This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and

doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential.

Let's get started.

Hello, hello and welcome to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton and I'm so happy

that you are back for another episode. Even if my voice is kind of going a little bit, I was away

for the weekend at a family wedding and lots of talking and I was also singing at the wedding

and so just using different parts of my vocal cords I guess that I've used in a while and a lot

of laughing too, time with family, a lot of laughing. But let's get down to business today.

We're going to be talking about stress, your response to stress and so if you are a stress

eater or if you are someone who maybe drifts from your goals a little bit when you're stressed out,

I am talking to you today. I used to be a hard core stress eater and to be perfectly honest with you,

it's still kind of my programmed response. Like when I get overwhelmed I'm thinking about

junk food way more than if everything's cruising along just fine. So I still have that

patterned response in me but I've created new responses to stress that work much more effectively

for me and I want to help you do the same thing and I think everybody kind of knows what I'm

talking about here. You have your goals, you want to change, your goals are really important to you.

But when things get stressful maybe work is really hard or home is really hard or as happens

very often when you're dealing with stress from every angle, everything is hard and you give in.

You say I can't deal with my goals right now, I just just too much, it's too much and you turn to food

out of habit or maybe for comfort or as a distraction. The reason is less important than the fact

that you're in the habit you have this pattern of doing just that. But here's the thing that I want

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