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

and as always your coach. Today is episode number 97. And it's going to be a good one. I know I tell you

that every single time, but if you're ready to make moving your

body a whole lot easier by rewiring your brain, stay tuned.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to paradise.

I am only in Belize for the next three weeks, and then I'm returning back to the Midwest.

So you're going to hear some crying going on in the next few weeks or sadness as I leave this beautiful paradise. And hey, don't cry for me because I'm going

home and I've got a beautiful home and we live in the woods and that's lovely too. But wow,

what an opportunity to live on the beach for a year in warm weather. I've never done that

before. And I really recommend that whatever you have

never done before, it's time to try something new. Which brings me to the idea of what I'd like

to talk to you about today about trying something new. And it's regarding that terrible eight-letter

word called exercise. Now, here's what I want to

talk to you about that. I have so many people that tell me how hard it is for them, and they just

can't do it. They just can't get themselves to exercise. And here's what I want to offer you.

I think if you think of exercise as doing something that you hate to do to help you lose weight,

I don't think you're ever going to do it. And if I'd be honest about it, I would say that the purpose

of exercise, the least thing about it is to lose weight. And the best thing about it

is really how it makes you feel by doing it. And so this is what I want to offer you about that.

What if you made it so easy for you to do? What if you actually even looked forward to it? So let me tell you what I think

exercise is, truly. I think exercise is a combination of play and joy, seriously. And I think about

this because I watch kids. Have you ever, I'm sure you guys have

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