You're listening to Finner Peace in Metapause and Beyond by certified master weight loss coach and your host, Dr. Deb Butler.

This is episode 8, learning a new way of becoming the observer over your eating, stepping back and looking at the whole situation from

30,000 feet and learning a brand new way of food journaling. It's different because it helps

you learn why you do what you do. Don't make a judgment about food journaling until you've

heard Dr. Deb's unique view. Hi there.

How are you today, all my dear friends?

I can't imagine that you're not becoming more and more aware of what's going on inside of you

if you're paying attention to yourself every time you sit down to eat.

And this is the beginning of really

making yourself the priority. Because I know in the past, you've prioritized your family,

you've prioritized so many different people other than yourself, maybe a sick parent or your

children, and you watch what they do and you make sure

that they get everything that they need. And now that's exactly what I'm asking you to do.

And in the past few episodes, I've been asking you to, we've been using all of these new

kinds of tools and awareness. and you've been checking in

with yourself when you sit down to eat in terms of how hungry you are from a negative 10 to a plus

10, how full you are from a negative 10 to a plus 10, where you are emotionally from a negative

10 to a plus 10, all of these numbers that you're imagining in

your mind just to try to figure out where you are. And then over the last couple weeks, I've been

adding the whole idea of the types of eating. So are you fogging? Are you fueling? Are you joy eating or are you storm eating?

As another way of being able to compartmentalize what's going on in you at any given moment.

And I really believe that when you are sitting down and you can really pay attention to where you're at,

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