The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness Weigh In Wednesday - December 4, 2024

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Live from the Maintenance & Mindfulness group hosted on Facebook. This is the live recording of Weigh In Wednesday from December 4th, 2024.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulnessTopics covered:What’s your approach to the holiday season?Love it or Leave it: Holiday Edition!Upcoming in M&M for 2025To learn more about The Livy Method, and our Maintenance & Mindfulness group, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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with the right support to reach your goals. Start your visit today at felix.ca. That's F-E-L-I-X dot C-A. here we are week 12 of the maintenance program it is our way in wednesday conversation hello ladies hi how are you doing hello although it feels like it's nighttime where I am already, so. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. I'm ready for bed. Yeah.

It's feeling it. I'm feeling it. I am too, but it's not my clock here. I know. I was saying, I'm jealous. I'm looking at the sun coming through your window there behind you. Is it better? Thank you.

It is. We were expecting like a snowstorm. It's like, well, we're supposed to get a big snowstorm today. It's not very stormy outside, but it's like winter mode. It's like, yeah, it's time to shut her down. It's holidays. What are we doing? Still working. It's the holidays. I don't know. You're the boss. Give us the rest of the year off. We have to keep Tony busy. So he doesn't notice that we don't show up. Yeah, we're right. All right.

What do you got for us today, Odette? What do we want to talk about? This is our last live of the year, right? Yes, it's our last weigh-in Wednesday of this group or this program. It's our last weigh-in of 2024. So let's just just I thought we just have some fun we'll talk a little bit of seriousness about the holiday season then we're going to some fun about the holiday season and then we'll talk about what's coming up for um

January 2025 so we want sorry I'm totally yawning because I just talked about how tired I shouldn't have admitted I was tired I should be yawning at my topics maybe are we talking about yawn yeah so I just wanted to touch on um the holiday season I was doing some um reading as I always do before these and I came across this trend that's like anti-holidays it you know people areidays. People are saying it's the most wonderful time of the year and other people are saying, no, it isn't. It's not the most wonderful time of the year. It's stressful. It's financially strapping. It's cold and dreary. So I thought I just wanted to talk about what each of our approaches are to the holiday season. Do we feel like that? Do we feel like it is the most wonderful time of the year?

Or can it be just a little bit of both sometimes? I think it can be whatever the fuck you want. I do agree it comes every year. It comes earlier and earlier. I just feel like it's Groundhog Day over and over. Yet part of me loves it. I'm looking forward to it. I got the house decorated.

It's lovely. It's a wonderful time of year. Yes, it's also stressful. Tony and I sat down and we're like, what do we want this Christmas to be? Just because we can afford to buy our kids whatever we want, just they want, doesn't mean that we're going to buy them whatever they want. What does it mean? So this year we are challenging the kids to come up with gifts and and experience the gift of giving I think is really important I'm going to give my kids the gift of the holiday season so I want to make bake cookies and I want to watch movies and I want to light smelly candles and just enjoy the time the downtime with them but i i think that you can you can if you're not happy with it then make it some make it your own i don't see you have to be anti leave the

people alone like leave the people alone who want to celebrate and love it leave them alone but there's not a lot of joy in life sometimes so let them have that but then figure out what if not this then it's an opportunity for joy in other ways if not this then have that, but then figure out what, if not this, then it's an opportunity for joy in other ways. If not this, then what else is going to bring you joy? Figure that, figure that out. Yeah. I love that approach. I feel like I'm, I'm the kind of in the same boat where my approach is a little different now. I used to be so over the top when my kids were little and it was all about the gifts and the you know making sure that Santa came and and it was very magical and all of that and now I just want to be home with them in a

quiet peaceful um joyous time whatever whatever that might mean and I think there's a lot of pressure out there um to have like this this holiday experience when you watch, you know, movies, actually, they were talking about it this morning on the, on the guest expert live with Dr. Sandy band and Sandra, they were talking about, you know, watching these Hallmark movies and have it and be like, Oh, what is like, I want a red coat and a white coat and a green coat and a matching scarf for

everything to feel Christmasy. And I want to have a tree in every room. And I want to, you know, have the holiday music playing, but it's a lot of work, you know, and I agree. I think you've got to make it your own and just whatever your expectation is and however you're feeling about it, you've got to just make it your own experience. Agreed. Yeah, I think I agree with that. You have to make it your own. I think you also have to be really, really solid in your boundaries this time of year, because I know that I've been guilty in the past of getting caught up in what's expected of me, expected of my family and those expectations. And I have the benefit that my kids are older. I have, you know, a 20 year old and a couple of 16 year olds. And so those expectations, I feel like the older the kids get, the easier it is to kind of back away from some of those. But I remember when my kids were little, I was really uncomfortable with something that was happening at Christmas. And I put my foot down, I set a boundary with it and my mom still to this day reminds

everyone of my boundary for Christmas when it comes to celebrating Christmas and she just really respected the fact that I was vocal about it and I thought I was going to break my mom's heart with it so I think the lesson I learned was that I don't need to worry about other people's boundaries I need to worry and expectations making my own and making sure that I worry about other people's boundaries. I need to worry and expectations, making my own and making sure that I worry about my family's bound, like my family, my kids' boundaries. And where we're at, I don't want to overtax them with stuff at Christmas either,

just because it looks like it's fun or all their friends are doing it. And I see it all over Instagram and stuff like that. So really. Yeah. It's tough. Expectations are tough. So last year we, we, we had the privilege to travel. I love traveling during the holidays. So we don't do big gifts. They obviously the, the, the travel Wednesday vacation, I guess it was a vacation, but it was travel.

It wasn't lie on a beach and travel. The travel was the gift. And the year before that, Tony and I spent Christmas day at the veterinarian hospital because my sister, my daughter's dog bit our dog. And so she was like, you know, had a big thing on her eye. So Tony and I spent the day at the vet hospital while someone else, I guess, made food.

And we came home at the end of the day. Was it still, was it memorable? Yeah. Was it what I thought it was going to be? No. It's hard when you are striving for this perfect, wonderful, dreamy life. And sometimes I think we can get caught up on our expectations. I think our expectations of anything in life, whether it's your weight loss journey or whatever that might be. But I do think it's an opportunity. The rest of the world is slowing down to be able to make it what you want. Like what, like to your point, Kim, like set boundaries. If you don't want to do this or do that, don't do it. Like do something new. You don't have to fall into the same, do what everybody else

does, you know? And I think also, you know, for our members that are maybe new to maintaining or this is maybe their first holiday season, I think having them just think about what their expectations are as well and to set those boundaries around, you know, how they've celebrated the holidays in the past versus maybe how they're going to celebrate them now. Are they okay with having the same celebration and having those traditions or maybe have their priorities shifted a little bit and how are they going to navigate that?

I think, you know, they have to be aware and just think about it a little bit. Like what do they want? What is their expectation from this holiday season if it's the first one while maintaining? Yeah, it's a great opportunity to see how you navigate because you could have lost your weight last winter, solidified in the spring,

and now you're kind of like going and this is the first time you're going to be challenged with the holiday season. You can see that, you know, your past falling back into old habits, old coping mechanisms, this stressful time of year. And so it's enough to try to figure out

what you want Christmas to be, let alone when you're trying to maintain and sustain your weight at the same time. There's a lot going on, people pushing food at you, you being triggered by foods, situations. I think this is about what do you need? Where are you at? What do you need? What's going to make you happy? What's going to best support where you're going, what you want to achieve, all of that. I think it's a great time to reflect. I think it's a great time to be like, okay, what do I want the holiday season to be? Like, I don't want to be stressing about what I'm eating and when.

I do want to go out and look forward to spend time with people. Or I don't want to get financially strapped and, you know, be worried about money in January because I overspent because I thought I needed to in December. Like, I think I always say the living method is about putting you in tune to your not just what to eat when and how much, but in tune to what works for you and what doesn't. And I think this is an opportunity to trust your gut and be like, if you're feeling off about something, it's probably not the right path or the right decision for you. And what's going to make you happy and what do you need? Right. So I think this is these every social event holiday is an opportunity for you to do it your way and figure out what you need, what you need.

Life is too short to be stressing through the holidays. Yeah, I agree. And I think it goes both ways. I think it's an learning opportunity to what you need and what you want. And maybe it's also a learning opportunity when your best laid plans don't go well. You know, what can you learn from that? Or what can you take away from that and move forward with that? I think it you know it's going to be a learning opportunity both ways so I I'm excited for those first time people that are you know navigating this and as you know they might be a little bit worried I'm excited for them they're worried but you know to hear how they come they're gonna be great yeah yeah they're doing a great I was thinking about Christmas with my kids. I always tried to, I had a lot of mom guilt, so get them lots of gifts and whatever, even when I couldn't really afford it. And God forbid, like, you know, my kids, they'd be those kids that only got a gift here or there. But, you know, I talked to some of my son's friends and they're like, oh, they get one gift. That's it. Tony was raised every year. Like, who's this Santa Claus? Like you get like one gift and that's it and that that was his normal and he seems to be well adjusted I don't know right like you know so

what we think is like oh my goodness I couldn't do this or couldn't do that other people are doing this or doing that and you're just fine you know yeah I really resonate with that this year and what's important and, you know, what the feeling that you want to have around this holiday season. Like I said, I think, you know, we go through phases. And I think, you know, just as our members are going through this first phase, I think we go through phases of what the holiday season is going to feel like and what it's going to look like and what you want it to be. And I think you just, you know, come out on the other side and move on. Here's a comment from Kim who's obviously done really well in the program. I love Christmas,

but this is my second year of being an empty nester and my second year, not decorating my husband and I just finished painting and making our living room a relaxing space. I mean, that is, that's wonderful, right? Like that's, this is like, okay, what do I want? What do I want in my life? I love that. That that's wonderful right like that's this is like okay what do I want what do I want in my life I love that that's a whole vibe I love the relaxing space bit yeah right great idea I have Christmas decorations and boxes all over the place right now so I can't wait to meet you it is now relaxing outside of this room that's what I was thinking well you don't have to worry about putting it all up, taking it all down.

That's the worst is taking it down after. I think like just the thought of packing away all of the Christmas tree ornaments. Just I look at the tree now and I'm like, does it look nice with just lights on it? Because I might like that. Oh, we just move it downstairs as is. We have an artificial one.

I guess we have an artificial one. You probably, you, you live in BC. You probably hike out, you get the boots on and you cut your own. Don't you? We did that on Saturday. Yes. Yeah, you totally do. I can tell.

We get a real one, but we actually go to the farm and be like, I like that one. And they pack it up all night and they put it in your car for you and you just have to drive it home. My son bought himself a new chainsaw last week and he was so excited to bring it with him to the Christmas tree farm and try it out. I was like, Oh, good Lord. I love that. That's a great tradition. That's a great tradition. I love that. Okay. So let's move on to a bit more fun, holiday fun.

We're going to do this quick quick rapid fire love it or leave it holiday edition all right i'm gonna say something you're gonna tell me if you love it or if you could leave it okay and then everybody's listening i want to hear from them too see what they have okay okay so first one gingerbread love it or leave it leave it i love it too i don't like the gingerbread, like spice drinks and stuff, but gingerbread cookies. Love it.

Okay. Holiday music in November. I love it. I love it too, but only in the car. I don't love it in my house. Only in the car. Yeah.

In the car. For sure. Okay. Over the top decor. I'm talking inflatables, twinklinginkling lights life-size candy canes what do you think is this for my house or looking at other people's well it doesn't matter you can you can have two opinions oh I love it when other people do it but I'm a leave it personally. But then unless it's Halloween, on Halloween, I'm like a over the top, but Christmas I'm more subdued.

Yeah. I'm, I'm over the top outside. I think for the neighbors inside, it's very calm, but outside I have a life-size Santa Claus and he brings me joy. I'm with Jean on that one. I love looking at other people's Christmas displays, but I don't do that myself. Because again, I have to think about packing it up again. Okay. Love it or leave it. Winter weather.

I'm like a love-hate it. I wish I just skied on the snow hills. Wait, I just, that's where I'm at today. I wish I just skied on the snow hills oh wait I just that's where I'm at today that's right I wish it just skied on the snow hills that's where I'm at today guys um I just I wish it just snowed on the ski hills um I love it but I also I fucking hate it at the same time yeah I love it how it is today I've got a sprinkling of snow where I can but I can still see the tips of the grass through it so I like that I like that part of snow where I can, but I can still see the tips of the grass through it. So I like that.

I like that part of winter weather. I like again today, we have a very frosty, cold, but sunny day. So if every day was like this in BC, I would love it, but it's not BC.

It usually rains. So I'm going to say, leave it. Yeah. Okay. So I'm reading comments. I'm just like, yeah,

leave it unless I'm skiing. There you go yeah i give me a beach any day yeah um next one online shopping love it or leave it oh absolute necessity i do not i'm not going to the mall i don't leave the house i'm not no this is i definitely i love it can't love it love it yeah tony and I are done we just online shopped everything yeah nice I'm half and half I do enjoy online shopping but I'm actually looking forward to on Saturday going out and I've already heard that I'm crazy but I love it so if I don't show up to work on Sunday it's because I didn't make it home on Saturday from the mall yeah I. Or just like, yeah, just take the day off tomorrow.

Who's going to know? No one's going to know. Okay. I'll do that. No one's going to know. Tony, that's for sure. He didn't hear that. Tony's well adjusted.

He was raised well. Even he would tell you to avoid the mall on a Saturday. Yeah. In case nobody's told you, weight loss goes beyond the old just eat less and move more narrative. And that's where Felix comes in. Felix is redefining weight loss for Canadians with a smarter, more personalized approach to help you crush your health goals this year. Losing weight is about more than diet and exercise. It can also be about our genetics, hormones, metabolism. Felix connects you with online licensed healthcare practitioners who understand that everybody is

different and can pair your healthy lifestyle with the right support to reach your goals. Start your visit today at felix.ca. That's F-E-L-I-X dot C-A. Okay, matching PJs. I'm all about it. We're getting matching PJs. That's the first time. That shit ain't cheap, boy. To get your family in matching jammies?

My goodness. I'm so excited about this. Yeah. Kim? I love it. Most of my family does not love it so it's usually my daughter and the our dog and i that match and mark and the boys are definitely leave it on that yeah i thought this was your secret boundary this is your boundary this is my dad came once everyone in matching jammies yeah well this is where we is where we're cutting the spending on their gifts,

and I want matching jammies. So that's Merry Christmas, kids. I love that for you. And one day for you. Robert said no. Robert, Robert, I thought you would be the matching PJ type. I totally thought that would be a thing for you. Maybe Nicole will buy him some PJs for Christmas that match hers and he can

be a matching PJs dad without even knowing it. Right. There you go. Yes. I, I love it. And I, we've been doing it for,

I don't even know how many years and I love it. And I, you know, we, I used to go to one store. Now I do that. That's the one thing i do online because you can usually find something for your dog also in a set so if you need a reason there's nicole

nicole's like dad i bought them before i want to see a photo yes i want to see a photo dad okay we'll have to all call in your matching jammies yeah we'll all post one on our instagram after the fact we should wear our pajamas why didn't we wear our pajamas today that was that was a miss yeah it's nope for next year nope for next year we missed this one okay okay okay uh eggnog love it or leave it love it but it has to be like no artificial flavors, colors, crap. I'd like do like really good eggnog. Love it. Our neighbor makes homemade eggnog when we have our Christmas cocktail night with the neighbors. And it is the most delicious alcohol ridden eggnog I've ever had in my life. And that's the way to go, Gina.

No artificial flavors, no artificial. Just my neighbor with one of those immersion blenders and some eggs and cream and booze and yeah, delicious. I love eggnog. That sounds good. I'm a leave it on the eggnog. I think it's the thickness, the texture for me. I can't get past it. Yeah. Trudy's a leave it. Melanie's a leave it. Lisa is a love it. Yeah. Okay. All right. Love it with booze. Well, there you go, Robert. While wearing my matching PJs. That's right. Okay. So the next one, treat yourself. So buying yourself a gift. Oh, I am the worst. This is why I don't go to the mall.

If I go to the mall, I end up buying more for me because like I don't go to the mall. And when I go there, I find all sorts of cute stuff and I end up buying stuff for me rather than buying for who I need to buy from. So I think that's why I like online shopping because I'm like specific. Yeah. I don't need things. Kim? I'm a leave it. But I will say that there are attachments to that in that I make out a nice Christmas list, like my family asks, I don't buy myself anything. And then I'm disappointed when I don't get anything on the list. And I have to like, Oh, I got to go and buy that for myself after. So I might need to be more like Gina and go and buy everything for myself. Yeah, I do ensure that my stocking is has a few things that I really want in it. I don't have an empty stocking in the morning because that's happened before.

Santa. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Okay. Last one. Resolutions. Love it or leave it. I'm going to leave it. Cause I like, I do a five five-year plan I do like a mental five-year where do I want to go and it's just ongoing whether it's January or or you know September to September is more of a resolution time for me I kind of regroup after the holidays January I don't even I barely know what day it is in January so I'm not into resolutions yeah I I love it. But again, attachments. I know Jodi's probably freaking out right now.

Like these people are the worst at rapid fire. There's nothing rapid. But I like the very specific resolution over Mark and I have always done in the past where there's something that we're going to do for the next year. And like this past year for me, it was wash my face before I go to bed. Something so simple and I actually have what day are we on of the year right now I've washed my face every single night before I went to bed so just something that I know I slack off on that I'm going to commit to doing every day for a year and so I like that type of resolution not I'm going to overhaul my life and put all these expectations on myself but just just a simple thing. I like that. I was going to say resolutions. I saw Melanie said,

I think it was Melanie, too much pressure on a resolution. I agree. I think we set these big, like I'm going to change my whole life this year. I think if we can have little steps like that, just wash your face at night, I think that could be a resolution, but I don't want to set myself up for disappointment by February. So don't do that. Okay. So question for you, because I see Robert is like not buying gifts as we're going to Philippines for two months. That is our gift to each other. So if money was not an option, what would you do for Christmas? How would it be different? What would you do? You'd be like, I'm going to give you all the money, but for this Christmas, you what, how would it be different? What would you do? You'd be like, I'm going to give you all the money, but you, for this Christmas, you can do whatever you want with it.

I would definitely go away. I would want to not be home for Christmas. I would want to spend time with my family doing something fun and not have gifts. That's what I would do yeah um I would also go away but I would go to um Portugal because I have so much family there and the way they celebrate Christmas is much different so we have a lot of our traditions here um that we follow but I think to take my family my kids and my husband and just go there we've done the We've done the Caribbean like Christmas, you know, Christmas day, like Christmas Eve and Christmas day away in the tropics. I think going there and spending it there,

I think would be amazing with my mom and, you know, and everybody. That's what I would do. Take all of us. I have three sisters, their families, everybody, all of us, and be with my, you know, aunts and uncles and everybody, cousins that

also live there and just do Christmas the way they do it. Yeah. I love that. How about you, Gina? What would you do? I do Nicola's and more animals. Yeah. I think like I love the opportunity to bring all of my family together. I would love to bring everybody somewhere. I don't know where, but then if it was like just immediate family, I love the idea of being somewhere Christmassy, like, you know, somewhere like where they do Christmas markets or, you know, at a ski lodge or I don't know, like money wasn't an option, like a castle, like with like, you know, like warm blankets and big roaring fires, or I don't know, I guess I'm thinking of some of the Christmas movies all

mashed together, I guess. If you could reinvent it, and let's say it's not about money, but someone could say, you're going to reinvent Christmas or the holidays, whatever that would be, and what we do and how we celebrate, how would you do it? Would there be gifts? Would there not be gifts? I think there would be gifts and I think it would be like a mandatory two day thing. So like you get together and you have like a big like celebration, not like a party, but like with the gifts and the meal, and then you're mandated to have to stay together the second day and just have that chill day together. I feel like we are so pulled going to, you know,

a different side of the family or going to visit this person or going to visit that person. You never have more than just one day together. So I think I would make it two days but like we're locked in together so and the second thing is not about gifts it's just about being together and you know enjoying and talking about the big day you had the day before I think I would do that love that I feel like it would be something similar to what you were talking about earlier Gina with one gift with having that thing one gift and maybe like if would be something similar to what you were talking about earlier, Gina, with one gift, with having that thing, one gift. And maybe like if there's something you give someone, you know, like a gift or a message

or inspiration or something like that, have it be a little bit more meaningful, not as material. Like right now, you know, it's very materialized when you see the like things people are getting, they're getting sweaters yeah new skis something that somebody really needs whether they need it physically or they need it sort of mentally or emotionally giving somebody something but I think I would normalize giving less gifts to each person and maybe just give one gift to more people and have that be a little bit more normalized because I feel like we as a society kind of focus on really, you know, spoiling your family or focusing on your family.

And there's a lot of people that need things a lot more than my kids do out there. But that's not the norm. That's not how I raise them. That's not what we're like. But I think also I think there's a lot of pressure on for Christmas in particular. And I'm sure it's the same with other holidays, with there being a lot of pressure on specific days. And I love the day of like a season of giving and maybe more casual, like the whole month of December is this relaxed time when, you know, like you think about in Europe, places where they have reduced working hours at times of year and stuff and having like we nobody works in December. Nobody like everything is closed. This is just a time to be with family and to like be with loved ones and take care of yourself. That would be an amazing way to celebrate December holiday season, I think.

Yeah, it would be nice if we got more days off. Everybody, the way they used to close everything on a Sunday, right? Everyone got to get time off. I love that. Yeah. Nice. What about you? How would you reinvent it, Gina? I like, I like it. I like, like Thanksgiving, right? I love there's no gifts.

We just get together and we have turkey and we celebrate. And I think it would be nice to do Christmas without gifts without having to buy the gifts is so stressful because now like I can't stand a gift card like that's like this is just we're just swapping money everyone is just swapping money I'm giving you money you're giving me money I you know I think um I think maybe after a certain age you don't get gifts from Santa anymore. Maybe after you're 10 or maybe when you're, I don't know, 12 or something. After that, you buy gifts for younger kids.

And if you don't have any younger kids to give for, you donate presents or something. I think Santa coming and giving gifts. I love the joy of the holidays. I think the gift thing is just so overdone and it's exhausting and tiring. And I think the joy of giving is gone because we've made it material and we're no longer buying, for example, what I would want to buy for you. I'm now because people have to, I'm buying what you need. And I don't know, I don't know about buying something for someone that they need I think something maybe that they want or something I want to get them I just think the whole gifting

thing is I know I'm not trying to be like a bah humbug but that's probably what I would do I get rid of gift giving altogether or limit it just for kids yeah yeah I think making it more about the connection right it's yeah the downtime and the connection versus everything. Yeah. And how does this all equate to losing our weight, maintaining your weight, all of that? I think that these holidays, they weigh heavy on us. There's a lot of stress around them. There's a lot of expectation with them. And when we're working so hard to create the life of our dreams, these holidays come in. You know what I mean? There's so many of them and it really is an opportunity to, to design or create the life of your dreams. And you don't

have to do it the same way. It's always been done. And if you're just feeling like something is off, then change it. You have the power to, to make the change, right? Um, I think you're in tune with what works and what doesn't, if it's not working for you anymore, don't do it. Create your boundaries like Kim. Yeah. There you go. Got it. Yeah.

I love that. I know we're out of time. That was lovely chatting with you, ladies. So we're going to be back in January. We do want to talk about how we now have a proper maintenance program. Our next maintenance program is going to start January 6th. So this sort of like, this takes me back to old school Libby method before there was an app, before there was a book, and it was just the weight loss program. And so we're going to run a 91-day maintenance program in line, fall, winter, and spring with the weight loss program. We are working on getting an app for our members.

We are working about putting the information in a book as well. But if everyone's looking for a fresh start on solidifying their weight or their mindset in maintenance, prepare to start that January 6th, because that's where we're going to do that. There's some couple of things. I think I'm going to start going live more often, maybe daily, maybe three times a week. I'm not promising anything, but we're also going to stream some of the guest segments from the weight loss program. I know we stream some of them now, but we know there's a lot of you are holding on to that weight loss program because you love access to our guests. We're going to see if we can bring more of that in here for you. What else am I missing, Odette?

What do our members here in maintenance need to know? I think they need to know that, you know, we talk about the maintenance program and it being a 91 day program. It's about solidifying. But even if you've been sitting at your goal weight for a little while and you think, oh, I don't really need to solidify, it can go a little bit, it does go deeper than that. It's about solidifying your mindset too, until you feel comfortable and calm. And we know members have been around for a little while and they still, even though they're maintaining their weight at a certain number, are still not calm and comfortable with a few other areas, maybe some issues and associations that come up. So following the 91 days to solidify your set

point, yes, but also to help solidify your mindset. And this is something you can do more than once. You don't have to just do one 91 day maintenance program and then be like, okay, now I feel pressure to move on. If you're not ready, if your mindset is not where you want it to be, do it again, because we will talk about those issues and associations. We're going to give you the opportunity to work through the tweaks, which is a calm, familiar place to be able to dive deeper into some of these issues and associations. And then when you're ready, you can move into this maintaining area where you are maybe testing things out a little bit more, you know, seeing how your body reacts when you do change things up, living in a more personalized way.

So the group is going to give you both. We're going to give you that 91 day structured program to help you solidify and, you know, body and mindset. But then also we're going to have those other conversations, those other posts, those other guest experts that are going to go a little bit beyond, you know, just solidifying. So it doesn't matter. And even this segment itself, we're going to, we've, we've given a

lot of thought to how can we take this segment that we do on Wednesdays and turn it into something that is really helping to guide our members through the maintenance program. So this segment, we are going to tie into where people are at week to week to week to week and make that the focus of the conversation as well. So again, we're continuing to learn around here. It's been great getting to know our members in maintenance. And I think, you know, Odette, I know for sure has done a lot of work on the maintenance program and we're ready, I think, to own it officially and put it out there and be like, here's what it is. And then of course, get that app going and get the book out and all of that. And then, you know, for the next couple of weeks,

we're going to take a bit of a seasonal slowdown. So the maintenance and mindfulness group never closes. It's here. Well, we will close for a couple of days over, over the holidays, but we don't, just because the 91 day program is over, it doesn't mean the group is closed. So the team will still be here answering questions. We'll still have daily posts. We're just going to take a bit of a slowdown when it comes to, you know, the Monday lives, the weigh-in Wednesdays.

We won't be checking in quite as often, but there'll definitely be information and fun posts. And some also like engaging posts to keep our members here and with each other over the break. Love it. Amazing. Well, I don't want to go, but we got to go. I hope everyone, I want to thank everyone for joining us for the last few months, coming to hang out, chatting.

We've learned a lot about our members. We've learned a lot about each other. We had some fun conversations. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, no matter how you choose to spend the holidays. I know I'm going to miss our chats, ladies. I always look forward to this conversation. Yeah. We'll be back before you know it. I'm sad this is the last one, but I'm already excited for January. Yeah, me too. Yeah. All right. Thanks everyone. Have a great rest of your night. Bye. Thanks ladies. Night. New year, new me season is here.

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