Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, master life and weight coach, and as always, your coach.

Today is episode number 180, and as usual, I got something good for you, so stay tuned.

Welcome back, everyone, to all of you who have been following me all along. And I also want to welcome all of my new listeners who may just be listening to this

podcast for the first time. Welcome.

And let me tell you what, I've got some good stuff for you today. So we're going to be

talking all about the concept of wasting food. And I'm going to start it out because I got a

really great letter from one of you, one of you,

my wonderful listeners who send me wonderful letters and give me great ideas. This is from Kate.

I want to read you part of her letter because this is what got me thinking about this podcast

for today and also for my podcast for next week too. That's how good

this letter is. So I'm going to read this to you and see what you think. Kate's letter is pretty

lengthy, but I want to read this one paragraph, which is where I got my idea about wasting food from.

And this is what she says after she told me that she enjoyed the podcast and how much it was

helping her.

She said, I was very interested in your discussions about anger not being a food group.

You can't eat your feelings, but boy, it's easy to do. I grew up in a home

where food was not plentiful. You ate what was on your plate because that was all there was.

You could never leave food behind because it was wasteful. My parents lived through the Second

World War and they were very frugal, and they certainly passed that sense of responsibility to clean your plate and never throw food out.

I now understand that my odd relationship with food is very much ingrained from those early years, and it may take some time to remove that brainwashing, but your podcasts are helping.

And even as I type this, I'm realizing

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