You are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond with Dr. Deb Butler. This is episode

number 244. Don't throw your mind out just because it's the holidays. Welcome to Thinner Piece and

Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. If you're a woman

and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your whole life

and now menopause is making it harder than ever, and you are ready to make this the last time you ever have to go on a diet again,

then this podcast is for you. Stay tuned.

Hi, all my dear friends, how are you today? We're getting closer and closer to the holidays,

whatever holidays it is that you celebrate.

But what I want to talk about today is the idea that I remember when I was in my yo-yo

stage of dieting for 30 years, that when the holidays came, one of the things that I did was basically I threw my mind

out the window. I decided that like, I'm not going to pay attention to anything that's going on

when it comes to what I'm putting in my mouth. I would say to myself, it's the holidays. I can do

what I want. I'm going to celebrate. I'm going to have fun, I'm going to do

this, I'm going to do that, as if I was giving myself this hall pass for the holidays.

Like I was giving myself this gift. And of course, this gift that I thought I was giving

to myself, I gave to myself for 30 years

and ended up getting the exact same result of gaining and losing weight forever.

One of the ways that I stopped that, I was really thinking about this, one of the ways that

I stopped that is what I want to talk to you about today.

And that is this. You have a mind. You have a mind that when you use it, it can become very, very aware of

everything that's going on around you. And to throw it out the window is really not a very smart thing

for you being such a smart woman is not a very smart thing to do if you're really wanting to take

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