Ep 419 Equanimity To Stop The Scale Struggle

Thinner Peace in Menopause

Dr. Deb Butler

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I will still talk about the concept of equanimity, an over two thousand year old Buddhist practice that can help you develop a calmer relationship with the scale and food – especially when the numbers aren't what you want to see.

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.
0:05.5	This is episode number 419.
0:13.2	Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach,
0:20.4	and as always, your coach. If you're a woman
0:24.2	and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your whole life,
0:30.2	and now menopause is making it harder than ever, and you are ready to make this the last time
0:37.2	you ever have to go on a diet again, then this
0:40.4	podcast is for you. Stay tuned.
0:46.5	Well, hello, all my dear friends all over this beautiful world of ours.
0:51.0	I don't know about you, but if you were in the path of the eclipse, maybe you got to
0:55.5	see it. Maybe you got to see it better than I got to see it, but I know you heard about it.
1:01.0	And I wasn't quite on the path, but being in St. Louis, Missouri, I was pretty close to some of
1:06.3	those spots. So it was really an amazing spectacle. And it's something that doesn't happen very often.
1:15.4	And once again, I am an awe of nature and how little control I have over things like that.
1:22.3	I got to watch it. I got to enjoy it. And I didn't have anything to do with it. And it even brings me back to the whole
1:29.2	idea of nature in itself and our brains and our minds and what we have control over and what we
1:37.6	don't have control over. And one of the things we have no control over is nature for sure.
1:43.4	And this in nature was something that I really got to
1:47.5	be in awe over, and I'm sure you did too. And it is one of those things that what can I control
1:55.2	and what can't I control. That's kind of the topic today that I want to talk to you about is what you can
2:01.9	control and what you can't control. And one of the topics that I talked about two weeks ago
2:07.3	was the idea of equanimity. And I talked to you about that because with the Buddhist philosophy,
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