The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 85 - Winter 2026

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

In this episode, Gina cuts through the noise of quick-fix dieting and gets real about what actually creates lasting change, reminding listeners that weight loss isn’t about new tricks but about showing up consistently and long enough for things to click. She speaks to the impatience that holds so many people back, the power of routine as the foundation for real progress, and why repeating the process matters as both the body and mindset evolve. Gina also opens up a larger conversation around sustainability in the weight loss industry, highlighting the gap between short-term solutions and long-term success, while reinforcing that true change comes from building habits, trusting the process, and stepping fully into the identity of someone ready to maintain their results.This is a recording of the Day 85, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2026.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.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 for my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on ACAST, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon music. It right into this today.

Okay, you know what? People just don't have patience anymore. They don't. They don't have patience. It's like a lost art. They want things fast and quick. And nobody puts the kind of time and energy into something that you need to really be successful with it.

We just want quick fixes, especially when it comes to the diet industry. We've been taught us, right? You should be able to lose 20 pounds in three days. It's just not how it is. can absolutely change your life, change your circumstances. I teach this to my kids that find themselves in shit situations and I think it's the end of the world, right? And I'm just like, listen, follow through on a few steps. Make the phone calls, do the things. Next thing you know, your whole situation changes. And then they look back and they're like, oh, well, that wasn't

so hard. Time goes by. Time flies. That's why I love where we're at the end of the program, because if you've been showing up, chances are if you're here now and you're listening to this, because so many people are just not. That's the reality. You can look back and be like, oh, well, shit, that makes a lot of fucking sense, doesn't it? Like, it's not rocket science. You know, you go on Reddit or whatever, the naysayers of the problem. It's not, like, it's not anything new. No shit, fucking Sherlock. It's not anything new. Never was. It's about showing up for as long as you need. That's what's hard about weight loss. That's what's hard about weight loss. You don't need another diet. You need a system. You need a method.

Everyone's doing this, doing that. Next thing. This isn't working. that isn't working. Let me try this. Let me try that. You just have to keep doing the things you need to do. Routine is the foundation of change. It's about taking everything that you're doing under one umbrella, moving forward and doing it consistently and long enough to actually reach your goals. That's what it takes. That's why I'm excited this week because if you're here, chances are you've been showing up following along. Now listen, no disrespect. If you're just catching this today and you haven't been showing. up and you haven't been here. I'm just happy that you're hearing this. It is not too late for you. So reach out in the Facebook support group, ask for help, open up the app, use the AI. There is still time.

There is still time. We've got a few weeks between now and the start of our next live session. So the live sessions are really an opportunity just to help keep you motivated, follow the, you know, the, the, the method behind the liby method in terms of the tweaks and whatnot each week. Some people are like, why do I got to do that again? I mean, well, you don't, but it's super duper effective. And, you know, the program stays the same, but you change. You change physically. You change mentally. So each time you run yourself through the program downsizing a couple weeks is nothing, right, in terms of getting in tune to your body's actual portion sizes. You can lose your weight and reach your goal and still not be in tune to when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat, right? So each time you do the program, you're running

your body through it, but you're really bringing a different body physically and mentally to the table when you do. And each time is a different experience. So you can now, the way the program starts, you can sign up and start today with our Libby Method app. We've created a, like a get started guide in there for people who don't want to wait until the program starts. But there's a huge massive benefit to following our 91 day live sessions. Some of you are asking about the maintenance program. So the way you can sign up for that moving forward is with our new membership service. So you can, And just like instead of choosing the weight loss program, you choose the maintenance program. And the maintenance program is for people who are done losing their weight.

You are ready to help your body adjust to your new weight. You are ready to solidify your maintenance mindset. You might be like, what the fuck? What is that? What does that mean? You now have to own who you are and the changes that you've made in your life. And you now have to sustain those. And there's quite a bit to it.

Learning to trust is a big one, embracing who you are now. keeping all those changes going so that your body has time to adjust to your new weight and your mind has time to adjust your new weight because it's a whole thing. You know, I was just at the Canadian Obesity Conference. I load up your question. I'm going to try to get through as many as I can. You know, you might have noticed in my check-ins. I'm a little bit fiery because it's, you know, it's a little bit frustrating because basically

doctors have given up on your ability to actually make sustainable changes. So they have medications, which are a game changer. I am not slamming medications. As you guys know, I am all about them. But that's sort of like, okay, so now we have the answer. It's weight loss medications. Nobody has the answer for sustainability. Nobody has the answer for sustainability. Right. Someone went up to the people at, you know, one of the medications places and says, okay, this is great. But I hear what happens is, is that after I take it for a while, it stops working or I gain my way back. How do you address that? And they're like, well, we're going to hope that in that time, we can develop stronger, more effective drugs. I'm like, okay. There are people there that are talking about behavioral change, and we know it is super effective. But why aren't more people offering behavioral change programs?

Because there's no money in it. Right. So these conferences are great. People do research. They get grants. They research something. They present their research. Okay, great.

Doctors are being educated on, this is the big piece that I love, actually being educated on how. how to speak to people who are living in larger bodies. That's really important. How many people have gone to their health care provider? And they're just like, just lose weight, just lose weight. As we know, it's not just lose weight at the end of the day.

So that's one of the things that is happening. That is really great. But it's all really disconnected. And the people who are implementing like a well-rounded, you know, there's, we talk to a clinic from Montreal and they're like, okay, yeah, so we have someone who sees a doctor. they also see a dietitian and a psychologist and a kinesiologist and all these people. I'm like, wow, that's great. How many people do you service? They're like, well, we can service about 75 people a year. Oh, 75 people a year. So this is also the backlog, right? So it's great that now you know the benefit of

having a learning strategist, understanding that making changes about unlearning and relearning and learning new things, right? A psychologist that talk about how you're, how you were raised with food affects the that you're making today, how hard it is to keep going when you're dealing with grief, with circumstances in your life, right? A naturopathic doctor who specializes in hormones, deficiencies, supplements, all of these things. You know, a menopause doctor who talks about, okay, okay, let's talk about what happens when you're actually going through menopause, like all of this huge massive health care team, which is what you really need, that nobody has access to. And even if it is funded by, you know,

you know, here, our healthcare system, it's going to take you like two years to get on a wait list to speak to a psychologist unless you're paying out of pocket and you're paying out of pockets costing you a fortune. So really coming to really emphasize the benefit of everything that you are doing here and learning, yes, you could sit down with on one-on-one with a psychologist and go through your issues or you could be completely open in these conversations and being aware of the stuff that is popping up and being like, oh, okay, shit, I might actually have an issue with this. What am I struggling with? Let's name it to tame it. So my hope for you is at this point is you really look back and it may seem like, oh my God, what did I even do here? You have

done so much. That's what I want to say to you. You have done so much just by still being here at this point. Maybe you couldn't do all the things, but you did some of the things. We set the bar so high here. So I'm really excited, super jazzed about this week, about you, about your ability to move forward and reach your goals because you absolutely can. So those of you who are signing up for our next live session for weight loss, you want to make sure you do that. Head over to our website starts April 20th, or if you're on this subscription or membership is a new name for it.

You don't have to do anything. We'll send you out emails. We'll tell you everything that you need to know about that. So you don't actually have to do anything. Those of you who are ready for maintenance, you would sign up for the maintenance program. You just go to our website and you could do that. Or if you're already on the subscription service, you'll just have an opportunity to switch lanes and move into maintenance, which you'll have access to the app, the AI, all the information,

content, guest experts and all that. So maintenance is geared specifically to maintaining and sustaining your weight. So someone said, how do I know when I'm going to need maintenance? You will know because you'll be done. Actually, Kim sent me a, Kim sent me a comment here from one of our members, where is it? Which said, I keep messing up and staying a few pounds away from my goal. How do you know if you're ready for maintenance? Okay, to me, this is two different things. Two different things, whereas I keep messing up. I'm two pounds away, a few pounds away from my goal. So that's a totally different thing. So you can reach your goal. You are just making choices that are working at your sabotaging. It sounds like you're sabotaging or you, like you have to decide if you

actually want to, sometimes people will be like, oh, I guess this is my weight. No, I guess you just keep eating Cheetos and not drinking your water and not trying to lose your weight. I know that's a little harsh, but you know what I'm saying? I'm just telling you, don't bullshit yourself. If you have, if you can grab your fat, you have excess weight to lose, you want to lose more weight. There's no reason why you can't lose that weight. There's lots of reasons why it's hard, difficult while life is, you know, making it even harder for you. But don't kid yourself or try to talk yourself into, oh, I guess my body's happy here. Nah, if you have excess weight to lose, you, you're not. If you have excess weight to lose, you can still lose it. So that's where you want to get real and be like, I keep messing up.

What the fuck does that mean? Do you know what I mean? Like, how are you messing up? That's probably where you, that's the, to me, that's the work for you. Because even if you decide you're going to lose your weight, that issue, that's stopping you from following through, maybe you're nervous about your new weights. Like there's a lot of feels. Like sometimes people don't feel worthy. Sometimes people are worried about how other people are going to speak to them, think about them. Like, now that you've lost your weight, you said you were going to date. Oh, my God. Maybe you're not ready for that.

Now that you lost your weight, you said you were going to quit your job and start a business. Oh, my God. Maybe I'm not ready for that, right? Like, that's what we do. When I reached my goal, I'm going to this, this, this, this and this. You may not be ready for that. So there's a lot of reasons why people sabotage themselves after they lose their weights. because your weight has defined you your whole entire life. What else are you going to do? You're going to need to

pick up a new hobby now if weight loss has been your hobby for the last 20 years, right? So you really want to break that down because I guarantee you, you get into maintenance, you are going to still continue that behavior of messing up, which is probably more sabotage. You want to reach your goal. You are so close and yet I don't know what messing up means. I'm so glad that you share this because this happens to so many people. I don't know what messing up means, but I'm assuming, it means you're getting in your own way. You keep making choices that are stopping you from reaching your goal. Like that's, you wouldn't be thinking about, so here's what I know. You wouldn't be thinking like that if you were just done. Well, you would be like, you would be, you would be more like, oh,

I keep trying to reach this goal that I actually don't fucking care about. Like you would be like, why am I striving to, not like kind of resolving to, oh my God, I guess this is it for me. Or I keep messing up, so I must be done. No, you'd be like, you know what? Why? am I chasing the scale? Why am I still like, I'm happy? I feel great. I feel amazing. You know what I'm, like I'm good. Here's what I can tell you of all the people that I've talked about about how do you know when you reach your goal weight. It's never the number. It's always how you feel. Now, you could be struggling with this, but I don't think you'd be framing it as messing up. So I think there's something deeper there. Because if it really was the question of, and it's such a great question,

if it really was the question of how do you know you are ready for maintenance, that's a little different. You would say, hey, you know, I have a goal of 140, but here I am at 150. I feel really fantastic. I feel amazing. I feel like I'm, I'm ready for maintenance. Like, how do I really know? Well, you kind of just answered your own question, right? So what you don't want to go, what you don't want to do when I see people talking about this. And I think it's because you just don't want to keep working. A lot of times we feel like we are not worthy of continuing to focus on ourselves. So I'm going to try it on my own. I hear people say that all the time. I'm like, why? The program is like less than a dollar a day.

It's like you sign it for our membership. It's $20 a month. Why would you try it on your own? What is the benefit of that to prove what to you? And I've just talked to so many people. You know what they end up doing? They say, I'm going to try it on my own. And then they reach out over in social media every day and ask questions.

I'm like, listen, I love you. Why don't you sign up with a program? Well, I thought I could do it on my own. Well, you know, I appreciate that. But you can't then just reach out to us on social media and still ask questions. every day. That's not how we run the program, right? And, but deeper than that, because I say that's not about a money thing. It's because, well, I feel like I've been at this long enough, or I feel like I already got enough help. Or I feel like, you know, I shouldn't be spending my money. Meanwhile,

they've gone and bought, you know, 10 Starbucks lattes in a week, which would totally pay for their membership for a month, you know. And this is that, this is that sort of like, what do you really need? Where are you at? What do you really need? So what happens is, people think I've had enough of weight loss, I'm like five pounds away, 10 pounds away, I'm going to go into maintenance. Don't do that. The thing is, you get stuck in this place where you're not actually trying to lose weight. You're trying to maintain your weight, but you want to see the scale move every day. That happens a lot. Because people like, oh, I'm so frustrated. I'm like, how you frustrated? It's the first week of maintenance. Well, my scale's not moving down. I'm like, you're in the

maintenance program. Well, yes, but I'd still like, I just only have a few pounds to lose, so I really want to lose weight. You cannot do the maintenance program. and then not do the things that you need to do to lose weight, but then be upset that the scale isn't moving for you because you're in maintenance. There's this no-man zone that people get into, right? Like you have to be very intentional about losing weight. You have to be very intentional about maintaining your weight. You have to be very intentional about reaching any goal you want to reach in life.

You have to be absolutely intentional about it. I'm a big manifester. I'm a big, I'm believer in manifesting, but you can't sit there and not make the call when you think of it, not do the thing when you think of it, not make a plan for yourself to get to where you want to go. Now, that plan may not work out the way that you expect, but at least you have a plan. And so people will go into maintenance, expecting the scale to move, but not doing the things that they needed to do. So it to be very

intentional about your next choices. So this is why this week, this is like, what's your plan? That's why I keep saying last week, what's your plan for this week? What are you doing? And I already know how some people think, right? How can you best set yourself up for success? What do you need in that moment. All right, let me get to your questions. I'm going to visit my old office this week for the first time since I retired last September just to say hello and catch up with coworkers. None of them have seen me since they started losing last fall. Curious to see their responses, treating myself to a couple new tops this week to show up as the new person I am today. Still a journey ahead, but I'm definitely not the exhausted stress person that retired last fall. Oh, this is a whole vibe.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This celebrate this. I am definitely not the person. You know that, you see that meme? Like, what were you like in the 90s? A hot fucking mess. A hot fucking mess. I didn't know who I was, what I was doing. I am constantly on a mission to reinvent myself, to learn, to grow, to evolve, to live my best life. I feel like my best years in life are ahead of me. I'm living my best life today because I woke up, of course. This is a whole vibe. You are not only allowed to change, you are meant to change. Now, do not judge what you have done based on other people's response to that, right? Like, you might piss people off.

Be like, oh, look at her. You know, because they're just unhappy in their own lives. And then you're going to get some people like, wow, look at you. You look amazing. Right? Those who knew you loved you, your personality will be so happy, so happy to see you. I love this for you. I love this.

This is like, you know, same thing, whether it's walking into your doctor's office, knowing that you've made all of this change. Now you're getting your blood work. you get your blood results back and boom. Oh my goodness. Look at you. Right. Maybe you didn't lose as much as you like, but you were able to go for pre-diabetic into the normal range. Drop your A1C. Right. Get off your blood pressure medication. Lower your thyroid medication. Like that's, and that's what that Celebrated Inspire Post today is all about. It's an opportunity for you. I hope every single person here goes to that post. And even if it's just like, I am so proud of myself, post it. That's what it's there for.

It's for you to say out loud, look what I've done. I'm happy that I'm here. You lost five pounds. Great. 150 pounds. Great. One is not better than the other. Right? It's all just the fact that you have done something. Really incredible. You took time. You prioritized yourself. You followed through. Right? You're going to finish. That's why I love the concept of the 91 days, although I could make it a lot easier for myself if I just chose a different method. But the 91 days is able to take chunks of your time and be like, I started. I followed through. I finish. That was this chunk of my life. And now I get to take that, move it to the side and start the next 91 days. Okay, like where am I at now? What is this new season, new season of actual seasons, spring, summer, new season of life, right? New season, this program for me. What is this going to bring to me? Right. That's what you can do is like get yourself into the right mindset and be like, okay, what worked really well for me, this program? What not so much? What did I do? You? What did I do? that I want to keep doing? What didn't I do that I maybe want to add in? Maybe you didn't journal as much as you hate journaling. It can be really effective. Maybe you didn't use the app, right? Like,

start using the app. Maybe you didn't like participate in the community. Start participate in the community. And then feel that with your body and be like, okay, what can I do now that's going to best serve me to help me reach my goals? And your weight loss goals can intertwine with your life goals as well, right? The changes that you actually want to make, whether that's your job, your friend group, you want to go find new friends, you got to be intentional. So what are the places you're going to go to meet people that you would like to attract in your life? This is kind of like, you know, when you date, you know, when you date and you keep attracting the same, this happened to me after my last, I got a divorce and then I went out there and dated. You know, I was just lonely, so I went out there

and dated quick. It's probably the only time I had regrets in my life, but probably not, because I learned a lot about myself and this is why I'm like with Tony and he's amazing because I needed time to work on myself and so actually when I met Tony I was like I'm done I'm not like I'm not dating anymore because I just am not doing that um and then of course he came along but he came along because I made some choices in my life to really change who I am and how I do things and what I expect and my self-worth and whatnot and you know you have friends they keep dating the same guys over and over it, or girls, whatever, whatever you're dating, the same type of person. You keep attracting, like attracts like, you keep attracting the same person and you're like, you have to

be, now that person can be a great messenger for you. Like my ex-husband, gosh, I learned so much from him. He's like, don't kill the messenger. I'm like, I'm going to kill you, buddy. Don't kill the messenger. I learned a lot from him. It's a very tumultuous time in my life. I was like, it was a lot of lessons real quick. But then I was like, you know what? I don't need to keep repeating those lessons. I just need to make different choices. And then once you realize that, you actually start changing who you are. But it started with me and had nothing to do with that person. So when you are like, okay, I need to like make some changes in my life. This, the way I'm living my life is not working for me. The choices I am making is not working for me. You keep

repeating a behavior that you know is not working for you. Like drinking wine. Right? Like drinking wine. Again, I went out on the other night, a couple of girlfriends. I was, was feeling really great. You guys know I was sick last week. I was feeling really great, doing all the things, moving my body, back to feeling my best. I went out, of course, everyone ordered a drink. And I was like, all right, I guess I'll have like an old fashion. And then I woke up the next day. I'm like, why did I do that? I feel like garbage. So I'm like, no, I'm done. I'm just so done with that, right? No, I might, you know, have a few drinks here, there. But really, like, and every time has been like, this is not, this is not what's working for me in my life anymore, right? Eating at night,

You know, okay, you want to eat at night, snack on that popcorn, you know, whatever it is. Then you just feel like garbage. At some point, we have to be like, okay, it's just not working for me anymore. So everything you did before got you to where you were before you started the program. And now it's a matter of normalizing the new way of living your life and then having that new way become who you are. Become who you are. I feel like several chapters are closing and a new one is beginning. Very optimistic.

Yes. and that's how it should be. And then when you see that, the butterfly said to the the worm, caterpillar, the worm, the catapillar, or the caterpillar says to the butterfly, you've changed and the butterfly says, yes,

we're supposed to. Like, we're supposed to, we're so resistant to change. We're so resistant because we, we're very resistant to change. So rather than changing who we are in our lives and our environment and our circumstances and our friend group and all of that,

we just choose these really, quick dopamine hits that give us hits of like dopamine and like, okay, I'm happy. I'm okay, but in our quietest moments, we're fucking miserable. You know, we're miserable. I feel like several chapters are closing and a new one is beginning. Yes. Yes. Love that. I have to stop being social. Who's saying this? Three birthdays this week, three restaurant visits, lots of salt, but I know that's temporary setback. We'll stay on the program in between parties, blessed to have friends to celebrate them. We are all in our late 60s and earlys. Like, so this is like, why? can't you do both, right? Why can't you be like, this is a season of my life where people are

celebrating. It's joyful. It's amazing. When I go out, right? I can maybe have a piece of cake, take a bite. I can maybe order food that's more in line with me reaching my goals. Because you don't want to stop being social. Like that's amazing. Also, okay, so you're out being social. So maybe it takes you little longer to reach your goals. So what? You are living your life while also doing all of these things to not just help you lose weight, but to help you be healthier and happier. Right? Like I heard something and today I got to go back and watch it. Some stat about carrying excess fat like doubles your mortality rate. Oh my God. Right. This is so much more than just losing weight. This is about longevity. Like this is about staying alive. Staying alive and being healthy. Like that's like yeah,

of course we want to lose weight and we want to feel comfortable in our body's but so much bigger than that and being social that being social is a huge part of that that's like a big part of that is our happiness and joyfulness and ability to get you know good sleep and be motivated by life has to do with being social so that's you don't have to stop being social what can you do while you are being social that can have your choices fall a little bit more in line with your goals hi net so i'm just going to get a sip of my uh coffee this session has been but definitely not giving up. Let me just say this season, this season of your life has been difficult but not giving up. Yes, I'm in that pattern of self-sabotage. Ooh. Okay. This is good. This is huge.

This is like this is the work. Okay. This is the work. I have done some work with a woman who does somatic experiencing. It helps you change old patterns. Yes. Well, that makes sense. So if you're doing that work while doing this program, guess what? You are saying to the world, Okay. This is what I'm working on. Give it to me. Give me what you got to challenge me so I can work on, work through this. Get to the other side of it. We'll see here tomorrow again to work on that pattern. Looking forward to starting fresh next session. So this is the work, right? The road to Disneyland to reaching. It's like, it's like this. Some people, okay, want to get in the car. They want to go to Disneyland. Okay, great. So they just drive straight there. Not like the A type people, right? people. I was going to write to Disneyland. Great. Other people will have detours, roadblocks, flat tires, get in a car accident, things beyond your control, for example, right? You don't go back home and then start again. You're just like, okay, it's taking me a little bit longer. Then there are people who, like Maggie, will choose to be like, hey, you know what? On the road to Disneyland, we have friends, we have family.

there are, you know, some great sightseeing opportunities. Why do we make this part of the journey, right? So they will intentionally choose to go visit friends and family and, you know, enjoy good food and sightsee and whatever. And then when they're ready, they get back on the road and then they continue their journey. They don't go back home and then start again, right? And so everyone's journey looks a little different. It's all about, you know, just what works best for you.

the A type people who were able to follow the guidelines, lose their weight, reach their goal and move on, I can tell you in maintenance, they have a much harder time. They have a much harder time because this is where those thoughts and feels and struggles, self-sabotage were like that. That's a whole other cup of tea because the goal is not to follow a plan for the rest of your life. It's to learn how to be in tune and trust when do eat, what to eat, how much do you? And that's what this week allows you to kind of get a sense about. This week allows you to be like, okay, I don't have to eat right now. How do I feel? Am I actually hungry? Not in my head in my body. Right. Okay. I have a pattern of going long, going all day long without eating. So is it really that I'm not hungry or is it that I'm not checking in on myself?

Right. This is where you have an opportunity, still digging into those portions, still helping the body focus on fat loss to be like, okay, let's say if we took those guardrails off, would I be able to trust myself, right? that's what this is about. So, so this session has been really effective for you because you will fall back into this pattern if you don't recognize the pattern. You will fall back into it. That's why people gain their weight back and we know this, right? People gain their weight back is one, they don't give their body time to adjust to their new weight. You've got to give your body time. And this is, so this is one of the things I talked about at the Canadian Obesity Conference. They're talking about

set points. So every time you went on a diet, you starve and deprive yourself. right your body learned to store fat so it stores more fat plus tanks your metabolism because it's like holy shit we got to keep this girl alive and she keeps starving starving all right your body doesn't know I'm on a diet trying to fit my ass into the genes all it knows is you're starving it right you're you're not getting it and and when we used to starve ourselves back in the day we weren't getting protein we weren't getting healthy fats we did like no fat low fat diets I saw weight watchers the other day fucking wait watchers I was like what year is this fucking year is this are you shitting me right now. Sorry, you know I'm not usually into bashing weight watchers, but I got her like,

they just can't get it fucking right. They can't get it right. Us in 1999, right? So they have like some cottage cheese with some fruit. They have a points tracker and a girl in spandex, I guess is supposed to be an aerobics person, which I don't know what was wrong with aerobics back in the day because we used to do stretching. We used to do like, you know, resistance training with our aerobics. Why is everyone bashing fucking aerobics back in the day? And now us in 2026, they have a good culture, low-fat classic cottage cheese. I was like, are you fucking shitting me right now? Your low-fat cottage cheese?

The fuck is wrong with you. And then their app, of course. And now it's like, oh, do it with a friend. We're still in spandex, so I don't know what has changed. I almost was like, oh, we're still eating low-fat yogurt back in the day. Okay, all right. Get out of the fucking 80s. Seriously, I digress.

What am I talking about? Obsting Obesity conference. Oh my God. So talking about set point. And I'm like, okay, so if set point goes up, set point can come down. Oh, yeah.

But it's hard. It's not that hard. There's just no money in helping people do that. Like, it's just like that's what the behavior thing is about, right? You allow your body and your hormones to adjust. Like this is like, this is, it's just, It's all money. Y'all, it's all money.

No, listen, don't get me wrong. I obviously am in a business owner. I'm an entrepreneur. I have four really expensive children that hopefully one day are going to be able to pay their own bills. But right now they can't, as we put them through school.

It's all about money. It's like they can't figure out how to, so you absolutely can't change your set point. So physically you've got to put your time into helping your body adjust your weight. Mentally, if you've been trying to lose weight for 20 years, you have a weight loss mindset. So now you have to figure out what your new maintenance mindset is. Right. So when situational

change happens, like something comes out of the blue, you're able to maintain your weight, then something happens. Something rocks your life. And then you go back into old coping mechanisms, because that's safe. That's what feels like safe. That's what you know. That's whatever. So it's not to not go back there. It's just this is where back on track comes in. It's to not not go back there. It's to not stay there too long. Listen, shit happens in my life, I go back to my pity party, you know, combo, which is sour cream and onion, now sour cream and bacon, the worst, chips that I absolutely love and drinking a bottle of wine. Yeah, something, situation change happens to me. I might do that. I might do it for a night. I might do it for two nights, but I will not

continue it for weeks and months and whatever. That's where I'm mad in my life, right? Well, I get to a point one day where maybe I don't. I do get there close. I'm like, oh, God, I wish I could, I'd so drink a all the wine right now. There are times I have done that for sure. But on the scale of like trauma and chaos in my life, it hasn't been the most like, you know, that may be on a scale of like seven. You're talking like trauma scale on eight, nine.

I'm for sure going for the wine and the chip. So, but I'm not going to stay there for too long because I'm going to realize I feel like shit. This is not helping myself. I'm going to get back on track. Right? The other thing is not being mindful.

It's just you have to be aware of your situation, your choices, understand yourself and who you are. and that's what you're doing, right? So, so I love this. Back to you, Annette, I love this. I'm sorry that this has been difficult, but I also truly believe this, the universe is your friend. You are being guided. You are being supported. And this was this, this season of your life was about this realization for you, which I think you will reflect back and be like, that was that moment where I turned the page and I was like, I decided, okay, you know, whatever that, whatever that, whatever

it is that's happening with you. So I love that. I love that. I love that. I turned 70 last week. Happy birthday. Just got back from a weekend in Tofino. Oh, I want to go there. I'm a surfer girl. I would love to go to Tafino. Scale is up. Totally worth it. Plan on finishing the program strong. That's the goal. Finish stronger than you started. Finish stronger than you started. Right? Like look at the amount of knowledge you amassed. Finish stronger than you started. I was going to wait until next round to be more consistent with water and everything. But why am I waiting? Yes, today I will fill my water bottle and do one exercise and eat my snack. This is amazing because we just want to break sometimes. We just want to break from our mind, from doing, from thinking. So this is all about this becoming

automatic. Water will, listen, I still am challenged with water. It will always be work. It will always be work. It always be work. I'm still challenged. Sometimes we do need a break. So this is where You might need, I just need to break right on to think about anything. That's okay. You don't need a three-week break. You know, you don't need to, probably because we just like want that break so badly. Sometimes you need to take it. Take a day or two off doing the program, like off thinking about things. It doesn't mean you also have to eat the whole entire world and sabotage yourself either. You could just be like, let me just take a break from this. Like just a break from life from everything, from thinking about whatever it is. And then get back on it. get back at it. But I hear you. I feel that. That's the hard part. Figuring out if I'm hungry in my

head or hungry in my belly, I will really try to figure it out that week. The fact that you realize that, so immediately you go into your head, your brain is like, yes, yum, fine, eat, hungry, la la la. And depending what time of day it is, if it's at night, you're never hungry at night. You're never hungry after dinner. It's never hunger, hunger, hunger. If you are really hungry, and you've eaten all day, chances are your weight is about to drop. So we don't want to forget about that because that's so many people forget and then they sabotage. Oh, someone was asking me. Someone was asking me. I had a question here. Someone, okay, no, I'll get that next time. So yeah, so it's in your belly. Press it down into your belly and your body. Feel it in your body.

Am I actually hungry? Need to eat. The second step of that could be like, it's like I'm sitting down here right now. I have my coffee. I don't want to, I don't want to like go into my belly and ask my belly if I'm hungry because I don't know why. I just don't feel like it. I don't want to eat but ask my body. Okay, immediately I was like cottage cheese. Okay, fine. I could have some cottage cheese. Like that was my yogurt. I don't like yogurt. Me. Uh, cottage cheese. Cause yogurt, I think I have when it's like vanilla flavored. I don't want something sweet. I want, um, cottage cheese. Like, that just took two seconds. I was so resistant to that for whatever my fucking reason is. Um, maybe I don't know what it is because I just want to have my coffee, I think probably just sit quiet

and not think about eating is one more thing I need to do. But so I, my head was like, no, I'm not hungry. My body is like, I went through yogurt immediately. I was like, nope, but cottage cheese. Cottage cheese. Yes. Egg. I don't only feel like, do I don't feel like cooking an egg or eating an egg? No, I don't feel like eating an egg for whatever reason. So cottage cheese is something I could have in there. Do I want some fruit? I do, but I'm a little bit cold right now. So maybe I just don't want fruit because I'm cold. So that's sort of like your brain. So your next level would be, okay, let me think about what I could eat right now. So is it? Is it like an egg, cottage cheese, leftovers, like fruits, whatever time of day it is, obviously

pooling from the food choices that you have. And is that appealing? So then you can start saying things and you'll get to be like, oh, yeah, oh, actually. Oh, yeah, I could actually have that. So that's that next layer. And we know this. Science has proven. Research has proven that when we bring up things in our mind, it's the same as bringing

them up in front of our faces. You don't have to see the food in front of you to know how you're going to feel if you we eat it, right? Like we don't have to run the race to know how we're going to feel during the race after the race. So we have this ability in us. So that's where I would take that to the next level. Started this program number two for me so motivated, but the roller coaster of life right now has been such a struggle. I shifted to giving myself grace and being here to the finish line, not as much as showing up on the scale, but grateful for having this community and support that sustained me. I'm back again for April start. This is why I changed it to a membership. Like, I want to be your, I want to be your

weight loss partner, your wellness partner, your maintenance partner, your lifestyle. I want a place where you can focus on you, specifically and the goals that you have in life to live truly your best life, to design the life that you want to live, a space to make change, a space to grow, space to learn. And that's why I love the idea of the membership. As you know, I've been struggling with, what am I even doing? How am I even helping people? So, you know, we know we have a weight loss program that helps people far before weight loss medications ever came on the market. Do you know what I mean? The living method was a solid weight loss program. People lose a clinical amount of weight while following the living method. No downside. It's healthy. It's amazing. Right. So that's

great. And it works really well with GLP1. Woo. One of the things. So if you're taking a GLP1, this was really interesting. So what, what? So someone, a friend of mine who's taking GLP1 said, okay, but the minute I change my dose or go off, my food noise comes back and I go back into a gaining weight. I'm like, okay, are you doing anything to address your brain? how your brain is wired and changing your habits. And she's like, no, I'm just eating exactly how we ate before. I'm just eating less. I'm like, okay, well, that's the problem. Because what you want to do, if you're taking those weight loss medications, they help with food noise, they help with appetite, but you have to change your behavior. So you still have to give your body what it needs. So you have

to follow the program and eat the food so you're getting the proteins of the fat, the healthy greens, all of that. This is so this prevents you from losing that muscle mass. This prevents you from losing that muscle mass. Plus you have to recognize the times when you're eating because you're not hungry. Like you're eating because you're stressed. You're eating because you're coping. You're eating because your habit. So you have to recognize those. I don't know why my video keeps being a jerk, but you have to recognize that. So Ruth was working with one of our members who was taking GLP ones and then she came off or reduced the dose. She realized, oh, this is the food noise. Oh, I know how to capture cancel correct.

Oh, okay. I gain weight back, not because I'm eating more because I go back to old ways of eating. So it's really interesting. It's really interesting. It's all about changing that behavior. So this is a place to kind of just, you know, recognize and work on your shit. Work through how you were raised in your past, right? Work through your issues and associations. Work on your beliefs. Address your traumas, you know, and make the changes to keep moving forward. and that's why that's why I love the membership because that's what this is exactly it barb right this is like there's a lot you can do here just doing and this is i have not talked about this a lot usually in the beginning of the program for new members there's a difference between need to know and nice to know and everyone is different there's a lot of conversations that we have not all of them are revel you don't have to watch every live listen to every guest expert as far as i'm concerned if you just listen to one guest experts that's worth your $20 for the month That's it. Just did that. If you didn't follow the program, that's worth it. You know,

if you learned one thing about yourself, that's worth your 20 bucks for the month membership, you know? So I love that perspective. We are so hard on ourselves to do so much when just doing what we do. I'm so close to my goal. I thought I'd get there this run. It hasn't happened. I started going to the gym and taking creatine. And then this morning I had an aha moment. This scale has probably not gone down because of this. your weight can go up a little bit as soon as you start creatine. It just causes your body to retain a little bit more water. If your muscles are sore and inflamed, your weight can also be down. You can actually be sitting at your goal weight.

It's just that your muscles are inflamed. So this is a huge benefit to you. Working out massive win. Forget the goal weight, right? Adding in the creatine, great for your muscles, your body, even your brain studies are finding. This is a huge benefit. This is a massive win.

to me, this is a win that is way bigger than those few pounds on the scale, which you are probably already sitting at. It's just not reflecting on the scale. So good for you. Not an easy mindset to get over, right? Not an easy mindset to get over. But good for you. Good for you. I have finally grasped this is a cyclical 91 day method, not a 91 day fix. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's structured in a way that there are a lot of benefits to it. Right. But you keep following until you reach your goal. other diets think about it you're just eating less exercising more you're trying this you're trying that you're just it's chaotic but because you're able to break down the 91 day time frame that's digestible that's where you can be like oh oh this this season of my life this chunk of time this 91 days

as opposed to the whole year being a blur right as a whole year like this is why we're able to have members come on and talk about their journey oh this this this session I did this session this is what's happening in this. Oh, my someone passed away. Oh, this session, this happened to me. This session, this is like, whether it was taking a whole year of your life and be like, what the fuck happened there, right? I think that when I tried it in 2023, I came at it as a one and done. Yeah, it was a hard concept for people to grasp, really. And then the takeaway was like, well, if it works so well, why do you have to keep doing it? Which I always thought was really strange. It's because it was such a contrast to what everybody else was offering. Other diets, like, you have to sign up for a year.

And I just didn't want to do that. I was so resistant to the subscription model and the same, this is why I made modifications. So this is not that because I was like, not everyone needs a year. Not everyone only needs three months, right? So here I was just trying to be ethical. And I think a lot of people had a hard time. The session goal became my focus and not my end goal, my mental and emotional health is even better than my physical. Oh, that's a math. That's everything. That's everything. I'm excited about this spring session, but not because it's starting again. It's continuing my journey me. Ah, you need t-shirts. We need jurn me. We need t-shirts for that. I am actually excited about seeing the scale on day 91 and just being calm about it. And this is it. Life is just one big continuation.

There are so many setbacks, but the setback is the set-up. There are so much. many, you know, roadblocks. Are they roadblocks or are they redirects in life? You know, you just got to keep going. This is why I said, no one has the patience anymore. No one has the patience. Everybody wants things fast. And it's about being, it's not about being patient in the sense of doing nothing, but it's about committing and following through. Not on the 91 day session necessarily, but on you, on your journey. My journey. Thank you, Gina for repeating things so that I got it, not just saying thing once. I need the repetition. A lot of times the repetition is because that's how we learn. It is how we learn. A lot of people are like,

you keep saying the same thing. I'm like, yes, because that is how we learn. I had a guru once who my guru, that's what I call it, my mentor guy who I learned so much energy work, who I learned I'm a, like, Riki energy work and how to recognize, how to be self-aware and recognize issues and associations. And he's like, my goodness, Gina, you just like to get pounded like over the head with that two by four over and over and over again. Like things happen to me. I'm like, oh, yeah, oh, wow. Then it happens again. And well, yeah, but maybe that it happens again before I finally, I'm like, why don't I learn? Because I just, it takes me a while. But then once I do, I got it. I got it. When you get it, you get it. You're like, okay. And you got it. That's a great way to end today.

I'm super jazz for you. I hope you're excited. If you've got questions about next steps, make sure you reach out. We're going to make sure you're feeling common next steps. If you want to know more about our membership, but that's going to join me, I think, Wednesday or Thursday. We're going to talk about the maintenance program. It's very similar to the weight loss program,

but all geared towards maintenance. There is an app now for that or will be to go along with our support group. Yeah, please share with your friends and family the program. We're not doing any big marketing campaigns. we're just asking you directly if you know anyone who was interested in the program, weight loss, maintenance, lifestyle, guest experts, whatever it is. Please share. Sharing is caring. We appreciate you. Have a great rest of your day. I'm going to be back tonight. Tomorrow, the BOD squad is going to join. The ladies are going to join me. Dr. Olinka, Dr. Beverly, Dr. Dina Kara. We're going to talk about

being here, being here and what that means in the fields that come along with it. Okay, have a great rest of your day, everyone. I'll see you later. Bye.