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. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

You are hanging out with me, Elizabeth Benton and today we are going to be talking about something

I have not yet talked about here on the podcast and that is what happens physically after you

overeat or binge and I'm not talking about the psychological side of things which we talk about a lot.

I'm not talking about disappointment or guilt. I am talking about the physical response,

the metabolic response, the hormonal response to whatever you want to call it. A cheat day, a binge,

overdoing it, whatever that is, just having one of those days or series of days when you go overboard,

when you know that you've eaten far more than you needed to, what happens to your body?

I know that a lot of people feel like, you know, whatever, I'll just be super on point tomorrow

and everything will be fine. And part of it is, yeah, you will be fine, nothing really bad is

going to happen. You're probably not going to put on five pounds of fat overnight but the other

side of it is, it is not as simple as saying, oh I ate too much, I'm back on point. There are

metabolic consequences. There is an insulin reaction that doesn't just poof, go away as soon as

you stop eating. You do suppress your body's ability to burn fat for days afterwards. And those

are the kinds of things that I want everybody to really understand today because when we really

understand something, when we understand what happens physically, sometimes that's enough to give

us pause in those moments. When we can break through from the notion of, oh it'll be fine as long

as I'm just like really on point the next day. And there's kind of two different approaches to this

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