Dr. Deb Butler

Dr. Deb Butler Are you still trying to lose weight after all these years? Is menopause making it HARDER than EVER? Dr. Deb is a seeker of life.

Get a jumpstart on losing weight in menopause with my free guide 👇 Dr. Deb Butler is a board certified chiropractor and acupuncturist, as well as a certified nutritionist and master weight loss- and life-coach. She helps women who are going through menopause end their struggle with weight — ultimately helping them reconnect with and manifest their truest desires — FINALLY! With additional life-coach certification through both Martha Beck and Brooke Castillo, Dr. Deb helps women learn to embrace and enhance their life experiences — from over-stressed executives and stay-at-home Moms, to those experiencing menopause (and a lot more in-between). Dr. Deb utilizes a blend of brain science, nutrition, physiology, life coaching and life lessons, teaching that REAL weight loss — lasting weight loss — starts from the inside out. She loves spending time with her husband, family and her dog, Baron. She enjoys hiking and being in nature whenever possible. Her favorite thing is to have you “reach out” and ask her anything!

You've been calling it self-sabotage for years. And every time you use that word, you make yourself the villain of your ...
03/31/2026

You've been calling it self-sabotage for years. And every time you use that word, you make yourself the villain of your own story.

But what if that's not what's happening at all? What if the part of you that keeps going back for that extra drink, that extra bite, that thing you promised yourself you wouldn't do... is actually trying to take care of you? Just doing it really, really badly?
That's what this episode is about. The difference between punishing yourself into change and loving yourself into it. One of those works. One of them you've already tried a thousand times.

This is the Summer of No. And I promise it is nothing like what you think it is. Go listen. www.drdebbutler.com/521
Watch it on YouTube - https://youtu.be/jzYErAP20Rk

Can I be honest with you for a second?When my patients tell me they've tried everything to lose weight in menopause and ...
03/30/2026

Can I be honest with you for a second?

When my patients tell me they've tried everything to lose weight in menopause and nothing is working I believe them. Because the truth is, what worked in your 30s was never designed for this season of life.

Menopause changes everything — your hormones, your metabolism, your hunger cues. And no amount of willpower or calorie-cutting is going to fix a hormonal shift.

That's exactly why I put together my FREE Jumpstart Your Weight Loss In Menopause Guide to give you the real, science-backed starting point I wish every woman had access to.

This isn't about doing more. It's about doing the right things for the body you have right now.

👇 Download it completely free:
🔗 drdebbutler.com/podcast-companion-guide

You deserve to feel good in your body again. Let's start there. 💛

Emily said this to me on the podcast, and I had to stop for a second.Not because it surprised me, it's what I teach. But...
03/28/2026

Emily said this to me on the podcast, and I had to stop for a second.

Not because it surprised me, it's what I teach. But because hearing it come out of her mouth, two years after finishing my program, 30 pounds lighter and still going strong...

We spend so much time waiting to feel good enough. Waiting to earn it. Waiting for the number on the scale to give us permission to like ourselves.

What if the weight can't move until that changes?

Emily found out. Full conversation in Episode 520. 🎧 www.drdebbutler.com/520

03/27/2026

This is the tool nobody talks about and it's the reason Emily is still down 30 pounds two years later. It's not the perfect week. It's what she did on the imperfect ones. I call it the Comeback Tool. I call it the thing I wish I'd known 20 years ago.

Full episode 520 is out now — 🎧 https://youtu.be/waeuEY5Tw3E

I've coached a lot of women through weight loss in menopause.And one of the things I hear over and over — more than almo...
03/25/2026

I've coached a lot of women through weight loss in menopause.

And one of the things I hear over and over — more than almost anything else — is: "I just need to lose the weight first. Then I'll feel better about myself."

I used to try to argue with that. Now I just let the results do the talking.

Emily lost nearly 30 pounds. Still off, two years later. And when I asked her what changed, she didn't talk about food. She talked about what happened when she finally stopped letting the scale decide her self-worth.

Swipe through — these are the three shifts that made the difference for her. And for a lot of women I work with.

Which one lands for you?

Listen here - www.drdebbutler.com/520

03/24/2026

Three numbers. That's all it took to wreck her whole day. Sound familiar?

Emily is a graduate-level professional with a full, meaningful life — and for years, her mood, her self-worth, her everything was decided by what the scale said that morning.

This clip from Episode 520 of ThINNER Peace in Menopause hit me harder than almost anything I've heard on my own podcast.

The full conversation is worth your time. 🎧 https://youtu.be/waeuEY5Tw3E

Almost two years after finishing my program, Emily sent me an email.She didn't have to. Most people don't reach out to t...
03/24/2026

Almost two years after finishing my program, Emily sent me an email.

She didn't have to. Most people don't reach out to tell me things are going well. I hear about it when someone is unhappy. But Emily came back not with a problem. With a story.

She told me she'd worn a pair of jeans she hadn't fit into in years. That the number on the scale had stopped deciding whether she was going to have a good day. That she was down nearly 30 pounds and that the weight had become, in her words, the afterthought.

Here's what hit me the hardest. She said:

"I had the cart before the horse. I thought if I lost the weight, then I would feel good about myself again. The reality was, until I started feeling good about myself again, the weight wasn't going to come off."

That's the whole thing. That is why I do this work.

Episode 520 is live now. www.drdebbutler.com/520
Come hear Emily's story — two years later, still working. https://youtu.be/waeuEY5Tw3E

I see you doing everything "right" — and still not losing weight in menopause. 🙋‍♀️You're not broken. Your body has just...
03/23/2026

I see you doing everything "right" — and still not losing weight in menopause. 🙋‍♀️

You're not broken. Your body has just changed, and the old rules don't apply anymore.

That's why I put together a FREE guide just for you:
✨ Jumpstart Your Weight Loss In Menopause

Inside, I share what's actually working for women in midlife — no extreme diets, no burnout, just real strategies that meet your body where it is RIGHT NOW.

👉 Grab your free copy here: https://drdebbutler.com/podcast-companion-guide

Share this with a friend who needs it! 💕

The word "try" is sneaky.It sounds positive. It sounds safe.But your brain hears it as a built-in exit ramp."I'm going t...
03/21/2026

The word "try" is sneaky.

It sounds positive. It sounds safe.

But your brain hears it as a built-in exit ramp.

"I'm going to try to eat better."
"I'm trying to stop emotional eating."

That little word? It's already setting you up to quit.

What if you just... said what you meant instead?

I choose not to eat emotionally today.

I am going for a walk.

Simple. Direct. Your brain takes it seriously.

Words are not small things. 🎧 Episode 519 — www.drdebbutler.com/519

03/20/2026

For the longest time, I thought treating myself meant giving myself what I wanted in the moment — the chocolate, the chips, the mac and cheese after a hard day.

But one of my listeners — someone who went through my ThINNER Peace group program — said “real self-compassion means paying attention to your emotional needs and actually addressing them.”

Not covering them with food.
Not numbing them with a treat.

Truly being kind to yourself means valuing the long-term feeling of a healthy body over the short-term hit of emotional eating. That's the work. That's the practice. And it's available to every single one of you. 🎧

Hear the full story in Episode 519 — https://youtu.be/sIXl07dREwM

Most weight loss advice skips the most important step.It gives you the meal plan. The workout. The macros.But nobody tal...
03/18/2026

Most weight loss advice skips the most important step.

It gives you the meal plan. The workout. The macros.

But nobody talks about why you're opening the fridge at 9pm when you're not even hungry.

Here are 3 things I wish every woman knew before starting another diet — swipe through. 👉

Slide 3 is the one that changes everything.

🎧 Full conversation in Episode 519 — www.drdebbutler.com/519

03/18/2026

I've heard it thousands of times — "Dr. Deb, I just need to lose the weight first, and then I'll work on everything else."

Here's what I know after working with women — your weight is almost always a reflection of your emotional health, not the other way around.

The diet isn't failing you.

The order of operations is.

You cannot out-discipline an emotional wound.

You cannot meal-plan your way out of something that lives in your mind.

When you finally flip the sequence and when you deal with what's underneath first, everything changes. That's what this episode is about. 🎧

Episode 519 is waiting for you. https://youtu.be/sIXl07dREwM

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Dr. Deb Butler is a master weight loss- and life-coach, certified nutritionist, and board certified chiropractor and acupuncturist. She helps women who are going through menopause end their struggle with weight — ultimately helping them reconnect with and manifest their truest desires — FINALLY! With additional life-coach certification through both Martha Beck and Brooke Castillo, Dr. Deb helps women learn to embrace and enhance their life experiences — from over-stressed executives and stay-at-home Moms, to those experiencing menopause (and a lot more in-between). Dr. Deb utilizes a blend of brain science, nutrition, physiology, life coaching and life lessons, teaching that REAL weight loss — lasting weight loss — starts from the inside out. Dr. Deb is a seeker of life. She loves spending time with her husband, family and her dog, Baron. She enjoys hiking and being in nature whenever possible. Her favorite thing is to have you “reach out” and ask her anything!