The Livy Method Podcast

Which supplements are actually worth taking? And why do so many people lose hair while they’re losing weight? Naturopathic doctor Dr. Paul Hrkal joins Gina Livy to walk through the five foundational supplements he considers safe and effective for most people. Then he breaks down six common causes of hair loss, and why an expensive hair gummy may not fix what’s really going on. They also cover obes...

You lost the weight. You’re eating well. So why is the food noise still so loud at 9 PM? Guest Jenna Jones, a social worker and psychotherapist turned coach who specializes in food noise, joins Gina Livy and Odette to unpack what’s really going on. Her take: food noise is information. Sometimes it’s hunger. Sometimes it’s a food rule that doesn’t fit your life. And sometimes it’s grief. When food...

“Aging gracefully” never sat right with Melissa Grelo. The longtime co-host of CTV’s The Social and host of the Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo podcast joins Gina Livy to talk about menopause, midlife, and why this is the stage to stop shrinking and start taking up space. They talk about finding your voice after decades of people-pleasing, and why speaking up is a muscle that gets stronger eve...

What would you learn if you ate a few bites less at every meal for one week? Gina Livy and Kim walk through a simple portion experiment. It’s built to help you recognize the moment you’ve had enough, which is one of the most useful skills for midlife weight loss and for keeping the weight off. They talk about why so many people would rather serve themselves less than leave food on the plate. They...

Holiday season is coming, and if you've lost weight, it can stir up more than the food: family opinions, old roles, grief, and the urge to control everything. Gina Livy and Odette talk through how to keep the weight off without turning it into a full-time job, from the boring basics that keep working to why "accountability" doesn't have to mean beating yourself up. You'll hea...

Gina and Dr. Trejo talk about what happens when your stress outpaces your capacity to recover, and why that hits harder in perimenopause and menopause. They get into loneliness, social media overload, the "doctor says it's not your cortisol" frustration, and why doing less often works better than adding more. You'll hear which supplements have research behind them, which popular...

Two sleep experts. One question for nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning: what do you do when you're exhausted, overwhelmed and your brain won't switch off? Gina talks with Dr. Beverley David, a clinical psychologist who has been teaching insomnia treatment since 1998, and Alanna McGinn, a sleep, stress and divorce specialist. They cover why rumination wrecks sleep, how to break the worry...

You've done the weight loss. So why is your brain still negotiating with a bag of chips at 8PM? Gina and Odette get honest about food noise, why chasing a "cure" misses the point and how a simple pause can change how you respond to it. You'll also hear why mindfulness isn't extra work, what to do about food noise on medication, and a real conversation about letting go of the...

Your weight can swing several pounds in a single day, and most of it has nothing to do with fat. Today, Gina Livy explains why the scale often goes up right before it goes down. She covers how sore muscles, water retention, a late night, and a weekend of chips can all move the number. She also explains why weighing yourself once a week hides the pattern you need to see. Then she gets honest about...

If you feel guilty when you're not busy, you're far from alone. Odette flies solo for this midweek conversation and starts with how busyness has quietly become a measure of self-worth, and doing less can feel like not doing enough. With a surprise visit from Gina, she shares the feeling with some practical advice about how you can support the new version of yourself by having and doing les...

Why does change feel hardest right after you've committed to it? Breathwork trainer and transformation coach Meg Pearson has guided thousands of people through major life changes. She joins Gina Livy to walk through her seven-stage pivot cycle: the niggle, the resistance, the leap, and "the void." They talk about why we cling to familiar habits even when they aren't serving us, a...

Losing weight often people try everything: every supplement, every workout, every routine. Keeping it off is different. Gina Livy and Odette make the case that what comes next is getting picky about what actually works for you. In this Mindset Monday conversation, they look at the habits people keep out of "should" rather than results. That includes supplements you never re-evaluated, wo...

Consistency isn't perfection. Sometimes it's two glasses of water on a chaotic day. In this live session, Gina Livy explains why you don't need someone to hold you accountable, why all-or-nothing people fall off as hard as they go in, and how non-negotiables can keep you going when motivation doesn't. She also takes on plateaus, weight loss while sick, hormone shifts, and whether l...

Words matter. If "what's wrong with me?" is your first thought when the scale goes up or a workout gets missed, this episode is for you. Gina Livy and Odette dig into how the words you use on yourself shape your mindset, and how small changes in wording can shift everything. "I skipped my workout" becomes "I chose not to today." "I gained weight" becomes...

Personal trainer Andrew Blakey specializes in resistance training for adults over 40. His first rule for beginners might surprise you: start small. Gina and Andrew talk about why getting back into exercise feels so hard, why so many people quit after the first sore week, and how the "go hard or go home" fitness culture of the '80s and '90s still shapes what we think a good workou...

Jenn Harper was newly sober and selling seafood when she woke from a dream that became Cheekbone Beauty, now stocked at Sephora. In this conversation with Gina Livy, she names the belief that nearly cost her the business: that she was supposed to figure it out on her own. Jenn and Gina get into the old stories that block change, what a year of everything-failing actually teaches you, the differenc...

Gina Livy and Odette open week one of maintenance with a claim that sounds backwards: the food is the easy part. Knowing what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat is learnable. What's harder is everything sitting underneath it; the fear of gaining it back, the old habits that feel comforting because they're familiar, and the quiet belief that once you hit your number, the work is finished. "My...

The scale is up two pounds after an almost perfect day. Most people read that as failure. Gina Livy reads it as a sign the weight is about to drop. Gina breaks down what the scale is actually measuring and why the number climbs right before fat is released. She covers the three signals that weight is on its way down, why weighing once a week tells you almost nothing while weighing daily tells you...

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 eve...

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 t...

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 w...

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...

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...

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...

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....