1369: 6 Ways Inflammation Slows Weight Loss

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

f you're eating healthy, working out, doing "all the things," but still feel like your weight isn't budging — you have to hear this.

In this episode, I'm walking you through one of the biggest (and most overlooked) blocks to weight loss: chronic, low-grade inflammation.

We're going beyond the basics. This isn't just "sugar is inflammatory" or "cut processed food." We're talking about the cumulative, daily impact of everything from your toothpaste to your sleep schedule, your stress, your gut, your hormones, and more.

🔥 Here's what we cover:

What is inflammation — and what makes something inflammatory?
How chronic inflammation blocks fat loss (even with a good diet and exercise!)
Signs you're inflamed (that have nothing to do with pain or swelling)
How long it takes to see and feel results from lowering inflammation
Subjective AND lab-based signs that you're healing
My personal anti-inflammatory strategies, from milling flour to fiber, sauna, and sleep
What I'm not doing (like eliminating everything or living in fear)

"We can't eliminate every inflammatory trigger. But we can lighten the load and give our bodies a real shot at healing."

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Inside this group, I'll share:

Anti-inflammatory recipes, food lists, and simple meal ideas
A full lab testing guide + how to talk to your doctor so they'll actually listen
My real-time weight loss journey (what I eat, how I move, what's working)
Regular audio drops explaining key concepts in a simple, practical way
Lifestyle strategies that go beyond food—sleep, toxins, stress & more

You don't need to overhaul everything.
You just need to start somewhere that matters.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to
0:07.1	Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of
0:13.3	progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically
0:20.5	chasing new habits and start
0:22.6	strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it.
0:28.9	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:35.0	Thanks so much for joining me. We have been talking a ton about inflammation.
0:40.8	I shared with you guys that I recently decided to go into a fat loss phase after being in a maintenance
0:47.3	phase a year or so after the twins were born. I lost a good bit of my postpartum weight, but not, or my pregnancy weight,
0:56.2	but not all of it. And then I was in maintenance for too long. And now we are going back into fat
1:01.9	loss. And the way that I am approaching this is focusing first on reducing inflammation
1:08.9	for the goal of losing weight. And I've been sharing a little bit about
1:16.4	what prompted that for me and the role of inflammation. And I've gotten a lot of really
1:21.2	wonderful questions. If you guys haven't been listening to the podcast, I'd love for you to
1:25.0	check out a couple of episodes that I've done recently.
1:28.4	Let me give you those episode numbers. Let's see here. Episode 1365, which is called I'm starting
1:36.3	a new weight loss journey. And then episode 1366, which is sort of like most common
1:41.5	questions about that and what that looks like and the changes that I'm making
1:44.6	and all of that. What I wanted to talk about today, a lot of people have kind of come to me being
1:51.6	like, well, if sugar is inflammatory, does that mean I shouldn't eat apples? Like, are you taking
1:59.3	healthy foods off the list because of inflammation?
2:02.1	Or another question that I've gotten a lot is, how do I even know what is inflammatory?
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