You are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

I'm Dr. Deb Butler, and this is episode number 405.

Welcome to Thinner Peace 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. How are you today? Today is Sunday for me and Sundays usually

mean fun days for me and my husband Michael. We usually go out and get a good walk, hike, bike,

ride in and then go to one of our favorite restaurants to eat. And I don't think this Sunday is

going to be any different than any other Sunday. And I usually do a podcast before I do all that.

So this is kind of my normal routine on Sundays. And we're in the middle of winter. So it's cold outside. And to be specific, I think right now

it's about 35 degrees and I don't know. I think that's cold. But here's the thing is the fact of

the matter is, is that it's 30 degrees out. And I can think whatever I want about that. So, you know, maybe

25 years ago, my thought about that temperature was, I don't go out in that weather. I don't

work out in that weather. I don't do anything in that weather other than look at it from the inside.

That's the way I used to think about it. And then one holiday, one Christmas, my husband Michael,

bought me a bunch of warm weather clothes. And as I'm opening up these gifts, I'm thinking to myself, I think he's crazy. And I don't

know why he did that. And I was kind of disappointed because it's nothing that I wanted. I didn't

want any of that because I don't work out in cold weather. But he said to me in his most

gentle way of speaking to me is, well, you know, we can always return it, but maybe

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