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

This is episode number 432.

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.

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Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world.

It's so good to talk to you today.

And we are, as you probably know, are in the middle of summer almost.

And there are so many things that happen to me that go on in the summer.

And I like to talk about it because there was a time when I felt around this time

kind of hopeless, even though I was celebrating a birthday, my birthday. I was celebrating my

anniversary with my husband, Michael. It'll be 46 years this year.

And I'll be celebrating Michael's birthday all within six weeks. So from my birthday, which is July 31st, to his birthday, which is September 4th.

There are a lot of celebrations.

And my podcast is dedicated to teaching you how to celebrate in a way where it's a hundred percent celebration. And what I mean by

that, there's no downside. For me, the downside every single time, probably from the time I was,

I don't know, I'm a teenager, probably, because I can remember, even as a teenager,

oh my gosh, there's this memory I have. I don't know. I might have been 15 or 16 years old.

And I asked my best friend to bake me these cookies for my birthday because I loved them. Mexican wedding cakes. I still like

them. I loved them then. And when she gave me that box, I kid you not. I ate all of them.

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