Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, master life and weight coach,

and of course, your coach. Today is episode number 64. And today I want to talk about what do you think when you sit down to eat? If you don't like what you're

doing when you sit down to eat, you know we always go back to what were you thinking. Stay tuned.

Hi everybody. How are you today? Well, as usual, I have to report. I'm sitting here at my

table looking out at the Caribbean and that's beautiful. And, you know, we've had storms here, so it's rained a lot. And, oh,

I don't even want to complain. It's so beautiful. But anyway, enough about that. What I want to talk to

you about today is something really interesting that I talk a lot to my clients about. And you know, we talk a lot about what goes on

in your mind. You've heard it a million times for me. I've been talking to you a lot.

We've been disassembling your mind, sort of speak, in some of the last few podcasts that we've been

doing so that we can really separate your thinking from what the facts really are,

because your thinking is not facts, right? You're thinking are sentences that go on in your head

that basically you choose to believe. And that's really all they are are sentences in your head.

But here's the deal. You do get to choose what you

want to think once you're aware of what you're thinking. And so here's the deal when you sit down

to eat. If you don't like what you're doing, which is, of course, when we look at the model,

that's the A line, right? What you're doing.

It always goes back to what you're thinking and what you're feeling, right? So what I want to do

today is try to really tweak those thoughts to really tweak what you do when you're eating. So let me give you an example.

Let's say you're going out to eat with friends. All right. And so that is actually the circumstance

or the fact. Nobody can disagree with that. You are out with friends and you are sitting down to eat.

Now, what you decide to think will determine what you do or don't do.

So let's say you're sitting down to eat and there's food in front of you.

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