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PODCAST EPISODE 526

You’ve heard about weight loss medications quieting “food noise.” But what if the noise never fully goes away on or off the medication?

Whether you’re on a GLP-1, thinking about one, or would never touch one the real question is: do you know why you eat when you’re not hungry? And more importantly, can you learn to stop?

After nearly 10 years and thousands of women coached through the ThINNER Peace Process, I know this: the urges don’t disappear. But they can absolutely be managed. And that skill? No side effects. Yours for life.

This episode is your invitation to two free masterclasses — May 13 & May 15 at noon Central — where I will teach you how. www.drdebbutler.com/brain

Listen now. Enjoy the show!

 

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode

  • What “food noise” actually is and why it lives in your mind, not your stomach
  • How urges work and why they make you feel out of control around food
  • Why managing emotions is the long game
  • How to measure your own food noise and urges
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PODCAST EPISODE 525

You listened to the podcast. You told yourself all the right things. And then you ate the cupcake anyway.

Sound familiar? 

In this episode, I read a beautiful letter from a listener named Josephine who is doing everything she’s supposed to do and still can’t seem to get past her urges. And I want to answer her because I know so many of you are having the exact same conversation in your head.

Here’s what I want you to understand: willpower is not the answer. It never was. What I teach instead is something you can actually build an urge muscle. And just like the gym, you do not start by lifting the heaviest weight in the room.

We are going to talk about why urges are emotions, how to measure them, and how to start allowing them without eating, beginning with the ones that aren’t so hard. Because here’s what I know after coaching women for years: you are already doing this. You just don’t know it yet.

And once you do? That chocolate cupcake in the refrigerator? It’s just a cupcake. Enjoy the show!

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Thinner Peace Quiz: Take the quiz at drdebbutler.com/quiz to identify your obstacles to eating when hungry and stopping when full

Peace with Food 30-Day Course – Available at www.drdebbutler.com/joy

THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Apple Podcasts THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Spotify THiNNER Peace In Menopause on YouTube

Now, go listen to the podcast. Click here to listen to the 1st episode. It’s the best place to start!

If you’ve been loving my podcast, please subscribe and review the show. The only way it will pop up to others is when people review it, so if you’re loving it – pass on the good word! 

What You’ll Learn From This Episode

  • Why willpower creates tension in your body and why it always breaks eventually
  • How to use the emotional hunger scale to actually measure your urges
  • What the urge worksheet is and how to use it to get stronger
  • Why starting with your hardest food is the biggest mistake you can make
  • How to catch the urges you’re already winning and give yourself credit for them
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PODCAST EPISODE 524

Are you feeling confused about menopause, the weight gain, mood swings, and sleepless nights, and unsure who to trust or what actually works?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Lindsay Shirreff, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Blair Health, a virtual women’s health platform built to close the gap between women and real menopause care. She specializes in perimenopause and menopause, and she brings clarity to a space filled with noise.

We break down what every woman in her 40s and 50s needs to know. The difference between perimenopause and menopause, the truth about hormone therapy and why outdated research caused so much fear, what lab tests can and cannot tell you, and what your options are if hormones are not right for you.

We also talk about weight gain. Why it happens, why acceptance matters just as much as action, and why building muscle might be one of the most powerful things you can do for your body right now.

If you have been told everything looks normal but you do not feel like yourself, this conversation will help you understand why and what to do next. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Dr. Lindsay Shirreff:

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Mini Session: Ready to master your mind? Book a free mini session at drdebbutler.com/workwithme

Thinner Peace Quiz: Take the quiz at drdebbutler.com/quiz to identify your obstacles to eating when hungry and stopping when full

Peace with Food 30-Day Course – Available at www.drdebbutler.com/joy

THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Apple Podcasts THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Spotify THiNNER Peace In Menopause on YouTube

Now, go listen to the podcast. Click here to listen to the 1st episode. It’s the best place to start!

If you’ve been loving my podcast, please subscribe and review the show. The only way it will pop up to others is when people review it, so if you’re loving it – pass on the good word! 

What You’ll Learn From This Episode

  • Why perimenopause can start up to 10 years before your last period and why that window matters
  • The truth about the WHI study that scared a generation of women away from hormone therapy
  • Why menopause is a clinical diagnosis and not a blood test
  • Who is and is not a candidate for hormone therapy and the newer options you have probably never heard of
  • Why the scale is not the whole story and what is actually happening to your body composition
  • The one thing Dr. Lindsay says is the best thing you can do for your body in menopause 
  • How joy eating and hunger connection fit alongside medical advice and why Dr. Lindsay loved the concept
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PODCAST EPISODE 523

You’ve been told to listen to your body. But what does that actually mean when your brain is loudly arguing against everything your gut is telling you to do?

This week, I was interviewed by the wonderful Wendy Harrop on her podcast Say Yes to Yourself, and I’m sharing it here because Wendy pulled things out of me I didn’t even know were ready to come out.

In this conversation, Wendy and I go deep on the primal brain that wants to stay in the cave, why your yeses and nos live in your body — not your head, and how overeating is almost always a sign of under-feeling. We even have a real, unscripted coaching moment on air that shows exactly how this work unfolds.

If you’ve ever wondered why you say no to yourself by default, why menopause feels like a second adolescence, or why your eating has nothing to do with food — this conversation is for you. Enjoy the show!

Watch the episode on say YES to yourself! YouTube – How to Feel Your Feelings Instead of Eating Them | Dr. Deb Butler

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Mini Session: Ready to master your mind? Book a free mini session at drdebbutler.com/workwithme

Thinner Peace Quiz: Take the quiz at drdebbutler.com/quiz to identify your obstacles to eating when hungry and stopping when full

Peace with Food 30-Day Course – Available at www.drdebbutler.com/joy

THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Apple Podcasts THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Spotify THiNNER Peace In Menopause on YouTube

Now, go listen to the podcast. Click here to listen to the 1st episode. It’s the best place to start!

If you’ve been loving my podcast, please subscribe and review the show. The only way it will pop up to others is when people review it, so if you’re loving it – pass on the good word! 

What You’ll Learn From This Episode

  • Why the primal brain keeps you “in the cave” and how your smarter brain can take the wheel
  • How to tell the difference between body wisdom and resistance 
  • Why menopause is a second adolescence and why that’s actually a gift
  • What your nighttime eating is really trying to tell you
  • Why “I don’t know” are the three biggest dream-stealing words in the English language
  • How self-compassion — not discipline — is the thing that finally makes change stick
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PODCAST EPISODE 522

You already know what to eat. You’ve followed the plans, hit the reset buttons, lost the weight — and then watched it return. That’s not a willpower problem. That’s a thinking problem. And until you fix the thinking, nothing sticks.

This week, I’m sitting down with Peggy — a real client, a real transformation — and she is going to say things that will stop you mid-scroll. She started exactly where you are: 10 to 15 years of trying, frustrated, emotionally depleted, using food to manage stress without even knowing it. Now? She walks into a room full of food and feels nothing but calm. Not willpower. Peace.

What changed wasn’t her diet. It was her mind.

Peggy shares the exact mindset shift — the one she calls experimenting instead of obeying — that finally broke the cycle for her. She talks about the chicken sandwich that revealed she was living her entire life for other people’s opinions. She talks about baby steps that didn’t feel like progress until, one day, they did. And she talks about pride — the quiet thing that almost kept her from getting help at all.

You don’t need more discipline. You need a different relationship with your own thinking. That’s what changes everything. Enjoy the show!

Free Guide: Download the Jumpstart Your Weight Loss in Menopause Guide at drdebbutler.com/podcast-companion-guide

Mini Session: Ready to master your mind? Book a free mini session at drdebbutler.com/workwithme

Thinner Peace Quiz: Take the quiz at drdebbutler.com/quiz to identify your obstacles to eating when hungry and stopping when full

Peace with Food 30-Day Course – Available at www.drdebbutler.com/joy

THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Apple Podcasts THiNNER Peace In Menopause on Spotify THiNNER Peace In Menopause on YouTube

Now, go listen to the podcast. Click here to listen to the 1st episode. It’s the best place to start!

If you’ve been loving my podcast, please subscribe and review the show. The only way it will pop up to others is when people review it, so if you’re loving it – pass on the good word! 

What You’ll Learn From This Episode

  • Why lasting change is a thinking problem, not a food problem
  • How reframing “I can’t have this” into “let’s experiment” eliminates deprivation
  • The people-pleasing pattern hiding inside your food choices
  • Why progress feels slow — and why that’s exactly right
  • How to sit through an urge without giving in to it
  • What kept Peggy going when she felt like quitting
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