The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 85 - Spring/Summer 2024

Episode Date: July 15, 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 85, 9 AM live.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspringsummer2024Topics covered:Team Livy was together this weekend! - Thank you for being patient with usCelebrate and Inspire post - be sure to celebrate yourself! We’re talking next steps this week - continuing to lose and maintenanceBridging The Gap Summer Club - the place to continue to connect this summerCelebrate and inspire - the importance of taking a moment to celebrate how far you’ve comeHealth scares - we’re working to be as healthy as possible When things don’t go to plan - allow yourself grace, pick yourself up and keep going The impact of situational change - remembering the different ways it can show upNon-scale victories - big wins aren’t just on the scaleCelebrating goals reached!Food noise - quieting the chatter in our mindInjuries - continuing to lose with The Livy MethodScale up in the summer - normalizing fluctuations in the heatSpouses - sabotaging your efforts or loving you the way you are?Navigating other people’s reactions to your journeyWhen old diet mentality around perfection creeps in - reflect, allow grace and start todayAre the last 5-10lbs harder to lose?Coming up tomorrow - talking skin with Dr RiceTo 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,

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Okay, bye! Bye! Hello and happy Monday. It is Monday, isn't it? I was just saying goodbye to Kim. Kim was just leaving. She is going to the airport to get on her flight. First things first, I want to thank everybody for being patient with us this weekend. The whole team took the weekend off. We were all in the city. I'm still here and I'm still in my pajamas to get together and hang out. And can I just tell you, it was a whole vibe.

All of our amazing team who supports all of our amazing members. It really is truly about the mission and the members. And if you bring all of us together, we all work remote. You get us in one place. It is super loud and super fun. And I just want to say thank you, everyone, for just being patient with us. So if you asked a question on the weekend or you reached out, the team is working super hard. Everyone is back to work today, working super hard to get caught up on all of your questions.

First things first, I want to talk about the Celebrate Inspire post. So it is hands down my favorite post. This is an opportunity for you to celebrate yourself. So you'll see people posting before and afters, but you do not need a before or after in order to participate. You don't even have to have lost weight. We have people who've been maintaining, people who had a really tough go with this program, this just kind of season in their life. The fact that you are still here, you deserve to be proud of yourself and to celebrate the fact

that you are still here at the end of the program. Even if you took time off, even if you're just getting back, be proud of the fact that you are back and back at it. All this week is going to be geared towards maintenance, talking about maintenance. Even if you are not ready for maintenance, this is to give you an idea of what maintenance is about. So you can kind of keep that in mind as you continue to work through your weight loss goals. So I think it's important to understand kind of how maintenance works. So we are talking maintenance. For example, Christine Textera is going to join us for our Spill the Tea conversation tomorrow.

She has been in maintenance for a year, so we're going to talk to her about that. Odette, who's the manager of the Maintenance and Mindfulness Group, is going to join Kim and I on Wednesday for the tweak this week. So we're going to talk about maintenance. We're going to talk about the maintenance group. We're going to talk about the new maintenance program that we've been working all weekend to put together for you. But it is still also very much for those of you who are looking to continue to reach your goals. So we're here to talk weight loss.

We're here to help any of you who are getting caught up. We want everyone to make sure that you're feeling super confident on next step so don't be shy ask as many questions as you need it is still not too late also to post your responses to the 20 questions the maximizing checklist so that is there if some of you are like i'm unsure why i didn't get the results that i wanted or what can i do and if you're looking for a little bit more insight that's sort of like a a starting place for us to get a sense because we don't know you. We don't know your history. We don't know your, you know, what's going on health wise with you. So that's a great starting point is not too late to reach out. If you are working behind in

the group, make sure you are super clear about next steps. So we have introduced our Bridging the Gap Summer Club. So we trialed this last year and this year we are doing our Bridging the Gap Summer Club. So we trialed this last year and this year we are doing a Bridging the Gap group. So this is where I'm going to be hanging out this summer. I'm going to be going live, not every day or checking in every day like I do. It's not a guided program and process, but it is where you will have access to our team. I will be going live. I will be checking in here and there. We're going to have some of our guest experts join us over the summer. So this is really great for those of you who are looking to continue to reach your goals throughout the summer, especially if you're personalizing the plan. This is great for those of you who are looking to just kind of maintain during the

summer and pop in, in and out. This is great for those of you looking to like, you know, set yourself up for success in the fall. So if you're interested, you can go to our website, GinaLivie.com and get signed up for that. And then, of course, we also did a post to make sure those of you who are signed up for our fall program get into the fall group as well. So all about maintenance, but all about also next steps and all about still focusing on getting and keeping that scale moving. So, all right. Good morning. I wasn't expecting a live today. Well, you know, I might, I could have taken the day off and my team was like, why don't you just take the day off? And I was like, you know what? No, I feel great. I had an amazing weekend with the team. Uh, Sonia and I went to the Atlantis Morissette concert yesterday. I got to see Joan Jett. I mean,

my goodness, I'm feeling pretty great. I am going to be off this afternoon, but I'll be back tonight for 7 p.m. It's the last week of the group. I don't want to miss a second. I don't want to miss a second. I don't want to miss a second. Summer school, aka bridging the gap. The only summer school I can't wait for. Right? Good morning. Hope you and the team had a wonderful weekend. We had the best weekend, you guys. So Kim and Odette and I got together on Thursday with Sonia and worked on the maintenance group on Thursday, all day Friday. And then the team started kind of rolling in, met Janine, who couldn't come to the party and Shalane, who flew in from BC, we met them. It was like we there were so many little get-togethers the team went and did karaoke

on uh Saturday night before I didn't make it by then I was like I was out I was in bed at like 9 15 but Kim and Odette went the team went to karaoke we did like a fun boat cruise so we got a boat in the harbor here and we went on a boat but But more than that, it was just like really special. We have a really amazing team of people who really care about our members. It was really great. They just talked about, you know, how, how amazing it is to be there and support. It feels good to feel good, but it feels even better to help other people feel good. So it was a whole vibe. It was a whole vibe. Uh, I was busy reading the inspire post some great testimonials. Yeah, so I was in there this morning, reading some of them. I think it's one I think like I said, everyone should go in

there and post on the celebrate and spell just for your it's kind of like setting your intentions and end of day reflections. It's kind of owning what you're doing and being really proud of that. Even if you feel like you could have done this, you could have done that. Or maybe you weren't able to show up in the way that you want, no matter how you're feeling, it's so important that you take a minute to be really proud of yourself because you are more likely to continue that behavior if you are proud of what you've done. It doesn't mean that you're like necessarily happy or like you did it perfect. Well, you didn't do it. If you did it, you did it perfectly because you did the best you could at the time so it doesn't mean that you know you can't still have feelings about this or about that but I think it's important to set aside some time

to be really proud of the fact that you are still here this is a lot I mean it's not a lot of time but it is a lot of time to show up every single day and deal with all the things that you need to deal with in life and show up and do the things that you need to do. Prioritizing yourself is hard, very hard for some people. It's probably the hardest thing is to, oh yeah, taking time, you know, to, you know, put your meals and snacks together, taking time to strengthen that mind-body connection, working through your issues and associations, working through coping mechanisms, working through your issues and associations, working through coping mechanisms, working through your beliefs, believing that you're worthy, right, of taking the time and making the change. And, you know, and for some of you really working through

some past traumas that you've tied into food and how you've utilized food. And at the beginning of the program, I talked about how weight loss is difficult because we use food for so many things. We use food to bond and celebrate. We use food to show love. Some people use food to cope. We use food for a variety of different things in a variety of different ways. Some people are just foodies and they love making food, smelling food, eating food. It brings people a lot of joy. And that can be difficult when you

are like following a program and a plan to not have like be able to indulge in the food in the way that you used to. So it's not like you're going to stop enjoying food or loving food or cooking food, or it's not like you're going to stop for some people food is their love language. So it's not like you're going to stop, you know, like, you know, bonding over food, celebrating with food, going out for anniversaries and birthdays and those types of things. So it's really about reconnecting with food in a whole other way and reconnecting with yourself in a whole other way so that you're really calm around food and your food choices. And that's why I think this week is important, even if you're not in maintenance, to kind of really be into the conversation about it, because the end game is for you to lose your weight, yes, in a way that you're not going to gain it back. But more importantly, where you're

in tune to your body's needs, and you feel calm around food, common social situations, common social environments, calm around food, calm in the line at the grocery store when you're being bombarded by all the, you know, yummy bites of bits, like calm when you're, you know, at a wedding or calm, like just calm. Physically, your body's calm. Mentally, you're calm. And that's a big part of like all the things that you're working through in the end game. It's not just the weight loss. It's so much more than that. So much more than that. So much more than that. Made a lot with the lab. Hi Hilda. Hello. Good morning. Hi Lynn. Good morning to everyone up earlier than usual today. Hello. Hello. Hello. Um, I had a little health scare yesterday. Hi Ruthann,

enough to get me back on track. Amazing. What motivation it gives you. Yeah. You know what? It really, really, whether it's you with some health issues or someone that you know with health issues. Yeah, that's kind of, it's so much, like, I think this is where it's so much, especially that I'm just thinking about Patty and I'm thinking about Joanne. I'm thinking about Brenda Huxley today. I'm thinking about all of our members who have had, we've had people be diagnosed with cancer during the program, the spring summer program. You know, it does get to a point where it's just so much more than weight loss. And, you know, with the state of the world and, you know, it seems like people are getting sick all the time and dealing with some severe illnesses. It really is about, it's about being healthy. It's about living your best life. It's about, and living your best life is feeling your best, not living as long as you can, but being

able to live life for as long as possible. And I think that that's a feeling that you get at the end of the program is that you may have signed up to fit into that wedding dress or get your ass into those pair of pants or the bikini that you want to wear on vacation. But if you're still here now, it's so much more than that. And I think that's that hope of like your body is on your side and you truly can make a difference in your health and wellness like I just yeah man it's what it's all about it's all about it's what it's all about uh down a half down a half down a half

boom up 1.5 so don't forget the basics right so? So a couple things. After your weight drops, drops, drops, it's normal for your weight to go back up again until it drops and settles on that new low. So a loss is always a loss. Any increase is always like a superficial. It could be based on the heat. Like it's supposed to feel like 40 or something like today. It could be based on the heat. Salty food. Like if you had some margaritas, that's salty

rim. I can't even like move my watch. I had so many margaritas the last couple of days. So for so many reasons, your weight can be up. If you've done a lot of exercising, I was in the pool, we did a lot of walking. So your weight will go up. Your weight can be down, down, down, and also up at the same time for all those other reasons but more importantly it's normal for your weight to go up before it drops and after it drops it's normal for it to go back up so don't assume that your body has stopped

dropping either because that could just be your body's retaining water in order to continue to release that fat so don't forget about supporting the body and detox. Support that body and detox. Support that body and detox. Good morning. Drained my butt to the gym on my holiday. I'm happy you had a great weekend. I am so disappointed with myself. What? Up this round, dropped out about day 65 due to stuff with dental surgery. Not sure what to do now. Looking for support. Okay. First of all, don't be like, you can be, you can be, what's the word? Disappointed, right? That life did not make this easy for you, right? You can be disappointed that you had some dental work. You could be disappointed, but don't be disappointed in yourself, right? That's like, don't be like, I know you're going to feel how you feel. So I don't want to like, you know, I want to validate that you're allowed

to of course feel disappointed. But I think it's important to be like, I'm not disappointed in myself. I'm just disappointed that this was my experience. So or if you are struggling in other ways, this is where you might want to go back to that conversation that we had, you might have missed it with Dr. Beverly, we had it. Was it last week? No, two weeks ago. And we talked about struggling. And we talked about how struggle is just kind of like, I'm struggling, and how to really define that. And she talked about the cognitive behavioral therapy model, where you're trying to figure out, is it emotional? Is it physical? Is it behavioral? Like, what is like, can like what if you could define what it is that you're having a hard time with that can really help with you figuring out what you need to do.

Do you need to set yourself up for support? Is it setting intentions, end of day reflections? Like what is it that you need to get back to, you know, feeling like you are showing up and doing the things that you need to do. So depending on where you're at, the best way, if you've, if you dropped off on day 65 of the program, you want to start back at day 66 of the program because the work that it's not like you've just gone and starved and deprived yourself. You counted your weight, you measured, or you put your body in ketosis and then you're not in it anymore. So you have to do all of that again. Like you have to start again. So think of it like this, that house analogy. So

when you signed up for the program, you, we gave you a plot of land, right? You bought a plot of land. And then each week we're giving you the tools, which are the guidelines for you to show up and build your house. And so up to day 65, you were showing up, you're building your house. So maybe you have that foundation built. Maybe you have like some walls up, right? Maybe you don't have like doors or your windows or anything like that. But you took, you took on day 65, you like, you like stepped away from your house. You haven't been back to work on your house since day 65. What you don't do is knock the whole house down and then start again.

You just show back up, organize the tools, get yourself right back into that mindset, which is back on track. So this is where you can implement back on track a couple days of the basics. Now, if this is your first time doing the program, you might not be at back on track yet. So you can just pick up from where you left off in the program and just start stringing those days together. The thing is that your body knows like the work that you did made a difference and your body will know the program. So if you start following the program, you're going to start thinking about the program, your body's going to be like, oh, this is what

we're doing. And before you know it, you're going to feel like you are back at it. But this is where you might want to join the Bridging the Gap group. If you're falling behind, you can start back on day 66 of the program. You can use the app. It's going to connect to all the information in this Facebook support group. On Sundays, when we stop posting, we stop answering questions. But this is where, if you are in the Bridging the Gap group, you can pop in there and ask any questions that you have. So at the end of this program, we stop posting, we stop answering, but you still have access to all the information. So

it's not going anywhere. It's not going anywhere. You can pop in, you can watch the check-in videos, you can watch the lives, you can read the comments, you can watch all the guest segments. So it's all still going to be here for you. And then when it comes to the app, you can continue to use the app through the 91 days. The Libby AI only works when the program is on, but you can still use the search feature. You can still pull up all the posts that you need. And then once you're done the 91 days of the app, it turns into a general tracker. So for those of you who are on the current day and you finish out day 91 on Sunday, when you wake up on Monday, as long as you finish out the program in the app, your app will turn over and it'll be a general tracker. So you can still keep track of you'll have the options of tracking your foods and your fluids and your moods and all that.

So if you are doing the bridging the gap group or you're moving on to maintenance, you'll have the option of continuing to use the app. So reach out. What I would do is like go to the question of the day post and let the team know your exact circumstances. Like, well, I stopped following day 66. I don't know exactly how to get back. Let us know what's going on and the team will be happy to advise you and get you. But all that really matters at the end of the day, Martha, is that you're here, you're back, you showed up. It is so normal. We really need to normalize the fact that it's so normal to have taken time off for life to get in the way, to fall back into old habits, right? Fall back into old habits. This week, we're going to be talking about maintenance and three reasons why people gain their weight back. One is not putting time into solidifying their weight. That's really important. If you are ready for maintenance that you really take, it's that you want to really take that solidifying

your weight seriously the other one is situational change and this is why some of you are experiencing many versions of situational change where your life is your situation like your your stress is changing your job is changing your health is changing your something is going on that you know maybe is new to you or and you you, you're not adapting. You need to be able to adapt. You need to recognize your stress levels, your change in your routine. That's why the program is designed in a way that is so routine. It was interesting. I saw someone on the Celebrate Inspire post talk about how they've done their fifth group and it just all seemed a little routine and it was all like the same thing over and over again. I'm like, yes, exactly. The

body loves that. It's that routine is when, when you're feeling that routine, that's when your, your body can really make that change when it's calm, right? The other reasons why people gain weight back is not being mindful. So just simply continuing to set intentions, you know, in the morning, end of day reflections, you know, um, if you are not joining us in the Bridge in the Gap group and you're not checking in each day to a certain place is really doubling down on the routine that you created for yourself, or it's an opportunity to create a new routine. So if you're not going to have the 9am lives to watch anymore, or you're not gonna be popping

into the group anymore, it's good to kind of like, what are you going to do with that? Maybe go out for a walk, download and listen to other podcasts, like try to keep those routines. You're not falling back into your old routine. Right. So, so all of that. So reach out, let us know where you are. Let us know where you're at when you have a deep healing sleep. And of course you dream about Gina and the group. Hello. I need sleep. Oh my gosh. I need sleep, I need sleep, I don't need sleep, because I'm like, physically tired, and sleep, because I'm like, it's been, we've been on the go all weekend, I feel like I've been talking a mile a minute, because it's so exciting to like, meet all the team, everybody on the team, if you missed it off the top, I was thanking you all for

being patient with the team this weekend, we were all off. It was nice to not because normally we don't take the time off and some people have to work and then some people have to show up late. And this time I was like, you know what? How about we just all take a couple of days off and we all hang out. I know our members are going to be fine. You guys can get caught up on any of the questions. So everyone is back and back at it, except for Kim. Kim just left off the top. Kim just left. She was going to the airport. They're all kind of like, I think she's the last one to go. Got a new kitten this weekend. Hi, Barry Lynn. So it'll be interesting. A new kitten can be situational change. New kitten

can be situational change. Changing your routines, right? Your stress levels, not getting the sleep that you normally get. A new kitten this weekend. So it'll be interesting to see how my workout goes today. I was hoping to do some floor stuff instead of my chair workout due to a foot injury, but I think that kitten Gary would be clawing at my crazy hair the whole time. Oh my gosh.

That's so cute. That's so cute. Be proud of yourselves for making it to the end. I had to take a mental break a few weeks ago I will be back with you all in September hi Liz right that's exact that's exactly it just like really doesn't matter where you are at be proud of the fact that you're showing up today be proud of the fact that you showed up today hi Ellen new non-scale victory got my paddle board yesterday I bought it at my heaviest um it was but it was

hard to do two years and 43 pounds bam getting off it was hard as my ankles were sore I love I love paddleboarding I love paddleboarding we've been on the water uh we're in downtown Toronto we were in the water which was nice all week we lots of talks about how next time we're gonna like get a boat we'll go paddleboarding we'll like do skis. We'll get out there. I love paddle boarding. I used to do it quite often. I haven't actually done it in a while. My goal was to be at 145. Hi Heather, by my 49th birthday, which is this week and I did it. Goal reached and I'm shocked and so proud. Oh my gosh, that's so great. My goal was to be at 145 by my 49th birthday, which is this week, and I did it. Goal reached. I am shocked and so proud. I am not shocked for you. I am also very proud of you. That's so great. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. I put this in my

inspiration post, but this program has really helped me with the food noise in my head. Yeah, so that was like a lot of, there was a lot of talk about that with, uh, the new weight loss drugs. Oh, Zempic member, Oprah had that conversation and, and she had a woman on there talking about that concept. What am I going to eat? What I'm not going to eat? Why did I eat that? All of this, like you're having your breakfast already stressing about, um, your next meal and snack. And that is like something that is very difficult to work through. And that's what I mean by that calm. So when I say physically, right, and mentally, this where your body not in a state of stress, don't your body not feeling you need to store that fat back because you didn't starve and deprive your weight off. But this is what I'm talking about in your mind to that calmness.

And I remember that whole, it was constant. it didn't like it was relentless it was like when I see food I was triggered I'd wake go to bed okay tomorrow I'm gonna get up I'm not gonna eat I'm gonna do my best to like not eat then I got up okay I'm hungry should I eat should I not eat and then okay I ate this oh my god now I'm eating this I've eaten too much of that and then as soon as I'm done I'm gonna try not to have, but then I'm already thinking about my next meal or snack coming down. It was just constant and to the point that I can still remember it. And this is what I mean by, this is that calm, right? Like really like just, because a lot of that is the way your brain gets wired, especially when it comes to dieting, tied into the fact that you are actually hungry and then you will have cravings and that part of

like being in tune and self-aware but then also you add that diet dialogue that mentality and then you do end up counting and weighing and measuring and starving and depriving and then it just becomes this this whole thing so that is huge like that is such a huge thing to even be aware that you're that starting to really calm down or that it started to quiet. So this is sort of one of those things Dr. Beverly has talked about. Sometimes you want to turn down the volume on things. And other times you want to turn up the volume on things because if something keeps coming up, it might be a message for you that there's something there for you to deal with or to work through. But the other part of that is kind of

like turning that volume down. And a big part of that is kind of like turning that volume down. And a big part of that is your habit, your thoughts or habits, and the way you constantly think about things and you're triggered about things. So it can just like just cause a lot of noise. So the fact that you're noticing that calming down is really huge. That's what I mean about calm physically, but also calm mentally. That's exactly what I thought. Noise in your head,. Noise in your head. Noise in your head.

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whether you need a challenge or rest. And Peloton has everything you need, whenever you need it. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Good morning. Messed up my Achilles tendon this weekend. We'll work on water and eating this week movement will be slow going well here's the thing about the program is that i've had a lot of people sign up with worked with a lot of people who were restricted from their movement they were really

used to working out a lot exercising being super active and then they're like i'm i am getting a surgery hip surgery knee surgery whatever and they're like i'm really concerned that i'm going to gain weight because i can't exercise or be all that active. And then they've done the program. Not only did they not gain weight, they actually lost weight. And a lot of people really wowed by that, where they're like, how come I stopped exercising? I'm eating all of this food now. And now not only am I not gaining weight, I'm actually losing weight. And so that's because your body doesn't want you to store fat, especially when you are injured. And injury is your body working overtime to repair and rebuild

and regenerate and rejuvenate. So when you're giving it that nutrient-rich foods plus rest, your body can really work hard on making your body, again, stronger, better than ever, repairing and rebuilding. So this can actually work to your advantage. Now, if your body is in a state of stress and inflammation, you might see your weight go up a little bit, but it won't be actual real weight gain. It's just your body reacting probably to the stress and the injury.

So that sucks for you. But weight-wise, you're going to be just fine. Work on that water. You might notice that you don't have much of an appetite when you have an injury like that. So don't stress about that. Get lots of rest. Of course, if you have any questions, reach out. Um, I hope by the time I'm my new group comes around that I'm my iPad situation is better, but, um, so thanks for bearing with me with this. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Let me scroll down. 2024 is my horrible year. I'm going to have to put my 15 year old dog down today. I'm heartbroken. She's my baby girl. Oh,

Alison. I, I have an older dog. Um, and I think about this every day. Oh my God. Um, so I'm sending you a big hug and sending you lots of love. Uh, do you can, we were actually taught the last couple of years. Haven't been great for me either. So I knew we were kind of talking about this this morning and we're like, man, it's just kind of, we were like, wait a minute. It's a year. It's been a couple of years now. It's been a rough couple of years for a lot of people after the pandemic. I think we thought, well, I mean, pandemic still going strong for some people. I think we thought like things were going to get better and then life, it just keeps hitting us. I'm so sorry to hear that. So sorry to hear that.

Hi, MJ, feeling a bit frustrated again. Okay. Dug deep and have leveled up in all areas the last two weeks, sleep, water, stress, food choices, daily walks and swims, my scale is up again. So I would not be surprised. I don't know where you live, but if you are being more active and you are like living in this environment, chances are your weight is going to be up just due to the heat. If it's either not like just hot and muggy, you go inside and the air i say this because sonja likes sonja and i we shared a room last night and she likes her like rooms to be freezing cold she loves the air conditioning so that's also really dehydrating as well and that can be very extreme on the body wait a sec what did i do here did i go i'm sorry um so where is it? Sorry, I, I scrolled into some other if I grow, if I go up on my iPad,

I go into like, I don't even know what this is. So I, I, um, uh, I messed that up, but I can't read the rest of that because I can't find her. I can't find your comment anymore. But here's what I got to say about that is it's so normal for your weight to be up for a variety of reasons. So if you are doing all the things and your weight is up in this heat, it's probably the heat. Also, if you are doing all the things and your weight is up, don't forget the basics. It's so normal for your weight to go up before your weight drops. So this is why I don't, the summer and the fact that your weight can fluctuate. And some people are really prone to that. So I'm super prone that my weight will be up like I'm like I said I'm swollen I can barely normally my watch is loose on me I can like I it's stuck so this is why I don't run a summer

program proper like a guided program and process where new people can try to lose weight and do the program because I would be literally spending the whole time trying to convince people that they're losing weight while their scales up in the summer. And some people are just really prone to fluctuations. Even after you've lost your weight and you're in maintenance, it is so normal for your, you're like, it's just like anything else swells in the heat. So that's why I don't run a, uh, like a guided summer program because it just it's but with that said I saw someone the other day online talking about how summer is like you can't lose weight in the summer summer is a great time to lose weight all that vitamin d all that heat guess what your body

doesn't want to do is lug around a bunch of excess fat that no longer serves a purpose so the summer is a it does have its benefits or its pros in terms of trying to lose weight. So we have a lot of people who are hugely successful in the summertime, as they go from the summer program into the fall program. That is why we are doing the bridging the gap group because we used to not do that, then people will go off and then at the end of the fall, they like, oh, you know, they manage better than they thought they were going to, which I know you're going to do fine. Even if we didn't have the bridging the gap group, I'm not concerned about anybody. But some people still want to continue to work through their goals throughout the summertime. Summer is a great

time to lose weight. It's just that we tend to be more social. It's you have to make sure you're keeping up with your water. Otherwise, you're craving, you know, carbs and sugar plus that that kind of that balance of increasing your fruits fruits which is like when it's really hot or you tend to be exerting yourself more you'll feel your energy kind of dip this is where you want to like bump up your fruit intake decrease any of those kind of heavier carbs to kind of do those seasonal tweaks summer is a great time to lose weight but you are also always fighting the ups on the scale. So totally normal, totally normal, totally normal, totally normal. Um, last session, I commented that my husband was sabotaging me with bakery treats. You said that maybe he wasn't sabotaging me, but like me the way I was.

Well, honestly, let me, let me see if I can, can I expand that? Um, well, honestly, never, that honestly never occurred to me. He has admitted that that is the case. I told him I'm not happy like this and want to be healthier. He's now on board. Right? Yeah. Let me read that again.

So last session, I commented that my husband was sabotaging me with bakery treats. You said that maybe he wasn't sabotaging you, but just liked you the way that he was. I said that because when Tony, my husband first did the program. So before he actually now works with me, um, runs, he, we, he runs the business behind the business. He wanted to help me lose him, lose weight. And I was like, no, this is like, even before I did the groups, he's like, oh, you're, you do weight loss.

Help me lose weight. I'm like, no, I'm not going to help you lose weight. I don't, I want to go for dinner. I don't want to be worried about what you're doing. Like you do you like whatever. I'm not, I'm not doing that. You're not going to tell me what to do. I'm not going to tell you what to do. We're not doing that. And then he signed up for the program and he was so hardcore about it. Like he loved it. This way he fell in love with the program. He fell in love with the members. He was like in there in the comments. He was watching the, I would be in bed and he'd be

like watching the live from that day. I'm like, what are you doing? I'm right here. He's like, I'm watching the live. I'm like doing the program. And I was like, okay. So then what I ended up doing is I kept bringing like chips to bed and, and things to bed to bed. And I realized like I was sabotaging him because I love him just the way that he is. And I like didn't want him to change. At first I thought it was because, well, I still want to eat my chips and do my thing. Like you're going to do that diet. That's fine.

But I'm still going to do me. And then I realized it was really because like I just was uncomfortable with, I loved him the way that he was. So that's where I got that from. You said that maybe he wasn't sabotaging me, but liked me the way I was. Well, that honestly never occurred to me. He has admitted that this is the case. I told him I'm not happy like this and, and want to be healthier, want to be healthier. He's now on board. So this is where, you know, we do have that. We did talk about that post about people's reactions. And so, I mean, we've had people who've lost 80 pounds and then,

and say, you know know my best friend hasn't said a word right like I see people they're not saying anything if we're just in a really weird place right now where it's kind of like not cool to comment on people's weight but like you've gone and done this big thing and you've done it in all the right ways and you've worked really hard to be as healthy as possible you've probably feel great you look great and it's nice when people notice it's nice when people are like wow like you. You look great. And it's nice when people notice. It's nice when people are like, wow, like you're glowing. You feel, you know, uh, it's nice when people notice. So this is a bit of a situation where people sometimes can assume that if you, if you've lost weight and you are, so for everyone trying to lose weight, if you are successful at losing weight, they think you've either done it in a way that you've starved and deprived yourself,

or now you've taken a pill, right? In which if you're taking Ozempic, that doesn't mean that you're not also still doing them. You have a lot of people doing the program who are taking medications. It's still just as much work for someone taking medications as it is for someone who isn't, depending on the circumstance. So people just assume the worst when it comes to diet. Sometimes people don't want to say anything because maybe they don't want to jinx you. They don't want to put pressure on you. Sometimes it's just because how they feel. Don't lose any more weight. And then sometimes they say that because what they're saying is, I love you just the way that you are. You don't need to change. And this is why it's so important that we listen to when we say our response to other people, we understand it's

saying to ourselves. So you can say, thank you very much, but I feel amazing. And you know, I'm still working towards my goal. I'm not there yet, but thank you for noticing. Cause that, what that says to your soul is like, yeah, I'm, I'm still doing this. I'm still showing up. I'm here for myself. Thank you. I'm not done yet. I'm really excited about my journey. So, but thank you for noticing. And then, you know, sometimes people are like, you bitch, stop losing that weight. Because like, I'm not where I want to be. And it's hard for me to see that you have what I want, or you're doing what I know I need to do, but I'm not doing it. So sometimes you do get that as well. But I think for the most part, people, they mean well, and they just are, they don't know what to say. And I can honestly say sometimes it's just

about, they love you the way you are and they just, or they're uncomfortable with you changing, right? So that, that could be a bit of their issue, but they love you. They're just trying to say, I love you the way that you are. But people do say weird shit. Some people say, I've, I've heard so many weird things. Um, so many weird things when it comes to weight. Here's Martha. I'm living proof a month into post-surgery, no weight bearing yet, but my weight has stayed the same. There you go. Your weight has stayed the same, if not down a pound. There we go. So don't worry about that Achilles heel. You're going to be, you're going to be fine. You fun you're gonna be fun you're gonna be fine my journal is all over the place not like me at all off and on tracking so messed up lots happening this round so i understand i need to find the last day that i was 100 on track and

start from there no you don't no you don't you don't or I start day one next week since I have so many hiccups. Pam, don't, that's, that's, that's all. I love you. I adore you. That's really all diet mentality, right? Because what you are discounting is taking the time to look, to have the learning opportunity. You don't, you've know the, you know, the program inside and and out you don't need to go back you just need to show up today start today right be here right now you don't need to start again start over you don't need to go back you don't need to do any of those things you need to start setting your intentions end of day reflections and like the my journal is all over the place not like me at all that is you that's you right now and so I think this is a great opportunity for you to be like, what is going on in my life? Like what's what's happening socially, environmentally, health wise? What's going on with me physically? What's going on with me mentally? Like take a minute, take a deep breath, and then sit down in that quiet and reflect on your journey.

Okay. And this is where you could be not go back and start from there, but go back and say, what happened there? Right? Like what, what happened? What was going on in my life? This is where I got off track. So was it something physical? Was it something mental? Was it emotional? But what, what happened in your life? And then you want to be like, okay. And then how did I navigate that? Well, I fell back into, for example, if you fell back into old habits. But you have to take the time.

You don't have to go back and experience all again and make it perfect to make it right. You just need to take the time and reflect back. Okay, so let me think about this exact scenario. Because in hindsight, it's so much easier to do this, but there's such a benefit to having the hindsight to go back and say, okay, well, what happened there? How did I navigate this? Like tracking your weight history.

It doesn't have to be your whole weight history. It can just be the last month or the two months of the program. I mean, like what happened there? What was going on? This is what happened. I fell back into that. What if I would have done this? If I was to do it again, what would I do differently? Make that connection, make that connection. Because when things happen, it's like, you can't expect to know how to handle it unless you've handled a similar situation before. Like with me and my stress, for example,

I'm going to have some of my beaches. With me in mind, I've never had my kid's dad pass away. I've never had to deal with anything harder in my entire life than help my kids through this last year of their dad dying. Never in my life. I'm going to get a ball of stress. Never in my life. Oh my God. So good. I love beaches. Never in my life have I dealt with a child with mental health issues on a very extreme end of things. Never in my life have I run a company and had all these responsibilities of all these amazing people who work for me and everything that comes with it. Never in my life have I turned 51 and all of a sudden, you know, I'm feeling now I'm pretty much on the other side. I'm close to like having my menopause day moving on. I think I'm six months without my period so far dealing with all that. And then in combination of all of that, right. In combination with all of that, that I've been dealing with all that, and then in combination of all of that, right? In combination with all of that that I've been dealing with. So never in my life have I experienced all these things.

And so I can't get on myself about not having the coping mechanisms or not having dealt with it in a better way than I have, right? So this is why my word for this group is compassion. So you don't have to go back and start again or whatever. Just pick yourself up for where you are today. What do I need today? And then just, you know, start personalizing the plan, jump in. And I can say this to Pam because Pam's done the program before. So you don't have to go back and have that fresh start and have everything aligned perfectly. Just start today. Start with your intention today, your end of day, start where you are at. I don't care what you did for breakfast. If you, I don't know, had donuts for breakfast, doesn't matter, right? Drink some water. If you're

taking supplements, pull them out of your cupboard, get back on your supplements. You know, when it comes to lunch, set your intention for lunch. This is what I'm going to have for lunch. Sit down, ask yourself those four questions, right? Like just, and what's going to happen is sometimes you can feel really, really, really off. But as soon as you get back into that routine, it's amazing how much your body falls back into that routine. Not just physically, but mentally as well. But mentally as well. So many hiccups. Hiccups are part.

It's not. Don't wait for it to be perfect. Hiccups are all part of it. Hiccups are. You're doing great. You're doing great. You're doing amazing. You're doing amazing. You're doing amazing. You're doing amazing. You are doing amazing. Someone talking about finishing strong. I love that. Who's this?

My nephew is visiting from Calgary. I haven't seen him in a year. When he hugged me yesterday, he said, where is the rest of you? You are so little. Just validated all the hard work in the past six months down 48 pounds. See, it's nice when people notice. It's so nice when people notice. There's nothing wrong with noticing. Nothing wrong with noticing. Oh, yeah, we were talking about your dog. That's so sad.

Hi, Gina. Thanks for your call. Oh, there we go. I get um yeah get on the heat right could be this is MJ falling back so I missed the I missed the other part of your comment I found this one though thanks for coming I get it yep the heat gets to me and it could be detox I'll keep going yes but my question was if it's harder to lose within your if you're within 10 pounds of your goal or is it just a mind fuck okay I love this I'm glad you followed up with this. It's like when people say, is it hard, like, is it hard to lose if you don't have a lot of weight to lose? Even Ruth talked about this. It's all about the percentage of fat that you have to lose. So that might be, so if you like 10 pounds for someone, a hundred pounds, I always used to say five pounds for someone, 100 pounds. I always used to say five pounds for someone, right? Who's

dealing with inflammation or hormones or years of dieting or whatever that can be just as hard for someone else to lose 50. If you have more weight to lose, you tend to lose it a bit faster. And not that it's slower though. Like it's not like it's slower if you have less to lose. It's just because you have more, it seems like it's faster. I know, I know that's, that doesn't really answer your question. Is the last 10 pounds harder to lose or the last five pounds? In my experience, it is not. Now it could be situational change, right? It could be like, if your hormones are starting with depending what age you're at, or you've got some health issues going on, or you've got a lot of stress in your life. So this could be like it's situational if you're being challenged with situational change.

But from a physical perspective, your body doesn't want the fat gone any more than you do. It has been drilled into our heads that it gets harder as you go. That last five pounds is so hard. Last 10 pounds is so hard. But with the program, everything is al aligning your body is boosting your metabolism it's wanting you to function on the most optimal level it's repairing it's rebuilding it's healthier it's stronger it's better than ever i think it comes down to situational and sometimes it comes to you a lot of people just aren't as motivated to do all the things that they were doing when they had 50 pounds to lose and like you think about it you

probably feel great your confidence is level is up you probably look pretty good in your clothes maybe you're just like oh i'll have a little bit of this and then i'll hit it hard so we tend not to be as consistent or as diligent in doing the things that we need to do. And this is from working with clients who text me everything that they're eating, right? And they're like, why is it so hard? I'm like, well, okay, let's look at your journal this, like, let's look at your journal this past week versus your journal three months ago when you had a lot more weight to lose, right? And I would go through it. You had this little thing here. You didn't drink as much water yesterday. Like, you know, I'll point out all the things and throughout the week maybe they have like 11 things where they

didn't drink the water they stayed up late they you know added this in they added that in like all these little sort of extra things but when you go back to when you had more weight to lose you look at look at this like you were like you know and not that there's anything wrong and there's so much to learn by having those things but we tend not to be as diligent with the things that we need to do the closer we get to our goal this is why it is so important that you you have to know exactly what you're doing like this is where if you when you're done you have to know that you are done you can't go into maintenance and then get on the scale every day hoping that the scale is going to move you have to like it can be hard to lose five pounds. Like we have people who've done the

program, they've maybe lost seven pounds, which is still amazing. But like you have to work really hard in order to see that scale move. That's why people will say, well, if I do the program again for maintenance and solidifying my weights, aren't I going to lose more weight? I'm like, well, not unless you're trying to lose more weight. So that's either it, or it can be like situate, like your stress levels are higher. You need to like, you know, add an omega-3, bump up your, you know, fats. It could be seasonal change too. Like when you're not adapting, like this is more in the winter when people are still trying to eat salads and like fruits in the winter when those aren't appealing, then it can be hard. It can be harder because people pull back when they get to that last little bit. So they're not eating enough. And so this is why portions are always what they

feel like and not what they look like. Because at this point in the program, you may need more portion wise than less. When people think, oh, oh I gotta pull back even more and eat even less exercise even harder in order to get that last few pounds off so it could be a variety of different things it could be a variety of different things that's going on so I don't personally believe it like physically gets harder like when you're only 10 pounds away from your goal but for a lot of reasons it can seem like it's harder or slower or because sometimes we do fall back in that mindset and we're trying to fight it again and force it and fight it and like stress on it, right? There's Julia today. I hit 160 pounds down. My goodness. Okay. Let me see if I can find

that comment. And then I gotta get going. What time is it? Oh, I do. I'll get it going. Where was that comment? Um, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Right. Okay. Does that help? Does that help? Today I had 65 pound loss. Hi, Julia. Goal is another 35. Love how I feel the increased energy and feeling of wellbeing plan to enjoy the summer and stick to the program. We'll be back for the fall. Just want to say this program is amazing and life changing. Oh, I love that. I love it. Okay. So I'm going to be here all week tomorrow. Dr. Sean Rice. He is a world-renowned plastic surgeon. We're going to talk skin. We're going to talk about, is there creams we can put on our crepey skin or wrinkly skin? What can we do

about excess skin? I'm going to talk to him about, I'm going to talk fat melting machines. We're going to talk liposuction. We're going to talk about all of that. We're going to talk to him about um i'm going to talk fat melting machines we're going to talk liposuction we're going to talk about all of it we're going to talk um anything and everything when it comes to skin uh what's new what you can do so even if you're not interested in any of that it's still going to be a great conversation he's i just absolutely adore him he has mad respect for our members so i'm going to talk to him tomorrow um so not done in terms of conversations this week and of course our spill the tea with christine, who's been in maintenance. I think she's lost 70 pounds. She's been in maintenance for over a year. So what is that all about? What does that look like? What does that feel like? Odette's going to join us for the tweak this week on Wednesday. So far

from done around here, we're going to keep the conversation. Please reach out if you have dropped off and you are watching or listening to this and you are unsure about how to get back at it, please reach out. We're not going to ask you where you've been, what you've been doing. We are just so happy that you were here. If you are watching and listening and you've been showing up, take time, whether you celebrate publicly or not publicly, but in the group on our celebrate and inspire post. If you're looking to be inspired, go to that post or you celebrate quietly to yourself or in your journals. Take time for yourself today.

Be proud of the fact that you've been showing up regardless of what your journey has looked like. What else? What else? What else? I think that's it. Sign up for the Bridging the Gap group if you haven't done that yet. Manifest your weight loss goals. Get your ass signed up for our fall program.

I think that's it have an amazing day everyone i'll be back tonight uh 7 p.m we'll see you then bye