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

This is episode number 461.

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 dear friends all over this world.

So good to see you.

Today, you can either listen to me by going to wherever you listen to your

favorite podcasts or you can see me on YouTube by going to Thinner Piece and Menopause

and beyond Dr. Deb Butler. So you can see me or you can see me and hear me, but either way, welcome. Today, what I want to talk about

is I want to talk about some of the most basic tools on how you can make peace with food.

And by making peace with food, how you can actually have the side effect of weight

loss. So I'm not going to give you any big secrets on how to lose weight, but I am going to tell you

that I think the biggest secret of all when it comes to your menopause belly or menopausal

weight loss is to recognize this number one problem.

And this number one problem is, is that your appetite has been consistently decreasing for years.

And yet most of my clients and most of the people that I talk to think their appetite has increased and think they have less control over food than ever, which is all part of what I call a brain problem and not a tummy problem.

So when I talk about jumpstart your weight loss, I am really talking about jumpstarting your brain.

I want to teach you how to train your brain because your appetite's decreasing and you think it's

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