Primal Potential Blog
Q&A 9: How to Identify YOUR Most Effective Fat Loss Strategies
Are you wasting your time trying to change habits that won't make a big difference or won't help you reach the goal you're pursuing? In this episode we talk about how most of us go about behavior change in the wrong way and why it leads to failure. We're explaining...
Episode 021: Fruit & Fructose – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
In this episode we're talking about how fruit today is VASTLY different from fruit even just 50 years ago. We're talking about the changes in agriculture & how they impact our food. Then we dive into fructose, the sugar naturally found in fruit, and how it is the...
Gluten and Weight Loss: Should It Stay or Go?
I get a ton of questions about gluten and weight loss. I wrote about it here but I felt like I needed to take a deeper dive and consider not just the fat loss implications but also the overall health implications. I could sum it up pretty simply: we don't need to eat...
Ep 020: Efficient Exercise for Weight Loss with Shawn Stevenson
Are you ready for this? We are tackling the major myths about exercise for weight loss and establishing the most effective workout strategies for lasting fat loss and optimal hormone balance. We'll be talking about what works, what doesn't and what is a total waste of...
Episode 019: What Paying Off Debt Taught Me About Weight Loss
I tried to lose weight for over 20 years. Sometimes I was able to but I inevitably piled the weight back on – always more quickly than I had lost it. I doubted my ability to ever permanently lose the weight and truly be healthy. I thought I’d always have to rely on...
Episode 018: The Key to Permanent Weight Loss – A How-To Guide
Ready for permanent weight loss? Have you tried a million times but never succeeded? In this episode we talk about how most of us go about behavior change in the wrong way and why it leads to failure. Then we dive into a step by step process for how you can changes...
Healthy Eating On ‘Vacation’
Ok guys - time to stop stressing about finding fat loss friendly options when you're traveling. Sure, its not quite as easy as it when you're home with your own fridge, but it's not as hard as we act like it is. (Maybe some of us tell ourselves it is hard as a way of...
Episode 017: Alcohol & Fat Loss – Can You Have Both?
In this episode we're talking about alcohol and fat loss & if you can have both! We talk about how alcohol impacts metabolism, how it can increase your likelihood of being in fat-storage mode but we also talk about becoming aware of how alcohol impacts YOU in a...
Q&A 8: Overcoming Self Limiting Behaviors – What To Do When Your Mind Controls Your Mouth
In this episode we are talking about the thing that derails our progress: our old, negative thought patterns. Yup, most of us are passive victims of our thoughts about our lack of willpower, our cravings and our bad habits. But we have the CHOICE to change those...
Episode 016: Hack Your Sleep for Health & Fat Loss
It is not just about the QUANTITY of your sleep. The QUALITY of your sleep might be preventing your weight loss. That's right; when we don't get into those deepest stages of sleep we are making weight loss an uphill battle. We talk about how sleep deprivation leads to...