About this episode

Elizabeth Benton discusses the importance of measuring progress forward rather than backward in health and personal growth.

Show Notes Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/ For four years I could have told you, honestly, every right thing I was doing with my health. Ate well. Ate protein. Didn't binge eat. Didn't drink. Worked out. Active. Slept. Every word of it true. And nothing was getting worse. My weight was stable. My habits were consistent. No crisis. Nothing going wrong. Which turned out to be part of the problem. Because when nothing is going wrong, you don't stop to check anything. You just keep going. And I'd been just keeping going for four years without actually asking whether going was the same thing as getting somewhere. Then, around the Fourth of July, we took the kids to the ocean. A friend brought inner tubes tied to a bucket of rocks meant to anchor them so the kids couldn't get pulled out by the tide. Hours in, another friend walked over and said, hey, did you know these aren't tied to anything? Everything looked fine. The tubes were floating. The kids were on them. And the rope had been untied for who knows how long. That is the whole episode. This is a conversation about the thing that saved you becoming the thing that stops you. About the record of…

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