Thinner Peace In Menopause: Weight Loss After 50 & Mindfulness

Today’s episode is all about wasting food and what you think about that. Because how you think about about wasting food will determine how you treat your body. If you think you must always eat the food on your plate, your weight will probably always be a problem. I share with you an incident with … Ep 26 You Are Not Wasting Food When You Don’t Clean Your Plate Read More » The post Ep 26 You Are Not Wasting Food When You Don’t Clean Your Plate appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode we will discuss how to put yourself first, make yourself your #1 project and make your other projects secondary to YOU. You know how to do this because you know how to do big projects, but you have never considered yourself your major project. I’ve been talking a lot to you about … Ep 25 Project You. Putting Yourself First To Lose Weight Read More » The post Ep 25 Project You. Putting Yourself First To Lose Weight appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In today’s episode I talk about the hunger scale and how listening to other sensations in your body, or becoming a body whisperer, can also help you reconnect to your own body to lose weight and feel great. I taught you the hunger scale in podcast #2 so if you don’t know that, go back … Ep 24 Becoming a Body Whisperer — The Secret of Mindfulness Read More » The post Ep 24 Becoming a Body Whisperer — The Secret of Mindfulness appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode I continue with our discussion on the effects of stress on your body and weight gain. Fact: The brain and body are designed to want to eat during stress. You must know this and relearn a new pathway for your brain. In this episode I introduce you to the hormone called Ghrelin. … Ep 23 How Stress Makes You Fat — Part 2 Read More » The post Ep 23 How Stress Makes You Fat — Part 2 appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode I go over the effects of stress on your body, specifically talking about the hormone Cortisol and its connection to menopause. Now, I don’t want you stress out over the fact that stress makes you fat, but I do want you to pay attention! I’m going to assume everyone who is getting … Ep 22 How Stress Makes You Fat, Especially in Menopause — Part 1 Read More » The post Ep 22 How Stress Makes You Fat, Especially in Menopause — Part 1 appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Welcome to Episode 21! Today I am sharing with you how you can be mindful in social situations when eating and drinking with other people. Many of my clients believe they can’t handle social situations, but this is just a limiting belief they have learned. I go over a letter from one of my listeners … Ep 21 How to be MindFUL in Social Situations and Not MindLESS When Eating and Drinking Read More » The post Ep 21 How to be MindFUL in Social Situations and Not MindLESS When Eating and Drinking appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In today’s episode we’re going to cover how to mindfully celebrate without over indulging in food or drink. So many of my clients and myself really believed we couldn’t celebrate without overdoing food and drink. It was my excuse to lose myself. Since my birthday, my anniversary and my husband’s birthday all fall within 6 … Ep 20 Learn How to Celebrate Without Overeating or Over Drinking Read More » The post Ep 20 Learn How to Celebrate Without Overeating or Over Drinking appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode we discuss the importance of planning a joy eat every day on purpose. I find it freeing for my clients and it also helps them to think they can eat anything they want. Because they can. There is no deprivation or restriction. I review the different tools we use, and then go … Ep 19 Learning to Change the Feelings of Deprivation and Restriction to Lose Weight Read More » The post Ep 19 Learning to Change the Feelings of Deprivation and Restriction to Lose Weight appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode we discuss the attitude of gratitude. I go over how grateful I am for you, my listener, and how that makes me want to produce amazing podcasts. I also share some of my podcast listener reviews and some mini sessions where the people describe how well they’re doing as they’re listening to … Ep 18 How Gratitude Can Help You Lose Weight and Sharing Read More » The post Ep 18 How Gratitude Can Help You Lose Weight and Sharing appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Many people think the kitchen is a gathering place when they THINK they don’t have anything to do. I have so many clients who wander through their kitchens and cupboards looking for something to do when they’re bored. In this episode I give an example of another real coaching session with one of my listeners … Ep 17 How to be More Mindful and Learn to Gently Stop Yourself from Fog or Binge Eating When You’re Bored Read More » The post Ep 17 How to be More Mindful and Learn to Gently Stop Yourself from Fog or Binge Eating When You’re Bored appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode I explain to you what it was like for me when I was in menopause and weight loss was slow as molasses. It was nothing like before menopause. I explain why I was sabotaging myself, and why you might be doing the same. In the “good old days” (before menopause) I could … Ep 16 How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself When Losing Weight in Menopause Read More » The post Ep 16 How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself When Losing Weight in Menopause appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Today we’re going to go deeper into binge eating (in my program I call it storm eating.) I’m using another example of another client who was angry. Anger is the most common feeling women have a hard time dealing with. I used this client because she’s newer and hasn’t started journaling yet. I want to … Ep 15 Binge Eating: Dealing With The Anger vs Binge Eating Read More » The post Ep 15 Binge Eating: Dealing With The Anger vs Binge Eating appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

One of the hardest emotions for women to feel is anger. I have more clients who eat their anger than any other emotion. I’ve told you before that binging or storming is always a result of a strong negative emotion or negative on the Emotional Hunger Scale. As young girls, we were taught anger is … Ep 14 Binge Eating: You Can’t Binge Eat Mad. Anger is Not a Food Group Read More » The post Ep 14 Binge Eating: You Can’t Binge Eat Mad. Anger is Not a Food Group appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

This episode is all about starting this new way of mindful eating and thinking. I show you how to start, by using the meals that bring up the least emotion first. We are starting with small steps that are really easy, to create bigger results over time. Starting is the hardest part of any process. … Ep 13 Starting Your Mindful Weight Loss Journey When You Don’t Know How Read More » The post Ep 13 Starting Your Mindful Weight Loss Journey When You Don’t Know How appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

In this episode you will see how you can make exercise ridiculously easy. Exercise + Joy = play When you think of exercise, how does it make you feel? If it’s not positive, then this episode is for you. By now you know whatever you do comes from how you feel, and if you’re dreading … Ep 12 How to Make Exercise Ridiculously Easy! Read More » The post Ep 12 How to Make Exercise Ridiculously Easy! appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Joy is not in things, it is in us. In this episode we discuss how much happiness you get from food every day. How much joy do you get from life? Here’s the thing: many new clients, myself included, thought 70-80% of happiness came from eating. I didn’t realize at the time that means I’m … Ep 11 How to Feel Happy by Creating Joy to Lose Weight Read More » The post Ep 11 How to Feel Happy by Creating Joy to Lose Weight appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

This episode is all about night-time eating. This is a big problem for many of my clients and it is different for everyone. Many people storm or binge eat during this time, so I thought I would give a real life coaching session and how mindfulness helps storm eating, or what is commonly referred to … Ep 10 Real Life Moment: How To Stop Binge Eating Using Mindfulness Read More » The post Ep 10 Real Life Moment: How To Stop Binge Eating Using Mindfulness appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Today’s show is dedicated to helping you understand how to cultivate mindfulness on your journey to losing weight, and understanding that part of mindfulness is using compassion as a tool to help you objectively see what’s going on with curiosity instead of punishment. All the tools we have gone over so far will be utilized … Ep 9 Using Compassion to Strengthen Self Control Read More » The post Ep 9 Using Compassion to Strengthen Self Control appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Now, I want to introduce you to my food journal. The difference in my food journals and anything you’ve ever used before, is the real purpose of this food journal is to find out more about what goes on in that mind of yours using all the tools I’ve taught you so far: PHS, EHS … Ep 8 Using a Food Journal or Food Diary to Build Mindful Eating Habits Read More » The post Ep 8 Using a Food Journal or Food Diary to Build Mindful Eating Habits appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.

Part 2 of 4 Types of Eating: To lose weight you must be aware of why you are eating so you can stop mindless eating. In this episode I discuss fog and storm eating, how it looks and how you can help yourself by knowing which category you are in. It’s also very important to … Ep 7 How to Stop Mindless Eating and Curb Emotional Eating Read More » The post Ep 7 How to Stop Mindless Eating and Curb Emotional Eating appeared first on Dr. Deb Butler.