Welcome to Thinner Peace in Menopause, the mindful management of your mind and body with Dr. Deb.

Now, I'm Dr. Michael Butler.

I've been her husband for almost four decades and her friend for longer than that.

I know Debbie and I think she thinks funny. Don't tell her I said that. But she thinks

within and she knows that losing weight comes from within. And now Dr. Deb.

Hi everyone. This is episode three. And today we're going to talk about emotional hunger.

Finally. And what we've discussed over the last couple episodes was all about the physical

sensations in your body and to just be able to pay attention to those and to become very aware of what your hunger feels

like, what it feels like when you're hungry, and what it feels like when you're satisfied.

And probably what you've noticed is that satisfaction can be very, very different for every individual person. And that's why we

use the scale of negative 10 to plus 10, which means that hunger can go anywhere from zero to a plus 10.

So what I discussed with you was the whole idea of stopping at a plus two.

So I was wondering how it went for you and you can't talk back to me.

So I'm going to tell you what some of the reactions are from some of my clients when they first do this, when they first start with the hunger scale.

And maybe you'll be able to relate to it.

And then I can talk to you about how to let that help you. Because really, we're not

judging what we're seeing right now. All we're doing is seeing what we feel and saying,

aren't we just totally interesting people? That's all we're doing right now. But in reality,

what I'm really teaching you to do is to become your own body whisper. That means paying attention

to all the small things that go in your body and pay attention to the small things so they don't turn into big things.

And I think when it comes to hunger, the big things is being overweight and being uncomfortable.

And when you're paying attention to the little things, I think you have a body that is

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