The Livy Method Podcast - You're allowed to enjoy food.

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

In this episode, Gina Livy gets real about those heavy carb foods like bread and pasta. The truth is, those foods aren’t actually the reason people gain weight. From food additives and blood sugar to stress, sleep, hormones, and dieting history, she breaks down the bigger picture behind sustainable weight loss and healthy metabolism. There is a reason why people often feel worse eating certain foods after losing weight, not because they “can’t” eat them anymore, but because they finally notice how those foods affect their body. It’s a conversation about food freedom, weight maintenance, insulin sensitivity, and building healthier habits without fear, guilt, or restriction.This episode aligns with day 20 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 g-lp-1s? 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 Livy Method podcast.

I was just saying my lipstick is lipsticking. Today, my just going to leave it. You know what's interesting about getting older? I remember when I was younger and I had this client and she was just, she was amazing. She was like a designer and she was super cool and super confident. But her makeup was like just always like so messed up. Like her eye shadow all over the place or her lipstick, whatever. And I remember thinking, hey, doesn't she look in the mirror?

Doesn't she, is she just okay with that? And what I realized is, yeah, she was, she was just okay with it. That's kind of how I am now. Oh, is that what I look like? All right. Tony's got the iPad, he's got the iPad ready for me today. But I was just actually answering a comment from a member in the check-in video today about Brett. So I mentioned on the check-in today about Brett.

And she asked if, okay, she got. gets cutting out bread or minimizing breads and pastas and those so there's like breads and pastas flowers and stuff like those are processed foods and then there are ultra ultra processed foods as well right so breads like sourdough bread isaicchio bread pasta um you know not the end of the world though interestingly enough i was i'm here at a business conference and i had an opportunity to talk to a somaliate so they deal in wines and she was talking about we were talking about she's from she's from there was a girl there who was from the U.S. and she's like, oh, you can't get U.S. wines here? And we're like, no.

And the Somali was saying that, well, U.S. wines like cabs because I love a good cab. So the reason why they give you headaches and all that is because they have a lot of like additives and stuff to it. And there are like 75 additives to wine or the way they do things with the processing in the U.S. that is different than Canada, but even the way they process the European wines is a lot different and it's more natural. And God is talking about food additives and the things that they add to food. In Europe, they have what's called purity laws where they can't use a lot of the additives and stuff that we're able to put into our foods and whatnot.

So this is why you can go to Europe and eat pasta and pizza and all of that. and the effect on your system seems to be a lot less. Plus also your stress levels probably are not as high. You're probably walking more and whatnot as well. But anyway, the question was, the question was, can I eat these foods again once I lose my weight? Or is this forever how I'm going to be, be and never have never be able to eat this? So, so those foods really help when it comes to losing weight because they lower blood sugar. They minimize the amount of insulin.

but they don't cause weight gain. So usually when you are overeating foods and it causes weight gain, it's because of long periods of time without eating, lack of sleep, high stress, consistent dieting. So you lose that weight, you lose muscle mass.

Then each time it makes your metabolism lower. And then you are more sensitive to bread because you are less sensitive to insulin. So this is all about helping to lose weight. in a way that makes you healthier, including where it comes to your hormones as well. So you're more sensitive to insulin. And so losing rate in a healthy way, one will help. Yes, there are lifestyle factors. Like if you just keep eating bread every night, right, after like pizza and whatever, after dinner, and at night, that's going to affect your sleep. And then affecting your sleep, it's going to affect your food choices. So in a roundabout way, obviously, carbs can can feed into

gaining weight, but they're not the sole reason why you would gain weight. They don't cause you to gain weight. Now, it can feel like it because when you eat carbs, your body needs more water to process and digest those carbs so that can have your weight up. If you are sensitive to gluten, that can cause inflammation in your body and whatnot. But, you know, I always tell the story of a woman who was in maintenance who shared that she had a hoagie and a hoagie is like a sandwich with meat in it. And she said, I had a hoagie and I just felt like shit. Am I ever going to be able to eat normally or am I always going to feel like this. So chances are when she ate a hoagie before, it made her feel like shit. It's just maybe she just felt like shit all the time that she didn't

really notice how bad it was making her feel. And now you get used to feeling really good. You can feel when you eat something that doesn't make you feel so great. And so chances are that that's going to always make eating something like that is going to make you always feel like that. It doesn't mean that you can't eat it. Doesn't mean it'll cause you to gain weight. It's just so you will notice that when you eat those kinds of foods, they don't really make you feel all that wonderful. And so absolutely you can eat breads and have pastas and whatever. So, but you might like have a bowl of pasta.

Like I had pasta the other night. We went out and it just seems like they've been serving bread all over the place here. The foods included. It's been a lot of bread and we were going out to an Italian dinner and you've got to co-out with, it gets like, you get to know people. I was like, ah, I'm going to an Italian restaurant. Normally a good Italian restaurant has fish or whatnot. So of course we had pasta.

and we had some other dishes as well. So I had, I had a small amount of pasta with some greens, with some veggies and some proteins. So this is where you might want to make a lifestyle change, then rather than just ordering a large bowl of pasta, you might split pasta with people that you're with, have some greens, add some vegetables and protein and whatnot with it. But there's no reason why you can eat breads and pastas and not be able to maintain your weight. I, you know, again, have been able to maintain my weight for over 30 years. I eat breads and pastas and I bake my own bread. I eat my sourdough bread. I'm just not a fan of pasta, so I don't eat a lot of it. You know, I like my chippies at night, but when I indulge in my chips at night, especially in

a couple days in a row, I don't feel good. So then I'm just like, okay, lay off the chips, right? So, so you're going to lose your weight in a way that you're protecting your muscle mass. You're going to lose weight in a way where your metabolism is higher. You're going to lose weight in a way where your hormones, and your hormones don't get balanced. Like, I hate saying balance because it's not like they're balanced in a straight line, but you're going to lose weight. you're regulating or helping with your hormones. So you can go back to the way you were eating before, long periods of time without eating.

That probably led into while your body felt any need to store fats, high stress, crappy sleep, all of that, right? So you cannot go back to what you were doing before because you were absolutely a product of your environment and how you were living. But you will be able to eat breads. Now, you might choose to have sourdough bread. You might choose to have sourdough bread,

put it in your freezer, which creates resistant starts that makes it healthier for you. Right? Like this is where you might make those little variations. Okay. Let me see what's going on. I thought that's such a great question because the whole reason we're going through all of this to lose your weight that you can trust when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat is so you can enjoy all the yummy bites of bits of bits that come with life.

Like the whole point of it is to reconnect with food in another way that you actually can enjoy. You know, when we indulge in food, we think we're in, we're enjoying. it. A lot of us are not. Yes, it tastes delicious. Yes, you might enjoy the company, but you're stressing in your mind. Should you eat it? Should you not eat it? Why did you eat it? And then the minute you are done, you continue stressing, berating and punishing. And that's the behavior that you really want to end to be able to fully enjoy the foods that you are eating. So if pasta is only at amami and water, is that still considered pasta, 19 grams of protein and 15 grams of fiber? Is that a vegetable or pasta? What a great question.

So this is where there's different variations, right, in terms of the foods that we're able to create and consume. So it depends on the processing. It depends on the processing. So if you took, like I used the example today, like if you took black beans and you ate black beans, right? There's like carbs in it, yes, but there's also protein. There's fiber. Like there's a lot of nutrients in that. You take black bean pasta and you no longer have the fiber.

You're losing all the nutrients. and then so in that case it's a little different. I don't know the process of edamami um edamami pasta I actually never heard that before so so yeah I mean 15 grams of protein is great um but 50 sorry 19 grams of protein is great 15 grams of fiber is also amazing I probably wouldn't if it's gone through the pasta making process I probably wouldn't call it a vegetable it's a pasta made of vegetables that vegetable is at a mommy so it's higher in protein. So yeah, let us know how that tastes. I want to know how that taste. I don't know how that taste. So this again, right, like it's, there's so much room here because

you're eating all these good nutrient rich foods that if you, if the only reason you'd want to not have breads or pastures or anything at all is because you are not happy with the results that you are seeing on the scale. And for example, you could be having pasta that is totally fine to have, but it's, you know, maybe you're sensitive to gluten. And so that gluten is causing inflammation in your body. And it's, and that in itself is what's causing a hard time for you to lose weight. Right. So, so just kind of figure out, just kind of figure out, this is where you want to be consuming the foods that you were, like even when you do have, let's say you go out and have pizza, how does that make you feel? Like, pay attention to that. There's so much to learn from that.

A lot of times we really think, oh, food, you know, pizza, yummy, delicious. And in our mind, we want pizza, we want pizza, and then we don't pay attention to how we feel when we eat the pizza. So if you can really have the pizza and be like, oh, wow, I don't really feel so hot after this pizza. Or maybe you eat the pizza and you feel great and you're like, okay, I had the pizza, no big deal. And then you carry on and you still reach your goals. You realize, oh, hanging out pizza doesn't stop me from reaching my goals. Or if your body does react to it and you pay attention to that, the next time you think about having pizza, you'll go, yeah, I like the idea of pizza, but I don't like how. I feel after eating the pizza.

So maybe I'll just have one slice or maybe you won't have it at all, right? So just that kind of awareness. That's a great. That kind of awareness. Very true. I had ice cream code a few days ago and did not get the same pleasure from it as I think I used to. It was like I just don't care to eat it and didn't really enjoy it.

Yeah. Because a lot of times we're the lot of times the reason why we are eating these things is for other reasons other than it tastes delicious and we want to enjoy it from that perspective, right? It's a treat. We love the idea of the treat. Maybe it's the people who were going with. I take my kids to eat ice cream all the time, especially when they were little. Not so much these days. We go every now and then. I will usually only order like a little baby cup or I actually won't get ice cream. And I'll take them. And so some people, their mentality is, well, I don't want to be weird around food. But like, let's say you take your kids for ice cream and you actually don't want

any ice cream. You love the experience of it. They love their ice cream. It's a fun family event. You don't actually want any. You eating some or ordering some just to make it not look weird is kind of weird if you think about it. And that's where we need to normalize if your kid says, you're not having any ice cream. And just like, no, no, I don't, mommy doesn't feel like ice cream today. But you have your ice cream and enjoy it. Isn't this fun? Right. And so sometimes we are weird in trying to not be weird about the ice, about food. You know, Johnny jumps off a cliff or you're going to jump off a cliff, right? So just because someone else is eating food doesn't mean that you need to eat the food. And so that is where I would normalize kind of, you know,

I'm just not interested. And some days I would have it and I would just order like a little baby cup and then other times, you know, maybe I'll get a larger cone, but depending on how I feel. But yeah, a lot of the reasons why we eat is tied into it. And this is where Ruth was sharing with me, she was speaking to one of the women who were doing the living method because she did a bit of a research study there who were also taking ozempic or weight loss medications and the woman said it didn't really work for me because the reason why she ate wasn't because she was hungry so taking weight loss medication can help make you feel less hungry but if you don't if you're not eating because you're hungry it doesn't really do much for that and that's where you know that's why a lot of times it's not just we're not just eating. for the food part of it. I've only lost two pounds, but my energy level is amazing. Oh, yeah, okay, so your weight should be moving or you should be noticing non-scale victory. So this is a

great sign. Where are we? We are in week two, which means you've been at this for week three, two pounds. That's incredible. One to two pounds a week. It is still very normal. I know you guys don't, you guys hate me saying this, but it's still very normal to have not lost any weight yet. but if you are not not seeing any movement on the scale you absolutely if you are making these changes should be noticing other things happening. Dr. Paul is going to join us. We have this conversation every time about reasons why your weight might be slower to move. You actually don't have to wait to listen to that conversation. It's available on our podcast where we talk about inflammation. We talk about food sensitivities, what's going on with your microbiome, your digestive system,

and then of course hormones. That's another big one. But it is very normal. We've had people not lose weight until week seven of the program and then go back, go on the back end of the program and lose like 30, 40 pounds. So it's really kind of how everything you're doing is coming together and adding up and getting your body to a state that it is ready to focus on fat loss. There's a post that actually that the team was talking about posting.

There's a great excerpt from this book, Atomic Habits, which is a great compliment to this program, it's all about, there's two great books actually that are a good compliment to this program. One is atomic habits because it talks about changing habits and that's what you're doing here and creating new ones. And he talks about how like you might not notice, you might not notice, you might not notice, you might not notice, you might not notice the things you're doing adding up. And then all of a sudden you will reach a breaking point and that's where you will start to notice. Oh my goodness. Okay. I had a woman once who was very vocal about not losing any weight.

she went through the whole program, didn't lose weight, didn't lose weight, didn't lose weight. And then it was the second time around. She went to her doctor and checked out everything. And then she became very successful the second time around. And it was really just, she's like, I feel like my body just needed time to get to a place where that was the focus. And then when I say, like, help your body focus on fat loss above all the other things that it needs to do. There's a lot that your body is doing, right? This is why you're trying to create.

Give the body what it needs. to not feel like it needs to store this fat. And that's where you're set point. Your body over the years has learned that it needs a certain amount of fat. Same thing with food noise is like a learned behavior. And that's what you're doing. And even if you're a returning member, you're reestablishing that, right?

You're going deeper into that and kind of picking off the layers of that. And then it's helped the body specifically focus on fat loss and that that's creating the environment for that. So managing your stress, trying to get better sleep, moving your body, addressing your hormones, all the things that we're doing. and then the tweaks each week or kind of kind of like come at it from a different perspective. So there's like so many layers and so much learning to this as you go. So that's where you want to get to.

You want to the goal is to be calm around food. So lose your weight and then be calm around food. Be in the grocery store lineup. Be surrounded by your favorite foods. Be able to go out for ice cream. Have it. Enjoy it. Not have it.

And just just be able to trust like when to eat them actually. hungry versus triggered habit, conditioned hunger, what to eat, I need protein, I need leafy greens, I need whatever, and how much to eat, which we're going to dig into next week if you're new to the program in terms of knowing the exact moment when if you eat any more, you're going to walk away feeling stuff. Tomorrow we are rolling out the guidelines for week three, which is our mindfulness week. So this is where we actually start to address those portions by getting in tune with them, which is really cool.

So make sure you pop into the group or open up the app if you're new to the program and read over those guidelines. My natural path is recommended because I'm insulin resistant to limit one slice of bread per day. I have forwarded the moment, I have forwarded the moment eliminated, for the moment, probably, eliminated it except occasionally. I never eat bread and pasta on the same day. It's a choice. Yeah. And that's exactly what she's saying, right?

Like, why you're trying to lose weight, just minimize it. It can be beneficial for a variety of reasons. And then once you lose your weight in a healthy way, you can try adding it back in again. see how you make it with that. This whole program, hi Leslie, this whole program was based around two things, set point and insulin and lowering your blood sugar and consuming foods that require less insulin because insulin is the hormone that kind of says where your body stores that fat and your body others stores it in your liver, in your muscle or in your fat. And as you get older and you do more diets, this is where you're losing that muscle mass. And that's where you're noticing more

of that fat being more of that being stored in your fat and that's where you're kind of getting that midsection now i was the way when the program started and haven't been able to catch up determined to start today since i don't want to wait all the way to the new program possible yes yes yes yes yes yes okay so the way and i don't know if you're on our new membership that we have going on and this is your journey is your journey until it ends this yes we do these like you know these live to help keep you motivated. But the Living Method works all year round in between programs. So with the new app, you can start on day one if you want and just start from there and go

through on your own and finish it out and then keep going until the next round. Or you can jump in where we're at if you feel more motivated to jump in where we are at. We're still working that basic food plan. So you can do that now. What's great about the app is that if you missed any information, you have any questions, you can just use the A-I and ask. And then you can take your time. So if you go into the guide section of the app, so go to the bottom, you'll see the guides. It has like your kind of common interest guides, like recipe guide, exercise guide, lives, expert talk, like expert sessions.

If you missed any of those, they're all there. And then you go into the weekly guides. You can pop up each weekly guide. And then you can also see what we talked about during that week. So you can go review anything that you want to review. And of course, we have people in the Facebook support group too. So if you want to pop in, ask any questions that you have. So this is the lives. We normally don't go back in and answer any questions on the lives. What happens all the lives stays in the lives. But if you go to the post, pinned to the top of the page, the check in video and you want any help at all from our team, just like ask your questions there or like if you need to help getting caught up.

But yeah, you can you can literally buy today and start today. So that's one of the things that we found was really limiting to people because they wanted to start. You're never behind because you're here. you're never behind the live sessions really are to help keep you motivated right that's what that's about um so yeah so now you can with the way that we've structured it you can sign up anytime and then follow along which i think is really great so absolutely possible absolutely possible i'm trying to get out of old school thinking uh i was my body was on a flat release this week and i was so happy okay stayed doing everything the same increased my hydration was looking so forward to stepping on the

scale this morning thinking I would totally be out of the 70s and finally into the 60s. No. Okay, so that's sort of like, yeah, I mean, so you're not going to lose every day. You're not going to lose every week. So when people say it's one to two pounds per week, it's like after you reach your goals, if you look at the time that it took you, it probably took you on average one to two pounds per week. That's how it should kind of spread out over the time. Because it's normal for your weight to go up before it goes down and then it's normal for it to go back up while it's actually continuing down and then once you reach that new low it's normal for it to go back up as well so you don't lose you're not losing fat cells the number of fat cells you have remains the same so when you gain weight you

don't gain fat cells when you lose weight you don't lose fat cells it's what fills your fat cells which is then being released through the body and through that natural metabolic process that we talked about in the science was today if you want to check that out um which is very very well you're really cool. And so your weight, if you saw a new, like, you're, you could actually be sitting at a lower weight, but your weight is up at the same time. Like, let's say you, you exercised. The old school mentality here is like doing the same, right? Like, oh, this was working, so I'm going to keep doing this. That's one of the things that holds people back, especially if they've done the program before. They want to do it the exact way they did it before because that's what helped

them lose weight. The other old school thinking is once that scale starts to move, I actually hold off and eat less, right? And you want to actually, not that you want to eat more, but you want to like continue making the body feel safe. And it's not just on a physical perspective when you know that you're eating all those meals and snacks. It's a mental. So what can happen is your brain can go into that restrictive mentality and your body then follows suit because it's all connected. It's all connected. Your body follows suit on that restrictive mentality. But it could be like simple as you, your weight is actually down, but you did a workout so your muscles are sore, sore, they're inflamed. But yeah, and the scale is really frustrating, but it's very

frustrating. It's going to take the time it's going to take, right? It is what it is at the end of the day, but it's still absolutely sucks. It's still absolutely sucks. So I don't know if that that's maybe like your, um, so what do you, what do you do about this? So that's that capture cancel correct. So you got on the scale today. You're like, oh, fuck. You know, like maybe, maybe it was like, oh, I'm never going to reach my goal or, oh, this just isn't working for me or I need to do more. So whatever your thought was, you want to be aware. Okay, that's how I'm thinking, which I love that you put this in the group because this is what you're thinking, right? Oh, fuck. And then so you capture it. You cancel it. Right. Yeah, okay. Yes. Like, I'm, just because my weight isn't down today doesn't mean I'm not doing the things I need to do. It doesn't mean that I'm not going to reach my goal. Like, whatever the opposite is. of what you're thinking. And then the correct it is, you know, continue doing the things that I need to do and I will absolutely reach my goals. And so it's really taking the time to that's that rewiring the brain. So you're rewiring your body physically and we're doing that naturally through the food plant. And then this is where you're rewiring your brain mentally. So that's that's food noise. That that old mentality is part of food noise. And that's where you can actually change your brain. And that's why I love the scale to be honest. Because I want to work through.

my shit. I want to work through my shit sooner rather than later. I want to work through and do the things I need to do so that I can get on with it already. And so the scale can be like a big, a big ass mirror in your face. And one of the things I suggest, we do this all the time in the maintenance program is try to guess your weight before you get on your scale. Because if you feel like, oh, for sure it's going to be down today, chances are it is down. It's just not being reflected on the scale in which you will see it come down over the next couple of days. but what can happen is we feel like oh yeah for sure my weight is down i get on the scale it's the same or it's gone up fuck this next thing you know i'm not as diligent drinking my water i'm in a pissy mood

i'm maybe going to indulge more or whatever that might be because we're just like what's the point like you know um and then that that can actually prevent what we would have seen the next day which is that scale actually reflecting how we feel so i think it's a and the other way too like if you know your weight is up then be like okay how do i feel like today. I feel like my weight, like what do I think the number on the scale is going to be today? I feel like my weight's going to be up. And then you can be like, okay, well, why? So before you get on the scale, I'll prove it to yourself. Why? Oh, okay, well, my body's sore. Oh, oh, I had chips last night or, oh, I had didn't drink enough water. Oh, I, maybe my weight's about to drop because I, I haven't,

don't know why it would, yeah, I've been doing all the things and I feel, do I feel kind of bloaty? Am I little extra hungry? Did I get up and go to the bathroom? Oh, maybe my weight is up because it's about to drop and then get on the scale. So you've already kind of like made that assessment of why it would be up or, you know, not down. And so then you're already more in that rational mind. So then when you get on the scale, then your scale is like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah, that's probably exactly what's happening. So that's kind of like reverse engineering and getting ahead of it before, which I find is a much easier way of like reconnecting your brain. Or you can just go straight up, get on the scale, deal with the feels. They go right into it, right? So that's why I like that. And

like that. Let's talk chickpeas. Would they be a protein replaced at lunch? Yeah. So chickpeas are chickpeas are great. So this is where you have chickpeas, beans, lentils. They do have carbohydrates in them, but we consider them to be more of a protein. So I would consider chickpeas lentils, beans, all protein. So you can absolutely use that as a protein source. Now this is where obviously it wouldn't have as much protein as like straight up like meat protein would, but you can combine it with other things and you're still getting your protein. You know, other sources of protein like meat, for example, doesn't have the fiber in it. So that's, you know, it's a tradeoff.

So chickpeas are really great. Chickpeas are great to have with any of your meals. Chickpeas like hummus also, hummus is it? Hummus is made from chickpeas? Yes, it is. Hummus is also really great with your veg snack in the afternoon too as well. So yeah, chickpeas are great. Chickpeas are great.

Chickpeas are great. I had a couple timbits yesterday. First of all, they were overly sweet. Secondly, I felt nauseous after dinner. Yes. So your taste buds are there for a reason. Your taste buds are there for a reason. And you have to remember that processed foods are engineered to be a bit addictive.

And you will notice that your taste buds are actually more enhanced. The more in tune you are with your body, the more you are paying attention, the more your body communicates with you. And it does it in a variety of ways. And one of the ways is for your taste buds. And so you taste buds obviously there to prevent you from eating crappy food. You know, it's going to make you sick. obviously for you to enjoy the food as well and they also signal when you've had enough which we we don't really pay attention to and let's say you you ate one timbid and maybe at first it was like

this is sweet this is you know okay whatever and then maybe you eat another one and you don't taste it as much and you eat a third one and then all of a sudden you're just kind of eating it to try to get that same kind of initial hit that dopamine hit that you got from eating the first one but you'll notice that your taste buds actually shut down when you've had enough and you'll notice this one of some of the food that you eat as well. So your food is really delicious. And as you kind of go along, you're not really, you are not really tasting the food in the same way that you tasted it when you had those first few bites. And so that's what your taste buds are doing there. So, so yeah, that's, and that's why it's good to have that timbut and be like, oh, people do this all the

time with their coffee when they start the program, which are going to have a sip, if you don't mind. Also, it's fun to come on on a Saturday. It's like so chill. So people, for example, well, maybe you'll start with a double double. That's your coffee order. And you will, you know, you continue to go along the program. You keep getting your coffee. And you're like, oh my gosh, that's so sweet. Right. Next day, oh my gosh, it's so sweet. Oh my gosh. My coffee is so sweet. Without ever it occurring to you that you should probably use less sugar. Right. It's just, that's our habit. This is the coffee that we drink. And we just think, oh, wow, it's sweet. And so you're becoming more sensitive to that in a good way. And so then try using a little bit less

sugar in your coffee. But that's that's why you're, that is a perfect example of we tend to not overeat broccoli. Right. No one's like overeating broccoli. And this is where your body is actually working for you, not against you. People think, well, if I just left it up to my body, I'd be eating timbits and chips and pastas and whatever. And you rather your body is not like, it knows how it feels. It's so smart. It's collecting data on everything you've ever eaten. It knows how you feel when you eat that timbip and it's just telling you, hey, I don't feel great here. This is too much. No, thank you. So this is where your body's working for you. If you let your body work for you, your body will work for you, which is really cool. So that's just getting into that. No late at snacking

for the whole program so far. Don't feel like eating after dinner, but it's still not easy. Lots of self-talk. It is not easy because we've created a habit of it for so many reasons. Game changer. Game fucking changer. If you are unhappy with what's happening on this. scale and you keep eating after dinner, like if you just change that and I know it's hard, just change that is a lot easier said than done. This could do with um, coping mechanisms. This can do with habits. This has to do with triggers. There's a lot going on there in terms of eating after dinner. But once you catch the feels of not doing it and you feel how well you feel the next day, your sleep is better. You just feel so much better. You can actually see and feel

your body changing in real time when your body's had time to repair. and rebelled and do all the things and detox that it does that night. So that's that's an absolute. I know it's really difficult, but a lot of people focus on what they're eating and, you know, through counting calories rather than on when they are eating and definitely minimizing any eating after dinner.

I can make all the difference. What happened to my iPad? What's going on here? I can't find my questions. Let me go back. Okay, there we go. Hi, Alfie. Learn to drink in black.

You will learn good coffee versus tar and water. Right? Yeah, because whenever I go to Europe or whenever I go travel a lot, like Dominican had really good coffee. Costa Rica, I remember, has really good coffee. When you have really good coffee, it's actually better. It's actually better black. Risa, how are you? Oh my goodness. Creamy zucchini basil soup, Alyssa Steinberg. She's so great. She's so great. I added a few more ingredients, but I have to say it's going to be something that I'll be making on repeat,

adding a drop of fresh parmesan cheese afterwards is a game changer. love finding new recipes is a great option for any meal or snack with high fiber protein that's a wind we'll have to check that out so you might have noticed that each week on Saturdays we've been rolling out some food ideas for you there are a lot of great recipes and books Greta Steinberg Greta Steinberg it's time to go Greta paleski is going to come back so she if you don't know Greta she has joined us for a couple of sessions she wrote this book called yum and yumber and she's written a lot of cookbooks yumb yumb and yumber was a one of them, Looney Spoons back in the day. She has a new book out called Every Salad Ever. And not only

is it a beautiful book that actually has inspired me to write my Indigo book, just full of great, great ideas for salads, just a really fun read, some great tips in there. So she's going to be joining us. She's going to be coming back and doing a segment with us. Alyssa's going to be joining us over the next couple weeks as well. And then we have been rolling out some, just some fun food ideas for you. I don't know that we need more recipes. I mean, obviously, more recipes are great, but sometimes we just need ideas for quick and easy. So today we posted about side dishes to go along. So if you haven't seen that, be sure to check that out. Okay. Okay, okay. Um, I had to work through feeling a bit hungry for a few weeks to get through

stopping after dinner, eating. Yes, eating and I've been able to stay food free after dinner since March 17, 2025. And again, this goes back to the bread. Like, this goes back to the bread, um, or foods like, will I be able to eat them after I lose weight? Yes, you will. Will you be able to have chips or something after dinner? Yeah, absolutely you will. Again, you probably will notice that you don't have a good sleep after you have them. And after a couple days of doing that, you might be like, okay. You know, like for example, we've been here. The dinners have been late. 29 made such an effort to get when we got here to stay on program. and plan. It hasn't proven easy. We went out for a tour yesterday and the options were sandwiches,

so I just kind of ate them. I've been eating a lot of the middle of the sandwiches. It's definitely not an easy thing. I'm okay with not eating bread for a while because it's just being off routine. I don't feel great. I cannot wait to get back and back into routine. I'm off and I'm traveling again next week. I still be checking and I'll still be around. But we're doing some promotional stuff for my new indigo book, our new indigo book, because I'm going to be asking you guys for your help on this one. But when you are off, you just, you really feel it. And whether you are off because it's out of your control, you're traveling, vacay, something going on in your life, or you're off because you've been indulging. You feel it. You feel it. And that's why this isn't about

being perfect because we don't just want to let it go. We want to be like, oh, let's, when I do this, I feel like this. When I do that, I feel like that. And so this is like, this is where you're creating that lifestyle. You're designing the life that you know that you want to live. And that goes along with how you feel, which goes along with how you look, right? And it's not any one big thing you're going to do to change your life dramatically. It's all those little things adding up. This is why it's, I know you want the scale to move, but it's so much more than that. Okay.

I'm going to go, Tony and I're going to hit the road. I am heading back home. It's like a four or five hour drive. And I'm going to the dance party tonight. If you're in the Toronto area, we are going to Jessica Crickshank's dance party. It starts at seven. I'm going to be home in bed by 11 because it ends at 10. we're just going to all hang out and we're going to meet there.

So come by yourself, grab some friends. I think there's still tickets. If you want to come and join us, I'm going to head down and do that. And of course, tomorrow is Mother's Day. So whether you're celebrating your mother, you are a mother, you are the mother of children, the mother of earth. I celebrate you. I hope that you have a fantastic day.

Last thing I want you doing is stressing. So if your kid makes you cookies and you want to eat one, eat one or don't. Don't if you don't want to. with Mother's Days usually comes brunches or early dinners, whatever that might be. Just kind of do your best to follow the plan and, you know, any extras or extras. And then Monday, of course, it's a whole new day. This we got to learn how to navigate these days. That's part of it and enjoy them.

Navigate and enjoy them. Thanks for joining me today. I appreciate you. I'm looking forward to get back at things next week. Pop into the group, open up the app, read over those guidelines. My favorite week, mindfulness, we're putting it all together. We are putting it all together and then moving for it. It's going to be cool. Okay, have a fantastic day, everyone. I'll see you later. Bye.