The Livy Method Podcast - The Tweak This Week - Fall 2025 - Week 11

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

Join Gina and Program Manager Kim as they break down and dig into the tweak we see in week 11 of The Livy Method.The Tweak This Week? Personalizing The Food PlanIn this episode, Gina and Kim reflect on the final stretch of the Fall 2025 Program and the energy shift that often happens as the finish line comes into view. They talk about the confidence that comes from sticking with it, especially after a tough few weeks, and the mindset wins that matter just as much as the scale. From celebrating those who came back after falling off, to reminding everyone there’s no judgment, just support, this conversation highlights the resilience and real-life messiness of weight loss. They also touch on what it actually means to make the most of your time left in The Program, and why listening to past Spill the Tea episodes during the break can be such a powerful way to reflect and reset.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2025To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy, and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams for my 91-day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on ACAST, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music.

room. I feel like I'm sitting in the dark. Hotels never have lights. It's true. We should start bringing our lights to the hotel rooms. Oh, I actually, you know what? I used to, I used to walk with when I traveled like a ring light. You one of those big, I guess I've just, I don't care how I look anymore. Maybe that's what's happened. So yeah, I seem to have more light than you today, which is shocking because it actually is dark here. Well, I think we're, I'm in the city, so I'm in Toronto, but I think it's like, I think, is there a storm coming? I think I heard that. Yeah. Yeah, there's a storm coming. So, it's all like dark and gray and, yeah. Anyways, hi. Hello. So here we are. We can't believe it's like week 11. How do we, how are people doing? Are they hanging in there? Yeah, I would actually

go as far to say they're more than hanging in there. It's, um, yeah, people seem to be doing so great this week, as opposed to a couple weeks ago when there was a little bit of a dip in the mood, there is some festering and stuff. And I feel like people now are, I think, finally coming to the realization that, I mean, we had yesterday when you said it's next week, the last week. And I was like, yes. I think people are like, oh, wow, I've actually made it. I have done this, and I'm still here. And I definitely get that vibe. You see it in the question of the day in the check and post where people are sharing their intentions and talking about their days people are really like they're locked in well that that's it right and it's so hard to explain that in the beginning of the

program especially to people who are new and all we can say is like stick around to the end you're going to be so happy that you did not only is it reinforcing that you can do this because you followed through and you finished this group so you can follow through and finish your whole weight journey but it's also time goes by really quickly and that is where the small things that you're doing each day, what is this about? This is about having the support to keep showing up every day, to create those routines. And when you show up and try to make as many choices each day as possible, they get you one step closer to reaching your goal, it's pretty freaking amazing how things add up. I know you mentioned to me yesterday that someone shared that

they, you know, they're back after they haven't followed and whatever. We get so many people this time of year. I love that. So I want to remind people that if you're just watching this now and you haven't been following along, there's no judgment here. It happens so often. Make sure you reach out because we can help kind of, you know, help you figure out how you can make the most of the time that you have left and what you can do in between programs and set yourself up for success if you're coming back in January with us. Yeah, that was the perfect comment. I love that. Like, I left, I'm back. And just that full out, a few things I love about it. One of it is that, She were so, or they were so open and honest.

The other one was that they felt so comfortable and knew that that was exactly what to do. I need to tell people where I'm at. I can't come in, you know, not knowing where to go, but not admitting that I wasn't actually following for a while. So yeah, that was, you know, and we love that. We're not going to, life happens. People are going to leave. People are going to drop off.

Situations come up. You're going to get tired. And it's, I think it was hard a couple weeks ago for people because it felt so close yet so far away. Yeah. It was just another one of those like, oh, okay, I'm having a hard time this week. And now I still have this many weeks to go. And now that I think every time you get through one of those situations, we've gone through a tough week and it's challenging and you make it to the other side and you're still here, your confidence gets up a little bit. And, you know, it's really something to be proud of for people when they, when they push through those times when they're not feeling

motivated and stick around, that's really, or come back after deciding you want to give up and then thinking like, hey, wait, that wasn't the right choice. I'm coming back again and you're allowed to change your mind about something. So I'm really proud of that person that shared that comment. I just want to share too. I had my conversation with Stacey, who's lost over 100 pounds with the living method. And when we have our spill-the-tie guess on, it's not about how much weight they lose. That's not the requirement. We're not looking for people who've lost large amounts of weight. But every program we seem to find someone who is willing to share their story. And what I love about that is not how much weight they've lost, but they all have a story about how it wasn't

perfect and how along the way there, you know, there were setbacks, there were struggles. And just what happens during the time that you're trying to lose weight. And I, if you have, here's just a tip for everyone. I know that there's a lot of information. There's a lot to do with the program itself. But during the break, one thing that you might want to do is listen. to the spill-the-te-te-conversations. There's always something resonating in there. And it's about, most of the time, it's about resiliency. It's about continuing to show up when life is hard,

learning to work through your stuff. And this concept that we start a diet and it's just a straight line down and then we're done, it's just, it's such, it's not real life. And sometimes it's about not just losing your weight, but sometimes it's just about maintaining your weight. Sometimes it's about not gaining weight, giving what's going on. it's just being in survival mode and putting one foot in front of the other, right? So we really need to normalize that. I need to normalize up. Yeah. And I think normalizing if the scale is not moving,

it doesn't mean you're doing something wrong and it doesn't mean something needs to be fixed necessarily, like getting comfortable with those moments when the scale bounces up or the scale is not moving. And sometimes what you need to do is just keep doing what you're doing. And it's going to show up later on. And I think that's another trust that people build over the course. But it takes time to build that you're not going to learn that in the first couple weeks you might not even learn that in the first program depending on what your pattern of weight loss looks like and for some people you know it's really frustrating in their second round because they're like my weight dropped constantly in my first round and my second round when i came back i only had 10 more pounds to lose and i was up and down up and

down and that's when they learn that lesson about what the scale's going to do naturally so yeah it's a lot there's a lot to learn there's a lot to learn in 12 weeks so you know there's a lot of people as we see from our guests too. So people are on like round number 10 when they've come on to join us. And it's like not everybody's going to do it in 12 weeks. Yeah, it's pretty jam-packed. I'm reading up. What is it set up for 9th? That's weird. Here's Don. I've compiled all of my scribbly notes from guest experts and Gina Lives into a liby-luser journal with cute doodles and reading it has made me realize what a wealth of information I've received for so little money. Beyond that, though what you have learned right that's the thing like when you you don't even realize what you're

learning there's a lot we're going to make a list at the end of the program of all of our guest expert segments and you're going to have an opportunity to kind of you know get caught up any day you might have missed but when you see the list you're like oh my gosh and that that's a lot of just that's a lot of like active learning and in a space where you're open to learning and you are specifically trying to reach a goal and what's great about our guest experts is they know exactly where you are at and what you are trying to do. And I'm pointing this out because when Dr. Beverly David was on last, she talked about the break in between groups and talked about this tweak this week

and how it's great to kind of help you understand where you're at and some of the things that you need to work on. We're going to have the team back next week and we're going to talk about all the feels that can happen during the break and we're going to make sure everyone's set up for success. But let's bring it back down to this tweak this week. what are what are people saying about personalizing the plan um i'm really excited to not see a lot of people that are scared of going off the rails so that part of it made me really happy to not see that i don't know maybe those people are just being quiet in the group but there seems to be a lot of

people that are really willing to give this a go but lots of like little questions about um about how to make the personalized plan work for them and i think there are still some people that are set on just going back to the original food plan and sticking to what to eat and when in that original food plan. And I think that's a little bit of a fear of branching out there. So I think for personalizing the plan is just like while you are one thing that we do want to let people know is that while you're choosing from the same foods that you have been eating all along your plate and the way your meals and snacks look is not going to necessarily be the same as the basic food plan. You're going to check in with yourself. You're going to choose from the same types of foods

you've been eating. Yeah. But it's not going to necessarily look that structured. And this is the lead up into maintenance, is learning how to personalize what you need and check in with yourself versus just ticking a box that, yes, I ate this, yes, I ate this, yes, I ate this. Well, I want to talk about that fear part first because if you take it back, if you're new to the program, or even if you're a returning member, you also might have felt similar fields during downsizing, during feeding the metabolism, during the revamp, right? And then you followed through and so many times you look back and be like, oh, yeah, I get it. So if you missed it today, we posted the Why It Works Wednesday post.

And so you signed up for the program. You do, and this is where people say trust the program, trust the process. And it's not about blind faith and that you can't question it or why you're doing it. it's just that sometimes you don't know like you have to kind of do it to get the understanding of it right we're trying to think it through with our brain when it's more about a feeling and so personalizing the plan is just an opportunity to go deeper and level up even more within the structure of the program now if you if you decide after the program is done and you've got a really like you're already feeling busy and things are chaos and you got to you know you just

you need that routine in the structure. you can follow the basic food plan it's fine but it's not as being as proactive as continuing to personalize the plan right like ideally you want to personalize the plan in between in between the break and then you want to reset with the um the basic food plan when you do the next round of the program there's a rhyme and a reason of course for that as well um i do understand capacity but you have to eat anyway and really it's it can look exactly like the basic food plan if you're checking in at every single meal and snack time and you're actually hungry and need to eat. We're still going high protein for breakfast. That doesn't change. For morning,

you can still do fruit if you want, but you want to add a protein and fat to it. Lunch and dinner are the same. Nothing really changes except there's no longer a star of the meal. So you still want to make sure you're getting some protein in, some vegetables or the other way around, leafy greens, healthy fats. Lunch is still the best time for heavier carbs. Vegetables are still a great for afternoon. There's a rhyme and a reason why they were in there. So if you liked that routine of your afternoon snack, you can totally do that. But are you creating something else? Would you rather maybe have some fruit and some yogurt or something completely different? And then nuts and seeds are always really great at that three or four o'clock time. The reason why they were in there

in the first place is because that's when your body takes a dip in energy and they take longer to process and digest. So it helps you when it comes to feeling more satisfied heading into dinner. and of course if you're hungry for dinner have dinner so nothing is really changing other than the intention of um actually checking in and a big picture to be able to trust when to eat what to eat and how much to eat right so you really can't mess this up the biggest thing that you're that you're doing is not forcing yourself to eat if you're not actually hungry and that means lunch if you're not hungry for lunch you don't have to have lunch right if you're not hungry for dinner you don't have to have dinner. You're not trying to eat less. You're just trying to be even more in tune. Because

sometimes you're not hungry for a reason because your body is focused on other things or it's just had enough. And then other days, you are extra hungry. Maybe you went to the gym the last previous days or, you know, maybe you didn't get a good night's sleep. So then you want to be like, okay, am I actually hungry or am I just tired? Am I actually hungry or, you know, is my body heading into detox? So, so it's just, it's about the intention of trying to go deeper and level a lot more. It's, it's really the routine itself. So this is why you don't want to kind of get complacent and just be like, oh, let me do what's easy because easy isn't necessarily going to get you the results that you want as quickly as you want them. So as long as it matches up, if you just want to do the basics,

that's fine. But don't be putting the pressure on yourself to be seeing that scale move in the way that it would move if you're being a bit more proactive. And I think when you're, if you feel like the basic food plan is a bit of a safety net for you while you're learning this, try. asking yourself if that's what you want. So in the morning when that snack comes, yes, okay, do I, should I eat? Am I hungry? Should I eat? When it comes to what to eat, start with the fruit. Is that what I want? Do I want fruit right now? Yes, I do. Great. Have your fruit add a little fat and protein and then move on to the next day at lunchtime. Ask yourself, do I feel like protein or veggies with my leafy greens and healthy fats more? Okay, I'm really feeling

protein. I'm going to have some veggies. So dig in and ask yourself those questions because I think, so you're going to say something before I go on. No, I was just saying, you can follow the basic food plan if you want, but make sure you are checking in at every single meal and snack time and assessing if you're hungry, right? And need to eat or could eat or should eat. Like, still go through those motions. If you have your fruit or let's say you like have a salad for lunch, ask yourself, like, is this what is most appealing to me? Right. And maybe being aware, maybe all you have is your salad, but you can also, you can follow that basic food plan if you want. Let me, let me give that to you. But you can still also check in at every single meal and snack

time, assess how you're feeling, assess what you're hungry for. If you packed a salad and when you really wanted some warm-ass chili, you can feel like, oh, this is not really satisfied to me. Or if you packed a fruit and really you're feeling nuts and seeds or, you know, veggies and some dip, like it's good to know what you don't want to, right? So, Don't just be like, oh, I don't have the capacity. Let me follow the basic food plan. You can still check in at every single meal and snack time and assess your hunger situation, what you're hungry for.

And then, of course, be extra in tune to those portions. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. No, go ahead. Well, I was just going to say with those food choices, that's where that mindfulness piece can come in. If you do need, you know, don't just pick what we were eating on the basic food plan because that is the easy way out for you.

Specifically, if you do have the capacity to push yourself a little bit more, because you're not going to get further between now and the next program. If you go back to doing, you need to kind of build on what you're learning, that habit stacking, all the things you've learned throughout the program. So if you just go back to falling into ticking those boxes and not thinking about it and not being mindful, that's when you're going to lose your momentum that you have with what you've been doing. And the whole point in doing the work and being mindful now is that you don't have to be mindful. Like mindful is not work later, right?

Always big picture. This isn't just for right now and reaching your goal. This is big picture being able to maintain and sustain. There's a couple questions here I want to go through. And I'm sure you have a whole agenda, Kim, that we're just blowing off right now. Kathy says, if you're not hungry for a meal, can I eat it later? If I skipped lunch, can I have lunch at 2 p.m.? Well, you still have that time frame.

You still have that, you know, three and a half, you know, four. I wouldn't push it really any longer than that window of eating. So if you used to have lunch at 12, you can still have lunch at 2. if you want, right? What you can't really do when you're following the basic food plan is if you miss a meal or snack, you can't really make it up for it later. But in this case, let's say you had, you know, a snack at 10 or like 11 by the time you're done eating it and then you're not hungry for lunch, right?

But you bought this great lunch and then you figure around maybe 132, you start to get hungry for it. Could you have that lunch? Yeah. I mean, all you're doing is just having lunch a little bit later in that case. right um and then maybe in the afternoon if you ate or lunch at two and let's say you're having dinner at six if you check in at like three four you might not be hungry for your snacks so that's where you're checking in and being like okay i'm not really all these hungry for these snacks do i

need it no i'm not hungry should i eat no i still have you know i'm not going to i have dinner coming down the pipeline so i can just go straight to dinner right so don't forget about that timing in between because we think of the same we're so used to eating at the same time so yeah you're hungry for lunch when it's lunchtime and next when you're hungry you can you can have that lunch later on you can absolutely do that um i have never been hungry for breakfast but uh but go with what you said have you eaten within the last four hours so the routine is breakfast even if only bits of bites hard to personalize that as you're not hungry with it so it's always always always a benefit to start your day to break your fast with high protein right so this is why having breakfast is

always a benefit. It turns your body on, gets things moving and grooving. Um, breakfast is ideally had within two and a half hours of waking. And if you're not hungry, then I would still go with like, okay, if I've been awake for four hours, I'm not hungry for my morning snack, if I choose not to have breakfast and I've been awake for four hours, um, I, if I wasn't hungry for morning snack, I would still make a point of having it because I've been up for four hours and I should eat something. So that's the way you would do that there. Um, it's taken me a while to wrap my head around the fact that it's okay not to eat dinner because I'm not hungry or have a smaller portion. Yeah, especially because we've been taught like it's such this social time that's really ingrained with us. And especially as it gets darker earlier and you're starting to get tired. You know, you're just really not hungry for dinner. You've eaten all this good nutrient root food throughout the day. I think the hardest part is like family dinners. But, but I think my family is used to me. not just, like, I'll just have maybe, you know, some bok choy or like one, a few little pieces.

Like, sometimes I'll eat a whole dinner and sometimes I'll just sit there with my family and I'll just have like a little bits of stuff. I think they're so used to me doing that. And the other day, I wasn't hungry. Tony made some steak and he said, hey, we're having dinner and you want to come down. And so Tony and my son, my son was home. So I wanted to sit down and sit with him. And then Tony had food already out. So I kind of picked at that. So I think I've kind of normalized it. I'm just not hungry. But I think that's the hard part is the social part of it. Yeah, for sure. I think that this is something that you can do if you're out socializing with people too with that situation is, especially as we head into the holiday season, there's more things, you know,

situations where everybody's sharing an appetizer, nobody's going to know if you're just picking and you have one little bit of it and you just sip on your cocktail or your water and you have a little bit of it. You know, at people's houses, take, take a portion that feels right for you. And just be honest, like, I'm not really feeling that hungry. And I think people will start to get used to it, especially your family will start to get used to it. You know, friends that you spend a lot of time with you go out with a lot, they'll start to get used to it. Just like you're taking the time to start, get used to that right now. Like, think back to week one when people were, like, couldn't manage without having a snack after dinner because they thought they were worried they

were going to be hungry the next morning to get to the point how far. you've come that 12, like 11, 12 weeks later, all of a sudden, you're like, I'm not even hungry for dinner. I'm going to wait until breakfast tomorrow to eat. That's like, that's how far your mindset has come. That's taken you a while and you've been immersed in this for 11 or 12 weeks now. Your family hasn't been immersed in it. The people around you haven't got used to it. So if you're going to, you know, normalize it for them, you have to expose them to it a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, it's good point. I'm seeing this. Having an issue with snacking after supper, I haven't done that in early for some reason.

I have started that and a bit sugar craving going on, drinking lots of water, not happy. So this is where you want to be like, okay, what is going on here? So are you stressed out and it's messing with your sleep? When you're not getting that sleep, going back to that sleep week series that we had, that can have you craving carbs and sugar when you're tired.

Also, the time of year, water is not as appealing because it's, especially cold water. So we tend not to drink as much water this time of year. So it could be if you're dehydrated, you are craving carbs and sugar. You could be drinking the same amount of water, but now you're spending more time indoors where you are jacking up the heat, at least where I live, which makes for a very dry environment. And so being tired and being dehydrated can absolutely have you craving carbs in sugar, right?

Also stress, too, if you're stressed. So one of the things I think, and this is why I love the science post, is really understanding weight loss. Weight loss in a healthy way is giving your body the nutrient-rich foods it needs and then giving your body long enough time to go without eating. And that's really important. That's like people talk about fasting and there are benefits in fasting, long periods, fast for autophagy for health reasons.

It's not a great weight loss. It's not a diet. Fasting is not a diet. However, that time between after dinner to when you wake up in the morning, that's like, that's like when your body repairs and rebuilds and regenerates and rejuvenates and detoxes. And so you really need that time. So if you can go without eating at night and then really understand how different you feel in the morning, that can be a game changer, like just really understanding that. I saw someone, Kim, this might come go along with that

because it could also be sabotaged too, right? Could be a few things going on. Someone said they would like to see a spotlight with someone, I don't know where the post is, someone who's like lost weight but struggled with sabotage. And I'm sure, okay, I would love a spotlight on a member who was successfully, who was successful on previous plans, lost lots of weights on the self-sabotage was real. And their weight gained back, but mental connection and growth connection on the way to forever. Well, that was our guest last night. Right? That was our guest last night. I think this is all of our guests. I feel like I could probably list. like a couple of fingers worth over the last couple groups a lot of people deal with this and

you know they they've shared the story and that and the things that have crept in um so yeah i think going back and listening to the spill the teas would be super helpful for that yeah yeah i think everyone i honestly think it's so normal because it's about breaking old patterns it's about how we utilize we use food for so many things and one of the ways we use food is to cope it's so complicated we need get to survive. We use it to celebrate, to show love, to bond over, also to cope. And when stressful things happen in our life, or there's three reasons why people gain weight back. They don't put time into maintenance. So they follow the program. They go right back to what they were doing before. Two is situational change. So something stressful happens in your life

and you go back into old habits. Or you have a change. You change routine. You don't help the body adapt and you go back into old habits. The third one is mindfulness, not continue to being in tune in the now and being mindful, which is not a lot of work once you're done. It's like it's just, you know, it's just about being in the moment. And then you're going back into old habits. And so what's the common theme there is going back into old habits? Because when you gained your weight, you were a product of how you were living your life,

right? Like how you were thinking, how you were feeling. And that affected the actions and things that you did and how you lived your life. So you've got to make change in your life. And so it's so like when something happens to you that you've never encountered before, again, I maintain my weight easily within a range, right? I'm a higher range, lower range, depending on what was going on in my life. But I never really stepped outside of that range.

And then my kid's dad, um, dying, running a business. I'd never run before going through menopause. I'm a weight loss expert. I spent my life having people lose weight and my weight went up. And I was like, what's going on with me? The sabotage part for me was that I was so. bullheaded about knowing that I should know what I need to do that I never actually seeked out help. I should have gone to my doctor a lot earlier and been like, okay, what is going

on with me here? So even I, I, in that trifecta of stress, ate chips for dinner. And I can, I've always been able to maintain my weight and eat some chips at night. I've always been able to maintain my weight and have some wine, you know, and indulge foods. Never had to really worry about any of that. But when you eat chips for dinner and you drink wine every night, and I'm not going to a whole bottle of wine, and I'm not moving my body, and I'm saying yes to things that I really want to say no to, so I'm overextending myself. I mean, that's also a sense of sabotage too. I know full well what I'm doing, but I'm not doing anything about it. So I just want to say it's really normal. And I think in every single, almost every guest I think I've ever

spoken to, especially on Spill the Tea, there's been a story like that. Yeah. And I think, I mean, that's my story too. I know exactly what to do. Other than you, there's probably not many people that know as well as I do what you need to do in this program. But it is when things build up, you get to capacity. And, you know, that's something that definitely comes up. Like, I'm, I'm thinking about even this Christmas season, where am I at mentally as I head into the end of the program where I don't have the same structure and support. And I'm heading into a season where the norm is to gather with friends, gather with family. There's a lot of pressure to socialize. There's a lot of pressure to drink. There's a lot of pressure to eat. Where is my mindset right now as I'm heading into that season?

And I, like, I don't know if I'm strong enough to keep my shit together during that, but I had a friend who texted me yesterday and said, I booked a yoga and meditation retreat for the weekend before Christmas. I know it's a busy time. And I was like, no, I'm doing it because I think I need that for my mindset, because I know myself and I know that I put a lot of pressure on myself. I know that I want to go into the holiday season feeling good and putting more busyness into that weekend. So I did something like that out of the blue just to switch my mindset so I can sort of stay on track. And I think it's Christmas is one thing. The summer is another. I know we have a lot of guests that encounter that over the summer where they're going into a season,

where they are barbecues, they are socializing, they are patio drinks, and they end the program. and that's where they are. They slide back into those habits because they go right from day 91 of the program into a huge situational change, which is a season of eating and drinking. And not sort of having a plan for that can be where that self-sabotage or sabotaging yourself creeps in because you haven't made a plan for yourself. Yeah, knowing what you need.

And I think, well, you talk to my guest yesterday and she, Sacey, and she lost weight, her shed at her first program, she lost weight during the holidays, right? But I think this is where the consistency of showing up and really understanding, like learning. This is the tools and the skills that you need. But when something happens in your life that you've never encountered before,

you're not really equipped for that. And so this is where you might have that slide back now. Could it have been worse, probably, you know? And then this is where you know how to get back. And that's the thing. Your body doesn't want this fat any more than you do it. And this is what is so incredibly difficult about weight loss. It's also, we live in a very high stress society.

We live in an obesitygenic society where it's so easy for us to get those fast foods, ultra-process foods that cause inflammation, cause stress. You tack on diet culture and what that's done to us mentally. It's very difficult. And this is why it's so much more than eating less and exercising more. And same thing when you add on all of the new weight loss medications. that can be really great. What do they do? They help people get a handle on their appetite and they help people with that food noise, right? And then when they lose weight, obviously that, that is hugely

beneficial. But it doesn't teach you. And so it doesn't teach you how to not fall back into old habits when you are stressed. It doesn't teach you how to eat better. It doesn't teach you to work through your issues and associations. It doesn't teach you a better relationship with food. Doesn't teach you how to cope with people once you've lost your weight, right? And so, so it's so complicated. I don't like be a downer in this conversation because just by being here you're already doing so much already doing so much um but yeah i like i would there's so many incredible guest expert uh guest conversations that we've had with our members there's got to be hundreds if not yeah probably 100 is that this one right because we'll say jody would know how many people would be a lot

over the last 26 programs there's a lot of there's a lot of guests so you can go into the Living Method podcast and just go through and spend your time listening to a bunch. There's a little synopsis there of each. It's not easy. Listen, but listen, it's possible. It's possible. And everything you're doing here is helping you be healthier, right? It's not starving and depriving yourself. It's helping you work through your shit. And what you need to do to accomplish any goal in life is the same things that you're doing here. Well, and I think just to be aware that you have a concern that that's going to happen or that is happening to you is huge. That awareness that you are sabotaging yourself. Because when you think about it prior to the program,

a lot of us would have just wouldn't have even realized we're sabotaging. You're why can't I lose weight. Now I'm night eating. I'm snacking at night. I'm not exercising. I'm not drinking water. Why am I not losing weight? I think I'm trying. And just the fact that you know like old habits, when you recognize the old habits, being aware of them is the first step in doing something about them for sure. Yeah. Someone's asking if I'm planning a health retreat down south for us. I am planning a retreat in St. Lucia. It's already been booked. I'm going to let's just got to get a website up and let's go to you guys know. So I'm starting with a retreat at Body Holiday in St. Lucia in May. I think it's May. And then we're going to do one end of September as well. So you're

hearing it first. It's already been booked. So it's happening. I know you people want to do cruises and do all these other stuff. We're trying to figure out, definitely live lighter retreats is a thing. I want to go to a variety of different places and spaces and whatnot. So you've heard that first. So that is coming. For those of you who are interested, what else it was? Someone was talking about wine here. How they talked about, I used to drink a glass or two basically every day. Now I drink maybe once a week. had two glasses last night and oh my god slept like shit feels so shitty this morning um you know mindfully listening to my body it does not not want wine listen same i don't know it's

taken me 50 something years to realize that um but it doesn't mean that i don't like i so there's being aware of how i utilize alcohol is um now i'm not a true addict or maybe i am because i use it to cope i can have a glass of wine and then go home for the night and call it I can pour a glass of wine on my nightstand and not even finish it. I can also down a whole bottle when mentally I am struggling. And then that makes me feel like shit the next day and I'm depressed for days afterwards. Like that's just me being real. And I think that's like, and that could be eating at night.

That could be like, you know, whatever, whatever you're doing or not doing for yourself. And it's okay. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. It doesn't have to be no alcohol. all the alcohol and you can decide right you you can decide what is best for you but i think it's that understanding like yeah when i drink it i don't my i now i'm wearing my new aura ring which i love i my body temperature is up when i have any kind of alcohol i don't get a good night sleep my readiness score is so that's just data and understanding that right that doesn't mean that you can't

make that choice it's just the next day when you're like oh fuck what's wrong with me you're like oh yeah had that crappy sleep. So when you're craving a Big Mac and, you know, a side of donuts, you can be like, oh. And that's, that's when we say at this point, you should, the goal is to get that kind of awareness, to get that kind of awareness, you know. What else we want to talk about, Kim, before we go? Well, I think, I mean, we, we veered off topic for personalizing the plan a little bit, but I think maybe just a couple little points of like maximizing this week. When it comes to maximizing your personalized plan, maximizing your food choices.

And this actually falls in line when we talk about things like the holiday season and falls in line to your wine conversation is when you are making your choices, when you are personalizing your plan, one of the things that you need to think about when you're asking yourself those questions of how am I going to feel after this? Not just how am I going to feel, do I want this right now, but how am I going to feel after? And are you okay with that?

So that's, you know, it doesn't mean necessarily to your point about the wine that you're not going to have it because you know it elevates your temperature and you don't feel great. You can still, but bringing that awareness and asking yourself, how am I going to feel after? So how this fits into maximizing your plan is the food choices you're making. People are asking, do I still have to have leafy greens? Like, yes, if you're maximizing your personalized plan, you still want to have those leafy greens because if you actually go without leafy greens for a few days, you're going to start to get that backlog of food. Things are not going to move through you quite so quickly, you're going to wonder why your bowel movements are off and things like that.

There's a lot of things that you learned along the way. You know, the basic food plant taught you not to go too long without eating. The mindfulness week taught you to ask yourself those questions before, during, and after your meals. Downsizing taught you to be okay with leaving food on your plate. Eating the metabolism taught you how to kind of fine-tune those portions and what you really needed if you weren't having that food taken away and you could have it you know that food plan revamp taught you how it felt when you added healthy fats into your meals and added bumped up

the protein in them all those things you've learned along the way are what you were putting into the choices that you're making this week when you pick your foods when you pick your when to eat and what to eat and how much to eat well and listen before we go if you eat your freaking face off over the holidays it's not enough time to mess things up it's not like another diet where you went into keto, you starved yourself, you lost the weight and you get it all back. That's not going to happen. Also, it's good to know how you don't want to feel. Sometimes you don't realize how great you feel and how all the things you're doing have added up make a difference until you do fall back and you find yourself indulging.

And then you're like, wow, I feel like shitballs here, right? Like, there's no right or wrong way to do it. It's all about what you are learning and that awareness. So it's not always about being perfect either. I mean, this is not an okay, go each of face off. not at all what I'm suggesting. It also doesn't have to be all or nothing either, right? Like, you don't have to overeat the whole meal and then, you know, to justify, well,

I must well have dessert. You want to have dessert, have dessert, right? My thing that I would, I would suggest to people over the break and I know we're still around next week, but I'm not going live tomorrow. So I just want to make sure I get this is try to keep as much routine as possible and just try to be aware and try to make choices that make you feel good, right? And if it's over the holidays and it's having the pie or it's having this, having that, and then capture the thoughts, just kind of be really curious, especially if this is your first holiday season after doing the

program. How are you showing up? Who are the food pushers in your life? You're going to go to some family events and they're going to be, you know, you're going to have your aunt who's eat the pie. She'll push you to eat something and not even eat it herself. You'll see the people. You'll see the people who maybe were really critical of, you know, said, you know, basically told you were fat and need to lose weight or now like, oh, you've lost too much weight. Like, be aware of that. Be like, wow, oh my God. Like, wait. Do you know what I mean? Like, this is a really, like, you're making real changes in your life. And it's a good time to be like, okay, let's see what I've done here. Not just the weight that you've lost on the scale, but how you've changed

mentally. Okay, we've got to go. I love, I love chatting with you. We've got to make this a regular thing definitely in the January program um because we Kim you and I used to do this each week but then we just thought it was so much for people to watch all the all the stuff and then it didn't occur to us until we got rolling in the program why don't we do it why don't we do it in the morning loves um I am thank you for everyone who um sent congratulations to me I am I feel weird about it I still if you saw the check in this morning I'm like um okay so I won an award um so I'm here and I just It was a very humble second. Canada's most powerful woman over here. It sounds very unsure of herself. It's always my reality. I feel like I'm really only successful because, one, I have an incredible team of people behind me. I couldn't do it without them. And also, too, is our community. If you guys didn't share with your friends and your family, I wouldn't be here. And I wouldn't be receiving this award. But I am downtown in Toronto for the Canada. is top 100 most powerful women awards, which I have won one of them. So tomorrow I'll be

receiving my award. You receive your award in the morning. And then there's a gala in the evening. So I'm here for that. So it's so exciting. If you've got this, you know, if you can earn the award, you can show up at the celebration to receive it. That's what the easy part is taking it and saying thank you. I know, right? Yeah, where's Dave been? I haven't seen Dave in a while. Where's Dave? He would have commented on a foodbisher. I'm going to check in on Dave. I haven't seen Dave in a while. Probably in Mexico or something like that. He's probably just lived in his life. He's got, probably got tired of us. I'm going to reach out to him. I'm going to check in. We have a little group chat, so I'm going to check in on hand. See how he's doing. Okay, we got to go.

Thanks, everyone for joining us. Thank him. Thanks, Kim. Reach out. You've got this. Be curious. Be proud, right? And make sure you stick around all next week. We are going to talk maintenance, but it's still about a week about losing. But we're working on a fun giveaway, some of my favorite things. We got our survey come in. We got our celebrate and inspire, you know, all the fantastic things. We still have some grass experts. I might go live on Saturday. So if you're listening to this, I might just, you know, for shits and giggles, and it's the weekend. I haven't done a Saturday in a while. So, and I won't be able to go live tomorrow. And I want to make sure everyone's feeling great heading into next week. So you all want to join me Saturday at 10.

not a nine 10 we go live at 10 you heard it here okay have a great rest of your day everyone thanks for joining us

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