The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 85 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 85, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025In this episode, Gina reminds the Livy Community that the final week of The Program isn’t about being perfect—it’s about staying present. She explores how the work continues but shifts into a more intuitive space, encouraging members to finish strong by staying connected to their why, even when the scale isn’t cooperating. From giving yourself grace through life’s distractions to trusting the work you’ve already done, Gina offers real talk and reassurance for anyone feeling the pressure to “get it right.” This isn’t the end—it’s a springboard into whatever’s next, whether that’s moving into maintenance or gearing up for another round.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.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.

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and prices that are actually affordable. Happy travel start at selloffvacations.com. Day 85 of the program rolling into our final week. Congratulations on being here at this point. No easy feat, man. Showing up every day, trying to do the things that you need to do to make real change, real foundational lasting change. You probably understand by now that this is way more than weight loss, right? Like this is way

more than just trying to fit your ass into your jeans. At least it is for many of us at the end of the day. It's not just losing weight. It's really feeling confident and calm in our skin. It's working through our issues and associations, our beliefs that we're worthy of this, of not just feeling good, but looking good and truly living our best lives. I hope that you take time today and post on the celebrate and inspire post in the group. It is a place for you to celebrate yourself. It's a place for you to take a minute and be really proud of what you've accomplished. You do

not need a before and after, although they're always super fun and inspiring to see. This is just a place for you to say, hey, I'm really proud I showed up and this is what I did. I'm celebrating myself. It's always such a vibe for sure. So make sure you take time to do that. Also, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please take time to fill out that survey. That survey is how and why we've made so many changes to the program. I do not know it all. I am learning as I go just like you.

I think that what we've created here is pretty incredible. The Living Method Works, we know that. But in terms of how we deliver it, how we make it more resonating to you, we want to hear from you the good, the bad, the ugly, what you love, what you hate it. If you fucking hated the program, let us know. Tell us why. What can we do to change it to turn it into something that

you love? What would you like to see added? What would you like to see taken? What would you like to see taken away? And be honest, be honest. You know, I always, whenever I talk about the survey, I always talk about how Tony, when he initially came on board, initially came on board as my partner here, I brought the business behind the Libby Method, talked about doing a survey. And I was like, hell no, no, no way am I doing a survey. I do not wanna know what people think about me.

Are you kidding? No, gosh, no. And I've come to really love the surveys because we learn so much. And at the end of the day, I'm here for you, our team is here for you, and we wanna help you. So if you could take some time to fill out that survey, we would honestly be so grateful

that you took the time to do that, honestly. What else? Today is Monday, we are rolling into maintenance. So a lot of questions, Kim sent me some this morning. So if you got any questions, let them roll, let me know. Kim did send me a couple this morning. So this week, we're gonna be talking a lot about maintenance and everything that you need to know about maintenance, although it's still very much show

up and and work to get that scale moving. If you're still looking to lose weight, we haven't stopped doing that. This week you want to make sure you are super confident in next steps. What is your plan for the summer? Have you signed up for our summer club? That's a place where you can stay motivated, ask any questions, get answers, connect with our community and whatnot. Have you signed up for our summer club? That's a place where you can stay motivated, ask any questions, get answers, connect with our community and whatnot. Have you signed up for our fall program? Just like any other diet, you start it and you keep following it until you reach your goal and then you're going to want to go into maintenance.

So new research is showing that it takes about two years for your body to adjust to the weight that you've lost. Two years for your new weight to become your new set point. Now keep in mind that's just random dieting just to be able to do what they're doing. With the Living Method we have a 91 day maintenance program that is actively helping you to solidify your weight. One the way that you've lost your weight absolutely makes a difference because there's a big difference between weight loss and fat loss. And we're

going after fat loss, healthy, sustainable fat loss. And make no mistake, the way you lost your weight, giving the body what it needs, addressing the body's needs, absolutely is going to make a difference when it comes to maintaining and sustain it. Two, what you've done mentally, all the stuff that you've worked through, understanding habits you just can't fall back into old habits, you can fall back into them easily. You can't go back to the way you were living before. You've created change in your life to support the change that you wanted to make. And so you have to sustain and maintain that change.

But with our maintenance program, it's geared around these pillars that Ruth Kane, who's been studying the Libby Method and the maintenance program, came up with. What are the commonalities between people who are successful in losing their weight and people who are not? And what does it really take in order to be able to maintain and sustain? So I would highly suggest if you worked really hard to lose your weight that you sign up for our maintenance program. It's a 91-day program, similar steps, but all of the information is geared towards maintenance. It's about solidifying your weight and solidifying that mindset to go along with it because you've

made a lot of change. It's a whole other can of worms. It's a whole other beast when it comes to maintenance. So if you have any questions about that, make sure you join us on Tuesday. Kim is going to join us. Sorry, on Wednesday, Kim is going to join us. Oh, sorry. On Wednesday, Kim is going to join us for our tweet this week conversation. Sorry.

Odette is going to join Kim and I for a conversation on maintenance. My brain's a little bit off. We had the best freaking time this weekend with our team. So this weekend was the weekend that we bring our team together once a year and we had such a great time, honestly, so much fun. It was just a really joyful weekend. Thank you for your patience. I know that our entire team has been off this weekend.

We'd like everyone to be able to join in on the fun. And so they're all back and answering your questions today. So if you asked any questions on the weekend, the team is back to answering them. Okay, so let's get into some of the questions. I'm going to go through some of the questions that Kim has sent me, and then I will go through all of the questions that you guys have here that I see loading up. Where is Kim?

Here we go. Okay. Can you give more details on how we do our own maintenance? Lost the weight but need to solidify. Okay, so here's the thing. If you're going gonna do your own maintenance Then you would just continue to personalize the plan. It's all about intention And so the thing about maintenance is you want to spend the first three months at least just solidifying your weight

So you don't want to go back into old habits. You don't want to challenge your body You really just want to maintain status quo so your body can adjust your new weight So you start at your set your set point the weight you started at this were all about set point, the weight you started at, this we're all about set point. The weight that your body's gotten used to functioning at. So why you tried losing weight before, you just gain it all back and then plus more, and then you lose weight, gain it all back, plus more. So you gotta give your body time to adjust your weight.

So as you lose weight, you get a plateau, that's your body adjusting to your weight, then you lose more weight, more plateaus, lose more weight, more plateaus. Finally reach your goal weight. Now what you're doing in maintenance is putting yourself on a self-imposed plateau. You want to give your body at least three months for your body to adjust to your new weight at the very least.

Now why not sign up for a maintenance program? Like I don't understand people's need to kind of do it on their own, but if you're going to do it on your own, it's just about really being able to maintain and sustain your weight. Continue to personalize the plan. Personalize the plan in order to lose weight is like full of intention, maximizing, showing up, doing all the things, asking the form mindful. Any questions? I would highly suggest that you sign up for our maintenance program.

It's not a money grab. You literally can sign up for $75 and right now the way it stands is that you get in there for as long as you need and do as many rounds of the maintenance program as you need. That obviously that model is not sustainable and that's going to change, especially as we introduce our maintenance app, which I believe is coming out in the spring.

So you just wanna give your body time to adjust to your new way. But here's one of the things that I've learned. So a couple of years ago, before we started this maintenance group, people are like, we need a maintenance group. I'm like, no, you don't. You've learned everything that you need to learn about maintenance while you were losing

weight. Boy, was I wrong. It's a whole other, like I said, can of worms, learning to trust yourself, learning to understand who you are now, understanding what maintenance now looks like and feels like to you. Right? understand who you are now, understanding what maintenance now looks like and feels like to you, right? So just you want to put into time just kind of maintaining and sustaining your weight. So personalizing the plan is the best way to go because you got to learn how to eat and tune to your body's needs and trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat.

Because there's three stages to the living method. Lose your weight, maintain your weight, which is an active stage. That's why they're saying it takes two years to be able to solidify your weight unless you are actively working towards and helping your body maintain and sustain your weight. And then the third stage is wake up, look good, feel good, go live your life, learning to trust when to eat, what to eat,

and how much to eat, and know exactly what you need to do in order to maintain your weight. So there's kind of three reasons why people gain weight back. The first reason why people gain weight back is they don't put time into maintenance. That's the biggest one. You gotta give your body time to adjust your weight. So there's kind of three reasons why people gain weight back. The first reason why people gain weight back is they don't put time into maintenance. That's the biggest one. You got to give your body time to adjust your weight before you start challenging it, throwing it off routine, all of that. Number two is situational change. So situational change is you've lost your weight while

you were maybe at home, let's say taking time off work and then all of a sudden you go back to work, your routines change, your stress levels change, your eating patterns change, and you don't help your body adjust to that. Situational change can also be like you're going along, you're even maintaining your weight just fine even after a year, something happens in your life that completely throws you off, and then you fall back into old habits and you start to spiral, right? Situational change. The other one is number three is people stop being mindful. You work so hard to be in tune to your body's needs. You need to be, you need to continue to be mindful and that doesn't take a lot of work. The reason

why for example we ask those four mindful eating questions so often is so that you get to a point you don't have to ask them again. You see your food come and you know if it's too much. You see your food in front of you, you know if it's not enough. You know the exact moment when you feel satisfied and the exact moment if you eat one more bite, you're going to feel overly full. So not being mindful because you don't gain 20 pounds back, for example, and not notice. And this is where we have back on track and this is where you work so hard to be in tune to your body to know exactly what it

needs to not just be able to maintain your and sustain your weight, but to not gain your weight back as well. Let's get into another one here. What more do I have? So what do we do with supplements? Like I'm back for the fall. Do I just keep with them or take a break for a bit and resume? So either way, I listen, I take all of that. I don't need

to lose weight. I take all of the basic supplements because they are so basic and foundational. They are beneficial beyond just trying to lose weight. And that's why they're so important can be a game changer when it comes to losing weight. Cause if you're deficient in them, they affect how your body functions on a regular basis. As much as I try to eat a lot of fish, I know that I'm probably not getting enough omega-3 in my diet. Plus I I'm really big on brain health, so I still take my omega-3. I take my magnesium every night because magnesium is one that tends to deplete when we're stressed and it's so important in the body. And unless you're curating all of your foods to get enough magnesium in your diet, which you're probably not, you're probably a little deficient in

it. Vitamin D, even though I'm a summer girl, I love the sun, I do not get enough vitamin D, I'm one of those people that don't absorb it, so I still take vitamin D. And so some of them are just foundational and you'll always benefit from them. Of course you can absolutely stop, it's not like if you stop taking them,

you'll gain your weight back, that's really important. You can take a break, Dr. Paul talks about important. You can take a break. Dr. Paul talks about this. You can take a break from your supplements if you want and sort of see how you're feeling, see if it makes a difference at all. Really, it's up to you and depending on what you're taking. And if you're going to do a full push throughout the summer to continue to move the dial on that scale, then there's no reason why you still wouldn't take your supplements. If you just want to take a fucking break from everything and just don't wanna think about doing anything

about anything, then you can always take a break from your supplements as well. It's not like if you stop taking your supplements, then you're gonna gain your weight back. So you can take a break for sure. I've maintained, I have the maintenance program. A lot of people bought our maintenance program because if you buy it now, you get in

and you get as many programs as you need. That model is gonna be changing. Eventually it will be sold on a program by program basis. We'll be changing that model soon. I have the maintenance program but I'm five pounds from where I want to be. Can I continue the next few weeks on my own? And if I can drop those five

and then start the maintenance program. Yeah, I mean absolutely. I'm expecting if you're looking to lose weight you're going to continue over the summer and the reason by personalizing the plan which is very effective and then you're going to repeat the program in the fall which obviously is super beneficial for a variety of reasons or you can just choose to kind of like maintain this. The summer is so short a lot of people are like I just want to just enjoy the summer and that's it. That can be your plan as well. What you don't want to do is be in the maintenance program and be trying to lose

weight. That's really important. Although we do have a lot of conversations people do gain. They gain weight back. We have conversations, but what can they do to drop that weight again? Some people will go into maintenance because they are happy at their goal weight and after they spend time in maintenance they realize they want to go for more. You do not want to be trying to lose weight in the maintenance program. So that is really important. But sure if you reach your

goal over the summer and then you decide you're ready for maintenance you could totally do that. If you've already purchased the fall program no worries. Although we do have a we do say there are no refunds. There are certain situations obviously, wherever you've reached your goal weight and you want to shift over to maintenance, you can totally do that. Just reach out to our customer service team. If I want to continue to lose weight over the summer, do I just redo the program? So you might have missed it because a lot of people were away. Last week we talked about what to do over the summer if you're looking to continue to lose weight. So there are a couple options you want to ideally

personalize the plan. It's beneficial for a lot of reasons for you to kind of see what you've learned, what you still need to work on. Also it's very effective. It's checking in at every single meal and snack time, assessing if you could eat, should eat, or need to eat, keeping in mind, maximizing because you're still looking to lose weight. It's all about the intention there. You could also just do the basic food plan, although personalizing the plan at this point

is much more effective for a variety of reasons. If you got any questions about that, reach out and let us know for sure. Hi Kat, in between programs, if I fall off the rails for a few days, I know I do back on track, but then I go straight to week 12 eating and personalize the plan or do I go back on track and then the other weeks tweaks like downsizing, splitting the meals?

No. Is there any harm in doing week one food plan for a long time to reset or is it better to do only a few days and then back to week one? So back on track is literally for when you go off the rails, it helps your body to kind of like recover from any indulgences because that is very familiar to you. And so then ideally what you'd want to do right now for again, there's a variety of reasons why personalizing the plan is really effective. It makes you think, helps you get even more in tune, it kind of tests what you've done, what you know where you're at and really highlights the things that you need to focus on.

Each round of the program is super effective. The same base program is just as effective the 25th time as it was the first time. It's just that you have changed. You have changed. So downsizing, yes, you get to be even more in tune to those portions, splitting up the meals and snacks, like every week has its sort of layers to it, right? What you don't want to do is pick and choose and do a bunch of random weeks and try to put your own thing together. That just never fucking works. Honestly, I've had people try it. It just never works. It confuses the body. The body loves routine.

So it's best to personalize the plan, which is ideally what you want to do through out the summer. You find yourself going on the rails, which you do want to minimize, obviously. Just do a couple days of back on track until you feel back on track and then get back to focusing on fat loss. Back on track is not meant to help you focus on fat loss. Back on track is to help your body recover from any indulgences. So it's all about the intention. As opposed to the first three weeks of the program, when you come back in the fall, the fall You're gonna be maximizing from the get asking those four sets of mindful eating questions

You're gonna be doing so much more than just helping the body recover from any indulgences, right? Let me see. Okay, that's it. All right, let's get into let's get into some questions here I purchased the fall program should I purchase the maintenance program now since it will be changing Just to have it? You can. I mean, this is a bad business model. I'm going to be fully transparent. It all sort of stemmed on just trialing the maintenance group. The maintenance group itself turned into a maintenance program.

How we used to run the weight loss program, we didn't have an app for it, right? It was just on Facebook. So right now the maintenance program is just on Facebook. We run it three times a year in line with our weight loss program. So at the exact same time, the cost right now is $75 to buy into it. And right now what we're going to do is grandfather the people who are in it will have access to that Facebook support group for as long as they need, as opposed to having to repurchase the program. If you want to do multiple maintenance programs, that's how it's going to be run. Just like this program has

evolved, that one's just a little behind a little bit in the way it's evolved. So absolutely you can. You don't have to because for $75, it's still an amazing deal no matter when you purchase it. So if you're not comfortable purchasing or don't want to yet, you do not have to. But if you want to, many people have. Many people have purchased the maintenance program and have been sitting on it waiting until they lose their way. It's a bad business model. I know. Yeah, there's up to you. Joanne says, I bought it after the first program and you can join anytime. Yeah, you can join anytime. So you can actually be a member of that Facebook support group and listen in to some of the conversations that we're having, which can also be insightful to kind of understand what maintenance is all about. We have people, for example, who will pop into the weight loss program

and be like, well, if your program works so well, and all these people are maintaining the right, where are they? They're in the maintenance program. That's where we're there having that conversation, right? So you want to sort of see what's going on in there, that can be beneficial. Hi Cindy, indulge in Montreal for two days, good for you. So I think it's probably back on track today. Yeah, it depends, it depends. You could feel fantastic today, you feel relaxed,

you had a great time, you're rolling into the week full of joy and you could feel great even after indulging. There are people who indulge on the weekends and still see the scale down on Monday. And so it really depends. Back on track isn't for the ups and downs on this scale. It's for when you really do a number on yourself that you feel your body needs like a little bit of help. Your body's like, okay, Gina, was that fun? Because we're suffering today. Help us, help us, help us get back on track. So yeah, so it's more like how you feel.

So if you want to do a couple days of back on track, you can and then just get back to fully into trying to, you know, move the dial on the scale, right? The back on track, you really shouldn't be trying to see the scale move. Like you didn't gain real weight. So it's a matter of having the scale go right back down. And then when you wanna move it, keep it going, that's where you wanna personalize the plan. All right, let me roll back

to some of the questions you asked earlier. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I was talking to my girlfriend this weekend about how I'm recognizing my body is craving whole foods and healthier choices more than filling it with garbage like before. Such a win. It's a huge win.

And this is where you're learning to trust that your body wants what's best for you. It doesn't want the garbage food for lack of a better term. It doesn't want the foods that make you feel terrible. And a lot of times people think, well, if I trust myself, I'm just going to trust my body. It's just going to tell me to eat donuts and pizza. And it really won't. It's just gonna tell me to eat donuts and pizza and it really won't It really won't your body's really and if you really get out of your head and into your body like just me saying Donuts and pizza right now. My stomach is like, oh, please don't like

All I did was say the words and I could feel it in my stomach and my body's just like now I'm thinking about a donut like with like the chocolate on top and the creamy center as much as I love a good Boston cream right now my body's like, don't do it. Don't do it right. I haven't weighed myself in ages as I've been in and out of due to health concerns and found that I've lost over 10 pounds since April super high win. Yeah, your body doesn't want this fat. It never did. You taught it that it needed it. That's the thing about diets, right?

So maybe you're weight, maybe you didn't gain weight from eating a bunch of crappy foods. I know in university, I gained like a hundred pounds from lack of sleep, pulling all-nighters, going long periods of time without eating, overexercising and going long periods of time without eating and not getting sleep. Super high stress that I wasn't managing, right? And yeah, like crappy foods when I did eat. And so that was like a recipe for weight gain. And like I haven't had a client in like 30 years who needed to lose weight because they were just eating all the wrong foods. That's just not it. Yes,

absolutely. Our crappy foods that we have more than accessible, more and more access to as they're like designing our foods to be addictive, that absolutely plays a role. But at the end of the day, usually it's more than that. Usually it's the high stress, lack of sleep, overeating, then under eating, and then you add diets to that, right? Where your body would naturally store a certain amount of fat for emergency purposes and we have forced our body to burn that fat, meaning use it for fuel, which creates a need for fat. So your body's like, oh shit, we just used all our emergency energy reserves. We better

store it all back and then plus more in case that happens again. And guess what? It happens again. We lose the weight, we burn the fat, our body stores it back, plus more. And so that's why our approach is completely different. Weight loss really is, you know, it comes down to less about what to eat and when and more about what's going on with your hormones. And by hormones, I mean, yes, your stress hormones, and what's going on with your sleep, and you but more so your hunger hormones, where we get used to overeating and then undereating. So yeah, it's amazing how when you just focus on your health and wellness and the little things that you can do, your weight will come off. This program was

originally designed as a lifestyle program. That's how I was going to sell it, back in the day, 30 years ago, whatever. And no one cared. cared and first of all lifestyle wasn't a buzzword lifestyle wasn't a buzzword No one was talking about insulin and cortisol and how your body processed and digest your foods And I was like there's got to be more to this And when I designed it I realized that when you focus on getting better sleep and you manage your stress and yes Of course mind what you're eating and all of those things when you focus on making your body healthy, the weight part comes. And if you're having a hard time losing weight, chances are there's something else going

on and no one wanted to buy it. And now I think we're in a place where people are ready for the lifestyle piece. People are really ready for that. They're like, okay, I recognize it's so much more than what to eat and when. So your body is totally on your side. And when you are dealing with health issues, your body is working so hard to repair and rebuild and regenerate and really make you well. It's about giving it the resources that it needs in order to make that change.

You know, Oh, I am still in Ontario for another month. We plan to resume the program when I get home. Finally, finding joy, focusing on my family while I'm home. I love that. I love that. So much joy this weekend. Honestly, I had, I said to Tony at some point with the team, like we did, you know, we did team walks, we did a team bike riding.

We, you know, we just, we danced, we laughed, we had so much fun. I was like almost too much joy. It's like my face hurt, my body from just and I barely drank it all I Barely drank it all it was so hot I pretty much drink water the whole time or I so busy like hanging out and socializing just Coming off the conversation. I was thinking about last week of joy of finding joy in our lives So I love hearing So I love hearing that. I love hearing that. Let me scroll. Okay. Let me start scrolling down to go through some more of the questions.

Hi, Paula. This has been my first program and this morning I hit 20 pound goal. This good for you. I feel so grateful for this incredible gift of lifelong tools to keep me healthy body, mind, and spirit as I approach 60. Love to all excited for this last week. Oh, well, that's a whole vibe. I'm here for that. I'm here for that. It's, you know, it is, it's what it's about. Because people say all the living methods like a cult.

It's not, it's like community. I think people have forgotten what community is like. I don't know, maybe it's past the pandemic or maybe it's just, I don't know what it is, but it's just, it's about being around people who are all just trying to wake up every day and do their best and feel their best. And I think with the Living Method,

by getting in tune to your body, it gives you hope that your body's on your side, that you can make change. To me, that's what it is. You know, we're selling hope here, hope that you actually have control, control over the choices that you're making and control, and not trying to control your

body. That's it. I don't like the word control and moderation. And you guys heard me say that a million times. You're not trying to control yourself or moderate yourself, but you are in control. When you are in tune, you are in control. And there's a lot you can do to make change in your life, not just physically, right? But mentally.

My first live this program, Better Late Than Never, keeps showing up. Hi, Renee. I'm happy you made it. I'm happy you made it. So the team is going to put together a list. It's one thing to show up for the lives. I love the live. You guys know I love talking about this. I get to all day every day. But you definitely want to get caught up on any of our guest segments that you might have missed. So the team is going to compile a list of all of our incredible guest segments for you this week. So you're going to have that. They're also available in the app as well. So you can go through this week and see any

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and don't forget to use the Libby discount. Good morning. I was four pounds away from my goal, but my weight is up almost three pounds this morning. I had a family emergency last week, so I was staying with our granddaughter in the kitchen. Did not get much sleep, did not get my water in, tried to at least eat my protein breakfast, but the rest of the day completely off program. Was eating a lot of bits and bytes without exercise other than running and playing with my three-year-old granddaughter. Do you have any suggestions how not to revert back to unhealthy choices in stressful situations?

Look, I think what you just did it. You just did it, right? By recognizing, okay, this is what's going on. So I love that So also I'm gonna add the heat. I don't know where you live, but the heat don't forget We're in a massive heat wave that will also have your weight up and so it's very difficult in the moments to Have the wherewithal to take care of yourself when you're busy taking care of other people. It's so important So what you what I what I want you to do is reflect on this last week, right now, today, and be like, okay, this is the situational change that I'm talking about. So if you missed it earlier

and you're just joining, I talked three reasons why people gain weight back. And one is not putting time into maintenance, helping your body adjust to your new weight. The second was situational change, which causes you to revert back into old habits, really, or not adapt to new situations. And the third was being mindful, which is obviously a part of both of those. And so, for example, I was able to easily maintain and sustain my weight for 30 years

until I got a trifecta situation where I was going through menopause, which I'd never been through before. I was dealing with the stress and the pressure of running a company this size, which I'd never done before. Actually, four things. I had one of my kids dealing with severe mental health issues, which is very stressful.

My kid's dad died, which obviously I had not encountered before. All of those things just worked so much for me that I went into drinking a ball of wine every night and just surviving on chips and not eating and not taking care of myself and my stress levels affected my sleep. So you can tell. So even me after 30 years of being able to maintain and sustain my weight, it was just too much for me. And I felt back. Now, there was a moment where I was like, okay, Gina, how's this working for me? This is not working for me. I knew it, I knew, I knew it. I even said to Tony, like, this is probably not

the best way for me to handle it. And he's like, probably not. But then I was like, I don't fucking care. And so I just kept going and going. My weight went up and just everything was just a fucking care. And so I just kept going and going. My weight went up and just everything was just a fucking mess. And then there came a breaking point where I was like, okay, let's go.

I gotta get back. What do I really need? And I sat with myself and I said, what do I really need to get myself back here? And so I needed to quiet the noise. And so this is where I like shut down everything. I made commitments. I canceled everything, canceled everything.

Every commitment people were pissed off at me. I was like, I can't do it. I'm not doing anything for anybody. And then slowly but surely I started going walking. That was a big getting outside and going for a walk for like an hour. I committed that. Get my steps in was a game changer. Got all my supplements game changer.

Just was really, really protective of everything that I was doing. And it took me probably a year and a half, like that was like equal and opposite, like equal and opposite reaction, right? It took me a year and a half also because I was dealing with the aftermath obviously of my kid's dad died. And so, so that even me, so I just want to say it happens, it happens, right? Where you just, you get kicked in the face and you just are like, ah, and then,

but you, then you have to have, so what you've done here is acquire the tools and the skills to know what works for you, what doesn't work for you. So you can know that the way you are going about managing is not working for you. That awareness piece is huge. So that's why I'm saying you just, you're doing it right now. By just even saying this out loud, you're reflecting, okay, this is not probably not the best way for me to have dealt with this situation. So now is the time to be like,

what could I have done differently? What could I have done differently? And so that's where you'd be like, okay, so maybe set an alarm and timers to make sure that you're eating your breakfast and something to remind you to focus on yourself Some journaling in the quiet time like during the day This is where you almost got to dig your heels in and be like, okay What I got to really show up for myself here because no one else has got me I got all these other people so I got I got to be there for me. It's that Mel Robbins No one's coming to save you. No one's coming to save you And I did this once with my son when my son was in the hospital for like a month

And it was during kovat and I could not if I had red eyes like Ruddy nose they would not let me in they would wouldn't let me into the hospital So I knew I had to take care of myself I just wanted to like fill my water bottle full of wine and drink it all day, but I made sure I brought snacks. I made sure I drank water. I made sure I went to the cafeteria and make good food choices. Like it was so hard for me to take care of myself in that moment, but I did it because

I had to take care of me in order to take care of to take care of him. Right. So that obviously made it a lot easier. But it's in these moments you're like, okay, what did I learn from this situation? Next time this is what I would do differently. And now you might have another situation where you kind of fall back a little bit, but then you're going to recognize it sooner. And then maybe you're going to do a few more things that are going to help you.

And so that gets easier. So then you fall back less and less and less. And then the new way of coping becomes who you are. And so since the last couple of years, right, because it's been, I think, two years since the last couple of years, I am way more resilient. But also I also have a lot more tools in my toolbox. And I recognize now there's minute I start to hit a wall, I'm like a no, I shut her down. I'm not doing that.

No, I'm not doing this. For example, this summer, it's been a long three months, nine months, doing all the programs. I fucking love what I do. I am also really fucking tired. I need a break. I need a break. I need a break. And so yes, we're doing the summer club. We're doing all these things.

Someone had come to me and said, oh, we're going to do this. We're going to do that. We're going to do, I'm like, I get excited about working on things. But then part of me was like, I want to do it, but I, I want to do it. But I was like, I can't.

I had to say, listen, I, I know you may not understand. I know myself and I need this break for myself. So you know yourself best. So what do you need? So what what do you need to make sure that you don't fall as far back or as far off? It sounds like you you you did like even just trying to get that protein breakfast in the morning. Who cares about the exercise?

You had the wherewithal to pray, pay with your grandchildren. Like the whole stress of all of that would have been so much. It sounds like you did quite well. Maybe you didn't get all your water in that you were maybe thinking about it. And so that's all that is. And then each time you fall back,

it's like the set up for success moving forward. And this is where the changes that you've made become who you are. You're now this person that when life is kicking you down, you're like, nah, this is I'm going to do at the very least these things to keep myself going and moving forward. Right? So, so how do I not revert back to unhealthy choices and stressful situations? It's the right now that you have the wherewithal in this moment to make that connection. It's about rewiring the brain and you can't do it. It's like trying to teach someone to swim when they're drowning. When someone is drowning is not when you're

trying to teach them to swim. So you're not trying to teach yourself new tricks while you're drowning. But now that you're on land and you look back and you're like, oh, okay, what could I have done to prevent that situation? And so now you're making those connections. And so you're gonna go back to when it happened, what was your go-to, why was it your go-to, how did that help, how did it make it feel?

What if you would have made that choice? What if you would have, you know, walked around with that net simple as it could be like that water bottle? What if when you fed the grandchildren, you also made healthy snacks for yourself? What if when the kids were sleeping and having a nap you took time rather than worrying about the dishes or cleaning the house? Like this is where you got to go through that and I'm just using this one example for a variety for in so many ways. So many of us will find ourselves in situations where we're reverting back. Right. But the same fix to that is that neuroplasticity is retraining your brain to think a different

way. Think a different way. So yeah, so that's tough. So I'm sorry you had a tough go there. It's not good. I hope everything works out and hope everything is well, but you're doing it. You're doing it. How did you deal with your heart palpitations? What is a supplement, weight loss or both? One, I went to the doctor. So that was a big one. I had a heart palp- for three menopause, I had bad heart. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That's how bad it was. I literally was, and this was before I took action.

I literally was awake. I'm Googling heart attacks and I literally thought I was going to have a heart attack. I know if I would have kept going because heart disease is the number one killer of women and so when women have heart attacks, we don't talk about it and we don't talk enough about it. I actually have a great podcast with cardiologist Dr. Jane Morgan that you should absolutely check out. And I knew a friend of Tony's and I actually had a heart attack. And I was speaking with him. He's completely changed his life around. And I said, I'm thinking I think honestly think I'm like having these heart palpitations

and whatever. And this was like before really the this was before the big menopause conversation exploded. So this is before that. And so yeah, heartburn, I wish heartburn, it can be part like heartburn, heart palpitations, I got myself an Apple watch. And then I went to my doctor. And then I went to my doctor and it turns out everything was fine with my heart and all of that.

Thank goodness. So go to your doctor number one. Number two, how did I deal with all of the things because with menopause specifically, I had heart palpitations, I had heartburn, I would like be so nauseous after eating foods. I wasn't sleeping. Obviously, that was a big part of it. I had frozen shoulder vertigo. Vertigo was a big part of that. I mean, I had I didn't have hot flashes. I had night sweats. But but earlier on earlier on, I didn't have I never had I've never had a hot flash. I don't know what hot flash feels like. So I had all of these other symptoms and never had a hot flash. So therefore never

thought I was in menopause because I didn't have hot flashes. So crazy now that I think about it. And so yeah, so working with my doctor, she did prescribe me an antidepressant at that time. She that was kind of sort of me where I'm going, I think I'm gonna have a heart attack. And then you know, I talked to her and she gave me an antidepressant. And I was like, okay. And I think antidepressants can be a life raft for people. Don't get me wrong.

But I was like, I have this, but first I wanna know that I wanna make sure I'm doing all the other things. And that's when I started walking. That's when I called people up and I told my team, it's a no for me, cancel everything I got. This is where I was like set boundaries and that whatever I never ended up taking that antidepressant. But I worked really hard and did all the, it was scary enough for me that I did all those other things. So it wasn't one thing, it was a combination.

Do I take my supplements? Yes. This goes back to the question we had earlier about supplements. I believe so much in omega-3, CoQ10 for heart health. I have it right here. Vitamin D, magnesium. If we live a very stressful life and because of the stress that I'm living, supplements are game changers. So the omega-3, vitamin D, magnesium is a big one. Alphenine, I take, and CoQ10 for heart health is a good one. So those are the ones I have.

Good morning. I've signed up for the summer program. While we have access to expert videos from this program, I'd really like to go back and revisit them. So you still will have access to this group. You will have access to this group for as long as you need it. And so all of those expert videos are in the expert guide section. And so what happens is the live segments disappear after,

after I believe a month. That's how Facebook does it here. But we repost, you might notice that we always repost those, those guest expert segments, so you'll have access to them here. You'll also have access to them over on our podcast, The Libby Method, as well. I saw my doctor on Friday to see results of blood work and last one and talk supplements. She was amazed at all how all the markers have improved. I love this. This is the best news. Cholesterol, B complex, etc. When I produced my list of the Livi basic supplements and secondary, she

basically said she had no studies to suggest I should be on any supplements. Keep doing what you're doing. Your results tell me you're in perfect health. Very conflicted feelings about this. Well, if you've been taking, it's interesting if you've been taking supplements and then she says how your blood work is great and everything has improved. So there have been enough studies, like I don't do fluff supplements,

I don't do crazy wack, I don't do crazy wackadoo ones, we do foundational basic ones. And so she could say to you that you are in perfect health, you don't really need any supplements, which could be a result of you taking supplements. So I'm not in for spending any more money than what we actually need. And if that's sort of the level of health that you want to be, everything is great and improved. Improved is great. Is it as best as it could possibly be? I don't know.

It's up to you. Supplements definitely help when you're in the pursuit of change. I think for me, there's a lot of research in terms of omega-3 and cognitive health and co-Q10 in terms of heart health and magnesium and vitamin D for obvious reasons, right? So I understand the stressful life that I am living and the demand that that puts on my body. And I'm also doing it as a being a proactive house.

So healthcare is very reactive how so your doctor and I love doctors. I wouldn't want to live without mine. Your doctor deals in if there's a problem They tell you how to fix it, right? You go to your doctor when there's a problem I'm more about yes going to my doctor when there's a problem, but also being proactive about my health care I want to make sure that there aren't problems so that I don't have to go to my health care provider There there are two very different schools of thought. Two very different schools of thought, right?

One's reactive medicine and one's more being proactive about your health and wellness. And so it's not really conflicting. I'm not surprised. Like your doctor's not gonna tell you to take something if they feel like you don't need it, right? Like you're not suffering. There's no reason why I will tell you

that you need to take this. Your blood work is coming back great. And if you feel good, then save your money. But that's not why I take my supplements. I take my supplements because I know that they're really great for protecting my health and wellness. So kind of not conflicting.

It's good that your doctor isn't prescribing you anything that they don't feel like you need at the end of the day. So it depends. Are you at the weight that you want to be at too? So making sure that all your levels remain high. So for example, when you're stressed, your vitamin mineral deficiency can deplete by like 70%. Like that because of the stress that you're under.

And so when the time you got your blood worked on, if you've been doing all these things and feeling amazing and doing great, you don't know how much they're factoring in to the changes that you've made or how much they've factored in to the improvements that you're seeing in your blood. Because now your blood is coming back healthier,

for lack of a better word. All your markers improve maybe because you're getting sleep now, right? So your sleep is being improved. You don't know how much the magnesium is adding into that. Your omega-3 is decreasing your inflammation, which is coming back. More improved health markers, right? So here's what I can say. I can wholeheartedly sleep at night suggesting the foundational supplements. You'll notice that I'm not hawking menopause stuff and like combinations in fat burners and ketones and I'm not Dr. Oz at the end of the day, right?

That's not what I'm doing. So these are all really super basic foundational supplements that actually make a big difference in your health and wellness. So that's sort of the difference there. So I can see how you can, what you can do is try not taking them. See how you feel. You might be like, oh, I feel great.

Or, oh wow, I really notice a difference. I'm actually, my B12, my B6 complex or my B complex was actually making a pretty big difference in my energy levels, right? See how you go, see how you do. I have not been eating a breakfast person complex or be complex was actually making a pretty big difference in my energy levels, right? See how you go. See how you do. I have not been eating a breakfast person or a fruit person, both results of intermittent

fasting and keto. And now after following the program and focusing on how I can personalize, I want breakfast and my fruit stack. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh my gosh. I'm talking to Jason Fung on Monday. So excited about this.

Jason Fung is the author of the book, The Obesity Code, which is interesting because he does talk about intermittent fasting or fat, not intermittent fasting, but he talks about fasting, which is different. I'm excited about having a conversation with him because he's really big on, it's not calories in versus calories out. Obviously what you eat makes a difference,

but it really comes down to your hormones, your leptin, your ghrelin, your hunger hormones, your GLP-1 production, all of that, which is really interesting. And so I had an opportunity to meet with him earlier and I'm like, well, you know, what is the difference? And one of the things I'm going to ask him about, what's the difference between dieting and fasting? Because how many of us have been on a diet and go long periods of time without eating and that just causes our

body to feel any to store fat. And so there is some relevancy to fasting. It can make a difference, but it's not in the way that people are trying to use it for dieting per se at the end of the day. So keep an eye out for that conversation that's coming down the pipeline. All right, I got to wrap this up. I got to wrap this up. I got to wrap this up. Hello, I wanted to ask if we need to lose more weight and keep the ball rolling.

And I kind of wasn't fully present with the lives part for the past week and a half to vacation, what should be the best route to follow this new one or start to follow the plan from the start to finish once more before I join the ball program? It's really best, you really want to understand personalizing the plan. So I would go back to where you left off before vacation and I was followed through on those steps. A lot of people are doing that. They're following behind in the program for a variety of reasons. So they're not going to end on day 91. They're going to keep going and then maybe end next month, next week or whatever. You really want to understand every step

of the living method is really important. And so you really want to understand this personalized plan part. So we have a whole week for you to really digest it, understand it, be super clear on it. And ideally, that's what you want to do moving forward in the program, moving forward in the summer to continue to lose your weight. That would be my suggestion there. Still have time. So make sure you ask all the questions that you need about that. Hello, I haven't lost any weight. Up and down within two pounds throughout. Is this common?

Could that be this is just the weight I'm supposed to be? So, it's very common, which makes, which kind of, and don't take this the wrong way. I love that you've reached out, but it makes me wonder what information that you're missing. Right? So, so to be asking this, and just gonna be really real, because I want to help you here. So so you're asking this in the last week of the program, and then you're asking if

this is common. And so we've had so many conversations about this, right? We've had some people, some people don't lose weight, any weight until week, you know, six, seven and go back on to lose weight on the back end. We've talked reasons why, four reasons especially why your weight might be slower to move. Inflammation is a big one. Hormones obviously can factor in food sensitivities that can lead to inflammation, gut issues and whatnot.

So not only is it common, it's very normal. 93% of people start losing weight within the four weeks of the program. I think it's like 2%, 3%. There's some statistics. So let's fill out the survey. We're going to fill out the survey. It'll help us know. But yeah, there's always a

small percentage of people who don't lose weight because things in their life had like there was a lot of stress and chaos maybe happening in your life. Or you're dealing with inflammation and hormones and not to say that you can't lose weight if you're dealing with hormonal issues could be cortisol, insulin, lack of sleep, high stress leading to what you got going on in your life. Could also be hormones in terms of menopause and aging and whatnot. You absolutely can lose weight when going through menopause and dealing with hormones for sure.

So there's always that, right? Could that be just the weight I'm supposed to be? If you are carrying excess weight, that is not it. Like if you have visible fat on you and you're carrying excess weight, that's you just trying to make yourself feel better about it. Your body doesn't want every extra pound of fat is hard on your body. It causes inflammation. It's not healthy for you. Can you be healthy and carry excess weight? Absolutely you can. That's not what I'm saying. But I'm saying your body doesn't want the fat any more than you do. And this goes back to our very first Science Saturday post

that talks about set point and talks about all the reasons why carrying excess weight is detrimental to your health. And so just because you're having a hard time losing weight doesn't mean that that's the weight that your body is happy at. And the reason why I'm kind of going back to the information you might've missed, because we've literally talked about this extensively, is there might have been some kind of really relevant information that you

might have missed. It doesn't come down to just following the steps of the program, it's the things that you need to focus on and work on and work through while you're doing the program. Now I don't know what your weight is, I also want to be really realistic because you know, you could be sitting there and be slim and trim and you know, you just want to be even thinner than you know, what you are. So I have to assume everyone is showing up and they're healthy. They have a healthy mindset about weight loss and you're looking to lose a reasonable amount of weight at the end of the day, right? So if you is this the weight

that you feel calm and confident and happy at and you're just like, I feel amazing and I love my weight, then yeah, maybe that's the weight that you're meant to be. But set point is all about the weight that your body feels like it needs to be, not where it functions best, not where you are happiest. It's where it's set point is the amount of weight that your body feels like it needs because of all the reasons you taught it that it needs that weight. So every time you went on a diet or maybe you got sick

or whatever that is, years of like intermittent fasting, keto notorious for like boosting up your set point. So, so your set point is the way that your body feels comfortable. You're not that it's comfortable, but it's arranged everything around homeostasis, your blood flow, your heart rate, your body temperature, your like everything has your hormones have all adjusted because your weight, your fat doesn't just sit there and do nothing. Your body factors your fat into its everyday living. And so your body has adjusted and been like, we like it here because every few months we get starved, there's a famine and we're starved to death.

Like we like it here. So then this is maybe in the past you could lose weight and then you get it all back, lose weight, get it all back. Right. So, so it depends. So there's their set point, which is the weight that your body has adjusted to your weight is sort of where you are happy right so that's where are you happiest and where you feel calm and confident and feel good in your skin and you are happy that is the weight that you are happy with. Your set point is just the weight

that your body has felt it needs to function at and has adjusted to. And they're not the same. They're not the same. So I hope that helps. Listen, so many people, for whatever reason, come back at the end of the program. They might've missed certain parts and whatnot. We don't care where you've been, what you've been doing. We are here to help. So make sure you reach out, let us know if you have any questions. Do not be shy. Come the end of the week, we will no longer be answering questions. We're going to archive the group and we're going to all be moving into the summer club. Also want to announce that we are starting our Better Together promo. So if you sign up for, if you sign up with a friend or whoever, you can save money on your membership. So

if you're interested in that, we are also starting a whole new referral program. So you can refer and save the team's work really hard on that. I know we kind of tested one out last group. Now we've switched website platform. So we're gonna have a really robust referral program. So many of you tell your friends, tell your family, we're so grateful and we haven't really been able

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