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

This is episode number 457.

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.

Welcome to 2025. And I really like to say that because I have so many years on this

podcast. If I don't say what year it is, you might get confused. So welcome to 2025. And the way I want to

start out this new year for you, if you've been listening for a long

time, or if maybe this is your very first episode, there's something very, very important

that I want to impart to you to think about in 2025. And since if you're listening to this, my guess is

you're in menopause or you're close to being in menopause, or maybe you just got out of

menopause, or maybe you've been out of menopause for a long time. But nonetheless,

there's something about how much you weigh and what you think about food

that is getting in the way of you enjoying this beautiful, precious life of yours.

And this podcast is dedicated to helping you find what I call thinner piece. Thinner, meaning the inner piece. And I think it's

easy to lose weight in some respects. You just follow a diet and you lose weight. The only problem is

is the weight usually doesn't stay off. And if you're anything like I was, you've been doing this for a long

time, finding a diet, losing weight, gaining the weight, finding a diet, losing weight, gaining

weight, finding a diet. I don't know. I did that for about 30 years. And going into menopause

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