Hello and welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

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

And today I'm in Sunny Belize and I want to talk to you about what is a craving and how to recognize it and what to do

about it. This is episode 45. Stay tuned. Hello, it's good to talk to you again. I'm back in sunny Belize. I've been back and forth a

couple times now, but I'm here to stay for the next three months. And you know my whole saga

probably. You've heard it. You've read about it. I've talked about it. But I'll tell you what,

I really like in the winter that the temperature ranges between 70 and

82 every single day. And because we're right on the beach, it's always breezy. I know,

I know. Someone's got to do it. It's me. I love it. Anyway, I had this really great epiphany. I was speaking with one of my

clients yesterday. And one of the things that we were talking about is we were talking about

cravings. When I work with clients in my bigger programs, one of the things that we do in the second

phase of the program is we really work on eating anti-inflammatory foods because I think foods

that inflame your body on a regular basis are really the cause for all disease. And you get to a point, I think,

where when your mind is really managed, you can start working on what foods work best in

your body. So in the beginning, and through all of these podcasts, what I work with you the most

is what goes on in your mind that creates all

the sagas and the scenarios into why you eat when you're not hungry and what goes on in your head

and how to create new and better thoughts so that you can be very mindful about why you're

eating whatever you put into your mouth.

So what we do in the second phase of the program is we really concentrate on the body

and what foods really fuel the body and what foods hurt the body.

Just like in the beginning, what thoughts fuel the mind and what thoughts really don't

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