The Livy Method Podcast - Weight Loss, Food Noise & GLP-1s

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

In this honest and inspiring conversation, Gina Livy sits down with Livy Community member Kellie Sweeney to talk about what happens when life gets in the way of weight loss. After successfully losing weight, Kellie shares how family health challenges, personal stress, surgery, and emotional eating led to weight regain, and how she found her way forward with self-compassion, therapy, and a renewed focus on her health. Together, they explore food noise, stress, sustainable weight loss, maintenance, GLP-1 medications, and why lasting change is about so much more than the number on the scale. It's a candid conversation about resilience, rebuilding confidence, and finding the tools that help you keep moving forward.Where to Find Kellie:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_kellie.sweeney_This podcast aligns with July 28 of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026 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 JLP 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.

I'm so excited to get into this conversation today. We're going to talk about losing and gaining your weight, all the feels with that, why it happens. How is the living method different? Kelly Swinney's joining me today. So she's been with us. We were just talking behind the scenes. I asked you when your first program was with us. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like a better. So my first official program was January, 2023, but I had done one on my own with the book in fall 2022 because I missed the sign up for the fall. one. Yeah. I, you know, I feel like you, well, because I follow you on social media. So Kelly very freely, and honestly, shares her journey. A lot of our members do. In fact, if you're not connected with any of our members, we have our Living Method community Instagram account, which is all like reposting

shares from our members. And so it's a great way to connect with other members who are on maybe a similar journey. I just find like talking to real people is like the most inspiring. Like, I know I host this thing and I created the living method itself, but, you know, it's one thing to have me sit up here every day and talk. I think it's a whole other to hear from our real members. Where do we start with this journey? Because you had lost weight, you know, you have an history of fighting. You had lost been successful losing weight before. You had lost a good chunk of weight before you even found us.

You reached your goal and then you've gained weight back. So where should we start this conversation? I have a timeline for you. It took a whole minute. It's easy. Okay. So when I had started the living method in 2022, I had already lost about 50 pounds. Yeah.

And that was the point when I just couldn't get past it. It was up down, up down, up down. And my stepmom, Sue had been very successful in your program already for a couple years. Yes. And you know, you're always skeptical and whatnot. So finally, I was like, I'll just do it. It was so different. from the get-go and I started losing weight from the get-go and I've always known well enough in

nutrition and exercise but it was just different. So I had met my goal in the winter 2020. I surpassed my goal in that program. Okay. That was wonderful. That summer was great and then in the fall of 2023 is when my dad started getting sick. I shouldn't say sick, but his mobility really declined. He was having some issues. He ended up with a walker who could barely walk. And we didn't know why. And there was a lot of medical stuff going on there. And then in 2024, just life, like I had two kids in school. I have two kids in sports. I work full time. My dad's health was up and down. We were back and forth to appointments and I just I followed your program to a T but I never dealt with my crap and then I was a type A I would say now I'm a little bit of a type C whatever that may be because my life circumstances

changed and then by the end of 2024 I think that's the year that you did the men upon a show is that right yeah so I came to that and my weight and started creeping back up then And I knew it, but it was like I turned a blind eye to it. Yeah. And then 2025 was like the most insane year. Again, heavy in sports, working full time. But spring is really when it had happened. My dad got sick again.

I'm going to backtrack there. Easter, my son had an emergency appendectomy. He's seven, or he was seven at the time. And my husband just got promoted. He was traveling for work. Harrison was recovering from surgery. I was home, and then Sue called me and said your dad's in the hospital. And he was there for two weeks.

He couldn't see. His mobility was insane. So just stress through the roof. I had my first panic attack that day. I called my husband, who was in Alberta. And I was like, I couldn't breathe. So that was April. A couple weeks later, I had had a procedure back in March because I had a procedure.

very low iron. I had a neuter in ablation, which I shared very publicly. Life-changing, by the way. Highly recommend. They did a biopsy when they were in there, which I didn't know about. And they called me in April, and she said, you have pre-cancerous cells. Oh. And I, on top of all of this, I just didn't know how to process it. And at the time, I was 37 years old. Um, yeah, it's different. I had two options. I could go on a pretty aggressive medication, which is ultimately what they used to create uterine cancer, and one of the huge side effects was weight gain.

They actually used medication to treat anorexia. And I had spent years struggling in my brain with weight gain, and I can't go on this medication that isn't going to guarantee me a positive outcome. So I had to make a decision. Do I do that, or do I have a hysterectomy at 37? yeah because because you have thought of your weight for so long such a big of your life and now your face of like health yeah and life yeah and now they're suggesting a medication that's actually going to cause yeah to counterproduct everything

I just did yeah with no guarantee and that was a thing for me was it going to guarantee me success and no cancer at the end and she said no but my my brain couldn't make a decision at that moment because it was so major and I had all this other stuff that I was focusing on. I couldn't choose. And ultimately it was actually one of my patients. His wife asked for me to run cancer that made my decision for me. He told me her story. And in that day, I said, yep, it's got to go. So when I called my doctor, I was like, okay, my ablation, it was about a year wait. So this will happen in like a year. And she's like, no, we can do it in three months. I'm like, Oh, okay, you mean business.

So we booked it for 8 October, sorry. And then I took two months off of work. Prior to my hysterectomy, I think I was in a good mindset. I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to be strangling into that surgery. And I was really focused. Surgery happened. Your body, you can't move it like you want to.

You get into a bit of a slump. And I walked when I could, but winter was so cold. I couldn't walk at any point. I don't have met here. So I went back to work just after Christmas. And that first week in January is when my dad had spinal surgery. And that was, he's the favorite person. And watching him go through that was really, really hard.

I'm trying to be strong for him, running on no sleep. Back to the hospital. His care was pretty negligent, which is a whole other issue. but he's fine now and he's so wonderful now. Those few months were tough, tough. And that's when everything started to come back up. I just let it go. Yeah, well, you kind of keep it together for so long.

And I think, okay, so I think it's so important, this is why I wanted to share her backstory. Listen, people are like, you're not alone. I had a history of five years ago during the type of cancer cells. Like, when we talk about losing weight and gaining weight back, right? I think there's a difference between you starve yourself to lose weight, the body's inclined to store it all that, versus you really put in the effort in to lose weight in a healthy way physically and mentally. And then your world gets wrong. Right?

Your world gets rocked and things start to fall apart. You're not sleeping. You're stressing. Your routine is completely off. You have to prioritize other people in front of your own. needs and that is where it just all starts to unravel and the weight can just go up and up and up and up so i think the backstory is really important because yeah do people gain weight back after they lose it yes for so many reasons and what makes the living method different or forget the living

method but the way people are going about losing weight this way is that you do have the tools and skills to catch on to oh okay my life is going off the rails i've got to do x y z get back on track to, you know, to prevent that week's day. Yours was clearly bigger than, it was just so much bigger than that. Yes. And I always participated in the programs from 2024 to 25, but it was so, for lack of a better word, half act. I was here, but I was doing some of the things,

but it was the snacking, it was the binging, it was the constant food noise, it was all that stress eating. Well, I wouldn't say half asked. I would say you were doing the best you could to hang on. Yeah. So, okay. I think we're having a bit of audio issues. I'm not going on with this, but I guess.

Let's talk about the feels that you had when you had already worked so hard and you knew you were gaining weight, but at the same time you were dealing with all this stuff. What does that feel? Like, what is that? How do you get through that? How do you keep showing up another day? Let's talk about that. So you had said, I haven't finished your life.

but I listened to the first part of it and you said something that really resonated with me and it was you never forget being in a larger body yeah I will always remember being that person and in my brain I am still that person well and it's weight sorry what was your highest weight uh 2 10 yeah no at all no I'm 5 at 2 yeah yeah so people see me when I started the living method already having lost like 50 pounds. So generally speaking now, people don't remember that, but I remember that. You know, and so in my brain, it's like, I know I'm gaining and I'm going to go back to that. And I don't want to go back to that, but my brain has no space to do anything different.

Yeah. Especially when you're under stress. Yeah. And in my job, too, my job is a very giving job. I have to be on all day. So there is no reprieve in my day. Right. You are dental hygienist?

Yes. Yeah. Okay. So you went through, you have been successful losing weight, we're into eating healthy, exercising, doing all of the things. Life just sidetracked you. You found you had gained weight back. How much did you gain back over that successful weight?

So I had lost, I think, 20 pounds. successfully on the program, just over 23 or something. I actually gained 32 back. Wow. Rapidly, too, from like January to April. How old are you? 38 this year. 38.

So you could be starting like pre menopause too. Could be. And they, you know, they said I kept my ovaries so they're like, you won't go into it. But I'm not convinced. It can do like a meditation. Yeah. Okay. So you signed up for what, the spring program?

you're thinking about doing the spring program, how can you even stomach that? I started gaining weight again. So I've always had problems with carpal tunnel and pain in my hands. And I have learned through gaining and losing, gaining and losing, that my body does not like getting to a certain weight

or a certain size. I get a lot of inflammation. My hands were getting numb, literally from my hand up to my arm. It was affecting me at my work. And I let this go, for a couple months and I'm like something has got to change because I was contemplating cutting back my hours which were not in a position for me to do right now and being in pain

every day is not what I wanted yeah so your confidence just tanks too so it really wasn't about your wave it was more about how you were feeling in your body okay so you're thinking about starting the spring program, what's going through your mind? Are you gearing up? Are you just thinking like, oh, God. Like, how did you approach it differently this point? I think you get to a point where people refer to it as rock bottom, so to speak, I allowed myself to do the things I knew I shouldn't do for a lot of time. And it was now affecting me physically and mentally. And so you do get to a point where you're sick of your own shit. Because, and the reason why I think it's so great to have you on it's because I think there's

so many women and I meet them all the time. And I know I've shared this where I meet them. They're like, oh, you know, I did this program and I lost all this way. And then, you know, this time I don't know what's wrong with me. I need to kick me ass. And I'm always like, no, you don't. What's going on in your life? Or some women who have lost the way, they did the work.

And that doesn't go away, right? You still did the big work, the mindful. stuff, right? You still did the self-aware. You still lost the way and healthy way. You have the tools and the skills. But something's happened. You gave this way back. And then just the thought of having to do it again is like, I think that's the hard part. Like it's kind of like every time you get knocked back in line, if you have to keep throwing up.

How is it different than just you start yourself and then you lost your weight? How is that different? Is there any way you can frame that for people? I was never one to starve myself, to be honest. It's hard to say how to describe this. I was more of a binger and a stress eater. So starving myself was never a thing. I did try intermittent fasting for a little bit, but that was like two meals a day.

So I was not a starver. I never tried to. So the binge eating, if you think that's why. that led into the stress that been eating? Did you notice those patterns and habits? Yeah, that's my coping. That was my coping mechanism as a kid. That's my coping mechanism now. And when I was a late teen, early adult, it was drinking. And that went hand in hand with food. Yeah. Right. So at what point did you become really aware of that? Starting your program, actually. Yeah. Yeah. And do you do, do a therapist? Like, how do you manage that?

Yeah. That's a good question. I do now. I do now. Also, thanks to your program, it's never something I thought I would do. And I have met a really wonderful fit, and therapy has been life-changing. But also, I think that, it brings your feels forward. Which for somebody who struggles with that, it almost is harder before it gets better. Yeah, because you're a veteran weight loss, right? You've been successful. You know how to lose weight.

And so what do you think? So I have a woman here who just started the program. We love all of our new members. It's such an interesting contest, right? Where she's like, I've been following the new method for a week and I haven't lost any weight yet. A week. Oh, my God. Right?

So when you're excited, but we understand these feelings that you're not when they first start. They get excited. We all want to be ramped up and jacked up and excited about our journey. But then if you, if someone was to say to you, okay, Kelly, when you first started, like, this is going to be your first started. like this is going to be your journey when I have signed up for it. I don't know, but this is my life and it is what it is. Okay, I want to get into talking about gLP ones because you're very upfront sharing that you just started taking a gLP one. Were you nervous?

So many people follow you. You do the fitness. You do the lifestyle stuff. Can you just talk about your experience there? Because so many people are either taking them, contemplating, thinking about taking them, not into them at all, which of course the living method has always worked for sustainable weight loss. So you recently started one. What was what happened there? Like this is actually the first time. Sorry? Yeah, I want to hear all about it. This is the first time I'm publicly

sharing it. I was nervous to share it. I'm having my own stigma around it. I was talking to my husband about this last night. A few years ago, I had an opinion on them. I also didn't know about them. I didn't know much about them. And since I started gaining weight, and especially once I got pain in my arms, what was your opinion on them? Previously, I had a negative opinion on them. It was the easy way out. Yeah. Same because they're not new, they're not new, they've been around for a while. There's this genie's been around. But before that, there had been other appetite suppressing, state loss medications that caused them all the damage. Yes. people, right? And then they've since been banned and my thing with them, it's like if you are

taking medication to manage your diabetes, you want to raise weight and make changes in your helping wellness. You have to still do all the work. So what medication helps, I'm going to ask you what it helps you with, but it doesn't help. No, I'm going to ask you, what does the medication help you with? So my initial desire to go on it was because my life is chaos right now. I have a lot of stress and I don't have a lot of brain space to make decisions. And I have decision fatigue, basically, and I have a lot of food noise. And I know for some people who don't experience that like my husband, they don't get it. Also, it was my hands, my pain in my hands. I know GLP1s have anti-chemical properties. I've done a lot of research before starting it. I talked to

my doctor, my naturopics. It wasn't a rash decision. So ultimately, it was the anti-unctory family property's and then I thought to myself there was a negativity around it from my own perspective of this is the easy way out what are people going to think I'm not in a large body I've gained weight but I'm not in a large body I was worried about judgment fast forward I've been on it since April it is life changing like you say it's why you lost the weight or would it be all of the other work that you've done. I think it's combined. It is definitely combined. I am a believer that you should take a GLP1. You have to have a program and structure and you

have to do it the right way. Yeah, let's talk about food noise. Was there ever, did your food noise get better? Like when you have lost the weight and you were maintaining that, did your food noise get better? Was it, did it come back because of these stress in your life? Let's talk. So let's just kind of like talk that out a little bit. I would say when I was successful on your program the first time, I didn't have much in my life going on. And so, yes, the food noise did quite a bit. But the capacity now that I have is very limited to what it was then. And so stress came back with a vengeance. And when you heard my year, it was insane. And it was just my coping

mechanism. And then you get in a rut. And food noise has always been a thing for me, even as a kid. And a lot of time, it's like a closet thing. Like my husband last night was like, I didn't know you struggled that much. I'm like, because I didn't show it to you. I hit it. But food noise for me was constantly like, what's my next snack? Am I going to eat it? I had a cookie.

Did I have enough? Should I have had that? I shouldn't have eaten that. You shouldn't have had that. My kids want ice cream. Oh, no, I shouldn't have the ice cream. We'll have the ice cream with your kids. You know, like it's in my brain.

And it wasn't until I started a GLP. one, I'm not, I'm not kidding you, it was maybe two or three days in. I was like, my brain is free. Yeah. Yeah. So I just want to point out that you can have lost your weight and still be dealing with food noise. So it's not, the weight loss doesn't go hand in hand with the loss of the food No. They are, they're separate things. Does it get easier when you lose the weight and you're eating well? Yes, but life circumstances makes it harder. Yeah. And it's hard. You absolutely can address and work on. So food noise is like basically how your brain has become wired in and around food thoughts and patterns. You absolutely, your brain is meant to change, neural class density, but it takes a lot

work and we don't have the capacity you just we don't have nothing left for working on that has taken a JLP one helped you be able to spend time on that mental part of things and the food noise itself and how do you and if so how do you do that

100% it has quieted it like I am not thinking about what I'm going to eat next I can actually focus on mindful eating and eating the foods that I know will get me to my goals and the best way I can just it is like, say you go to a restaurant and you get a big bowl of pasta and it's delicious and you

spent 50 bucks on this plate, I can have half, a quarter, a third, whatever I want and I can say no to the rest. Before, I wouldn't be able to do that. I would have to eat the whole bowl. And so now I have the ability to say no. Because you physically aren't hungry for it or because you don't have that same kind of should I have it for that they not have it. Well, I want to just read how in here. I didn't have a PL1 for about two years. First of all, you should go back in and read the comments because I, listen, the diet industry has changed so much.

You know, I've always helped people with medical assistance, for example, bariatric surgery. I've had many clients who have had bariatric surgery over the years. Same thing. They limit what the amount they can eat. They end up using weight. but then they deal with all of the mental part and it doesn't help them get actually in tune with being able to trust and eat what you know how much food.

So I've always been about medical assistance. It's just you still have to do the work. And it's for everybody, right? So Helen said, they've been on a GLP one for about two years and find that they do very little for me. As I don't have food noise or issues with portion sizes, my issues are around food choices, wine, restaurant eating, as well as not exercising enough,

lots of pain from spinal stenosis gets in the way of walks. And I just want to say, this is where it's different for everybody, right? Like, we had a member who said, it didn't do anything for me because I don't eat because I'm hungry. I eat to manage my emotions. I'm a stress eater. So what's your thoughts? You hear people talking about taking JLP ones.

Do you have any friends or anyone we know? I do have a couple friends. A lot of my patients, too. I confided patients. And there are many different types of GLP ones now, and I have learned through some research and whatnot. Maybe the one people are taking isn't the right one for you. Sometimes that's the case.

But also, because I had a good foundation of the living method, I had a good food eating structure to start with. And I knew what I wanted to do, and it allowed me to focus on this structure that I wanted to follow to meet my physical goals. Yeah, I just, I'm sorry. I'm just kind of, it's really interesting to see all the comments about this because I think, I think people want to know that they can lose weight without we have lost medications. You can.

I did. And you're, your proof of that. And so is your plan to, what's your plan now? Yeah, so this is a really good question because I mentally struggled with this with my own insecurities going into it. And I was like, people are going to think this is the easy way out. I think this is the easy way. layout. Now that I'm on it and I've had this experience, I feel differently. But it is a tool in your real house. It can't, I shouldn't say, it can be a tool if you use it properly.

I, so the typical protocol, I'm taking Zep bound for context. Normally you start at the base dose, which is two and a half, and you go up to five milligrams at the four week mark. And you go up as needed. I didn't want to go up in dosage. I wanted to stay at the lower dose. One, because I lift heavy weights. I want to still feel hunger. I don't want to be suppressed so much

that I don't want to eat. It's not that I don't want to feel hunger. It's that it allows my brain to make the choices that I need. I still want to fuel my body properly. I do believe many people go on in GL3-1. I don't want to say with the wrong

intentions but they don't have a plan. They go into it and they just eat less of the junk that they were eating and then you're leaving your muscle mass and that's not what you want and that's not what I want. You know it's interesting Happy just mentioned the cost of

GL1 is prohibitive for me and listen this is not a promotion to the LP1 this is a very real conversation I want to ask you what would you have done if JLP1 wasn't an option and you believe you still would have been able to lose the weight. Maybe not as quickly, but what would you have done?

Great question. I think in my mind, I was already ready to do the work because I had had enough of my crap. So I was going to do it regardless. I think just it would have been harder. I know my life is not going to get easier in the next few years. My little guy will start aggressive sports, you know, in a year or two. My job is very busy. My schedule is insane. My husband's up for a promotion. in school. I have a puppy. It's a lot. And that's not going to calm down. And for me, this is simply a tool to make this journey easier for me because I have had enough stress in the last couple of years that I just need some calm. Yeah. I mean some calm. I hear you. And what about your thoughts about getting off? Because I hear people saying, you know, what about coming off? I mean,

this is what the media is about sustainable life-filled changes that you'll give you a chance to come off these medications. The problem is what I've learned from conferences I've gone through in the conversation. We've had some great conversations with obesity medicine. By the way, Dr. Sean Wharton is saying they're saving the app if you want to listen to them is that typically what happens, people take the weight loss medication. It can help with food noise, it can help it out the type, but they don't actually change anything. They just eat less of what they were eating before. So that's why it's so difficult when someone comes off it, they will gain weight back because they literally go right back.

to old habit. So what's your thought process? I might not even be close to being there yet. No. You have a conversation about gaining it all that when you get off. My challenge was I never solidified my weight for a long period of time. And so I believe that, again, the living method is a really phenomenal platform and a structure. And if you can follow that and build those habits, and a GLP one, because,

because it can calm your brain and allow you to focus, I now know the portions that my body needs. And so if I can follow this structure for long enough to allow my brain to meet my body, then I would be able to get off of it. Does that make sense? To me it does, because what we're doing here is your body has come to function in a certain way.

It believes it needs to still a certain amount of that, hence your set point. Even around the set point to maintain that way, your hormones have adjusted around certain sizes of portions. Your brain has been wired to think a certain way around food. Like my brain has been wired around worry because things have happened in my life that the food drops, it causes stress. So I've created this loop in my brain about worries.

So you take people who spend years dieting or have food waste issues, you know, food scarcity issues from being raised. So food noise can start at a very young age and then just deepening those connections. So this gives you a chance to kind of rewire those connections. Give your body time to adjust to the way that you've lost and give your brain time to rewire or to and your relationship with food to improve. Your brain should be longer. Yes.

Yes. So it makes total sense to me. Makes total sense to me. Talk about side effects. people are asking about side effects. I didn't have much, but I also did a lot of research going into it. It wasn't blind. The first couple days, a little bit of nausea as my body adjusted maybe for four weeks or so.

Now I have no symptoms. Again, I am on a low dose. I'm on the lowest dose possible because I wanted to be on the lowest dose possible. The goal is to stay on the lowest dose possible while still losing and mitigate side effects. Yes. I have heard from my patients, however, that maybe Wigobi versus that bound cause different side effects, too. So sometimes it depends what you're taking. But for me personally, I really haven't had many.

It's been a good experience. What's your doctor say about your weight journey? Because, you know, what typically happens is people get insidivis of a low dose and very quickly have to increase that dose to weight off. So what, to be able to really stay at the same dose and the lowest, does and still be able to lose is quite an extraordinary. I have a very unicorn doctor. She is phenomenal. She listens.

She advocates. And I kind of went to her with all my problems. I did my due diligence. I had x-rays. I did all the stuff to check that, make sure that my pain in my arms wasn't something else. I had a DEXA scan when I first started because I wanted to check my muscle mass and my body fat.

I didn't want to lose the wrong tissue. But no, she is very supportive. And then at one point, she's like, do you want to go up to the five milligrams? It's time. And I said, nope, I would like to stay at this. And she said, okay. I think you have to really push with your doctor and you have to advocate for your doctor. But my doctor is very current with her knowledge and her training.

And that really helps. So, you know, we don't count the way a measure around here, but if people want to do that, they absolutely can. Are you concerned about the protein? Because that was a big conversation with JLP1s. Obviously, though, people, again, not worrying about what they were eating, just eating less. And then the concern of that rapid loss and muscle loss. Would you consider your weight loss rapid, though? Like, I mean, I guess it seems rapid, but it also came on rapid.

Yeah. So, yes, I know, but it's also been in a healthy way. Yeah. Like, I'm not starving. I eat. Well, now we're personalizing so I eat at least four times a day if not more. I have protein

at every meal. I am not starving. You know, it's interesting because you think about personalizing the plan and this is it right? Just because you're not hungry all day doesn't mean that your body when you're doing high doses you can really not be hungry all day doesn't mean that your body doesn't still need the food. So the personalizing the plan built in guardrails on that, right? like you're not very too long without eating.

And because I don't, I lift weights. I want to preserve my muscle. Yeah. That's what I said to her. I said, I want to feel hunger. And even in the days I don't, I can go six hours and not be hungry some days. In other days, I can still be starving.

But I make sure that I do still eat. A GLP1 is not a pass to skip your meals. This is really interesting because you're on that lower dose, you are still feeling hungry. So it will take the food noise away and helps with the appetite. And that gives you a minute to actually feel satisfied. Because you are doing all these other lifestyle changes, you are able to keep your dose lower.

Oh, it's interesting. Does it cost less money when the dose is lower? It does. It does go up per dose. Yeah. But also I didn't want to be on a high dose because once you get up to a higher dose, you have to titrate down too. Yeah.

Yes. And so if two and a half milligrams wasn't working for me, perhaps I would have gone up, but it was working for me and that was okay. Yeah, what's happening is people are hitting a certain point and then people are suggesting to go down the dose and actually gain weight back again

and then go back to losing it. It's not, they really don't have a fix for being able to maintain and sustaining away at this point. They're hoping to figure that out. Yeah. I want to take this comment from more out. Loving the conversation, Kelly, I found this from the beginning and admire how you speak the truth of life challenges and where you are. I'm glad I came on today because of this conversation really resonates with me.

I'm not involved in the living method for a long time. Not always giving it my all. However, life happens. Menopause is a bitch. And I'm not alone in my journey and happy to be here. Yeah, you really got to go. I think this would really open the door. I want the living method to be a safe place for anyone.

I think weight loss medications can be a game changer. I also know you don't have to take weight loss medication to be successful when it comes to losing their weight. And everybody's, everybody is different in terms of what they need. And we want to be able to have these really honest conversations. Yeah, it's, it's been life-changing. And I don't think it's forever, but it is for right now. Life-changing. Well, even me, when I was able to, I lost, you know, over 100 pounds.

People know that. And I've been able to maintain it and sustain it for over 30 years. there was that period of my time in my life where my kid's dad was sick and died. I had a kid with severe mental health issues and addiction issues. I was dealing with the stress of a business and although successful, yes, I'd never had that kind of responsibility or experience doing that before. And then I went through menopause. And at the time, like when I was going through menopause, no one was having the menopause

conversation. That came kind of at the tail end of my menopause journey and my way went up and up. And, you know, I was sleeping night sweats, heart palpitations, thought I was having a heart attack. My doctor prescribed an antidepressant. And then I was like, okay, let me, because that was the only thing available to me was like, let me start going for walks. Let's start saying no to things. Let's start making some heart. It was not easy.

I had to make some serious life changes. So it took about two years for my weight to come back down. And then it wasn't until like I had been through that that my doctor's like, Oh, how's mynipods going? Here, do you want all the hormone stuff? Right. But if it had been available to me, I would have been like, girl, give me everything you got. Like, it is okay to make it easier on yourself.

Woo! You had a chat. I think it was Jeanette Ewan, is that right? Yeah, yeah. And she said something. She goes, Disordered eating doesn't have a size. So people can look at me and be like, why is she taking it? Why is she on it?

But because I'm in a smaller body now, it doesn't mean I still don't have disorder eating. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I love that so much. Okay, before you go, before you have questions. Okay. How off you?

So, first of all, thank you for having this conversation. I love catching up with you. You too. It's always inspired me. You get up every day. You just keep going no matter what life throws at you. I adore you for that. I want to ask, what are you for workouts every day?

How much time do you spend on working? Now, what's your workout routine in a nutshell? Good question. So I used to put a lot of pressure on myself to work out four to five times a week. And by that, I mean resistance weightlifting. That's a lot in your body. I have come to the realization and conclusion that I can't do that right now. So my goal is two to four, ideally three weightlifting, half an hour in out.

Half an hour. Yeah. I walk on my lunch when I can. I really need to do more cardio. that is my goal is to incorporate some more spins. We have a Palatine bike as well. But 30 minutes a day. I don't have much more time to give than that.

Okay, what about stress? What do you do from hands in your stress? I'd try to exercise. Walk. Workout is probably my biggest stress relief, to be honest. Okay. Usually at the end of the night, we chill. Andrew and I watch a show.

We generally don't even talk because both of us are talked out from the day. but we do take that piece. I do go to therapy as well, and that helps get it out. What about supplements? Do you drink protein shakes, take collagen, any supplements that you take? So when I did the living method back in 2023, I took all the supplements. Honestly, now my blood work is perfect.

Even my vitamin D, so I take creatine and protein shake, and that is it. Oh, that's a lie. I take magnesium as well. Okay. All right. Great. What would you say to someone who just started this week? This week. Oh, give yourself so much grace. So much grace. Like, it takes time. Time, time, time. Yeah. And the scale is going to be a bitch. And you're going to want to throw it out the window. But truly, when you can hone in on why it's changing and what it's doing. and if you can reflect back, it really can be used as a tool.

Yeah, love that. Do you journal or anything? I have tried. I just don't have the time right now, so no. Even in your, the app, this program, I have been trying to let go of perfectionism. And so I can do the things, but now I don't need to check those boxes off. And I probably would thank the GLP one for that because it was like, okay, I ate my breakfast. I got to go check it in the app.

Now it's like, I'm a tear. I ate my breakfast. Your Instagram account, I don't know, Tony, did you have Kelly's handle you can put up. Your Instagram account is kind of like a journal. It's at underscore call it. If you want to follow her, that's kind of like a journal. Yeah, it's my live video blog for those who want to see the chaos of my life. I want to talk about personalizing the plan last thing before we go, because you've done this before.

You've lost the weight without medications. You've gone through the summer, personalizing the plan. And you've been successful at losing weight in the summer. What is your tips for people personalizing the plan this summer and for the rest of the summer to try to get and keep that scale moving? Hydration is huge, especially in the humid weather that we've been having. Electrolites, if you need it. Just remember your goals.

Like, really, it comes down to what you want. And if you want the ice cream with your kid, because it's wonderful when you go there once a month or never at all, have it, but you have to be okay with knowing how you're going to feel later. And it's okay to choose either or it's okay to have it. It's okay to not have it. It's okay to say no in crowds. Oh, it's okay to say no in crowds. Yeah, that comes with that self-confidence. Yeah, and I do believe just my life circumstances that have happened, I think it was my surgery, to be honest. I've come back with a new perspective, a lot more boundary setting, a lot more saying no in my life, at work, just being able to say no.

Yeah, that was a big one for me too. I have a comment from Lynette here. My physician has urged me to go on a GL2 one for more than a year explaining it is not my fault and obesity is an illness and it's okay if I can't do it completely on my own. I've been on diets all my life and this is pretty near and dear. my heart. You're such a rock star and a whole vibe tell you. Thank you for this conversation. And then Jennifer's like, I just started four weeks ago. I've resisted to. I'm Braden. Sorry. By no means is this an endorsement for weight loss. But I think the reality is, thank goodness they are available for people who need it. And we do want to have open the honest

conversation. And I think if you're listening to this conversation today and you're like, well, I have to pick a PLP1 in order to be successful. You've missed the conversation. Because because that's not it. But I do want to provide a safe place for people to have this conversation. You know, we've had great conversations, like I said, with Dr. John Wharton, Sandy Van. They are some of the best obesity medicine specialists

in all of Canada. Those conversations, if you're interested, are stored in the guides. We do not sell weight loss medications. The living method has existed for 30 years helping people lose weight without them. But if you are taking them, we do want to be a place

where you can ask questions and have this conversation. I wouldn't want to say to our members free, go, Kelly, because I know we all love and adore you. Gosh, your members are phenomenal. I chat with so many of you on social media. I don't have as much time to put into it now. So, honestly, this community is probably one of the best I've ever encountered. It is so positive.

It is so supportive. And we are just real people. I do have some circumstances, and it freaks Andrew out where I bump into people. that have seen me on social media and they're like, oh my God, and I'm like, I don't know what to do. But we're just real people trying to live healthy and thank you all for your support because this, I really battled with sharing this part of my journey. But I talked to the girls in my squad last week about it and it just like blew up. And I was like, okay, I got to share it. Well, you know, I really feel like you have truly, I think people don't even realize how incredible our community is.

And it's not about, it's this positive place. We want to have, one of the things I want to work on for fall is like, let's open up discussions. Like, like, where are we at all these things? It's, okay, we know what we need to do is, we'll focus on that. I mean, who needs to stay a way. But let's have this in a place where we can actually have these discussions. I want to have the conversations that no one is having and not be afraid to have those. conversation.

The hard stuff. Yeah, the hard stuff. You get there. Just follow the method, follow the program. Therapy. I'm like you on that. Kelly Sweeney, thank you.

You know, I adore you. Please come back on. You know. Yeah. Again, if you want to follow Kelly over on Instagram, it's underscore Kelly. That'sweeney underscore, or, that's Tony.

Tony's getting the look. Good job. Good job. Got it. Our production guy is off on holiday, Drew, this week. So Tony's filling in. But progress over perfection, babe. We love you.

Thanks, everyone joining us live. Again, everyone is welcome. You know, let's not be shy about sharing our rack. Kelly, I adore you. I appreciate your very honest and candid conversation today. You know, I'm here for you. So thank you so much. Thank you.

Bye, everyone.