Hello everybody welcome back to the primal potential podcast I am Elizabeth

Benton thanks so much for joining me today we are going to get tactical and strategic around reducing your sugar

consumption if that is a goal for you, especially strategies if you are somebody who turns to any type of food when you're stressed, when you're overwhelmed, if you're

feeling tired, that was certainly a pattern for me and I shared on a couple of

recent episodes how I'm not currently eating sugar and for the sake of clarity though I know I said

this before that's not a forever thing it's a for now thing I could have sugar

tomorrow I don't have a defined end point I don't have this

pre-designed plan it's just what feels good for me for right now and in response to

a couple of episodes where I walked through those details and what that means to me and the results that I'm experiencing from it, I got a question from a listener around whether or not I gave it up cold turkey.

Did I just stop eating sugar cold turkey and did I have any symptoms from it?

And then I got another handful of questions around how, like how are you

dealing with cravings, how are you dealing with temptation, how are you dealing with

urges and those are all such really important topics because even if you are reducing your intake

and not just going without it as I am for now that's a very real thing.

If you decide you're not going to drink alcohol

and then you go to a party

and somebody offers you a drink,

we come up against this same thing

over and over and over, maybe it's not sugar, but it is something else.

So the first thing that I want to talk about is, you know, did I go cold turkey and did I have any symptoms, but the second part of this

episode I think is going to be the most important part where I talk about my strategies and my

approach for when it feels hardest, when I don't want to do the work,

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