Welcome to Thinner Piece of Menopause and Beyond.

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

Today is episode number 186, and I want to talk to you about the art of a joy eat.

So stay tuned.

Hi, everybody. How are all my dear friends today? Gosh, I really do feel like your friends.

I can't see your faces, but I can hear your voices from doing many sessions with you and getting so many

letters and questions. I really feel like I know you and you are me and I am you and we are all the

same. That's one thing I know for sure. And that's one thing I want all of you to know is that you guys, you're not alone.

Seriously, the things that are bothering you and the things that you write to me about that have to

do with weight, your body, and food is seriously an epidemic. And it's not just in this age group.

It is epidemic around women starting at a very young age, I'm afraid. And unfortunately, I cannot be the one to be the crusader for all ages, but I am the crusader for this age. Is like, you know what? If we don't stop it now, when do you think

you're going to? That's the question. So for a lot of you, what many of you write to me is maybe

the question of maybe it's too late. I've been doing this for so long. I've failed so often.

I can never do it. Those kind of thoughts, I hear it so often. And what I want to

tell you is that seriously, this stage of life of menopause, it is like a kick in the butt stage,

or lack of a better term, it is a kick in the butt stage. And I want you to know that you are being

kicked in the butt. And that's why you have this, when you resonate with what I'm talking about,

is because you know that I'm talking about something that's different and you can feel inside

your own bones that it's what is the truth for you.

Because that's what happened to me is once I started hearing this, it's like I just knew

it was true.

It was like inside of me, it was the truth that I already knew.

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