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

Benton thanks so much for joining me today we are continuing our conversation

about how to change your thoughts because one of the things that

I explain to clients over and over again is that it's a little bit of a fool's errand, if not entirely

a fool's errand, to just try to focus on changing your behavior.

I work with so many people who are like, I just need to stop snacking at night or I, you know,

once I start having sugar, it's like I can't stop or if I make one choice that's not off plan that's not

on plan then I just throw out the whole day and every slip becomes a slide and I

tell them the issue here is not sugar.

The issue here is not snacking.

The issue here is the stories you tell yourself

around that that are continuing to let you off the hook that are talking you into the

behavior that are talking you out of getting to your next best choice

immediately and we've got to change that and And so often people say, all right, that makes sense,

but how?

Because these behaviors seem to be automatic.

I don't notice what I'm thinking when I'm doing this. I'm not consciously thinking these

thoughts. They're sort of running in the background. So not only do I work with

this a ton on my clients with my clients and that's what the whole upgrade program is about but there's a chapter

in chasing cupcakes that focuses on this a lot and last Saturday we started with chapter 7.

It's a really long chapper so we broke it up and we're going to

go into the second half of Chapter 7 here. And it starts with this header of the practice of

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