The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness - June 3, 2024

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Live from the Maintenance & Mindfulness group hosted on Facebook. This is the live recording from June 3, 2024. You can find the full video hosted at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulnessTopics covered:What does Downsizing mean in Maintenance?Doubling down on Mindfulness and the 4 Questions in Maintenance vs going through the motionsWhat to expect when entering the Testing the Waters stageThe foods you might Test the Waters with and their affects Where to find our previous Weigh In Wednesday conversations in our podcastsIs it beneficial to stick to the basic Food Plan after you’ve reached your goal?Tips for preparing for a medical procedureMaintenance - ensuring the mental side of your journey is addressedTo 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. Hello, members in maintenance. How are you? Happy Monday. I'm just getting my questions set up. You got any questions? Hit me up. Of course, Odette gave me a list of the things that you were talking about. I want to welcome Pollyann to the group now in maintenance. I got a question from you, Karen, Marsha. I'm going to go through those. So we are downsizing. If you are redoing the program for the sake of solidifying your weight, we are downsizing one last time. So what does that mean in maintenance, right? What does that mean when you're solidifying your weight. We are downsizing one last time. So what does that mean in maintenance, right? What does that mean when you're solidifying your weight? So even though you did the program and you reached your goal weight doesn't necessarily mean that you are as in tune to

your portions as you need to be or that you have fine tuned those portions to actually meet your body's needs over your wants or what you have gotten used to. Meaning you still have wiggle room to adjust your portion sizes even while you're in maintenance. Because when it comes to portions, it's all about what your body has gotten used to. And of course, you've been chipping away at that and really trying to be as in tune as possible. Now, so last week, if you were solidifying your weight with the program and doing another round, you were back to satisfaction, right? And so this week, you are back to downsizing off the heels of eating enough to feel satisfied.

So it's just really leveling up or being in tune. You could look at it another way as, you know, you really want to understand when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat. You want to have really clear vibes on when you, when you've had enough, when you've eaten too much, when you need to eat more. And so in knowing what it feels like to not eat enough and feel slightly unsatisfied and really solidify that feeling versus eating enough to feel satisfied. And then also when you do find yourself indulging, eating more than you need and what that feeling feels like. So you're really just solidifying the feelings of feeling satisfied,

the feeling of feeling slightly unsatisfied and the feelings of eating too much. So that you don't even you just know you don't even, you just know, you don't, when you're eating your food, you know, you've had enough. You just, you know, you've had enough. You don't even have to think about it. That's the end game with maintenance. When you get to that fourth stage, living the Livvy way, it's just wake up, look good, feel good, go about your day, just making great food choices for yourself and being totally in tune, so in tune that you don't have to ask anymore. You know, if you are, am I hungry? Yes, I'm hungry. No, I'm not hungry, right? If you know your pattern is to go all day long without eating because you're at work and you're focused

on a project, check in with yourself. Whoa, let me take a minute. Am I hungry? Yeah, I could probably eat. All right. What am I hungry for? What do I got in my fridge right now? Right? I know what's on my fridge. I got some leftovers. I got this. I got some fruit, I got some veggies, I got some cheese, I got some vegetables. I know I got like, what do I want? Right. Just quick scan. Your brain is so smart like that. I know what's in my fridge. I can be like, okay, I'm going to want whatever. I was just finishing eating. I'm not really hungry because I just finished eating my fruit snack. And so, and then, you know, how much do I need? And then like it's very little thought goes into it because you just instinctually know. So downsizing one last time this week, make sure we're all in

with that. And remember, I also want to remind you to ask any questions that you have, right? Do not be shy about reaching out and asking questions. It's always about leveling up and learning even when you're in maintenance. All right. Being really in tune with the portions, the amount your body actually needs. It takes time. Um, so that's the point Odette wanted me to go over today. And downsizing also brings awareness back to mindfulness, not just going through the motions of what you think works. Yeah. Really doubling down and asking those four questions. If you are doing another round of the program to solidify your weight, or if you haven't been in a while and you feel like you're just kind of out of it, or if you're just getting back on track, doubling down. So back on track is beyond just following that basic food plan. It's also

back to asking those four questions, back to focusing on being as in tune as possible with your body scenes. Or maybe you're coming off a stressful time in your life. Maybe you're coming back from vacation. Maybe you just finished selling your house. And so you haven't been prioritizing yourself. So what do you need to do that? Asking those four questions, you know, really being mindful is a great way of kind of grounding yourself and getting back to doing whatever it is that you need to do to get back to feeling really good. Okay. Let me get into Polly's, uh. Polly Ann. Hello. Hi, I'm Polly. Hi, Polly. Pinch me. Am I ready for this? Yeah, yeah, you're ready for this. I've been waiting,

like seems forever to join this group. And I'm very excited to be here with you. Six programs and I went from 194 to now 146 with the ultimate goal of 145 bumps along the way, of course, but in general stayed the course with lowering that set point. I'm curious to find out how long others here were in the testing the waters phase. Do you still use the scale daily when testing? What kind of foods do you test with? Things that you just feel like eating that you don't typically eat well on plan? Like for me, example would be lasagna or a club sandwich. My son's wedding is in september so i'm not sure i want to start testing the waters till after it sorry if my question seems silly but i'm

a forward thinker so knowing what's next will give me some peace of mind thank you so much i'm so happy to be here okay so that's a really loaded question first of all we love your questions okay never be shy about asking as many questions as you need. And just like in the weight loss group, there is no such thing as a silly question. So the four stages of finally in front of a right one, lose your weight to solidify your weight. And I think Polly, Polly, you're done now, right? So you've, you've put in the solidifying time. The thing is with solidifying is that's when you don't want to be going back into doing old things. That's when you want to, like, if you are doing another round of the program, you are doing it proper. You are minimizing indulgences. You are avoiding using back on track unless absolutely necessary, or you are personalizing the plan, but doing all of the

things. So that, that solidifying your weight is about allowing your body time to adjust to your new weight without challenging it. Like really just, you know, because alcohol, like indulgence in anything is stressful on the body. So you just want to maintain routine, status quo, like really allow the body because even though you're done losing your weight, doesn't mean the body is done repairing, rebuilding, adjusting, and you know, adjusting to the weight that you've lost. That's really the big one. So three months is about enough time to solidify your weight. It's really in that third stage, the maintenance stage, the testing the waters, that is when you can start adding if you want

to have a burger and fries one time have a burger and fries now still be mindful about that some people are still asking the four questions, they're still working on getting in tune to the portions, right? That's where they're like, okay, I'm going to have a burger and fries, but I'm going to pay extra attention still to, you know, how like in portion sizes, just because I choose to have a burger and fries doesn't mean I have to eat the whole thing and then feel like shit afterwards. Right? So, or maybe I'll have a burger and I'll wrap it in lettuce and then still have the fries. And then maintenance, that stage of maintenance is about also what maintenance now looks like and feels like to you. So having a burger and fries isn't going to cause you to gain

weight, but it will cause your body to react and we'll have the scale up probably the next day. So this is about really understanding when you are kind of find yourself indulging or eating foods that you maybe have been mindful not to include while you're trying to lose weight, like breads and pastas. Those types of foods don't cause you to gain weight, but minimizing them definitely helps when it comes to trying to lose the weight. So if you've decided, oh, I want to have some avocado toast for breakfast, although focusing on protein is still always going to be a benefit. Or maybe I want to have an avocado toast on a crack, you know, I'll have an egg on top of that or whatever, you know, maybe you want to have a sandwich for

lunch that day, again, just because you make a whole huge sandwich doesn't mean that you're just going to eat the whole thing. So you're still going to be mindful about eating enough to feel satisfied. And so this is where you start to add those foods in and you'll notice what maintenance is like on this scale. So to your point, I think it can be a great idea to still be utilizing the scale to understand fluctuations in maintenance. You always had fluctuations on the scale, not just when losing, also when maintaining. So once you hit your lowest low, which would be that 145 or 146, wherever you're at, it's normal for your weight to fluctuate anywhere between five and 10 pounds, really stressful

time of your life. You know, maybe have to like implement some back on track, you know, really focus on stress, moving your body or whatever, what's going on, you know, but usually about three to five pounds is where you'll sit. Because when you're in the stage of maintenance, you're not doing all the things you can to see your lowest low every day, right? And it's normal. You start adding things like breads and pastas. They take more water to be able to process them. So they will have your weight up naturally, three to five pounds. That's not real weight gain, but that is what's going to happen on the scale.

So that testing the waters is really understand what maintenance now looks like and feels like to you. Now you can still get on the scale. Obviously that's going to teach you how you feel. You do might decide to dabble in trying not the scale. I would like you to get to a place where you don't need the scale to know where your weight is at, right? Like you, you, you know what, you know how you feel, you know, if you indulge the way it's going to be up, you don't, some people will continue to use the scale, even when they've reached that fourth phase of the, the live your life, wake up, look good, feel good, go about your day. We've had this conversation about the scale where some people love the fact that they've gone and lost all this weight and done it in a healthy way. They are really proud and it makes them happy to get on that scale every day. So they do it as a celebration, right? I would love for you to get

to a place where you don't even need the scale because you just know if you indulged and you know, just to get back on track or whatever. And then some people, some people like I'm moving on, I don't need the scale anymore. So we, in October October we had a three day no way session where like we did a challenge where we, we didn't weigh for three days just to see how we feel. So everyone's a little different when it comes to using that scale once they're in that third stage. So lose your weight. You do as many rounds of the program as you need to reach your goal weight, right? Solidifying your weight is about three months, right? And then after that, the amount of time that you spend in that third phase of testing the waters in maintenance,

that can be three weeks for someone, maybe because they've done 10 programs in order to lose their weight, or that could be like years for someone else who is dealing with a lot of baggage in terms of their issues and associations and habits and whatnot. So it really depends. There's no like, right, there's no like rule you what I what I can tell you is you will know when you're ready to move on to the next stage. So the questions that you have are really like valid for where you are at in your maintenance

journey. When it comes to the foods, what kind of foods do you test with? Like you don't have to test the waters. But I'm assuming you're going to want to maybe have if you haven't been eating pasta, you're going to want to have some pasta again, you're going to want to incorporate bread back in again, you're going to want to indulge in things here or there. Now, obviously, you can't go back into old habits, that's not going to work for you. But this is where you are understanding that eating foods doesn't they don't cause you to gain weight, eating burger and fries not going to make you fat, whatever. Now you know, how not to gain weight, because we've covered this right going long periods of time without eating again, you know, starving, depriving, whatever. So it's really about getting in tune with when to eat,

what to eat and how much to eat. Now the foods you about getting in tune with when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat. Now the foods you choose to do that with are really up to you. It's like you don't have to be like, Oh, I have to test the wall. I have to eat burgers and fries. I have to eat pizza. Now I have to eat bread. You may choose and understand after minimizing your bread intake, it doesn't work really well with you. I don't love pasta, I can have it. It's just not my thing. It's my stomach, my tummy hurts always. I could probably love pasta. I can have it. It's just not my thing. It's my stomach. My tummy hurts always. I could probably try a gluten-free pasta and that would work better for me, but I don't love it that much that I would bother to do that. If I'm going to have pasta the odd time,

I'll have it. It bothers my stomach and then move it along the next day. You know, same thing with bread. I'm not the biggest fan of bread. Same thing. I always just feel bloated and just not great afterwards. So if I'm going to have a sandwich like I did in Montreal a couple weekends ago, I had their smoked meat sandwich. It was delicious. Their bread is like made there. It's rye bread. It was soft. It was yummy. I had one half of my sandwich with the bread and then I just ate it because I was just like, I'm done with the bread. It was yummy, delicious, whatever. So in terms of what kinds of foods that you are testing with, it's not that you have to test the waters. It's just like that is when you can start adding it in. So more so is like you don't want to be testing the waters when you're solidifying your weight. In that third stage, that's when you can

start to test the waters and add those types of foods back in and see how your body responds to them. So that would be a personal choice. Like if you want to have lasagna one night, right, and you want to have it proper and not make it with zucchini or whatever, but I prefer lasagna with zucchini. Like I just think it's so much better, but whatever. You know, you have that, you want to have a club sandwich, have it. You'll probably find that, you know, it's too much for you and you'll only eat half, right? And then also maybe add some leafy greens with that. So you know, the roughage in that will offset the bread and you're it'll be easier for you to digest. So my son's wedding is September. So I'm not sure I want to start testing the waters till after

don't be worried about gaining your weight back, you're not going to do that. As long as you continue to be mindful and take what you've learned when doing the program. So you don't be worried about gaining your weight back. You're not going to do that. As long as you continue to be mindful and take what you've learned when doing the program. So you don't have to add any of these things in. If you don't want to add any of those things in, you want to have them every now and then have them every now and then when you do find yourself indulging, then you know, you can, you know, do back on track for a couple of days. And then you know, it's no harm done. Now, testing the waters where you're at is also learning to trust that this is going to be your new norm, right? Not just physically what's happening on the scale and the choices that you're making, but also mentally, right? Mentally. So all of these things that you're asking is

exactly like, you know, being a forward thinker, knowing what's next. So this is, these are the conversations that we're having. So we've had a lot of these conversations in our previous weigh-in on Wednesday. So on Wednesdays, I get together with Kim and Odette and we weigh in on a variety of different topics. And we talk about things like this. We have got a ton of conversations over on our weigh-in with Gina podcast. So they're older conversations. So you're going to find them over there as opposed to our new Living Method podcast. You can find the current conversations on the Living Method podcast, but the other ones are over on our, so if you, if you were like got up, if you want to go to your, or the, the Way In With Gina podcast, and then search Way In Wednesdays,

and you'll have a whole list and we've gone over a variety of different topics. We're going to keep talking about them so you don't have to go back and you can just ask or on Sundays when Odette does the poster for Monday Live, if you want to add some questions there, I'm happy to answer that. Who is that? Hi, Melanie. Next month, I will be two years at my goal. I'm sitting at three to four pounds above that, feeling happy with that and still working on mindset almost there. Nice to know that when you have changed your set point, it will always go back when you indulge your travel.

This and I love I adore you. You know, I adore you. And I love this because I think it's so important for someone like Pauline who's just coming in to be like, what am I getting into? How is this going to work? Right? There's probably right there. I actually like my scale. So I think I'd miss it, but we'll try not at the appropriate time, but not yet. Yeah. Only you know, well, Melanie's been with us and we did the three day, no way. And everyone has like their different, like their

different view. I, I was like, I don't think people should be weighing. I'd rather they don't. Until I actually heard from some of our members that they were like, no, I am so proud of what I have done. I love the fact that I get on my scale and I'm easily maintaining my weight. They love that. Some people like it for accountability. They don't quite trust themselves yet. So they like seeing the number. So it says, okay, I got to drink a little bit more water. I'm falling back into old habits, whatever that is. So this is really about figuring out what works for you, what's your focus and what you need to do, right? So there's no right or wrong way to do that. All right, moving along to Karen. Karen, my husband is no longer trying to lose,

but still follows the basic food plan. Is this? Oh, I love this question. I actually answered this for Karen the other day. Is this a good idea? Why or why not? He has health issues and I think his body is spending too much energy on digestion instead of healing. He says he likes to eat this way. Okay, so so I love this. So Karen's husband's done the program. He no longer needs to lose weight, but he's just keeps following that basic food plan. He loves that routine. So if you go back to how you ate before the program, probably not really well. And so you've, you've experienced the program and all now you might not have had health issues, but so many

people get off their cholesterol medications. They, they, they get off their blood pressure medications. They drop their thyroid meds. They go from pre-diabetic into normal range. get off their cholesterol medications, they get off their blood pressure medications, they drop their thyroid meds, they go from pre-diabetic into normal range. Like the program itself, it's all about eating nutrient rich foods, which are the building blocks for your body to not only make change, but repair, rebuild, regenerate, rejuvenate. The body also loves routine as well. Loves routine, loves routine. So if you go to high stress, so if your husband, Karen, is super high stress, the routine of that might be very calming for his body. Plus, if you've done the program long enough, you know, your body is like your digestive

system is pretty strong. Does he need to eat like breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, dinner? Probably not. Like it is about getting in tune to, you know, what you're, the fact that your body's needs can change every day. So he might not have, he might have a day where he's not really all that hungry. Whereas the next day he might be hungrier. Now, so I don't necessarily want people being like three years later, hey, I'm still following the food plan. But for some people, because what you want to do is personalize the plan, right? Like if you

if so, it comes down to solidifying, how are you solidifying? Are you doing another round of the program? Are you doing three months of personalizing the plan? Right? And then when you hit that third stage, everybody is personalizing the plan. So this is where you are like assessing your situation. Am I hungry, you know, whatever, you have more flexibility when it comes to your snacks. Like that's why we cover that personalizing the plan in the last two weeks of the program. So you want to follow the living method proper. Step one, lose your weight. Step two is solidify your weight. You can do that by doing another round of the living method proper or personalizing the plan, which is checking in at every single meal and snack time, assessing your situation, following all the guidelines, still

doing all the things, right? Just have a little bit more flexibility when it comes to snacks. You don't have to eat every single meal and snack as long as you're not letting three and a half, four hours go by without eating. And then you get to the third stage and that's where you, everyone should be personalizing the plan, right? This is where you are checking in at every single meal and snack time assessing your situation, still being in tune, asking those four questions, you know, whatever you need to, to understand what maintenance looks like and feels like to you. And then there's that fourth stage, which I'm assuming your husband is in. He's solidified, he's put time into maintaining, then he's ready to just live his life. Now, this is where ideally, he's just going to go about his day, it's breakfast time, am I hungry? Do I need anything? Like, you know, what

am I if I am hungry? What am I going to have going high protein, obviously still a benefit. So living the living way. Now, there are some people who their every day living the living way is resembles the basic food plan, they like to get up to have their breakfast, and they like to have a little fruit snack or another type of snack. Then they have their lunch, maybe a couple afternoon snacks and then dinner. And that suits them just fine. This works really well with like people who have very structured mealtimes, like teachers who are really limited in the time when and you know, when and how much time they have to eat. So they find the routine very much fits their needs. Now, when I say it's not normal to be eating so often, it's like nobody really, most people don't,

the routine is what's normal. Forcing yourself to follow a food plan when you're just living your everyday life is not what I would call normal. Now, having gotten to that routine, it really suits your lifestyle. He's content. He's make happy choices. I don't really see anything wrong with that. Maybe like he just likes the structure, the no brainer. This is what I eat. Like that's no different than eating breakfast, lunch and dinner or, you know, and having some snacks in between. So there's no downside to that. And so because you say that he has some health issues, so I think his body is spending too much energy on digestion instead of healing. Yes, but at the same time, he would be super in tune to his portions at this point. So it's not

like he's overeating and stressing out his digestive system. And if he's eating good nutrient rich foods and paying attention to his body's needs, there's no downside to that. It's just going to continue to help him give his body what it needs to repair, rebuild, to make change and to work on any health issues that you have. So I love that. I actually responded to Karen on that one. Here's another one, Marsha, I'm having a colonoscopy at the end of the week and the diet leading up to the procedure low fiber is very different from how I normally eat. Any tips for the lead up? Would it be best to do back on track afterwards? So you always, so there are going to be situations,

whether it's like mouth surgery or, you know, other surgeries and whatnot, where you are, you have to kind of eat or follow a specific diet, right? Like after you got your teeth done, you had to follow a soft diet, whatever that is. So I think the colonoscopy is like no nuts, no seeds, no, none of that kind of stuff, right? So follow what you need to follow, no big deal. And then, yeah, you can like, but that's a traumatic thing to your body. Although it's like not a big deal,

it's so routine these ways, that is pretty traumatic to your body. It will take your body a couple of days to kind of calm down from the physical and mental toll that that also takes on you. And so back on track can be really great because of that routine. That's so ingrained of like, it has this really calming effect on the body. Now, this is where you might want to use sickness protocol, right? Like a combination of back on track sickness protocol. So maybe, you know, after you come back, depending on how you're feeling, you know, you might, your appetite might be great in which just get back to like, you know,

eating in tune to your body's needs, personalize the plan, whatever you're doing, wherever you're at. But back on track is always great to kind of like just it's routine, it calms the body down, it kind of reestablishes like, you know, so that can be a great idea if you feel like go by how you feel, but don't you're not going to gain weight or anything like that from the colon, from not following or whatever you're doing with the colonoscopy. So do whatever you need to do for that. And then once you feel better, get back into resume, um, sort of what you were doing and where you're at.

Oh, there's Karen right there. He loves the routine. Yeah. Right. There's something very calming about the routine. So it's not like you're just eating this, eating that very sporadic and all over the place. And so as long as he's eating in tune to his portions, eating nutrient rich foods, plus if I may, with the men that I have worked with, their thought process is a little different and they're really just like, do this. And then they

follow that. And then what they realize is, well, I feel really great doing this. And they get really stuck on that. Now, would I would like to see him be a little bit more in tune to am I hungry? Am I not hungry? The only thing I was going to add to that was maybe suggest to him, like, if he's not hungry, he doesn't have to force himself to eat, right? That could just be a general rule. Unless, though, of course, maybe his old pattern before was going like really long periods of time without eating.

Like I find that's how a lot of guys get that big belly, the beer belly, long periods of time without eating, high stress, lack of sleep, and then overeating when they do eat. So he might feel like if he doesn't keep that routine, he might get triggered back into his old routine. And so it is a lot of work to constantly keep eating the way that he's eating. There's no downside to that. I would like to see him fine tune it and tailor it more and just be open to days maybe that he's less hungry than other days. And that would be my only thing is he doesn't have to force eating if he's not hungry. But if he wants to follow the rest of

the routine, I think that's there's nothing wrong with that. Um, oh, you guys are talking about the scale, right? Um, oh, it's testing the waters has been okay. I still have some emotional stuff attached to allowing myself to choose different things. I believe the road to getting through those emotions is longer. Yeah. I love the program. It's so true because so, so we know this from Ruth Kane and our team who've been studying the living method because she's spending some time in maintenance now. People who've done more programs actually have an easier time in maintenance because they have gone through more of that mental process stuff.

Whereas someone might lose their weight all in one program and then struggle more in maintenance because that's where they're not done that mental part of it, right? The issues and associations, the habits, the baggage, the beliefs, the traumas, all of that still attached to that. So, so that is sort of like, that's where you can kind of really test that out too. Like testing the waters is as much as, you know, having the burger and fries as it is like really continuing to understand what you're dealing with mentally in the program. And here's Valerie, right? It really is so individual. Some get to the finally and forever swiftly and others like me are two plus years working through it. I can honestly say I'm finally experienced the calmness I've been working towards time. Yeah,

isn't what it was needed. We I hate that saying like you didn't gain weight overnight, but it's not about the gaining of the weight. Even it's like a lot of our issues and associations, coping mechanisms, beliefs are tied back so long ago. And because again, we use food for so many things to show love, to celebrate, to, to cope, to bond, to whatever that is, we have to, that's where the reconnecting with our association to food also comes in. So there's a lot, man, there's a lot to it. And so in Valerie's case, for example, she had lost her weight. She was like trucking, she was doing great. And then she was noticing she was having a harder time being able to maintain. And this led to a big investigation of trying to figure out what was going on. She's, she seeked help for that sought out,

seeked it in, she seeked it in some help to sought out some help with that. And now she's back on the road of like figuring it all out. So there's also losing your weight, right? And this is where testing the waters can be too. There's also losing your weight and then being hit with like, so you lose your weight. Great. And now you're like, okay, now I'm in maintenance. Well, maintenance through your first summer, maintenance through your first death in the family, maintenance through changing your job, maintenance through your first Halloween, your first Christmas, your first anniversary, your first birthday, your first.

So it's like maintenance through all of those things, right? Who are you? How do you handle these things? Like what's your way of navigating? What is your relationship with food through all of these things, right? Like you could be trucking along, you lost your weight, you're good, whatever. And then you have something really traumatic happen to you. And you're just immediately pulled back into old mindset, old habits, coping, because that's the best that you can do. Now you'll be able to recognize, all right, that's not working for me. I've got to come up with something else. But unless you've had that thing happen to you while you were losing your weight, it's a new thing that you're now dealing with, right? From where you are at now. So there's a lot more to that. I was doing well on maintenance until a

physical problem sent me to bed for a year and a half. So my weight is up, but I'm back on track. I'm looking forward to feeling great. Exactly what I'm talking about, right? Or like, or like you can have lost your weight, you feel amazing, then menopause hits, your hormones are out of whack, then you're like, what the fuck? What's going on here? And things that you weren't worried about for your stress or whatever, you know, it was so much easier for you. Now you're just like, what the hell is going on? So now you got to be like, okay, what's going on with me?

What do I need now today where I'm at? Because you're still going to get hit some people with health issues, even after you've gone and lost your way to healthy way. Some of you might, you know, I don't know, break your hip, do whatever, be diagnosed with something that you never even dreamed of. And now it's like, okay, now what do you need to do? And this is where it's so great that the way that you've lost your weight was just such a healthy way physically and mentally. So you're in a much better position to handle whatever's coming at you down that pipeline, right? Okay,

I've got to go, you guys. Thanks so much for joining me today. Just a reminder that we do have all those old podcasts over on Our Way and with Gina. So if you're looking to kind of go over, we got some fun topics coming up. I really enjoyed the last few, like really getting into it. On Wednesdays is a time where you have an opportunity to weigh in with us, which is always fun. I hope that you found this helpful today. Just as a reminder, every Sunday in the group, Odette does a poster. So if you can't join the lives live, but you have something that you want me to talk on or question that you want me to answer for you added to that poster, I'll be happy to talk about it on Monday. Have an amazing day, everyone. And I'll see you later. Bye.