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episode welcome

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to the primal potential podcast i am

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your host elizabeth than same as if you

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want to create

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change in any area of your life

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your in the right place together

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we'll explore

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the strategies and tools i used

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to lose over a hundred pounds pay

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off hundred and thirty thousand dollars in

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debt and become a multiple seven

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figure business owner either supported thousands

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cause you're frustrated that you're doubting

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will break through your past patterns

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will eliminate the appeal of your excuses

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for you can get consistent stay consistent

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create the results you want and most

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importantly enjoy the jury let's

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get started hello

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everybody welcome back to the primal

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potential podcast i am elizabeth benton

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hope your have an amazing day to day

3:48

we are going to do again what we did last

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saturday it was very well received

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i shared with you all that i opened

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up some free coaching slots

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and they were snapped up a

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me immediately, I wanted

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to demonstrate what I think a

4:04

lot of folks understand but then don't

4:07

know how to change and that

4:09

is the fact that how you think,

4:11

your mindset, the way that

4:14

you are making decisions is really

4:16

at the root of why you're not making progress.

4:18

So often we default

4:21

to changes in strategy

4:24

because everybody's pitching us

4:26

a new strategy when the fact of the matter

4:28

is it's how we think that's

4:32

to blame for the excuses that we're

4:35

making, for all the exceptions that

4:37

we grab up and for the reason that we're not consistent.

4:40

So in this particular coaching call, I

4:43

was talking to somebody who was really having

4:45

a hard time remaining consistent

4:48

with nutrition and she knows

4:51

all the things to do but she found

4:53

that she kept letting herself off the hook even

4:55

though she really didn't want to let herself off the hook. She wants

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the results and what

5:00

we really honed in on is the

5:02

difference between being impulsive

5:04

and being intentional and the way

5:07

that you can approach strategizing

5:10

from a mindset perspective, right,

5:13

thinking differently about

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being impulsive, thinking differently

5:18

about being intentional and

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also making sure that

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self-discipline, self-sacrifice

5:27

and willpower are not what

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you are relying on

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in

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your approach to food, in your

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relationship with food. I think this is

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going to be such a relatable episode

5:40

for people who feel like they don't want to miss out

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or for people who feel like when they're

5:44

eating well, it kind of sucks

5:47

and it's not as fun as indulging. There's

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so many practical strategies

5:52

in this episode but also really

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at the root of it is the way that

5:57

you think about indulging

5:59

and the way that you think about these decisions

6:02

as they come up. Are you being intentional

6:05

or are you being impulsive and

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how can you be

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more intentional and less impulsive? Before

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we get into the episode, I wanted

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to remind you that 10X Mindset

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slash 10X. I will also link

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that in the show description so you don't have to worry

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and click right there. I'll tell you this.

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I see way too many

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people struggling thinking

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that it is their

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discipline or it is their

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willpower and it's not

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those things. So many people

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think that it's their addiction to food

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and it's really not that either

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in the dramatic majority of cases

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or just this overwhelming

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sense that you can't follow through or

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you're super inconsistent. What

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is at the root of it in almost

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all cases is how you

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think. And that's the work

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that most people aren't doing because that's the

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work that most people aren't selling, right? Everybody

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is attracted to the new flashy strategy

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and approach but at the end of the day until

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you upgrade your mindset, you're going

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to continue to drift. You're going to continue to disengage.

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You're going to continue to make excuses and say, I'll

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start tomorrow. This one thing won't hurt or

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I need to think about things differently so that I don't

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what I said I was gonna do today, but I'm not sure

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right, with that said, let's get

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in. to today's episode.

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So I have

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counted macros, I have been with a coach

10:06

for two years, lost 30 pounds.

10:09

The minute I stop

10:12

tracking and I can

10:14

do this in my head, the weight comes back

10:16

on. If nothing

10:19

is going on in my life, I do great. I'm

10:21

a mom of four. My oldest is 23 and my

10:23

youngest is 15. As

10:27

you know, life stressors

10:30

happen and I

10:33

always tend

10:35

to fall back into this unhealthy

10:39

eating. So when

10:41

things are going great, I'm good. But when life

10:45

is life and things

10:47

get lifey, I don't do

10:49

well. And yesterday, like I say, I went to this parody.

10:51

I took my son to where he needed

10:55

to go, you know, walk three miles

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feeling great, going to a Labor

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Day party, walking in like with a plan.

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I brought chicken skewers and salad. I'm

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like, I'm gonna stick to this.

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But

11:07

I start eating the chips and then once I start

11:09

my, alright, well, I

11:11

guess I'll start again tomorrow. And

11:14

that happens daily.

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So what work have you done on

11:19

that thought pattern, on overcoming

11:21

that thought pattern? Because this to

11:24

me is not about chips and it's not even about life

11:26

being lifey.

11:28

It's about the way that you talk yourself into

11:30

it. That's no big deal. I'll start tomorrow. Mm-hmm.

11:35

That's a mindset thing. And so

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I'm wondering, you know, I know you said you've worked with a coach for

11:39

a couple years. Did that include

11:42

any of any work on like

11:44

how you talk to yourself in moments where

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you're justifying something that isn't

11:48

aligned with your intentions?

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Not so much. I actually did

11:54

work with, I

11:55

don't think was a mindset coach but

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it was kind of more about that.

11:59

mindset but it was just so

12:02

vague and it didn't feel tangible to

12:04

me. Yeah. So I

12:06

never was able to like really it

12:09

was just kind of like

12:11

not woo-woo but you know just I

12:14

guess reframing my thoughts but

12:16

I guess I just never have.

12:19

So when somebody goes

12:21

through this pattern that you're describing where it's like

12:23

if everything's cool I do

12:25

well but when life gets lifey

12:27

I don't or I go in with a plan but

12:30

then I don't execute the plan. The

12:32

first place that my mind goes to

12:34

is

12:37

what is the story that you are telling

12:39

yourself? Let's say like oh things have been

12:41

crazy with the kids. How do you

12:43

then link that to? What is

12:45

the mindset stuff happening

12:48

where you link that to and so

12:50

I can't eat the way I've been

12:53

eating or move the way that I've been moving

12:56

and you pointed it out in the party it

12:58

was oh well no big deal I'll just start tomorrow

13:00

and it's that

13:03

that story that represents

13:06

the greatest opportunity for improvement

13:08

and there's probably many of those stories

13:10

but when you're at that Labor Day party and you're like

13:12

oh but I was prepared because I brought

13:15

the salad and the chicken skewers. Well

13:18

you know yourself and you

13:20

know if there's a pattern of being like well yeah

13:22

but this stuff is here but I don't really want it so I'm going

13:24

to have all this other stuff and no big deal it's a party

13:27

I want to enjoy myself I'll start tomorrow. For

13:30

me when I go into a social situation

13:32

I know that my most effective

13:35

approach is not well if I just bring

13:37

grilled chicken and salad I'll be good. I

13:39

know that my most effective approach is to

13:42

say I know all

13:44

of these things are going to be here I'm going to have this but

13:46

not that and I want to make it so I'm

13:48

looking forward to the food situation

13:50

and I'm not putting myself in a situation where I have to

13:53

white knuckle willpower it or where I feel like

13:55

I'm missing out so maybe that looks like you

13:57

know what there's going to be cookies and there's going to be cake.

14:00

I'm going to have this but not that or

14:03

you know, I'm not really tempted by the cookies

14:05

and a cake But I do want to have a drink.

14:07

So I'm going to have a margarita, but

14:09

I'm not gonna have a margarita and shots

14:11

I'm not gonna have three margaritas. I'm not gonna have a margarita

14:13

and beers. So I like to go into

14:16

social situations With

14:18

something that I might indulge and

14:21

I'm gonna do it in a way that I still feel

14:23

really good about it And it doesn't mean that that happens

14:25

every time but if there is this pattern

14:28

of like, oh Well, I'll start tomorrow.

14:31

We have to deal with that because