The Livy Method Podcast - You Don't Get a 10 for Trying

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Most people aren't stuck because they're lazy. They're stuck because they're grading themselves on effort instead of outcome and there's a difference. In this episode, Gina Livy gets brutally honest about the gap between feeling like you're doing the work and actually doing the work. She breaks down why weight fluctuates even when you're consistent, what your body is actually doing when the scale doesn't move, and the three non-negotiables that matter more than anything else in the final stretch of achieving your goals. This is also a conversation about the weight we carry that has to do with the guilt, the stress, the life events that quietly derail us and why showing up anyway is the only path forward.This episode aligns with day 60 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 gLP ones? I mean, let's talk about it. No bullshit, no wellness wangery here because we're trying to make real change and change is hard. But we're in this together. Welcome to the Livy Method podcast.

Let the future tripping begin. The future tripping has begun. Okay, let's talk about future tripping. What is it? what am I talking about? It is that you signed up for 91 days, right? 91 days, this chunk of time to focus on reaching your weight loss goals. The living method is like no is like any other diet in a sense that you want to keep following it until you reach your goals, right? We just break it down into 91 day digestible chunks of time and there's a system, there's a method that we are following, right?

And so if you want to think of it like this, if you've ever done Weight Watchers, for example, it's like if you did Weight Watchers, except Weight Watchers is like chaotic. You're just counting way and measuring and whatever. And if they were to do like 91 day live sessions to get you motivated to guide you in real time, they had guest experts speaking on specific topic. So that helps you kind of frame it, right? So after you are done the 91 days, you are going to still continue to work towards your goals. It doesn't stop. It doesn't stop right now. Now, if you're new the program, you may be like, well, how am I going to do that? Because I've been following this method and you're switching things up every week. And yes, that's super effective. At the end of the program,

we're going to talk about personalizing the plan. This is where we are headed. You being super in tune to your body's needs. You're going to check in at every single meal and snack time and assess your situation. If you're hungry and need to eat, what's the best thing. Could you eat, maybe have a few token bites, or you should eat because if you don't eat, you're going to go too long without eating. So we're not there yet. We still have a lot of time left for you to focus on reaching your goals, but we are going to also provide support in the summertime. So if you're on our membership, you don't have to worry about that because I'm going to continue to check in. We're going to continue to go live. We're going to have our summer club, which you are automatically

a part of the app will continue to work after you are done. You'll have access to all of your content, all of your information, all of it. But let's get back to future tripping. Of course, you want to, you had a plan, you had a goal, you want to lose as much weight as possible in the timeframe that we have. So we don't, we don't like, we don't lay off around here. We go right to the last day. Our goal is to finish just as strong, if not stronger than when you started. It's all about expectations, but people have the expectations, especially they're new in the beginning of the program to see that quick fix that they normally lose in the beginning of a diet. But they forget that that stops working, right? Here, this is where everything is working together

for you. There's momentum because weight loss really is based on momentum. There's momentum. You're more in tune with your body than ever. Your body wants this fat gone just as much as you do. This is why we put that emphasis in the last couple weeks on understanding the difference between burning fat and your body releasing the fat that it's feeling you need to store. So your body is constantly burning fat along with glycogen for fuel, right? It does a mix of both. But then there's this fat that it's feeling a need to store. And that is all about addressing the body's needs,

giving the body what it needs so it doesn't feel the need to store this fat any longer. This is a hormonal thing because your hormones tells your body that it needs this fat. So when we see the time ticking at the end of the program, right? Oh, I only have five weeks left. Is that enough time for me to reach my goals? might not be enough time for you to reach your goals. Someone might lose all their weight in one program where it takes someone else like 10 programs or it takes someone else 20 programs in order to reach their goals, right? So you just basically keep going until you get there. But how do you make that

most of the time that you have love? This is where I would say, okay, let's get real about this. You have five weeks. What do you need to do? So let's take a minute and reflect back on how you've been showing up in the last few months, right? Or have you been really consistent with the things that you are doing? Has it been kind of hit and miss? Why has it been hit and miss? How do you feel about your portions? Are you eating enough? Right? Sometimes we fall back into diet mentality. Sometimes we fall back into old habits. But I would say if you want to capitalize on the most time that we have left here, there are a couple things that I would do. One, make sure you're drinking enough water. We have not drill that home enough. Your body cannot focus on fat loss without enough water. So make sure

you're drinking enough water. That's probably number one. Number two is don't eat after dinner. Don't eat after dinner. That's when your body does the most natural fat burning and without the opportunity to go without food because digestion takes a lot of energy. Your body doesn't have a lot of time to focus on that. Not only that, when you eat at night, it messes you with your sleep. And the third thing I would say is try to get better sleep. Right. So drink more water. Donate after dinner and do what you can to protect your sleep because that's when your

body repairs and rebuilds and makes changes and detoxes and focuses on burning fat. So those I would like covet those, right? Like that's like just get your get your water bottle out. I got mine. Whatever you need to do. You know, suffer at night. Say suffer because it's hard to not eat at night. figure your shit out. Why do you keep eating at night? Because that's probably sabotaging you more than

anything else you do is eating at night. So I would cut that out and then I would really focus on getting more sleep. On top of that, probably the next thing I would do is move your body, move your body. And you don't necessarily have to go and pound the crap out of your body, but start going for long walks, start doing some resistance training. Amanda Thib talked about this the other day. 30 minutes twice a week of lifting, if you can, 150 minutes in total of cardio, if you can. If you can get your heart rate up, great. If you can't, that's okay to move your body. It's not really rocket science, right?

You know, whenever I have people who criticize the program, they're like, it's not like rocket science. Like, yeah, I'm always like, no shit, Sherlock. That's not what's hard about weight loss. Hard about weight loss is life and putting the amount of time that you need in order to reach your goal. Someone asked me the other day, what do you think the, you know, what do you think stops people from reaching their goals? Not putting the time in. Not putting the time in.

And I know it's frustrating, right? I have a comment here from someone I wanted to read today because I thought it was a good one because I think we all kind of feel a little bit like this sometimes. Let me just grab it. It's my iPad not working. Technology is like, I don't know about technology. Just since does not seem to be working these days. Okay.

This is literally my struggle. last month up five pounds no reason took me forever to get back okay so there's always a reason why your weight is up your weight just isn't up for no reason but sometimes we're not looking at the right thing so for example um your weight can be up because it's hot outside and just like everything else your your body expands in the heat and it will retain water so that might look like no reason but it's a reason right and also when you're when you're weighing yourself every day like you might not have noticed this when you're just weighing yourself like once a week that maybe you did with other diets, but your weight is always, always, always fluctuating. It's all about that downward

trend. That's why it's so important to be using the app and tracking your weight so you can see your graph and pick up on what your trend is. Last month, up five pounds, no reason. It took me forever to get back. So there's always a reason. And if it's the heat, right? It doesn't mean that your body still isn't focused on fat loss, but if it's the heat, it can take your body time to come down. also things like people will be sick right or allergies if you're if you're suffering with allergies that can cause your weight to be up as well can cause inflammation so people will be like they look to food as to why your weight would be up or not up like is actual real weight gain when your weight is up for so many other reasons right monday up three pounds no reason down a pound

today but still so you have this will make you fucking crazy if you don't understand all the reasons why your weight will be up and down and all of that and that it's just so normal. It's normal on this diet. It's normal on any diet that you've ever done. People taking weight loss medications will also notice the same, right? Their weight will be up and then it'll be down if they wait, weight, to themselves every single day. I skip weighing myself yesterday because it's so frustrating.

It's so slow. Yeah. So it can be slow, but why is it slow? Right? this is where you really want to be really critical about what is going on. Are you really being consistent, eating all your meals and snacks? Are you eating breakfast or have you chosen to skip it because it's beneficial? Make sure you get that high protein, right? Are you getting enough water in? Not just more than what you're used to, but actually the amount that you actually need. Are you making your food

choices nutrient rich? Are you back to just eating salads every day and, you know, throw in some cucumbers and a hunk of chicken on there? Right. You know what I mean? Are you really digging into those five sets of mindful eating questions. It's five today. Four sets of mindful eating questions and really digging into those portions, right? Are you really doing everything you can to manage stress to get better sleep and whatever? And then if your body isn't changing, your weight isn't dropping, then that's where you have to be like, what else is going on? So do you have health issues that you're dealing with that can, you know, make it particularly frustrating? Like, what's happening there, right? So it, and also understand it is incredibly frustrating,

probably not because of what you're doing or not doing, because of how you got here, because of all the other diets that you've done, what's happened to you in life, the state of which your body functions at, right, that takes time. And so when people want fast, quick loss, because there will be, like, it's all about one or two pounds per week. So let's say someone, and I've talked to many people have lost 100 pounds in a year, right? If you break that up, that's one to two pounds per week. So it's not one to two pounds every week. So this is where one week you might lose five pounds and then lose no weight for a couple weeks and then lose two pounds and then be up three pounds and then be back down. Like it's incredibly frustrating. So if you don't want to weigh yourself on the scale, what I think is better is if you try to guess your weight.

So go by your body and guess your weight. What do I think my weight would be today? And what? why and why, right? And then that's where you're going to be able to see that trend. Like, for example, your weight just didn't go up five pounds. It went, it would have gone up like incrementally. And so what was happening? Was it when it started to get hot and then the next of you're hot and it was hard to get enough water in? You know what I mean? Okay. So if you don't want to weigh yourself, I'm all about that. But try to guess your weight. This is my third program. At this rate, it'll take me another 10 before I'm in maintenance. I just hate it. I feel so defeated. Okay. So, so with this I would say, you're not fucking listening.

And I'm not talking to this person who wrote this. I love that they shared this. And a lot of people feel like this. If this is your mentality, it's going to take you 10 fucking times. You're not listening. Because it gets, it's all about working with your body, not against your body. And there is this perception that it is harder as you go when it is when you're forcing your body to burn fat, it gets harder as you go. And what it mean by you're not listening is you don't want to hear it. You don't actually, you're not reading the science. You're not really wanting to hear it. You're not trying to understand how the body works. Right. So this isn't starving, depriving yourself. It gets harder as you go. You stop losing weight. This is figure out what the fuck is going on with you

and address that. Right. It's not what's wrong with me because there's nothing wrong with me. It is what is going on with you. And that's where you got to be like, okay. Like, for example, I'm not in shape. I'm not. Why am I not in shape? Well, I do my workouts with Sherry. I try to fit my workouts in here and there.

Otherwise, I'm hit and miss. Am I trying really hard? Yeah, do I want it really badly? Yes. Am I putting the effort in to see the effort? Absolutely not. Is it going to take me 10 programs to get in shape? if I keep fucking showing up the way I am, yeah, absolutely it is. Right. Now, if I had a bad hip,

sore knee, frozen shoulder, any of those things, then that, you know, obviously that can impede how effective I am at doing the workouts I need to do in order to see the results. So that could take me longer. So it's going to take the time that it's going to take. And the only, The only way you are going to get there is by keep going, by keep going. And if you want to be really critical, so this is like really, this is a lot of feels, which is why I loved this. There's a lot of fields that are really valid in this. Your fields right now are very valid, but don't let that stop you from doing the things

that you need to do. There is no other way around it. Even people who taking weight loss medications, all you hear about is the people who, oh my God, look at them, they lost weight. You don't understand the struggles that they have. They were just as frustrated. Their weight went up. Their weight went down.

They had times where they weren't losing. It's all incredibly frustrating. And even if you lose your weight quick, there is still a lot of work on the back end in terms of maintenance and whatnot. So, okay, so what do you need to do? And this is where you want to be, you want to kind of assess your situation, like be very real with yourself. There's a great troubleshooting session that I did. And then you just got to understand that it takes. takes time for your body to do the things that you want to do probably longer than you like.

And although we have five weeks left, it's probably going to take the time that it's going to take. But the more choices that you make that fall in along with your goals, the quicker you're going to get there. But what happens is people tend to fester in their funk. They feel a lot of feels. It feels like they're doing a lot of work, but they're not actually doing a lot of work, right? So, yeah, it's a frustrating process. Absolutely for sure. Honor your, honor your mood. honor your fields, but follow the plan. Keep doing that. Keep doing that. Then I would look back at like sort of the last couple, if you've done a lot of programs, what was going on when you were successful, what were you doing? What was happening? Like, like, you know, I've talked to people who are like,

I'm doing everything I can. And I'm not saying you're not. But I'd be like, okay, if you scored yourself on a one out of ten on water, what do you get? And this person was like 10. I'm like, how much water are you drinking? Three leaders. I'm like, what? It's not enough. And they're like, well, it's more than what I used to drink. So I'm giving myself a 10. You don't get a 10 for drinking more than you used to. You don't get a 10 for effort. You get a 10 for drinking the amount that you need to drink. Tell me about movement exercise. What do you give yourself a 10? Why? What are you doing? I'm walking my dog three times a week. Okay, that's not enough. Why? It's not enough to see the results that you want to see as quickly as you want to see them. Right? Like it is what it is. If you can't drink all the water,

that's okay. There's other ways. Um, if you can't move in a way that your body needs, that's okay. It's going to take you longer. Obviously, there are some people who just show up and do all the things. They can do all the things. They lose the weight. That's great, but they still have to do the work in the back end. And then it's kind of like, you know, you don't get a 10 for walking your dog around the block. You just don't. Even if it's all the time that you got, that's the best that you can do. You go, you don't get a time. You don't get a 10 for that. Right. Um, managing your stress. You give yourself a 10. I'm going to ask you if you took time to do some deep breathing exercises today. If you did not, you do not get a 10. You see what I'm saying?

And that's just being really real with ourselves. That's just being really, everyone is selling you a quick fixed diet. Do you know how easy it would be to sell people a quick fixed diet and then blame you when your weight didn't move? It would be so easy. I was talking about this to someone the other day like God, everyone out there selling you quick fixes and people are buying it left, right and center, just loads of garbage. And it's because we want that. And it would be so much easier for me to sit up here and, you know, bullshit you the whole time. And that's not what we want to do. We want to get very real about where we're at and what we need to do. So the feels are one of the reasons why we don't put the time in. Our feels take us out every time. We get frustrated.

We want a fresh start, all of that. So, all right. Being real with myself. to have to, hi Bobby, being real with myself, I too have half-assed this session. Right. And I'm not saying anybody is half-assing. I'm just saying I know myself and when I get down on myself for things not happening the way that I want. I'm also not. I just know myself. Right. The feels are real. It's disconnected. The time. I haven't had the time. I haven't had it. Whatever. Right. And if you are, then that's a deeper conversation. Like what's going on physically in your body. being real with myself, I to have half asked this session. Still pleased with the overall progress, but I think I'm finally realizing something and maybe I'm wrong.

Gina doesn't want us here forever, but this program teaches us once we've reached our goals and dealt with our food issues to just get on with our lives. You are absolutely right. It's a bad business model, but I don't want you here forever. I lost over 100 pounds, able to maintain it for over 30 years, and I'm sharing how I did that with you. And this is why there is a maintenance program and a whole conversation. It's not actually weight loss that people have, most people have the problem with.

You've done this before, probably. It's being able to maintain and sustain their weight. And the same is with weight loss medications. They did not have a fix for this. People who take them get off them within a year and gain all their weight back. They just, they do not have a fix. You can go and ask the people who sell these medications. I have.

What happens when, what happens when I get off them? You can't. You have to keep taking them. or you will gain all your weight back. Like that's just, it's just how it is. And so I want you to learn what you need to learn in order to be able to maintain and sustain your weight, make real change in your life. And like I said, Bela, if I just sold the quick fix, I'd be, but I'd be a trillionaire by now,

you know, but it's not, it's more than that. It's more than I was just talking to a woman last night who was running a business. And she's like, you know, it's so hard to run a business where you actually are ethical and moral and you want to create a great product that actually helps. and you know, you do things the way they need to be done rather than, you know, trying to make a quick buck. But that's not me, me letting you buy into quick fix. It's just not going to help you at the end of the day. You know, it's just not. Okay. Where are we? We can always jump back into eating as per the food plan if and when we need. Yes, we do have a plan. So if you're new to the program, once you lose your weight, we do have a technique for you helping being able to maintain.

That release of pressure on myself in my mind is huge effort in results out. Life happens. We stumble, but we know what we can do. It's like we've been given a main parachute while on the program, but when we're done, we always have a spare parachute, but we can live our lives and not be so concerned about regaining our weight. Yeah, I think this is a great way of, I think this is a great way of looking at it. It's kind of like being in shape.

I have been so fit in my life. So there have been so, times I've been so fit in my life. times where I haven't. And what's happening when I'm so fit in my life? I'm mindful of it. I'm showing up every day. I'm doing the things I need to do. Then why do I get unfit?

Something happens in my life, throws me off, something traumatic, something whatever. Then I get unfit. And this is all about you learning the tools and the skills that you need to be able to to get back to feeling your best when life knocks you off and not to go too far down, that you gain your weight back. Right? That's what this is about. The thing about exercises, you don't need it. The thing about food is you need food to survive. You need food to survive, right? Exercise is about building and maintaining muscle and it's easy when you stop to lose that. But when it comes to weight loss and the way you're eating and managing your stress and your sleep and all of those things, that never stops. That never stops, right? And so it's going to be, your weight journey is going to be constant. That's the thing. It's not like you reach that number and you stay there. It's not like I lost that weight and I stayed there.

My weight goes up, my weight goes down. My weight goes up goes down. It's about the tools and the skills and the understanding to be able to do that. That's what that is. That's what that is. It's not reach a number and that's where you stay for the rest of your life. It's understanding how to stay in that range. That's what you are learning here.

So when you are working through those fields, you're frustrated, this is happening, whatever, that's all helping you on your journey. It's all helping you on your journey, you know? I've been on that last 10 pounds for almost a year. It's been a journey of emotions to manage this plateau. Yeah. And so what are we doing here? Right?

We are creating a space where you are constantly focused on, you're creating a space to focus on yourself. When you're having your best days to capitalize on that, when you're having crappy days just to hang in there. You're learning things about yourself. You're learning things from our guest experts. You're showing up every day, doing the best you can. What's really great about what you're doing here is

that you're not just focused on helping your body release fat. You're also helping your body repair, rebuild, regenerate to feel its best. You're also working through the mental stuff, your associations with food, your relationship with food, your relationship with yourself, being in tune with yourself, being able to trust, when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, your relationship with others. Like, this is basically where you're showing up and making change in your life in all areas of your life. And so when people have a weight loss goal, I'm going to lose my weight. Normally they're like, I'm going to lose my weight. Then I'm going to start a business. That I'm going to quit my job. then I'm going to start dating, then I'm going to travel the world, then I'm going to do this,

then I'm going to do that. And so what's happening is while you're on your weight loss journey, acquiring the tools and skills to do that, you are also having everything else thrown at you that's going to help you with all the other things that you plan on doing while you're reaching your goals. Like how many goals you have on top of reaching your goals, right? And so life is very frustrating. It's about not giving up on yourself. It's about working through menopause if you're in any of the different stages.

Right? it's about trying to continue to show up for yourself while you're also taking care of your parents. It's about going through a divorce and trying not to gain weight. Sometimes it's about trying not to gain weight. One of the times that you gain weight in your life. What caused you to gain weight what was going on? Probably something pretty traumatic, probably some big heavy feels. Right? That's usually when I go back and track weight game with people. Unless they've had like weight issues from a childhood. Usually it comes after childbirth. You know, it comes after break substance release. It comes after traumatic events, changed big changes in their lives, right? So that's what this is about.

That's what this is about. And maybe that might be the framing for you. Okay, why do I keep fucking showing up? Why do I keep signing up for a Gina's program? Why? To have this place where you can work towards your goals. To have these conversations where you can work things out, to listen to guest experts that offer advice, right?

To be part of a community of women that are trying to do this as well. And so also probably what's happening when you, when you are working through the program, the thoughts and feels that you have, is very reflective, very reflective of also what is going on in your life and how you are navigating life.

And a lot of people don't see the parallel to that. Right? Like that feeling like it's taking forever. You could be feeling like, I don't know, what's happening, your job is taking forever. What's happening in your relationship is taking forever. What's happening, you know, whatever.

It's like very, it's like we are living, what we're trying to do here is live our best love. lives, design these lives that we truly want to live in, be that person we know what we can be, and then physically help your body get that weight off. And not just the physical weights, there's so much other weight that we are carrying, right? Like the guilt, the guilt, the guilt, the shame, the weight of other people's opinions. You know, like it's, you know, there's a lot, there's a lot going on there. Oh, here my, here we go. I find that eating healthy can also be expensive. that's what I'm finding.

I think just eating in general is what's, yeah, let's talk about this. So first of all, we do have that post you might have missed it on like how to save money on groceries. So if you go into the group, there's a post there. We also created one. It's in the app too. So actually there's ways to save money on groceries. People say after they, because like, for example, when when people take weight loss medications and they've studied this, people do not change what they eat. they just eat less of what they were eating before, which of course is problematic because it's not

helping your body get healthier. You are changing the way that you were eating. And so, so, you know, yes, fruits, vegetables, all those things. Seasonal eating is really beneficial. So buying what's in season, maybe go into the grocery store more often and you can pick up some of the fruits and vegetables on the reduced rack, for example. There's lots of, there's apps and things that you can do where they give you like you can buy not perfect looking foods where it's been you know an apple is an apple but it's not perfectly round and whatever apple so there are ways definitely to save to plan your groceries obviously based on what's on sale remember coupon clipping everyone used to read all the coupon thing and plan their food based on what's on sale that week and whatnot um that's kind of how

we do we do our groceries too um we kind of we do more like tony will go almost every day to grocery store and kind of be like, what do we want today and buy whatever is on sale and whatever we can get. Listen, I've learned how to, like, I remember a time where I had $5 trying to figure out how to feed my kids for a week, right? Like, I've been, I've been that broke. So I get this. I'm not just coming from a place of privilege. I totally get it. It's better to eat less food that has more nutrient value than more food that causes inflammation and has no nutrient value. So like the, if you just weigh the cost, and I know it is expensive, and the last thing you need is a fucking lecture about that, and that's not this, but eating food

that doesn't have any nutrient value for you is like, that's like wasted money. And at some point, you'll have to pay, they'll be, I always say to the kids, there's some cost, there's always a cost. There's always a cost. Sometimes something seems cheaper or more affordable, but there's usually a cost to it somehow in the end. And the cost, obviously. is your health, right? But yeah, that's a real, that's a real thing, is how do you eat healthy when groceries are, you know, incredibly expensive? This is where people do say, once they follow the program and they get more in tune with their body's actual needs, that they end up spending less on groceries because they're not buying extra chippies and bites of bits,

and portion wise, they're more in tune to that, right? But I feel you on that. But go find that post. It's a great post. It was about tips on saving. saving on food. I've done a dozen programs. I continue to learn. Weight loss is the only reason I keep coming back. I work out a lot. I drink the water.

I sleep pretty well. It's the stress of being 66 still working. Worrying about money. Five kids. How much time I have left leads to some late night treats and wine. Yeah. I hear you. Still looking for other ways to treat myself that doesn't involve food.

Hard to break these habits. I think I have about five to go. You know, I feel this too, right? And this is why actually I'm thinking of doing a new segment because there's a lot that goes into living our best lives and just weight and everything kind of like weight is our way in, obviously. But like what's going on in your home environment? Right. Like let's let's talk about being 66 and feeling the time that you have left. Like that's the weight that I'm talking about that has nothing to do with your actual weight. So in one sense, I get it. It's like fuck it. right but like you you live like another 35 40 years and you want to like not be in a home for 20

of it you don't want to be in diapers for most of it right like I like I get this right like life is so short fucking like I'm just going to have my best time and like your best time should be like let's join some clubs and get out there and meet people let's make an effort to be social let me go you know rather than sitting in my bed and watching Netflix at night let me go for a walk let me like do something. Let me, you know, you know what I mean? Like, if I was, if you were in Europe right now, if you were living in Europe, we all dream like, I don't know if we all dream, but like, if I was in Europe, I probably, because the lifestyle is not conducive to lying in bed and watching Netflix, you'd probably go for a walk. You know, you'd probably be around people and being more social.

You know, my mom, for example, is a part of a Legion. And she goes and volunteers at a Legion. And every weekend, they're doing something. She's volunteering. She's around people. She's social. She makes an effort to get out with her friends. You have to make an effort for friendships. Friendships hard. So, like, how do we want to spend the rest of our time?

How do we want to feel? Do we just want to slide down that hill? I'm just looking. There's this weird. There's this extra computer and there's this, like, there's a photo and it's like this sand dune. That's where I got that. Do we just want to let it slide and give up?

Like, this is what I mean. If you're trying, if you want to. to give up on your weight loss goals. You probably also want to give up on a lot of other things in life. This is hard, but you can do it. It's so fucking hard, but you can also do it. You just can't give up. You just can't give up. You have to keep going. Yeah, this is, this is it. Right? Like, there's a lot of stress. You know, your home. You know, what's your bedroom like? Is it like mine? There's a million clothes everywhere, just fucking depressing because I've been sick and I just can't do it. and it's just messing with my head. Like, clean your room. Clean your room. Clean out your cupboards.

You know, um, what's happening in our relationships. Call a friend. Tell someone how you feel. Share with somebody. You know, there's, there's so many, there's so many things that, there's so many things involved in being healthy and well that have nothing to do with food. Nothing to do with food. And so many great conversations to be had. I think this is where we want, like, well, let's talk about that, right? Let's talk about that. That, feeling that we have. Like, I think about it all the time. Oh my God, what am I going to do with my life? Well, how am I going to make money? How am I going to survive? How am I going to like, yeah, that's a lot. And here we are trying to lose weight. Trying to lose weight really should be the

easy part of all of that. Do you know what I mean? It's fucked up. There's a lot. I gain the weight over 30 years. Do I expect the weight will be gone in one year? That's not realistic. Ah, this is so true. This is so true, Janet. Right? We are a, we are a product. We are a product. of how we have been living our lives. If we want to make change, we need to change our lives and not just the food, not just the food, right? And this is where if you can't get the food perfect, you can offset that by managing your stress, by moving your body. Walks are free, you know? And then people be like, I have a bad knee and I have a bad whatever. Well, that's just going to get worse if you continue to carry the weight and you don't make an effort, right? So this is hard shit we're doing. Let's

break it down. It's hard shit. It comes with big feels, but we're all here. The goal is to keep going. And so what I'm doing every day is like, okay, what can I write about? What can we talk about? How can we, you know, this pull up conversations? How can we understand we're not alone in this program? Like, I think about this all the time. All the time, right? What's it going to take to get us there? What's it going to take to get us there? I'm going to start doing workouts. And I'm going to start doing workouts with you guys. I'm going to start sharing them. You know, because when I talk about trying to get fit and healthy, it's sort of been my mission for a while now. And I fall back onto what I used to be. And I'm not that anymore. I'm going to get back to it. Anyway,

what do we want to talk about? Alyssa Steinberg's joining us today. She's going to show us some fun cooking stuff. She got some like three great recipes and a fun treat. Next week, we're going to have more flexibility in the food plan, which is really cool. So she got some great recipes for that if you want to join us today at 12 o'clock. What else? What else? What else? Yeah, pop into the group next week. Read over our guidelines. It's our revamp food plan, which is going to make it so much easier, so much more flexibility and our meals and snacks. It's such a great tweak. We still have a lot left to go. I'm still excited. This stuff for me doesn't get old. It doesn't get old, right? Every time I set up here, I'm just happy to talk about it as the first time because I believe that we can do this.

All right. Thanks for joining me today. I know I was a bit all over the place. not feeling so hot. I got some stupid stomach flu or something going on, but I'm here for it anyway. Have a, being real with myself, I too have half-ass this session. Still please. Very true. They had to post in maintenance. Protect your progress. Yes. Also, if you're on membership, you can go back and forth to maintenance. I think actually Andrew Blakey's there this morning talking. So if you have the membership, you can actually click the button at the top and pop into the maintenance group. And if you're not part of the group, just use the same code that you used for weight loss to get in there. And then you can check that out. But yeah, protect your progress. Protect what you've done so far. Sometimes that's what it's about. Sometimes it's

about not gaining weight. Sometimes it's about just holding it down. Right. Sometimes it's just, for me, it's just trying to survive another day this week. I have just failed at everything this week. And I'm trying not to be too hard on myself. I'm trying to just be like, you just take a minute, Gina and feel better physically, mentally, and you're going to rally. You're going to come back. You're going to come back. So if you're feeling the same, I'm with you. Thanks for joining me, everyone. Have a fantastic rest of your day. And I'll see you later. Bye.