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CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

248: Are Evenings Hard?

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The other day I asked my Fat Loss Fast Track veterans (folks who have been through more than one Fat Loss Fast Track with me) where they feel strong in their fat loss journey and where they don't feel so strong.

One of the most common areas of struggle was evenings. Nighttime choices. The choices made after work and during/after dinner. I don't think they're alone in that struggle.

Are evenings hard for you? They used to be my biggest area of struggle, for many reasons, and today we're talking about how to improve your evening eating habits and get to a point where you feel confident in and proud of your nighttime choices.

 

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How To Improve Evening Eating Habits

There are many reasons for the evening struggle. Unfortunately, we tend to focus on what's wrong with the evenings instead of focusing on how we can make improvements.

Think about it, it makes sense that evenings are hard.

  • We tend to be more tired in the evening and have more energy in the morning
  • There's more downtime in the evening. Most snacking happens during down time & screen time and there's less of it in the morning
  • We're great at "beginning" - we've started countless diets and beginnings start in the morning, for most of us, so we are just more practiced at improving our first choices of the day than we are improving our last choices of the day. We aren't unskilled, we're unpracticed. 
  • We tend to have less structure in the evenings than we do in the AM
  • We haven't built up trust and follow through

But we have power. We have opportunity. In today's episode I'm sharing several strategies that will show you how to improve evening eating habits, build confidence, accelerate your progress and get results. Definitely listen to the whole episode! Lots of great strategies in there, including:

  • Change your attitude - stop arguing for your limitations and focusing on how hard nights are. Instead, focus on what you can do to make improvements today
  • Practice building back trust in small & large ways (this can be practiced throughout the day by doing what you say you'll do instead of negotiating with yourself)
  • Focus on improvements - instead of being a Debbie Downer and judging yourself for suboptimal choices, look for the improvement. Choose what represents even a marginal improvement for you
  • Finish strong. No matter what happens, decide that you'll finish each day strong, even if it's the last 10 minutes of the day

Resources:

Interested in the Fat Loss Fast Track? The fall group is currently closed but you can get on the wait list for our first group of 2017!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.6

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

0:13.7

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

0:21.2

Let's get started.

0:25.2

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

0:29.8

I am Elizabeth Benton and here we are choosing to be happy.

0:34.4

Choosing to make progress towards our goals, choosing to do our best each day,

0:38.8

and accepting that our best each day can and will look different.

0:44.7

I'm so glad that you are here and today we're going to talk about what's hard and how to make it

0:52.3

not so hard.

0:54.0

The other day I asked my fat loss fast track veterans, these are folks who have been through more

0:58.8

than one fat loss fast track with me and when they've been through more than one we don't focus

1:03.4

on the basics. We sort of go beyond that and we focus primarily on mindset, consistency,

1:08.4

motivation, problem solving. So I asked them to tell me where in their journey to improving their

1:14.9

health, improving their body composition, gaining control of their relationship with food,

1:19.5

where they feel strong and where they are struggling.

1:23.9

And one of the most common areas of struggle was the evenings.

1:29.4

And I think this is true for most of us and it makes a lot of sense if we look at why the

1:34.8

evenings are hard. It's not that we suck, it's not that we have no motivation. I mean let's

1:39.1

think about it logically instead of emotionally, okay? We tend to be more tired in the evening.

1:46.0

We often have more energy in the morning. There's also more downtime in the evenings,

1:51.9

which means more opportunities to eat because we're at home and we're not rushing around like we

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