Ep 311: Willpower vs. Allowing Urges
Thinner Peace in Menopause
Dr. Deb Butler
4.7 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Whether you feel you have enough or not enough willpower around food, here's the truth: willpower DOESN'T work. So long as you continue to desire any food, your willpower will give. So in this episode, I provide two ways that will help you in lessening your urges around food through one key idea - by allowing it.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Piece of Manipause and Beyond. |
| 0:05.3 | This is episode number 311. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. If you're a woman and you're smart |
| 0:24.5 | and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your whole life and now menopause is |
| 0:30.3 | 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 |
| 0:39.8 | is for you. Stay tuned. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, everybody. How are you today? Hey, I've got some quick tips for you today. This is not going to be a long podcast. I'm sorry, |
| 0:56.3 | but I wanted to make sure that I got you some fantastic information. And, you know, with doing |
| 1:02.4 | all these many sessions that I do, which of course I encourage you to set up one with me, |
| 1:07.6 | if you want to learn some more about the concepts that I teach or if you're trying |
| 1:12.6 | to apply the concepts that I teach, you can always talk to me by going to Dr. Deb Butler.com |
| 1:20.3 | forward slash work with me and set up a mini session. It's free and I promise you you will walk away with something that can change |
| 1:29.5 | your life. And today I am going to give you two tips on how to handle an urge when you're around |
| 1:38.6 | of food or around alcohol and you know you don't want to eat it, but you're not sure how to handle it |
| 1:48.6 | when you really, really want it. And of course, what I've told you about in the past, |
| 1:53.1 | about what this is called is when you really, really want something and you don't think |
| 1:57.6 | you can resist it, it's called an urge or a desire or an over desire. |
| 2:05.4 | And of course, anytime we desire something, it is very, very difficult not to eat it. |
| 2:13.2 | But what I have told you in the past and what I'm telling you right now is that to lessen your |
| 2:18.9 | desire and to not give into an urge is to be able to allow it. And I have lots of questions on this. |
| 2:29.9 | What do you mean? How do you do it? I can't do it. It's so hard. But I have two different methods |
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