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 213.

I'm going to give you three simple steps to stop overeating and over drinking now. Stay tuned.

Hi, everybody. How are you today? Every podcast that I do, I keep telling you spring is here, spring is close.

Spring is here. My woods are fully developed.

The leaves are huge. They're adult leaves now. It is so much fun to watch them go from little

buds and they get a little bit bigger every day. It takes weeks when you watch it. And the miracle of

nature never, ever stops amazing me. And it's also something that I can always depend on nature.

You know, with all this crazy stuff that's going on right now,

nature's just doing its thing with no help from me or from you or from the government,

from anybody. It's just doing its thing like it always does. Spring is here like it always does. It always comes around this time. It always kind of does its thing. And it is amazing. And it also is very comforting. And I hope it's a comfort to you too, no matter where you are and no matter

what you're doing, that if you just look outside. And I think even something even more

interesting than just look outside, just look up. You know, sometimes I think we are so much

in our heads that we just forget that there's a world

outside. And sometimes, like for me, when I'm out walking and I'm in nature, sometimes I will be in

my head thinking about what I want to talk to you about. That happens to me a lot.

But what I'll do because I'm managing

my mind is I'll just say to myself, look up. And it brings me back to the present moment every single

time. Just look up. And when I look up, you know what I see? I see the clouds. I see the sky. I see the

leaves. I see the birds. It brings me back.

Feel free to use that if it will help you come back. There's nothing better than being able to be

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