If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to Consistent,

a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of progress or

overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically chasing new habits and start

strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it.

Hello everybody. Welcome back to Consistent by Primal Potential. I'm excited to talk about

this. I recently shared over on my Instagram a handful of

pictures, a couple of them I'm not sure I've ever shared before, from me when I was at or near

my heaviest, over 350 pounds. And I always say, I'm not 12 feet tall. I suppose if I was 12 feet tall and 350 pounds,

that would be no big deal, but I am 5 5 feet, 5 inches. And so at 350 plus pounds, I was

classified as morbidly obese. And I shared, in addition to these pictures and some current pictures, I shared the biggest driver of the change in my life.

Because I always want to point out that I was not 350 pounds because I just didn't care about my health and I didn't care about my choices.

And it just didn't matter to me.

What I want you to know about that period of my life,

which spanned decades, I was a heavy kid, I was a morbidly obese teen and young adult,

into my 20s, just heavy and getting heavier. I was always trying to lose weight. It was never

because I didn't care. I was the girl who was always on a diet, always trying to lose weight. It was never because I didn't care.

I was the girl who was always on a diet, always trying, always trying to be more disciplined,

this decades-long pattern of a couple good weeks and a couple bad weeks, a couple good days

and a couple bad days, a couple good months and a couple awful months.

I was always, always trying.

And I think in part, because of that, I felt super doubtful that it would ever change because I was

trying. I didn't know how to try differently. And if I did know how to try differently,

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