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 David

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdrbeverley/

Website: https://www.yourpsychologycentre.ca/

Dr. Olinca Trejo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.olinca/

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedlearning/

Website: https://www.awakenedlearning.ca/

Dr. Paul Hrkal

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpaulhrkal/

Website: http://www.paulhrkalnd.com

Alanna McGinn

Instagram:  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

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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/colinasuncion

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colinasuncion

This 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

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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

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Food is one of the last places culture still lives. It's how your family said I love you, how traditions crossed oceans, how a recipe outlived the person who wrote it down. Gina sits down with Capri Cafaro, radio host, TV personality, creator of the Emmy-nominated PBS series America the Bountiful and author of United We Eat, who has spent years travelling North America collecting the stories behind what people grow, make and pass down. Why food is the strongest keeper of cultural memory we have. What Indigenous food sovereignty teaches everyone about eating well. Why knowing who grew your food changes how you eat it. And what gets lost when a meal becomes a calorie count instead of a story. Plus the reason slowing down at the table might matter more than anything on it.

Where to Find Capri and her new show Post Cards Across Canada:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BountifulTellsStories

Website: https://www.capriscafaro.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capriscafaro/

Bountiful Media: https://bountifulmediabrands.com

This podcast aligns with Sep 1st of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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If the weight crept back on this summer, nothing is broken, your routine changed, and your body followed.

Gina unpacks why weight regain after 40 has less to do with willpower than with the things that quietly shifted: longer days, later dinners, less water, less sleep and old habits that never fully left. She gets into set point range and why your weight was always meant to move within a 5–10 pound window, why "A-type" people crush weight loss and then struggle in maintenance, and what food noise actually is, including what GLP-1 medications do to it and what they still can't do for you.

This podcast aligns with Aug 31st of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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You look like you have it all together. Inside, you're wondering how much longer you can keep this up.

Mental health professional, award-winning speaker and author Calissa Ngozi joins Gina to talk about burnout in midlife and why exhaustion became a badge of honour, why rest comes wrapped in guilt, and why so many women only recognize burnout in everyone else.

One thing you can change today: give yourself permission to pause.

Because you can't take care of anyone else if you're not taking care of yourself.

Where to Find Calissa:

Website: https://www.calissangozi.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calissangozi/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calissa.ngozi

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/calissangozi 

Her book, The Oxygen Mask Mindset is available on Amazon.

This podcast aligns with Aug 27th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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From your first period to well past menopause, it's the same set of ovaries calling the shots, and almost no one ever explained what they're actually doing.

Gina sits down with Dr. Sony Sierra, one of Canada's leading fertility specialists, for the conversation you can't get in a ten-minute appointment. Why "just lose weight" was never the real answer. What twenty years of losing and regaining does to your hormones. Why the way you lose weight matters more than the number. And why the hardest part of menopause is that nobody warned you. They also talk the PCOS name change, GLP-1s and fertility, and what the research says about plastics.

Where To Find Dr. Sony:

Websites:

EVOLVE Egg Freezing Clinic: https://evolveeggfreeze.com/

TRIO Fertility: https://triofertility.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsonysierra

This podcast aligns with Aug 26th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026

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Have you ever heard your own voice climb an octave mid-sentence and wondered who that was? Voice coach, musician and author Lucy Walsh joins Gina to explain why you sound different depending on who's in the room and why it's a survival tactic you learned a long time ago. They get into hiding in plain sight, why overcompensating to fill an awkward silence is a way of abandoning yourself, what comes up when you finally stop shallow breathing and drop into your body, and why "releasing" the old versions of you doesn't work.

Gina opens solo on a morning where nothing went to plan: a printer that quit, a live stream that wouldn't start, and a missing guest, yet it becomes a do not miss conversation about how to stop hiding from yourself.

Where to find Lucy Walsh:

Website: https://www.lucywalsh.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelucywalsh

Podcast: The Lucy Walsh Podcast

You'll find Lucy's book, Remember Me as Human on Amazon.

This podcast aligns with Aug 25th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026

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You're doing all the things, the water, the greens, the protein, the walking, the sleep, and the scale hasn't moved in months. Gina opens with a message from a woman who's been stuck in the same five-pound range since February and asks the question most women in midlife are afraid to say out loud: what if something is wrong with me?

The answer: nothing is wrong with you. The plan that worked two years ago isn't the plan your body needs today. She unpacks why weight loss stalls in perimenopause and menopause, how hormones, sleep and stress quietly change the equation, when it's time to get your bloodwork done, and why eating less and less is almost always the wrong move.

This podcast aligns with Aug 24th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026

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Gina sits down with Livy Community member Megan Mapley for an open conversation about sustainable weight loss, mindset, emotional eating and what it really takes to create lasting change. After losing 53 pounds, regaining weight when life got busy and finding her way forward again, Megan shares why she stopped chasing the all-or-nothing approach and started building habits she could actually live with. They talk about food noise, social media, movement, body image, GLP-1 weight loss medications and the difference between needing a reset and believing you have to start over. It’s a relatable reminder that weight loss isn’t about perfection or quick fixes. It’s about learning what works for your body, trusting yourself and continuing to make progress through every season of life.

Where to Find Megan:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endlessprogressproject/

This podcast aligns with Aug 19th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026

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