The Livy Method Podcast - The Tweak This Week - Winter 2026 - Week 12

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Join Gina, Program Manager Kim, and Maintenance and Mindfulness Group Manager Odette as they break down and dig into the tweak we see in week 12 of The Livy Method.The Tweak This Week? MaintenanceIn t...his episode, Gina and Kim are joined by M&M Group Manager Odette to have an honest, real-talk conversation about what happens after weight loss, breaking down why maintenance isn’t a finish line but a whole new phase that requires intention, awareness, and practice. They unpack the evolution of the 91-day Maintenance Program, the science-backed pillars behind it, and why truly solidifying your weight means building trust with your body, your habits, and yourself. Whether you are still working toward your goals or starting to think about what comes next, this episode reframes maintenance as the key to making weight loss stick and stepping fully into a new way of living.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2026To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:32 I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Happy April Fool's Day. Oh, is that how small that is? I thought that was a huge giant statue that you've had. That's amazing. Oh, it's April Fool's. Oh, shit. It's April Fool's Day today. So happy April Fulls Day. Oh, my goodness. You're on it. You're on it. Indication of what maintenance is all about then. Yeah, that's it. This is your introduction to maintenance, everyone. Oh, it has more fun than we do. And we're jealous. We're jealous. We're jealous about her over the main program.
Starting point is 00:01:30 I got to change that fucking music, the intro to this. I can't. I don't know what it is. Every time I hear the intro music to the tweak this week, I'm like dying. It's so. Very mellow. Not like us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:44 I was just trying to think if I even like want to be that. Well, it's six in the morning right now, right? For you, Kim? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're like, yeah, you're probably, you don't notice it. So you're probably like, hey, I'm going to go back to it.
Starting point is 00:01:59 I thought it was my alarm. Yeah, right? I was sitting snooze over here. Trying to get five more minutes of sleeping. That's what I was just doing. I literally was just lying down. I was just like, okay, come on. Get up, get up.
Starting point is 00:02:14 I'm excited, though, because I thought it was on by myself. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I get to hang with the ladies. So you all know, Kim, who is the manager of our maintenance program, sorry, weight loss program. Odette is the manager of our maintenance program. A lot of questions. So this is going to be a great conversation. Even if you are still focused on reaching your weight loss goals, you want to know where you're going, right?
Starting point is 00:02:34 And it's so important to put time into maintaining and sustaining your weight. So helping your body make your new weight, your goal weight, your set point. And a lot of people have questions about the maintenance program. We do run 3 91 day live sessions a year for the maintenance program. So it's like a show up every day, work through, make change. changes each week. All of the content is geared around maintenance specifically. So you want to lose weight, do the weight loss program. You're ready to move to the next step. Sign up for the maintenance program. And then the goal after that is to do the maintenance for as long as you need
Starting point is 00:03:12 until you're ready to live your life. You can trust when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat. And there you go. So, Odette, hi. Maybe you can tell people more about the maintenance program. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I don't. Yeah. Can we just tell that story? We have so many new people. Can we just tell that before we get going, that story about your jazz hands emoji?
Starting point is 00:03:39 Yes, please. So Gina used to think the emoji with the two hands was exciting jazz hands, but it's actually hugging somebody. That's what the emoji is for. So she would send this emoji with the jazz hands. I thought, why is she hugging me? I don't, I'm not sure what's happening. this one. You know what?
Starting point is 00:04:00 I still fuck that shit. I still use it as a jazz hands excitement. I still send it to people and I forgot that it was the hug. I literally just sent it to somebody last night. I'm just so excited. That's my. Yeah. And it makes sense.
Starting point is 00:04:13 She really loves us. She really loves us. To members, everybody, everybody. Everybody. Because. Yeah, because. Yeah. So I didn't think.
Starting point is 00:04:26 we need a maintenance program. People asked me for years and I was like, you don't need it. The way you are losing weight is going to help you maintain and sustain your weight, just continue to personalize the plan for the rest of your life. You're good. And then, of course, we started the maintenance program. And boy, was I wrong. I was going to say we were wrong, A O'Dette, but really it was me. I was wrong. You believed in maintenance from the beginning. It has evolved. It started as just a Facebook support group. So you could ask questions while you were in maintenance. There was no structured program. People would do another round of the weight loss program to solidify their weight. And so now we have a standalone maintenance program. And then
Starting point is 00:05:04 Ruth Kane and her team at the University of Ottawa were studying the online learning process of the Livy Method, studying the weight loss program once they realized, okay, yep, that works. She moved on to studying maintenance and people who were able to maintain and sustain their weight and people who weren't. And so she came up with these pillars. And the maintenance program is based on these pillars. And so there's a lot of science behind the maintenance program. And now we've been running it for what, three years, four years. Yeah. So the maintenance group has been open. We opened it in 2022. And we started running in 2024 after two years of research and collecting data and putting the program together. So yeah, it's been it's been running. I can't.
Starting point is 00:05:51 I believe it already. Yeah. So let me ask you this. Why maintenance? Why maintenance? Why would someone need to go to maintenance? Like what have you learned? Um, so I've learned for, for our members, what we've all learned is that maintenance is not just this finish line. Like, you don't just lose your weight and then that's it. Like, it's not a finish line. It's a whole new skill set. It's a whole, it's a whole, it's a whole, I feel I've used the word journey a lot, but it's a whole journey through all of those first that happen after you've lost your weight. So we were talking, so Gene and I go live on Mondays. We were talking live on Monday over there that you can only get through certain
Starting point is 00:06:31 situations with the skills that you have. Yes. And if you haven't developed skills to go through really stressful situations that you're not leaning back on old habits, if you haven't, if you haven't gotten the skills to go through, you know, situational change because, you know, that didn't happen to you while you were losing your weight. How do you keep from triggering and spiraling back into old coping mechanisms, old habits, old thought process? So with maintenance, we, it takes two years. And we know this, right? You've said this before. It takes two years to maintain your weight. So with the maintenance program, we're trying to help you fast track that. We're trying to, we're trying to, for lack of a better work, trigger real life situations using the tweaks to help you
Starting point is 00:07:12 work through those fields and associations quicker than you would on your own. So it makes maintaining your weight, having this maintenance mindset solidified faster than it would if you were just going on your own. And it also helps you build trust, build confidence. If you've never done this before, if you've never believed you could maintain your weight before, why would that change just because you did the living method weight loss program? We're trying to teach you that along the way, but until you live it, you're not going to believe it. And that's what that maintenance program will give to you, will help you with. Yeah, it really is the mindset. I mean, you go through the program, again, a step. Body loves routine, which is why it's a similar.
Starting point is 00:07:47 foundation as the weight loss program, but the intention is completely different. The content is all geared towards maintenance, but you're going to go through the same tweak. So you've lost your weight. Just because you're done losing your weight doesn't mean you're done working through the mental part of everything. And so you'll still go through downsizing again, but not for the intention of moving the scale, but to get back in tune to your portions, right? You'll go through feeding the metabolism, to understand how you're living your life and to help your body increase its metabolism, because because it's because you lost your weight doesn't mean your body is functioning the best it possibly can. All of it, personalizing the plan, again, to test the waters on what life will be like
Starting point is 00:08:25 when you're not following a plan when it comes to losing or maintaining. It's really that mental part is the biggest part. What part of that mental part do you think? Yeah, I think I don't go back to what you said about, you know, using the tweaks like downsizing. So yes, we're going to go through downsizing. Yes, get in tune with your portions because we know that they can slowly start creeping up again. But also with downsizing, we're going to talk about sell. compassion. Like how do you, how are you compassionate with yourself when things don't go well while you are downsizing? Now, how do you talk to yourself through that? You know, feeding the metabolism, you know, we're asking you to check in with yourself 12 times a day. That's about prioritizing
Starting point is 00:09:03 yourself. That's about repeating habits over and over and over again. Yes, it's about helping your metabolism stay revved up and healthy and be in, and help you be in tune with your body. But it's also about working through those other things, those other associations, there's other real life scenarios that come up. And we use the tweaks to help to instill that. And the mindset, yeah, I mean, it's really hard for people that have been trying to lose weight for, you know, we'd say 40, 50 years, but even five years. If you've been trying to lose your weight five years, one years, it's still hard to think of yourself as not a dieter. It's someone who is not constantly trying to lose weight. And to believe that that doesn't have to be the
Starting point is 00:09:41 norm. That's the mindset that you know, you're not always trying to get the scale to go lower. It's being okay with being in this comfortable physical range, being in this comfortable mindset range. So that's the part that can be hard for people because you can lose your weight and then hit your goal. And without understanding, you know, what maintenance looks like and feels like you're going to continue to keep chasing that lowest low. And when it goes up, you're going to be so uncomfortable with it. We're going to help you be in that comfortable range, in that comfortable spot and data collect and understand and all of that. Yeah, there's a lot of fields that come with. People are really nervous when they've lost their weight. And,
Starting point is 00:10:21 you know, why do you gain weight back, right? Not giving your body time to adjust to your new weight before you challenge it. Go back into old habits, right? Situational change. Something happens. You lose your job. Someone passes away, some sort of trauma in your life. Go back to old coping mechanisms and habits and just not being mindful, right? And there's just like not upkeeping. all the changes that you've made in your life because you have to upkeep them to support the way you are living and going back to old habits. And so you go through a whole cycle around the sun and you got to go through each holiday, every triggering moment, all these different circumstances, now being a person who's maintaining and sustaining their weight. So it does take time. Kim, you know, we get a question a lot, how do I know when I'm ready for maintenance? Why do you think people struggle with that so much?
Starting point is 00:11:06 Like there's a goal weighed and we all know that it's not really about the number. It's about feeling. But we notice a lot of people are just, what do I do? Do I stay in weight loss? Do I go in maintenance? Why do you think that's going on? I think it's maybe 50, 50, a little bit of, I think to a lot of people, that goal is the number. And whatever comes after that is very unknown to them.
Starting point is 00:11:30 I think it's, I think back to my past experience with weight loss. I've been able to reach a goal in the past or hit like a low weight in the past. And then you're just dropped. You're dropped by whatever program you've done. You're dropped by your diet or you drop your diet because you're like, oh, I'm there. I've lost the weight. There's, I don't think in my, you know, over 50 years of being around I've ever heard of a diet where there's something that said, hey, to keep this off you, this, this and
Starting point is 00:12:04 this. Yeah. Everything you try it, the, the whole, the whole focus of everything is always just getting to that end, losing the weight and getting to that number. Yeah. So I think that's, that's part of it. But I think the other part of is excitement. Excitement to reach your goal.
Starting point is 00:12:21 When somebody reaches, it's very easy to be like, okay, I did it. I finished. Yeah. And then move on to the next thing. Yeah. And that goal and that number is what you are chasing and what you have in mind. and the only thing you were trying to get out of this situation, there is nothing else in your mind that you need, no other work you need to do once you've hit that number. That's it. So it's
Starting point is 00:12:45 taking it deeper and like you said, the wellness, like living a healthy life, all of the other things and maintaining it. That's, I think, where the twofold is, is people excited. People are nervous. I just want to be done. People are tired of dying. They want to be done. So I think that's, you know, a little bit of it too, right? Like they're all over the place when they get here. You know, you're never done though, right? Like this is what we talked about with Dr. Beverly David the other day. You're never done because you're trying to eat healthy to stay alive and be as healthy as possible. You're trying to manage your stress to stay alive and be as healthy as possible. You're trying to get better quality sleep to stay alive and be as healthy as possible.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And I think maybe you're just your intention and your focus behind it, your why changes. When you're no longer chasing that scale, we hear this all the time in maintenance where people are like, well, I'm maintaining my weight easily, but I don't feel as good as I felt when I was losing my weight. And that's because when you were chasing the number on the scale, you were putting more effort into managing stress and moving your body and trying to get better sleep and eat healthier foods. And that's a big realization that people come to. So what is your motivation now that you're no longer chasing the scale? And people have a hard time with that a O debt where they just are in that weight loss mindset. And even though they don't want to lose any more
Starting point is 00:13:57 weight, every day they're disappointed if the scale isn't moving. Yeah. They're disappointed of the scale isn't moving. They're not getting that reward, that instant reward of the work that they've been doing. So that's also part of that mindset, thinking bigger picture. What else, you know, what are we working towards now beyond that? I just want to go back to your question that you said about, you know, why people aren't sure if they're ready for maintenance or not.
Starting point is 00:14:21 And I think a lot of it, too, it's a little bit of fear that they are because they don't know what maintenance is all about, that they're leaving a plan that works for them. you know, well, if I'm moving away from a structured weight loss plan, how am I going to do this? How am I going to keep this weight off? How am I going to keep going to keep going? So I think I'll just stay here. I'll just stay where I am. I'll just stay and keep doing what I'm doing over and over again because that feels safe and that's what I know. There's this unknown. Like Kim said, nobody's talking about this is what you do to maintain your weight. So I'll just keep doing what I'm
Starting point is 00:14:54 doing. And so now we're trying to tell them this is what works. We know this is works. It's research back. We have evidence from our members. We have evidence from the research from these, from these focus groups we've done. We know these are the actions and behaviors that matter. So, you know, you just have to, it's almost not letting that fear hold you back, you know, and just taking that step. Well, nothing about weight loss is designed to help you maintain and sustain it, right? Even all the new weight loss medications and JLP1s, they don't have an answer for you being able to maintain and sustain. We know after you take them for a while, they stop working. We, they don't have a fix for that.
Starting point is 00:15:30 They're like, well, we're hoping in the meantime that we'll come up with something, a stronger medication, something that works better. When it all comes down to behavioral change, that's one of the things I learned at the obesity summit. It's behavioral change. You have to change your behavior. You have to change your habits. But that's very difficult to do because there's not a lot of resources for people like a psychologist, like a learning strategist, right? Like a system and a method.
Starting point is 00:15:54 So people are just trying to figure it out on their own. You absolutely can maintain and sustain your weight. I'm proof of that. This is how this all came about. I lost over 100 pounds over 30 years ago and been able to maintain and sustain it. And there are times in my life where that's easier, times in my life when it's harder. One of the things I think that we talk about a lot is the expectation of I reached my goal weight and that's the weight I'm going to be at and I'm going to stay there. And if my weight fluctuates, that's problematic. And so this is a big takeaway for people that they need to learn that your set point isn't just one number. It's arranged. There's a question here. when you are maintaining instead of losing, how big of a window do you have with weight gain? Right now, if my weight is up two pounds, I start to panic and reevaluate what I've done. Oh my gosh, my weight can be up like four pounds because I did a workout yesterday and my muscles are sore. I have a crappy sleep. My weight is up two pounds. It's not real weight gain, right? This is one of the hardest things for people to kind of wrap their head around.
Starting point is 00:16:53 When you're not trying to see your lowest low every day, chances are your weight is going to, is going to, fluctuate between like three, five, seven pounds. There's times where you're on that, that range, like the higher end. And then you got to like work harder to to make sure you're doing the things that you can. And then there's times it's going to be on the, the lower end. And that's normal. Why do you think that's such a hard, such a big conversation in the group, Odette? What advice can you give to people going into maintenance about fluctuations on the scale, which are just as normal in maintenance as they are in weight loss? Yeah. I think, I think the fear is normal because they, like I said, they've never been told that having a range is okay.
Starting point is 00:17:34 They've never, they, they don't have that belief. Their belief is limited that my number needs to be low to be successful. They, they, you know, when, I think when you're on this physical journey of losing your weight, you are going for that lowest number. This is, this is your action. This is your behavior is to get to that end point. It's to get to that lowest low. Well, now when we're in maintenance, our goal is to stay within this set range. And I think my advice to people is to get curious. You know, like the member there just said, my weight is up two pounds and I start to panic.
Starting point is 00:18:10 So instead of panicking, what if we got curious, took a hot minute and said, okay, why do I think it's up two pounds? Why? Is it because of what I did yesterday? Maybe it's because of what I did two days ago. Maybe it's because of the weather. Maybe it's nothing that you did.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Maybe it's the weather. and give yourself a bit of breathing space to have to know that another day is coming, another two days are coming, and maybe that two pounds is going to change. So I think, I think the biggest advice, like I said, is just get curious. Like, learn from your fluctuations. Connect those dots. What led to that number being either up or down? Because sometimes it's down. You know, it's not always up.
Starting point is 00:18:50 So I think get curious, ask the questions, collect data and connect those dots. Yeah, it's that, it's this statement. I start to panic. Yeah, right? And the whole angle is being calm around food, con physically, calm mentally, being able to be in the grocery store and not panic if there's a whole lineup of chips and chocolate.
Starting point is 00:19:09 You're just calm. Be in a room surrounded by your favorite foods and just be calm. I'm going to have some. I don't want any. Like, that's that mindset. And that's a great example of the work that we continue to do in mindness. I just want to talk about logistics with the maintenance program. So it's a similar structure.
Starting point is 00:19:27 in terms of the tweaks in the weeks, but the intention is completely different. All the content is geared around maintenance. So it is the same because the body loves routine, but also different. But you're not showing up every day and maximizing your efforts to try to get that scale to move, right? Now, sometimes you still do lose weight in the maintenance program. You're not going to lose any more than what's healthy, obviously. But it's all about the intention. You know how hard it is to move the dial on the scale to lose the weight, right?
Starting point is 00:19:55 So much easier to be. be able to maintain and sustain your weight. So with our new structure of our maintenance program or a live session, it is now available for membership. And so you can do as many live sessions as you need, support in between. It does have an app version. It will have its own AI. And you will have access. I see someone asking, well, we have access to expert lives going into maintenance. So we have our own guest experts that come in in the maintenance program or we're going to be building on that, but you will also have access to all of the guest expert segments in both the weight loss program and the maintenance program as well within the app. So that's what's new with
Starting point is 00:20:35 our maintenance program is it now has an app version to go along with it. So we're going to be rolling that out in the spring. Odette's been working hard to get ready. What else do people need to know about, what else do people need to know about maintenance? I think a little bit about one thing. I think a little bit about one thing that we've had a couple questions about is the actual maintenance group. And there is one big difference between the maintenance group and the weight loss group. And that's there is a maintenance group. I saw a member ask like, how do I get into the new maintenance membership group when the next program starts?
Starting point is 00:21:08 With the maintenance membership, you have access continuously to that Facebook group. So if you're in there currently and you are in the maintenance program and the maintenance group in Facebook that you originally went into when you joined the maintenance program, that's going to stay you don't have to get it's different from the weight loss program and that we have a start and an end and then the team leaves this Facebook group and we'll move on to a new one with a whole set of members and if you rejoin then you get put into that with the maintenance. You just get to stay snug in your community where you are when you, when you're in there because it does honor the fact that it does, you know, take people as long as they need to be there.
Starting point is 00:21:46 Yeah. So our membership, our maintenance program has evolved. So when we first started it, we're like, we don't need a maintenance program. We just need. a group. And so people paid one price. They got in. And since then it's evolved into an actual program and live session. So we have people who have still been in there and they have access to the Facebook support group for as long as they need it. We are now off. That is no longer available. So if you have that, which is why you probably see some people who are like, oh, I'm in the maintenance group and in the weight loss group at the same time. So now our structure has changed moving forward because it does include access to the app. So if you got any questions about that, you can
Starting point is 00:22:20 reach out and let us know. I just want to, sorry, I just got, I just saw this comment from Ashley, working with Alyssa, who is our resident dietitian, and she recommend did a GLP1 for me as I have PCOS, so torn as to what to do. Okay, I know this doesn't have anything to do with necessarily the maintenance program, but I do want to say, I think our maintenance program is going to end up being bigger than our weight loss program because of all the people taking GLP1s, right? You still have to learn how, to work through issues and associations tied into food. You have to, you have to work through beliefs feeling worthy. You know, like people struggle with once they lose their weight and they reach their goal weight, it's like they have to now own that identity, your relationship with yourself,
Starting point is 00:23:08 your relationship with other people. Like that's so much work. And I don't know about being torn. Like I think as long as you're working with your health care provider, it can help with food noise. it can help with appetite. One of the things that I talked to with Ruth when she studied people in maintenance is that she had one of our members who took a GLP1, lost her weight. And because of the work that she did on the program, when she then came off it, she was able to recognize the food noise and actually had skills and tools to be able to be like, oh, oh, yeah, this is the food noise.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Oh, I know how to capture, cancel, correct that. I know what to do with that, right? So I don't think, listen, there are side effects and I'm definitely not pushing GLP1s, weight loss medications, because the living method always worked for weight loss. Medications, no medications. We were around well before and the program worked well before. So I don't see any harm unless, of course, there are side effects you need to be concerned about in terms of being torn.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Like you can always try it. And then as long as you're doing a program like the living method, there's kind of no downside to that, like outside of obvious side effects, right? because the work is still there. Take a GLP1. You still have to do the work with the weight loss program. Take a GLP1. You still have to do the work with the maintenance program.
Starting point is 00:24:24 The weight loss program and the maintenance program are going to give you the chance to come off those medications. Or if you decrease them, not gain your weight back because we know they don't have a fix for that. They do not. Just like bariatric surgery, people lose the weight. They gain it back. They know this. They know that when people take medications, they will gain that weight back again. They do not have a fix for that.
Starting point is 00:24:45 So this is the fix. You have the medication. We got the method, right? So why weight loss and maintenance are equally important. I know you're nodding both of you. What do you guys want to say about that? Well, I was just going to say, I think that this comes, you know, potentially with that struggle with a little bit of the stigma that people feel around weight loss medication.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Like, I didn't earn this. I didn't do the work. You know, you hear that from people that have had surgeries too. Yeah. And thinking that it's just a quick fix. But it's actually just another tool. It's not a quick fix unless you treat it that way. And if you treat it like a quick fix and you don't do the work and you don't do anything else,
Starting point is 00:25:22 it is going to be just that. And I think that's the case with anything. But if this is another tool that because of your, you know, your doctor knows you best, they know what you've got, what you're up against when it comes to your health. They are what you're up against in terms of other barriers that you have to losing weight. So if they think that this is a tool that could help you on this journey, why not throw it in your toolbox if you want to and you feel like that's your thing. But don't feel, don't feel ways about it because you think, think about what you really need and
Starting point is 00:25:53 what you really want. Don't feel ways about it because you feel like you're, like you're letting yourself down if you do this as an sign of weakness to take a medication. Medications are there for a reason. They were invented to help people and some people need help. So, you know, it's all about taking help when you need it. I think we could all use a lesson on that. Yeah, I love that.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Another tool in the toolbox. Yeah. And I think for sustainability and maintainability that the medication is not the easy way out, right? It can, it definitely is not that. And like to Kim's point, there has been so much stigma. Oh, like you, I still hear it. Like, oh, she's on the Zempi or, oh, she's on this or she's on that. Like, it doesn't matter what people are on or not on.
Starting point is 00:26:35 If it's working for them and they are having a complementary method to help them, then I think that the medication is something like Kim said, don't feel like it's a stigma, it's there for you. There are medications that can help, but it's not the, it's not the, it's not the only thing that that is going to work. You do have to put that effort into learning about yourself, changing your belief system, trusting yourself, allowing yourself to feel worthy.
Starting point is 00:27:06 You know, I think if people are on this weight loss medication, they don't feel worthy, not because they're on it, but they don't feel like, like Kim said, they haven't put the work in. Oh, I'm not worthy to maintain my weight because I just use this pill to help me lose it. And that's not the case. You know, people are doing the work. They are, they are here using this complementary method. This method that actually works on its own. Yes. I would say almost the medication is the complement to the program. It is totally. Yeah. Yeah. Because the method teaches you so much more than just having that number on the scale go down. Yeah, I was going to do a post on this yesterday. You can lose weight and keep it off without any medications, right? And we know that the living
Starting point is 00:27:44 method works for that. And this is why we have a weight loss program. This is why we have a maintenance program because we know what people need to do to be able to maintain the system. I love that. Yes, weight loss medication is absolutely a compliment to that. It's kind of like when I was going through it and my doctor gave me antidepressants. It's like you can't, it's like you're drowning and someone's trying to teach you how to swim. You need a life wrap first and then you need to learn how to swim, right? Yeah. I just want to talk about it. Oh, sorry. I just wanted to throw. Jamangis through is a great comment in here. She said, if you had high blood pressure and a doctor suggested meds, wouldn't you take it? Yes. I still don't change my lifestyle to make sure along with the meds that my blood pressure
Starting point is 00:28:23 continued to be stabilized. That's it, right? Yes. Well, that you have like that you have metformance for people who are in pre-diabetic and normal range that your doctor is prescribed. for you, but we also know that people go from pre-diabetic into normal range without any medication when following the living method. So something like your medication can help you while you are making the lifestyle changes, right? And this is no different. Weight loss medication is not, I mean, GLP-1s is, they're not a diet. They're not a diet. It's not the, it's not, it's not, it's not a weight loss method. It's medication to help you while you are losing weight. I just saw something the other day. I reposted it about how governments need to intervene when now they're making this
Starting point is 00:29:07 medication so accessible to everybody. They need to offer a program like ours to help people because it's so necessary to make sure you're not just eating less, but you're you are trying to be healthy, everything we're doing. Anyway, enough of that. I want to talk about logistics. So if you have signed up previously to our pay one price membership that includes our facebook support group within that you can do as many live sessions of the maintenance program as you need that doesn't change our new maintenance program with our app you can sign up for through our membership so there is a cost to that right there's a benefit to that right those people who signed up for a pay one price you'll have ongoing access to that that facebook support group for as long as you need but it doesn't include the app now
Starting point is 00:29:54 you can also choose to use our app in freemium mode. So it doesn't have content access to anything of that, but you can use basic tracking. So we'll go over more of those logistics. If you have any questions, just reach out and let us know. Anything else I miss? Before we go, Odette, what do you want to say? Yeah, I just saw a question come in from Collette about,
Starting point is 00:30:13 I have more weight to lose is the maintenance membership part of the 91 day program. So what I want to say is so important. If you have weight to lose, please be super intentional with trying to lose your weight. I think we have this, we have, we have this place where members are like, oh, I still have 10 pounds to lose, but I'm just going to do maintenance. I don't want to be super clear that the maintenance program, the maintenance group is maintenance conversations. It's maintenance focused. And I, and I don't want members to be in this gray area of trying to lose, but wanting to be in maintenance. No, be super intentional. Get to that weight, that goal weight that you've said to yourself
Starting point is 00:30:49 or get to that weight that you want to be at before coming to the maintenance program. Don't be in that wishy-washy place. Be super intentional with losing weight or be super intentional with maintaining the weight that you're at. It can be, it's okay to be in the maintenance program just to have a roadmap, to see what we talk about, to see what goes on in there. That's okay. But if you still have weight to lose, be super intentional with losing that weight first.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Yeah. If you have access to the Facebook support group, we can be in two support groups at once. But yeah, it's not fair to be having a weight loss conversation in the maintenance program. People who are in maintenance really want to move on and switch their mindset over into maintenance. So we don't discuss weight loss in the maintenance program unless it's someone who's been in maintenance for a while and their weight has gone up. We talk about strategies to lower it back down. If you are on the membership or a subscription, you'll have an option after this program. So when you complete the 91 day current program, it'll ask you, do you want to go into the next weight loss program?
Starting point is 00:31:47 or do you want to go into maintenance? So you'll have an option within the app to choose which stream you want to go into. So you're either going to want to go into the weight loss, continue that journey and do another round of the weight loss live session or you can go into the maintenance and do the maintenance live session, which connects to the maintenance program. So that's all within the app if you're on our subscription service.
Starting point is 00:32:08 Yeah. There can be a gray area. Do not go into maintenance if you're still looking to lose weight. Do not do that. You can do another round of the weight loss program. and solidify your weight that way as well, right? You just got to continue upkeeping your habits. Always something to be learned with the tweaks.
Starting point is 00:32:25 It's the same tweaks that we do in maintenance. It's just geared towards maintenance. I guess we must go because my voice is gone. Yeah. Well, this would be much more serious of a conversation than I expected, but I think it's important. Yeah. People need it.
Starting point is 00:32:42 It's okay. We'll get to maintenance and have one last time with that music. I went from pre-diabetic to normal in my first round without meds. It's never gone back to that level. Again, last week was the first ever back to that level. Last week was the first time ever at a 31 blood test. Everything came back green. No reds.
Starting point is 00:33:00 I was so happy to see that. This method works for so many things in our lives. Well, that's a great note. Let's end on that. Ladies, it's been an absolute pleasure. Tomorrow is my last live. I know we have a two-week break, but I'm already looking forward to our future conversations.
Starting point is 00:33:14 Last word, Kim, for our members in weight loss. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for putting your faith in us and in the program. And thank you for giving us a reason to show up every day and get to do what we do here. And we really love it. Like our team loves being here. We love being here.
Starting point is 00:33:37 So we appreciate you guys for hanging out with us for this group. Yeah. Odette? I mean, I should say a lot of people say, well, if so many people lose their weight, where are they all? We get that a lot. Why aren't there more people talking about maintenance? Well, they do. They're just over in the maintenance group. Yeah. 10,000 of them in there. Yeah. I think my last words is see you soon because everybody can reach their goal. Everybody can get to maintenance. So we will see you soon. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, everyone. Have a great rest of your day. Thanks for joining us live. All your questions, comments, or if you're listening afterwards, we appreciate. you. All right. See tomorrow. Bye, everyone. Thanks, nice.

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