The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness: Midweek Motivation - May 28, 2025

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Welcome to your Midweek Motivation!In this episode of Midweek Motivation, Gina gets real about a moment that stopped her in her tracks—a conversation with a potential guest that left her questioning everything. After being told her mission was perceived as promoting the “perfect body,” Gina unpacks the disconnect between public perception and the heart of The Livy Method. With honesty and vulnerability, she reflects on the weight of diet culture, her own messaging, and how past traumas and disordered eating experiences shape the journey so many are on. This is a candid behind-the-scenes look at the inner work it takes to lead with compassion, clarity, and conviction.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 livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Can I tell you why? Because I'm a bit reeling right now. Well, I think why I mean, I see your calendar. So I mean, that could be why. No, that's not it. That's not it. It is full. And one of the conversations on the can't name names, of course, I had a meeting with somebody who was a connection from one of our guests. And this woman who helps people with eating disorders and disordered

eating. And I'm like, oh my goodness. And she talked about how your past history and just was so aligned. And you know how we just don't really touch that because we got to stay in our lane. And although we have Dr. Beverly David come on and talk about how your past history of dieting can affect your current journey.

I just thought, wow, this woman is amazing. So we had this really incredible conversation and she's talked about how it's coming up in menopause. So I'm like, great, come on menopause and come in the group. And I got this email from her afterwards. And she says, when I spoke to my about your work with my publicist, he realized that your mission is focused on weight loss and establishing the perfect body. Oh, I know. And she's like, I move out, like, I move far away from that being central and rather focused on celebrating recovery

far beyond weight loss, the perfect body and diet culture. I don't know. And I was just like, so then I went back and I was like, your publicist is wrong, like having the perfect body. And then she messaged me back and doubled down. It was like words like lose weight and perfect body are very triggering. And I just, I kind of sat here for a moment and I was like, and I was online searching it. I was like, is that the message that we're fucking sending? Like what? So then I was like trolling our Instagram account. Like I'm, I'm really shocked by that by this because

that's the opposite of what my messaging is. And then I was like, so I was late because I was so into my phone trying to figure out how would that be anybody's takeaway about, and she's like, so our businesses aren't aligned and that I can respect whatever. But I was like, man, because how many people have we spoken to who have a real torrid past with food and dieting and disordered eating, I'm sure, eating disorders and whatnot. And oh my God, we're so respectful of that and wouldn't

want to add to that. So I'm just, I'm fucking flabbergasted to be honest. Yeah. And I think anybody that is not just looking at one snapshot, I think anybody that has been part of the program, you don't even have to be part of the program, you just have to talk to actual people that have been part of the program. And it's not about having the perfect body, it's about having the healthiest body for you. It doesn't even matter what size it is, you know,

it's about having the body that works for you. And the only thing, I'm gonna be totally honest here too and transparent is there are so many, and I'm not calling them this, there are so many people that are trying to capitalize on something amazing out there, these internet trolls or whatever there is.

And I remember I think it was the time, Gina, when you would Google your name, or you would Google like Gina Livia or the Living Method, and there would be this like spam website that came up that was like perfect body.com. I wonder if somebody who didn't dive deep enough into it. And that was their only that was the only thing that they saw. And they're like automatically wall goes up.

I don't need to look further into this. Like that's the only thing that would make sense to me being around. Like I've been around a long time. I've been around even before working here since 2018. Like I've been around for a long time. And never once has it been about the perfect body and trying to achieve that look or that feeling. It's never been about that.

So, I mean, if we have to try and justify where that's maybe coming from them, I mean, not that we have to justify it, maybe that. So I mean, if we have to try and justify where that's maybe coming from them, I mean, not that we have to justify it, maybe that's what they saw. Maybe they just saw this first initial spam bot that was, you know, you Google Gina Livy and this spam website comes up because they know it's a good thing and that's all they can do. It is disheartening because it's something we have this program here when you think of somebody with disordered eating, and you think of somebody with, you know, a torrid history like you said, it's not about forgetting that history, it's not about it's not about discounting your relationship with food. It's about healing that relationship with food. It's about working through that, that toward history. It's about making change for the future.

It's not just about, you know, having this perfect body. We, oh, I don't even know when you said about perfect body. I mean, I don't know. That's all I, that's all I got for you. Well, that's how, that's how I think hurtful it was because I That's all I got for you. Well, that's how I think hurtful it was because I'm just like, oh my God, like where did they get that from?

Like, did we do a post? Like I literally spent the last 20 minutes rereading every post I've ever written on Instagram or Facebook and been like, did I, like what? Like I would hate for that to be anybody's takeaway and we try so hard to be the opposite of that. So anyway, I feel trans trans perfect body anyways. What even is that?

Like, how do you even define that you're going to have the perfect body? What is that? You're five. What? You're five. Nine. I'm five. One on five. Seven. I'm five. One on a good day. Like, does that mean that one of our bodies is more perfect than the other? Like, what does that mean that one of our bodies is more perfect than the other? Like what does that even mean? So I think that that's also that's just like surface stuff. That's like, you know, don't want to get into it. Don't want to even try to align.

So unfortunately. Yes. Well, here's Grace, a friend who joined in April said she has done maybe 13 plus weight loss programs. And she said this one is completely different. Right? Here's Bab. I never heard perfect body, always about being healthy, weird takeaway, and maybe more about themselves

and not your program. Yeah, I think maybe it's the universe. It's obviously someone that I'm not supposed to align with. I just thought, I was thinking about our members. She seemed amazing. And I thought, oh, so many of our members could use this conversation to really go deeper. Because it's one thing we're trying to heal our

relationship with food. We're trying to reconnect in other ways. But again, I always say some people are dealing with some major trauma around food and how they've associated food and whatnot. For anything, I was just excited about the resources that she has and the information and conversation she would bring. I just thought she was going to be really great for, for, because I said, we have members, yes, they're trying to lose weight, but in all the best ways and also relevant to this conversation today, maintain their weight. You have gone and lost your weight in the healthiest of ways. And so there, let's say you did have a history eating disorder and what's gonna trigger it, trauma, stress, something sad, moments of your life.

And you wanna fall back into those habits, but you wanna understand why and you wanna actually make real change in order to address those issues. And so I just thought, I was just more so, ah, this is such a great, it took me a long time to go there. It took me a long time. go there. It took me a long time.

I've been staying away from that conversation because I know it wasn't my place to have it. And I guess I just was like, so I really, I can't believe that's the takeaway. I just am like, and I, and I really think that we try so hard, not just in weight loss, but in maintenance to normalize not being perfect. I mean, if you were striving for perfection, you know, if you're in the weight loss group and you are doing all the things and you're having these amazing days

where everything is aligned and you're checking all the boxes, that could seem like a perfect day, right? But those are so few and far between. And then you come to maintenance. And if you feel like you have to uphold that perfection, you have to keep jumping to that bar that is this, you know, line in the sky. That's this is this is my ultimate perfect day. This is what I'm trying for every single day.

That would be exhausting. And nobody can sustain that. Nobody can sustain this idea of perfection. So I think we're just we're trying to normalize the opposite. We're trying to normalize not being perfect. We're trying to normalize you being you and you having the confidence and the courage and the desire to be as healthy as you can be,

whatever that looks like. And maybe that's your definition of perfect. Having the trust and the confidence that you can maintain this, not this ideal written on paper, snapped in a photo, you know, vision of what perfect is. Well, the thing is that people do want to lose weight. And there's this comes back to there's nothing wrong with wanting to lose weight, having lost your weight, wanting to work hard to maintain and sustain the weight that you've lost.

It's a good billion dollar industry, and yet there's so much just bullshit around it, right? The evolution of the diet, and diets suck, rightfully so. A lot of people got it really wrong. There was a lot of diet shaming, especially in our past. But, you know, moms who took their kids to Weight Watchers, they didn't know any better. They didn't know any better. They didn't know any better. They weren't weight loss experts. They just knew that that was what they were told worked. So that's what they did.

You know, family members who, you know, their way of showing love is by saying, oh, you have such a cute face if you only lost weight or, but then would also shame you if you're too skinny. That picking on you was their love language. Was it right? No. At the time, is that what that person was capable of? Then you go through the evolution of the diet industry where we talked freely about every crazy diet that we did. And then all of a sudden it was like,

you can't talk about it, right? So there's just so much around it. And I love that we have our little like our little piece and corner of the universe where we just get to have these conversations and talk about it without having to deal with all that out there. I guess it was just a reminder of what's happening out there for me when I, you know, try to bring someone in and then. Yeah. And I think it's a reminder that there is still some what's happening and the tunnel vision that's still happening. You know, like it's only,

Diagnostery is only this one way. You know, when we know that it's not, we know that it's evolving so much where you think, oh, you're telling people to lose weight, you must be condoning the perfect body and the, you know, the bikini body and the beach body and the six pack for men. And the tunnel is not there anymore.

We need to start looking outside of that and not. We have to start believing that that tunnel no longer exists. It's starting to blow up. And like you said, the science is changing, the powerful brilliant minds of the industry are changing and evolving. So I think it's just a reminder that we're not there yet,

but it's coming. And I don't know who this is or what happened, but they may have their own trauma too. I mean, of what they've been a part of and what's happened to them. Well, I'm not going to force something. If it's not meant to be, I'm going to listen to the universe, right? For whatever reason. It wasn't that like, I'm all to each his own, whatever, you don't want to partner, you don't want to come on, you don't want to do whatever. But I think it was just so like someone telling you

that you're a certain way and you're not that way. It's just like, wait, am I? I guess I'm a self-reflective person that if someone says, oh, this is what you're doing. I'm like, oh my God, is that my takeaway? Right? And then let's talk about how our members might internalize that too, right?

Like everyone thinking you've been successful at doing a diet, so you must be using weight loss medications. But also what if you did use weight loss medications? There's nothing wrong with that either. And so for everyone striving to lose weight, when you finally have lost your weight and you're working to maintain it, that's a whole other can of worms. That's a whole other can of worms. Here's Margie. Perfect is not a description that belongs here. Being healthy and feeling good in your own skin is most important. Unfortunately, the diet culture points to those kinds of things.

The living method teaches so much more and reality is a wonderful program. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, Risa. Also for your kind words. Yeah. Healthy, not skinny. Yeah. So we don't we don't think of the weight that that we're carrying even after losing our weight. Like there's a of the weight that we're carrying even after losing our weight. Like there's a whole other weight that we're carrying after losing our physical weight with this process, you know. Yeah, and it only comes to the surface even more because we've talked about before how now you have this space in your mind that was all consumed with losing weight. When you don't do that anymore, now what? Now you have to face those things mind that was all consumed with losing weight when you don't do that anymore

Now what now you have to face those things that do come to the surface those Messages that you know, you didn't listen to before now those messages are coming through loud and clear You know, maybe they're messages of self-doubt maybe they're they're planting those seeds of of doubt and That's you know, that's really starting to come to the surface now for for many members and for, you know, where we are in this part of the program and where we are. Yeah, even in the maintenance program, you know, we talked the messy middle of the of the way loss program, but that happens in maintenance to our members have been a little bit quiet this week.

And I'm wondering if it's because she came up last week with downsizing, you know, like, oh, you know, this, I thought I was done with that and I'm not done with that. I thought that everything was going to be sunshine and rainbows now and it's not. So, you know, that stuff still comes up. And we want you to be so done with it. We want, oh my God, are we all not just tired of it? We want you to be so done with it, but that's not the case.

Like, you're right. And the routine is settling in. But is it that you're not just bored, maybe you're content? Because there is a piece where people, when you've made the change that you've made here in maintenance, you probably look a lot better, you feel a lot better, you've actually changed your confidence.

You're not that desperate to lose that weight that you might've been, and no, that's not exactly the word, You probably look a lot better, you feel a lot better, you've actually changed your confidence. You're not that desperate to lose that weight that you might have been. I know that's not exactly the word, but you would have done anything to lose that weight. And now that you have and done it in a healthy way, maybe you are kind of content. We talk about people getting caught between weight loss and maintaining, but what about if you're maintaining and you're content? What's your driver? What's your motivation to be intentional, continue to do work when you already got the A, right? It's like

you already got the A, you already passed. And so it's kind of like, all right, it's kind of like, oh, you did a course, you got an A, but you want to keep studying because you want to make sure you're continuing to learn more when you're like already got the A so what do I care? Yeah this has me thinking so I know Grace was here today I saw her name pop up here in the comments and Grace was actually in the group I don't know if it was yesterday today and she did this amazing she posted this amazing comment and I think it was it might have been on the poster for today and I encourage our members to go read it.

Grace, I hope you don't mind. You're gonna have a whole fan base now. So Grace came in and she was, you know, she's hit her goal weight a while ago and she is, has decided she's gonna start testing things out and you know, live in this, live with the living way. And she was excited that there was still, even though she's feeling that she's in this place,

she's excited about the idea of still unpacking things. The idea of- I love that. The idea of, the comment was really long, so I didn't bring it into this conversation today, but if members can go and read it. And it was just this place of, I'm out there living my life,

but I know that living my life also means continued learning and continued unpacking and continuing to deep dive into a few things. And, you know, I think on Monday we said, you know, don't be, you know, be curious, don't be critical, but maybe it's like, be curious so you're not complacent, you know, like so you're not just sitting in this place of letting it happen to you, you are making things happen. And I don't mean like weight loss or maintaining weight, but just, you

know, going out there and living and learning and unpacking again, and you know, really, really making things start to happen for you. If you are not feeling that spark of drive, be curious. Why is that? Where is that? Where can you get that from? Because it's okay to want to take a step back and be like, I'm so done with learning and growing and evolving right now. I don't need to to do that. And so let me let me give you an application of how I continue this in my life. So obviously, I don't need to maintain my weight in an active working way, not trying to lose weight in an active way. I'm just living my life. But here's what's happening in my life. I said to Tony today

and I shared this with Kim, that I have got so much going on in my life and I love all of it. But I feel like I'm stressing my way through it. I have everything I could possibly want, hope, dream, desire for and I'm just, I'm stressing. I have got great, like I have events coming up and travel coming up and exciting things coming up, everything I ever wanted. I'm stressing my way through it. I said to him, why am I doing that? Right? This conversation with this woman, right? I'm just like, it hurts my soul. Why? I think because last night I was having a conversation with the kids joking how I could just be rolling in dough if I was just a sellout.

If I use triggered words and lose 10 pounds in two days and I was selling shit, I could make so much money and just not give a fuck about anybody and just be rolling in the dough, but I can't do that. And so there's different applications in life. So why does that bother me so much? Who is this person to say anything? What do I care? Right? Why am I so stressed about this life that I asked for, worked hard for? Why am I bothered by this? Why am I not exercising this week when I know it's the one thing that would help me deal with the stress that I'm under.

And so this is constant, but I am very intentional about I want to learn. I want to grow. I want to evolve. I want to grow in business. I want to grow personally. I want to grow socially. I want to evolve and change. So it's a very intentional thing. But I think if you just apply it just to this, that might seem monotonous and exhausting if you have spent so much time already losing your weight, and now you're maintaining your weight. And this is a little bit all So if you can take a step back, and see beyond and see the big picture of how the work that you're putting into you right

now for this, what works for you, what does it being in tune, learning to trust, knowing what you need, knowing where you're at that helps you in your life beyond just weight loss. So I love that. I love that she's intentional about that. It's like, Oh, bring it on. I'm like a bring it on. But sometimes I'm like, Okay, that's enough. Like time out. I just have done. don't have to learn a lesson today. Leave me alone.

Yeah. And I think, you know, you want to get to this place where you're not just like in this place where, you know, like, I'm maintaining my weight. I'm maintaining my weight. I'm maintaining my weight. I think that narrative, you know, eventually is going to shift as well, where I'm only learning to live. I'm only unpacking things to live. I'm not unlearned. I'm only unpacking things to live. I'm not unlearn, I'm not doing these things to maintain my weight. I'm doing them just to live the way I want to live,

to be, to have the life that I want to have. You know, this learning doesn't have to always be coupled with weight loss and this unpacking doesn't have to be coupled with maintaining weight. It's just getting to know yourself. Like you said, it's just evolving yourself. It doesn't have to be tied to maintaining your weight. Maybe maintaining your weight is something that you think about from time to time. Maybe maintaining your weight is just the side effect. Like we say that weight loss is the side effect of living the living, you know, doing the living method, you know, getting healthy is the foundation. losing your weight is the side effect, maybe maintaining your weight is the side effect of the learning and the unpacking and the

getting to know yourself and the evolving that you do. Maybe that's where, that's what the side effect is now. I'm writing down like embracing your weight or learning to live at your weight, right? Like you do, we keep using this maintain your this, maintain your weight, maintain your weight, maintain your weight sounds like a job, right? I don't know if it's that far off from moderating, moderating what you eat, trying to maintain your weight. Maybe it's just like embracing your weight,

learning to live, learning to live at this weight. Yeah. And when you say maintaining, it can sound like work, but there can be joy in that as well. Like when you think of, let's think of, I was talking to Jodi just before we got on live, Jodi's behind the scenes production, everybody knows Jodi and how awesome he is.

We were talking about, I was saying, I have this spring cleaning manual that I haven't even started yet, it's June. It's gonna be June. I think I missed the bus on spring cleaning. But even though that's a maintenance thing, It's gonna be jaded. I think I missed the bus on spring cleaning. But, you know, there's, even though that's a maintenance thing, like I'm maintaining my home, I'm maintaining clean windows, I'm maintaining a yard. Sounds like work, but there's joy in that as well, because there's

this sense of like, look what's going on around me, you know? Like, okay, I'm maintaining my home, and that makes me happy. I'm maintaining my home and that makes me happy. I'm maintaining my weight that makes me happy, even though it's not always what you want to be doing or what you want to be thinking, but it's going to bring you joy. It's going to bring you this happiness. So, you know, whether it's maintaining your weight, that can sound like work, maintaining your yard, that can sound like work. It's going to bring you joy at the end. It's going to create the space and this place around you that's going to make you happy. Yeah, that's so nice. Yeah. It's a privilege to be able to keep up a home. It's a privilege to be able to keep a clean house and make prepare food for your family and do all things.

A lot of the things feel like work, fucking dinner every night feels like work. But like, come on, I have access. A lot of people in the world do not have access to a fridge full of food to make that dinner every night, but we don't think on that level, right? So you're right, it's your perspective in life. It's your perspective on you've worked really hard to lose your weight.

Now it's about embracing your weight or living at this weight or, you know, your journey, your lifelong journey, right? Margie, like, yeah, so it's about framing and that's, oh, we can't do that for you, right? We can have conversations here and sounds like Dr. Beverly, yeah, we need to remain curious. Like we can have these conversations are really just to sort of spark something in you that says, yeah, we need to remain curious. Like we can have these conversations or really just to sort of spark something in you that says, yeah, this is what I need to do. That's, there's always a message in something, right?

Yeah, as if you're open to it. And maybe the message comes at you the first time and you're like, eesh, I didn't like the way that sounded. And then it comes at you again. And maybe you look at it from, you approach it differently or your perspective change or your perception of it changes. And that message, that same message that you've been hearing might change or hit different again.

Yeah, that's like why we started this conversation. What is that message for me? What is it like, it's not about what they said or what they think it's, I don't need anybody to come on and help. So why did it bother me so much? Like what is my issue with that? Is it that I need to show people? Is it that I, there's more I could do though, right? Is there, do I need, is this an opportunity to take a look at our messaging? Is this like, what is it?

I don't know. I'll have to figure that out, but. Yeah. I think it's, you know, I mean, I don't want to say I think this is, what is it? I don't know. I'll have to figure that out. But yeah. I think it's, you know, I mean, I don't want to say I think this is what it is, but you know, I think when you're in this place of always wanting to grow and evolve, even if you don't like the message, you want to be able to use it in some way.

Yes. Like, you know, I didn't love what she said, but maybe there's something that I can use from it. Maybe there's something in that message that even though it didn't align with me at all, or I don't think, I think it's BS, maybe there there's something in that message that even though it didn't align with me at all, or I don't think, I think it's BS, maybe there's still something in that message that can be useful.

Yeah, it triggered me for some reason. If something triggers you, there's probably a good message. It's probably a good learning opportunity. In that for you, as we know, with food, with triggers, what are your triggers, right? Maybe this is triggering me to feel like I'm not doing enough, that I'm not worthy. I'm trying to prove myself to people again,

like rather than just be like, okay, thanks. You know, like I don't know. Maybe it's not about me changing anything. It's maybe it's about me being like, it's okay. You know, you are doing enough. You are worthy. You are perfect. I am perfect the way that I am. You are worthy. You are you are perfect. I am perfect the way that I am. You're right. I am absolutely on a mission to help people

believe that they are perfect exactly the way they are in their body as it is today. But it's also okay. If you want to make change. That's okay, too. That's okay, too. Yeah. That's all I don't know. Whatever it is. Maybe I'll sleep tonight, maybe I won't. You will. Don't have a glass of wine though, because then you definitely will not sleep. Definitely will not be having a glass of wine. So what's our takeaway from today, Odette, with where we're at with this week, week five, the program? Yeah, so I really wanted to talk about, now our takeaway is so different because I'm thinking about what I want to talk about, we didn't talk about it. I'm sorry, I totally blew that out of the water for you. No, it was an amazing conversation. It was,

that was exactly what, you know, we needed today. I think, you know, this place of, the takeaway here is this place where we're at, where we're in the middle, where we are still trying to figure things out, can be a magical place. Even though the messages that you are hearing may not resonate with you 100%, but if you can be open to being curious, not complacent, not critical,

being open to asking questions, being open to answering those questions yourself. I think that's the takeaway. Just be open to it. Don't let what you haven't accomplished yet keep you back. Like don't let that, if you still have that negative narrative in your mind, because it's telling, you don't have the reinforcement from experience that you've maintained your weight before. You don't have the reinforcement from experience that you've maintained your weight before. You don't have that message in your head saying, you can do this because you've done it before. Just because it's not there yet,

doesn't mean it's not going to come. So don't let that hold you back. Don't let that narrative hold you back from the possibility of what can happen right now in the middle of what those messages can be. I think that's the takeaway. That's a great takeaway. And I think that's it, is what is the message in your head?

Like, what is this week? We can tell you the steps, what you're doing, but it's for you, the thoughts that you have, the feelings that you have, the feelings that you have, that's the work. Are you showing up or you're not showing up? How do you feel about it either way? What are the things that keep popping up in your mind? What's the narrative that keeps popping up over and over and over again for you? Not just the guidelines each week that you follow, it's so much deeper than that. Yeah. It's a great takeaway. Yeah. Great takeaway.

Yeah. All right. So yeah, we've got a couple great days coming up. I mean, tomorrow Dr. Paul is back. And I just want to talk about that conversation. I know we're, we're, we gotta go, we gotta go. It's late already, but you know, that conversation of the four things that might affect your weight, even in maintenance, you know, we talk about those day to day things, salty food, working out, you know, crappy sleep, how that can have to scale up. But, you know, you can be going around smooth sailing and there could be other things going on that's going to affect your scale, not affect your weight loss progress, because that's not where we are.

But, you know, you could inflammation could pop up where you never had it before. Gut issues could pop up when you never had it before. Gut issues could pop up when you never had them before. And I think the big, big takeaway from these conversations with Dr. Paul is that there's so much that you can do. You don't have to let it happen to you, right? You can work through that. There's so much you can do. And that's the motivating thing that you can take

from these conversations that, life is gonna keep happening. You might not not have your hormones might be great now, maybe in a couple of years, they're not going to be so great. You know, you know, you might not have, you might not think you have inflammation now, but it could pop up, you know, later on. So I think that the takeaway is there's always something that you can do. And so that conversation is great. And then, you know, just encourage people to stop. It could be the same conversation that you heard in weight loss, but the way it applies and hits you now in maintenance is totally different. So I think that's an important one.

I want to make sure people are tuning in. It is. And Dr. Paul's coming on tomorrow. And we decided to air that conversation in here. Is it relevant to people in maintenance? Because this isn't just like the carryover group. This is its own group. And I thought yes, because you could have lost your weight. And then all of a sudden, you start to go through menopause. So hormones are affecting you, you could have lost your weight. And all of a sudden, you're under stress that you've never experienced before. And it's so easy to fall back in old habits, you can have lost your weight.

And all of a sudden have be dealing with gut issues that are popping up, you could have lost your weight and all of a sudden be diagnosed with health issues or dealing with inflammation from other things. And so, you know, you could have lost your weight and been successful. And now that you're just living at your weight, these things could, you know, start popping up as well. Perhaps you do have a food sensitivity where you remove bread, and what you thought was gluten while you were losing. And now you think, Oh, I can have those again. And you're adding them in and they're just causing you to not feel really well, right?

So I think it's a great awareness conversation. Thanks everyone who entertained my rant today. It wasn't a rant, it was more personal share. Thanks for helping me work that out. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. Thanks everyone who joined us live and also thanks for you Odette. Week five is a good week. We'll be back to downsizing again next week. So

let's enjoy the next couple days before we dig even deeper. Dig even deeper. Have a great rest of your day, everyone. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.