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.

I am Elizabeth Benton and I want to start off not with the topic of today's episode,

but addressing a question that I get every single day on email and on Instagram.

And that is what I eat when I eat it, how much I eat.

And for those of you that have been around for a while, I used to post what I ate every single day

on the blog and I stopped doing that. And the reason I stopped doing that is because for me personally,

I felt like too many people were taking that as prescriptive.

Well, I'll just eat what Elizabeth eats and then I will experience what Elizabeth experiences.

And guys, that's just not true, right? What I eat and what you eat needs to be based on

your goals. Number one, and you might think, well, I want to lose fat too, but also your size,

your activity level, and your baseline. For me 100 plus pounds ago, I could eat a lot more and

indulge a lot more frequently and still see results compared to the way I eat now, just because of

how long I've been doing this and what my body is used to. And also, I've put a lot of practice

and a lot of effort and a lot of consistency and a lot of time and a lot of troubleshooting

into the way I eat. So the other thing that was happening is some people were looking at what I eat

and saying, well, I couldn't eat that much or I couldn't eat that little or I couldn't indulge

as infrequently as you do. I really need to have more liberty for the occasional piece of chocolate

or a glass of wine, whatever that is. And just because I don't choose to eat that way doesn't mean

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