Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

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

And today is episode number 183.

And I want to talk to you about the only solution to permanent weight loss. Stay tuned.

Hi, everybody. How are all my dear friends today the thousands and thousands and thousands of you?

I cannot believe how many people I'm talking to right now. It blows my mind because I'm just

sitting here talking to the trees and there's a lot of you listening. So that is like, it's so

much fun to think about it. And I guess more than anything since I've gotten so many letters

and I've worked with so many of you as clients

and have seen your lives change so much that I guess I just feel like it's a privilege

that I sit here every week and get to talk to the trees via you.

And it really is a privilege.

And today, what I really want to talk to you about is what I've been seeing a lot in my clients.

And you know that I end every single podcast with the same thing for 183 episodes, which is, please, please, please, be very, very kind to yourself. And I want to talk about that even more today because you know what?

I say it a lot and the more I talk to you, the more I hear that you just don't know how to do it. Because every single

one of you that I talk to and most of my clients that I work with, especially in the beginning,

are tyrants. I mean, seriously, terrible. Ter terrible the way you talk to yourself.

And you all wonder why you feel so bad.

And you think that the reason that you feel so bad is because of the number on the scale

or the weight on your body or whatever it is that you're putting in your mouth.

But the real reason that you feel so bad

is because of the way that you talk to yourself. And listen, when you're talking to yourself,

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