222: Weight Gain When You're Doing The Work
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There is very little that is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing the work for fat loss, practicing self-discipline and putting forth your best effort only to step on the scale and see that it has gone up!
Today I want to share my answer to a listener emailed to ask, "Why am I gaining weight?" after being active and eating fat loss friendly meals.
Her email to me has something for everyone - questions about consistency, activity levels and clean eating. Here's her email and today's podcast shares my in depth answer.
Hi. I listened to the podcast on motivation and I'm working my way through the breaking barriers. But, here is what I notice, I am consistent and I do believe I can lose weight. But I've gained 2 pounds since Saturday while staying consistent with my 10000 steps and fat friendly meals. I even walked 7 miles yesterday. Any thoughts?
Listen below for my answers, tips & suggestions.
http://primalpotential.com/222-why-am-i-gaining-weight/
"Why am I gaining weight when I'm doing the work?"
In today's episode I share my thoughts & suggestions related to:
- What might have led to the weight increase
- Limitations of monitoring progress with the scale
- More effective ways to measure progress
- What consistency is & isn't
- When "fat loss friendly" isn't fat loss friendly
- The link between activity & water retention
Resources
How & where to measure - I recommend measuring every other week. Be sure to record your measurements so you can evaluate your progress over time!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.7 | Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, hello my friend and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | I am Elizabeth Benton and as always thank you so much for spending your super valuable |
| 0:34.5 | time with me. |
| 0:36.5 | It really means a lot and I feel like we're friends and I would be super excited for |
| 0:41.4 | the ladies who are listening if we got to hang out in person at Ascend in Nashville. |
| 0:46.9 | Definitely check out PrimalPotential.com if you don't know what I am talking about or |
| 0:51.4 | shoot me an email. |
| 0:53.3 | Speaking of email, we are going to tackle an email that I got from a listener this week. |
| 0:58.8 | I got this great email and I want to share it with you. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't always do that or even often do that although a lot of my content ideas come |
| 1:07.3 | from you guys because this really is your show where my goal is not to just like get |
| 1:11.5 | on my soapbox and talk, although that happens sometimes. |
| 1:14.4 | It's really about understanding what your struggles are and then helping you overcome |
| 1:18.4 | them permanently. |
| 1:20.0 | So this particular email came in from someone who recently started to prioritize her |
| 1:26.1 | health. |
| 1:27.2 | She is making some changes. |
| 1:29.0 | She's doing what represents an improvement for her and from her perspective, she's doing |
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