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CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

310: What 5 Days Without Food Taught Me About Eating

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Nutrition, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I am as surprised to write this as you might be to read this: I just completed a 5-day fast.

Essentially, for 5 days, I had nothing but water and coffee. During the first full 24 hours I had a couple of very low sugar kombuchas but yeah...crazy, right?

In episodes 300 and 307 I talked about why I did it and why I feel strongly that it's dramatically different (emotionally & metabolically) from a crash diet but today I want to share the experience and talk about the primary lessons I learned from this 5 day fast and how I think it will influence my diet & mindset moving forward.

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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.

0:21.3

Let's get started.

0:24.5

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

0:27.9

I am Elizabeth Benton and as I record this, I am currently over four days into my five day fast

0:37.1

and I am sitting in North Carolina with my good friend Ella from OnAir with Ella and we are in

0:44.6

this together. I talked about it in episodes 307 and this is not an episode about fasting per

0:52.1

day. I am going to share all that but I am going to start with going through the lesson

1:22.1

that I learned over the last few days and how I plan to take them home with me and really allow

1:28.8

them to influence and improve the way I eat and the way I think when I am at home.

1:36.1

And the great part is that I'm here with Ella and she has an amazing podcast on air with Ella if

1:43.4

you haven't checked it out you absolutely should and she's been hosting me this week so hey Ella,

1:50.2

I can't believe we're here. It is crazy that I mean as much as the days have gone by it's hard to

1:56.4

believe that we are at the end of our fast. You guys four days is no joke and as it turns out we're

2:02.8

cranking through all the way to day five. We are we are going to be breaking our fast tomorrow

2:09.2

mid-morning early afternoon before I head back to New England and we're going to do that together

2:15.3

and we're super excited about it but before we talk about the fast because a lot of you guys

2:19.9

aren't into fasting and I totally get that. I mean I would not have done this a year ago. I wouldn't

2:24.5

I would have thought I was crazy to think about this a few years ago. So we have learned some

2:29.6

things though and we were talking about this and we thought we've been sharing its hunt about the

2:33.4

fast within our private Facebook group on fasting but there's so much we've learned that has

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