Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach and your coach.

Today is episode 41, and we're going to be talking about all the challenges that can happen to you while you're going through this journey of weight

loss and mindfulness and how to handle them ahead of time. Stay tuned.

Well, everybody, I got to tell you, guess where I am today? You'll never guess it, so I'm

going to tell you. I am in Belize, yes, and I am talking to you from a hotel room. So if the

sound sounds a little bit different, or you hear waves from the ocean, even though the door is closed, or you hear

music or you hear people laughing. That's part of being in Belize right now. And that's my best case

scenario for you today is I'm having a good time here in Belize and I'm hunkering down to try to tell you some

things that might help you for this week. And I thought where I would begin is with challenges

because, number one, I'm thinking of living here for the next three months. And there's a lot of challenges

that I'm thinking about that are going to happen. And instead of waiting for them to happen,

I'm thinking about what they might be right now and what the obstacles are going to be

and then the strategy. So that when it actually happens,

I'll be ready to deal with it. So that's what I'm doing here because as I'm getting ready to

live here, there are so many things that have to be done and so many challenges. Let me tell you,

I went to the phone

company yesterday. Oh my gosh, trying to get my phone to be able to work in Belize. Lots of time,

effort, and nothing happened. Now, I had a choice that I could go off the deep end and scream

or yell or kill somebody, which would not be good being in

another country, as you all know, of course, I'm just kidding. But, you know, to get that upset.

Or what I decided ahead of time was that everything is slower in Belize, because it is. And no matter

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