The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 88 - Fall 2024

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2024 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 88, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2024Topics covered:Our conversations about maintenance are for everyone, even if you’re not ready for maintenance.Tips for the break between groupsHow to manage seasonal change and shorter days.The new Better Together promoTips for using SAD lights.How do you know when you’ve reached your goal?Tips for supporting yourself when you’re sick.Set a goal that resonates with you.We have amazing guest experts.We will be having conversations about weight loss medications.Tips for getting the scale moving.Make choices that make you happy – learn who you are NOW.Please take the time to fill out our survey – we appreciate your feedback.Managing your time while following The Program. You are worthy of all the effort you are putting inTips for managing The Program while travelling – don’t stress!Still being here at the end of The Program is a huge victory.Words matter – use words that bring you joy.You are perfect, just as you are.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams from my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on Acast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple,

and Amazon Music. 88 of the program. It's also a Thursday. We are starting to wind things down around here. I'm going to say it. I don't like saying it, but I'm going to say it. We're starting to wind things down, but we're not sad. I used to get so sad at the end of each program. And then one day someone said to me, why are you sad? People are either coming back again in our next program or they're moving on because they've reached their goals. So the thing though, that stresses me out a little bit is I want everyone feeling calm and confident about next step. So please, please, please, please, please make sure you reach out as many times as

you need to feel confident in next steps, regardless of whether you're coming back or you're ready for maintenance. We did talk about the maintenance program in the tweak this week yesterday. So Odette, who is our manager of the maintenance program, stopped by, joined us for that conversation. We had an amazing conversation with Terry Paisley, who's been in maintenance herself. Join us for our Real People, Real Journey conversation on Tuesday. Even if you are not ready for maintenance, I highly, highly, highly suggest that you watch or listen to that conversation. She is the epitome of where I want everyone to be. She's in that calm, confident stage she's been maintaining for over a year. It's just to hear her speak is everything. It's what I want for everyone to get to that

place where you just are ready to move on. Wake up, look good, hopefully feel good. Hopefully, although you might have your days and just go about your day making choices that make you feel good. Trusting your body is going to tell you when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, taking everything that you've learned throughout this process with you and being mindful. You know what your body needs. You know how your body is going to respond to foods that you don't need, but you want to have, and there's nothing wrong with that. I indulge all the time. I just know that when I'm feeling like I'm a little out of control and just don't feel great, maybe I'm not drinking my water, so I'm drinking extra coffee or I'm into the sugary bites of bits or whatever that is.

And it starts to affect me. I don't feel well. I'm like, okay, Gina, time to get back, get back on track. And then I implement back on track for a few days and then I'm back to feeling my best again. I want you to feel confident if you have signed up for the next program in terms of in-between groups. So bridging the gap, ideally personalizing the plan until the next program starts, whether you're in the weight loss program or the maintenance program, you want to personalize

the plan until that starts. And make a plan. What is your plan? Are you going to be continuing throughout the holidays and maximizing every day and doing all the things to see that scale move? Because you want to get on that scale and expect it to move? Or are you just going to kind of maintain and sustain, which is more than good enough, which is great, actually, because you have an opportunity to see what it looks like and feels like to maintain your weight throughout the holidays. That in itself is huge. Or you're just going to eat all the things, not give a fuck, and then just deal with it in the January. I'm into that too. There is no right way or wrong way to navigate. Just want to make sure you are super clear. We are almost at the finish line. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. I, we are. Yes, we are. I've had two days of struggles. The gray days have really, really pulled me down. Today is a new day. Okay. So we had a conversation with Kyle Buchanan over in our maintenance group not too long ago. That conversation is actually available by way of podcast, I believe, perhaps over on the way in with Gina podcast. And he talked about seasonal affective disorder when you just, just not getting the sign and you just kind of feeling kind of blue, which tends to

hit us January, February. I also talked about, um, the, the lights, the, the sad lights that you can get the artificial lighting. So there are lights that you can buy on Amazon and other places, I'm sure. And it, um, you turn them on for a few minutes to hours in the morning and just kind of similar to going outside in the morning and getting that sunlight in your eyes, except for a lot of us, when you wake up and you go to work, it's dark. And when you come home, it's dark and you're not really getting a lot of that, that light. I also do want to remind you of this time. Our bodies are meant to kind of go into slower mode, hibernation-y mode. It's why it's good to

have some comforting foods by way of fatty meats, soups, stews, chilies, those types of things. Maybe slow it down a little bit, change your workouts a little bit. Um, also want to remind you of vitamin D dropping. When you're not getting that sun, you're not getting the vitamin D. Low vitamin D can have you feeling low energy. It can affect your mood as well. So you want to make sure you're keeping up with, uh, your vitamin D, especially in the winter, especially in the winter. But yeah, I mean, it's a shift, right? It's a shift into a season a lot of people feel a little depressed about. Holidays can give you all the feels. Yesterday, great conversation with Sandra Elia and Sandy Van. Just a fun, casual conversation about some of the things that happen over the holidays and the stress

that you can feel. A lot of people have some things that they're triggered by. And a lot of people have some, some traumas that they have that are brought up throughout the holiday season. And for a variety of reasons, whether it's financially, or, you know, a family family or losing someone you care about, the holidays can be pretty intense and can bring up a lot of feels. And so if you're looking for tips to navigate that, we had a great conversation there yesterday too. Popping in to say hi.

Hi, Christy Boyd to all the lovelies from the airport shuttle on my way home from paradise to the winter wonderland. Happy Thursday. Let's talk about telling your friends and family about the program. So the team has come up with a new promo called better together. When you sign up for two or more people on the same credit card, you can actually save. So as our prices are going up, especially in January, are looking for ways to provide promos for you guys, which I think is really fun. So the program price is $75 right now. It goes up in January to 99. So tell your friends, tell your family. And if you want to take advantage of this Better Together deal,

which is super fun, head over to our website and find more details about that. Sadlights have helped our family. We have one in the bathroom getting ready in the morning and one in our kitchen during breakfast. Oh, what a great, what a great tip. Cause I thought, okay, I want to get one of these sad lights, but what am I going to do? Where am I going to sit in front of it? I was thinking I could put it on as an extra light when I talked to everyone in the morning, but I love that idea in the bathroom. Love that. Best therapy lights from Northern Lights, a Canadian company. Mine is great. Okay, here's me writing that down. I should be able to remember that. Northern Lights. I'm going to take a look at that. I use my happy light daily. I also try to walk outside if it's not icy. I know I have

to work at it to keep my mood up. Yeah, we have to work at it to keep our moods up. So yesterday, um, last night, um, I got a lot going on again in my life. It just is nonstop. If I don't laugh, I'm going to cry. Um, and so last night I said to Tony, okay, so I'm going to go drink a bottle of wine and go to bed, or I'm going to go and walk on the treadmill. I actually ended up talking to a good friend, uh, till pretty late till nine o'clock at night. It was unexpected. It was so nice to chat with her. And so that was good for my soul. And then I went on the treadmill after. So there I was on the treadmill, um, last night, Tony was great. He's like, Oh, I'll come down. And, um, he's got a little putting thing. So he's like, I'll come down and putt. And so I walked on the treadmill for like 40 minutes last night. It was not fun. I'm going to just be honest. Um, but

after I felt so much better that I did, cause I probably would have lied in bed and ate some chips or maybe not open the wine, but I would have, you know, um, stressed. And then, uh, yeah, I was feeling pretty good about this morning. I was like, okay, I'm glad I did that. I don't know that I'm feeling in a better mood, but I am glad I did that. I am glad I did that. How do we know what my goal weight should be? Is there a math formula or, or is the plateau that lasts forever? It's definitely not the plateau that lasts forever? It's definitely not the plateau that lasts forever. We actually talked about this. I asked the ladies, um, what is the number one, um, like how do people know that they have reached their goal? So I've heard of, I've heard from a variety of people. What I can tell you is you'll know when you get there,

it is not about a plateau because you can always break a plateau. If you have clearly have fat to lose, it's not about the plateau as much as we sometimes try to convince ourselves that that's all, this must be where my body's happy. Your body is not happy carrying any fat. Like it carries enough fat with you being lean without, but if you can grab fat, see your fat, you got fat, you can lose that fat. There's no, there's no reason why you can't. Um, it's just a matter of continuing to work at it as long as you need until that's gone. Um, it's really about a feeling I've worked with clients who are like, okay, I want to, uh, I want to weigh 140. And then when they get to

160, they're like, I feel good. You know what? I actually feel really great. I'm really happy at this weight. I think I'm just want to work now on maintaining and sustaining my weight. And then that's why solidifying your weight with the, with the maintenance program is like putting yourself on a self-induced plateau where you're no longer trying to lose weight and you're really just allowing your body to adjust to that weight. I've also had clients who've been like, I want to be 140. They hit 140 and they're like, you know what? I think I want to go for 10 more. I want to try to be 130. I've had clients who just am like, I feel like I'm done. It's just a feeling. I feel like I'm done for whatever reason. And then they go into maintenance and then they're in maintenance for months and months and months and months. And they decide, you know what? I think I like, although I'm happy where I'm at, I think I'm going to go for more. I'm going to go for more. So it's not really about anything

other than a feeling. You will just know when you are ready. I can also tell you people tend to just chase the scale or chase a number that they think they should be at. And then they realize, what am I doing? I was trying to strive for a number and I don't know why. I was very happy with where I'm very happy with where I am. And yet I'm, you know, waking up every day wanting, you know, just upset because I haven't seen that number. You're the only person who knows the number on the scale. So it really doesn't matter what the number is. We did talk about in the beginning of the program, we do have a post on goal weight, if you want to search that up in the app or use the search icon in the group and search up, let's talk goal weight. And so when I work with clients, what I will say is, what is the least amount of weight that you weighed after the age of 21 that you were able to easily maintain. And that is a realistic, that can be a realistic goal for you. Now, if you have always had a weight issue, then that doesn't mean that you can't go lower than you ever have been

at that age either. Right? So just, it really depends on your history, your weight history. But but there your body is not wanting to hold on to a bunch of excess fat. It goes back to our very first Science Saturday post where we talk about set point. And I do not talk about this at all, really, in the weight loss program, because I figure it is what it is. But carrying excess fat is straight up not healthy for you. Can you be healthy with extra weight on you? Yes. But just simply carrying excess fat causes inflammation.

It causes a lot of issues in your body. We've listed all of them or quite a few of them in that science Saturday post if you want to go back to the first one. And so your body stores fat out of need because you've taught it that it needs it, not because, you know, it wants it at the end of the day. So goal weight, that's what I would say your goal weight is, is you can choose a number as like a goal and then just decide, take it day by day, a group by group and decide when you feel like you're done. And then you want to go through the maintenance program. The maintenance program is a 91 day program designed to help you solidify your weight. Also, just because you're done losing your weight doesn't mean that you won't still lose

a few more pounds in that. But there's a difference. It's all about intention. There's a difference between trying to lose weight and then maintaining your weight. And then just because you're done losing your weight doesn't mean that you're not, you're done with that mental part of it, working through your issues and associations and beliefs and whatnot. Good morning, snowy day here in New Brunswick. So I've had a relaxing moment. That's nice when it's snowing, right? It's our excuse. I can't go anywhere. Snow. I can't go. I'm here. Where did that go? Where'd that go? I wanted to read that. So I've had a relaxing morning, looking forward to finishing the program strong, program three strong. 48 pounds so far, eight pounds away from my goal to be under 200.

That's fantastic. I love that. Congrats, Emily. That's amazing. That's so good. That's a great vibe. That's a great vibe. Who's that? Dave's not feeling good. Hi, Dave. You're not feeling good. You're sick yet again. And this one is kicking the crap out of me. There has been some nasty stuff going around. I want to remind everyone to just take time for yourself, take care of yourself, focus on healing. We do have that sickness protocol if you need, my goodness, it's the worst. So many people, so many people. Round six, two year journey. Hi, Marianne, doing good, doing great. Doing great. I love this for you. We had Dr. Sandy Vann, who is just a brilliant mind and obesity medicine talk about how just what it takes to

do a two year program. You know, it's not just a two year program. It's two years of prioritizing yourself, which is not easy, showing up for yourself, being mindful. This is just going to pay off in all the most amazing ways. Years from now, you're going to look back and be like, wow, this set the tone for you living your best, healthiest, most mobile, long living life, you know, managing your stress, trying to get better sleep, moving your body, just, you know, trying to be in tune with your body's needs. I love that. I'm at my goal and struggling with a UTI that I didn't clue into for a couple weeks on antibiotics and using some minor sickness protocols. Oh, that's the worst. One of the things I had a bout of UTIs. I don't know how old you are, Marianne, but I had a bout of UTIs a couple of years ago.

And I was like, what gives with this? Because I wasn't, I didn't, I'm not prone to them. I don't normally get them. It wasn't, I wasn't particularly having a lot of sexy time at that time, which I know can happen. You know, like, you know what I what I mean when you're young and you're first dating. And it turns out hormones, menopause, perimenopause, menopause can do that to us. Can do that to us. You might want to check into that. This round down another 10 pounds, new set point going to solidify in January. Tired of getting up to pee at night with this. Need my

sleep. Yeah. Even with all the water that we're drinking, right? So good to be drinking all the water that could really help when it comes to UTIs and whatnot. The worst. Worst I'm feeling for you. Hopefully you get over that soon. Pneumonia. Yeah. Pneumonia. I blocked out what I weighed and weighed at 21. So I'm going to go how I feel and I'm consistently making better choices and not letting my emotions rule my belly. I mean, right. It is what it is. And your body's on your side. It doesn't want this weight. Your body wants you to be the healthiest, fittest, happiest person on the planet and whatever and for how long it takes for you to get there it's going to take there no matter what your goal is at the end of the day no matter

what the goal is I love a good goal I like I make huge goals uh for me that's motivating for other people you might want to make smaller goals along the way we talked about this the other day whatever resonates with you. Maybe there's a pair of jeans that you want to fit back into and that's your goal. Maybe you just want to feel confident and happy and calm in your own skin. That's your goal. It's good to have a goal and you know, you know, it's your goal for you. You know, like I, I, I use the example the other day is I want to have the number one weight loss company in the world. It's a huge, massive goal. Other people might be like, what, huh?

How? Um, I don't know. I'm just going to keep working towards it. That's my goal. Um, it excites me. It doesn't scare me. Um, some days I think, oh my God, am I ever going to reach that goal? Maybe not, but I might get, I'm probably going to get as close as I possibly can.

And to me at the end of the day, is it good enough? It makes me choke a little bit when I say that's good enough. I don't know that it's, it's good enough for me right now, but you know, maybe five years from now, depending where I am, I might say, you know what, I'm doing okay. I don't need the number one company in the world. I'm okay where I am, uh, right now that's my goal. So, you know, your goal can be whatever is resonating and motivating for you. Uh, and then I think my goal. So, you know, your goal can be whatever is resonating and motivating for you. Uh, and then I think you just see how, see how it is when you get there. What, what your goal is not, is you not being happy and, um, being like, oh, well, I guess, I guess I'm, the scale is slow to move. So I guess this means my body's happy where it is.

If you are not happy, chances are your body's like, bitch, what are you talking? You're happy? I'm not happy. What? If you're not happy, chances are your body isn't happy. Again, I also say this, recognizing there are people with disordered eating. The Living Method is meant to be a fun program, insightful educational program to help us be as healthy as possible. And I do understand that there are some people who have issues with how they see their body. So obviously that is not who I'm addressing or what I am talking about at the end of the day. Uh, I feel like this whole program has been sickness protocol, whatever it's been a shit show. I'll regroup and start again in January. You know, and can we just normalize that too, Dave? Because I feel like

there's a lot of people like this. I I've known some people who were, have been struggling with like long, long haul sicknesses. I don't know if it's like long, I'm not saying long haul COVID, but it's taken a while for people, especially with a lot of like breathing issues and whatnot. You know, the work that you've done to try to be as healthy as possible, probably really helping you get through this, right? Just sending you love, Dave. I hope you feel better, man. That sucks. It just sucks. It just sucks. It just sucks. Great. Menopause. Yeah, I'm 61. Hey, right? Signs and symptoms. Apparently they go on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I love the conversation with Sandra and Sandy yesterday.

Thank you for bringing on these awesome experts. I'll definitely rewatch that one many times. So I met them at the Canadian Obesity Summit a couple years back. There's a few. They also talked about Sean Wharton, who I want to get on as a guest or do a podcast with. He's probably one of Canada's brightest minds in obesity research. I learned a lot from that conference. I also, what the big takeaway is the Livi Method is fucking awesome.

And it's going to revolutionize the diet industry. And it's really going to make a difference, not just in weight loss, but helping people be truly healthy, healthy, and be able to sustain and maintain their weight. And I, as much as I love all them, I walked away with the challenge of now proving that the Livi Method is going to help people be able to maintain and sustain their weight. And so that's my focus. Any insight that I can help give people into their weight journey, I want to share. And so I'm really excited to have them on board and come into the program and share

their knowledge, especially Sandra with that addiction piece when it comes to food. You guys know I stay in my lane. I stay in my lane. I've learned a lot about what people need in order to follow through and make the changes they need to make when it comes to losing weight. I'm really good at that. I will claim the crown when it comes to weight loss in that space. But there, it's so much more than that, right?

I love Dr. Beverly and her cognitive therapy piece. You heard Sandy Van talk about that. She's a medical doctor, obviously, she she doubles in that, you know, Dr. Beverly and knowing the program really just gives us good takeaways and insight. And so it's great to hear that's such an important piece. That's from a medical obesity specialist talking about that cognitive behavioral piece, which a lot of you are already doing just following the program, right? So Sandy Vann is going to come and talk to us about weight loss medications, because I think it's time. That's why I specifically reached out to her. And then I found out both Sandy and Sandra were friends. I'm like, this is fun.

So Sandy Van is going to come on in the group and address all of our members who are taking or considering taking weight loss medications like Ozempic or any of the GLP-1s. The reality is we've had people taking Ozempic to manage diabetes since I started this program. We also have many of our members who've done gastric bypass and other surgeries to help manage their weights. The program has always been a perfect complement to that. And the same goes with these weight loss medications. I don't want to say they're not a quick fix because obviously they can help you lose weight quicker, but there's a lot of work to do when you take them.

And this is a perfect program to do while you are taking those medications. If you want a half-assed chance of being able to sustain the weight that you lose and be able to do it in a healthy way on top of that. And in a way you can get in tune to your body's needs. So she's going to come on and she's going to address our members.

And what do you need to know? What do you need to know? Because I don't want people who are taking these medications that have been advised by their doctors because they can be game changers for so many to feel shame and to not feel like you can't ask questions and participate and be honest and share with that. I am definitely not going to be suggesting anyone take any weight loss medications. I just think sort of, you know, it's kind of like skincare. Some people are going to want to do facelifts for their skin. Some people are going to want to do injections like Botox. The majority of people are just going to

want to look for good skincare. And some people are going to do weight loss surgery. Some people are going to do weight loss injections, but I think the majority of people want to just, you know, eat healthy and lose their weight in that way. And again, when it comes to these medications, there are some people whose lives depend on losing weight quite quickly and they need that medical intervention piece, but it doesn't mean that they don't still have the work to do that they need to do on our program. So I'm going to start facilitating that conversation. I would love to get into like, oh man, there's so many conversations I want to get into. I'm just very cognizant, not convoluting the whole program. This is so much. That's why I decided to take the menopause part of it and take it outside of the group and created an add-on. So that information is there. I'm not

going to be doing a new add-on in January, but what I'm going to do is take that information and add to it and turn it into like a takeaway for our members, maybe like a masterclass or something like that. You can, if you're still interested in it, sign up for the add-on and run yourself through the six weeks. So we structured in six weeks. There's obviously educational posts. There's obviously the conversations with our guest experts and whatnot. I'm not going to be leading a weekly menopause add-on, but it is still there. We've left it open if anyone is interested in signing up for that. I haven't lost any weight this session. Hi, Sandy, not discouraged, a little disappointed, but thinking what's going to change in January. Go me. Okay. So here's what

I would do, Sandy, before the week is out. Put your answers to those 20 maximizing questions. Give as much detail as possible. And then you might get a lot of insight in that. Post it in the group and the team can go in and maybe look for areas of opportunity and help you with that and give you insight. So also there's a few conversations you want to listen to. You want to listen to the reasons why your weight might be slower to move, right? Inflammation, gut issues like gut dysbiosis, like food sensitivities, gut issues like your microbiome, hormones and whatnot. And then take into account anything else. Outside factors, what was happening in your life, your stress, what you got going on,

your sleep, all of those things. But post that. That'll give you great insight. And listen to those conversations. The team made a list of all the guest expert segments for you. They put it on one post with links to the videos and links to the podcast. So that's really easily accessible for you. So if you want to go ahead and listen to some of those segments and let's figure it out, let's figure out what you need. I just realized that separating from my ex means more time for ourselves in our lives, more time for myself.

Of course, we still love each other, but honestly, when I don't have the kiddos, I sleep and eat properly. Kids are a lot. I have grown ass children at this point. Well, they're not really grown. They're big children. Man, I thought it was going to get easier. Yeah. It's a lot. It's even a lot when they don't even live with you. It can be a lot when they don't even live with you. It's, it can be a lot when they don't even live with you. Um, it's good to have your life back for yourself. I'm not happy, but I hope that you're happy. Divorce is never fun, but I'm always like make, make the best choice that makes you happy. You've been through a lot. You've been through a lot. So let's talk

about how you can reclaim your own life. Who are you? What do you want to do? The thing about marriage, and I did this in my first 20 year marriage is that it's just a, it's a life of compromise. This is also why I love working with couples. This is why I love working with couples because you get so interconnected. It's a life of compromise, constantly compromising, not sure that every, anybody ever gets what they want and you get very intertwined and you forget who you are. You forget who you are and what makes you happy and what you want out of life. And you start to see yourself differently and therefore you start to see your partner differently. And when I work

with couples, I didn't counsel them together. I would see them separately. They're like, oh, let's do our meeting together. I'm like, what? No, no. And I would see them separately. They're like, oh, let's do our meeting together. I'm like, what? No, no. And I would counsel them independently together. And what I would do is help them bring them back to themselves, get in tune to their needs, what makes them happy, what works for them. And then in being more calm and confident in themselves and reconnecting with themselves, it's amazing how they start to see each other differently in the way that they first saw them that attracted them in the first place, which is really, really cool. But you don't have

to be in a relationship to do this. This is essentially, that's what you're doing for yourself. You are disconnecting from that interconnectivity of another person. And then you're like, who the fuck am I now? And you're not who you were before the relationship because you've been through a lot and you've made a lot of change. And who are you now? Right? It can be very stressful. It can be very stressful. It's like capacity. Maybe you had, you know, now you have all the time, but you didn't have the capacity. That's a lot of process and work through. And now you say to yourself, okay, who am I? How can I better take care of myself? Or maybe you're reflecting on the fact that when you were in that situation,

you were the last on the list always. And that should never be the case. That should never, there are times in your life where you have to sacrifice for other people, but it shouldn't be all day, every day, all the time to the point where it's taken so much from you that you're just exhausted and tired and you just can't anymore. We got to take, we, we, women especially identify with, we need to sacrifice ourselves and give up ourselves and take care of everybody else and fix everyone's problem. At the end of the day, it's really not our job to do that. You know, that's hard, man. Fuck, it's so hard. I've been trying on smaller clothes every week. My Canada goose finally zipped up on me yesterday. Oh, that's great. Right? That's

great. Those jackets are not cheap. And also when you find a good jacket, you know, I love that. Good for you. Good morning. I signed up for maintenance and I love your lives, but I've discovered that I love Odette just as much. Well, I'm happy to hear that. Odette has basically been running the maintenance program. I'm going to be playing a bigger role in it. Odette is amazing. And I can't be everywhere all the time at once. And so Odette, she does check-ins for the maintenance group. So I am going to be going live in the maintenance group. That is one thing that's going to be changing. So I'm going to be doing live in this group and live in the maintenance group, kind of splitting the difference of my time in the maintenance group. I'll be checking in every

now and then as well. But yes, Odette is lovely. She has a real passion for the maintenance program. She is just, she's amazing. She really, really cares about people and wants them to be able to sustain and maintain their weight. She's also been studying essentially the Libby Method maintenance group and the people for the last couple of years and has actively wanted to know how to help and has been listening to our members. So in the weight loss program, it's a little different. Like you sign up for the program. I don't really want to hear what you think about it because it's not about that. So easy to distract yourself, right? Like the program is what it is. If you sign up, it's your first time doing the program is what it is. Anything you say to me, it's not going to make me change it midway. I'm pretty good at what I do.

I'm happy with the program. Doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of room for improvement, but also I can only do what I can do. And while I'm running the program, it's all hands on deck focusing on that. But what we do is we do a survey at the end of the program. And this is where I'm asking everybody, first program, 21st program, fill out the survey. And what we do from there is that after the groups and in between, we sit down with it and we're like, okay, what's the kind of feedback that we got? What are some ideas that people have? What are people still liking this? Are they still loving that? Are they tired of this? Is it time to change that? What's going on? Because what's

happened is that our members are getting more savvy as science sciences and starts to prove that I've been right all along, which it's doing. Thank you. Um, and things change and more research is done, right? People are becoming more savvy. People are becoming more savvy. Um, you know, for example, the, the first week of my program before used to be like, can I put cream in my coffee? That's all anyone would want to know. And now it's like people get in real deep about their issues or their health issues or what's going on in their body, and they're coming in more knowledgeable. And so we've made a lot of changes to the program and how we present things based on also our members as well. So if you please can take time and give us some feedback and fill out those surveys, we'd love that. But ODAD is fantastic. We also have

our team of program specialists over in maintenance group too. So it's a guided 91 day program and process just like the living method, same base program, but all the information is skewed towards maintenance specifically. We don't have an app or a book yet, but we're looking to get those out for the spring. So it's kind of old school, the way the living method used to be just the Facebook support group, but that worked for hundreds of thousands of people. I have to say that the program does take a lot of time. Yeah, you're fucking right. It does. Even listening to the lives and experts is a huge commitment. Hard to take that time away from my work, household tasks and fitness. Well, fitness is part of it, right? And let me just be straight up with you. What is more important?

So you have to eat anyway. So what, let me ask you what takes the time because it's the learning component first. So first of all, you don't need the lives, right? I say that from the very first day, the lives are not mandatory. You do not need to listen to the lives at all. Um, what I do suggest listening to is the guest experts, because that's so much insight and knowledge. And that will never, there's never a downside to that. Learning more about learning. When it comes to the book, it's really about the guidelines. So all you need to do is read those 13 guidelines, the rest of the information is supplemental. And if you need it, you need it. Right? If you need it, you need it, because it's all about losing your weight in a way that needs to be sustainable. And if you don't need it, then you don't need it. So really it's just

reading those 13 guidelines. That's it. Um, that tell you what to do on the program. And I suggest also listening to the guest experts. Um, the rest is you got to eat. So why not fuel your body properly? Right? The rest is working through your shit. But you've got to understand that you have shit to begin with, which is where the guest experts obviously come in. And then it's managing your stress and managing your sleep. So I don't know what sort of more important, if you are not healthy, you're going to do shitty at work, right? If you're not, don't have energy, it's going to make housework really, you know, daunting. Um, all of those things. So like, what is what, tell me what's more important than the things that you're doing

in this program? Because ultimately, let me, let me tell you, if you're carrying excess fat, that's not healthy for you. It's just straight up. This comes back to that conversation. We never have carrying excess weight is just not healthy for you. It's just straight up. This comes back to that conversation we never have. Carrying excess weight is just not happy for you. And then I would also say to you, how often do you think about losing weight? How long have you been trying to, and I'm generalizing, I'm talking to everyone. How long have you been trying to lose weight? How often do you think

about losing weight? Every time you eat, are you stressed out? After you eat something, indulge something, do you feel like shit? Then berate yourself afterwards. Like to me, that's no way to live. And so we are talking about real sustainable change, real sustainable change. That's why I don't apologize about the information. I know you're not asking that. You're just sharing how you feel. But I'm wondering, why are you sharing this?

Right? Like, why are you sharing that? Why are you feeling like this? It's a lot to make sustainable change in your life. It's a lot. It's a lot. You have to work through old habits, create new ones. You have to step out of your comfort zone. It's a lot.

But is it worth doing? Abso-fucking-lutely it is because it's going to make all the difference in terms of how you live your life for the rest of your life, especially if you're mid-age, especially if you're mid age, especially if you're midlife, it's the things you are doing now that are going to cause you to live a longer, healthier, happier life, because it's going to get to a point where you are at an age where you are starting to decline. It's the work that you are doing now that's going to give you that longevity, health, peace. So yeah, it's a fuck of a lot of work. I fucking love it. I fucking love it. And you know, I would suggest that if you are looking at it as daunting, right, and this is where, again, you don't have to watch all the

lives, you don't have to do any of that. Try to find your way in where you are excited about spending this time on yourself. Whether like I, like I know there's a lot of people who love to read a good book. I love reading self-help books, right? It's hard to find the time, but that's worth investing my time in. So it could just be that you need to find your way in on making this seem more valuable to you, um, of, of being worthy maybe of taking the time for this. Like, so what you have laundry. So what if you, I think in life, we're not going to look back and be like, Oh, I wish I had done more laundry and housework. Right. But I think we are going to look back and be like, I wish I would have taken better care of myself. I wish I would have invested in myself more. Again, I'm talking to everybody. I'm talking to everybody, right?

Because it's really, it's really easy to say that. It's really easy to say that, but it's fucking worth it at the end of the day. But you have to make it resonate with you. Weight, physical health, mental health are all positively impacted by this program. There you go. Right? Let me say that again. Weight, physical health, mental health are all positively impacted by this program. There you go. Right? Let me say that again. Weight, physical health, mental health are all positively impacted by this program. You provide access to so many experts that a lot of individuals may not have able to regarding cost, location, access, so much more than weight loss. Diet is not the only reason people have a weight issue. Yeah. Right? Exactly. Yeah, it's worth it. It's necessary. A lot of people don't

feel worthy of it. Right. That's a big thing. And worthy doesn't mean that you're not a successful person. I do want to put that out there. I dealt with that last year and I was watching a special by Jamie Kern Lima and she's just written a book called Worthy. And I was listening to these experts talk. And before that, I would have said, I feel worthy. Of course I do. Look at me. I'm successful. I'm whatever. And it turns out I didn't really feel that worthy when you got into the real, oh, it's going to make me cry. When you get into the real depths of it, and we think people who aren't feel worthy or maybe they're hopeless, sad people. And no, people who don't feel worthy, we're not hopeless and sad.

But there is a part of us that feels we're not worth taking the time for ourselves. We're not worth having success. We're not, even though we have it, we're always working hard to prove that we are worthy of it. Um, that was an interesting concept. Interesting concept question. I'm going on a cruise January 3rd for 11 days. That is so fun. Then I'm going to spend some time in Florida keys and then the smoky mountains. Love that. I'll be traveling for the whole month of January. I'm not sure how to go about the next program. I do better following along with the group, but I don't know that will be possible. I won't have access to the app on the cruise if the internet is required. Yeah, okay.

It will be my ninth round. Could I bypass prep week, then log my info when I have the internet, I will bring my LM journal and track in there. There you go. You just answered your own question. Get your hands on the Libby Matha journal. It's not about following perfectly. That's really important. You don't put everything aside just because you can't do it perfectly.

So at this point, you know better. What are you going to do? Go on the cruise, stuff your face, feel like garbage, then head over to Florida, keep the party going, feel like garbage some more, head over to the Smoky Mountains, feel like shit. So when you get back, you just like all you, you don't remember the good time you had. You just know you feel like garbage, right? Or you can build on what you've already done. Keep the process going. Yeah. Maybe you won't see too much action on the scale, but it'll be still worth attempting and doing some of

the things, right? So you don't need the app. You can get the new Living Method Journal. It's available on Amazon and you can take time while you're lying on a sunbed or whatever at breakfast and keep track of things that way. It'll help keep the process of you prioritizing your needs and making good choices in the forefront of your mind. You don't need to skip prep week because you still have to eat, still have to eat, still want to move your body. The thing is the things that you need to do in the program are

things you're going to want to do every day of your life anyway. So you don't have to do them perfectly. When you go to breakfast, right, make sure you're prioritizing protein. You know, when you leave, grab some fruit, get your hands on some fruit for a snack. What are you having for lunch? Oh, reminder, I got to get some leafy greens in whenever. You may not be able to get in all of the snacks, right? Or eat perfectly, but it's still worth doing. You don't not do it just because you can't do it perfectly, right? So that's what I would suggest. I mean, you do you at the end of the day, right? So if you skip prep week, no big deal. I just don't think, you know, you want to follow along the best that you possibly can. That's it. And I think that's more the conversation here is that you who fly a lot, who travel a lot for work and even if you half-ass the program, it is still worth doing some of the things, right? Some of the

things. So that's what I would do. I would take the commit to writing things down in the journal. If you don't have the app, don't even bother with it. You might have access to the Facebook support group and all of that information. Maybe, you know, you have the book, you know what to do. What I would maybe do is print out the guidelines. So you have the guidelines week to week to week. Uh, the, the journal itself will guide you through the program as well. So as long as you understand the base program and the tweaks you want to make, um, you can

catch up if you do have your phone on any podcast that you can get caught up on. When I am on a cruise, my phone plan does work in certain ports, obviously, but that Wi-Fi is fucking expensive on the boat, so I can understand. Or here's what you can do. You can just kind of like, you know, work the basic food plan or personalize the plan on where you're at and then just pop in every now and then catch what you can. Don't put the pressure on you. Like that in itself is huge. If you're going to be, you already know so much and you've made so many changes like this, maybe this isn't your most hardcore program ever. That's okay. Like at the

very least, if you learn how to navigate these trips or this travel and you feel good, that's huge. That in itself is huge. So just go by how you feel. How would I feel if I took a hardcore approach, more relaxed approach? How would I feel if I just didn't put the pressure on myself? How would I feel if I brought the little journal with me and maybe, you know, remind me to stay on track? How would I feel if I pop into the group? I don't want you to feel like you're left behind or you're not doing enough or you, you know, can't keep, can't

catch up. That's, that's not the season. This is, let's take a look at this 91 day program in this season of your life. And this is a season where you're going to be traveling. So how does it all fit in? How does it all fit in? I don't know if that answered your, your question, Trudy, but listen, whatever you think is going to work for you, I think is going to work for you. That's what I think. I think you can't mess it up as long as you keep showing up for yourself. Obviously, if you have any more questions about this, let us know. I love that you're thinking about it. You're feeling really great. You've accomplished a lot. You want to, at the very least, maintain and sustain that. So even if you do little bits here and there,

it's better than not doing anything at all. What I don't want you doing is stressing about it. That's what I don't want you to do. I don't want you stressed about it. But maybe grab that journal. That journal might be a good... Risa, hello. Something wrong with my phone. Happy tears because I reached my 140s after a very, very stressful few months. I pushed and showed up for myself and I'm celebrating this number because I haven't been this number since I was a teen. Oh, good for you. I only believed I could since I joined this program next program to maybe lose a few more and to solidify before maintenance. Oh, that's so great. That's so great. Hi, Celine. I haven't lost weight either in my second round. I haven't made the best choices. For example, I had a donut muffin at Tim's yesterday, not being mindful at all. I didn't

berate myself after though. Okay. Here's what I can tell Celine is that you've been showing up, right? You may not have been making the best choices and maybe there's reasons for that. And, but I do know that you've been showing up. You've been consistently engaging, participating. You may be hanging on by the skin of your teeth, but you are here, you are here. And that is enough. And in fact, it's more than enough. It's a lot. And even if you are not actively doing the things you need to do, you are mindful, you are learning, you are absorbing, you are processing, you are digesting, you are obviously still here for a reason. And sometimes in our lives, that just has to be good enough. That has to be good enough. And also make no mistake,

you're giving yourself the insight into what is going on with me. What do I, where am I at? What do I need to work through? And even though you may have had that donut, right? Or a muffin at Tim's yesterday, you know, and I know it could have been a lot worse. It could have been a lot worse. Chances are what you're going through in this season of life for you, you could have made a lot of other not so great, I don't want to say bad, not so great choices. It could have been a lot worse. It could have been a lot worse, you know? So I just want to say that I see you and I appreciate you. And I believe because I've seen you show up that you can do this. You are, you are doing it. The scale is not an indication of you doing, trying. It's not that, right? Showing up every day and participating

in the way that you can and still being here is really huge. That's really huge. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. You know, that's enough. I am two pounds away. Is it two? Two pounds away from getting into the four days, 23 pounds down this program. Love it. Round three for me. And Gina, you make me laugh with the words you create. I got to start my own dictionary. You had one this week. I can't remember what it was, but it was so funny. You need to create the Gina Libby dictionary, right?

I'm going to create one. You know, I love the word funner. I love the word funner. And as you know, funner is technically not a word, at least not yet. And maybe they did put it in the dictionary. It's, you know, I love the word funner and it brings me joy. And there's so many people where I've said funner and they're just like, that's not a word. I'm like, fuck you. It's a word. What are words? What are words? What are words? What are dialects? What, what, what is it? You know? I went, I once went to

Quebec. I once went on a French exchange program and I guess maybe this has, I just, it's resonating with me right now. Maybe this is why words don't matter to me. Words do matter to me. Words matter a lot to me. I think the right words at the right time. I'm very mindful of the words that I use. But I once went to Quebec. I was in grade 10 and I went on a three-month exchange.

You know, they come to live with me and then I go live with them. And I'm not dissing the place at all, but, uh, everyone else I knew on the exchange went to Quebec city and Montreal and all these places. And I went to Forest de Ville, Quebec, which I think at the time was like population 5,000 or outside of it, wherever I was living was population 5,000. There were homes that still had a dirt floor. Like I'm not kidding. Um, and therefore it was a small, tiny fishing village. Like I'm not kidding. And therefore it was a small, tiny fishing village. And I had to go an hour to school on a bus. And I, everyone, nobody spoke English. They just spoke French. And by the time I left three months later,

I was dreaming in French. I could speak fluently to French, in French. I came home and I went to my French class and long story short, I failed French, failed it. My teacher gave me a fail and I'm like, I can, I'm, what? I can speak fluently French. She's like, Gina, you may be able to speak fluently French, but it's all slang. All your French is slang. Everything you've learned, it's not proper French. And I'm like, what the fuck is proper French? I can speak to people in Quebec. They can understand me. I can understand them. What the hell is proper French at the end of the day? Anyway, I made a stink about it and she gave me a 51 and passed me. That's my story. That's my story. Um, yeah, I, so funner, I've always loved the word funner and, and I just think, ah, why not? So thank you for appreciating that. Thank you for appreciating that.

Wow. I have gone way over time today. I've gone way over time today. Um, just because I go long doesn't mean you need to stick around either. Uh, oh, oh, that is the key. You have to make the time for you. Baby steps, fucking worth it. Yeah. Right. It's hard. It's hard. I have a t-shirt that says it's more funner with a nine one one-er. So yeah, I'd say it's a word on that note. Okay. Uh, make sure, make sure you ask as many questions as you need. Uh, make sure you take some time, really be proud of yourself. The fact that you're still here is freaking huge. You can do this. You are doing this.

I'm doing everything in my power to share everything that I have learned with you over 30 years. Weight loss has been my life. It is my life's mission to share everything that I've learned. I want you to be successful. My team wants you to be successful. You want you to be successful, even though it you to be successful. You want you to be successful, even though it's hard or it's time consuming

or it's difficult and life does not make it easy. But I hope that you leave this program feeling super jazzed about the fact that you are still here, super jazzed about next steps, even though it might seem far away from your goal, but you are one step closer. That is the takeaway today. You have learned a lot.

You have made change. You haven't just counted, weighed, measured, starved, deprived yourself. That is not what you have done. And you are one step closer. So just for today, can you hang on to that feeling? I know you may be feeling disappointed. You may be having all sorts of other feels, but just for today, hold onto the fact that you have done a lot, maybe not as much as that person or this person, but you have done the best

you can, because if you could have done more, you would have done more. And I know one day, if you're feeling like you could have, should have, would have, you will reflect back and see yourself as being perfect. And then like, I did it the best I could. And that was good enough. And not only was it good enough, that was perfect. You have done it perfectly. You are perfect just as you are. That doesn't mean that you don't want to make change. That doesn't mean that you can't change, but right here, right now, have that be enough, have that be enough. Okay, everyone, uh, make sure you get signed up for our next program. Make sure you ask as many questions as you need. Make sure you share friends and family. If you're interested in our new Better

Together, what a great name, Better Together promo. The team works really hard on this. I'm excited for it. Go over to our website, GinaLivie.com and check it out. Have a fantastic day, everyone. I'll see you tomorrow for our last live of the program. Tomorrow, 9am. See you then. Bye everyone. Oops. If I didn't get to your question, pop it over in the question of the program tomorrow, 9 a.m. See you then. Bye, everyone. Oops. If I didn't get to your question, pop it over on the Question of the Day page.