The Livy Method Podcast - Maintenance: Week 6, Day 43

Episode Date: October 26, 2026

Some weeks, the whole goal is just to keep it together. Gina Livy is in one of those weeks, and Odette is coming through a year of loss and big family change. Together they unpack why self-awareness, ...not food, is the real work. They dig into how beating yourself up stacks a second problem on top of the first, why so many women were raised to believe putting themselves first is selfish, and how to cut back gently, a few bites at a time, instead of restricting your way into a binge.This podcast aligns with Day 43 of our Fall Maintenance Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Maintenance and Mindfulness Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:30 We have the most incredible community, and it works. head over to liby method.com to sign out today. How are we doing this fun Monday in maintenance? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, Det. How's it going? Hi. Good. I'm just still getting set up. Are you?
Starting point is 00:00:53 I'm ready to go. I'm like, where's my mic? Why don't want to have my group open? What's going on? I think that's a good segue in today's conversation. I'm not ready for the day, clearly. I mean, I got up. I committed to go into the gym with my son because, one, he's home.
Starting point is 00:01:06 And before you know it, he's going to be off to university. again. So he originally went to Guelph and he came back. He's switching what he's taking and then he's going to be going somewhere else. And this time is like, well, you know, because you know, right? Like our time with them is limited. And I'm like, my son wants to go to the gym with me. I'm fucking going. And so we're back to the gym. Mondays and Wednesdays, I got up. I'm like, I have to commit. I've got to go. So I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I'm sweaty. I'm gross. But I'm here. And in the weight loss program today, we're kind of talking about this. This is where life seeps in. It's hard to do the things that we need to do. But this is exactly what it's all
Starting point is 00:01:44 about. So I'm not doing so great this week. And I know that. So huge mass of win. And then therefore, I am going to help myself navigate through this week, knowing where I'm at, what I need. I am not expecting amazingness from myself this week. I'm just going to be happy to keep my shit together and not drink 10 bottles of wine and eat 10 bags of chips. So how does this fit into maintenance, right? Like this fits in here because this is what this is all about. Yeah. And it's almost like we had a conversation about this before, but we didn't.
Starting point is 00:02:18 This is the first time we're actually talking about this. But I think what you just said there is exactly where we're at with this week in maintenance right now. It's this conversation about self-compassion. It's this self-awareness. And self-compassion, not in a way that we're making excuses for ourselves. Like, well, you know, I have to, you know, this linework I have to give myself grace is very important. But that's not giving yourself an excuse.
Starting point is 00:02:46 It's not lowering your expectations. But it's about self-awareness. So being able to say to yourself, I know I'm not doing well. I know I don't have my shit together. I know that I, these things are happening. And how can you, instead of adding more on top of that by berating yourself, and being hard on yourself, what if you use it as a place of creating more self-awareness, of trying to create more understanding?
Starting point is 00:03:11 Yes. Instead of being hard on yourself, like, I can't do this. I'm having a bad week. I must be doing something wrong. Then now you're dealing with what's giving you a bad week and you're dealing with those feelings that, you know, are piled on top. It's that accountability. So I am absolutely being accountable to myself this week.
Starting point is 00:03:32 Right? So this is where I'm like, okay, I want the wine. I'm not going to drink it. I want the chips. I'm not going to eat them. Why? Not because I'm worried about gaining weight, but because I know how they make me feel and it's not going to make me feel any better. So this is where you can be kind and give yourself grace and be patient and understanding all of those things and still hold yourself accountable. Holding yourself accountable isn't always doing all of the things. It's like, okay, what are my non-negotiables? Got to go for a walk this week. I actually just had a conversation with Tony and I shared with him, Dave's not doing okay. I really need to focus on a few things this week because they have to get done. Everything else is just, I cannot. And of course, the meeting, oh, you can't miss this meeting. And can you help me with this? I found, I had to say to him, Tony, I am not okay. I'm going to say this to you again. I need your support here because there are things I need to get done. And I just, I cannot. I cannot. So that is me being accountable to myself saying to him, so this is not a Tony problem, saying that, babes, this is what I need, right? This is what I need. And then also reiterating that to
Starting point is 00:04:42 myself. So this isn't me like being like, oh, I'm going to be kind of myself and whatever I do is fine. Drink the wine, drink the chips. I just got to be, you know, patient with myself and kind. No, being kind to yourself and supporting yourself is also holding your ass accountable at the same time. It's just not the way we traditionally think when it comes to diets, right? Yeah. And I think when we think that we can't, this makes me think of these limits again. We've been talking like having to put limits out out there. And it's not, like you said, it's not a Tony problem. And for me, it wasn't, it wasn't a family problem either. It wasn't, it was my problem trying to do all the things, fix all the things. And if I didn't do those things, I wasn't disciplined enough. I wasn't strong
Starting point is 00:05:25 enough. I couldn't push through. And those, that's not what I needed at the time. And I, and like you said, it holds you accountable. But I think we think that being hard on ourselves and pushing through, if we don't do those things, then we're not disciplined enough. Yes. That we are failing, that we have lowered the expectations that we've set for ourselves. And sometimes those expectations just need a second glance. We just need to have another look at them. Yeah, I love Sue here. Make your lunch the night before with food that makes your body feel good. Be accountable to yourself a small step to stay accountable, right? It's different for everybody, right? If you know that you're going to, you know, if you get caught up in the fields, you're going to go all day without
Starting point is 00:06:03 eating or you're going to eat foods that you don't want to eat, what can you do to help support yourself? You know, for me, it's making sure I go for those walks. If I can get outside for my mental health and go for my walk, I know it's just going to help me in all areas. It's going to help with my sleep. It's going to help with my choice. It's going to help with my mental health, right? I want to say hi to Mary. Hi, all. I'm back. Been a while since I've connected.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Hello, Mary. I mean, I love this, that it's been a while because we're here for you whenever you do want to connect with us. And then Risa, I had an opportunity to hang out with Risa on Saturday. She came to our workout. Yeah, she baked us some amazing muffins. Good morning, beautiful ladies. I got up extra early to get my butt to the gym. Met a friend for early bird breakfast at Bagel World.
Starting point is 00:06:47 I love Bagel World. And then we laugh going up and down the aisle to show her how. healthiest products of what I love to buy. I love that. These are the kinds of moments that bring me joy instead of staying home and thinking about the stress in my life. And I had my cup filled by attending the YMCA class community and surrounding myself with people I love and uplift my spirits.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Same. I can't even tell you. Well, you were at the menopause show and you were at our Indigo show on Tuesday. And that just carried over to our workout on Saturday and talk about, I don't like leaving my house. I do not like leaving my house, but I also know how good it is for me to leave my house. So we send out a newsletter every Sunday to our maintenance members. And one of our banners is, come say hi, I'm actually leaving the house where we list your,
Starting point is 00:07:36 where we list the events that you're going to be at because we know this. It's hard to leave the house. Anyway, that was just, I just wanted to say. It is. One I'm as much, yeah, as much as I, and I was talking to Sherry Perez about this was leading the class. She's so fantastic. She's a whole vibe. You know, she's not, we're both, we're both comfortable in front of people, but like on a, like, on a one-on-one kind of group setting and being social, it's never been my thing.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Like, I go kicking and screaming. But then once I'm there, I'm always like, oh, my God, this is so fun. And, you know, I can't tell you how many times I've sat my car before events and just cried. Cried because, like, what am I going to do? What if everybody hates me? And what if I don't know what to say? And what if I, all of those, like, I deal with all of that. But then when I go, I'm like, oh, my God, what's wrong with me? This was amazing. We had the best community.
Starting point is 00:08:24 But, you know, that might be, you know, talk about being accountable and intentional. I know so many people signed up for that workout and didn't come. And why? And the reason why I say that is because that's something that I would consider bailing on. Love the idea at the time in the moment. Oh, my God. I have nothing to wear and I'm out of shape. I don't know if I can do the class. I'm stepping out of my comfort zone. So this is the year I'm actually going to say yes to things that caused. me to step out of my comfort. So I'm holding myself accountable to that. And I think that, you know, we had a member in the group say something that it's the familiarity. So, so when we're thinking about going out and doing things, we don't know what's going to happen. It can be anxiety inducing. We don't know what it's going to be like. So it's familiar and safe and comfortable to say no, to back out to do what you've always done, which is maybe to, like you said, cancel at the last minute or stay inside your house. But in that moment, we're not, we're not, we're worst case scenarioing it all the time.
Starting point is 00:09:22 We're not able to say to ourselves, well, what if this happens instead? Well, what if it does all go right? Or what if it goes wrong, but I can still take something away from it? I think we can get into this place where our anxiety and our stress and our future tripping is, is holding us back. It's paralyzing us a little bit because we've just worst case scenario it. And our brains are so good because for the sake of protecting us to pull all that negativity, everything we're fearful of, it pulls it in.
Starting point is 00:09:54 I love Mary. I'm a different Mary here sharing. Good morning. I've been sick for a week and I'm losing patience. So need to be kind of myself. There are always these things in life that set us back. I was listening to a podcast the other day and I was sharing with Tony how uplifting it was. It was this guy, Adam Newman, in a way, he created this big business.
Starting point is 00:10:13 He lost everything. and then got reminded what it was really about. The minute things became about money for him, he just got totally lost. And I have a very similar situation where I'd never run a company like this. And then everything became about responsibilities and big business and really getting back to like what's meaningful. What's meaningful in life. But anyway, I digress. He has this saying that it's darkest before the dawn, which I absolutely love.
Starting point is 00:10:43 because it feels like there's always something coming along to challenge us in life. And then, but the point is, is that you grow and evolve and you learn from that. And the takeaway today is because this is about awareness. I was also reading something about how awareness is so important. Very few people have awareness. I mean, that's pretty obvious. All you go do is spend five minutes on social media, realize people do not have a sense awareness. But Mary, just, I've been sick for a week and I'm losing patience. I need to be kind
Starting point is 00:11:17 to myself. Just having that awareness is so huge. Just like no one has to tell me how I'm doing because I'll be the first. I know how I'm doing. It's not very well. Thank you. But to have that awareness about yourself, like that in itself, and I think sometimes we don't recognize, like, I got to do more. I got to do more. Like that is already doing so much that you're having that internal conversation with yourself. Okay, I'm struggling here. I've been sick. I'm starting to feel down on myself because that can really spiral into that negativity. Adet was just talking about sometimes like just keeping your head above the negativity and not allowing yourself to go there and knowing what can I do to not sink below it. It's like that's the work. It's not it's not the food
Starting point is 00:12:03 part. I have this. So where I'm going with this too is I have this comment. Oh, where to go? I, I, Okay, this was this morning someone talked about in the weight loss program. This is the part of a diet that is doing me in. I have the wine, have the birthday cake. I do and then I don't lose. Aren't we supposed to add all that stuff in maintenance? And I was just kind of like, wait, what? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:35 No, I mean, yes, but no, but this is, it's about life. It's about life and the choices that you're making along the way. Like, have the wine, have the birthday cake, I do, and then don't lose. Aren't we supposed to add that stuff in maintenance? Anyway, this comment kind of took me a bit and it got thinking about, of course, our maintenance program. And all the things that we're dealing with, working on, working through. And then you add in the diet mentality on top of that. And oh, my goodness.
Starting point is 00:13:07 I think that, and we still see this so much. And I think this is why the work, I'm not saying the work is never done for our members, but I feel like our work is never done because we still see members in maintenance that are still are working so hard and working through it and still making comments like that. Like I had cake. My scale is up today. Why? I, you know, had some Halloween candy and my scale is up today.
Starting point is 00:13:34 Why? And we can say it over and over again. Like, yes, you want to have these things. You want to be able to just live your life. And yes, your scale is going to go up. But this is where we start to learn that it's going to come back down again once we just start, you know, once we just get back at it or start doing the things that we know feel good. We start having better coping mechanisms.
Starting point is 00:13:54 We start being kinder to ourselves. We stop, you know, questioning the diet mentality so much and question more about ourselves and being curious and what works for us. I think that's, do we add this back in in maintenance? Well, we never really took it out. It's just in maintenance, we're just trying to look at it in a different way. We're trying to cope in a different way. We're trying to work through it in a different way.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Yeah, listen. So, listen, you can absolutely drink wine, right? Okay, you can listen to the studies that say it's bad for brain and this and that, whatever. But, you know, there's lots of people who drink wine and they're totally fine. I've never had to, never had a client that had to stop drinking in order to lose weight. But that means that they have to work extra hard to make sure they're getting the sleep that they need, be mindful of what they're eating. So this came off the conversation of me saying that I was, I was choosing to not have wine because I wanted to have wine so bad this
Starting point is 00:14:48 weekend. But I also knew it would make me feel more depressed. And I would also then eat chips. And like, is that helping me or hurting me? And then on the next breath, I said, listen, sometimes the wine, though, helps. Sometimes you just need that glass of wine. Like I've done it where I didn't have wine, didn't have wine through hard times. And I finally had that one glass. And it was just was enough to like, I just needed a minute with a glass of wine, right? And with Halloween coming up, it's not, and you know, she mentions the birthday cake. It's not the cake on your birthday. That is the reason why you're, you're not losing weight. You know, it's not that candy at Halloween. It's that having the little pieces every day for two weeks, not the, not the
Starting point is 00:15:29 candy on Halloween. You know what I mean? So it's just kind of becomes your norm, right? Then that becomes your norm. We talk about your new norms, like creating these new norms. Well, if you bring that norm in where you're having a little piece of candy every day for two or three weeks, that becomes your norm. And then what does that snowball into? What does that also create? Oh, well, then I'm having candy every day. Well, I, of course, I knew I was going to. I'll never be able to maintain. I might as well just throw in the towel. I think that's where the issue comes in. It's not just having that candy on Halloween, it's just, you know, what does that snowball into? Yeah, I love to see. That quote actually goes back to a book from the 1600s, the darkest, it's always darkest before the dawn.
Starting point is 00:16:18 I think someone wrote a song about it too. Crazy right that that feeling you expressed is over 400 years old. I have to believe that, I mean, I'm trying to make sense in my life and why these things happen to me. And I put myself in a position of service, right? I'm trying to really remind myself, what is my service here? To share what I've learned, yes, but I also think it's to bring joy and to show people how to make change and truly live their best lives. And I keep, like, my husband, if you know him, his life is so drama free. They're like nothing ever, he's just like nothing exciting. Crazy out of the norm happens to him. And the stuff that I've had to do. And the stuff that I've had to deal with in my life is like you guys think I share a lot. I don't share the half of it.
Starting point is 00:17:12 Like that's how crazy it is. And when things happen to me, I'm like, why is this happening to me? And I feel like the universe keeps throwing stuff at me so that I'm able to learn and share experience and relate and try to understand what people are going through in order to help them through it. Listen, it's not about me. It's not that. This is so much bigger than me. But I think that's what we're here. I think you're here to experience time on this planet to have fun, which I think we fucking miss the boat on everything. I swear, but every time we pass, we're like, fuck, stressed my whole life and didn't have any fun. But I also truly believe that we're here to experience all facets of life, all of it, grief, love, happiness, to feel and to also
Starting point is 00:18:05 learn and grow and evolve. And that's, we want to, I think we all agree, we want to learn and grow and evolve past this diet thing that we do and self-love for ourselves and body image. And like, it's like the smallest part of life that we're so caught up on. And it's really preventing us from living the life that we are truly meant to live, I think, you know. That's why it's 400 years. That resonates 400 years later. Yeah, 400 years. And there is another one too that, another quote that I liked about the dark. I mean, this is something that somebody said to me a long time. I was like, the darkest nights produce the brightest stars. Because when you just think of like the darkest night, that's what you think about. You think about the darkest night. But if you can change that
Starting point is 00:18:45 perspective and look up and those stars are the brightest on the darkest night, that you can, that there is something beyond just that dark. And I don't know why this made me think of it, but we're cleaning out my mom's house right now. We're putting it in the market. She'll never go back to her home. So we're putting it on the market and we're going through, sorry, we're going through pictures and all these little things that we didn't, we realized that we didn't know about her and how her perspective of that home was so much different than our perspective of that home, you know, that this was like her, her, to us it was the darkest place sometimes because it's like, you know, your parents are your disciplinarians and there's so many
Starting point is 00:19:26 rules and there's all of this. And then her perspective of that home was trying to always make it like cozy and pretty and she had done all these little projects that we hadn't really paid attention to because I don't really know where I'm going with this but it's just this perspective thing but we hadn't really paid attention to that she really paid attention to and when you can look at something through a different lens when you can look at something through different eyes or you can see the beauty beyond where you are right in the moment I think that's a really important thing looking at the brightest star looking at the dawn that's coming you know and just having that self-awareness that yeah, it's not easy right now or it's not right now, but it's going to be, it can be. I just
Starting point is 00:20:02 need to be open to have that awareness that it's here. This is where I am. It's not always going to be this way. Yeah. And I remember, now I'm going to remember something else that Michelle Malloy was a a guess that we had a while ago. She was here speaking with grief. Yeah, she's great when when my dad had passed, my sister had passed. And we had a conversation on the side. And she said to me, it's not for, it's not forever. It's just for right now. Because talking about how I was feeling and what I was going through and all of that. And I think that's something to that, you know, for our members, it doesn't have to be forever. It can just be for right now, whatever you're feeling, whatever is you're going through the perspective that you have right now,
Starting point is 00:20:41 that it is dark. It's not going to be forever. It's just going to be for right now. And I'm not really sure how that's helping members in maintenance with downsizing this week. But you know, well, you said something to me, O'Dap, because when we look at our older generation, I don't know, we know that they didn't have the conversations that we're having. No. Right? And I wonder how much, if self-awareness is so important, it's also when we were taught that selfish is a bad thing, right?
Starting point is 00:21:09 Don't put yourself first, put everyone else first. And then we leave other people taking care of ourselves. And I wonder if that lack of awareness, right? There's like this, there's this lack of awareness. I don't know. Maybe it's perceived lack of awareness. in the older generation or they just didn't talk about it. So if you're not talking about it, how self-aware are you, you know, which is why it's, it's so important to have these
Starting point is 00:21:37 conversations. Yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm having a bit of an aha moment here in terms of like taking care of ourselves and living our lives for ourselves and it's back to that awareness piece. Yeah. And it is back to the awareness piece. And And I sometimes think like even coming into this week of downsizing, thinking, what do our members need? What do they need to know? What do they need to feel? And I think it's just, you know, they've got to take from this week what they need in this week. Maybe down.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Maybe if we look at a tweak, I mean, it could be any tweak. This week is just downsizing. And they look at it like, what do I need to do this week? What do I need to accomplish? What do I need to figure out? And maybe it's just like, what do I need to take care of myself this week? How does a week like this actually help me versus what do I have to learn? What do I have to accomplish? You know, how can this week help me? What can this do for my body, for my mental state, for my emotions, instead of just thinking that we have to do, have to learn, have to grow, have to, how can this just help me? What can I take from this?
Starting point is 00:22:47 Well, I just want to point out, Mary's comment. Odette, I so admire you. So much going on in your life that you're able to share and have a positive perspective. Y'all! She is seriously, she's like our guru last couple weeks where we're all like, Odette, tell us, wise one. But you're, I just want to share, and I know you don't mind me sharing, but you're being very intentional. You're being very intentional about the way you're navigating what's happening in your life right now. Because it's, yeah, it's, it's, because there's so much. You know, when you say like, oh, there's always something. And I said this, I've said this before, like at the, at the beginning of this year, I thought 2025 was hard. You know, my son hadn't hit his one year in remission yet.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Then my dad passed away. And then 2026 came. I'm like, this is going to be the best year yet. I was like, wait a minute. This is worse than last year. How am I going to cope with this? And it was February. Then it was March.
Starting point is 00:23:41 And I was already anticipating the major shift of my daughter moving away and all of this. And I was like, this is going to take me down. How can I be, like you said, intentional about this? How can we get through this? And it, I think it's just, it's easy to say, just take a minute every day and think about what the day could bring. And I was always waiting for the next shoe to drop. I was waiting for the next bad thing to happen. And now it's just like, I can only do what I can do now. And I know that sounds easier said than done. But it's really about those limitations. And it is about that self-compassion and kindness. We're like, okay, I didn't handle it that well or I'm not managing that well. How can I make sure that I can handle it better tomorrow? Or what do I need to handle it better tomorrow? And I think it's having real honest conversations. That can be really uncomfortable too, having those conversations with yourself.
Starting point is 00:24:32 But with those that are around you, having those honest conversations. I just don't have enough right now. This is what I need to take care of myself. Or this is what I can give and this is what I, you know, where I need to put my energy. Well, I think we do the best. You don't know what you don't know. You do the best that you can. Like you, you know, you had so worrisome with your.
Starting point is 00:24:53 son. It was very serious. And then, yeah, and then your sister got sick. And then your dad passed. And then your sister passed. And then you're dealing with a child leaving the house. Then your mom was in the hospital. Then your mom is now moving into your home. Like, I hate to state the obvious, but like I want people to understand the impact. For what I can see, you're handling it beautifully. But again, I can see what you're presenting here. But I know, Odette from more personal conversations that you are doing the work. And I can relate to this because I'm only now, seeing how poorly I handled the stress that I was under and the things that I was dealing with. And there's nothing I can do to go back and to like, you know, some decisions just not made in the right mind thinking I was doing okay. And I was not clearly doing okay. And so in the decisions
Starting point is 00:25:45 that I made in those frames of mind. And I think this is where that kindness comes into, right? Like you're doing the best you possibly can. You're being intentional about that. That's what I was doing in the moment too. I thought I was doing okay. Oh my God. So far from it. Not even fucking close.
Starting point is 00:26:02 No, six months ago I was like on the like it was bad. It was bad. I was raging, you know. I was just, I had no compassion for myself or for anybody else. I had no fuse left. It was, you know, and it was coming through in my work. It was coming through in my personal life. It was coming through in my physical body.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Like it was really starting to come through. And I was like, this, something needs to change. And it was just, and I think you can tell yourself, something needs to change, something needs to change. But you have to actually make the change. You have to. And you might not know how. I didn't know how.
Starting point is 00:26:38 So I just, you know, I found support. I found therapy. I found being super honest in conversations. And being honest with my feelings, too, I think was a big one. So, you and I both have done this showing up every day because we have to because it's our jobs in the commitment that we made. And this is what I think was so great about these 91 day sessions because I'm going to just share what Sue said here is that you're showing up. That's what it is. Some days, all you can do is listen to the check in, maybe drink your water. But it's like, it's that I'm going to continue to show up for myself, no matter what, be self aware of the things that I can do. I think that's how I survive. have the stuff I've been through, you know, it's making that commitment. I had a commitment to other people to show up and work, but my money, I probably should take in time off, but I digress, whereas everyone else is showing up on their own. And this is how that translates her,
Starting point is 00:27:33 Sue. In terms of honesty, I posted earlier and said that I have learned that I need to do a gentle downsizing, not a half portion downsizing, but a few bites at each meal. Otherwise, I get into the idea of restricting, and that leads to binging or overeating. And this, is full circle because it's not the food part. We've been there. You've done that before. You know, you fucking know what to eat and not eat. It really is the thoughts and the feels that pop up. And why we do these again in maintenance is because we know the physical routine. It really allow it. It's so, yeah, you've done it so many times before that it really allows you to mentally do the work. Like that's that that that is the way.
Starting point is 00:28:20 work. Understanding that, Sue, that's the work for you. No, it doesn't mean to avoid that and never deal with it, but you don't have to deal with it all at once and all today. You can kind of peel back those layers. Yeah, peel back. And exactly right. Like, it's just, again, I think it goes back to that self-awareness. You know that about yourself now. You know that that's how you function better. You know that that's what Sue knows that that's what she needs, how she has to speak to herself, how she has that's her perspective how she needs to frame it so i think that that's exactly it okay what's our homework for wednesday oh um so i know there's a lot this week that we're talking about but one of the things that we really want to talk about is um it's Halloween and i know and and we know that
Starting point is 00:29:08 candy is going to happen we talked about it today and we just want our members to use this week of of self-compassion to see how they deal with this candy. And it's not about having self-compassion saying, well, I'm going to eat all the treats because I can. It's about seeing how you talk to yourself. Is there that guilt around it still? Is there like I can have it and move on? Is there I can't even have it in the house because I'm not ready for that yet?
Starting point is 00:29:35 Be honest with yourself. Be compassionate with yourself. Be kind with yourself. Be kind with yourself. We're going to talk about coping a lot more as the week goes on too because we know from our members in maintenance that have been maintaining for a long time, that they really had to acquire new coping skills. Because when you take away something like food, if that was your coping mechanism, how are you going to fill that space? What are you going to do? So we're going to break down different
Starting point is 00:29:59 types of coping. And it's going to be a little bit maybe more boring to read, but we'll have fun with it. Different types of coping. What works for you? What doesn't work for you? And really understanding having coping mechanisms that work well for you in stressful times because it's going to happen can be a real game changer when it comes to not falling back into old habits and being able to maintain your weight long term. Absolutely. So that's a lot of homework. So they can pick and choose from that list. Yeah. I mean, or none of it. Whatever. Whatever. No pressure. No pressure. Mary, I'm so glad you joined us. Right. Great session. Remember, don't eat the crappy Halloween treats if you really want to buy yourself some of the good stuff. So, yeah, because we're grownups. We don't have to eat the
Starting point is 00:30:44 crappy stuff, although I do love those really crappy Halloween ones with the Halloween wrappers. Yes. You know, those ones that have been around that no one makes anymore. That's like, oh, I guess they take a tooth out with it. I just, I just saw you do this. I don't know. I have a raspberry seed in my tooth. I've had it there since 1030.
Starting point is 00:31:02 I'm like, I don't know why I didn't brush my teeth before I came on, but I have a raspberry scene. It's making me crazy. Sorry, not raspberry. Blackberries, blackberries is what I had today. I don't like this. I'm the worst. I got those, I got, as I get older, I'm getting these little spaces.
Starting point is 00:31:14 between my teeth. I swear. Like, I can brush and floss. The other day, I'm like, why do I get them? The dentist is like, you're brushing and flossing too much. I'm like, for fuck's sakes. Okay. All right. Anyway, I digress. Thanks for the chat. Thanks everyone who's joining us live. We're going to have an amazing week. We are going to have a good week. We're going to manifest it. It's going to be a good week no matter where you're at. My amazing week is just keeping my shit together. I was going to say, amazing is your amazing. Don't compare your amazing to anybody else's. It's what you can do to make it amazing. As always, great advice, Adet.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Thanks so much. How great. Rest your day and we'll see you Wednesday, guys. See you Wednesday. Bye.

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