The Livy Method Podcast - What "getting back at it" actually means.

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

You've done this before. You know it works. So why does getting back on track feel like starting over every single time?Today, Gina gets honest about the cycle of losing momentum, falling off and the guilt that follows. She breaks down why the goal was never just a number on the scale, why your relationship with food is more complicated than any meal plan can fix and what it actually takes to stop white-knuckling your way through and start showing up for yourself for real.From the truth about the scale going up after pizza (it's not what you think), to why GLP-1s won't do the work your mindset has to do, to the the one conversation nobody warned you you'd need to have with yourself.This episode aligns with day 50 of our Spring 2026 weight loss program. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm going to be honest with you, this podcast is unapologetically a hot mess because that is what midlife feels like sometimes. Why, though? And how do we make it better? Do we all just need facelifts and JLP ones? I mean, let's talk about it. No bullshit, no wellness wankery 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.

Starting the day off with some technical issues. Hello, I'm here. How are you? are you here? Are you here? That's the question I want to ask today. There seems to be a recurring theme in the group of people like, how do I, how do I get back into it? How do I get back at it? Especially those of you who've been with us for a while, you lost a huge chunk of weight and you're trying to follow through finish. Reach your goal. What is the goal? What is the goal, right? Is the goal the number or is the goal how you feel? Like at what point will you have a ride? And this is something

we're always talking about in the maintenance program, right? Because even when you've reached your goal, our maintenance members are showing up like they're trying to lose more weight and they're disappointed if they get on the scale and they haven't lost more weight, even though they're not trying to lose more weight. Because it's just how the brain is wired. If you've spent a considerable amount of time, always chasing the scale, you know, always trying to lose weight. It's hard to get out of that mode to go from someone trying to lose weight to someone just maintaining their weight to someone just living their life. And that's the big piece. It's not weight loss. It's doing it in a way that's going to get you to the just live your life part like I've been doing for 30 years.

And trusting when to eat, like really know when you're hungry versus trigger versus habit, what to eat. I need a steak. I need some fruit. Understanding how the foods I choose affect my body. maybe sometimes it's I need some wine and a margarita, right, and some putteen and some whatever. And then, of course, how much to eat? Know the exact moment when you've just had enough or know the exact moment when if you eat another bite, you are going to feel like you ate too much, but sometimes that's worth it. That's what this is about. And it's so fucking complicated because we use food for so many things, right, to celebrate, to show love, to bond. Oh, and also to survive, but also to cope at the same time. And your body has gotten used to functioning a

way, spend any time at all dieting and your body probably has amassed this excess energy reserve for all those times that it was starved and deprived as a weight loss method. So what do you actually need to do to reach your goal and move on with your life? You need to not give up, need to not give up, and you need to see it so much bigger than just eat less exercise more. It's so easy for that to be our default and revert back to that. But you have to keep moving forward. You have to understand where you are at and what you need at all times. There are times in your life or maybe times where you've done one of our 91 day sessions and everything just aligned and you lost a ton of weight and it felt easy, peasy. And then you've had times where it just feels like you're up against a wall or,

you know, just there's always something else. And so how do you get re-energized to follow through and finish. But this is not just weight loss. This is anything you're doing in your life. How do you keep going? How do you like recommit? Think about exercise though, right? Think about exercise. Exercise is, oh, you're on a good run. You feel fantastic. I went for a walk this morning. I just came back. I feel like a fucking rock star. Right. I keep that going for a couple weeks, some months. I feel amazing. Something happens in my life. I stop exercising. It happens all the time. Right. Then I start to feel slumpy and all my God and I got to get back at it and I get back at it and it's hard. then I get back to feeling really great again.

And the cycle repeats itself. It's the same fucking thing with your weight. It's the same thing. It's the same thing, right? That's what's going to happen. You're going to do the things that you need to do to lose your weight and then life is going to get in the way and challenge you. And there's going to be times of your stress or you just don't have time and things

are going to go on. And then you're going to make choices that make you not feel so great. And then you're going to be like, this sucks. Let me get back to feeling my best. And so it's ebb and flow. it's constant and it never stops. It's not like you arrive at one number and you stay there for the rest of your life, right? Now, you can arrive at that number, help your body adjust to your new weight. You've got to do our maintenance program. That's so important. So many people just blow off maintenance

when it's probably the most important. And trust me, there's a lot to learn in maintenance. You lose your weight. You reach your goal, right? So you start at your set point. You help your body focus on fat loss. And we've talked about this. We've talked about the difference between fat burning fat loss. we're going after fat loss, the difference between weight loss and fat loss, helping your body get rid of this fat that it felt like it needed to store. We do that. Give the body what it needs. No longer feels the need to store fat.

Help it release the fat. Create the environment for that. Focus on fat loss. When there's a million other things you need to focus on every day, right, help your body focus on fat loss. That's staying committed. That is showing up. That's understanding your role in helping your body focus on fat loss, right?

You lose your weight, hit a plateau, lose your weight, hit a plateau, lose your weight, hit a plateau, lose your weight, hit a plateau, lose your weight, reach your goal, goal weight, stay there. Help your body stay there. Put yourself on a self-imposed plateau to give your party time to make your new weight, your new set point. That's what you're doing. Then you have to move forward in life making choices that support that. You cannot go back into old habits. You just cannot. So you've got to make real change. You have to change who you are physically and how your body functions and you have to change who you are mentally. That is a lot. When you take how you've lived most of your life, you add a big chunk of time dieting, right? And now you've got to made these

changes in a healthy, sustainable way, but you have to make these changes your new norm. It takes time to rewire your body. It takes time to rewire your brain. You absolutely can do it. You can do this. you are meant to change. You can change physically, you can change mentally, and you can maintain that change. But you will be challenged. You will be tested. Right. It's so easy to fall back into our old habits. And then sometimes it's just exhausting. It's exhausting constantly showing up. So here's you've got to frame it. You got to frame this, right? Why are you showing up every day? Why are you continuing to do this? Because you don't want to give up on yourself because you know doing the things that you need to do to lose weight are the very things you need to do in order to feel your best, not just physically,

but also mentally. But you've got to have a why. Why? What's the purpose? You want to feel good? I want to feel good. I want to have fun and I want to live my best life. That's it. I want to enjoy the time that I have left here. I want to make the most of it, right? I definitely don't want to spend my time stressing out, feeling like I'm not good enough, carrying a bunch of gifts, and and shame and worrying about how I fucking look in my bathing soup for the rest of my fucking life. That's not it. If I felt good in my bathing suit, I wouldn't give a shit about how I look. The reality is, though I don't feel good when I'm drinking wine and I'm tired and I'm not moving my body and I'm making crappy food choices and I'm eating late at night and I'm not managing my

stress. I'm not trying to get better sleep. I'm just schlepping along, dragging my body with me, not feeling my best. So my why is I want to make the most of my life. I want to feel my healthiest. I want to live my best. I want to be active. I want to feel free. I want to feel calm. I want to feel confident in my body.

The one thing that I did not say was any number that I want to be, right? You have to make this resonant. You want to show up. You want to fall through. You are either going to be successful or you will not. That's it. And taking GLP1's weight loss medications, you guys see my check in yesterday when I talked about this, taking GLP1's weight loss medications because they're here to stay.

It does not mean you're going to be successful at doing that. It does not mean you're going to be successful at doing that. Weight loss medication can help. It can help with food noise, which can help with making the choices you need to make. It can help with your hunger levels. It can absolutely help with that. It does not help you work through issues and associations tied into food. How you utilize food.

We've heard from people taking GLP once. Didn't help me. I didn't eat because I was hungry. I ate because that's how I cope. And that's my relationship with food. you not only want to lose weight, but you want to be healthy, right? When you don't have an appetite for food, you won't have an appetite for life, right? You want to enjoy life and all the yummy bites and bits that come with it. So you've got to do the work. There was no way around

it. You just have to show up and you've got to do the work. But the work is helping you live your best life every single day. It's just how you're perceiving it. You're showing up every day, festering in your funk about the fucking scale and what the number is. You ain't going to You're not going to last. And you're just going to be miserable doing it. So focus on non-scale victories, right? What is happening? Focus on the choices that you're making. You're actually keeping your promise to yourself. You signed up for 91 days. If you know, think about the people who committed to 91 days and they're not here anymore. 91 fucking days. You signed up for this. 91 days. Why did you sign up? Because you know you need to do something. Those you keep coming back, you know the program works. So are you working the program? Are you working the

program. Where are you at right now? What do you need? And this is why we just got to pull up our big girl panties, you know, our big boy boxers, whatever they are and be like, okay, fuck, I got to do this for myself. No one's coming to save me. Here's what I got to do today. And that comes down to intentions. Right. What's your intention? Your intention is not a to do list. It's like, okay, I'm going to be in the moment. For me today, it was like, I'm going to be in the moment today. I am not going to worry because my brain is in this worry loop and I'm trying to rewire my brain. And when I noticed the worry, I'm going to switch and choose something else. Right. I got up this morning. I did not want to go for a walk. I did but didn't. I was like, oh, fuck. It's so nice outside. I could really just get up and go for a

walk. And I was like, oh, I could also just not go for a walk. I went for a walk. It felt fantastic. It felt great. By the time I got my walk in. I couldn't walk for the time that I wanted to, but I got it in, I feel amazing. Right. It's like being, if I'm in the moment, then I can better make choices that work best for me. And my day always goes so much better when I do that rather than the scramble through my day.

So, so this was a lot, what I just said. This was a lot. This was what it takes. This kind of like thought process, processing, constantly, like, give me something that's more important than you taking care of yourself, right? Give me something that's more important than trying to help your body. be as healthy as possible. Give me something more important than trying to work on your mindset and how you think and how you feel every day. Now, you could say, taking care of my parents right now.

Okay, but how do you take care of your parents? You need to stay strong. You need to stay strong physically. You need to stay strong mentally. Otherwise, you're just going to need someone to come along and take care of you. Right. Well, I have a lot going on right now. I have to focus on my kids. Okay, so you are a role model to your children, right? You have to, again, take care of yourself in order to take care of somebody else. Now, that can be your why. That can be your why that just happens to also get you to where you want to go with your weight loss goals, right? You're either going to follow through or you're not. That's it. You're either going to do it or you're not. But, you know, if you've spent 20 years of your life trying to lose this weight already, you have not failed. You are persistent. You just were told how to do it in all the wrong ways. No, I've never debated, California. calories in versus calories that works for weight loss. I'm not here to say it doesn't. I'm here to say it doesn't work for sustainable weight loss. And as you get older, it gets harder. And not only that, but it just adds to the problem because it reinforces the fact that your body needs more fat. Every time you do a deprivation diet, you put your body into a place where it has no choice.

But to utilize your stored fat, you just constantly teach it that you need that fat. So there's a big difference between fat loss and releasing the fat. Your body's always, sorry, sorry, burying. fat and your body releasing, right? So your body's constantly utilizing fat for fuel plus glycogen, right? Always. Always. You don't have to burn the fat. Your body's always using the fat. Helping your body realize it doesn't need this excess amount of fat is a completely different thing. Creating the environment for your body to release that fat is a completely different thing. Helping your body focus on fat loss, completely different thing. If you miss those, I would highly check those out this week. They definitely were.

on the nice to know list, but, you know, they're, they can be a game changer when it comes to need to know. Reading through these comments this morning reminds me that we are not alone in this. It's nice to hear the stories of success and struggle during the day rather than just my own. It is really nice to have community. I've never taken advantage of it during other programs, thanks to all those posts. Oh my gosh. I love this, Julie. This is a comment from the group today. If you are, I love that you are using our app. I love it. We created a living method app because that's how we're going to help, you know, millions of people around the world. We obviously can't fit everyone into the Facebook support group.

More and more people are just using the app. And I think that's incredible. Our app, the AI, all of the content, everything that you need is there. The tracking, the graphs, I love that. However, there is nothing like coming in and connecting with the community or just reading the comments. Even if you don't say one thing, knowing that you are not alone in your journey is game changer. It's a game changer. You'll hear someone say something that makes you believe something, right? Believe in yourself. You'll hear someone else struggling and be like, okay, I'm not alone.

Then you'll hear someone share tips on how to like deal with whatever it is that you're struggling. Community is everything. Community is everything. We know that when people do something with someone else, they are more successful. They are considerably more successful. This is why, and we also know journaling as well. So using the app or journaling or both and then being part of community is going to help you reach your goal. It's going to help you reach your goal. So I love hearing that and it's not too late. This is why we created our membership. Like you are working on your goals all the time.

Sometimes it's easier than others. These 91 day sessions are really community based. It's like guidance in real time. Our experts talking on specific things. Like I love our 91 day live sessions, right? This is what that is all about. We've got that baseline working towards your goals using the app, following along 24-7. And then we have these 91-day sessions.

It's a great opportunity to kind of get in on the energy of that, you know, super motivating. Hi, Stephanie. I haven't been following the program very well this round. To be honest, I think week three was the last week I was following the program. That's okay. You're here. You're here. You're here.

So to me, you're still here. You're following. This week is a new week, and I'm back. My question is, should I do back on track method or do I follow what is being done this week, eating dissatisfaction and splitting up my meals towards the end of the week? You could do either or if you're on our membership, right? You can pick up where you left off, keep going and continue following the program for as long as you need. Obviously, the live sessions end.

We stop posting and commenting and stuff in the group, but you still have access to all of that content in your app as well. So you can follow through. We also are going to be doing our summer club. So we're going to be offering our support group over the summer. and all of our content to keep you motivated over the summer. So there's that as well. But you can continue to just follow the 91 day program throughout if that's what you choose. Or you can jump in now and just pick up where you left off.

We're still following that basic food plan. So for the next three days, we are back to just following the basic food plan. And then we're going to split up the meals and snacks on the last four days of the week. So it's a perfect time to dive right in to right here right now where we are at. There's a huge benefit in that. So either way, it's a win-win for you. you feel the energy of that. You want to go back, pick up where you left off and continue forward. You're on your own journey. That absolutely is a great option. If you want to connect with the energy

of the group and be where everyone is at and you feel like that's going to be more motivating for you, there is no reason why you can't jump in and do that. Right now, the structure and the method, obviously there's a rhyme and reason to everything, but if you just followed the basic food plan, you would also still be successful. So the tweaks each week are just designed to approach things in a different way and to keep things progressing and moving a lot. long. So there's no right or wrong move here. Both is great because you are back. And that's all that matters. That's all that matters. Bad timing on my part, I was away Thursday to Sunday. I will be eating out every meal. Oh, I'm away. Okay. So you're talking about the splitting up the meals and snacks part.

Don't stress about that. I'll be eating out every meal. It'll be difficult to split my meals as I'm traveling with a group. Should I split my meals at the start of the week since I'll be home? No, you want to bring it back to baseline, right? You don't want to go from downsizing into splitting up meals and Again, there is a lot of science behind the rhyme and the reason behind things. So jumping in and moving forward as designed is one thing. Kind of switching things around is like you don't want to add too much chaos and stress to the body. So here's the thing. Try this. You're out for dinner with people, right?

Say you're out for dinner. You get served your meal. You chat. You eat a little bit. You hang back. You drink some water. You sip your wine. You chat with people.

You talk. You just spend some time there. and then you go back and continue your food. You go to Europe, I don't know if you ever been lucky enough to go to Europe. I've been a few times. So grateful, honestly. It's amazing.

But I love their whole way. Like they'll order food. You go to Spain, for example. They'll order a couple tapas. They'll drink. They'll hang out. They'll whatever. They'll order some more tapas.

They'll drink. They'll hang out. Whenever. It's not like, hey, order all my food right now. So it all comes in this big pile and sits in front of us. They actually take time knowing that their bite takes time to process and digest their foods, right? If you've ever gone to like a tasting menu,

you're getting like a little bit, some long periods of time in between, you get small portions, but you feel so full at the end because you've actually taken time in between. So that's a one way that you can do that. You can split up your meals and snacks, right? Like if you're going to, I don't know, whatever you have for breakfast, if you're on your own for breakfast, you can have half and then split it up and wait. Ideally, you want to wait 20 and 30 minutes because that's when your leptin kicks in, that hormone that lets you know when you've had enough. We're just trying to kind of slow down our eating here. So you can do this in a mindful way while you're still away.

I've sat at airports with people who are doing the program where we're in a lounge or whatever and they're ordering some food and then we sit and we chat and a half hour later they eat the rest of their salad or whatever that might be, right? So it's really in the thought process and the attempt of it. And even if you can split up more meals and snacks, then no meals and snacks. that's still beneficial. Also, there's always next week. We're going to repeat this week again next week. So you don't have to worry about missing out on that because you'll have another opportunity. As a classroom teacher on a tight work schedule, I can't make time to eat at other times. I'm already

running to the bathroom. Constantly with all the water I'm drinking on plan. How can I make this work? So we've had thousands of teachers go through the program and I know your schedule is tight. One, if you're having a hard time with the bathroom, try to get hydrated. The more you are hydrated, the less you will have to go to the bathroom. So really try to work that in as soon as your school day is done or like try to get it earlier in your day. That'll help and sip. Don't guzzle.

If you guzzle, it's going to run right through you. Sipping helps keep you hydrated. So this is the same situation where you might not be able to split up any of your meals and snacks during the day, but you can maybe do breakfast. You can maybe do at the end of the day, whatever time you're done school. If you pop into your car, you have some nets and seeds. When you get home, you know, 20 minutes later, you have a, a few more nuts and seeds, right? You have your dinner. Maybe, you know, what you think is with your

family, like half, then, you know, whatever, you're cleaning up the dishes, maybe go back in, take a few bites, a few bites more, right? Like, this is, this is not convenient. It is meant to not be convenient because one, your brain goes from a deprivation scarcity mindset to an abundance, have to eat mindset. Think about that. Feel the energy of that. You're coming from a deprivation, scarcity mindset, right?

Leaving food on your plate, not enough, fear of being hungry, you know, bringing up issues with Pat's diets to now, now you actually have to think about eating more often.

Now you have to have that second piece. Think about what that does to your brain. Because when we're rewiring your brain, we've got to get in there, we're going to shake shit up. I'm going to shake the shit up in order for it to kind of bust it out, break it up and then reconnect in a whole way.

So just the thought process of knowing this is the tweak and you're thinking about doing that and even if you can do it a couple times, it's definitely worth doing. Plus, I'm assuming you're working Thursday, Friday. You also have Saturday and Sunday to dig into this. So it's not forever, right? You're just talking four days this week, four days next week, and then we're going to move it along to a completely different tweak, which gives a lot more flexibility in the food plant.

I'm sorry, one question. You are allowed to ask as many. any questions as you want. If you are still full after waiting 30 minutes, do we skip eating the second half of our portion or wait to the next snack? Okay, this is really important. Think about this for a second. Think about this for a second. Think about the mentality of this for a second, right? So you're taking the same portion that you're eating dissatisfaction over the next couple of days. Think about last week and your mentality last week, right? Where you did it feel uncomfortable leaving food on your plate and why? You're just leaving a few bites.

you're purposely leaving yourself feeling slightly unsatisfied. Chances are once you walked away when that leptin kicked in, you were feeling like you had enough. It was mentally, you're like, oh my God, did I eat enough? I'm hungry. I couldn't eat all my food. La la la la, la, la, food waste issues, food scarcity, all that. So we're trying to break. That's a great question, by the way, but we're trying to break that. This is why you have to have at least a token amount of that second portion. You're going to take those same portions. We're going to split them into you. You're going to eat the first portion. Right. And let's say you are satisfied and you've had enough on that first portion. Whoa. Your portion is way too big. First of all. Right. If I take the lunch

portion that I have today and I eat that to satisfaction, tomorrow I split it in two and I eat the first portion and then I wait and I'm not hungry for the second portion, what does that tell me about the portions that I'm consuming. It's way too much. Way too much, right? So if you were to take that same portion, you split it, and then you separate it, and you don't eat any of that second portion, it's going to be like two seconds before, did I eat enough?

Oh my gosh. You know, worried about this, worried about that. I'm hungry. I didn't have enough. Like, you're back to that deprivation mindset. You eat that first portion, a token amount. It stimulates your digestive system and makes your body work even harder. So that's part of the feeding the metabolism part.

That's why you want to do that. You want to make your body consume smaller portions more often. We are decreasing hormones. This is what we're doing, helping the body adjust to hormones and smaller portions. So there's that. And then there's that mindset of you have to have that second. So then you're taking that away. Any chance of that deprivation mindset creeping in, you're taking that away.

So that's why you have to. Otherwise, you're just eating less again. and it's so much more than just eating. Just eating less doesn't do anything to break the mindset and rewire the mind, right? It's a great question. Great question. Great question. I had pizza yesterday and I'm up.

0.2 pounds every time I eat this kind of food. My weight is up. Yeah, of course it is. Of course it is. Always is, always was, always will be. Always will be. Always. Always.

I like to share a famous story that happened in our maintenance program where someone was like, I had a hoagie. She's in maintenance. She lost her weight. She's in maintenance. She had a hoagie, which is like a meat sandwich. I feel awful. When am I ever going to eat normal again? Pizza is not fucking normal. Right? A hoagie is not fucking normal food. That is processed foods. Process foods. So let's just call it what it is. Now, is it normal to eat pizza? Yes. Is it normal to eat sandwiches? Yes. Can you eat pizza and sandwiches and not gain weight? Absolutely. Eating breads, eating pasta doesn't cause you to gain weight. They do not cause you to gain weight. Minimizing them while trying to lose weight hugely beneficial because they require, you know, a fair amount of insulin when it comes to breaking them down. Right?

You want to keep your insulin levels low. High insulin signals weaken. And so, yeah, you're always going to feel bloated and your weight is going to be up when you have carbohydrates because when you consume carbohydrates, carbohydrates, your body needs more water to process and digest food. See, people look at water as just hydrating their body. Your body needs it for cellular function. Your body also needs it to process and digest foods. So your weight always will, always will be up after you eat any kind of bread, any kind of pasta, anything that's really salty, anything that's hard to digest like red meat.

Your weight can be up after eating red meat. Not real weight gain. Not real weight gain. So, so, So what you don't, so what is this fucking mentality that you have, right? And I love this, by the way. I love that that you shared this. Because let's get into that. You cannot be fucking stressing about the little ups on the scale from having pizza that you chose to eat, right? That you chose to eat and be sad about that because it's not real weight gain. It is not.

And choosing to believe it's real weight gain is just insanity. It doesn't make any fucking sense. right because it's not real weight gain. It's just you ate pizza that requires more water for your body to process and digest before you shit it out, right? Like the rest of like the byproduct of that pizza. And so if you have a gluten sensitivity, this could be something that's going on too, is that it can make you feel inflamed.

It can make you just feel so that that can have your weight up as well. So it's always going to happen. And so the more you kind of, the more you recognize this, the easier it's going to be in maintenance. So this is not about you trying to lose weight and this happening. It's not trying to you be healthy and this is happening. This happens to everybody all the time whenever they eat these foods. And so when I had this woman say, am I ever going to be eaten normally again? I'm like, wait, you're always going to feel like this. Just because you've lost weight doesn't mean a hoagie is going to make you feel fantastic anymore. Or it never did. Chances are, chances are the pizza

that you ate before always made you feel bloated and gross and just, eh, and always have. your weight up. You probably didn't notice because you probably felt bloated and gross and all the time. And so now you're going to really notice that, right? So, so this is, this is what you've got to get used to. This is what you have to get you. This is why people was, oh, I'm frustrated because every time I have this, and my weight goes up. Yeah, it's, that's how it's going to be. We have this sense that you've lost weight. And this is great. I love this question. I love this comment, by the way. It's so good because this is how we started. Where's the end game? Right? You want to follow through and reach your goal, what is your goal? Is it a number? What is that? Because once you reach

your goal weight, you want to help your body adjust to that new weight and then your weight is going to fluctuate. Every time you have pizza, every time you whatever, every time, you know, life is stressful and you start to, you know, just, you know, go back into old habits. Your weight's going to go out. Then you have to know how to get it back down again. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, right? Your weight is going to ebb and flow with life. Just how it is. If you're still getting your menstrual cycle, your weight is going to go up when you have your mental cycle is going to come right back down right when you um exercise when you um exercise when you um when you lift weights and you rip into your muscles your weight will go up also because your body's inflamed and because your body retaining water so your weight will go up with that so there's so many reasons why

your weight does we have a really great post um for anyone who's and this is or i the reason why i'm talking about this is this is a real thing and even though i can say to you a million times it's not real weight gain in our mind, we believe that it is. So we have to, we have to change our thought pattern around that. So here's what I would suggest that you do. Here's what I would suggest. I would like you to weigh yourself, anyone who's dealing with this issue where they're like really stressing about those ups and downs that even though you're following the program, remember your weight can be up and down at the same time. So you could also have had pizza yesterday, but your weight is going into weight loss mode and your weight is actually up less from the pizza and more because your weight

is about to drop, right? But the feeling is real. The feeling is real. The feeling is valid. I think a great practice is to guess your weight before you get on the scale. Guess your weight before you get on the scale. And if I feel like my weight is up today, I'm going to say, like if I didn't have to get on the scale today, I know my weight is up.

I know my weight is up. We went out for my daughter's birthday yesterday. We had Moroccan food. And then we came home. and I had some chips that last night. I didn't drink near enough water yesterday at all so that you can tell my voices. Like, whatever, I'm going to drink some water. If I got on the scale today, judging how my body feels, I would guess my weights up at least

three, if not four pounds from the weekend. I know exactly why. So before you get on the scale to prove your thought or whatever, get on the scale, before you get on the scale, be like, let me guess what my weight is. And then if you think it's going to be up, before you get on the scale, why? Why? Oh yeah, because I had chips last night didn't drink enough water. I had salty food. Like, whatever that might be. Or, oh, I don't know. Like, I feel like my weight is up, but I know I've been doing everything. So it could be your weight is up before the scale drops. Or maybe you feel like your weight is up, but you get on the scale and it's actually down. Right. So that's a really great way of not having this scale dictate your thoughts and feels because you're already, you are already processing those before you get on the scale. And it's just like a much better way of using the scale to collect data. So I felt like this. I thought that I felt like this physically, mentally. And then how does that relate to what's

going on the scale? Right. That's a great way of kind of breaking that, that every time you get on the scale and it's up or, you know, whatever, or you're tying it to I ate pizza. And that's why it's up when you could have actually worked out yesterday. Like, I don't know. Did you work out yesterday? Is your muscle sore? Your weight could be up from that as well, right? So, so eating pizza isn't going to cause you to gain real weight. So then why is this scale actually up? That's a great. That's, I'm just using pizza. I love this example, right? Whether it's pasta or brownies or whatever it is. This is a really great example of that. So honor, like, honor your feels, right? Continue to do the things that you need to do. And then, yeah, I would try that practice. That can be,

Um, yeah, my, you know, you guys are talking about water. Yeah. Uh, driving, uh, from Ontario to Tennessee on Thursday. Oh, I love it. Summer, like, let the road trips begin. Uh, going to the racetrack for three days. Won't be anything healthy to eat there. Plus, driving can't get my water in. And of course, this week split your meals. How am I going to do this? Okay. Again, remember that just following the base, you doing your best, just because we're doing the 91 day program and this is the tweak this week, doesn't mean that it aligns with. you're with where you're at and doesn't mean this is not worth doing, right? That's what this is. This is not about that. This is, okay, this is what we are doing over here. Great. This is what you are

doing over there. How can you stay true to making choices that make you feel good while you are away? One, grocery stores. Stop at a grocery store. Somewhere along the way, stop. Grab some nuts and seeds. Grab some fruit. Apples are really great. You know, they're pretty durable. And the bananas, I probably wouldn't, depend on the heat, but, you know, grab some fruit. So now you got a nut and seed snack and now you got a fruit snack, right? What else could you get? Could you buy some some pre-packaged vegetables to pop them in your bag? Maybe you cannot bring food in. So can we get a decent breakfast in? What's our planned for dinners? Maybe they don't, maybe they just have hot dogs, but you don't have to eat the whole bread. Maybe if they have hot dogs, they have stuff that you

and put on top like pickles, which will work, you know what I mean? And all of that. Like, how can, how can, you know what I want you to do? I want you to go on this road trip and feel fantastic the entire time. How do you make choices that make you feel good? That's, that's the goal here, right? Not just physically, mentally. So if all they have is like crappy, crap, you know, whatever food, okay, so what can you do in and around that to make the best choice as possible? Can you bring a water bottle in with you? what can you do to be hydrated? Driving there, obviously you don't want to stop every five minutes.

So you can be really hydrated before you go on Thursday. Work your ass off to be hydrated, right? Start early, sip throughout the day, get it in, leave being hydrated, right? Leave being hydrated. Stop at the grocery stores along the way, so I don't know how long it takes. How long does it take to drive from Ontario to Tennessee? Yeah, Thursday. Go on to a racetrack for three days.

Tony's doing the math on that. So get some snacks before you leave. Get a little cooler with you maybe in the car. You know, that's a big one. Don't have like I'm on this road trip going to eat like shit mentality, fix it when I back. I'm going on this road trip. How can I set myself up for success and feel my best? So this is like, yeah, maybe you'll have the hot dog.

Maybe you'll have the pizza at the track, whatever that is. But it doesn't mean everything has to be a wash. So the way there you can make good choices. Tony and I, we went on a road trip recently. We went to McDonald's. Right? They didn't, like, that was just like, we need something fast, quick, get out, need to use the bathroom.

And so I got a wrap. I got a grilled chicken wrap. And then you can actually tailor it to add extra veggies. So extra, extra lettuce, extra tomatoes, extra cucumber. I skipped the mayonnaise and whatever the sauce was. It was amazing. It's fantastic. It was like a whole salad in a wrap.

So I opened up the wrap. got a fork and ate it and was absolutely delicious and felt fantastic, right? Tony ate it with the wrap. He loved the extra veggies. So like that's sort of where you can be like, where can I make those small little adjustments? That's how you keep your shit together, not just how you lose weight, but it's also how you maintain and sustain weight, you know, at the same time. Huh? Yeah, 12 to 14 hours on the road. Woo! Yeah, you want to feel good. So what you don't want is overeat crappy food, feel tired, feel slumpy on your drive. and then you're going to get there and feel bloated and gross and just like, let me just drink some beer and continue to feel and eat like shit for the next three days.

So I feel as worse as possible because you're going to feel that. You're going to be there and you're going to feel gross and bloated and tired and all those things. You want to feel like fantastic, right? So where we're at in this process, a little goes a long way. So this is not the all or nothing. I can't do this. So I didn't even mention the splitting up the meals and snacks part. if you don't have capacity for that, don't do it.

Don't do it. Just you going away, trying to make choices that make you feel good and navigating this awesome, fun time of your life. That's, that's it for you. So like I said the bar is so insanely high that there is so much wiggle room, so much wiggle room. It's knowing, okay, this is what we are doing. What part of this can I do during this time or whatever I got going on, you know? So go away and have the best fucking time.

That's what you want to do. go away and have the best time. Honestly, thank you, Gina. I'm going to do my best Thursday. Get what I can. Yeah, I'm here for you, 13 hour drive, right? That's it. That's it. It's how do I, how do I, how do I help myself feel my best? That's what this whole thing is about. It's not about showing up and doing it perfectly. Yeah, we have people do that. And you might have done that before. You might have done your first couple rounds. You did everything perfectly. And then you, like, you're learning that life is happening along the way. Now, I want to.

get back to how I started quickly before I go today. For those of you feel like you've got to get back at it and you're just not happy with the choices that you're making because you're not committing to yourself and committing to what you signed up for and committing to you signed up for this like, I'm going to follow it as designed and do what I need to do, then you got to make some non-negotiables with yourself. How come you're not? Take some time, give it a minute and be like, okay, what is going on with me? Not what's wrong with me?

What's going on with me? What do I need to do? Do I need to get my ass up? come hell or high water no matter how I feel no matter how I'm tired I am I need to do this I need to do some meal prep I need to you know cut up my veggies whatever like what are the small things that you can make non-negotiable that are going to be a game changer for you to continue to do the things also own this fucking change be the change you want to see be the change you want to be own it step into that life that you are creating for yourself step into it let's go already what the

fuck are you waiting for? The fuck is slowing you down. The fuck is getting in your way. That's a conversation for you. Okay? Let's fucking do it. Some days you're going to be drinking wine for breakfast, hanging on by the skin of your teeth. But those other days, you're going to be moving forward and getting ahead. That's what this is about. That's what this is about, right? So you got to have that conversation with yourself. It's just like if you've fallen off exercise, now you've got to get back at it. What do you do there? You just got to get back at it. Same thing here. Yes, it's food based. Lifestyle choice base. What do you need to do?

If you just take time and feel that in your heart and feel that in your soul, you have the answer. You know, you know, what is the thing that you are avoiding that you know you need to do? Right? That's the work. And then also it doesn't have, it's like, it's hard. You can do hard things. You can do hard things. We got this.

We got this. Okay. I love you guys. Thanks for joining me today. I'm excited with where we're at. Summer's here. We can have fun. We can also stay on track.

You know, we can do this. We can help ourselves get one step closer to our goals. Have a fantastic day, everyone, and I will be back tonight if you want to come and hang out with me. 7 p.m. for our Q&As. If you want to come join me, of course, if you have any questions, use the app, pop into the group. Have a fantastic day, and I will see you tomorrow, later or tomorrow. Okay, bye.