The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 80 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: July 10, 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 80, 9 AM live.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Let’s talk about Personalizing The PlanPersonalizing The Plan is effective and offers flexibilityBridging The Gap Summer Club - Gina and the team will be hanging out with you this summerGina wants to hear from you! - Please reply to the upcoming poll Be sure to catch Spill The Tea Guests Warren and Melanie talking about maintaining and gaining weight backHow to sign up for the Bridging The Gap Summer Club - go to: ginalivy.comThe gold standard for clinically significant weight loss - 5% of your body weight lost over 6 monthsDr. Ruth Kane is diving into maintenance and how the Livy Method worksThe summer group is going to be FUN! Great guests, chilling by the pool with GinaReflecting on maintenance to gain a deeper understanding of where you’re atThe value in joining the Bridging the Gap Summer ClubMenopause Group with Dr. Olinca is coming soonWhy is my weight creeping up? Let’s figure it outThinking of going solo? Gina weighs inNew merch coming soon! Let’s define Finally & Forever - living your best life and creating the lifestyle you want to live“Own what you have done.” - This is who I am now. Embrace the changes you have madeScale up? What are the reasons? What choices are you making?The Livy Method is different than any other diet as it focuses on maintenanceJournaling - a great tool for food sensitivitiesTo 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, hello. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? I'm on some technical issues, as I do sometimes, but here I am. Hello. Happy day 80 of the program. My goodness. Okay. We are not done yet. We are not done yet. Let me know how you are making out with our tweak this week. So personalizing the plan. This is one you really want to understand what you're doing. Although you've been, you've really been doing it all along. It's a combination of all of the things, but you want to make sure you know what you are doing with it because this is the technique ideally you want to roll into the summer with. So you want to personalize the plan throughout the summer. And then if you've signed up for our fall group, reset with the fall program. Now you

do have options if you just don't have the capacity. And this sort of came about during the pandemic. So I always suggested people personalize the plan during the summer break, because there's like a six, seven week break during the summer. But then during the pandemic, what happened is people were just like, Oh, I don't, I just don't have the capacity. I'm here, there, I'm doing whatever, or I just, you know, and then it kind of filtered in after the pandemic, people are going away. So if you don't have the capacity to be checking in at every single meal and snack time and maximizing and doing all the things, and you just kind of want to just do the basics, you could totally work the basic food plan if you want. It's just personalizing the plan is so much more proactive than just the basic food plan. Now, the basic food plan is great for resetting

in the beginning of every group. It's great because eventually you can use it as back on track. But if you really want to see the scale moving and grooving this summer, I highly suggest that you personalize the plan. Again, really essentially the only difference is that you're not forcing yourself to eat those token amounts if and when you're not hungry anymore. And you have the same flexibility that you had in week nine and 10 in terms of those snacks. And there's no longer a star of the meal when it comes to lunch and dinner. Everything else essentially remains the same. I really want to remind you that you are doubling down on asking those four questions. Those portions are so important, along with drinking the water and, you know, managing your stress and getting your sleep, moving your body and all those things,

but really be in tune to those four portions, four questions when it comes to your portions, what can happen if you're not as mindful as those portions kind of start creeping up on you and not that it's going to cause you to gain weight, but it can definitely slow your process because everything at this point works together. So you want to make sure you are doing all the things you can, especially if you're getting up every day and expecting that scale to move, but not necessarily doing the things that you need to do in order to get that scale to move. Okay, you guys are talking about the Bridging the Gap group. Will the Bridging the Gap group be good if you're behind the program? I'll be finishing up the spring-summer program just in time for the fall.

So we are starting a new Bridging the Gap Summer Club. So this is, I don't want to call it a program because it's not a guided program and process. I never start a program in the summer because simply because any of the new members would just have a hard time understanding how much the scale can fluctuate due to the heat. So I, that's why, that's why I would never run a, like a proper weight loss program in the summer. But there is a considerable gap in between this group ending and the start of the fall program. And so the summer, the, the, the bridge in the gap summer club is going to be a place where I'm going to hang out this summer. My team is going to hang out this summer and we are going to be around and available to answer any questions that

you have. So it would be perfect if you're falling behind in the program, you'll be able to pop in, ask the team, anything that you need to know. Um, I'm also going to be going live. I'm not sure my schedule for that. I would love to hear from you guys. I'm actually going to do a poll because it's the summertime. So technically I usually take the summer off and work on some side projects. Like I'm working on that journal that I want to get done for you guys. I got some things that I want to do. But I would love to hear, you know, other times a day that would work best for you for lives so if we want to do evening lives we want to do midday lives

at this point I'm kind of open I've never done the Bridging the Gap group we did like a test group last year but I didn't go live in it so I would love to hear what's going to work for you in terms of lives we're already working on some fun guest segments and whatnot.

So it's just a place we're going to be around. You have access to the team to continue to get your questions asked and answered. So it'd be perfect if you're falling behind the group. Perfect if you feel like you're going to need assistance, want to stay part of our community. We're going to do some fun stuff. We're going to do some giveaways. We're going to have fun engagement posts.

It's just a way to kind of keep the process going or help people throughout the summertime, which I think is beneficial. I also think if you feel like you don't need that, that's amazing too. That's amazing too. The lead up to the fall program, we're going to see what we can do about kind of getting everyone excited and set up for success, you know, as we get closer to the fall program. So the Bridging the Gap group is for members who have done the program previously and either want to continue losing weight,

right? Or maybe you just want to maintain throughout the summer, but you want to be motivated in order to just maintain throughout the summer while you have a, you know, you do all the things you want to do this summer or set yourself up for success. It is a wet and gloomy day here as well. You guys are all talking about the rain. There's supposed to be like something like 60, 40 to 60 millimeters. Tony just came back from dropping. My son is in driving school. He just started driving school on Monday. So he says it's pouring rain. It's pouring rain. It's pouring rain. I got my workout in yesterday, late last night, just so I could get that in just in case I wasn't out and about today.

Okay, let's get to your questions. Let's get to your questions. I think the Bridging the Gap group, what is going on with my live? Well, keep me aligned and on track. In the past, this is where I used to fall off track. Yes. Thank you, Gina, for offering this to us and get in our daily Gina fix. So I'm here for you. So did you see our, did you see our spill the tea yesterday with Warren and Melanie? Oh my gosh. They're so fun. They're a whole, they're a whole vibe. They talked about this. They did their, they did their first program and then they kind of just, you know, they started gaining weight back. They understand why. We had an interesting conversation with them about that. So I would highly suggest you take time. Then they came back and crushed it. Of course, he's down 97 pounds. She's down 77 pounds. This is something

that you can do throughout the summer, regardless of whether you join the Bridging the Gap group or not, is catch up on all of our Spill the Tea segments, or go back and read some of our Livey Loser spotlights. Oh my goodness. That can be a great thing to do to help keep you motivated throughout the summer. On Monday, we're going to do a Celebrate and Inspire post. It's one of my favorite posts, that and the words of encouragement post, where I highly suggest that you, you, whether you lost five pounds or 50 pounds, or you're now up to 150 pounds, whatever that is, take time to celebrate yourself. It's a fun post if you're looking for motivation.

Also a heads up this week, it's only Thursday, what day is it? It's only Wednesday. Oh my gosh. We're having our team party this weekend. So we're bringing in, we're flying in everyone. Everyone who works on our team is coming in to the city this weekend. We're having our big team party. So on Saturday, we won't be around to answer questions, but that's okay because they're going to get caught up on them at some point. So don't let that stop you, but just a heads up. Who's Louisa? Sorry, I haven't been catching the

lies. Bridging the Gap Club sounds awesome. How can I make sure I'm part of the group? Will it be a special Facebook group? Yep. So you can sign up. You just go to our website, GinaLivie.com, and then there's going to be a whole separate Facebook support group for that. When you sign up, you will have an order number that will be emailed to you. You just use that order number in order to get into the Facebook support group. There is no app, but you will be able to continue to use the current app. If you're working behind the program, you'll be able to continue to use the app all through the 91 days. If you finish out the 91 days of the program, the app will turn into a general tracker, so you can continue to use the app to track.

There's Pam Woods. Oh, I need to crash the party. We're working on lots of fun parties with our team as well. I can so relate to the summer heat and my body. It's so puffy, right? Enjoy the party. The whole team will deserve for sure. Yeah, we, we, every year we get together.

It's so loud because it's literally everyone who works on the team. I think we're at around 50, 50 people now. We have different departments, right? We have social media, we have HR, we have, you know, learning and training. We have a variety of different departments. And every single person in our company works remote. Every single person works from home. So no one really gets to see each other.

And all over Canada. So no one really gets to see each other. So this is sort of the one day where we all get to hang out. After the live with Dr. Ruth, I calculated my numbers. 17% of my body weight lost in six months of following the program. Total of 21.7% down in 10 months. Charlotte, I love this. This is what I'm saying. So, oh God, now I'm waking up. I just rolled out of bed, by the way. Tony had a call me. He's like, get up. I don't know. I'm just, I think it's my workouts. I don't know. It's the heat. Super tired. six months. So people are losing that in three months of the program or to your point, Charlotte, 17.5 pounds of your body weight lost in six months. Like as a diet, just as a diet,

let's forget about maintenance. The Libby method is like crushing the statistics of other programs, like even, even Ozempic and even the new weight loss drugs. So there are some people who've lost like 25% of their body weight, 10% of their body weight in three months. So what's happening with the living method is pretty incredible. And it's not like, it's not like it's a magic pill. I mean, I wish it was a magic pill, but it's not a magic pill. It's just doing, it's just the systematic nature of the program and all the things that you are doing, working together and aligning to help your body, first of all, to address its needs, to address the fact

it's feeling you need to store fat, and then help it specifically focus on fat loss. Now Ruth is now studying maintenance. So that is sort of where we've already taken it to the Canadian obesity summit. She's done her presentation. We know the Libby method is like, wow, it works. We also know, unlike any other diet out there, there's no negative to following it. There's no downside to following the Libby method. It also helps you get healthy, actually make a real difference in your health and wellness, actually helps you get in tune to your body as opposed to disconnecting from it. The next part is the maintenance part.

So I've been working on a maintenance program where you will have an app and it will guide you through the maintenance program proper, taking a lot of the information that Ruth has found through studying the maintenance group itself and people have gone through maintenance. We're working on that. We're hoping to have that available for September. Now, those of you who've actually also purchased the maintenance group, you'll be able to do the maintenance program as well. So now we're studying maintenance. We want to be able to prove that the Livi method is sustainable. I mean, we know sustainable. We have people like, we know, obviously I've maintained my weight for over 30 years. We have people on our team who've, who have maintained their weight for years. We have

members and people in the maintenance group who've maintained their weight for years, but she's yet, yet to, to really take time to study and research the commonalities between people who are able to sustain and maintain their weight and people who are not. So she's going to be diving into that in the next little bit. So if you haven't had time, it'll really help you understand the effectiveness of the Livi Method. Also more than that, she gave tips for people who are successful at losing versus people who don't. But you know, at the end of the day, the program works, we know, but I think anything that helps to deepen your belief and your trust can make a big difference. Let me click on this and see if that will pop up. I don't want to keep reading that. And then again, still having issues with

the way I'm reading my, my notes here. You deserve a break, Gina. Although we always love to hear from your, hear your voice, you should get rest and, uh, rejuvenate too. We can enjoy reconnecting through Facebook and the Bridging the Gap group. So I am, so this is what I used to do, right? What I used to do is work my ass off while I still do to the point where I just was like a bit broken in the summer and I needed to take that time to repair, rebuild, regenerate,

rejuvenate, to put it in my own words. I learned that that is not the best way. That's not the best way. So I said to Tony yesterday, I love talking about this. It is like brings me so much joy. It's not this. This is not it. It's my stress. It's my other things that I have going on. And I said to him, I'm really excited about this group because I want to have fun.

It's kind of going to be like a summer of the Monday Night Lives. Do you know what I mean? I love the Monday night live because it's like super chill. It's a different kind of vibe. I'm not as so high strong and making sure I'm getting out the information and doing all that. Like I guess I want to, I want to invite the guests. I want them to come to my house and we'll hang by the pool and we'll do a live by the pool, you know? So I said to him yesterday, I want to really indulge in the fact that I love doing this. And then the rest of the year, I want to make sure I'm taking more time to chill out throughout the year. I said, because this thing where I go, go, go, group, group, group, and then

crash and burn in the summer, I don't think that's healthy for me. I think that's healthy for me. So I'm learning, I'm learning a few things. I'm learning a few things about managing my stress and I'm going to kind of spread out my stress throughout the year. I've also lost 16 pounds in the program. I've never felt better. Yeah. I mean, it's, here's what I love about this, this point in the program is that if you can get away from the stress of the program ending, and I think this is the bridging the gap can take a bit of the pressure off of that and be able to really reflect on what you've done and really be able to see how beneficial the program is for your health and wellness, physically, mentally, how you spend

time prioritizing yourself, being mindful, you know, eating good nutrient rich foods, managing your stress, trying to get better sleep, moving your body more, right? Like you're actually making a real change because three months, 91 days is intentional in that it takes at least that time to make change. But that's like, you know, if you're just kind of doing change here or there, but we're intentional. We've been intentional about our change, doing the things you need to do to actually make change.

And it's amazing how quickly it can really come together. It's amazing how quickly it can really come together. It's amazing how quickly it can come together. I think though, when you're so in it, it's hard to see it, which is why at the end of the program, you can kind of look back and be like, oh, this is something else I was talking to Ruth about how once you're done maintenance, you can, you kind of like when you're out of the weight loss program and you're in maintenance, this is where you really can reflect on your journey and have such a deeper, like understanding of your body's needs, like your needs physically, mentally. Right. But sometimes when we're in it, it's hard to, it's hard to see that. It's hard to see that. I passed my second goal program of

38.2 pounds gone, Linda, I love that. Oh my goodness. So we're going to be able to celebrate that. You're going to be, I highly suggest you do. So we're going to do a post on Monday where you get to celebrate this. This is outwardly owning it. We do not take it and post it. You won't find yourself on a billboard or in an ad or anything like that.

You can post befores and afters if you want. It's really just for you, a place for you to really celebrate the fact that, you know, whether it's your weight or your non-scale victories or anything like that. Hi, Risa, I need to be a guest. You know, I've been thinking one of the things I want to do this summer is like, is actually get together and talk to more members and do, and rather not to spill the tea, but more like a troubleshooting session and see where people at. I mentioned the other day I've been doing this from the people who won those sessions with me and I've really enjoyed it. I think there can be a benefit to maybe doing a few of those over the summer in a relaxed

form. I'm thinking about it. Hi, Barry Lynn. Still home recovering from a bunion surgery. Okay. So I saw Barry Lynn on Instagram yesterday, recovering from a bunion surgery. Okay, so I saw Barry Lynn on Instagram yesterday, recovering from a bunion surgery, hoping to actually drag myself out to the beach this summer,

even if just for an hour, if I'm feeling up to it. Doing her workouts, sitting in a chair, doing her workout, getting her movement in. I see you, I see you, I see you, I see you. I'm like, look at you go, my goodness. Look at you go. My goodness. Look at you go. That's motivation for sure. Personally, I love listening to the lives at 9am. If I can't listen live, then I listen later. But I am a morning person. I can't decide if I am a morning person

in the summer or not. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. How long is Bridging the Gap? I'm working three weeks behind the group. Worth it? Or personalizing the plan to the fall? So you would personalize the plan. So Bridging the Gap group for you, for example, so it's five weeks long, would be a place for you to continue to work those three weeks, ask any questions that you have, listen to our guest segments, because we won't be doing podcasts. So everything will be in that group. So we're not going to, you won't be able to download and listen to any of the podcasts. Everything will be held in the group itself. And then you have a couple, two weeks of personalizing the plan. So it's not a guided program and process.

Worth it? I, you know, I don't know. Like I, worth it is sort of like your own value, listing how much you value being able to ask people questions and get answers, how much you value being, you know, part of the community, how much you value, um, you know, our guests or me going live. It's really dependent. Some of you might just be like, oh, I'm fine. I'll see you in the fall, which is totally cool, right? It's really just sort of there for you. It's a safety net, I guess, for many people, if they're working through the program on their own, to have questions, because we won't be answering any questions in the, once we do the, we finish up this current group, then we stop posting, stop answering questions. So we're going to be shifting into that Bridging the Gap group. Oh, someone asked a question over here.

What was that? Oh, I can't get it. Oh my God. I told my husband about Warren and was hinting gently. So the program works really well for men. It works really, really well for men. I used to have a post for men. I used to have a post for them. Basically what it said is, watch out because the program works so well, you want to make sure you check in with your doctor along the way because it can take your body, because you're losing weight so quickly. Not that that's a downside, but if you're taking something like blood pressure, you might need to get off

your blood pressure medication, right? Because your body's changing so much. I'm thinking about doing, so you guys know I'm doing this menopause add on with Dr. Alinka. I'm doing this menopause add on with Dr. Alinka, um, where we're going to talk about do a whole 12 week menopause course that will coincide alongside the weight loss program. So those of you who are interested can sign up for that. And then I don't know, maybe eventually I will combine it and have different offerings like a menopause, the menopause diet version of the Libby method, or I was thinking of doing a men's group, you know, a new mom's program. So I'm kind of working on,

I'm kind of toying with the idea of that. I know the living method works for everybody, but there could be more specifics that we can dive into. Obviously we try to do that all in one program. The book would then be like 4,000 pages long, you know. My weight has been creeping up each day. This week, a few ounces each day. I'm hoping it's the heat wave. It would have to. Okay. So I love that you mentioned this. So your weight is creeping up. What is it? What is it? So don't hope let's figure it out. If it's really hot outside. Yeah. I mean, I did a workout. It was hot yesterday, but we're doing my workouts last couple of weeks. My weight's up like five pounds, five pounds. It's just from the heat. It's from

my bike and feel my neck is sore. My legs are sore. It's probably why I had a hard time getting out of bed. So with the heat and that my weight is way up. What else could it be? Could be the time of month. I don't know if you still get your menstrual cycle. Could definitely be the time of month. That could be what it is. It could be a combination of things. Like if you're maybe, if you haven't been getting enough water in, if it is hot, it could just be the water. It could be salty foods along with that. If you haven't been sleeping because of the heat, it could also be maybe sleep. Or if you've got something on your mind, it could be a variety of things. It could also, and don't forget, it could also be your weight going up before it drops, right? Sometimes

we forget about the basics at this point. We want to see that scale move. So it could be that. Now, if it could also be some underlying issues, for example, let's say it's hormones. We were just talking menopause. Let's say it's hormones. You're starting to feel you're not doing anything different. You're starting to feel maybe you're getting a little bloated. You're feeling that weight build up in the midsection. That's where it could be something going off with your hormones. If you feel like something else, I had a few years ago, my weight kept going up and up and up. And I had a stomach thing. I had a, what's it called? I can't remember what it's called at this point. It's not SIBO. It's something else. H-par, H, H, what the heck

is it? H-par, I can't remember the name of it. Anyway, I had to take antibiotics. So if you feel like something is off, how are you feeling? Are you feeling okay? Then chances are it's just probably water or the heat or lack of sleep or any of those things, or your weight is about to drop. If you're not feeling so hot and something else is going on, it could be something else. This is where you really want to get a trust that you, you, you are really in, you know, your body better than anyone else. You know, your body better than anyone else. So you know what's going on. Where was Janice? Let me scroll down. So just to check in on that. I feel like I was out of control the first couple of days. So I'm doing back on track today. You're allowed to do that. You're allowed to do that.

Me and my husband are doing this together too. There's so many. So there's a lot of husbands who are doing it with their wives or a lot of people doing it with their spouses, um, who do the program. I mean, we get that a lot, especially at the end, especially at the end. I think the morning live once a week is great. Bridging the gap is so generous of you. This is my first summer since I started. So I'm happy that that is being offered. Yeah. I mean, anything we can do. We are just starting. So we're just starting. I feel like I'm just starting. 21 groups in, I feel like I'm just starting. I want to be like the number one weight loss company in the world, which is right now Noom. They have 50 million users a year.

We have like 100,000. And so obviously the way that we will do things in order to help millions of people will have to change. This is why we're working on our app, right? And then I think like the groups will be like a, you know, a specialty. Not everyone wants to. Oh, H. Pylori. Thanks, Rhonda. Thanks, Fiona. Thanks, guys. I'm afraid. I took some NyQuil last night. I haven't been feeling so hot. You know, you know, those NyQuil sleeps. So I took some NyQuil and, uh, we were up, I don't know what time we went to bed. I think because I had my, my, my daughter,

Lucina was here and she was catching a late night train. She's going back to school. She's at, she's at, uh, she's down in Toronto at OCAD and, um, she's taking a summer course. And so she was up late. And so we were kind of up late and I took some NyQuil last night because I was feeling a little run down, a little like, you know, summer coldy. And I was out, literally out. I woke up this morning and I went back to bed and then I was just like out like a light. Thank you. So my brain is not working. My brain is not working.

Let me scroll down. Good morning. This is the first. Let me scroll down. Good morning. This is the first live I've been to. I watched the chiropractor live yesterday and I've suffered from vertigo for years. Anyone else's vertigo, my vertigo is flaring up. So I've gotten on my vitamin D. Dr. Olinka mentioned vitamin D. That's sort of my issues when I got a bit of a deficiency.

But also going to the chiropractor was like a game changer with me too. But it seems like my vertigo flares up most in the summer. I don't know what that is, which is causing me to think maybe it's a depletion of, I don't know. I've been seeing a physiotherapist who specializes in vascular balance. What a difference. I haven't had vertigo attacks since April. Yeah, I'm a swear by the chiropractor with my vertigo for sure. Every time it starts to kind of pop up. I didn't go last week because I gave Tony my spot because he hurt himself golfing. So I got to make sure I'm going tonight. I'm going tonight. I'm going tonight, going tonight. I'm hoping that this is not a big mistake on my part,

but I'm going to try the seven weeks solo, hitting the brakes strong and remember implementing all of the lessons that I've learned, the four rounds, hoping and going to dig deep, very big. Okay, let me just address this right now. So I love this for you. You don't feel like you need the group. That's totally fine. But if I may, there is something about people feeling like they should be able to do it on

their own. Like, Oh, I'm going to try it on my own, do it on my own. I mean, if you can afford, which I think is very affordable. I know for some people like, listen, I've been broke ass, got my car repossessed, trying to feed my kids for five bucks on the week. I know what it feels like to have money be super tight. So I don't want to be flippant and talking about the cost of the program. But when you divide up $29 by five weeks, I mean, even the program itself is less than a dollar a day. Think about that. It's literally less than a dollar a day, the program.

And this is not specific to you. I love that you're sharing this. So not specific to you. But for some reason, people feel like they've, I don't know what it is. And it could be different for everybody. Sometimes people feel like, well, you've paid enough, you've put in enough time into dieting. So you're going to try it on your own, you're going to go on your own, I feel like I should be able to do it on my own. So I'm just gonna say what you say here, Like, I'm hoping this is not a big mistake on my part,

but you're going to go seven weeks solo. So I'm like, if that is even a concern, why not spend the 50 cents a day or something that it's going to cost, right? Like it's 50 cents a day or something like that. Just to have people there in case you need them. Like that. I think that there's sometimes there's this thing of like, I shouldn't need the help. I shouldn't need the help. I should be able to do it on my own. Here's the thing I want you to know. I believe you can. I believe you can 100%. I've got faith in you. You know, I don't even think you need to hope you totally got this. Like, right?

Four programs in. You got this. You know what you need to do. This way, if you feel like you can make it through the summertime, I'm all about that. I will be cheering you on. Absolutely. But if you do feel like you're concerned, it's there for you. And hey, if you try it on your own and you decide,

oh my God, no, we're still going to be there for you through the summer. You can sign up at any time. You are going to be so surprised whether you sign up for the Bridging the Gap group or not, you are going to be so surprised how you've made real change in your body. You have made real change, not just physically, mentally. So it's more about the routine, right? So you've really established this solid routine for yourself. Now, if you're not going to be part of the summer group, I don't know that I'm going to go live every day at 9am either. So it's not like the, or checking in. So it's not like the routine is going to be the same. So this is an opportunity in the summertime to establish a new routine, to encounter a bit of situational change. So there's three reasons why people gain weight back. Not putting time to solidify their weight, situational change, right? Where maybe your routine is a little off. This is an opportunity. And I love what you said here to dig deep, right? So this is where you just want to be extra

mindful. Dig deep. Yes. Level up. Yes. Okay. But really bring your A game when it comes to being mindful. That's the key. That's the key. You don't need to, you don't need to hope. I got 100% faith in you. You've totally got this. But you want to be intentional. That's my word of the week. You want to be intentional about what your choice is. You want to be intentional about what you are doing. We want to be intentional about weight loss, intentional about maintenance, right? But we're not gone yet. We're still here. We're still here for like another week and a half. So make sure you reach out and let us know if you have any questions. You guys are all talking about vertigo.

Yeah. Wild lately. Yeah. Mine related to mitral valve. Yeah. I booked an appointment with your doctor. Yeah. Vertigo for a variety of reasons.

It sucks. No matter what the reason, it sucks, man. Can you tell us where your sweater is from? So my sweater is from, so it's like, this is like an oversized sweater and I just cut the neck and I love them. So it's Livvy Loser merch that we made up for giveaways. So if you, um, have been entering any giveaways, it's part of giveaway products also for our team. So we made them for the team. So I've been working on some new merch. I want to get some ideas. I want to, I've been working on some new fun stuff. So I have some new merch. I want to get some ideas. I've been working on some new fun stuff.

So I have some new merch. So if some of you who've won the giveaways recently, we're just waiting, we should have that new merch this week. So we got some new stuff coming in. So this is where I'm working on some fun stuff for when we go to the menopause conference and the national women's shows. We have some fun merch, some cool stuff for giveaways and whatnot. So yeah, so it's, you can see our logo man on the sweatshirt and that's like super baggy. And then I just like throw it on with like pair of jeans

and wear it like 80s style. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Let's get into some of your questions. Okay. I haven't lost big numbers, but I'm getting healthy

and more in tune for sure. I don't think of it as a diet because there's no downside to it. I refer to it as a lifestyle choice. So interesting conversation with Ruth yesterday and actually the day before when I was talking to her personally and just talking about how finally and forever, how we need to more define that better because it's really about continuing to live the living way. Remember way back we had that conversation where you were, you're creating a new lifestyle for yourself. That's what I loved about Warren and Melanie last night. They talked about how they're not just looking to lose weight. They're looking to create a permanent lifestyle, a permanent way of living that's going to support the life that they want to live.

And essentially that's what we're doing here. Like that's what you're doing here. Your best life is right now. You're not creating your best life. You're creating your life. You are living your best. If you woke up today, you are living your best life. Your best life is waking up every day and being alive. What you are creating is the lifestyle that you want to live. And this is what with the living method, it's like the living method is it puts you in tune, not just like what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat. It puts you in tune with everything across the board, what works for you, what doesn't work for you, including situations, relationships, friendships, right? This is where you get a really strong sense of self and being in tune to your body's needs physically and mentally, right? So what is the percentage according to Dr. Ruth? Oh, the

percentage, I don't know what you mean by percentage, of course, Dr. Ruth. So what we're talking about earlier, we are talking about the percentage of weight lost to be deemed clinically significant diet. That's the that's like not Ruth determining that that is like the Canadian Obesity Society or the who's who of whoever's in charge of those statistics. 5% of your body weight lost in six months, you can call yourself a, that's a clinical amount of weight. So that's like the top of the top, the best types of diets. And so people are losing 5% in three months of the Libby Method, which is really great. So basically we're legit. That's what it tells us. Basically we're legit. We want merch. We want merch. We want merch. Commag is still on sale at Costco this week, friends. I

love that. I always buy two when it's on sale. Thanks for the reminder. I only buy on sale. I only buy on sale. I have a really hard time paying full price for anything. Hi, Rhonda. Totally agree with the program being a healthy way to eat. only though I had 10 pounds to lose. I'm signing up again to keep good habits going. I've maintained my weight loss for 40 years until I reached 70. Never thought I'd be able to lose 10 pounds at that age, but around here. That's for sure. Seeing friends in Newmarket on Saturday, they know I'm on the program. My friend, Noreen Bennett, who you know, Gina, from the gym you both worked at, says hi. Oh, that's so nice. So long ago, when was that? That would be Timberlane Athletic Club, or that would be Fit City, or that would be Function Studio. I'm not sure which one. And so thoughtful and is making a chicken shish kebab salad, corn on the cob, and I'm making cauliflower rice and a fruit platter. I love that my friends are so supportive

and my cheerleaders. This helps. I've been bringing my breakfast, lunch, and snacks to avoid eating out a lot this summer. Yeah. So, you know, have fun with this when you're, when it's a potluck, you're going to the cottage, you're hanging out with friends. Like this is a really awkward, this is an opportunity to own what you have done. This is an opportunity to own what you have done, right? To own what you have done. To be like, okay, this is who I am now, right? And I'm the kind of person who brings the veggie platter or the fruit platter to the party, right? I'm the person. And then your friends and your people will get to know this is who you are. And that doesn't mean that you don't still have the chips or you don't have some of this, you don't have that. But this is like, it's really an opportunity to own and

embrace the changes that you've made because you've made actual change. And it's changing who you are as a person. And that's the, it's, you want your friends and the people around you to embrace that. I think it's really important. We are meant to change. And so you're really lucky. I've lost friends along the way because I've chosen to make change in my life, not just physically, but mentally. And, you know, being intentional about the things that were working for me and not working for me and the kind of person who I wanted to be. And, you know, that can make people really uncomfortable. That can make really people really uncomfortable. So the way around that isn't to change what you've done, right? It's to find

new friends. If you don't have those supportive friends, and if you do be really lucky, man, because man, it's so great to have great friends. I've decided to take a break over the summer. We're going to be so busy during the summer. They have decided to be off technology. Oh, I love that. Just really enjoy the summer. So I want to be 100% come September. So once this group comes to the end, I'll be saying goodbye until September. I will be doing, what was that? I missed that. Oh, let me scroll down. I love that. I love that. I, I am every now and then I do that. I get off, I get off my, um, I get off my phone. I think it's great. I think it's great for you to do. Um, trying to see where that was. My husband's been doing a modified genie program, basically following what I'm doing. He's lost almost 20 pounds, right? Where do you sign up for the menopause sessions? Uh, when do you size up? Where do you,

uh, where do you sign up for the menopause sessions? So you can, I haven't done a sign up yet for that. Oh, Dr. Link and I are still working out some of the details of it. What I'm going to do, if I don't have that information by the time the program is done, I'll post it in the Bridging the Gap group. I'll let you know over there and I'll send out emails. We'll be sending out emails to people, letting them know. I'll probably promote it over on socials. I don't know if we're doing limited numbers. I don't know exactly how it's going to work, what the offering will be at this point. Still working on it, but we'll let you know. We'll let you know. We'll let you know. We'll let you know. Let's see if I can get to any other questions here. Who's this? Hi,

Joanne. I'm down 18.6 pounds, eight pounds away from my finally and forever. My doctor told me to lose 10, but did not tell me how or consider my sleep stress hormones, any of it. A friend recommended this group, thank goodness, at the fall. My why was to show my doctor that I can lose more than 10 because her attitude pissed me off. So not my why now. What a transformation, not just physically, not my inner world too.

I love that. I love that for you. I love that for you. That's so great. Your daughter's at OCAD too? Yeah, I love that. My son is probably going to go there. My son is, um, my son is looking, he's got his last year and then he's looking, I actually have two kids, two more kids looking to go to OCAD. My husband is also doing

the program with me. He lost 32 pounds and I have lost 48 so far, but we are not finished yet. See, I love this. You wouldn't even have known this unless we like talked about it, right? We talked about it. I have not weighed myself in so long due to my poor choices. I need to just bite the bullet, get on the scale and deal with the consequences of my food choices. Before you do, before you get on that scale, I want you to think about why. And I wouldn't say poor choices. I wouldn't say I wouldn't label things as good as bad. I wouldn't say poor choices. Maybe you felt, maybe you fell back into

some coping mechanisms, right? So why, why did you make the choices? So before you get on that scale, why did you make the choices that you made? What was going on in your life, right? Show yourself compassion and then understanding. And then, so before you even get on that scale, which you might be pleasantly surprised, although I don't know in the middle of a heat wave that that's the best idea. You might want to wait until it cools down a little bit. You know your body. Here's the thing, you do not need to get on that scale. If you think that getting on that scale is going to make you get your shit together, getting on that scale is going to do something other than make you upset. You don't need to get on the scale.

You don't need to get on the scale. You already know. You know how your clothes feel. You know how you feel. Back on track. And then do back on track for as many days as you need until you feel like you're back on track. And then get on the scale. But right now today, which I think would be more impactful than getting on the scale, is to think back as to, okay, obviously you're concerned because you think it's going to

be up. So why would that be? Are there any sort of situational reasons why it would be up? Like the heat, like the fact you haven't been drinking water, like the fact that you're getting crappy sleep or taking medication or that could cause your body to feel bloated. What are those reasons? Right? Then I would be like, okay, are there choices that I've been making that kind of will feed into that as well? Be part of that, right? Not, not following the plan, not asking the four questions, not doing

whatever that might be. Right? So that's the next one. And then why let's reflect on why that's happened, why I made those choices, why I'm feeling like this. Then let's be like, what can I do right now about it? Okay. Get back on track, start doing the things, right? To get yourself back to feeling better. And then I would get on the scale. Then I would get on the scale. Then I would get on the scale because that's when I would get on the scale. I wouldn't bother getting it on now because you don't need to. You don't need to.

I'm so stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed filling out multiple disability forms, advocating in appointments for one of my children. The Libby Method and this group is helping me keep my balance. Thank you, peeps. Oh, that's kid stuff and filling out forms. Oh my God, those two in combination,

I can totally understand, right? And then the waiting and then adding them in, people get them, all of that. Oh my God. Those two in combination, I can totally understand. Right. And then the waiting and then adding them in, the people get them, all of that. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I feel you. Deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths. Um, okay. I think I gotta go. I think I gotta go. I didn't name him for six months. It was really good. Not as good as the Libby though. You'll be up to 50 million too. Yeah. I mean, I don't like to focus on bashing any other diets. I kind of like just to focus on doing what we're doing here right now. I mean, any diet works for the sake of weight loss. This is where I think the conversation with Ruth is so important. I don't care about weight loss. I care about you losing it in a way that you're going to be able to maintain.

And that's the difference. And that's the focus, right? That's really how we want to set ourselves apart. That's how we want to set ourselves apart from any other diet out there is the maintenance part of it, which is why I'm excited to be working on that maintenance program. I'm actually going into the city tomorrow to spend a couple of days hanging out with Odette to work on designing it. Okay. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. Every penny is worth this program, but more importantly, you are worth it for sure. For sure. I had a horrible Crohn's flare up while doing the plan. Worst flare up in 20 years. Not sure if this diet triggered it. Anything else? Experience it. So the program is really great for Crohn's, colitis, diverticulitis, all sort of kind of digestive issues and whatnot.

Changes in your diet, even though they are good changes, can trigger sometimes, although there's kind of no way around that because you do want to be making, you know, you want to be eating a healthy diet because you know that the opposite of eating healthy, although, you know, can keep things calm, not healthy for your body at all. But one of the biggest things that I've recognized or come to learn about that, because I have a daughter who has issues, is stress. Stress can be a major factor in terms of flare-ups. So I don't know what you got going on stress-wise. If you are following the program and you have any type of digestive issue, gastro issue, stomach issue, whatever you want to call it,

it's a great idea to be keeping a journal and kind of paying attention of how you are feeling, any flare-ups that you're having. So if you do have food sensitivities, for example, which would be, you know, if it was a food related flare up, um, I mean, back in the day they used to say, don't have nuts, don't have this, don't have that. Now that's kind of all been debunked, um, that that's not really the cause and actually having nuts, um, can be beneficial, but that doesn't mean that you don't have food sensitivities to them. So if you're signing up for the next program in the fall, I would highly suggest that you

journal and keep a journal, not to track your fluids and your whatever, but to how you feel based on the foods that you are eating. That's what I would suggest with that. Definitely work hand in hand with your doctor as well. I got to go. Okay. I'm going. All right. I could sit here all day. I can't sit here all day. Neither can you because we got stuff to do. Okay. Thanks for joining me today, you guys. Thanks for hanging out with me. I could talk about this stuff all day long. We are not done yet. What do I want to say? We're not done yet. Join me tomorrow. I'm going to be joined by Dr. Olenka, Dr. Trejo, Dr. Beverly. We're going to have a fun panel. We're going to hang out. We're going to reflect on the program.

We're talking about tips for the summer. I think it's going to be super fun. So that's going to be tomorrow. Next week, Dr. Sean Rice is going to talk about skin and what can we do about crepey skin, loose skin, all the skin stuff. He's going to join us. We are far from done. Make sure you're clear on options for next steps. Whether you've signed up for the fall, you're going to join the Bridging the Gap group with us. You're going to go out on your own in the summer, wherever you're going to personalize the plan, just do the basics, whatever that might be. Ask as many questions as you need about that. Okay. Have an amazing day, everyone. Stay dry. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.