I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is episode number 349.

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.

Hello, all my dear friends, all over the world. Happy,, happy ho, ho. I hope you're enjoying yourself,

and I hope you're following my two-part challenge that I introduced you to over the last two weeks.

And that was, number one, eat between the twos, I didn't even specify fuel food. Even if it's a

fuel joy meal, just don't turn it into a fuel joy fog. Keep it between the twos, for those of you

who know what I'm talking about, about my hunger scale, keep it between the twos, eat when you're hungry, stop when

you're full. And I think it's the best gift you can give yourself during the holidays is to not

overeat. And part two of my challenge was to not over give. There's no numbers. There's no scale for it, but it's a good idea for me to think

about that. But just to be able to be honoring what you're actually capable of doing this

holiday season from the bottom of your heart, but also knowing when your mind, body says, I can't do it, stop, and learning how

to say no when it will not work for you. And that might mean disappointing other people,

which is what that episode was all about, is what's more important to you, disappointing yourself or

disappointing other people? I think a lot of you come from the idea that I would never want to

disappoint other people, but if it's just me, it doesn't matter. And I will tell you what,

there is nothing that matters more than being able

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