The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness: Mindset Mondays - March 16, 2026

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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!This week, Gina and Odette keep it real about those heavy, grey March days when motivation feels low, and the sun seems nowhere to be found. What starts as a candid chat about feeling off turns into a powerful reminder about the role light, connection, and perspective play in our mental and emotional well-being. Gina shares a personal story about intentionally seeking out moments of joy and connects it back to the bigger work members are doing in their journeys. It’s a thoughtful, relatable discussion about checking in with yourself, finding small sparks of positivity when life feels heavy, and remembering that even in the toughest seasons, the light is always coming back.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 Livy and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams for my 91 day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on ACAST, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon music. I just read that Sue said it's a miserable March Monday,

so she's happy to be here with us. And I'm happy that she's here with us too. Oh, I'm happy. Is it? Yeah. Is that where we're going with? Is that the actual name of today? Miserable March Monday?

I'm in. I could be. Yep. I'm in too. I feel like a bag of shitballs today. I don't know what a bag of shit balls is. I guess it calls the shit. I feel like that's appropriate, actually.

Yeah, it doesn't sound good, even if whatever it is. So whatever you want it to be, it still doesn't sound good. So. And Karen, she needs sun. We need sun. We need sun. And just to go back to when Dr. Paul was here in the maintenance group. And then I know he was talking about it in the weight loss group.

It's, yes, it's the sun. And we think of vitamin D, but just the light in general. And what the light does to our brain and our hormones. And when it's so dark and dreary, It's so hard to want to do anything else. It's so hard to be able to see, you know, that light at the end of the tunnel for lack of a better term. Like, where is it? Is it coming?

It's coming. We know it's coming because we've been here before. It just feels like it's the never-ending, never-ending winter right now. Something popped into my mind when you said that. I'm like, this is what Live Lighter is, like finding the light, right? Like, I went for dinner with friends, kind of new friends, old friend and her husband, which is kind of like a new friend. to a new restaurant. I saw you went to Barbarian.

I saw that. Have you been there before? A long time ago. It's got such a cool vibe. It's like it feels like something you would see in like an old mob movie or something. You know? And it's like an old boys club almost. But everyone feels welcome.

But it's got that vibe that's never really been. It's a restaurant in Toronto for those that don't know downtown in the city. and it's got like this just this really unique vibe to it. Sorry, I am so distracted because for the last couple days, let me finish that. It does. It's like no one was taking pictures of phones. People were like talking. It was kind of dark but like.

Yes. And moody but not modern. Like it just, it was like going back. It's like been around since 1959. It was just great. It was so lovely. I thought I'd be home in bed by like 830. We were still at the restaurant at 11.

And like I've never in my life had had a five hour dinner. I mean, the waiter just came around and he didn't even ask me if another glass of wine, just kind of kept topping up my wine. Like, not just didn't even. I was like, where, where am I? What year is this? It was so nice. Six o'clock, it was still bright outside.

But I'm thinking about like, try to find the light. Like there's a lot of heavy things that we deal with in life and think you have to be intentional about finding the lights. And just like even this morning, the mood and so many people are. dealing with, you know, one of our members, Elsie Hyde, like, I don't, broke her, broke her shoulder after breaking her leg, after doing this, like, sometimes it can feel like there's so many things going on. Since the weekend, I felt like I have something in my eye. And I'm like, so did Tony, can a contact roll up into your eye and be there? Like, I feel like it's been there for a while.

He's like, no, I don't know. Like, maybe it's because they're soft. So last night I'm looking, I just rub my eye and this fucking contact felt. I, I have had a contact stuck up in my eye for about a week. I feel like this is not the first time that's happened to you. Do you know? I don't know. I feel like maybe we've had this conversation before. Maybe it was something else or maybe you slept in your contacts.

I can't remember. I forgot that I had to admit. This, and it was all folded. Came out of my eye. I was all folded. I knew it. Well,

there you go. Now you don't feel like a bag of shipballs anymore. Well, that will really help because I was like, what is going on? Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm glad that you asked yourself what is going on and not what is wrong with me. I know what's wrong with me. There's a luck. Yeah, so, you know, I was thinking about our members and, you know, just trying to rally everybody and, and keep the reality is life can fucking suck.

You have to keep going. You got it. And you, the last, excuse my, F bombs, fucking thing you want to do when you are 80 years old, unless if we get to live that long is being worried about. your weight or spend one more day longer worrying about your weight. And I don't mean not trying to lose weight. And I don't mean not trying to actively maintain your weight. But just like the back and forth, back and learn what you need to learn. Be open. Learning it and just move the fuck on already. Right. Like be intentional. And so every time life is difficult, this is an opportunity for you to be like, where am I at? What do I need? How do I keep going? Right. It's a lot. Tubby. I agree it's a lot. And I think, you know, these opportunities are, are, we can use them as a place as something to keep us stuck. You know, we can just stay there because it's familiar. It's comfortable. Like, ugh, I'm just going to stay here. We're going to stay stuck. Or you can use it as that learning opportunity. Like, okay, what is going on with me? I know I have to keep going. How do I want to feel? It's like that do I want to be the Tigger or the Eeyore? You know what I mean? I don't know if you've been this before. Like, do you want to be Tigger or Eeyore? And I mean, We can't be Tigger all the time.

But if that's the goal, if that is, you know, we think of that like, oh, I want to be the, I want to be the Tigger eventually or some days, most days, that's what you want to strive for. That's that mindset. Yeah, you can get stuck in a doom loop. I would just want to do a shout out to Judy, who's joining us from her balcony in Portugal. Yes. Oh, yes. That's amazing.

That is amazing. So Thursday night I went to, I had this big weekend. and I just didn't want to do. So Thursday, and I had a women's event. Then I had to work on, like, so I was lucky enough to go to a women's event, which was really interesting. I really wanted to meet the keynote speaker who ended up after I met her was a fan. Like she, well, that's amazing.

I was with Sonia at the time and someone offered her tickets to the Raptors game. I'm like, right after. I'm like, oh, yeah, let's do that. They're behind the bench. And then the tickets come to me and it's a Leafs game. And I'm like, oh, come on. go the Leafs game. It's like cold. I'm not, I'm not like, I'll watch the leaves, but I'm like, not a go to the hockey game kind of girl. My dad made me play hockey when I was 12. I fucking hated

it. And to the day, I might have issues about it. Um, no disrespect to the Leafs or hockey. I'm like, I don't want to go. She's like, we have to go. They're like, someone gave me these tickets. And I was like, oh, God, you know what we went. They were like the most amazing insane seats on the planet. Like any, any woman would have loved him been in that room. Any person would have loved to have been at that hockey game. The next day I had an opportunity to go work on my Indigo book, which was great. Obviously, that was amazing, great opportunity. And then I had to go to a dance party that night.

Started at 6, 10 o'clock at night. I was hanging over. I didn't want to go. And then my kids came. I had the best time ever. Right? And then I didn't want to go out for dinner because I had dinner. And then the next day, someone invited me to be on a panel and talk with incredible

women. I was like, nah. Tony was like, what is fucking? going on with you. Like you, everything is amazing and you're just like, and I was like, what is that about? Like, there's, and I was just sharing with someone, she's like, there's a gap between where you're going or want to be and where you are now and the uncomfortableness in between. She, that's all it is. It's that uncomfortable space. Not that you're not grateful for opportunities, not grateful for these things. It sounds like you have a hard time going from where you are to

where you are to be and that gap no matter what it is. I'm meeting I want a meeting I want to go for my indigo book, but I'm all pissy pants. So it's that gap place where I'm noticing, once I'm there, I make an effort to really enjoy, but that gap creates a lot of doom and gloom for me and that kind of really repeats in my life. It's that, yeah, I think it's that middle. I mean, we talk about the messy middle and the magical middle. Like we know that's where the magic happens. The moment from your hotel to the meeting room, that middle part there, that's where like you get in the car, you make the effort to get there, you travel to get there. And that's like the part that you're like, I don't want to do that part.

But that's the part that actually gets you there. That's the part that actually lands you in that place. It's that middle. Like you said that gap. And, you know, I said on the check-in this morning that I've been reading like everybody has been, I feel like this program has really been clicking for people. It's really been coming together for so many. And then I thought, where are the people that it's not coming together for?

Where are they? Because we know they're out there. We know that they're there. And we wanted to have some real talk today about still being in that middle, still being in that place, in this gap where it's like, I should know better. I should have this figured out. Why am I not feeling like I'm there yet?

Why do I not want to even put the effort in any more to get that? Where are those people? And what are what's going on with them? What's happening there? Where are they? Yeah, because I think this whole conversation, this whole process transcends just maintaining your weight. I like Sue. It's such a great question, Gina, because I never know whether to honor my mood.

Maybe it's fatigue or follow the plan, not my mood, right? Like I could easily have not gone. And I wasn't going to go. And I could have easily not gone. That would have sort of been whatever. And but then I was like, okay, well, what? What is it about do I really not want to go? I do want to go. I just don't want to go. The same thing about the program, right? Do I do want to exercise, but I don't want to exercise?

I don't want to eat this, but I do want to eat this. Like, I think because this trans, everything you're doing here, the system, this method is an opportunity. It transcends just about being your weight. And it's about everything you do in life. And I think that you have to come to that realization. Because it's exhausting. Life is tiring. It's exhausting. There's so many reasons to quit on. life to want to have a fresh start, fresh perspective, all of those things. And with maintenance, it must be very difficult because you've already done the big thing. And that didn't do it for you. That's what I say. Like you've already done the big thing or you believe I've already done the big thing. Why am I still doing more things? You know, it's like I've already done that big thing.

That thing that should be done now. I should be there. I should be feeling it. I should be living it. I should be knowing it and understanding it. And then when you're not there, you're like, I still got more work to do. I just want to be there. It's like you said, you want to be at the meeting. You want to be living your best life, but you just don't want to necessarily have to get there. You just want to be there already. Yeah. It's kind of like I wanted to create this. I wanted to get my weight loss program out there. And then I did. And then now it's 28 programs later and I'm still working on it. And we got the maintenance program we're working on. And then we got lifestyle program we're working on. What more can I do? And not like what more do do I have to do, but what more can I do to move forward? I'm great. I'm great. I'm growing, evolving. I went to, I was asked to be on a panel on aging out loud for women and kind of what that means. It's really interesting. A lot of women are just feeling exactly where we're feeling in this program in their lives. In their lives. They're like feeling like there's resistance there. There's a gap there. There's, you know, whether they're too young for this, too old for that. Like it's, you know, it's, yeah, I think the conversation is so much bigger. And

And everything we do here to learn to be in tune with ourselves and what feels right in terms of when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat is everything that we're doing in terms of what feels right with everything. The move, the job, the relationship, how to get back on track after eating is like, how do you get back to your life after grief? After being sick. After, you know, it's like it's all of that. It's all of that. I think it's hard because there isn't a hit of the weight loss. It's more about one step than another. Yeah, it is.

That's what it's all about. And then I think you don't realize that until you don't do the things you gain your way back, right? And then what do we go back to? Well, that didn't work for me. When in reality, it worked for you. It's just you didn't work the what comes next. It's kind of like, I don't know, I'm just thinking of analogy of like you built a house. So you went to hire a builder, you built a house, but you didn't bother to put grass or trees or, you know, I don't know.

Or you got new grass, but didn't bother to water the grass. You know, I don't, I don't, that's like, I don't know, I'm tired. That's not a good analogy, but there's up, the job isn't done. There's upkeep there. Yeah, I think, and when you think about it, there's upkeep upkeep with everything. It's not just upkeep with, with keeping your weight maintained. That's one thing that you're working on, one thing that you're upkeeping, but you're upkeeping your mindset. You're trying to have your, you know, we're all trying to be in the best mood that we can be in. That's upkeep. How do I get in the best mood that I can be in? How do I, how do I live the most fun life that I can? You know, I feel like we're always thinking about

upkeep. I have to do all this work. I have to keep going. I have to. And it's more of, you know, when we talk about mindset, too, it's that shift. Like, you know, you get to. You get to learn the skills and the tools to maintain your weight. You get to reprogram your mind so that those that old diet dialogue and those old belief systems, you know, can finally go away. You get to do all these things. But yeah, it is, it's upkeep. It's work and it's maintenance. I mean, that's right in our, that's what we call it. It's maintenance. It's not just maintaining your weight. It's maintaining everything that you've worked so hard to build. Yeah, or feel light, like live lighter. What would that mean? What would make you feel lighter right now? Right. I'm just thinking of like my house is such a mess,

but I'm just tired and feel like shit. But if I just organize my front room, which wouldn't take any effort at all, I just would, that would feel so great because I'd walk down the stairs and be ready for a workout tomorrow and I could kids are home and I can get them to help, but it just all feels like a lot and so heavy. What is going to make you feel lighter? Yeah. And where, and where do you start? I think that's, you know, the big part of it to you when you say like, oh, my house is the mess. But if I can just organize my island or I can just organize the shoes at the front door, maybe just start with those little steps, you know, it's how do I get back on track? Okay, let's just think about one thing. Let's not think about water.

I have to do 10 things to get back on track. Let me just start with one. Let me just do one thing. You know, let me just, I feel these old habits coming back in. Maybe three habits have come back that you don't want. How about we just work on one? Like, you know, getting one to start to eliminate itself again. Let's just slowly start one.

What's going to make you feel lighter? And maybe it's not thinking of it as this big, huge overhaul that you have to do, but just one thing. What's the one thing that you can? do. Let's also just say kudos to those who are listening right now. I would bet my money on you that you're going to be a person who's able to maintain and sustain your weight. You're either will or you won't. That's what I mean. Same thing in the weight loss. You're either going to lose your weight or you're not. And it's not really about any one thing you're doing. It's putting enough time in to be able to do that and

reach that goal. And with maintenance, it's putting the time in to reach the goal of being so super confident, calm around food, being able to trust yourself, being able to trust your body. when to eat, what you eat, how much to eat, being self-aware, knowing what you need, so that when life throws something at you, you're able to navigate through that without gaining 20 pounds, right? It's having the wherewithal to notice that you're gaining weight and falling back in old habits and be like, no, no, no, no, no, okay, I see. I also see why this is happening. And I also know what I need to get, to get back to feeling my best, right? And that's really what this is about. And that's just staying power. that's what that is. And, you know, whether you've lost your weight through the living method or through the living method taking GLP1, it's all the same same, right? It's getting to that place. That's what you're doing around here. And that's just, that's a time thing. It's a time thing. You know, just this week, I mean, I was, it's been a month. It'll be a month tomorrow that I lost my sister. And just at the end of last week, sorry, just at the end of last week, I started back.

into my regular routine. I was like, I'm ready now. I'm going to go, like my routine. I think I've talked about in the morning. I always walk from 830 to 9.30. I have my walking pad and I sit at my computer and I get my day started and, you know, get going every day from 830 to 930. I'd do that walk and I start my day. And I hadn't done that for almost a month. And I'm like, I'm ready now. I'm ready to not move on, move forward. I'm ready to move forward. I'm at that place now. And it's that recognition where I could have gone on over and over again week after week and said, no, I just don't have it in me. I don't want to. But then, you know, I've done this before. I've had loss before. I've had, you know, experiences before, situations before. And knowing that

just getting back, whether it's slowly or whether you're somebody that goes all in, just getting back can make such a huge difference. It can just, it just breaks that, breaks that, that doom loop, like you said. it just helps to, you know, turn that switch or flip that switch into just getting back at it. Yeah. And you have to be. Sometimes you just don't have the capacity for that, right? Like you, you know. I didn't have the capacity for weeks. It was just like, I can't. It's one more thing I have to think about. I'm not. And then all of a sudden, it just, you know, like you said, it comes with time. It happens with time. And this is something to, because of the work you've done before, right? This is sort of like, it's when things are going good. It's when you really want to dig in. You don't want to coast when things are good.

that's when you really want to dig into the work so that when something happens in your life and you just don't have the capacity, it becomes automatic, that automoticity, right? Like that we talk about that with this. And I just look at the time here before we go with the tweaks this week. You know, I'm noticing the weight loss program. People are like, well, my weight hasn't moved this week ever since we started this tweak. And I'm just like, well, it's not like, what do you think bumping up your protein and dropping your snack down to one is like why it's stopping you from reaching your goals.

It's not about that. It's about your body noticing. It's about the nuance, but the difference you feel when you increase your protein, when you decrease the heavy, one snack down to two. It's all about kind of switching things up and challenging your brain. And that's how you keep moving forward automatically with the program.

That's what's so great about the tweaks. You don't have to think about moving forward because just by following the program, it's actually keeping you moving forward. Anything in particular you want to talk about? I know we introduce back on track, usually in this week, too, back on track. You really want to reserve. for when you're living your life.

Of course, use it. It's there for you. But this is not a two steps forward, two step back, indulge, back on track. This is really for once you're living your life. Yeah. What I want to say about back on track too, because many of our members here have seen back on track before, especially if they've lost their weight through the living method, right? Or they've seen that term being used back on track.

And we don't want pack on track to be an excuse to, to, you know, let old habits come back in. Like, oh, I'm going to snack at night because I know I can just. go back on track tomorrow. Oh, I know that I can, you know, eat my face off because I can go back on track tomorrow. That's not what back on track is for. Back in track really is that tool in the back of your pocket. It's like your reset button. That's what it's for. It's not to be an excuse to let those old habits come back and not believe that that's what is actually happening. That's not what back on track is for. So it is this amazing tool. It's something you will have for life. You can pull it out, whenever you need it, legitimately need it.

But if you are catching yourself saying, oh, I can do that because I can go back on track. That's when you really don't want to just stop yourself for a minute and think, okay, what am I, what am I doing with this tool here? I want to talk about that. I also want to talk about just quickly because this is the week that we're talking about your support systems and your surroundings and how that, how important that can be for your own success. And it's not about cutting people out of your life.

And it's not about eliminating all the food, from your house that you think you shouldn't have there. It's about really cultivating a support system that does align with you in addition to, you know, everything else that you might have going on. And you did that live with Dr. Jason Funk last week and he was on your public page on Thursday. Yeah, I can't remember. Anyway, and he talked about community and he called it social modeling.

It's social modeling. It's really creating the space, finding this community so that we, like I said, you don't want to go around just, you know, taking everything out that doesn't align with you because sometimes those people are still important to you. Those environments are still important to you. You want to have them in your life, but you also want to be able to to model what is around you, your surroundings, your support circle. So we're going to get into that more as the week goes on. But how just talking about how important that is for your overall success as well. Yeah, I was saying like if your friend is overweight or your whole friend's circle, like that's very difficult for someone to kind of break,

break out of that. And you might be like, oh my God, but I love my friends. But this is also where you might need to just really get confident and own what you are doing versus what your friends are doing. Just because they're ordering cheeseburgers doesn't mean that you can't order a salad. And if they don't eat around because you're choosing not to indulge with them, it's like if you, if you, you know, we go out to party and I'm drinking and you don't like to drink. I'm not going to stop being your friend because you don't like drinking. But you might want to stop being my friend if I keep pressuring you to drink. Right. Like that's kind of the situation. and with your lifestyle and the life that you're living,

the people around you might be indulging in behavior that no longer works for you anymore. It doesn't mean they don't work for you as friends, but maybe you find another group of friends or support system or like something like this community where you can discuss this part of your life here. Yeah. Right.

But there is something, this is one of the topics that came up with women as we hold on to old friendships. And I'm all about your oldest friend is not necessarily your best friend, not that there isn't a benefit or that's not value in your old friends. who know you, but you are meant to evolve and grow and change your dynamics and your

situations and your relationships and your friendships. And yeah, that's a, that's a big piece thinking about what is your, is your, do you live in an obisogenic environment beyond the processed foods everywhere, beyond the, the people you follow, the, you know, the, um, friends you have, the places you go, the conversations you're having. Like, do you live in an Obesogenic society where it's going to be very difficult for you to maintain the new way of living, then you might want a new way of living, right? I know that's a lot easier said than done. Yeah. Yeah, I think that that's a big part of it. I think doesn't get talked about enough. Like you said, like we don't talk about how that can change and how you have to sometimes

cultivate that for yourself. And I mean, we're here. We're in this community. That's what this place is for, but sometimes you have to look outside of that too. So it's not about cutting everybody and everything out, but it's about just finding where that balance and everything fits now. Yeah. You're designing the life you want to live because your old life chances are wasn't working for you. You're a product of how you were living your life before, choices that you were making. And if you weren't happy then, losing the weight and going right back to that is not going to make you happy. You know, as tempting as that can be and as familiar as it is, you, you know, we're here to make change. Yeah. We're here to make change. You have to make change to make change to

make change. You have to make change. And you'll notice the change happening along the way too. I'm going to write that down. Notice the chair to make change. Make change. Okay, what else you want? Are we good? We're going to come back together again on Wednesday. We'll find, we'll go over some member comments and we'll get into it. Yeah. Let's know a better question about and go from there. Well, thanks everyone who joined us live. We love, you know, we always love talking about this. We appreciate that you join us. We know so many people listen after the fact. And if that's you, we get you too.

I hope everyone has a great start to the week this week. We'll be back on Wednesday. I know it's March break. There's a lot going on. So I was checking the dates and it always snows in April. So don't get your hoax up. It's like April 7th, April 11th, April 5th, April, whatever. So don't get your hoax up.

It's going to be shit for a while. It's going to snow again. But in a few short weeks, by the time we start the April program, we're going to be into the sun. Into the sun. We will be into the sun. That's right. All right. I'm ready. I'm ready for it. Me too. All right. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, Lodette. Appreciate you. Bye. See you soon.