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

This is episode number 488. Stay tuned.

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. How are you today? Let me tell you what. I got a lot I want to talk to you

about, but I want to tell you what's been going on for me because in the summer, I have a lot of

celebrating going on. And that is really what I want to talk about today. I talk about it a lot

with you is how to celebrate without overeating. I talk a lot about that. And what I want to talk about

here is how much celebrating I'm going to be doing and how I'm going to do it and how I can teach you

how to celebrate bigger, better, and smarter. So here's the deal. The kickoff in the summer

starts at the end of July with my birthday, which I told you about last week. And I took my family and we went to Lake

Michigan and we spent a glorious time. I had the whole thing planned. So I got everything I wanted.

And it truly was a wonderful celebration. And the thing is, is that when I was younger, one of the things I used to

think about this kickoff of my birthday, and I'm calling it a kickoff because first it's my

birthday, and then it's my anniversary. My husband and I have now been married for 45 years, and I can hardly

believe it, but what a celebration that is. And once again, we're going to leave town and go to a bed

and breakfast, sit on the river, and just enjoy what it's been like for each other,

and what a blessing it's been to have 45 years together, and really how much better it's

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