing to do, but really the living

method is an anti-inflammatory program. Absolutely. It's going to talk about food sensitivities, like food allergies. Should you be eating gluten? Should you be eating dairy? Listen, I love gluten. I love dairy. I love all those things. Some people, though, are more sensitive than others.

Also going to talk about gut issues in your microbiome, how that factors in, what you got going on with all that good bacteria in your belly and how that factors in, which leads in, spoiler alert, to inflammation. So does food sensitivities and food allergies cause inflammation. And then the third one is hormones. And the the LIVI method might as well be a hormone program, regardless of whether it's diabetes or thyroid issues or your hunger hormones, or whether it's all of the hormones that come along with menopause and aging, the program addresses all of those as well. And so all of those lead into inflammation, right? So we're going to talk more about that. I do want to talk before I go that, um, hi, JD, happy two year, G anniversary.

Hello. Um, I do want to talk about the scale. It is so normal at this point I know you sign up for a weight loss program. I know you want to see the scale move Don't take yourself out of this by what's going on the scale 93% of our members see movement on the scale within the first four weeks of the program Some people struggle more than others hence those four reasons why the weight might be slower not that you're not gonna lose But why it might be slower and what you can do about it. It's not really about the scale right now.

If you are seeing the scale move, that's just you giving your body good nutrient rich foods. That's amazing. That's because your body doesn't want this fat any more than you do. If the scale isn't moving for you, you will probably notice your body adjusting to the changes that you're making. You'll start to feel a lot leaner. You'll have more energy sleeping better feeling better Pooping better clothes fitting better. The living method is about fat loss over weight loss. And when you've done those other

Deprivation diets you'll notice that big hit right away that big drop right away. That is not just fat loss That is also weight loss and that is eventually muscle loss as well So healthy sustainable weight loss fat loss is eventually muscle loss as well. So healthy, sustainable weight loss, fat loss, it hits different. It hits different. It looks different. So way too early to be stressed on the scale right now. It will come keep showing up. You will lose your weight. It is so normal for some people to see movement. So normal for people still to not have seen movement. Still normal for people still not to see any movement for weeks yet. I know that is a mind fuck and that can be really hard,

but trust me, it is normal and we're gonna do everything we can to try to prove that to you along the way. So before I go, however you're feeling about starting the program, week one of the program, after the weekend, what's going on with the scale, all of your thoughts and feels valid and part of the program and the weekend, what's going on with the scale, all of your thoughts and feels valid and part of the program in the process. Don't let them take you out. This is where you want to say,

okay, what's going on? Why am I feeling this way? What can I do? Reach out, ask for help, ask for support, ask as many questions as you need. Join us for our guest segments. They're going to be a game changer. That's my time for segments. They're going to be a game changer. That's my time for today. I'm going to be back tonight. Now I know I probably didn't get to so many of your questions. If you have a question that you want answered, copy it or repost it on the post pinned to the top of the page. The live segments do the conversational nature are the only posts that we do not provide written responses. So we'll have people saying, I've asked so many questions and no one's responded, probably

because you're asking on the live. Please do not stop asking your questions on the live. It creates the conversation, especially the one that's going on behind the scenes with all of you and you're chatting and whatnot. But if you have a question that you need answered, put it on the post, pin to the top of the page or any of our written posts or ask it in the Living Method app. Happy day one of week one, which is really day eight and it's also a Monday.

That's how we start things around here by day. So you can easily keep track of what you've already seen and what you need to get caught up on. Have a super fantastic day. I will be back later on tonight at 7 p.m. If you wanna join me then, otherwise I'll see you tomorrow. Can you tell I'm excited? Happy week one, everyone. We'll be back later on tonight at 7pm. If you want to join me then, otherwise I'll see you tomorrow. Can tell I'm excited. Happy week one, everyone.