Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton

coming again with another message in this consistency 365 series. One of the most important

things that we have the opportunity to do every single day is practice being more consistent,

preventing tools that we probably already have, but just don't use regularly to show

up more regularly as the person we want to be, especially in the moments that feel challenging.

And I know that some of the moments that feel most challenging are when things are outside

of routine. Things like dinners out, birthdays, holidays, yesterday I talked about my thoughts

around the Easter holiday in my own family, and one of the tools that really coincides

with what I talked about in the last message is differentiating between indulging and

overindulging and practicing indulging without overindulging. For the longest time, those

things went together for me. If I was going to indulge, I would overindulge because

since I had given myself permission to not hold the line to step away from what I

quote unquote should be doing, since I had decided to be bad, or even if I hadn't consciously

made the decision, and I don't think that it's actually bad, but that was certainly my

mindset around it, might as well go all in, get it out of my system, and it made me feel

that holidays and dinners out and birthdays and vacations were a problem, they weren't

a problem. My pattern of telling myself that overindulging was the same thing as indulging

that I couldn't indulge without overindulging, that was the problem. Because the truth is,

I can absolutely indulge every once in a while, even maybe a couple times a week depending

on things like activity level and how much weight you have to lose in your baseline

eating and things like that, and still make progress towards the goal. The skill that

I had to get better at was it was indulging without overindulging. So going back to what

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