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

This is episode number 379.

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.

Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world, and I do mean all over the world.

In fact, last week I spoke with somebody in Pakistan.

I mean, seriously. I mean all over the world. And today, I have some things that I want to talk to you

about based on my group that I'm doing right now. So I have a thinner piece and menopause group program that is

going on right now. It opened maybe like a couple months ago and we're in the middle of it.

And I always like to share some of the things that I learn from my students and some of the things that they learn from me and how we might be

able to help you wherever you are in this journey. And as I'm speaking about this, I want to

share with you the idea of this. Writing down what you eat means nothing until you make it means something.

And what I'm talking about is food journaling. And listen, I'm with you on this. You know,

or maybe you don't know that I was a Weight Watcher for 30 years, a lifetime Weight Watcher member.

And I always went back to Weight Watchers every time I gained my weight back.

So I was up and down 20 to 30 pounds, did it for 30 years, probably lost a minimum of 250 pounds and probably gained a minimum of

250 pounds in that 30 years. And it's something that I don't want to do it again. And it's

something that I won't ever do again. And there are so many of you who were doing what I was doing

and you're sick of it, just like I was sick of it. And I think today I have something very,

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