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

number 413. 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.

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, and I hope it's the same for you, too. And today, what I want to

talk to you about is this, because this is what I hear a lot with my individual clients, with my

group clients, is the frustration of when the scale doesn't do what you wanted to do. And I know I have done

podcasts on this, but I think I have a different way of looking at it. And I'm hoping it may

help you to because frustration, that feeling that we create when we think something is not

going right or we're throwing a tantrum because the scale's not doing something when we think we are.

Being able to control that feeling by thinking what we decide to think about the scale is probably one of the best

things that you can ever get from working with me. Because if you can become more peaceful

around the scale, then when it gives you numbers, you can look at it with curiosity and then become a detective

in terms of your own work. But you can only do that if you're curious. If you're frustrated,

what may happen or what I see happen or what certainly has happened to me is I get frustrated

and then what I do is I want to reward myself or maybe

you want to reward yourself with food, especially when you're not hungry, because you think

that you're working so hard and being so good and the scale is not acknowledging you. So

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