Ep 157: How to Manage Your Weight During Menopause

Losing weight during menopause is frustrating. It doesn’t matter if you live in the gym or you starve yourself—the number on the scale just won’t go down. You might hate yourself for the lack of progress. But the good news is you can learn how to lose weight during menopause if you understand that it all starts with your thoughts.

In this episode, I talk about the model I developed to help women in menopause. This model guides you in creating the life you want by being mindful of your thoughts. Understanding this model can change everything for you, as it did for my clients.

Tune in to this episode to discover the model to help you win the battle against menopause weight.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the truth behind menopause weight that no one else talks about.
2. Learn why your thoughts and feelings are much more powerful than you think.
3. How can you change how you think, and learn how to lose weight during menopause?

Episode Highlights

The Model That Is the Key to Everything

• The model shows you how your mind creates things for you.
• It has five components.

C — Circumstance

• The model starts with the circumstance.
• The circumstance is a fact.
• Most people don’t know the difference between a fact and a thought.
• The stories you tell yourself in your mind are thoughts, not facts.
• The circumstance is neutral; there’s no emotion associated with it.

T — Thought

• A thought is a sentence in your head triggered by your circumstance.

F — Feeling

• A feeling is a vibration in your body created by your thoughts.

A — Action

• Action or nonaction is what you do with your feelings.

R — Result

• The result is the effect of your action.
• If you don’t like your result, the problem lies not in the action but in the thoughts and feelings that caused it.
• If you change your actions without changing your emotions, the change won’t stick.

Creating the Result You Want

• The result will always create evidence for your thinking.
• Your circumstance has nothing to do with the result.
• Be careful what you think because it creates everything.
• You can only control your thoughts, not your circumstances.
• When you understand this model, nobody can decide your feelings for you anymore.

How the Model Works in Menopause

• Menopause is just a circumstance.
• It triggers a thought that you can’t lose weight anymore.
• That thought creates a feeling of fear.
• When you’re scared, you start overeating. Afterward, you beat yourself up for losing control.
• The result is that you don’t learn how to lose weight during menopause. In turn, this reinforces your thought that you can’t lose weight anymore.

Changing Your Thoughts Around Menopause

• Menopause is an unchangeable fact of your life.
• The thought you should have about it is, “I’m going to make this the last time I lose weight.”
• Coaching can help you create that new thought.
• When you have that thought, you feel determined, which helps you stick to your eating plan.
• Menopause is a time for a transformation that gets you the results you want.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“If you don’t like your result, the problem is because not the action, not what you did. It’s what caused you to do what you did, which is always the thought and the feeling.”

“When you get this, nobody can cause your feelings anymore. You decide. You always have – you just didn’t know. The only person in control of your feelings is you.”

“The power is within you; it’s not within the circumstance.”

“Here’s the deal: menopause is a fact. You’re not going to be able to control menopause. It is going to come. You may not want it, or you may want it. It really doesn’t matter. It’s coming; it’s a fact. You’re going to go through it if you’re a woman, okay? So the only thing that you have power over is what you want to think.”

“When you have the thought, ‘I want to be very, very kind to myself,’ and you really believe that, it fits when you think it, then it will create a feeling of compassion.”

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Thanks for listening!

To transforming your life for good,

Dr. Deb