269: Are You Using Tools Or Weapons?

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

At first glance, this question, "tools or weapons?" doesn't make much sense.

But, after a conversation with Faith, we recognized that she has the ability to use her choices & her thought as either tools or weapons.

She can beat herself up for a choice, effectively using it as a weapon against herself.

Or, she can learn from that choice and create a more informed strategy for next time, using it as a tool.

She can use her thoughts of guilt, frustration and regret about putting weight back on as a weapon against herself or she can use them as a tool to empower & encourage her.

So - your thoughts and your choices - are you using them as weapons or tools?

There's so much other great stuff in this episode including thoughts on:

Are you making this too hard?
Faith's advice to anyone who is struggling to get started
The value in the struggle might be greater than the struggle in the success
How to become more mindful of your choices
This is a value-packed episode! Don't miss it!

http://primalpotential.com/269-using-tools-or-weapons/

Are You Using Your Thoughts & Choices As Weapons Or Tools?

Here are some of the highlights from today's episode:

Is that thought or behavior a weapon or a tool?
It's not as hard as you're making it
There is likely more value in your struggles and setbacks than you'll ever find in your success - look for the lessons!
Why you should let go of "good food" "bad food" associations
Why you're probably not as "all or nothing" as you think you are (and tell yourself you are)

Final words from Faith:

Do the next thing that makes you feel better. Then do the next little thing & keep doing it until you don't feel so bad anymore.

Resources:

Join the FREE "Lose Weight For the Last Time" webinar series! We'll be talking consistency, all-or-nothing, attitude, perspective & sustainable strategy! Don't miss it! I'll take your questions and we'll have a blast!

For more on Breaking Barriers, click here.

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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0:31.0	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.
0:55.0	Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. If you are listening to this on the day that it airs, I must tell you today is the day, tonight is the night. I am hosting that completely free two night workshop on losing weight for the last time.
1:14.0	Creating the all or nothing thinking, creating that space where you feel like you are in control of your choices instead of feeling like your choices are in control of you and making you really unhappy.
1:27.0	So that free webinar series begins tonight, the 13th of December at 8.30pm Eastern time and continues tomorrow night Wednesday, the 14th at 8.30pm Eastern time.
1:42.0	Space is limited but you can grab your spot on Primal Potential.com forward slash December. Just know that an unlimited number of people can register but the limitation is on how many people can actually join.
1:56.0	So make sure to get there a few minutes before 8.30pm Eastern time. I can't wait to see you there again. You grab your spot by going to Primal Potential.com forward slash December and then you will get an email one from me welcoming you.
2:10.0	Another one that will immediately come giving you the link you'll need to join tonight. If you are listening to this after the fact, well maybe you can grab part two on Wednesday night the 14th. Again, you'll just need to go to Primal Potential.com forward slash December.
2:24.0	Otherwise, sorry you missed it but don't be too sorry because today's podcast is pretty cool. In fact, there's so much I want to say about it and I really just need to like dive into it.
2:35.0	But I'm continuing a few more episodes talking to my clients because they're in it, right? They're fighting the fight. They're making the changes and we're talking about what works and what doesn't.
2:47.0	So in this case, I'm talking to Faith and Faith joined the Fat Loss Fast Track for really interesting reason. She loved the podcast but she recognized that she needed more structure, right?
3:01.0	The podcast as I say in my conversation with her, it's not a program. It's a fire hose of information and she felt like she needed more guidance, more coaching, more structure.
3:10.0	So she wasn't always feeling like, what should I do first? The other thing that Faith was struggling with is that she had lost some weight and she had gained it back.
3:19.0	And she was having trouble letting go of the guilt and the frustration and she felt like though she knew how she got there before, she just couldn't do it.
3:30.0	She felt like it was overwhelming and daunting and she struggled to know where to start and to believe in herself that she could do it again.
3:38.0	And her thoughts on how she's gotten past that and gotten over it are so profound. One of the things she says to herself is, stop making this so hard. This is not as big as you are making it in your head.
3:51.0	And we talk a lot about choices that we might beat ourselves up for and using our experiences, using our choices, both choices we feel good about and those we don't using them as tools and not weapons, using them as tools and not weapons, which I think is just such a powerful conversation.
4:09.0	So thank you Faith for your honesty and just so much freaking wisdom you share in this. It's awesome. I can't wait for you guys to hear it.
4:17.0	And hopefully I'll see many of you guys on that webinar. You can grab your spot primalpotential.com forward slash December.
4:24.0	So we're diving into this conversation with Faith after I have asked her what she was struggling with that led her to the fat loss fast track.
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