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 my sweet friends. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton and I hope you're having a day focused on what you can do to move in the

direction of your goals. Today's podcast will definitely help you with that. Just a little backstory.

I for those of you that are newer to the show, I was a legitimate chronic

dieter and I know that many of you listening have the same background and that many of you are still

in that chronic dieting yo-yo cycle looking for meal plans, looking for food lists, looking

for the perfect set of rules that will allow you to lose weight. I get it. That yo-yo that on and

off dieting strategy thing didn't work for me. It doesn't work for most people and I found that

incredibly frustrating. I followed the rules and worked hard in school and got ahead. I followed

the rules and worked hard in my career and I got ahead and I was working so hard and following a

bazillion rules but weight loss wasn't getting easier for me. In fact, it was probably getting harder

and it was taking up more and more and more of my mental energy, of my emotional energy

and unfortunately it took me a couple of decades to realize that I was following rules

that I could follow for a short term but I couldn't follow for the long term. It's like

can you get out of debt if you're willing to live in a tent and only eat grass? Yeah, you probably

can. But are you willing to live in that tent and only eat grass for the rest of your life?

I'm not. So if that was my financial strategy, I could probably only expect to really be successful

in the short term for as long as I was living in the tent needing grass but as soon as I left I

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