Ep 316: Find Your Motivation: Reward vs. Punishment
Thinner Peace in Menopause
Dr. Deb Butler
4.7 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
If you have ever tried to lose weight, you may have used food at one point as a reward or punishment– usually as the former. But the way our brains work is that it naturally gravitates toward pleasure. Therefore, being self-deprecating will not be a sustainable source of motivation in the long run. This week, I invite you to ask yourself the question: Why am I eating when I'm not even hungry? It's time to find the reward in eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:05.4 | This is episode number 316. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. If you're a woman and you're smart |
| 0:24.7 | and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your whole life and now menopause |
| 0:30.3 | 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 |
| 0:39.6 | podcast is for you. Stay tuned. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world. I'm sitting here right now, getting ready. |
| 0:52.9 | I know this is going to be a big shock to you. |
| 0:54.9 | I usually do my podcast before I take myself out for a fun day. That's usually the way I plan it. |
| 1:04.0 | So my reward for doing this podcast and sitting down and talking to you and getting all of my thoughts together is a fun day. |
| 1:14.5 | And probably one of my most fun days for me is when I get to go out in the woods. |
| 1:21.7 | You know, you've heard this a million times. |
| 1:23.6 | But I have to tell you, it's very, very motivating and very, very rewarding to be able to, |
| 1:31.8 | it's like, I'm going to sit down and really get my thoughts together and have a chat with you. |
| 1:38.5 | And I have to tell you, when I do this, it is a process just to sit down and talk to you and know that whatever |
| 1:48.5 | comes out of my mouth, I have a light outline, and that whatever comes out of my mouth with this |
| 1:55.7 | outline is going to be exactly what you need. And when I do that, then I get to go out and reward myself with being in the woods, walking. |
| 2:09.9 | And one of my new things with walking right now is Nordic tracking, |
| 2:14.4 | where you're actually using walking sticks in both hands to help, for me, it's to help |
| 2:22.2 | get more upper body strength. And the reason that I decided to start using them was, as a lot of you |
| 2:29.2 | may know, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, is I broke my elbow about six |
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