The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

The Power of a Kickoff Plan.

What elimination programs, total resets, Community Challenges can do for you.

You're already quite primal.

You know your way around a grocery store.

I mean, around, literally.

You know to shop the perimeter.

You've struck up relationships with vendors at the farmer's market.

The beet guy had Thanksgiving dinner at your

house. Being frank, the mashed beets were a bit much. You either read or listen to this blog

pretty much every day, so you're aware there's another primal blueprint 21-day challenge kicking

off next week. If not, look at yesterday's post at marksdailyapple.com in which I give a heads up and ask what

2017 will mean for your life. But if you're already a devoted primal adherent, what's in it for you?

Number one, everyone falters. No one's perfect. Folks slip up. The vast majority of people on a primal eating plan or any healthy

diet and lifestyle stray from time to time. Food they've given up begins reappearing. Old health

issues they thought they had resolved resurface. Niggling pains once gone returned to niggle again.

People regress toward the meme. When that happens,

something's gone wrong. But instead of combing through your past to figure out where you went

astray and making a lot of trial and errors in the process, why not start over? That's where the

hard reset comes in. That's when an elimination program makes

perfect sense. Number two, everyone knows less than they think. No one believes me, but I always

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