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 195.

Stay tuned. Hi, everybody. How are you today? Well, I don't know about you, but me in the Midwest, it was almost 70 degrees on Christmas Day.

I almost thought I was back in Belize.

I wonder how your weather was.

It was so awesome.

And I hope you guys had a wonderful holiday.

And today I have some really interesting things that I want to talk to you about.

I had this really great epiphany. I was speaking with one of my clients yesterday,

and one of the things that we were talking about is we were talking about cravings.

When I work with clients in my bigger programs, one of the things that we do in the second phase of the program is we really work on eating anti-inflammatory foods because I think foods that inflame your body on a regular basis

are really the cause for all disease. And you get to a point, I think, where when your mind is really managed,

you can start working on what foods work best in your body. So in the beginning, and through all of

these podcasts, what I work with you the most is what goes on in your mind that creates all

the sagas and the scenarios into why you eat

when you're not hungry and what goes on in your head and how to create new and better thoughts

so that you can be very mindful about why you're eating whatever you put into your mouth.

So what we do in the second phase of the

program is we really concentrate on the body and what foods really fuel the body and what foods

hurt the body. Just like in the beginning, what thoughts fuel the mind and what thoughts really

don't fuel the mind, sort of speak, and where you end up

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