No need to feel guilty anymore!
As you might know by now, you change a lot during the 4 phases of your cycle.
Your thoughts, your emotions, your physical body, and even the way you digest food.
I’d like to tell you a little more about how hormones affect your gut…
Over the 4 phases of your cycle, your hunger levels, metabolism & digestion change!
Here’s how it works:
MENSTRUATION: (shedding of uterine lining)
- starting to feel less hungry
- metabolism slows down
- digestion picks up (period poops anyone??)
FOLLICULAR: (egg growth)
- less hungry
- metabolism slows down even more as estrogen rises
- digestion is working well
OVULATION: (release of the egg)
- least hungry
- metabolism slowest
- digestion working well
LUTEAL: (maintaining of egg in uterine wall, hormones hope it got fertilized)
- more hungry (you need 200-300 more calories in this phase!)
- metabolism speeds up
- digestion slows down
I see a lot of women feeling guilty about eating more during before her period,
AND THIS IS COMPLETELY NATURAL!
Since your hormones, in a way, think you’re pregnant during the Luteal phase, you need to sustain energy and “feed the potential baby” with 200-300 more calories.
If you deprive yourself of nutrients during the Luteal phase, you might feel hangry (hungry+angry), irritable, fatigued, and really making decisions from a stressed state of being since you’re putting yourself in survival mode (fight/flight!)
Natural food is thy medicine.
Learn to flow with your natural digestive & metabolic shifts and your hormones will thank you for it.
Remember, your hormones affect your brain, metabolism, immune system, gut, sexual reproductive system & stress response system!
So when you make your hormones happy, you’re taking care of yourself, you’re giving yourself self-love…
and ahhhh life is wonderful 😊
Thanks for tuning in and spreading this awareness!
I’ll keep sending out some tips & ways to love you + your hormones even more.
Check out my website if you’d like to dive deeper…
…where you’ll find my 13-page Hormone Cycle Awareness ebook on what to eat, how to move & think, and what goes on in the four phases of your cycle so you can have a better relationship with your cycle and live PMS & period pain-free.
Want to work with me?
Book in for a 2-hour private workshop with a protocol made for you.
I also have a group program.
or we can work together 1-1 in a monthly mentorship.
Until next time…
Hugs & female chromosomes (XX),
Pauline Goossens
Hormone Cycle Expert
