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

This is episode number 429.

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 dearest friends all over the world.

Welcome to summer, and I hope that your summer, well, it's almost summer.

I hope your summer is getting off to a good start. I know that I told you last time in my last

podcast that I'm readjusting my schedule so that I can get out much earlier in the morning and get my play in. And of course, for those of you who may not

have heard me very often when I talk about play, that is what I call exercise. And what I wish for all of you

that are listening is that your exercise becomes your play.

That when you get to do it, it feels like you're going to play.

Because really, that is what it's all about.

And when we were children, we went out to move our bodies,

but we did not tell our parents, I need to go out and move my body or I need to go out and exercise.

We said, I want to go out and play.

So think about that.

That's not what this podcast is about.

But certainly, anytime you go to move your body and you know that it's possible that you'll

feel so much better that when you're done, that you look at it in a way

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