Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach.

Today is episode number 170, and today I am going to coach a fellow podcast listener

on a problem that I know a lot of you have.

And it's all about being kind to yourself and coming back to yourself.

Stay tuned.

Hi, everybody.

I'm getting ready to go to the Azoores Islands. I'm so excited. And today, in honor of me

getting ready to leave, I wanted to leave you with a coaching session that I did with just another

podcast listener who had sent me a letter. And I thought it was such an intriguing

letter and so many people, I think, have so many of the same issues that I asked her if she would

come on and be coached. And she was brave enough to say yes. So today, what I would like to do is

introduce you to Berta. And I want to read you the letter that she wrote to me

here. And then I want you to listen as I coach her. And then I'll come back on the end and say a few

words. This is the letter that she wrote me. Hi, Dr. Deb. I began to hear your podcast and it

literally changed my life. I live in the Republic of

Panama and a friend of mine from Utah told me about your podcast and I've been hearing it every day

for the last month and a half. I am 50 and around 15 to 20 pounds overweight and into menopause.

I have been following all your advice and suddenly I had a problem at work. I worked for myself and

everything was late and I needed to make some payments to be on time for delivery of merchandise,

the usual. It makes me super anxious so I start to eat uncontrollably again. I just ate half a

pint of ice cream and it's 10 p.m. at night. I wonder how can I get back on track or is it that I will never get back on track again? I lost four pounds and I gained two during this weekend. Do you recommend that I should start again from episode one right now? I am on episode 85. Sorry to bother you, but I am desperate here. Don't know if it's my mind or

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