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

episode number 401. 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, sweet, kind friends,

all over this beautiful world. Happy holidays. They're coming closer. And even if you don't

celebrate any of these holidays, it's still a lot of holidaying going on, no matter where you are

or what you do. So today, I I thought would be a great day to talk about something

that I have with my clients, not so much with myself, but much more so I've noticed it with my

clients over the years. And I thought this would be a great time to bring up the idea of food pushers.

Now, that has never come across to me. I've never thought about it like that, and I don't have

a problem saying no. But that being said, I have a lot of clients that taught me this term called food pushers.

So I became curious about it over the years, and I was thinking today, what would be a good topic

to talk about during the holidays that really might help you.

So I thought you might be around food pushers too.

Now, you might wonder, at least the first time I heard it, I thought I knew what it meant,

but I asked one of my clients, well, what is a food pusher?

And what she told me, one of my clients said, is it's a person who thinks that you have to eat

their food and they're relentless about you eating whatever it is they want you to eat.

It's not like they just offer it once and they

stop, quote unquote, relentlessly offering. Do you know anybody like that? Well, I think for me,

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