The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness: Mindset Mondays - July 7, 2025

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Maintenance Mindset Mondays is all about cracking open the conversation about what REAL maintenance looks like – beyond the scale and deep into personal transformation. Join Gina and Odette as they dive into the week’s focus, share insights on all things maintenance, and answer your questions. Whether you’re new or experienced, there’s something for everyone!In this Week 11 episode, Gina and Odette talk about the powerful shift from following the program to fully trusting yourself. It’s all about showing up as the person you’ve become; confident, capable, and tuned in. They shares how resistance often signals growth, how fear of doing it wrong can hold you back, and why trust is built not by thinking, but by doing. From structure with flexibility to using awareness during stressful moments, this week is about leaning into your progress, taking ownership, and choosing with intention. Homework? Keep showing up and make a call. Every action strengthens that trust muscle.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.

I'm Gina Livi and welcome to the Livi 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 relisten to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place.

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I can tell by your woolly, your cozy. Yeah, my cozy. I love it. I love a good cozy. I have all of these in like every single color. I think I'm going to start selling these as part of our, well, we do sell them as part of our merchandise, but I mean, actually online so people can get them. But I have one from like when I first started with you,

which was like 2021, I guess. And I still have it. I wash it. I like it washes beautifully and it's perfect. It's one of those things. You know what I love about this one actually is the sleeve. You know, the sleeve is tight. Yeah.

So sometimes you get these big cozy things and the sleeves are all hanging and... Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, so it's been a heat wave where we are, where we live. I do realize there are people all over the world who are doing the living method in our maintenance program, but it's been a heat wave where we are

and my office is in my basement and it is so cold. I actually have a space heater. It's like what? I don't know. But you do love the heat, right? You do love the heat. So I've been I went for a swim this morning, which was great. I'm lucky enough to have a pool. And so this morning I went for a swim. I'm doing my last last year I did 99 days of swimming. So I'm lucky enough to have a pool. And so this morning I went for a swim. I'm doing my last, last year I did 99 days of swimming. So I'm going to try to attempt the same again. And so I went for my swim yesterday and today. Hi, Kath, how are you?

Happy Monday friends. Hello. How are you feeling? I know last week we talked about things are a little bit, wait, did we even talk last week? We didn't talk last week. We talked Wednesday. We talked Wednesday last week we talked about things are a little bit. Wait, did we even talk last week? We didn't talk last week. We talked Wednesday. We talked Wednesday last week.

Yeah. Yeah. So just feeling a little off the long weekend. We had ours in Canada. And then this weekend, our friends in the US. So we're talking week 11, transitioning to trust. I love that title. What do we want to talk about with this?

So I just wanted to touch on personalizing the plan. So this is, we talk about transitioning to trust and easier said than done, looks great on paper, right? But what does that mean? So I think that if we can look at, if members can look at personalizing the plan as the ultimate action step to creating and building trust. I think that is what a big takeaway of this week can be. Because we have been

laying so much down for them to pick up. They've been following this program. It's a nice transition from weight loss into the maintenance program because they're still structured there. And we've been talking about building trust and building confidence. And First Nations and Plan is not just a tweak. It's really this place where, you know, they're taking action to create that trust. It's not just talking yourself into trusting yourself.

You're creating this action that's going to help you reprogram what you believe, reprogram your mindset that like, I'm doing these things, I'm taking these steps, I'm making these decisions. And every time you do that, it reinforces that belief in yourself, it reinforces that trust.

And so when we look at personalizing the plan as a tweak, yes, you're being more in tune. Yes, you are really diving deeper into what your body actually needs. You're leveling it up by understanding how certain foods make you feel. Do you need quick energy? Do you need long lasting energy?

But all of these things altogether is what is building that trust. It's this action that is reinforcing and reprogramming your mind to really believe in yourself? Yeah, I just, I love the transition to trust part. I, you know, there are people obviously in the weight loss program this morning when I went live who this was the first time.

And of course they're just like a panic mode, right? They're like, wait, can I just do the basic food plan? Can I go back to revamp? This isn't the right time for me. I don't trust myself. I'm gonna fall back into old habits. And I was just like, I was thinking about this. And I was like, why are people so resistant? And I'm like, this, this is so big because and I'm going to get to how it matters and maintenance. This is so big because this is

showing people highlighting in your face, what you need to work on to really get to a live your life and just wake up, look good, feel good, and trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat. That's why this is such a big week for people because this is gonna show you where your weaknesses are, for lack of a better word, and where your strengths are in terms of your confidence and the things that you really feel you've made real change.

And if you are resistant at all to this week, great. The work is not done for you, and that's gonna really highlight the areas that you need to focus on. I've said more times than I can account in the weight loss program, it's about the tools and the skills that you are acquiring,

the things that you're working through to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. Now that you are here in the maintenance program, this is really testing where you're at. Are you ready to go on your own? And if you're terrified of personalizing the plan, probably you're not there yet. And then you might benefit from doing another round of the maintenance program again in the

fall. And that's okay. And there's nothing wrong with that. So this really highlights like where you're at, because because people perceive that there's that if you just left on your own, you're going to eat whatever you want, your body is just going to get you to eat burgers and french fries and chips. That's not it. That's not what this is about. This has all of the structure. So checking in at every single meal and snack time, all of the flexibility of the foods that we incorporated in the last couple weeks. So you can have fruit, combine it with the protein and fat. You're

still following the same components at meals, at lunch and dinner, the protein, leafy greens, healthy fats. That's when you're going to add any heavier carbs at lunch and dinner, but no longer a star meal. So there's like people perceive that as, oh my goodness, left up to myself, I'm going to fall back into old habits and ruin it. The advice I gave in the weight loss group is you're looking to lose weight, be intentional about that. And if you're looking to maintain your weight, be intentional about that, right? With this tweak. So who Reese is saying here, I honestly thought this tweak is what maintenance is all about.

It's everything we've learned in the weight loss program. That's why I was confused. Why are we following the weight loss tweaks? Yeah, I mean, so, so, so what you learn, so you can do, let me put it this way, you can have reached your goal weight without without you can have reached your goal weight and, and still need to work on the mental part of stuff. You can have reached your goal weight and still not have your metabolism as high as it could be. You can have reached your goal weight and still not be as in tune with your body

and your portions as you could be, right? And so this is why yes, okay, as you've reached your goal weight, but there is still more to learn physically to get even more in tune with your body and mentally to continue to work things that you need to work through. So in the weight loss program, this tweak, yes, it's great for continued weight loss if your intention behind it is weight loss, right?

This is also giving people in the weight loss program a test of being able to trust when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat. So the tweaks are if your intention and weight loss is they're very effective for weight loss and if your intention is maintenance, they're very effective for maintenance, right? So that's what this is all about. Yeah, I think, excuse me, and the tweaks too, I know we've said this before the tweaks are this, you know, somewhat of a familiar place, you know, when you know the tweaks when you've done the living method for your weight loss, the tweaks can be familiar. So that gives you the capacity to get a little bit deeper. When you're in weight loss mode, dirt working the tweaking man you are just working that tweak to see the scale move like sometimes you don't have the capacity to think about other things or to go quite as deep or, you know, we're just trying to be mindful, we're trying to work those four

steps of mindful eating, we're trying to get the scale to move. It's hard to get into those to get into those deeper associations and have the things that bubble to the top become a focus because you're so focused on something else. Where now where you're just, you know, the tweaks are here, there's comfortable place you understand what what, you know, you have a better understanding of how to do the tweak then you have that mind capacity that mind space to talk about things like trust to talk about things like self-regulation to talk you know to really face those associations head-on you have

more of a capacity for that that's what those tweaks are also very helpful they're helpful for the body physically but they're also helpful for you to free up some mental space, mental capacity. Yeah. And if you want to look at it at a different perspective, full transparency, this maintenance program is not just for people who lost their weight through the Libby Method. Yeah. We do have people in here who lost their weight through keto, who lost their weight through GLP-1s and weight loss medications, who lost their weight through gastric bypass.

So you don't have to have done the Libby Method weight loss program to be able to benefit from the maintenance program. So you take someone who lost their weight through GLP-1s just simply eating less, or obviously not just simply, but someone who got a gastric bypass, they haven't really learned how to bypass, they haven't really learned how to eat, they haven't learned how to be in tune

to their body's needs, they haven't worked through issues and associations, you haven't done any of those things. So if you can look at it from that perspective and say, hey, what if I had lost my weight through any other diet, now I'm coming in, what do those tweaks mean, right? So there's a lot to those tweaks. Here's Brittany. Hi, Brittany.

The maintenance journey has been transformative. Thanks, Taryn. And I've come so far, but I'm having trouble jumping into full trust. This is why this week is also so important. It's a theme here in the maintenance program because as much as you wanted to lose your weight, now you've done it. Now you don't trust for so many reasons, for so many reasons. I still see some old and entrenched habits that can be triggered.

I've made it this far and I'm really working on not indulging yet so that my new habits, beliefs and associations get a chance to get that much stronger. I love that because this is not the time for you to be be indulging and challenging your body. So there's maintenance being able to maintain your weight. And there's also solidifying your weight. So right now you're putting time in to helping your body adjust to your new weight.

And the, the, the more you can not challenge your body in this state, the better. So I love this. My commitment is really strong and I'm determined to get to the the living the living way, but I see more work to be done to get there. So it can take a couple years, like you did things one way for most of your life, and now you're switching and you're doing them a completely different way, or you had old habits that supported your old life now you which you spend a lot more time doing than the new habits that

are going to support your new life. So that's what it's about. And so it can take your body about two years, they say to adjust to the weight that you've lost. But what I love about the living method and the maintenance program is we are actively working on helping the body to sustain and maintain that weight physically. So it's not going to take as long, but man, it can still be work. It can still be work for sure. I love your mindset. That is it. Like you are doing the work that is exactly where you should be and how you should feel. So I love that for you.

Yeah. And I for Brittany too, like there's no rush, like even though we want to get there so fast, we want to be living the way so living the living way so fast. Yeah. You know, to recognize that I'm not there yet, or I don't feel comfortable yet. That's, that's also a very valid place to be. There's no strict timeline here. You don't have to do the maintenance program once. And then think you have to go it on your own. It doesn't that that's want to make that, you know, a super normal thought process. If you're not feel if you don't feel ready, you don't feel ready. I think underlying here too is,

you know, why why don't I feel ready? Is it because I have past, you know, past experiences telling me, you know, creating that fear that I'm not ready to move on? you know, am I, do I just, I don't have belief in my in my own decisions yet or the choices that I'm making. So I think being that this place is totally fine, but again we love to say get curious, what do you think it is that's holding you back? Is it your diet history? Is it, you know, something that happened in your past? Or is it because you're not super clear yet of what that looks like going forward? Because that can be that in itself can be a fearful place. We talk a lot about fear as the week goes on this week. And

that can be something that's to be feared. I don't know what that looks like. So I don't necessarily want to get there just yet. Let me you know, take these steps slowly to get there until I have to like, fulfill all those promises I made to myself. Well, I love this comment that just reinforces what you're saying from Robert. This is something I haven't really done, personalized my program. I have kept to the basic meal plan. My weight seems to have stabilized,

so is it time to work on personalizing the program moving forward? My fear of regaining my weight has kept me from taking the next step. And so isn't that interesting? My fear of regaining my weight has kept me from taking the next step. That's what personalizing the plan is all about. It's learning to trust yourself, trust that you know when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat. And continuing to follow the basic food plan is not going to get you there. You know, I've run into people who like years later, like, Oh my god, you'd be so proud of me.

I'm still following the food plan. I'm like, Oh, what? They're like, Yeah, I'm still having my thing and my thing and my and I'm like, Whoa, no, what? No, that's not it. That's that's not it. And so people have this fear of doing this part of the the personalized and the plan. You are not going to forget to eat because you are still checking in at breakfast, at snack, at lunch,

at first snack, at second snack, at dinner. You're not going to eat the pizza and the things because that's not part of the grocery list. You're not going to not have protein in the morning because that's part of the guidelines. Drinking your water, managing your stress, your sleep, all of those things are still really relevant when it comes to maintaining your weight. So just like you were following the food plan, right? You were checking in, asking the four sets of mindful eating questions. This is still were checking in asking the four sets of mindful eating questions. This is still you checking in but assessing if you need to eat, could eat or should eat because if you don't eat, you're going to go longer without eating.

So this is where you're going to get the trust. You're not going to trust yourself by just continuing to follow the basic food plan. You're going to trust yourself by stepping out of your comfort zone and testing and seeing what you got. Here's Lisa. Thanks for the explanation. Wait, I love this tweak. It shows all my accomplishments, like taking a big exam and seeing what you've learned. This is how I started this conversation. This week will really put in your face what you need to work on. Is it fear? Is it that you don't trust yourself? Is it, what is it? It's gonna really go deep and highlight like the big like,

whoa, are you ready? And probably many of you will not be because you're still more work to do, which is totally okay, you know, totally okay. Yeah, and I think, you know, what you said there too about when you said, you know, do I need to eat? Could I eat? Should I eat? I think this is a really important part of who you are now. Because when you know, if this was a while, yeah, if you were, you know, trying to maintain your weight a while ago, or you were following a diet plan before, and it's like, do I need to eat? No, I'm not hungry. Could I eat? Well, no, I'm not hungry. So I'm not going to eat. It's like that food restriction, that control part without being really in tune and

asking yourself that question. And then it's like, well, should I eat you never, you know, in the past, maybe you never accounted for well, if I don't eat, has it, you know, is it going to be seven hours? Is it going to be eight hours? Then have I gone the whole day without eating? So it's not about this place where we're going rogue and just not eating and eating less. That's not what it's about.

It's really about still checking in and following, like you said, those principles, those guidelines. Do I need to eat? No, I don't need to eat. But should I eat? Yeah, maybe I should. You know, what other diet plan is saying to you, yeah, you should eat, you know, like,

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Whether you're building your career or scaling your business, Calgary is where what if turns into what's next. It's possible here in Calgary, the blue sky city. Learn more at calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com. Yeah, exactly. I like what Judy says here. I'm heading out on a cruise in less than two weeks. I love a good cruise, by the way. Last time I went on a long cruise, the scale was up nine pounds when I returned. It took me quite a few days of back on track to get back to feeling normal, then another few weeks to get back to my pre-cruise weight. Don't want that to happen again, so I have to make a plan for how to trust myself." Okay.

So, I don't know that if it's trust yourself or make a plan. Who are you now, Judy? Right? Like, what does this Judy do when she's away on vacation? And listen, let's just say there's nothing wrong with going away on vacation and totally trashing yourself. If it's hashtag fucking worth it and you would do it again a million times,

you got no regrets. And so yeah, so what? It takes you time to get back on track, takes you time to get back to your weight, takes your body time to recover from the time change, from the off foods, from the sleep, from maybe the dehydration from the salt air, like who knows, right?

There is nothing wrong with that. You might, you don't need a plan for that, unless you, cause you already have one, you already did it, right? You went away, your weight was up, you went back on track, you got back into it, and here you are now. So, you don't need a plan if that works for you. Nothing wrong with that. Unless you're being like, you know, that doesn't really work for me and I don't want to find myself having to come back again.

I mean, imagine when nine pounds up at the time, you're probably not feeling great, probably looking forward to getting home. Oh my God, I just want my routine. So who is the Judy now? How does she go on cruises? Right? Maybe she gets up early and does the walk around the boat. Maybe she makes sure she gets that high protein in for breakfast and skips the sugary foods and saves those for later in the day. Maybe she's the walks around with a fancy water bottle in her hand the whole day and constantly drinks her water, you know why she's also drinking her beverage of choice. Like, like this, I think it's like, it's not about making a plan. It's being like, what's gonna work for you? Who

are you now? And whether that's a cruise or whether that's your cottage, or whether it's the whole summer, how do you summer now? How do you vacation now? So that's like the old you, that's what they did before. Now the new you, how can you do it differently? So I don't know if it's less than a plan that you need or maybe just embracing who are you now? Who does this person, what is this person? So I'll tell you the person who I am now that whenever I go to any hotel, I bring my gym clothes and my bathing suit. And when I go on vacation now, I got, you know, I used to love to sleep in sometimes

and Tony doesn't necessarily go to the gym with me. I get up in the morning, I go to the gym and then I come back and then I go back into bed. If you know, Tony's still in bed and you know like whatever. I make a non-negotiable of swimming for at least 45 minutes before I go out for dinner when I'm away on places. So I have these kind of non-negotiables now that are different because then what I would have done the old me, sleep in, drink margaritas all day, lie by the beach, eat whatever the fuck I want and just deal with the aftermath when I come home. I don't like that anymore. And so that's right. That's pretty much what I do on a cruise workout in the morning, carry

my water bottle around all day and have my sex when I can. I will really think about yeah, who I am now and make sure I remember that. So that the the okay, so the nine pounds up could be bowel movements being off, right? So bring your sleeping off. So bring some calm magnesium. That will help with both of those issues. Bring some digestive bitters. It could be just off foods, right?

It could have been just, you know, the heat from the air. It could be the, like just the time change. Like I think what for every hour of time change, it takes like, I don't know, there's a whole mathematical equation about that. So, it could be you're already doing those things, but there could be ways to minimize the impact on your body. Yeah. I want to get, sorry, can I just, I know we have more to say. No, no, no, no. I want to read this thing from Kim. Hi, I know we have more to say. We're probably out of time. I want to read this thing from Kim.

Hi, been checked out for a bit, living life and doing my thing. However, I've had some recent life happens moments with my mom ending up in the hospital, having surgery, dealing with post-surgery complications, and I'm 5,000 kilometers away. That's a lot of stress. I need to check myself before I wreck myself

because I'm noticing that I'm falling into my own patterns of eating at night to deal with the stress, understandably. Kudos to me for recognizing that this pattern might not serve me. There you go. That's it. Love that. I need to find ways to deal with the stress in ways that serve me. Nighttime stress has always been my struggle even after being here since September, 2023.

Yeah. I mean, it's not that it's always been your struggle to this is unusual circumstance that you've probably not dealt with. This is situational change. That's what this is, right? Same, I maintain my weight easily for 30 years, add in a big business I've never done before,

my kid's dad dying, teenage kids with mental health issues, menopause, and all of a sudden, it's not that I didn't know what to do, it's just that I just got smacked with a whole bunch of situational change, right? And so make a list of your non-negotiables, maybe that's the thing today, non-negotiables moving forward.

Make a list of the things that you can do that you know you need to do that you're not doing. If you're drinking wine like I was, I had to just say no. I had to be like, this is going to be hard. It's not serving me and that. And then I still, I, I, it's not like I'm never drinking again. I had some drinks on the weekend. So I had a glass of wine then. So I'm like, but that was more in a social situation rather than my life is so shit. I'm going to drink the whole bottle at home by myself. Right? So that's the difference. Yeah, I think this is where you have to take a step back

and be like, okay, this is a lot. And so how do I help myself in this moment and make your non-negotiables based on that? Not things are gonna add more stress to you, but that's gonna help you because this is gonna keep coming. And it's not about how long you've been in maintenance for, it's like, you know, when life gets shit,

how do we navigate that and how do we help ourselves from this, you know? That's not an easy thing to deal with for sure. But the fact that you recognize that, that's so huge. That's a testament to the work that you've done. Yeah, that is the testament. And it's true that we were talking about, I can't remember who it was 10 minutes ago, the member that was just recognizing, you know, having that recognition and that

awareness is huge to this work, to this piece of it all. And you know, Kim could be in this situation that she's never been in before, any member could be in a situation that they've never been in before, and they rely on those habits that are familiar and comfortable, but being able to say, Hey, this is not working for me. Instead of just saying, this is all I know, you know, and letting it get bigger and bigger. This is not working for me. I can pull myself out of this. Now I can turn things around. And yeah, you've been checked out for a while. But guess what you checked in today. You know, you checked in today, You don't have to wait till Monday. Like today's Monday. You don't have to wait till next Monday. You know, you can start making those changes tonight. Tonight, if that stress eating, you know,

starts to creep up again, then you have that awareness. Oh, here it is again. You know, this is not serving me. What can I do instead? How do I want to feel instead? You know, I think that that's the that's the biggest thing. And when you said this is a true testament to where you've come from, I think this is these members in maintenance, I feel like some of them can be so focused on, I'm just maintaining my weight, I'm just need to maintain my weight,

I'm just here doing this, that they almost forget how far that they've actually come. And if this week just helps them take a minute to think how far they've come, oh my gosh, look what I look what I know. Look how much I can hear my body talking to me. Look at how I can make this decision. That's right for me. It doesn't have to do with maintaining. This can apply to any part of your life, you know, dealing with these stressful situations so much that they have picked up over the last,

you know, 11 weeks for some. It's been 24 weeks for some, it's been 36 weeks for others. You know, being able to have that awareness and say it out loud. I mean, that's what we want you to see this week. Like, yeah, it's the exam, you're going to come to the exam, and you're going to know you're going to know what you know, you're going to be reminded of what you know. Yeah. And whatever you end up, you know, maybe not doing so well, that's the work. Yeah, yeah. That's the work, that's the end game. That there is an end game to this, right?

Then also keep in mind, all the things that you're doing are things you're gonna wanna do in life anyway to help with being healthy and as you age and time goes by real quick. It took me a while, it took me about a year to recover from my stress, my situational change and everything I had going on. But, and that might be like, oh my God, a whole fucking year. But like, I just felt better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better. Right. Rather than doing nothing about

nothing and still I feel like a shit situation. Right. So yeah. Yeah. I have, I have this, I mean, we've been vocal about, you know, my son being sick last summer, and we're coming up to a year. Wow. Now, of him being sick. And he's in a good place now. But he still has these follow ups every 30 days. And on this follow up, it could be great, or it could be back in the hospital.

And he just had one on Thursday. And leading up to that, and you talk about these things happening, they're gonna keep happening, they're gonna keep happening. When I look at him and he looks healthy and he looks good, and we're not seeing those symptoms come back, that feeling of it could all change on Thursday, on Monday, I already feel myself,

you know, working up to that. I feel myself wanting to, you know, be and take myself back to a comfort zone, take myself back to a place that is not gonna serve me well, but it feels like a cozy blanket. And I think this is just reminds us that these events are gonna keep happening, right? Things are gonna keep coming.

And I think just having that awareness, like on Monday I'm like, oh yeah, this is gonna be a tough week for me. I know that these emotions are gonna bubble back up to the surface again. And I think having that awareness, not that it makes everything easier and better, it doesn't, but it has that, you have that awareness, you have that wherewithal, and you have a bit of that reinforcing

mindset where like, okay, I've done the work to be able to recognize this. And now I've done the work to be able to work through it at the same time. So it's going to keep happening. Yeah, rather than you being like, so tired and like, what's going on with me? What's wrong with me? We know exactly what it is. That would be a lot of stress that every month you're kind of reliving the situation over and over and waiting for the shoot. It's hard to not wait for the shoe to drop. That's the way our brains are wired. And you know, so that's a lot. So I think that that recognize that self-awareness, that's what it is. It's keep, rather than your energy out there, keep it here. It's your job to take care of yourself

to understand what you need. And that's not an easy thing to do. There'll be moments that and that's this is all preparing you for those moments. They're gonna come and you're gonna either fall back into old habits and gain your weight back or you're gonna maybe fall back and realize, oh shit, this is what I'm doing and pull yourself back the other way. Or you're gonna understand and go in there with that awareness and be like, okay, what do I need to do here to make sure that I keep doing what I'm doing? And that's what it's all about. That's what it's about. Yeah. So I hope our members this week really can move through that fear a little bit. If they're having if they if they're having that fear of

trusting themselves, just take some action. You know, just just give it a go, give it a try takes, I guess this is maybe the homework this week. You know, take some just take the action. Just just ask yourself, check in with yourself. Don't be afraid to do something different than what the basic food plan is, because that's not what you wanna have as your be all and end all. Don't be afraid if you are checking in with yourself at mid morning snack and you want a snack, but it's not fruit, that's okay. You don't have to have fruit if you don't want it.

Just be comfortable in taking those small actions, because every time you take that action, your brain is gonna remember that. You're rewiring, you're reprogram to remember that you're going to, you know, you're rewiring your reprogramming and you're building that, that trust. You're not, you know, these little steps, you won't even know that's what you're doing. You're not intentionally saying, I'm going to build trust with this action. It's just, you know, that's just going to happen. Happens by doing. Yeah. And that's how I've been for 30 years. And there are times where I do since of the program and follow along sometimes just for fun and remind myself what it's like and to, you know, to help myself get back on track or whatnot. But that's, you know, every day can look a little different for me. I don't plan my days every day is a little different. If I do know I'm going somewhere I'm going to be without food. I'm like, okay, what do I'm going to need some snacks here? Otherwise, what, like the other day, I went to a friend's place and I was like on a long drive, hadn't eaten.

I was like, okay, let me stop at the grocery store. So I had to detour like 10 minutes, but then I had the snacks that I needed and the food that I needed when I got there. And I'm like, this is perfect. Whereas before wait, just let me get there and deal with it later. And then you're just gonna end up eating a bag of chips.

And so, you know, that's, you know, the planning and knowing what you need. that's, that's, you know, the, the, the planning and knowing what you need. Um, all right, let's, um, let's talk about what people, what's their homework this week. I think we did. They didn't take action. Oh, right. Sorry.

They're going to take, take action and, and, you know, step through that fear a little bit and, you know, there might be a day. I think this is a really important point too. When you're personalizing the plan, there might be days that look exactly like the basic food plan, because that's what you're checking in with yourself. And that doesn't mean that you're only following the basic food plan. But that's what that day looks like that day. And the next day, you might only be eating three or four times a day, you know, if it's if that's how your timing works, and it's spaced out. And then the next day, maybe you're eating four times a day, you know, if that's how your timing works

and it's spaced out. And then the next day, maybe you're eating eight times a day. You know, I think it's really about being super in tune and not being afraid to have your days look different as well. Like don't be stuck on, I have to be so in tune, I can't follow the basic food plan, it can't look like that, it can look like that,

but it has to come with intention. You don't want it to look like that just because, you want it to look like that. It can look like that. But it has to come with intention. You don't want it to look like that just because you want to look like that because that's the choice you made that day, not because that's what was laid out on on the plan for you. Yeah. All right. On that note, we'll see you all on Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday. Yeah. See you on Wednesday. Have a great couple days. Thanks. Thanks, everyone. Calgary, also known as the blue sky city. We get more sunny days than anywhere in the country, but more importantly, we're the Canadian capital of blue sky thinking. This is where bold ideas meet big opportunity, where dreams become reality.

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