The Livy Method Podcast - The Real Reason You Gain the Weight Back

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

What if the thing keeping you stuck is the fear of gaining it back? Gina Livy is flying solo this Mindset Monday, digging into why so many people who've done the work still don't trust themselves, and the three real reasons weight comes back. She takes on a member question about getting triggered at Sunday family dinners, unpacking old food associations, eating to keep the peace, and how to set a new tone at the table without a confrontation.This episode aligns with day 78 of our Spring 2026 maintenance program. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulnessTo learn more about The Livy Method and our Maintenance & Mindfulness group, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm going to be honest with you, this podcast is unapologetically a hot mess because that is what midlife feels like sometimes. Why, though? And how do we make it better? Do we all just need facelifts and gLP ones? I mean, let's talk about it. No bullshit, no wellness wangery here because we're trying to make real change and change is hard. But we're in this together. Welcome to the Living Method podcast.

Hey there, before we get into our conversation today and no doubt it's going to be great. I want to remind you that we have the most amazing weight loss program and maintenance program on the market. And our next live session for the fall is on sale right now. But if you don't want to wait until the fall, you can sign up today by joining our membership. For more information, go to liby method.com. Hello, how are you doing? If you can't tell, I'm excited about this week. So I am covering for Odette today. She is off. She had her celebration of life for her sister this weekend so she is still off today. Hopefully, um, spending time with her family are on her way back, but she'll be back and joining me on a Wednesday. So week 11, week 11, we're just talking about

this over in the weight loss program. People just don't trust themselves. They're like, they're nervous about personalizing the plan, even though it's building on everything that they've learned, even though it's doing all of the things, it's following all of the guidelines. Um, it's all the work, not less work. People just don't trust. They do not trust themselves to make the right The only thing that's really different about this tweak is you don't have to force yourself to eat if you're not hungry. So where is that lack of trust coming from, right? Where is that lack of trust coming from? Maybe trying to find a loophole, maybe just nervous about the choices you will make or not make. I was sharing with them that 98% of members who follow through and complete a maintenance program will even just one round feel

confident in their ability to maintain and sustain their weight. So this tweak this week is all about transitioning to trust because at some point you will have to transition from maintaining your weight to then just living your life. And this is the piece of there's losing your weight, there's maintaining your weight, which is what you were here to do. And then there is living your life, just waking up, looking good, feeling good. And if you don't feel good, you know why. right? Maybe you have a cold or a flu or the choices that you made or you're dealing with whatever you're dealing with in your life, waking up, looking good, hopefully feeling good and just going about your day, trusting that you know what you need to make good choices for yourself. Sometimes it's

having the margarita if you're away on vacation, right? Sometimes it's having the hot dog if you're away camping and then being able to trust when to eat I'm actually hungry versus I'm triggered or I'm emotional eating or I'm eating out of habit. but what to eat, and that's one of the things that we're focused on this week. So just really understanding, you know, when you need protein and what it feels like when you're not getting enough protein, when you need fruit, like last week during the heat wave, right? Your body didn't want heavy, hard to digest foods. It probably wanted a lot of watermelon, a lot of fruits, a lot of cucumbers, leafy greens, foods that actually help cool the body as

opposed to what we crave in the wintertime when we're trying to heat the body up, right? In the wintertime, your digestive system works like a kind of like a heater and your body's trying to keep you nice and warm, heavier, hardier foods, fatty meats, soups, those kinds of foods. In the summertime, your body is trying to keep you nice and cool. So just understanding what to eat. And then, of course, how much to eat, right? The when to eat, the what to eat, and how much to eat is that really getting in tune to those portions, continuing to ask those four sets and mindful eating questions, get to a place

where you know exactly, exactly the moment. where if you take one more bite, you're going to walk away feeling like you had too much. And sometimes you are intentional. You're like, this shit is good. I'm overeating it. That's just how it is. But you are doing that without feeling the need to berate yourself afterwards. Right.

So this is that transitioning to trust. Now, you may do another few rounds of the maintenance program. Like we have people who come in, come in and they do the 91 day, you know, maintenance program and they do it for a full cycle of a year. Some people, two years. We have people who are in all different stages of their maintenance. Some people just live in their life. I met a woman on the weekend. She has been maintaining her 40 pound loss for over a year, right? Still popping in and of the group. What's the conversation? You know, continuing to learn and whatnot. Then we have people who are new to maintenance. So where are you at? What do you need? What do you need to learn to get? To learn to trust yourself, right? To build on what you have learned up into this point. This is also the tweak that you're going to want to use throughout this. summertime, maybe you're going to do another round in the fall. So you're going to want to continue

to practice, personalizing the plan until it just becomes second nature. And you're just living your life. I don't like, you know, I don't have to check in at every single meal and snack time. I know exactly, you know, when do you, what to eat, how much to eat. Sometimes I will, you know, if I'm in a chaotic or stressful period of my life and I'm noticing my weight go up, I will, you know, get back and follow the program. I do that periodically. I've been doing that with a with a weight loss program, my weight went up and now it's finally coming back down and just to, you know, just to get back to feeling my best. I also want to remind you that back on track is there, if you need it. Let me see where I'm at. Am I actually going live? Let me just make sure.

Okay, there we go. All right, we got this. Hi, Sue. This is a great week to challenge all my beliefs about trusting myself. Yes, that kind of energy. I'm confident for the first time in my life and trusting myself on a weight loss journey, thanks to this program. Oh, Catherine, right? It is not losing weight. I don't want to dismiss the hard work that goes into losing weight. But essentially, you know, we've all done it. Starved ourselves, eat less, exercise more, you're able to lose weight. The more times you do that, your metabolism just tanks, your set point gets higher and it becomes harder and harder. Obviously, by the time you reach midlife and you've spent a good chunk of your life dieting, it's a lot easier said than done.

It is not eat less exercise more as we know, which is why you've lost your weight. in a healthy way with the living method. But then there is maintenance and it's really about maintaining and sustaining your weight. And again, there are reasons why we gain weight back. Three main reasons. Not giving our body time to adjust to our new weight. And that means the size of your heart. It means that your metabolism, your blood flow, your body temperature, your hormones all need to adjust around a new number to create a new set point. So people will do a diet, they'll lose their weight and then immediately go back into old habits, right? So not giving your body time to adjust to your new weight and just going back into old habits.

Situational change. Something stressful happens in your life. You change your job. You move. You change your routine. You know, God forbid something happens and it just rocks your whole world. And why do we gain weight back then besides high stress, lack of sleep, all of that, going back into old habits, going back to old habits to cope, right?

And then there's not being mindful. Just like just, you know, not taking time to be in tune and recognize where you are at. And why? Because it has you go back into old habits, right? So it really is about designing the life that you want to live and creating the habits that are going to support how you look, how you feel, the energy that you show up with and all of that, right? I trust myself in a lot of scenarios now that I'm almost 1.5 pounds in maintenance.

Hi, a situation I am working on right now is Sunday night family dinners. I get so, yeah. First of all, I love that you're doing Sunday night family dinners. Like, I just, that's one of the things I want to make as my kids get older, kind of non-negotiable. You got to come for Sunday night family dinners, right? I get so triggered by old associations and habits of being at my parents' house. Yes.

You have to make a conscious choice to break that, right? Like, I even noticed myself doing it when I would go back and visit my parents. You kind of like flake it on the couch or you, whatever. Or if you've ever gotten in a fight, was somebody like my my ex-husband bless the soul um he was abused when he was younger and had like zero coping skills when it came to any kind of conflict you know an argument whatever he immediately turned into like a five-year-old like there was no i was just like what the fuck is wrong with you i can't even talk to you because he had trauma when he was younger he just could

not articulate whenever there was like a heightened sense of like you know a um an argument or, you know, feelings involved in a conversation. He just shut down or would just act like a child. And then as I came to realize later, he would just, whenever there's a moment that emulated that, he would revert right back to how he was as a child. Same thing, you know, it's the same thing with me. When I, when I used to go back and, you know, visit my parents. You're like, you kind of do the same thing. You adopt the same personality behavior that you, you were when you were there. And that's, you had to be very conscious about doing that. There's probably some healing that that needs to happen. And so here's my suggestion.

Let me read, let me read what you have to say for us because I love this. I love that you're sharing this. Okay, I trust myself in a lot of scenarios now, but after 1.5 years, I mean, it's a situation I'm working on right now is Sunday night family dinners. I get so triggered around old associations and habits of being at my parents' house. I want to be able to talk myself through it and catch it before I use food like I used to and end up disempowered. Right. So you have some coping mechanism there, right? And going to food to either distract you in the moment to please your parents, if they were like, you have to eat everything on your plate, right? That this kind of like that behavior tied into how you were raised around food. Like you

are an adult now. You no longer have to eat everything on your plate, right? But you might feel the pressure to do that. And then given how you were raised, you might not be able to, might not feel like you're able to articulate the feelings that you have around that, right? Something's going on. Did you get that? Like saw myself kind of glitch out there for a second. I was just saying, when you're sitting around the table, there's, there's a lot of feels, like how you were raised around food, like eat everything on your plate or, you know, you're an adult now. No one, you don't have to eat everything on your plate. But, but being around your parents, you might have a hard articulating that feeling, right? Also, just a lot of stress, like just being around family and I

love my family. I love my family. But there have been, you know, times in my life where it's stressful and, you know, especially during the holidays. So this is like the holidays can be a stressful time around family, but this is like every Sunday bringing up some maybe unresolved issues or conflict or whatever. And maybe you don't feel like resolving those. I think there's nothing wrong with that, but there could be some like childhood healing that you're going to want to do internally. So here's what I would do, right? Go there make a plan for yourself and be like, let me see what the fuck is going on here. Right? Like, like, not like, um, like on yourself, what's wrong with me or like, you know, just be like, okay, let's see. Let's see what,

what is going on. Like, what's see what's happening here? Like, if you're going to your parents dinner or they're coming to your place or whatever it is, like, what are the feelings that you're having? Like do you start stressing out about that a couple days before and ask yourself, gosh, where is this from? Like, what's the worst thing that I'm expecting here? Or what would happen if I did say something about whatever? And like, what kind of relationship? I know I'm all over the place with this, but this is how I kind of figure it out. I'm asking myself these questions. Do I really want to say something to that person? Do I want to change our relationship and be able to say something? Or do I just get the sense that it's not me saying anything is not going to change anything? and so why am I bothering, right, with that? And so I think being open and being curious about

kind of like the thoughts and feels coming up and then being like, okay, where does that come from? Like, do I remember the first time I felt like that? Or, well, like I have a sister who, I have a sister, I don't really talk to her because she's like walking around on eggshells. And, you know, then I, you know, then I find out later there was some times where maybe she was doing drugs. or whatever she was doing or whatever. But being around her is always like walking around on eggshells. And it's funny because I have a daughter who's got some mental health issues. And she's the same.

When she comes over, we want her to be around, but then everyone is just so uncomfortable because it's walking around on eggshells. Now, in the moment, could I be saying something to her, hey, honey, how about you get off the couch and come help like the rest of us, right? How about you don't eat dinner and then go sit on the couch again? like how about you actually help everybody like you know like i but then but then i'm just like for the time that we would want her at our place i'm not going to change her and she has to want to make those changes so that was sort of my choice is to be like all right well it's it's kind of a trade off we want her to

be here and be around but i'm not going to be able to kind of correct her behavior without a big scene because the times where i would say to her hey that is not okay it would lead to this big blow up and this big thing. And so we just were like, you know what? She's here. This is what we get. This is the best of what we get when she's around. And so we just kind of put up with it and deal with it. And that might be your situation like in terms of other people. But how then you internalize it and then how you feel about it, that's completely different. That's where you can be like, okay, that's the best thing I'm going to get with her. So let me enjoy the time with her that I'm going to get. Let me enjoy the time around my

other kids. Let me enjoy. Like, you have to figure out, like, what is your sort of new normal in your family dynamic? Are things worth saying? When it comes to food choices or whatever, and I think that's where you need to have autonomy over your body. And if someone is forcing you to eat more than what you want or whatever, this is where you're like, you know what? I think this is where the white lies come in. I ate a big meal before I came here. You know what? I'm not, I'm not feeling so great. I'm going to take this home with me and I'll eat it later. Usually as you get older, people older people who are putting their food issues onto you it's their issue and you don't really need to get into some big conversation about that and you could just be like you know what this is so

delicious but i got a tummy egg so i'm just going to bring it home with me or oh i'm not really hungry right now i you know went out and yeah god i ate too much um whatever that might be so that's where i would like and that is sort of like and it's sort of interesting because with this process, you would have made so much change. Like, you make change. You change who you are. You cannot show up every day and focus on yourself, be self-aware and not change who you are. And so this is kind of like a new energy that you're showing up with or new energy that you're bringing people in. So that's the first thing I would do is really just be aware of it. Don't judge it and be like, okay, let me see what the fuck's going on here. Like, why don't I trust myself? What is happening?

Like what are some of the thoughts? What am I feeling in my body? Listen to the conversations. Just be like, feel it out, right? Like if you have someone in your family, like my kid, like this is what I did with her. Right. Like, okay, if I asked her to get her ass off the couch right now and come and help clean up, like everybody else is expected to you, how's that going to go? Hey, honey, how are you feeling? Right? Like I do a feeler. You know, hey, you want to come and help clean up? And sometimes she will. right but then there's you know how's how's it going how you feeling and she's like depending on how she answers me right um just kind of navigating and managing that situation i'm also just recognizing you can tell i have a lot to say about this and there's so many different ways in recognizing

what's theirs is theirs and what's yours is yours so what is my part in the feeling and then what is what is what's going on with them yes the pace of the meal is fast and i just want to slow it down one to slow my eating down, but two, because I value the time with my parents and want to connect with them. Okay, I'll check it out, not judge it. I'll listen to them. They're okay, well, this is really interesting because my, my husband's parents are Chinese. And in their family, they were raised, like you sit at the table and you do not talk. Like, we are lucky to have food. We are going to eat like it's our job, and they're not talking. And they eat so fast, like so fast. And to this day, my husband still does it. He still does it. Like, we will spend, kids will spend, my daughter, for example,

made a pot pie for us yesterday hours in the kitchen and he will literally just shovel it in, be done in five minutes and they'll be looking to leave the table. And this is where I've said to him like, I was raised a little different. Like for me, dinner was about conversation and talking and whatever. So this is about reestablishing new kind of like a new way. So you should just be like, hey, like you could say, hey, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I just want to, if you don't mind, would love, I, to spend time with you guys and talk and share. And I notice sometimes, you know, so much time is spent on making this amazing food and we kind of like, I'll eat it so fast. So, you know, if you know, I don't mind, I'm going to try to just enjoy every bite or, or be like, hey, I'm doing

this new thing where I just, I find that I'm just, I want to enjoy the food. So that's like creating a new environment, like setting the tone for the environment, right? And so I, I've, this has been an ongoing kind of years. Like, but what we did is we stopped eating at the kitchen table and we moved it to the dining room. And when we do that, I find like he, he still eats fast, but he'll sit, he'll sit around and want to, like, have conversations. And so when we go out with Tony's parents, we go to these, like, restaurants where, I mean, we order just, like, they order so much food because they just put so much into, like, eating. and they eat it so fast and it's done so quick.

And I'm just like, oh my God, it took us longer to drive here than it did to eat our food. And everyone's up and leaving. And what is this about? So with his parents, I've come to learn, like, I don't know that that is changing anytime soon. But at home, I've definitely been able to say to him, hey, you know, like for me, what's really important is sitting around the table and talking to the kids. I know I'm not going to have this for much longer because they're all like 19 and older. So yeah, but I love this. That's what I would do.

And can I just say bigger picture to all of this? It's like this is creating the life that you want to live and the relationship you want to have around food and the relationship you want to have with people in your life around food. This is working through those issues and associations, right? Like how are you associating to food and what's your relationship with food and your relationship with self and your relationship with other people around food, they probably have their own relationship with food as well. Like that's the thing that's so crazy about it. And it's not something that we normally talk about, right? So yeah, I find this really interesting. I just love, I love the whole,

like I love, I love that you're aware of it. It, like, I love these kind of conversations because they can go, there's so many different ends and they can go so many different ways and they're so complex and so multi-layered, right? So hopefully some of that was helpful. You can tell I got a lot of issues going on. I'm on around five or six, but only really finished the last three. Yeah, so just, and I think that's,

I love that you mentioned that because I think this happens so regularly in the weight loss program where things get in the way and people don't finish the weight loss program. They keep coming back, but we don't think about maintenance being the same way, right?

Because life can get in the way, for lack of a better word, there's some big thoughts and feels that may stop us. for moving forward, feeling worthy, being able to trust. This is a big dynamic, right? It does change who you are and all these changes you've made changes your relationships with people.

You know, we had Dr. Jason Fung on and he wrote that book, The Hunger Code. And he talked about how statistically, if you hang around people who are obese and overweight, you are more likely to be obese and overweight. and you start making choices in your life that are different, you know, that might mean opening yourself up to a different friend circle or having some, you know, difficult conversations with the people in your life, you know. I've actually been giving a lot of thought to that in my life lately. You know, like where do I want to be? How do I want to feel? Who are the people I want to surround myself with, right? Like, you know, that's some big stuff and that may be stuff that we're not ready for or whatever. that can kind of get in the way there. For sure, it's a process. It's a process. All right.

So let me just go through and see what Odette wants me to talk about today. Personalizing the plans of the basics, right? Do I need to eat? Could I eat? Should I eat? So checking in at every single meal and snack time. This should not take you long. Hey, it's breakfast.

Am I hungry? How do I feel? Out of our head, into our bodies, into our bellies. Am I actually hungry? Not, do I have time? I've got a million things to do. Whoa. let me just am I hungry right now right now I'm like I just actually I'm hungry right now um so do I and and if

I'm hungry right now what's the best thing for me to eat if it's if it's breakfast high protein still the way to go if it's morning snack if you want to have fruit grape combine it with a protein and fat at this point lunches and dinners no more starve but you do want to still have those components right vegetables proteins leafy greens healthy fats if you want to add any heavier carbs lunch is still the best time to do that. You have flexibility. You're going to check in at both afternoon snacks. Maybe you need one. Maybe you need two. Maybe you don't need any depending on your day and how you are feeling. Dinner also optional now at this point. So maybe you've had breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, and then you're just not hungry for dinner. That's cool too. Still no eating at night, obviously, is really beneficial

at this point. While you're actively following, you know, the program, I would still minimize any, any after dinner eating unless you're in that just kind of feeling out the living your life and personalizing the plant part maybe over the summertime you want to test that out see where you're at with that then there is the could eat so could eat is I'm not really sure I'm a little bit hungry could go either way maybe you should maybe you could eat so you're going to have a few token bites little something something and then of course the should eat is you don't want to go too long without eating now we kind of extend that like four four and a half weight loss definitely three and a half don't want to go longer than that as where we're at now you can kind

extend that a little bit more but i wouldn't go i wouldn't make a habit of going longer than five hours at any one point um you definitely want to eat before that so that that should eat is i'm either if i don't eat now i'll end up going too long or you know if i don't eat now i would have gone too long so i need to eat something now so really digging into that need to eat could eat or should eat um she says here this is not a wee week it's a me week yeah this is really interesting because this is about how you what you are doing should look like what like shouldn't look like everybody else it might look like the basic food plan so you might check in at every single meal and snack time and it looks like the basic food plan and then the next day you might just eat your big meals

and maybe the next day you just eat your snacks depending on timing right maybe at you know four days out of the week, you eat dinner and the rest you don't eat dinner. So this is really about understanding that bodies' needs change every day is a little different. And you would have noticed this during downsizing, for example, you know, even when downsizing, you might not have an appetite. Some days, you feel like you're really hungry. Other days, not so much, depending on the weather, you know, a heat wave. People weren't really all that hungry with the heat wave, for example. So just being really flexible and in tune to that, which is one of the reasons why counting and weighing and measuring it just doesn't work for sustainable weight loss because it doesn't teach you anything

about that. Here's a member comment. This is something I haven't really done, personalized my program. I have kept to the basic meal plan. Yeah, a lot of people out of fear will do that. My weight seems to have stabilized, so it's time to work on personalizing the program going forward. My fear of regaining my weight has kept me from taking the next step.

Oh, that's so fascinating. Woo! I wish I would have led with that. That's so great. That's so fascinating. That's so fascinating because that's what this tweak is about doing the work you need to do to really be able to maintain and sustain your weight. Right. And that's why we do it within the confines of the 91 day program for the last two weeks.

So you could ask questions, share how you feel, work through it. So this is really super fascinating to me. I love this quote. I love this comment. So personalizing the plan is not something I have done. Personalize my program. I have kept to the basic meal plan. So many people ask about this in the weight loss pro.

Can I just do the basics? I'm like, why? Why? What's the fear? What's the fear? Because that fear is the thing you need to work on to work through, whether it's lack of trust or whatever that is, right? My weight seems to have stabilized.

So it is time to work on personalizing the program going forward. My fear of regaining my weight has kept me from taking to the next step. Oh! I just, I can't. I love this so much because that's what this tweak is about. what you need to learn. So you have the skills, the tools, the backpack full to know exactly what you need to do to be able to maintain and sustain your weight. And you'll never be able to do that trying to control. People try to control and moderate their way into sustainable weight loss

and that will never work. You have to trust and be in tune and you will never be able to trust and be in tune unless you experience trusting and being in tune. Right. So that's what this week is above. That's what though I understand it. I totally understand it. I'm just really excited that you articulated this and you put this into a thought. But it's interesting that your fear of regaining your weight has stopped you from doing the very thing that is meant to help you feel confident in not regaining your weight. I love this. I just love that this realization even came to light. So that's so cool. That's what this, that's exactly what this is. Practicing. Practicing doing it. You got this. What's the fear? What's the worst thing that's going to happen? You do not gain your weight back and not notice. You do not. So you're kind of like, I don't want to, I just, I don't want to deal with it. So I'm just going to do the routine.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to take the next step because I just don't, I'm not going to take that next step. You're just stuck, stuck, stuck. Now, I love that you were stayed and stuck and maintained your weight. And that has given you faith in that. If you just, like, this is going to be so much easier for you. It's so much easier for you. That's the thing that's so crazy about it.

More flexibility. Like it just, this is so much easier. The only thing, if you can look at it like this, the only thing that's different is you don't have to have those token amounts if you're not hungry for it anymore. And now, is that going to mess with your hunger? Probably. Remember, hunger is not an immediate need for food, right? You're not going to die. You're still, you're not going to starve. You're still eating all this good nutrient rich foods, right? Right? And the worst that's going to happen is like, let's say you did eat something that you weren't supposed to eat. You're not going to gain real weight from that anyway. And so this has got to be

bigger than that. So your feels around this is bigger than actually your day to day to day. So how do You not gain weight back, give your body time to adjust to your new weight, right? You adapt to situational change. You be mindful always. What's going on? Don't cover your eyes. Don't put your head in the sand, right? Routine ain't going to save you from that.

Routine ain't going to sign for that. You need to be able to be aware of what's going on. And you might not, you might just like those fields might be really big for you. Like there could be some unresolved issues like we talked about today. Things happening that are much bigger in maintenance than they ever were in weight loss. that just might be like, oh, I don't know if I'm ready to go there yet. I don't know if I'm ready to maybe put out in the world who I am now, right? Like really own it. Maybe you just need a little bit more time before you really started owning. Also, can we just talk about the fear

of gaining that way back when you've done this before? You've lost before. Maybe you gained it back. Why did you gain it back? That's where you got to go. You got to be like, let me get real about why I gained it back and not putting fault on you being like what was going on in my life like what were the tools did I have the tools and skills did I know better did I know better was the thing I was dealing was so much bigger than me that I just I did the fucking best I could right like that's one of the things that I shared when I started gaining my weight a couple years ago I had a child with severe mental health issues their dad my kid's dad was dying eventually he did die going through menopause the stress of running this big company that quite frankly i never asked for it wasn't really on my

plan i did it and i love it and it's great but it i didn't know how to do it and so that was like you know and then it wasn't until a couple years later where i was like holy i don't think i managed that well no drinking up all the wine every night is not a good way of managing your stress you got going on you know i wasn't doing the things i was barely hanging on and i was trying to distract myself by doing more and more and more and more and more. I'm putting all this pressure on myself, right? So yeah. So that's like that's where you got to be like, okay, this is where we want to face it.

We want to ask ourselves what's going on, not what's wrong with me, what's going on with me. And how can I best support myself? So I love that. I have one more here from Kim. My intentions this week are to give it 100% in all metrics. It seems my weight goes up and up in the last few weeks of the session. Looking back through my app and journals, I don't seem to give up and I continue to get my dancing genus. But the massive, okay. So the massive heat wave we've had in the past week may have something

to do with my weight going in the past weeks. Of course, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm currently at 3.6 pounds for my lowest of the program. It took me eight weeks to drop that. I know it's not real weight game, but still plays with my head. Either way, I'm giving it my all and I'm going down. Okay. So this is a situation where you should expect your weight to be fluctuating. Like, when I used to say I sit behind between one night. and 130. And like last couple of years, I've been on the high high. I haven't seen 119 in probably like four years. Like I just, I don't even know that I really care to go to that range. I'm kind of happy if I'm truth be told around 125, 132, like I'm kind of that range, right? And it does take

our body's time, but why? Because usually if I'm indulging, it's because I have high stress and then I'm not sleeping and then my body's really reactive to that because as I get older, I don't have that estrogen that was very anti-inflammatory, right? So it's how it's all connected to me. So it's like what's going on in my life, what's going on in my daily life, what's going on with my health, like what what what is all causing those things? So your weight to be up. So you add the summer and your weight is definitely going to be up in the summer in a heat wave. It's just impossible because everything expands in the heat. And this is actually your body protecting you by retaining water to keep you cool and to keep you alive. So that's that that difference there, right? It could be

that you need to adjust your sleep patterns because this is such a seasonal program. It may be that your sleep patterns need to adjust. And it'd be interesting to see what's going on with your sleep every time. And like that's one of the things I would measure. What is going on with your sleep always at these last two weeks of the program, right? Like what is actually happening in your life? And you could be perceiving it connected to the last two weeks. But also it could just be like where we're at the midst of summer. Right? Or let's, let's see. say the winter, like the fall going into the winter. That was like rolling into the holiday season those last two weeks. In winter into spring, what's going on there, right? That can be a really

busy season for people, certain times and their jobs are very busy with what they got going on. The kids can be very busy. Like that can be a lot. Maybe you were just moving, moving, selling your house or renovating or whatever, right? So that's why I would go look at that, not in terms of your food choices once happening, what was going on in your life during those moments. Well, if we talk about Odette, for example, and she's not here today, you know, in week six of the winter program, Odette's father passed away. And then also in week six of the spring program, her sister passed away. So you may not be connecting the dots on what's going on in your life, but there's two very clear, big, huge, massive moments in her life that happened in those couple weeks.

So that's where you could have, you could have just the timing of your life, right? That's where like, you know, tracking your sleep or whatever you're doing can make sense or how you're feeling and what's going on. Where you can look back. So you can go back into your app, Kim, into the winter program and even the fall program and go back and look at your, I would go back and look at your graphs for those last two weeks. And then also this is where journaling might be really helpful. how are you feeling, choices that you're making, all of that,

and just kind of track like sort of what's happening there. So, okay, that's my time for day. Thanks. This is so fun. I can you guys know I love talking about this stuff. So it's so great. I'm excited about this week. I'm excited for you to test out where you were at.

Like bring it on. Let's go, right? You're so close. So they're so close to, you know, live in that life. Like, this is the whole point of this. So you get there. You've done this. You've lost it.

now we're maintaining it. Like, come on, bring it on, bitch. What do we got to do at that place where we feel confident around food and we have those skills? So you can say to yourself, I feel 98% confident in my ability to maintain this anyway. So summer is coming. Obviously, those of you who are on membership, we're going to roll into our summer club. You continue to use the app and all the same ways you've been able to use that.

Those of you who are on single purchase or just part of our Facebook group, if you are into and want to join us over in our summer club, which is, is going to be like our one club. We're all going to work towards summer. You'll have the option in doing that as well. You can go over to our website, living method.com. Oh, I also want to say thanks to everyone who purchased my book. So my LiveLiter book is going to be hitting the shelves in September, September 8.

We're going to do a big cross-candidator tour. But thanks to everyone who brought their pre-sale copy when it was on sale the last couple days. 30% off as part of Indigo's most anticipated Canadian titles. I can't even go there with that. I just want to say thank you for that. Okay, thanks everyone. Have a fantastic day. and I will see on when.

Oh, I'll see you tomorrow night. I'm going to be going to love tomorrow night. So if I want to join me for a Q&A and I'll be back on Wednesday with Odette. Have a great week, everyone. I'll see you then. Bye.