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.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast and you know what we are doing

today. We are going to kick off a motivational mini-sode for those of you who are newer to the

show and I know there are a bunch of you. Hello every once in a while I like to pop in with a

shorter, more direct mini-sode to get you fired up and I think that today's is really timely because

when this airs it will be round about mid-October right as we head into holiday treats are everywhere

season. The things that we indulge in are usually the reasons we haven't met our goals.

We aren't not reaching our goals because we don't work out enough or because we don't sleep

enough even though those things can certainly help us improve our health. They aren't what I call

our big rocks. The big rocks are the indulgences, the food and the alcohol and here's the point

that I really want to make today and you might not be really receptive to it at first but hang

with me. That stuff that we indulge in it's almost never worth it. Tasty? Yes. Worth it? No. I get a lot

of emails from people saying Elizabeth when you say what you eat at the end of the podcast is that

really what you eat because it seems like you rarely indulge. Don't you miss the treats?

Now it's true and first of all yes it's what I eat and I do rarely indulge. I spend most of my

life indulging every single day. Basically whenever I felt like it whether it was a candy bar from

the vending machine or Mexican takeout or a pint of ice cream if I felt a craving I indulged it

because it felt too hard to tell myself no. So the stuff that I used to indulge in it just doesn't

give me the satisfaction physically or emotionally that even comes close to comparing to the satisfaction

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