Ep 483: Feel It, Don’t Feed It: Mastering Urges and Emotional Hunger

Thinner Peace in Menopause

Dr. Deb Butler

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’ll teach you how to spot the difference between physical and emotional hunger, how urges are created by your thoughts, and how to manage them without turning to food.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.
0:06.1	This is episode number 483. Stay tuned.
0:14.9	Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.
0:18.0	This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master life and weight coach, and as always,
0:23.4	your coach. If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling
0:29.7	with weight your whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever and you are ready
0:36.6	to make this the last time you ever have to go on a
0:40.3	diet again, then this podcast is for you. Stay tuned. Well, hello, all my dear, dear friends
0:50.6	all over the world, for those of you who are watching me on YouTube and for those of
0:56.5	you who are listening to me on any of your favorite podcast platforms. Welcome. And today,
1:03.7	I want to talk to you and teach you something very, very interesting about the difference between physical hunger and emotional
1:13.5	hunger and a little bit more about urges and a little exercise or game that you can play
1:22.3	to tease your mind or give your mind something to do when it thinks about how good something looks and how
1:32.4	much it thinks you should eat it. So first, when we talk about physical hunger, as I've been talking
1:40.4	about in the last few episodes, my physical hunger scale goes from a negative 10 to a plus 10.
1:47.0	Negative 10 is starving, plus 10 is stuffed. I'm encouraging you to eat between the twos, start at a negative
1:54.6	two and stop at a plus two. I've been talking about that for a while. If you're just listening to this,
2:00.6	just listen to the maybe last two or three episodes about
2:04.3	my physical hunger scale.
2:05.9	Or just go back to the beginning, if you can believe, 466 episodes and start at number one,
2:13.0	where I teach the physical hunger scale in depth.
2:16.4	But for now, you are connecting to your body, especially
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