Ep 357: Find Your Motivation: Reward vs. Punishment
Thinner Peace in Menopause
Dr. Deb Butler
4.7 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
If you have tried to lose weight, you may have used food at one point as a reward or punishment- usually as the former since we don't feel as good about ourselves and think we should deprive ourselves. 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.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:05.8 | This is episode number 357. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. |
| 0:24.4 | If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your |
| 0:30.2 | whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever and you are ready to make this |
| 0:37.4 | the last time you ever have to go on a diet again |
| 0:40.7 | then this podcast is for you stay tuned hello all my dear friends all over the world today i want to play you one of my most valued podcasts, one of my |
| 0:58.5 | most downloaded podcasts over the last six years, because I know how much it will help you. |
| 1:04.0 | And it's all about reward versus punishment. And I know a lot of you think somehow that food is a comfort or you're using it as a reward |
| 1:19.1 | for an emotional hole. |
| 1:22.5 | And today what I want you to listen to very, very carefully is the truth about how to use food for reward |
| 1:32.5 | and not the way that you think it is. So sit back, take a walk, take a drive, take a bath, |
| 1:40.1 | if you're anything like I am, and listen to one of my most downloaded podcasts. |
| 1:46.0 | You don't have to go back and listen to it. |
| 1:47.9 | You can just listen to it right here. |
| 1:50.4 | And please, if you're new to my podcast, please make sure that you go back to the first podcast |
| 1:57.5 | and listen to them in order as it will help you understand the thinner piece |
| 2:04.7 | process even more. Enjoy. Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world. I'm sitting here |
| 2:12.7 | right now, getting ready. I know this is going to be a big shock to you. I usually do my podcast before I take |
| 2:20.4 | myself out for a fun day. That's usually the way I plan it. So my reward for doing this podcast and |
| 2:29.1 | sitting down and talking to you and getting all of my thoughts together is a fun day. And probably one of my most |
| 2:38.4 | fun days for me is when I get to go out in the woods. You know, you've heard this a million |
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