The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness: Mindset Mondays - October 6, 2025

Episode Date: October 6, 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’s episode, Gina and Odette reflect on their recent trip to St. Lucia—not just as a retreat, but as a real-time reminder of how loud life can be, even after weight loss. They explore the deeper layers of mindfulness, the ongoing work of maintaining your weight, and why downsizing still matters—even in maintenance. With self-determination as a key theme this week, they chat about discomfort, routines, and what it means to really trust yourself around food again.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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I miss you already. I know. I feel like, you know, we're together for a full week. And I feel like these last few days have felt like another full week that we've been apart. so it was such a nice it was such a nice time to just connect and talk in real life and in real time i know it looked like we were on this beautiful amazing vacation and we were but we were also really getting deep with talking about our members and where they are and the maintenance program so it was a really amazing time to be away i think mindfulness for our members and

mindfulness for us too yeah and mindfulness is not easy you know one of the things the luxuries that we got to experience why we are away is just understanding how stressed our brains are. And I know I talked about this last week. And if you missed it last week, Odette and I were together at the Body Holiday in St. Lucia. It's a place where we're actually working on doing a retreat in April. And so we were there, you know, testing out a few things here or there. But meditation classes and yoga classes and, you know, treatments and this and that, in my goodness, it's so hard to calm your mind to really be a, in the moment to the point where there was a day that we were all just calm.

And we were like, what's wrong with us? You know, and it was that that noise. And I know when we talk about dieting, that food noise is really loud, right? But there's all sorts of other noises that surround the food noise that are equal loud. I got up this morning and I did a meditation, the little workout and meditation. And I'm just like, okay, it made a big difference for me. so I'm going to keep that going but not an easy thing that mindfulness no not an easy thing and I'm like you have tried to keep you know we were talking about this there as well how do we bottle up this these feelings this mindfulness that we just began to tap into how do we bottle it up and bring it home with us yes and like you know you got up and you did a meditation today and you know we've been home since Friday evening and Saturday Sunday and today I've tried to just continue that routine like getting up at the same time starting it the same way we started it while we were there with some movement because man

that felt really good to do that you know and just and to bring that mindfulness back how is this making me feel when I start my day this way doesn't make me feel good or do I need to think about starting it a different way so we talk about mindfulness so much about being in our bellies you know like like be be mindful around how you feel when you're eating around the choice food choices you're making. But mindfulness is so many, is so much more. And I think we really hit on that last week in week three. And you know, there was a time where I couldn't afford vacations. And I think I was even more mindful then because I understood the importance of grounding myself every day and harmonizing my day or being in the moment. And I used to say just for today,

do not worry. And that used to be my mantra. And it's been a long time since I would practice those things. And this brings us to downsizing this week, right? Because what does downsizing mean now? It's an opportunity to get even more in tune with your portions or be able to trust even more that you know exactly when to eat what to eat and how much to eat. And when it comes to how much to eat, I want you to be able to look at your plates and know if it's too much, not enough or just right. I want you to know the exact moment where if you take a few bites, you're going to end up eating too much, where if I stop now, it's going to not be enough. So really trying to understand that satisfaction versus enough versus slightly unsatisfied versus actually hungry.

And so you may not be looking to lose more weight because you're in maintenance, but downsizing was never really about eating less. It was all about the issues and associations that continue to pop up right on top of that um i know this week you're also focusing on self determination so where does that fit in there so um downsizing is really the first tweak where we start to shake things up you know where we are we are of course following that basic food plan but we're starting to shake things up and make things a little bit more uncomfortable maybe coming yeah right like it you can be a little bit uncomfortable thinking oh i'm going to be hungry i don't like that feeling of being

a little bit hungry. I don't like that feeling of being slightly unsatisfied. I don't want to do downsizing. So it's going to put me in that uncomfortable place. So self-determination, it's really, we talk about it as a skill and we talk about it as a mindset. So as a skill, it's doing, it's taking action. It's doing the things anyways when you don't feel motivated because you know you're going to feel uncomfortable. It's being able to, I know we don't want to use a push through. You don't I'm going to push through, but it is. It's about moving past that point of uncomfortable doing what you need to do anyways. And that in turn turns into this other term that we've woven into the week a little bit. We talk about today in one of the posts is self-efficacy because that

is into the belief system later on that you can do what's uncomfortable. You can handle challenges when they come up. So this goes along with the conversations that's happening in the feed right now because Judy says, I've got to stop making delicious food. It's so hard to downsize. And that's that uncomfortableness, because then you have Darcy, who was like, I was just in Europe for three weeks surrounded by pastries. So you're not always going to be able to control your environment. So it's almost like, make that delicious food.

How about you indulge in the making of the food, the smelling of the food, right? The sitting down and making a nice. table setting. And you know what I mean? Like really being in the moment and there are other ways that you can indulge your senses in the food than overeating the food that makes you feel uncomfortable afterwards. So I say make all make your food extra delicious this week. That's that uncomfortableness, right? You're not starving. If you if you if there's food left great, you get to eat that again at your next meal or snack. Like that's where you can kind of level that up. Sure, it's easier just to keep it simple when downsizing.

Don't make the delicious stuff. But now I think that's that uncomfortable place because one day, hopefully you'll end up in Europe or somewhere else surrounded by all the patisseries or the, you know, whatever that is. And you want to be able to indulge when you actually want to and just be like, yeah, it's fine, you know, if you don't, right? So I love that. And I think self-determination, when we think about that, it also reminds you.

like you have the choice you have the choice to have that pastry or not if that pastry is there you can choose to have it or not have it you don't have to have it because it's there and because you're surrounded by it and because it has this force over you like it's there I have to have it because I'm never going to have it ever again I think when you when you when we tap into this place of self determination and making choice you're like yeah I can choose to have it or I can choose to not have it. In two days from now, I can choose to have it or not have it. You know, it's not like you have to make this. It doesn't have to be all or nothing and I have to have it because it's there. You know, you make that choice. You get to make that choice. Or it doesn't

have to be have it or not have it. You can have a bite of it. Yeah, right? Like you can have a bite of it. I was talking about in this morning, like you're deserving of a donut, even if you just want to have a bite of it. You're not wasting it by just forcing yourself to eat it if you don't want it or need it. So you can take a donut and have a bite. You're entitled to a whole donut, even if you just want a bite of it. You're entitled to a whole pastry, even if you just want a bite of it, right? Like, it's like that, you know, I want to enjoy this bite. This was delicious. This was yummy. Okay, let me pack the rest away or eat it later or share it with a friend, right? And it's, that's where you want to, that's the calmness we haven't talked about in a while,

that calm around food, right, that like we're all adults. Like we're not, if we want something, we can, most of us can just go buy it. It's not like there's any scarcity to it. We've all had more chips than we could possibly want, more chocolate than we could possibly want, more everything. Food is, for most of us, is abundant. And yet we have this, oh, my goodness, if I got it, I have to eat the whole thing. Or, you know, that, that mentality.

And what is indulging me? to you. What does it treat mean to you? Is it bringing you joy, right? So, so I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm just thinking of all the pastries that I want to eat. Um, you know, this is a, an opportunity to look at it differently. What food issues do you have left over that you still need to address that are tied into downsizing that are popping up? Yeah. And it's, so, um, I was reading through the comments just this morning and there was one, and there was one, from Mary, who must have been listening to the check-in as she was eating her breakfast because she wrote, I was eating my breakfast while listening, really enjoying every bite. Then Odette said, then Odette, you said, just leave those last few bites. I had to have an argument with myself, but I'm really enjoying it. It's really good, but do I really need it? I stopped a little sad, but stopped anyway.

I was like, why are you a little sad, Mary? like you know what is it about that what is it about that one little phrase i'm a little sad but stopped anyway yeah jody leave this up right i had i had to have an argument with myself that's that self-efficacy you're talking about but i'm really enjoying it's really good yeah in fucking right you should be able to enjoy it every single last bite that's why big picture take a step back is to get to a place where you don't go to argue with yourself you're just like i'm having it It's not going to ruin anything. You're not going to gain your weight back.

Now, if you're indulging and you're having all the things and you start to feel like shit, it's affecting your sleep and you can feel your pants getting tight, then yeah, you got to check yourself before you wreck yourself. But, you know, this is where it's purposely, I love that it brought up the little sadness. Like, why? Because there are people who just really enjoy food and their foodies or maybe to you, your food was a treat or it's you time or it's, you know, whatever that is. So I love that you brought, you challenged yourself and brought up a little sad. That's where you would say, okay, what's the sadness about? Like, is it you're sad about the food choice in the moment right now or are you sad about life?

Is there something sad going on and you eating is taking your mind off of it? Like usually it's never about the thing, right? Like usually when we're feeling ways about something, it's never really about that. There's always something a little bit deeper there. So yeah, I love that. Challenge yourself. A-Cast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's the show that we recommend.

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like it can bring up some of those old diet feelings or those or it can trigger some old diet mentality and diet diet dialogue and I was thinking maybe that's where the sadness comes from is it the sense of like I'm depriving myself again I'm not you know I'm restricting myself again and if that's where that sadness is coming from this is where that mindset shift has to happen where the sadness isn't coming because you're falling back into old habits of depriving and restricting. Where is that sadness really coming from? Like you said, what else is coming up for you? Yeah, because you can be sad about food, right? Like you can be, because you can be a foodie, but then is the food really bringing you a, bringing you joy if

you're berating yourself afterwards or it's making you feel uncomfortable? So it's about reconnecting in another way where you do truly love food. and everything about it on a whole other level. I like this comment here, too. Where was it about the food noise? The food arguments are so loud. That's the food noise. Right?

But is it just the food arguments or is it also the aftermath and the thoughts that come afterwards, right? So the thoughts that are leading up, not just during, but then afterwards. Like sometimes those can be, it's better to have the argument up front rather than deal with the aftermath after, right? Because for a lot of people, that can be the berating and the punishment and the harsh words and the, you know,

that's where it really gets, you know. So better to have that argument up front to save you the aftermath, right? Here's Karen, it's hard to stop eating a bit more, especially if it's good and you don't usually have it. That's what I have to work on. Yeah. And this is where I think, like, it's not,

this is where I say, It's not the Halloween candy at Halloween. It's not the chocolate on Valentine's. It's not the pastries on your three-week European holiday. It's that mentality every single day, right? And that's why I mean most of us we're sitting in. I can go upstairs. You can go and go into, you have a fridge full of food,

cupboards. You could literally go buy whatever you wanted. Like it's not the holiday special things that are the problem. It's that mentality every day where I need it and I'm not going to get more of it or like that maybe that food scarcity issue that people have, right? Yeah. It's not easy. No, it's not easy. And I think this is exactly why, you know, we want to do downsizing at this part of our journey.

It's not just about, I mean, although it is about portions, for sure, it is. And it's about becoming more in tune to that. It's about all of these other things. We always say a tweak is never just a tweak. It's about what we learn from it, what comes up from us. And this is where downsizing now at this point, you know, you can take it really to the next level. And embrace those feelings that come up and ask, you know, get curious. I know we say get curious a lot too, but get curious about what is coming up and why you're feeling this way.

And just talking portions, you know, we know from our members that have been around for a little while that it can be easy for those portions to start creeping up again. when we have forgotten what slightly unsatisfied feels like when we have you know we haven't been in tune to that feeling for a little while and you know we're where we might be getting to the point where we think we're satisfied but we're actually full so it's it it is about that physical feeling as well like really understanding what feeling slightly unsatisfied feels like and and not to be afraid of feeling hungry you're not avoiding eating you're not you're not depriving yourself you're just being in tune to that what that physical feeling is again. Yeah.

Unsatisfied to know what satisfied is. Right? Hungry to know what not hungry is, right? Yeah. So the little nuance, the nuances of that, for sure, nuances of that. I love this here, not ignoring it. You're feeling it, you wrote down. So you're not ignoring your hunger like you're actually going. Like if your whole attitude isn't like, oh my God, I love downsizing.

What a great opportunity to learn more about my issues and association. to food and I just love challenging myself and it's amazing chances are you got shit to deal with right right yeah and it's true about um you know not ignoring you're hungry you're not telling you're not trying to fight through hunger maybe like there's that other you know diets of the past where you're like I'm so hungry but I'm not allowed to eat I'm so hungry um but I can't have what I need this is about we don't want you being hungry and starving that's not what this is about this is just about being in tune to that slightly to that feeling of not being full as well you know sometimes we think

not being hungry means being full you know if i if i don't feel physically full that must mean that i'm hungry so it's just being in tune to what that to the difference there again because you could have lost all your weight and then some and been maintaining for a while and still have the stuff that you need to that's going to pop up at some time and going to get you it's going to get you when you when something's you know coming your way you're dealing with something situational change or something's going on your life that's when you it's so easy to fall back into that and that mindset it's very similar to that it's like a maintenance mindset right that's what you're trying to solidify that maintenance mindset it's like just like how we started

this conversation today when I used to be all like zen and harmonized and everything would just ask Tony right like well whatever go with the flow because I actively practice that on a daily basis to to not worry to be in the moment to all those things and you've got to practice that and So this is the same. It's centered around food, but it's so much bigger than that. What else you got? We got another couple of minutes left. Yeah, that was really what we wanted to touch on.

Just, you know, portions, you know, it is about being in tune, figuring out what unsatisfied feels like again. So when those portions do start creeping up, you're able to be more in tune to that. Self-determination is really about, you know, being uncomfortable, knowing you're going to be uncomfortable and taking action anyways. because that's going to give you the confidence later on to move through other challenging times, you know, not only in your maintenance journey, but just in real life. So, you know, allowing yourself to be uncomfortable and move through that.

Well, and that's something we can talk about with where people are at because being in tune with when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, being in tune puts you in tune with everything across the board, right? Like, you know, it just heightened your sense of awareness with everything, your relationships, your work environments, like what works for you, what doesn't. work for you, right? Like it's being in tune is being in tune. We just happen to be doing that with weight loss or maintaining our weight as the focus. But this is so much bigger than that. And that's why it's about being in tune and really understanding what you need, where you're at, how to, you know,

be a, you know, a champion for yourself, a cheerleader for yourself, how to be able to pick yourself up when you're down, how to be able to get back when you get thrown off. Like this is, this is all so much bigger. So it's, again, not just about. smaller portions when it comes to downsizing or the or the um the tweaks that we're introducing each week it's an it's an opportunity it's a practice to go deeper and it's through this method that you are creating space to work through the things that you need to work through yeah well that sounded really fucking deep didn't it someone put that on a t-shirt that's right that's up we can be a big t-shirt also how do you look so tanned and I just still look white I

Like, what is happening? Well, look, I'll show. I mean, I was looking at this this morning. Look at my arm. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I got, like, I'm pretty sure I'm still sweating, actually. Pretty sure I got nothing. I mean, I was pretty diligent about my legs are really, like my legs are super dark.

So it kind of goes. Yeah. My legs and then my arms a little bit. And then I was wearing one piece. So my stomach is like ghost white. And then I wear a hat and lots of sunscreen. I think, you know, I've got that we've got, we've, we're total opposites when it comes to our coloring, obviously.

I mean, everyone can see that. But I think I've got that skin that just, you know, I get out in the sun. I'm also really diligent with sunscreen, not because I don't want to be tan, but because I'm vain and so. So I'm really diligent with my sunscreen as well, but I just have that skin that just, you know, but just before we go, let's talk about homework because the homework is a little bit more involved this week. So if you don't have a pen handy, rewatch this.

this and get a pen handy. So I have a bit of homework. So first of all, I want our members to notice their hunger levels before eating. So like on a scale of one to 10, how hungry am I right now? So that's the first one. The second point, and this is just pick one meal or snack. You don't have to do this all day. Pick one meal or snack. Maybe it's, you know, maybe it's the meal or snack where you know you're going to be the most distractor or you're not going to have as much time to be mindful. Then ask yourself, where did I stop? you know, did I pause when I felt slightly unsatisfied or what, or did I go beyond that point? And then the third point, how did I feel after?

So physically, you know, did you feel light? Did you feel comfortable? Did you feel full? Did anything come up? Did you feel sad like Mary mentioned? Did you feel calm? You know, did you feel content? Did you feel deprived?

You know, did you feel like that, you know, did that come up for you and where is that coming from? And at the end of the day, just notice how it went. And notice how your day went, maybe you had an amazing day or maybe there's something you want to work on for tomorrow. So just those three points. We'll make sure we get those into the notes of this live as well. So that's your homework. It's a bit more involved this week.

But I mean, we love journaling. So the more that we can get you to write down and reflect and take action on, that's what we want you to focus on this week. And you're here, right? I love like Sue, overeating is often a way to distract myself or avoid feeling uncomfortable. so this is a good week yeah go into that i love the idea of journaling of bringing awareness like being like intentional about your awareness i love that um that's great homework we will check in midweek to see how y'all are doing have a great rest of your week everyone we'll see you on

wednesday thanks for everyone who joined us live we're listening after the fact uh odette nice to see you again i'll see in a couple days okay bye Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. I'm Jen Moreau's host of the new podcast, Furball Confidential. When I adopted my rescue pup clutch, she totally changed my life. And now I'm talking to other people whose lives have all. also been changed by their pets, like comedian Sabrina Jalise.

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