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 227, and I'm going to teach you the skill of using the discomfort of urges to help you lose weight.

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Hello, all my dear friends.

How are you today?

Well, let me tell you how I am.

I'm amazing.

And you want to know why?

Because I just got through with a two-week staycation. I didn't go anywhere. I think you, I told you this in one of my podcasts that I wasn't going anywhere because there's nowhere for me to go. But it was time for me to take a break. I was tired. My body was tired. My brain was tired. And this is what I tell you guys all the time. You know,

you have to be a body whisper and you have to listen to your body. And I kind of forgot because I wasn't

going anywhere and I didn't have any vacations. So finally, my body spoke loud enough. I can't say

that it was a negative too. It was a little bit louder. But I finally heard it and I took a

couple weeks off and it was right during my birthday, which is what I love to do. I love to celebrate

my birthday and I love to celebrate it long and that's exactly what I did. And now I can tell you that

my body feels relaxed. My brain is open and I'm so much better as a coach to my

clients and so much better as a host for this podcast where I'm speaking to you. And I want to

encourage all of you that if you're working and you have no vacations planned, you still have to

take time off and just go inside your

own body and get a feel for what's going on and then decide exactly what you want to do. Listen,

if you don't take care of your body, who is going to? Which leads me to this idea of what I want

to talk to you about today because it is about

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