The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness: Maintenance Midweek Motivation - February 19, 2025

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

In this week’s Midweek Motivation episode, Gina and Odette are breaking down why Downsizing looks different in maintenance and how to get comfortable in those uncomfortable spaces. How are your emotions and reactions around food shifting? What’s your WHY now that you’ve lost the weight? And let’s talk about fear—of hunger, of losing control, of what’s next.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulnessTo learn more about The Livy Method, and our Maintenance & Mindfulness group, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thank you for filling in today. If anyone's watching us live, Odette filled in for me today in the weight loss program. Week six, very similar to you guys here, focused on downsizing. And so each week, Kim and I, who manages the weight loss program, get together and talk about the tweaks.

So I'm actually in the city, I'm in transit, so I was unable to make it. So how was that? You know, it was really great. I have said a couple of times before that I don't spend a lot of time in the weight loss group, but that's where I came from. Like that, I was part of that for many years before as a member and then, you know, started like our frontline workers, I like to call them our program specialists.

I started as one of those. So I really love getting back in there and seeing where their members are at because I'm so focused on where our maintenance members are at. I love getting in there and hearing from Kim and I feel like I can still contribute over there. So I really like getting getting in there. Well, a different conversation. So this this week, week six in the maintenance program, people are downsizing again,

but the focus is on compassion and coping. Where over there, it's leveling up, it's maximizing, it's all those other things. So the contrast there, I'm sure is really interesting. Yeah, it is interesting. And you know, I was just, I was been in the group, obviously, and I thought, wow, people are really quiet this week. Nobody's talking downsizing. So I was thinking, I hope that they're not, I hope our members in maintenance are not blowing it off. I hope that

they are giving it a go. Because although the title is the same, it's downsizing. We talk about this, how it's such a different intention. And when we talk about compassion and coping, when we're downsizing, we're putting ourselves into a bit of, I don't wanna say discomfort, but an uncomfortable place, right? We're doing things that might not feel like part of our routine. We're out of the norm, we're uncomfortable.

And I think when we get to the space of being uncomfortable, how do we react? Are we feeling triggered for lack of a better word? Or tested, maybe tested is the right word. And how do we cope with that? So it's not necessarily downsizing because we're getting the scale to move and we're trying to shake up the body, which we are doing because, you know, have we said members

have been noticing a shake up and being more in tune with their portions, slightly unsatisfied, but it's also taking it a bit further. It's contrasted here in maintenance because we're talking about the uncomfortable space, not just to shake up your body, but to shake up your mindset and how you deal with those uncomfortable spaces. You know, I love this because we were just away on the weekend and we were skiing, so we took the kids skiing. And so there's a couple of different things. It's really interesting. My one daughter learned to ski just this year. So she's taken six ski lessons. And then of course,

we take her from our Blue Mountain, which really should just be called a hill in comparison or especially if you ask him, Kim will be like, that's not a mountain. Yeah, for anyone who's listening who doesn't live in Canada or not aware where I am in Ontario, we have ski, we have ski hills, we do not have mountains. And so my daughter has learned on a ski hill. And we took her to Blue Mountain a few weeks ago and she was really outside of her

comfort zone and she was in her head and she was kind of panicking. I'm like what are you doing? You're panicking and being in your head is going to be what's going to mess you up. You know what to do, you're going to be fine, you need to step out of your comfort zone. She's like, I just want to go back to the hill I'm used to skiing. I'm like you can't because Like you can't because then you're only gonna be able to ski there and be at that level So, of course we took her to the mountain and you know, it's hugely outside of her comfort zone the first day We skied certain hills. She was nervous. She was whatever Next day though went back and she just looked like a pro. Just looked like a pro. And then I have my other daughter who deals with anxiety and the last time we were there two years ago

she just had so much anxiety going on just in her life in general. She could barely ski, being around people, new situations, so nervous and she has spent the last two years almost being like exposure therapy, exposing herself to uncomfortable situations to build that resiliency. And now she was able to go back and be like, wow, like, I can't believe the difference in how I feel now compared to when I was here last time. And we just get used to what we know. And especially when it comes to dieting, what we know is starving and depriving. And I think this is why people are so resistant to

visit downsizing again, whether it's you know, in the weight loss program or in maintenance, is that they actually got used to what it felt like to give their body what it needs. And so if it kind of brings up those fields, it makes you feel a little uncomfortable, that's what's helping you grow. That's what's helping you evolve. That's what's helping you move forward. And sometimes I think we forget, I think we want to feel safe and we want to feel comfortable. But that like, it's just like almost like the first few weeks of the program,

your body gets happy and content with what you're doing, but a happy content body isn't motivated to make change. So it's really understanding the benefits of being outside of your comfort zone. And I guess that's where the compassion comes in, giving yourself compassion, grace, and then you are here to learn new coping skills. Yeah. And when you're coming at this place where you're feeling triggered or tested, and you step back and you give yourself a bit of compassion. First of all, you have to notice that you realize that this place of being uncomfortable, like you said, with

your daughter on the ski hill, look what happened the next day, change happened. Right? If you stay in the same place because it's safe, because you know, it's working, it's going to always work. You know, there might come a point where it doesn't work anymore, you know, or you needed to make that change on the way. So this is this comfortable place is where the change is going to happen, where the growth is going to happen. And going back to like when you're feeling triggered, and when you're feeling tested, when you give your when you look at it with some compassion, when you're kind to yourself, when you take a minute, it makes you more grounded versus reactive. So if you're in this place of discomfort and you're not sure what's going on around you, if you act in a reactive way, this is when those old

habits can come back, those old coping mechanisms can start to creep back in. And we know again from our members who've been maintaining from all of the research, I know we say it over and over again, they have leaned into different ways of coping with things, not just different ways with coping with the discomfort of downsizing, coping with anything that life has to throw at you. Because that's gonna, that's unfortunately

gonna keep happening. You can be comfortable in your little space and want to stay there, but life's going to keep throwing you curve balls. That's going to make you uncomfortable one way or another. So learning how to cope with it through this tweak of downsizing, you know, can be a game changer. Well, you know, I'm saying all the time in the weight loss program that everything you have to think is bigger picture.

Everything you're doing to lose weight is feeding into being able to maintain and sustain your weight at the end. It's no different for what you're doing and what you're learning in maintenance. It's all getting you to a place where you feel comfortable, confident, comfortable in your skin, calm around food and the choices that you're making. This is all part of that process. Now is not the time to be comfortable. Now is the time to continue to move forward, continue to grow, to continue to dig deeper, but also all while being compassionate.

I love this from Risa. I was definitely uncomfortable and nervous the first few programs at downsizing. It definitely made me feel almost resentful. Ooh, I love that. But it took time practicing getting in tune with why I felt this way. Yeah. And I want to remind people here too, is that your thoughts and your feelings that you're having even about what you're being asked to do. And if you have strong reactions to that, you probably have some strong issues

and associations that you still need to work through in order to get to that calm place, not just physically, but mentally, right? Yeah, and this brings up something, Arthur, that we talked about in the weight loss group earlier today on the tweak, and we had a member say that she was sad, sad of the fear of missing out on food because she loves food. And more so on, you know, where is this fear

or this sadness coming? Oh, Jodi, here we go. I'm feeling sad. Through mindfulness, I have found I just really love food. And now I'm not as excited about eating sad to let that go. And we were saying that where is the sadness coming from? Because the food is still going to be there for you. So is it the association you have with the good food?

Is it the way that eating makes you feel? What is it the association you have with the good food? Is it the way that eating makes you feel? What is it that's making you feel sad? And this is where all these big questions come up. And if you're feeling sad, how are you coping with that sadness? What's going on? Are you willing to ask yourself the questions? Why do I feel sad? But first, I think what we want to figure out is, you know, the food is still there. You know, the enjoyment of food is still there. And I think if we can reframe it that, you know, now you're going to be able to enjoy food with a better relationship and feel good on the other side of it. I think that's, you know, that's what we're going

to look at. It's like being in a bad relationship and all you are remembering is the good stuff. Yes, that's what it's that's what it is. And I beg to differ that people did not actually enjoy that food. And if you if you are sad, because you can't have your favorite foods. I mean, the whole point is to lose your weight in a way you can enjoy all the yummy bites that the life has to offer. There's nothing that I don't eat. There's lots of things I choose not to eat because I just, eh, whatever.

But some people really love, like some people love cooking food. There's no reason why, I once had a client who would cook like 12 course meals and did the program. So there's no reason why you can't still cook and enjoy making food, whether all that be desserts or regular food as well. I have desserts all the time. So it's not about, I think it's that if you're on a diet you have to follow a diet for the rest of your life. When you follow the living method and you lose your weight in a healthy way, you have to live your life being in tune to your body's needs and be mindful. You can't just eat junk and overeat all day every day and fall back into old habits. But to me it's bringing a renewed sense of joy from food. To be able to make food and not be like, okay, I'm not going to eat it.

I'm just going to eat a certain amount or like you go to eat something that you like or you know, should I eat it? Should I not eat it? Oh, I over ate it. I ruined everything. Like I would beg to, I would beg to differ that people are not actually enjoying their foods at all. When they, what they think is they're missing out on foods that they love.

Those foods didn't really bring you joy because think about what was happening in your mind before happening in your mind during happening in your mind afterwards how you punish yourself verbally physically after indulging. I don't think that those foods were fun for you and I don't think you brought any and got any enjoyment out of those foods because and how I know that is because you saying, this is how you feel now. You're sad because you think that you won't be able to have those foods when you will,

you just be able to, your taste buds will be more enhanced. You'll have, your mind will be quiet. You'll actually be able to taste the flavor, enjoy the foods, walk away feeling, oh, that was really great. That was wonderful. What a nice dinner rather than I'm so fat and disgusting, I'm never going to lose my weight. And so if this is your thought process that you're sad because you won't be

able to indulge in those foods, those foods guaranteed never brought you joy in the first place in your mind. They were fun. They were yummy. This whatever I guarantee you in the moment, they did not bring you joy that you think that they did. There's no way. Yeah, there's no way.

And when you're walking away from that, like you say, you're walking away from that meal and you're talking to yourself in those terms, you're berating yourself, I feel fat, I feel disgusting, that that wasn't worth it. You know, you want, when you have it and you enjoy it and you walk away and say, that was worth it, you know, that was enjoyment,

that's where the enjoyment with food can come from. That's where it's not, you know, the food is not making you feel a certain way. You feel a certain way because of the surroundings, the association, the new association you have with the food. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that takes time, you know, and it's hard because, I mean, and like I said, we don't wanna,

I said it earlier, I didn't say it here, I said it earlier, we don't wanna invalidate people's feelings of the fear and the sadness because this is all part of that discomfort. It's all part of that uncomfortable feeling. And this is new, it's unfamiliar, and it's working through that. And until I think you get to that point where you know that the food is still there,

that you know that you can still enjoy it and you might enjoy it even more, those feelings are still valid and they're still gonna come up. Or if your belief is that you can never have it, you might have a fear of trusting yourself. Right? I had a woman the other day,

there was an interesting post that we did, social media did, and it was talking about Ozempic and one woman was like, yeah, Ozempic is really working well for me and I did the Libby Method and I only lost 15 pounds and I gained it all back. And I'm like, okay, but you can't just take Ozempic. When you stop taking Ozempic,

you're gonna gain the weight back. The things that you're learning on the Libby Method and the reason why people gain weight back is falling back into old habits. You can't just go back to the way things were. But that doesn't mean that you can't find new joy in feeling fantastic and sleeping better and having your taste buds being more enhanced and quieting the noise and actually being able to enjoy your food in other ways you were unable to before.

Not being mindful and being self-aware and that's no way to live, to just be disconnected and it's not put time into solidifying your weight and so these are the things that you need to do and work through in order to get to that place where you're calm around food, where you're truly living a life beyond weight loss or trying to maintain your weight constantly. So it's just all of these thoughts and feels I cannot emphasize enough.

Not only do we wanna validate that your feels are valid, they are such a huge, massive part of your journey and getting to where you are trying to get to. Yeah, and this, you know, this is when you talk about what are we talking about this week? It's downsizing. You know, I wish it could be that easy, like, oh, we're just doing downsizing. Don't think about anything else. Don't worry about it. Yeah. This is where when we're talking about this, we say different intentions and, you know, being concerned that members are quiet and not wanting to give it a go. This is what this is the conversation we want them to hear. You know, it's only midway through

the week this week. If you haven't given it a go yet, give it a go. See what happens. You know, a couple weeks ago, we talked downsizing and members like, Oh, yeah, it shook up my portions or I realized my portions. Great, I'm happy that happened to you in week four. And now in week six, let's take it to the next level. Let's try downsizing for reasons beyond portions. Let's take a minute to hear from our podcast sponsor today because this new year,

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to this? This comes down to what is your why? And I have been suggesting in the weight loss program, it's a great time to check your why. The why that you started your weight loss journey with probably changes midway through. And your why that you started the maintenance program with chances are has changed halfway through too, right? Like really just taking it, forget just even one month at a time, one tweak at a time, one day at a time, right? Really just looking at it with that fresh perspective, because we do have that fresh eyes approach in the weight loss program, but you also, you almost need

that fresh eyes approach coming into the weight loss program as well. And each tweak, as you do it for the first time, that's why. If you think it's just the same old information, it's the same old thing. It's not like I really dig into the guidelines each week and all the posts and all the information that we're posting here. It's a game changer. Yeah, I agree. And I think, you know,

I just wanna go back to the portions for a second and you know, just thinking about how portions have changed for people. And we say when members are going through the weight loss group that they're eating for the body that they want to have, right? The size body they want to have. And our members now here in maintenance are like, well, I'm already at that size. This is the size that I want to be at.

So why do I have to do downsizing? Why do I have to, you know, check my portions again? And this is where, again, I know I've said it a couple of times, but this is where the conversation goes deeper. We're not downsizing just for that. We're downsizing for, we're setting you up to have these skills to carry you forward into, you know, long-term, forever living the living way.

If you don't know why, then that's problematic. If you don't know why, then that's problematic. If you're like, why do I have to do this again? Then that's, you need to do it again, because you should be understanding exactly why. Because you worked really hard to lose your weight. You want to, you really want to work just as hard, if not harder to be able to make sure you are going to be able to maintain your weight. This is not just solidifying your weight. It's solidifying your mindset as well. And it's solidifying, you know, how you're going to, let's go back to it, react and cope later on down the road.

You know, those stressful situations are gonna happen. Life is gonna happen. It's gonna keep coming at you. And I feel like we can't say it enough. We can't be in this comfortable little bubble forever. It's just, it's not real life. So we wanna help set you up for when you do get there. And, you know, if we can just plant that seed of,

you know, the way that you talk to yourself, the way that you are able to deal with these situations that come up so that the habits that you have now are not forgotten and those old things that did trigger you before have a way back in. Well, I just want to remind people to the whole point of the tweaks each week is to keep things progressing. It's to keep things moving, to keep you moving forward, to to for you to to have things brought up. I can't remember which one of our our guest experts talked about

how you're unraveling, I think Dr. Alinka, layers of yourself. Right. And if you've spent a lot of time trying to lose weight, there's probably a lot of layers. If food has been a big part of your life and you're feeling nervous like you'll never be able to eat your favorite foods again Or you're nervous about being able to maintain your weight. There's probably some stuff You're gonna have to dig into there, right? Like this is this is that that stepping out of your comfort zone and and saying to yourself When your thoughts and feels come up, what is the message in here for me?

Why do I keep thinking this? Why am I feeling this? What is this connected to? What do I need to do? What do I need to work through to actually move past how I'm feeling right now? Because again, it's that calm. What do you need to do and work through to be calm physically around food, calm mentally around food, for you to be able to wake up every day and just look

your best, feel your best, be able to just eat when you're hungry, be in tune to your body's portions, know what you want to eat, to not have that space in your brain, right? That that, you know, just, you know, constantly like, what do you have to do to get to that place? That's what you're working through with this. And the tweaks each week are going to help you unravel those layers you need to work through. Yeah. And I think one thing I just want to add to that is what am I afraid of here? You know, why am I afraid of doing this? What am I afraid the outcome is going to be if I put myself through this change,

if I put myself through this discomfort, I'm changing up what I think works for me. If I shift away from it too much or I change things up, what am I afraid of? What is it? Am I afraid that I'm going to be slipping back into old habits? Am I afraid that I'm going to talk to myself in a bad way because I have allowed myself to go there.

So I think that's another important part. What are you afraid of? Why do you not want to lean into it? If you're not, why you're not wanting to lean into it. Yeah. That's all, that's what downsizing and compassion and coping is. All of it, we're setting it up for life beyond here.

We want you to get out of here. Superficial surface stuff here. Let's let's get into before we go about next week. So next week, we are feeding the metabolism. What is the focus here in the maintenance group? Yeah, so we're all we're actually we are feeding the metabolism for sure. And so because we do that for two weeks, next week, we're we're talking optimizing and feeding the metabolism.

So metabolism, so feeding them doesn't take a lot of time. So in the first few days, we're just getting you set up to really optimize all those areas that maybe you didn't have the capacity to think of this week because you were so busy thinking about downsizing and coping skills. Really just bringing it back to optimizing and then moving into feeding the metabolism. And with feeding the metabolism, it really is about bringing an awareness

and a priority back to yourself, which can be really difficult for people. They spent so much time on themselves and taking care of themselves and their weight loss journey that they almost feel the sense of selfishness or guilt with having to bring the priority and spend so much time thinking about themselves and what they need to do.

So that's how we're gonna work through eating metabolism. So starting it next week, but just optimizing everything else. And then the week after really into prioritization and setting up some habits and checking yourself before you wreck yourself. Yeah, and it's one of my favorite weeks in and tweaks. And I love Marie here. I'm afraid of getting hungry. Hunger affects my mood. And so this is where, if it's like specific

to this week, I wonder how you're going to feel next week when we are feeding the metabolism and you have to eat even more often. I wonder how that it's going to affect your mood. I wonder if that is going to bring you joy, right? Like I wonder how you it's going to affect your mood. I wonder if that is going to bring you joy, right? Like I wonder how you're going to feel because is it actually that you're not getting enough or is it just the fear and where's that coming from? With downs like, cause you, cause people eat a lot of food. I say this all the time.

It does not, that doesn't mean that you're getting the nutrients that you need from your food. A calorie is not a calorie. Where you're getting your calories from absolutely makes a huge, massive difference. And if you're eating all this good nutrient rich foods, even in smaller portions, and again, you're not starving and depriving yourself,

you're just eating slightly less than what your body became accustomed to. And so your body, of course, is noticing that. And so this is sort of where does that come from? I'm afraid of getting hungry. You're eating breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, dinner, probably more than most of the people in the world eats.

Where does that sense of like, you're not starved by any means? Unless of course, I would never assume, but people can be dealing with food shortages, like finances can be a problem, that can definitely be an issue. Maybe you were raised on that mentality and whether there was a fear of never having enough or going hungry. Maybe that's what your parents told you stories of when they were younger and there was a fear.

Like in Tony's family, for example, right? Like you sat at the dinner table, my husband, he doesn't talk at dinner. It makes me crazy because when we go out to a nice restaurant, we spend a shit ton of money on food and we're in and out in 45 minutes. And I'm like, for the amount of money we spent, this should be like a five hour ordeal.

But because he was taught that you don't talk while you eat we are so blessed to have food that we are eating you are going to eat that food mindfully and you're just gonna eat it and you're not gonna talk and like that's your job is to consume this food we're so blessed to have and so the way you are raised is still I mean it's still affecting expecting him to this day he's a grown man. Can we just have a nice, slow, relaxing, romantic dinner without being in and out for 45 minutes? And that's just something that was taught to him. Whereas my family dinner was the time where you sit down and talk to your family.

That that's what dinner was for. We then because my mom wasn't really all that into cooking. Um, I don't, I mean we had like meat, potatoes, whatever, not that she wasn't into cooking, but it wasn't really all that into cooking. I don't, I mean, we had like meat, potatoes, whatever, not that she wasn't into cooking, but it wasn't a big event. The event was sitting down with the family and talking about, well, how was your day today? And what'd you do today?

And whatever, it wasn't about the food. So Tony's family solely focused on the food, or my family, the food really, like whatever. It was just the conversation. That's when you sat down and talked to your parents or had conversations with your kids So how you were raised where is that fear of hunger coming from when you're eating all day long all this nutrient-rich foods Where is that coming from and then next week? What's really interesting? I would love to follow up who asked that question who meant to make that

Marie Claire Marie Claire to know next week, how are you feeling then when you are splitting up your meals and snacks and having to eat, so you eat that first portion and you wait a half hour and you have to eat that second portion regardless of where you're hungry or not, even just a token amount. What's happening? So pay attention to that. What is happening to that mindset where you're, you have that fear of being hungry. Is that happening next week? Right? So is it just the act or is it like, right? Like, I just think it's so interesting

because you take people on diets who try not to eat and then now they have to eat. And it's amazing what that does to your mind. Yeah. And I think members and maintenance too, they get worried that it's going to all of a sudden be too much food. Yeah, you know, like this is, you know, so it's all again, it's layers, you know, it they're, they're happy that they get to eat food, but then they're torn because like, Oh, my goodness,

what if it's too much food? Yeah, so or they're or it's inconvenient. Oh, my god, it's tiring. I have to eat all the time. Yes. And they feel guilty about it spending that much time on themselves. Yes. All the layers. I love it. We should like, you know, we should put like a layer on like prep week and like every week take one off when we do this.

That's what we should do. You said I'm still in menopause. I'll be getting hot. I'll be like kicking off. Yeah. But there's something to that though. I'll be getting hot. I'll be like kicking off. Yeah. But there's something to that though. There's something to that. There's something to it. That would be cool if we could visualize that somehow, like peeling off the layers each week. We get lighter and lighter and lighter. Live lighter. That's our new mantra

around here. The little nothing. Live lighter. Maybe that's a note for the journal. Peeling those layers. All right, what you got going on the rest of the week? So tomorrow we are helping people with their coping mechanisms. So we're introducing the 90 second rule. We've talked about it before and it's really about not being reactive. It's taking a minute when you are in those stressful situations to really just take a minute and, you know, acknowledge how you're feeling and moving through it

so that we don't, you know, react to our actions versus, you know, being grounded and being able to work through them. And we're also asking people tomorrow, if they had, just a bit of fun, if they had one word to describe the scale, what would it be, especially at this point in their journey, we've asked them before and their weight loss journey, I think, a few groups ago. And now

we want to know how they feel about it. So we're having a bit of fun. And then of course, Friday is all about food. So we're talking anti inflammatory foods. And we've got a bit of a verbal debate coming up on Friday. So we're having some fun. I feel like we have like all these good talks up till Wednesday. Wednesday we get you motivated, we have some fun, you're gonna finish off the week,

you're gonna downsize, you're gonna work through, work through all those layers you need to work through and then come out strong on Monday again. Yeah, and I think this week it has seemed a little quiet. I think it was a long weekend here in Canada. We've got people are buried under like so much snow. I think also six weeks in. We're also like in the midst of winter.

I think that's all going to start turning around. In the next couple of weeks, we're going to feel more energized, more motivated. I think those are stuck around. I was on my Instagram scrolling and it said, we're three quarters of the way through February and nobody's noticed because January was so long. I feel like how was it already February 20th tomorrow? Wasn't it?

It was like June 75th, or sorry, January 75th, just a couple days ago. I know. So I think it's almost done. It's speeding up. Next week, next week will be week seven. It's craziness. And then it'll be springtime. So I think it's almost done. It's speeding up. Next week will be week seven. It's craziness. And then it'll be springtime. So springtime. All right, Odette.

Nice chatting with you. Thanks for filling in again for me today. Appreciate that. It was great. Anytime. I love it. All right. Thanks, everyone.

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