Hello everybody welcome back to the primal potential

podcast i am Elizabeth Benton

thanks so much for joining me today i hope you are doing well

we are continuing in our Chasing Cupcakes series where we're going through my first book

Chasing Cupcakes and not only am I reading it to you I am adding context and examples and recommendations and

suggestions because it's been a handful of years since I wrote it and

certainly a lot has changed in my life and I just have a lot more experience given that I've been doing this work

for many years more now and the crux of chasing cupcakes is I spent decades feeling like I wanted to make a big change in my life and

honestly I wanted it more than anything in my life I wanted to lose weight I had been overweight for my entire life. I felt like I had tried

everything, but I still would stop doing the work almost as quickly as I started and it was this vicious

cycle that I had no idea how to break free from.

And it wasn't until I realized that I had been approaching it wrong. I didn't realize that it was

less about my problem behaviors and more about my problem thoughts and every approach I was taking focused on my problem behaviors.

I need to stop eating these foods. I need to stop overeating. I need to stop binge eating.

I need to use my time better but I didn't understand

until later in life that it was the way I was thinking that was driving these

behaviors and so I was just it was a fool's errand to keep trying to change my

behavior without doing the work to change my thoughts. If you can relate to that I

think you'll really love chasing cupcakes but I also have a brand new just launched in mid July a

brand new and super super accessible and affordable program called

upgrade that goes through the tools and the process I use to really change my thoughts

because I hear from a lot of people like yeah I know it's a problem that I'm

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