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

This is episode number 445.

Welcome to Thinner Peace 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 as fall is coming in,

which creates a lot of joy for me because I like fall.

I like the weather. I love the colors. I love to be able to walk in it.

So I have a lot of thinking about fall that makes me feel good.

Fall itself doesn't make me feel anything until I think something

about it. And our perceptions create all kinds of feelings for us as opposed to actual circumstances.

For instance, fall does not create a feeling until I think something about it. I like it. I don't like it. Whether we can't change it, but only we can change our perception about it. And this podcast over the last six or seven years has been dedicated to perception because it's perception or thinking that creates how you feel.

And one of the most important things about perception and thinking is when it comes to food,

which is fascinating to me because I've spent seven years talking to you about food and menopause and peace.

And one of the things of how I believe that you can create peace around eating,

around your body, around food is how you think about it.

And I know I've spent a lot of time over these last

years talking about how I don't like diets and how I believe they've hurt our brains and

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