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. I think you're going to like this episode because it's a mix of personal and science.

And whenever I do episodes that are a little nerdy, I always get outreach from folks saying love the science.

So we're going to do a little bit of that.

But first I want to share a bit of a

personal announcement. Announcement might be too strong of a word. But I recently made the

decision to go back into weight loss mode, to set a specific weight loss goal and to really

prioritize my pursuit of it.

Sometimes I get the sense from people that when they admit they want to lose weight,

that admission comes with this heaviness, this sense of like, I'm not enough or I'm not good

enough, or I've messed up up or I've let myself go.

And I would love to encourage you to reframe it to embrace being somebody who wants to get better

or do better or be better, whether that is your fitness or it's your body weight or it's your finances or it's

your marriage or it's the way you manage your home.

It doesn't matter.

If we can take away shame, we're going to be a lot more willing to embrace new goals. I feel like my postpartum journey has not been what I

expected it to be on so many levels. Wait, certainly, but just so many other things. And if you're

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