I'm Dr. Michael Butler, and you're listening to Thinner Peace in Menopause and Beyond

with certified master weight loss coach, Dr. Deb Butler, Episode 7.

Last episode, Dr. Deb was helping you learn how to apply her new tool of four types of

eating. Well, now she has so much more to say to help you apply it and to use it in your own life.

Today, she's talking more about the fog and the storm eating.

Hi there.

Today I want to continue pretty much along the same lines that I was talking about in

our last episode, but I only got to cover joy eating and fuel eating because I had

so much to say that it was going long.

So today I want to talk more about fog eating and storm eating and a little bit more of how you can be thinking and how to wrap your mind around these.

So one of the things about fog eating is that what I told you before is that fog eating, what it looks like

is when you're not paying attention, when you're kind of stepping out of your mind and body

and don't even know what you're doing. So like for me, it's going to the movie theater,

getting a bag of popcorn. And before you know it, the popcorn's gone,

or have a bag of candy somewhere, and before you know it, the candy's gone and you don't even

know how it got in your mouth. Or for lots of moms with their kids, they're eating off their

kid's plate, and they don't even know they're eating it. That's all fog eating. And really, to me,

a good way for you to think about it is eating behind your own back, not paying attention to what's

going on on purpose. Most of my clients who fog eat tend to tell me they don't know why they're doing it.

And the reason they don't know why they're doing it is because they don't want to know why

they're doing it. They want to pretend like they're not there. Fog eating. That is fog eating.

Pretend you're not there. So if you want to pretend you're thin when

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