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

number 251. 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, happy winter. I don't know about you, but it's pretty cold around here.

I am really enjoying the cold weather. You know, it's all how you think about it. That's what I have to say,

because I used to believe there was a time maybe 20 years ago when I absolutely believed without a doubt

that when it was winter and when it got cold outside, you know who did not go out there.

You know who did not go for any type of movement or exercise or anything.

And you know what?

When I was a chiropractor, I had so many patients that would say to me, oh yeah, it's winter.

I don't work out in the winter. I can't go out.

And, you know, this is what I'm really talking about today is about this thinner piece mindset.

So my mindset or my belief system used to be, I don't work out in cold weather. I mean, I believed it was too cold and you couldn't do it.

I believed it was a fact. I believed it. I thought it for so long that it actually was a fact to me.

And, you know, I talked to you a lot about the difference between a circumstance and a fact and a thought. And the difference

between a fact and a thought, or the difference between a circumstance and a thought is very

important because when I work with my clients, I make it really imperative that they understand

that when they're telling a story to themselves

and they're creating negative emotion with their thoughts that they have to know what they're

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