The Livy Method Podcast

You wanted this for so long. So why does getting here feel a little flat? Clinical psychologist and sleep expert Dr. Beverley David joins Odette to explain why reaching your goal weight can bring a letdown instead of a lift, and why that's a normal human response, not a sign you're failing. She breaks down how anticipation and dopamine carry us through big changes, how hedonic adaptation makes even major wins feel ordinary fast, and why calm can feel strange if you grew up watching the people around you go on and off diets. She also shares her three-step approach for this stage and why your next goal may have nothing to do with the scale.Where to Find Dr. Beverley:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdrbeverley/Website: https://www.yourpsychologycentre.ca/This podcast aligns with Day 4 of our Fall Maintenance Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Maintenance and Mindfulness Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulness

You did the hard part. The weight is off. So why does keeping it off still feel like work?Welcome to the first Midweek Motivation of the season! Gina Livy and Odette talk openly about the slow, uninspired start that can follow weight loss, and why weight maintenance is less about food and more about knowing yourself. They get into where carbs like bread, pasta and rice fit once you're no longer trying to lose, and why an all-or-nothing mindset about them causes more trouble than the foods do. This podcast aligns with Day 3 of our Fall Maintenance Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Maintenance and Mindfulness Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulness

Most of us don't need more recipes. We need a plan that fits the life we're actually living.Gina sits down with Eimear Brazil to talk about cooking from scratch without the overwhelm. Eimear is a trained chef from Waterford, Ireland, and the creator of The Kitchen Shift. She's worked as a head chef, an operations chef and a food stylist, and she shares the simple systems she uses at home to eat well, waste less and spend less on groceries. She also explains why she doesn't meal prep, why flashy packaging and prime shelf space don't mean a better product, and why "healthy" and "nutritious" aren't always the same thing.Where to Find Eimear:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekitchenshift_/ TikTok & YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekitchenshift This podcast aligns with Day 3 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodThere is still time to join the Fall Program and there are two ways to join you can purchase the Fall Session for $99, or become a member for $20/month for year-round support, access to every session, Livy AI, member perks and more. The program is meant to fit into your life, not make your life the program. So start when you’re ready, make it work for you, and visit livymethod.com to join us.

Everyone is telling you to eat more protein. Almost nobody is telling you how much you actually need or why the number you keep reading online was never written for your body.Gina Livy breaks down the protein conversation that's taken over midlife weight loss: where the 20-to-30-gram rule really came from, what protein has to do with protecting muscle through perimenopause and menopause, why the GLP-1 boom changed the whole conversation, and why chewing your food beats drinking it. This podcast aligns with Day 2 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodThere is still time to join the Fall Program and there are two ways to join you can purchase the Fall Session for $99, or become a member for $20/month for year-round support, access to every session, Livy AI, member perks and more. The program is meant to fit into your life, not make your life the program. So start when you’re ready, make it work for you, and visit livymethod.com to join us.

Most people treat goal weight like a finish line. Gina Livy and Odette explain why it's actually the start of a different job, and why so many people regain. They break down the three reasons weight comes back and why the "why" that got you through weight loss isn't the same as what helps you to maintain.Welcome to Day 1 of our Fall Maintenance and Mindfulness Group!This podcast aligns with Day 1 of our Fall Maintenance Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Maintenance and Mindfulness Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulness

Eating less and exercising more works. That's the problem.You force your body to burn fat because there isn't enough fuel coming in and in doing that, you teach it that it needed the fat in the first place. Then it comes back, and somewhere along the way you decided that was a discipline problem.Welcome to the first live of the Fall! Today Gina Livy breaks down the difference between weight loss and fat loss, why calorie math falls apart for women in perimenopause and menopause, and the three reasons weight comes back after you've lost it. She also gets into where GLP-1 medications genuinely help, where they don't, and why food noise and appetite are only part of the picture.This podcast aligns with Day 1 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodThere is still time to join the Fall Program and there are two ways to join you can purchase the Fall Session for $99, or become a member for $20/month for year-round support, access to every session, Livy AI, member perks and more. The program is meant to fit into your life, not make your life the program. So start when you’re ready, make it work for you, and visit livymethod.com to join us.

You can eat in a calorie deficit and still not lose weight. If your sleep is wrecked, your stress has been chronic for years and you've quietly lost muscle, the deficit isn't fixing what's underneath it all. Gina Livy brings five experts to the table to cut through the noise on hormones, sleep, stress and weight loss: Dr. Olinca Trejo on why insulin resistance is a symptom and not a diagnosis, Dr. Paul Hrkal on rebuilding trust with a body you've stopped believing in, clinical psychologist Dr. Beverley David on replacing judgment with curiosity, sleep and stress educator Alanna McGinn on why rest and sleep are not the same thing, and learning strategist Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer on the smallest possible first step.Looking to make change this Fall, start here. Where to Find Them: Dr. Beverley DavidInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdrbeverley/Website: https://www.yourpsychologycentre.ca/ Dr. Olinca TrejoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.olinca/Email: info@drolinca.comDr. Deena Kara ShafferInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedlearning/Website: https://www.awakenedlearning.ca/ Dr. Paul HrkalInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpaulhrkal/Website: http://www.paulhrkalnd.com Alanna McGinnInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/alanna.mcginn/Website: https://alannamcginn.com/  Podcast: https://www.thebedtimeedit.com This podcast aligns with Sep 9th of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethod

Food is not the enemy. Baking is not the enemy. Our relationship with food is usually the problem.Colin Asuncion, Great Canadian Baking Show finalist and judge on the new Halloween Bakeshop, joins Gina for an honest conversation about baking without the guilt. His advice for anyone who loves to bake but doesn't want to eat the whole tray: make the batch, have one, give the rest away. They also cover the ingredient swaps that genuinely work and the ones that ruin a bake, why almond-flour desserts beat most gluten-free flour substitutes, how to freeze baked goods so they actually keep and the pantry staples that let you make almost anything.Halloween Bake Shop premieres September 13 on Flavor Network and Stack TV.Where to find Colin: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinasuncionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colinasuncionThis podcast aligns with Sep 8th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

You keep meaning to deal with it. The closet, the freezer, the room you close the door on. And you keep not doing it, then wondering what's wrong with you.Professional organizer and certified KonMari consultant Effy Terry joins Gina to talk about why nothing is wrong with you, why clutter in midlife is really just catch-up, and why the clothes in the back of your closet are keeping you stuck at a size and a stage you've already left. They get into aspirational buying, sunken cost, body doubling, sharing a home with someone whose system isn't yours, and why an organized pantry has more to do with weight loss after 40 than anyone tells you.One thing you can change today: open one drawer and get rid of the past versions of yourself.Because your home should be the place you recover in, not the place you recover from.Where to Find Effy:Website: https://organizethat.ca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/organizethatwitheffyterry/Effy appears on the Netflix series, Hoarders (Season 15, Episodes 9 & 11)This podcast aligns with Sep 2nd of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20