I’m on my period! Hurrah 😒 I’ve been taking a lot of naps this week, because, I remind myself, on my period, I can treat napping as a sport. See below! Here are a few things that I’ve found helpful during that time of the month.
My body doesn’t want to fast when I’m pmsing
I once talked to a friend who said something that stuck with me. She said, “I’ve just come to accept that it’s always going to be harder to stick to my good eating habits when I’m pmsing. Well, it turns out that our body needs to feast during that time, so that makes sense! (See above) Now that I know this about the body, I can eat more during my luteal phase, guilt free.
I will want chocolate
I’ve come to accept this and embrace it and always have a stash of European chocolate at the ready. My favorite is Icelandic milk chocolate!
The cure for hormonal headaches is miso soup
The cause is a drop in estrogen, and the cure is to naturally raise the estrogen using miso! It totally works!
The cure for cramps is to avoid anything with canola oil
I remembered listening to this hormonal guru on a podcast, and I never have cramps since getting rid of seed oils, particularly canola oil.