Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth

Benton. I hope you're having an amazing day. I'm talking about something that is a

huge passion for me. Massive passion. Something I think about a dozen times a

day or more. And that's how we raise kids as it relates to food and weight. What

we do, what we don't do, how we influence them positively. Before we get into

all of that, and I tell you why this is such a huge passion for me, I'm

up recording on my cell phone instead of my normal mic because my iMac

crapped out today. I'm one of those people that I always put off doing the updates

because I feel like every time I run an update, my computer gets jacked up.

And sure enough, that's what happened. I was getting kicked off zoom so I'm like,

maybe I just need to update my computer. Big mistake. So I'm waiting for another

run to come. I have another computer but like my mic stuff is not compatible with

it at this time. So we gotta wait. So I'm recording on my phone with a little plug

in mic. So if the audio quality sucks, give me grace. Have a little patience

because this is an important topic even if I don't have my regular mic. Okay,

let me tell you where my passion for this comes from. I mean, obviously I'm a mom.

But before that, and probably even more influential than that, I was a really

overweight kid from the jump. I was a big baby. I was a really big toddler. I was a

fat elementary kid. I was an obese middle schooler, high schooler, young adulter.

And, you know, I've done episodes with my mom and I wrote about in chasing cupcakes.

Some of the ways that her approach to it influenced me and we thank God can joke

about it now and laugh about it and and really reflect on how things could have

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