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Welcome to the Primal Potential Podcast, the incremental anti-diet solution for effective permanent weight loss.

Primal Potential is committed to helping you overcome emotional eating, hormonal imbalances, unhealthy habits, and your dieting mindset through education and inspiration.

We don't just talk about what you should eat and what you should avoid. We talk strategy.

Primal Potential is bridging the gap between knowing and doing. Each episode will leave you with concrete tips from making positive changes that make a difference.

Primal Potential is here to help you lose weight, get healthy, and master fat loss naturally.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am your host Elizabeth Benton and I am so glad you're here today.

Today is the first episode dedicated completely to your questions and requests.

A big request from you all has been for me to take a deep dive into carbohydrates.

Everybody when it comes to fat loss is talking about carbohydrates and which carbs are the right ones or are any carbs right? When should I eat them? When should I not?

I've talked a lot about this in different episodes. In episode two, I talked about carbohydrates and how they drive the hormone insulin.

In episode five, I talked about sugar and cravings. In episode seven, I talked specifically about timing carbohydrates for ultimate fat loss.

You guys have said you want a nuts and bolts episode on carbohydrates. That's what we're going to do today.

We're going to cover a lot of stuff. We're going to cover what carbohydrates actually are.

Whether or not we need them, if our bodies need them at all, how they are metabolized, how they impact our hormones and fat loss,

then we'll talk about the right carbs for fat loss, the right time for carbs for fat loss, the right amount of carbs for fat loss,

and how we can manipulate the way we exercise to allow us to eat more carbohydrates.

We got to dive in because we have a lot to get covered. This episode might run a little bit longer than our normal 20 to 30 minutes, but that's okay because it's got lots of good stuff in here.

This actually might be my very favorite topic to go through. So I'm really excited.

So carbohydrates are a macro nutrient. That means they provide energy in the form of calories.

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