The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance & Mindfulness Weigh In Wednesday - January 24, 2024

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

Gina Livy's Facebook Live from the Maintenance & Mindfulness group hosted on Facebook. This is the live recording of Weigh In Wednesday from January 24, 2024. You can find the full video hosted at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulnessTopics covered:Welcome and introducing Debbie BoyceWhat does being consistent look like in Maintenance for you?Debbie chats about her consistencies and her habitsConsistency is key: Defining consistency and setting your intentions Maximizing in Maintenance with Debbie, and keeping yourself in checkMaximizing is so much more than what you are eating, and whenBringing your awareness to how you are feeling and what things you can work on that will have an impact Defining Maximizing: What CAN you do realistically to maximize your efforts? it doesn't mean doing ALL the thingsMaking tweaks to adjust to the seasons and the weatherDo you need to weigh yourself every day in Maintenance?Goal: getting so in tune with yourself that you don't need to step on the scaleIf the scale is still bringing up feels, then there may still be more work to be doneNon-scale Victories: finding joy in the little victoriesDr. Paul Hrkal Friday, Jan 26th @12pm: talking about supplements after weight lossTo learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Weigh In Wednesday, where we weigh in on all things maintenance. And of course, joining me as always is Odette, who is the manager of our maintenance group, and Kim, who's the manager of our weight loss group. And our special guest today, Debbie Boyce, no stranger to the program. Debbie is 67 years old, a mother of two and grandmother. And we, I mean, we share the age why because I think so many people are concerned that, you know, if they are not 20, they wouldn't be able to lose weight again. And, and Debbie has a really fabulous story. In fact, she shared this with us during a recent

spill the tea segment in our weight loss group, where you talked about maintenance. 28 pounds down, you did two groups to lose. Your third group was the fall recently where you put time into solidifying your weight and you've been in maintenance ever since. So the perfect guests to have this chat with us today. Odette, what are we? So first of all, welcome, Debbie. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Odette, should we get right into it? This is sort of where we weigh in on a variety of topics or, you know, what's going on in the group. So what do we want to chat about today? So I really want to talk about what, you know, some of the posts that came out in the group this week and what the focus of this week has been. And one of them was consistency. So being consistent. And I think it's really important to talk about this because some, I think there's a few different points of view here when we talk about being consistent.

Being consistent weight loss is different than where we are now, but even in maintenance, it can look different depending where you are. So whether you're solidifying and just starting, or if you've moved on and you're testing the waters, feeling things out a little more, being consistent can mean different things. So I think, you know, at this point, if you're just starting to solidify, you want to keep things, you know, status quo, you want to just make sure the body's in this familiar, calm place to get used to, you know, the changes it's made, let that weight settle in, have that new set point. And then if you're at the point of testing the waters, this can look, being consistent can look totally

different. Because, you know, so you could be personalizing the plan at this point. And so how can you be consistent when every day might look a little bit different? So it's really being consistent with those little tools and habits you've picked up along the way. You know, maybe it's, you know, making sure that you're journaling every day. That could be one thing that you do so that you can track how your body reacts. You can track fluctuations. Maybe it's being mindful, checking in with

yourself, that's your consistent little habit every day. So I really wanted to just talk about like what that what that looks like, and what that means for everybody, because it doesn't consistency is not the same thing day in day out, you know, hardcore, it can change from day to day. Yeah, because I think and I'm sure Debbie be having been in maintenance, you might be able to speak more to this. It might be a difference between being routine and being consistent. Like when you're solidifying the way your weight and you're repeating the program again to solidify your weight, for example, you want to be really routine with the things that you're doing. And I wonder where boredom comes in there too. For people, maybe it's like working through boredom again, because you're just doing the things that you need to do as opposed to consistency,

consistently, like what are you consistently doing when you're in that testing the waters stage? Because that's where you're personalizing the plan. So every day might look a little different. So is that even the right word? Do you need to be consistent in solidifying or more routine? Do you know what I'm trying to say here, Debbie? Um, I would say that for myself, what I find that I do is when I'm at home, I seem to be more routine and sort of stick to the things that I know, eat, eat how I, you know, feel is good that I'm going to stay where I want to stay. But then I find when I'm away, or things are, you know, you haven't company or just things are different, then I try to be consistent with what I'm what I'm eating. And, and my big thing

is, as I've always said, is I'm always mindful. Like, you know, I'm going to have the things, but I'm not going to eat, you know, three bags of chips. So I wonder if it's more what you're like consistently being mindful, right? Because if you're in that maintenance phase where you're personalizing the plan and every day can look a little different, that you're not necessarily being, you're personalizing the plan and every day can look a little different that you're not necessarily being you're not consistently eating breakfast consistently doing this consistently maybe consistently getting the water in but consistently being mindful so it matter I think it comes down to what are you consistently doing maybe I don't know consistently definitely the water always and I find I'm very consistent with my breakfast because

I'm not I like eggs but I'm not a big egg person so I really do like you know my yogurt and bump it up with you know ham parts and almond butter and things like that um and I have learned through maintenance and what we're taught towards the end of the program is I have finally gotten that I have to eat what I feel like I want to eat. Yeah. I go to the fridge and there's chicken there, but that's not what I want. Then I go with what I want instead of. So I guess that takes away kind of the routine. Yeah. of him. So I guess that takes away kind of the routine. Yeah, I just want to say that

that consistency is key, right? Consistency is key when you're trying to lose weight all around, right? That routine, doing all the things. What I guess what what is what is consistent? When you take that saying consistency is key? What does that mean when you're in maintenance? I think it's also just remembering your those little habits and reinforcing those little habits. So so, you know, might not be the same thing every day. But you remember, like, you know, maybe my habit is eating nutrient dense food, nutrient rich food, maybe not at every single meal. But that's what I'm going to think about, you know, on a daily basis. So yeah, so I'm going to add about, you know, on a daily basis. So, yeah, so I'm going to add in, you know, indulgences if I'm testing the waters and see how my body reacts and how the scale might fluctuate. But then my habit is to make sure that I'm, you know, making other choices around it.

I think it's also carrying those little habits through. Yeah, well, I think no matter what stage you're at, consistency to me is, is keep being mindful day to day. Right. Sorry, Kim, what were you going to say there? I was just going to say, I think is not something there's a, maybe a little bit of a difference between a routine and consistency and that consistent going to necessarily look the same every day. When I say I'm consistently like I'm being consistent with my water, that doesn't mean I'm drinking the same amount of water every day, it means I'm staying on top of my hydration needs, you know, same thing with what you're eating, how much is how much you're eating or making your meals nutrient rich, I'm not to what

Odette said, necessarily making every meal nutrient rich all the time, but consistently making that a priority to make sure that I am being consistently making my needs a priority, maybe, and those needs are going to change from going to look the same. Whereas when you're losing weight, there's definitely some boxes you're ticking off while you're going along. Did I do this? Have I been maximizing this? Have I been maximizing this? Have I versus, you know, in maintenance where you might just be making sure that you're taking care of your body's needs. This is such an interesting conversation because now I'm all messed up about what consistency is versus routine and what, you know, that consistency is key. And I think it's

so important to understand the words that you're using and really define what that means, right? Oh, I need to be consistent. Well, what, what, now I'm sitting here thinking, well, what's the difference? What's consistent? What am I being consistent about prioritizing myself, being mindful? Or is it I'm being, I'm consistently working out or I'm consistently drinking my water? Like, like there, there is, I think there's, it's, I'm finding this conversation fascinating because it's messing me up a little bit, which I, which what I thought was consistency might, might be more routine, but maybe, yeah, maybe the words are interchangeable. You know, I think, you know, when we think of like, it's not what you do in one day, like you can't do all the things in one day and then do none of the things for five days, you know, like, I mean, yeah, that might happen from time to time, but it's being aware, like, five days you know like i mean yeah that might happen from time to time it's being aware like so you know you can't it's what you do on a regular basis over you know a long period of time versus you know trying to do everything all at once

so i'm trying to i just looked it up um the quality of always behaving or performing in a similar way or of always happening in a similar way. Um, let me, another example of consistency, carrying out something the same way or something staying the same as it's achieved in a particular way. So that could be that routine, right? You achieve something in a particular way. So we keep the routine of drinking the water, doing the things. An example of this would be when we're painting a wall to achieve the same color and look overall. Consistency to create the same thing over and over. Maybe it's even, you know, getting up in the morning and having that intention of having the same kind of day you had the day before, not necessarily in all of your actions, but maybe it's a consistent intent. I'm going to come into the day feeling like this. I'm going to

come into the day and hope to accomplish and do these few things. Maybe that's where it lays. Maybe it's knowing that you want to have your days similar to the day before in terms of your intentions and where you want to go it's like this life that you're building now versus like having to focus just on one day yeah i think that'd be sorry go ahead debbie i was gonna say maybe it's consistency doing the things but not routinely doing the things that's yeah here's another maybe i don't know routine is doing the things. Yeah. Here's another member. I don't know. Routine is doing the same thing. Consistency is doing the things on average, but more than not, it's not always the same. It's not always the same. You know, I think this is great practice for everyone who's listening to

us today to define what consistency means for you. If consistency is so key, what is that? What are the key things that you need to do routinely, perhaps? Right? Like, I think there's something to be said about defining what what things you are doing consistently, as opposed to what things you're just doing out of routine. And I think everybody would be different. Everybody is different. Yeah. Right. With the things you do. Well, I think just along the lines of the weight loss,

everybody has different needs and you, we individually need to figure out what we need to do consistently in order to maintain. Yeah. Like consistently focusing on your stress for one person, consistently moving their body more consistently working on getting to bed more often for somebody else. Maybe. Yeah. And maybe that even changes, you know, from day to day, week to week, you know, if you feel like, you know, I'm really solid in this area right now, now, next week I'm going to make sure that I'm flipping my focus to something else. And that could just change from week to week as well.

Interesting. You always see those like motivational quote, when consistency is key and you know, people putting it out there talking about consistency, but no one's really talking about what what this consistency is that we need to be consistent about. Yeah. So instead of consistency being this calm, familiar place, I think it's we'veters now in my water. I'm thinking this is why I need, remember when I used to drink wine, we used to have wine for these, like, and here we are. Yeah. I like that era, the wine era. We should bring that back. All right. Um, so we probably messed everybody up in terms of consistency and not sure that we got anywhere with that, but the point was everyone needs to figure out what that means to them, which is different

to everybody. What's our next? What are we talking about next? When we move on. So, I mean, it's great that we had Debbie on here today because she said something about maximizing and, you know, so talking about consistency and maybe not doing all the things all the time, but knowing when, you know, maximizing and maintenance too, and what that looks like, like, you know, coming off weight loss, and, you

know, we talked about maximizing and doing all the things and, you know, this could be something that, you know, we implement into solidifying and maintaining as well. So recognizing that when we need to pull out that maximizing checklist again. And we, there is one for maintenance that, you know, is a little bit different with different intention. That's more relevant to where you're at in the state you're at now. And Debbie had said, like, she has, you know, been maintaining for a year, her scale fluctuates within her normal amount, but she still pulls out that maximizing checklist from time to time. So I wanted her to tell us about that too. I love that.

Yeah, I do because I like to keep myself in check. And lately my weight has gone up two pounds from, so for a whole year after I solidified, I stayed right within a range. But in the last, I'd say from October until now, I've gone up two pounds. And not that that's, I mean, it's not a lot. And I know, you say the fluctuation can be, you know, anywhere up to 10 pounds. But for myself, I just don't like that. So yeah. So at the start of when, as you all know, I always sign up for the weight loss program. So at the start of the weight loss program, this, this, the winter program, I thought,

okay, I'm going to follow that along and see if I can get, you know, just sort of go back down. But then I kind of went, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm in maintenance. I'm not in weight loss. So then I so then basically, that's what I have been doing. I have been trying to maximize, you know, get getting out and walking, which, you know, over Christmas, that didn't happen. And, and just doing the extra things that I really haven't been doing to see if I can get just get back to where I want to be because that was just where I like to be. And, um, yeah, I'm coming down, but it's slow. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I love what Kim's got going on in the, in the weight loss group over

there. I mean, just like access to our guests, the whole community, you know, it's great to be reminded. And just because you're done losing doesn't mean that you still don't benefit from focusing on those things in that conversation either. Right. So the, yeah, we got to, so we, we got to just this, I have a feeling the maintenance group is going to be just as happening, if not more so than our weight loss group at some point, this is going to be the place to be for sure. Um, so maximizing again, that conversation is so much more than just what you are eating and when and I think this comes back to, you know, people are able to maintain their weight, but then they talk about how they don't feel as good as they felt when they were losing weight, because they weren't necessarily

maximizing and doing all the things. Right. So I love that you pull this out and you kind of go through that. I kind of do something similar where I make it like a, like a, a to do list, the things that I need to do, right. Like work on, drink my water, work, exercise, take my supplements, like, you know, not following the program program, but I, a to do list of all the things I want to do that. I think, you know, call this person, do this, go here, do that. Kind of like making sure you're doing all the things you can to feel good list kind of. Right. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think, you know, some,

we can get into, you know, we've hit our goal. I must be the healthiest I've ever been. I must have everything figured out, you know, and you want to make sure that, you know, we don't forget all those other little things that we worked on. Maybe it is time to check in with your doctor again, you know, and you want to make sure that, you know, we don't forget all those other little things that worked on, maybe it is time to check in with your doctor again, you know, just to make sure everything is status quo, maybe it's time to, you know, really think about is my sleep as good as it could be? Or what could I be doing to get better sleep? So yeah, it's not just about, you know, what you're eating and when it's but all those little

things when we talk about maximizing. It is. There's a comment here. We have created such a toolbox over the time of weight loss and maintenance. And we find ourselves gaining or being a little bit out of control or off, just feeling our choices. We can use more tools like maximizing to help get us back. Yeah, there are a lot of tools at this point. There's a lot of tools at this point. There's a lot of, there's a lot of tools at this point. So many. And I think bringing awareness to that, like when you're feeling that way, it's almost brain just an aware, I am not feeling my optimal self. And it's not,

you know, for Debbie, it was the couple of pounds she noticed, but for somebody else, it might just be like, wow, I'm waking up and kind of trying to drag myself out of bed every day. Yeah. Or I don't know. And usually I like it. So digging in and bringing awareness to why and then figuring out what you need to maximize or be more consistent with at that point, because it pull this out and do everything on it. There might just be one or two things that you've been letting slide lately because your routine has changed or something. Yeah, and I know we talked about this a long time ago about maximizing, we can pull it out

and we can think like, oh, we have to do all these things. But maybe it's not about doing all the things all the time. It's just about doing them when you need to be doing them. Or maybe it's picking a few things and through that word optimizing optimizing around a little bit, like, so maybe I can't maximize all the things, but what are the things that I can optimize this day? You know, what can I work on today that's going to make an impact? If you're looking for flexible workouts, Peloton's got you covered. Summer runs or playoff season meditations, whatever your vibe,

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Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Yeah, I like this comment. Maximizing is multifactorial. It's not the result of one thing. Yeah, I guess we got to define what maximizing is too, right? I've been talking about this. Interesting, I've been talking about this interesting, I've been talking about this. We're gonna write investors now. But good to keep because I've been talking about this in the weight loss group is like,

doing all the things like being hardcore. Like you can maximize, of course, and be hardcore, but you can also maximize and take a more relaxed approach about it, right? Like maximizing is really, I think I look at maximizing as all the things that you can do that can make a big difference. So maximizing your efforts, right? Like trying to do as many things as possible that will add up and make a difference. It's not like you have to do each and every one of those things, like to the max, you know, like you, you don't have to like, for your sleep, you know, make sure it or your stress, make sure that you're deep breathing and meditating and doing this and doing that and whatever. It's just that if you are, you know, putting time into stress and trying to get better sleep and

move your body more. And you know what I mean? The, to get better sleep and move your body more and you know what i mean the all of those things together will add up to make a big difference not necessarily that you're doing all the things to manage your stress and all the things to get better sleep and doing HIIT classes and yoga classes and Pilates classes and walking classes to move your body you know god i am confused i need a glass of wine my goodness well there's a great so someone um there's a comment here too the maximizing checklist also gives us the opportunity to realize the scale is not always tied to our diet yeah so isn't this just an incredible way as a reminder when we're questioning that or we're feeling that heaviness of the, you know, like,

oh, my scale's up. Why is my scale up? Well, let's go back to the maximizing checklist as a reminder to why to all of those reasons why. Yeah. Well, even this time of year, like I like what like what Debbie said, like your routine is a little bit off, right? Like it's, it's, you take the holidays alone. But the fact that it's been so dark, like here in Ontario, we've had like 30 hours of sunshine in like the last two months. So that affects vitamin D levels, right? And then and then that make not enough, you know, vitamin D will cause your body to feel a need to store fat, and then you're not as active because it's minus 400 outside. So cold, you can't even go outside. And then when

you get that cold, your body's inclined to like, it's cold. Let me add some insulation. Like your body is wired to store more fat in the winter time, you know, thinking it's trying to help you out, you know, and then maybe, maybe we're not making those tweaks, like bumping up the vitamin D more than we usually take or, or, you know, having those heavier, heartier foods. Because when our weight goes up, we feel inclined to like pull it back, let's eat diet foods, we're back to salads and lighter stuff rather than the soups and the stews that we need, right? You know, even even moving your body, it's like that in itself, because that's tied into going for walks, which I was doing more consistently, was so great for my just my brain health and my mental capacity.

And then also I was getting that sunshine with when I was sunning and getting outside the light, which helped with my sleep. So it's all, you know, and none of that has anything to do with food. None of that has anything to do with food. And it's definitely factoring into how I'm feeling. That's for sure. Yeah, it's true. Well, and then add to that too, the fact that it's a cold and flu season and there's people that are getting sick with you. You know, so many of us are used to stuffing that down. And like I myself have been fighting something for the last few days. I can feel it.

I'm, you know, extra tired and I'm stuffing it down a little bit and sucking it up and not thinking like I'm ignoring those symptoms and I'm not full out sick, but my body is trying really hard to fight off. So I'm not sick yet, but my body's, my body's been working. Yeah. Working same things like that can affect your weight too. Yeah. Yeah. I've had like a scratchy sore throat so I can feel it. and then i go to bed and i take whatever and i feel better and then i'm just like which means that your body's really focused on something else and i'm not paying attention to that i don't have who's got time for that we have to rewrite a dictionary we don't time to be sick that's right

we have to do our own living method dictionary time to be sick. It's interesting. Like I said, this conversation, because I've been thinking about the verbiage that we use and the words that we use. And what does that mean? You know, when we say something all the time, because people more than ever, they're like, they keep saying, like, what does consistency mean? I've heard that so many times in the weight loss group and i'm like oh well it's easy but maybe it's it's not as easy as i as i thought you really got to bring it yeah it can mean different things to different people at different stages i love it i love it all right okay so i did i did pull a couple questions from the group i thought were really interesting and i really wanted to have Debbie weigh in on them with us. Great. First one I thought was very fitting. So it was, is it necessary to weigh yourself every day when on maintenance? So the member said, I still do it.

I'm just asking the question. Oh, I know what Debbie does. So Debbie, you take this one away. Debbie still weighs herself every day, which is probably why I have such an issue of the two pounds being up. If I walked away from the scale, I might be all right. I think it's a personal choice. For me, it keeps me accountable. That's basically why I do it. Although, from what we've just said about all the different things, the reason that our weight could be up a little bit, it's not necessarily the scale that's telling you that. Yeah. But it also was a good, like to Kim's point where maybe her weight is up because her body's fighting something and she's just ignoring it because she's just plowing through and this is your body saying, okay, hello, something's going on.

But you said something when we talked about this, because Debbie was with us with the three day no way challenge. And actually, I used a little bit of what you said, when I was talking about the weight loss group that you were also like, I'm really proud of what I've done. And so you like getting on the scale and seeing that that number is the number like, I and that was really a game changer for me when and it's the first time I said that in the weight loss group and I was like you know you can also continue to weigh yourself in after you're done solidifying your weight maintaining your weight living your life because you're just so freaking happy to see that number because you spent 20 20 years trying to lose this weight and here you've done you've maintained it so why not right so I put my tune

on it I would have said before i want you to lose your weight get comfortable and understanding what weight loss maintenance looks like and feels like to you and then get rid of the scale but hat you worked hard for it why not celebrate that every day by getting on the scale if you want that's true i changed my tune a bit on it yeah i and i think it the intention, you know, how does that, how does weighing yourself every day make you feel, you know, if it's, if you're getting on that scale and dictating the type of day you're going to have rather than, you know, giving you insight or just giving you, you know,

information from, you know, maybe what you did the day before, what's going on in your body. Like if you're stepping on that scale every day and you're like, now I can't do this or I can't feel this way, or I can't be happy today. I think that's, you know, where the, where we were like, no, let's get rid of the scale. If that's your intention, you're feeling behind it. But if we're using it as a tool, if we're using it as, you know, a celebration like Debbie is sometimes, and I think it, you know, it can be, it can be a good thing. Well, I think just even along with the weight loss and in maintenance, people can become hyper-focused in the moment on the scale and what that exact number is in the moment. And sometimes

that, that can be problematic because you're not sitting back and looking at the big picture, which is Debbie's celebration of look how far I've come. There's, I'm proud of this number on the scale, but you can, you know, you can still be proud of it when it's a couple of pounds above, if you step back and look at how far you've come or how long you've maintained. So there's a way to, I think, look at that number and kind of take a step, be in the moment, like, Oh, my scale is up. What does this mean? Do I need more sleep? Do I, you don't always have to look at that number and think I need to do something about it sometimes you can look at it and just think like it is what it is that's the number I can move on and maybe if it's like staying there for a while you might want to dig into it but yeah especially if you know that

you're doing all the right things yeah Yeah. Pretty much. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And it certainly doesn't dictate my day. It's just something that I do when I get up in the morning and I move on. Yeah. I would like people to get to a point where they are so in tune with themselves that they don't need a scale. Like they know they feel good.

They know when they've been making choices that make you feel off. You're paying attention to the fact that your throat is scratchy and you feel like, you know, run down. Like really, I think that would be the ultimate goal would be to be so in tune with yourself that you could almost guess your weight if you needed to get on the scale, you know, and maybe, maybe that's a thing that people can practice doing guess your weight before you go on it. And then you might be surprised some days you you think your weight is up, but your weight is actually down or so you know, like, I think that might be a good practice for people to get into is like guess your guess your weight based on how you feel. And then that might make people more confident that if they if they no longer decide to no longer weigh themselves, whatever reason

that they don't need to because they don't to, because they already know how they feel or what their weight is. Yeah. And it's, I think that's a great way to confirm that you are, um, you know, you're into exactly what's going on. I've done that before too, after a weekend on a Monday, I'm like, oh, I'm going to see what the scale says today. Cause I know I did a number on myself and you get on and you're like, okay, yep yep that's what i expected so let's do it here's a couple comments uh if i decide to weigh myself daily i ask myself the day before after what i did today uh what will the scale say there you go i prepare myself and it's no surprise uh here's another one i love my scale there we go you have taught us why your weight might be up after a day with both a workout

and yoga the first thought that comes to my mind is that my body's recovering from that great day yeah i love that i love that there's sorry on monday when you did the uh the way in or the live on the the way in with gina on monday i didn't get to listen to it live, but I listened to it last night. And I really liked the one member's comment where she has just moved on. She doesn't weigh herself. She's happy with the way she is. She even, you know, has can't believe sort of the indulgences that she has. And she's just living her life. And I guess for me, that's the point I want to get to, but I still think I might step on that scale. Right. Or maybe you will for the next couple months or the

next year and you know, whatever. And I think it, I think the timeline for everyone is a little different, right? Like that's you put time in solidifying your weight and then you're kind of in that maintenance, testing the waters that could be two weeks for someone or two years for someone else, you know, depending on right. So if the scale is the scale is, I think if just you're getting on the scale, it's dictating how you feel, you have to also understand there's more work there to do, right? Because we want to get out of that mindset of berating ourselves or getting on ourselves, checking yourself before you wreck yourself. Yeah, okay. I got to pull, I got to do this and then taking action. So I think it's all how you use it. You don't want to get back into that

negative dialogue, even though you've lost all this weight and that hasn't changed. And you're just in the same diet mentality using the scale. I think that's, I think that's what you don't want. There's some middle ground there, I think. Okay. So I know for the interest of time, we are, we're way over here, but we make the rules. So I just really wanted to talk about too, you know, we've been talking a lot in the group this week about non-scale victories because i think in maintenance we don't talk about it as much i feel like you know when when we're in

weight loss we are we're talking a lot about non-scale victories things that are happening off the scale so we're not quite there so we come to maintenance we don't bring it up as much we don't talk about it as much so we really wanted our our members to share with us this week what they were and i just pulled a few um that i really loved and I wanted to just share them here. And I hope that, you know, it inspires our other members to look for those little non-scale victories because things are still happening. You know, we're in maintenance now. We're not chasing them on the scale, but there are still some really amazing things happening. So I really want people to tune into that.

So this is one. So with our cold weather, a member said, with our cold weather, I've been enjoying a warm bath in the evening. Last night, I absolutely delighted in how easily I can now get in and out of the soaker tub. It's my favorite NSV so far. So just something you don't even, wouldn't even think about. I just want to get in and out of the tub and look, oh, look at, I can get out. I just like like no problem more bits you know it's more mobility and it just just brings a little bit of joy and something you know you might not even think about otherwise you know that's it's no it's

true i got a big tub mine mine's even hard to get in and out of i've that's something i've started having baths i had one yesterday or the other day at like four o'clock in the afternoon well i can remember when we first moved here, I would have a bath because our tub's fairly deep as well. And I totally noticed now how I can step out of that tub. That's an NSV for sure. I love it. And so one other one. So one of my newest NSVs is my hands are soft and young looking again. I've always had issues with eczema and cracked and dry hands, especially in the fall and winter, but now they're so soft.

I feel like I have new hands. Oh, amazing. Around, you know, like just getting into old jeans or getting into, you know, whatever it might be. It's really these little things that are happening. That's a huge testament to the changes that someone has made, especially in terms of their digestive system and their microbiome, because that's not an easy thing to address and get a handle on.

That's so huge. That's consistency, is it? Right. Yes, let's call it that. Okay. I have one more. I have to do this one. Okay. So this one is, so I have many NSVs, but the one that's the most important is how I can move on when a day is not perfect. I stopped feeling like I failed and that all my hard work was for nothing. I've learned to move on every day as a continuation to my finally and forever.

Oh, I love that. Yeah. So just, you know, having that better relationship and just being able to cope and move on. And I mean, it's not like dieting or not dieting, trying to lose, trying to maintain, that's just life. Being able to move on in your life and let go of a bad day. That in itself is so huge. Yeah. I love that. And then there was another one where I felt it to my core.

A woman said that she's taking credit for her husband not snoring anymore. Because she became healthier, he became healthier. healthier and i said i feel that one better sleep because my husband's not snoring anymore he's taking all the credit for that yeah leading by example oh i love that that's great oh my gosh well fires people to you know really look for, look for those non-scale victories now even. Yeah, absolutely. I love it.

Well, ladies, what a great conversation today. Um, I gotta go, go and give some thought to if I'm being consistent and what I'm being consistent about. Am I maximizing?

What am I doing here? Um, we have, uh, I do. I know you wanted to mention Dr. Paul's coming on Friday. Yeah, he's coming on Friday. And I'm so excited because he always has such great information about supplements. And we've all you know, we've heard him so many times and every time it's a great conversation.

But this time we're talking supplements beyond weight loss after weight loss. You know, we're here. We're in this new stage. And how do we how do we determine if you know, we want to still keep taking them? If we should? How do we know? And what else? You know, what else is out there that no, maybe we haven't considered that we can talk to our healthcare team about. So he's gonna Yeah, he's coming with all the all the details. That's Friday. This Friday, the 26th at noon, he's going to be joining us. Yeah, I mean, he's great. He comes in and talks about, you know, you know supplements in the weight loss group talks about you know why your weight might be hard to move talks about a lot of things but he's like he can talk about so many things i like he's itching to

expand on the conversation before for sure and i think the maintenance maintenance program like maintenance group is a great place to do that um yeah yeah all right anything else i'm excited for him um that's that's well's, that's the big one. And then we have another, um, expert coming on in a couple of weeks. So I'm going to keep that one under wraps because it's going to be a good one. She's coming on. Um, but we have the giveaway going on this week too. So in the maintenance group, so we want to hear your why. So maybe if your why has changed, um, you know,

now that you're in maintenance so make sure everyone gets over there and it's good just to put it out there yeah get it out there what your why is all right amazing odette kim debbie uh thanks for joining us today great conversation for everyone else who was joining in on the conversation thank you for joining us and everyone listening have an amazing rest of your day, everyone. Bye. Bye.