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 the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.

Thanks so much for joining me today. All right, I want you to imagine this.

Imagine, have you ever been in this scenario where it's Sunday night? You've got your plan for

tomorrow. It starts tomorrow, starts Monday. You're going on a diet. You're feeling motivated.

You're feeling ready. You're feeling prepared. This time, it's Whole 30, right? You figure, hey, I've got this window of time between now and Halloween. This is a great time to do like 30 strict days. No excuses, no exception. I'm going to lose 15 pounds. It's going to be different. I'm excited.

I've got recipes. I've got groceries. I've got meal plans, eggs for breakfast, salad with

protein for lunch. In fact, tomorrow's lunch is already made. It's in my Tupperware. It's in the

fridge. I've got a plan for dinner. It's ready to go. I've told my spouse, my kids know, I'm not eating anything after dinner. I'm going to hit 10,000 steps every day. I'm going to start with a walk in the morning before work. Like we are going to get it done. And Monday goes really, really well. And Tuesday goes well and you're like, I'm doing this. I was already down three pounds after the first day.

Feels great. Wednesday morning starts well. Wednesday afternoon, you have a lunch meeting and there's

pizza. And you're like, I'm hungry and I don't want to be the weird one and everybody's looking.

I'm like, why aren't you eating the pizza? I don't want to bring my Tupperware into the meeting,

but I'm really hungry. And, you know, I mean, one slice is better than three slices. I can have one slice and it's no big deal. So you eat one slice and you're thinking you're going to get right back to it. But then after the lunch meeting, you're like, I blew it. And now your cravings are activated and you're feeling resigned and frustrated and defeated and you

no longer have that momentum that you had before the slice of pizza because you sort of broke your

streak. So you're like, oh, whatever. I'm just going to, I'm going to start over tomorrow.

And I might as well go get that sugary latte now because I already blew it. And then you're driving home and you're like, well, since I'm starting tomorrow, I might as well do whatever tonight. There's no sense in like wasting the clean food on a day that I've already blown. So I'm not going to do steak and veggies for dinner and you grab fast food on the way home. And then you might as well have ice cream because you're not starting until tomorrow anyway, but tomorrow you're back at it. But the problem is you wake up the next morning and you're not starting till tomorrow anyway but tomorrow you're back at it but the problem is you wake up

the next morning and you're extra tired because you've overeaten and you've put a lot of sugar and

starch into your body that you hadn't had for a couple days so you feel a little bit like you've

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