Today's Food:
Breakfast:
2 bananas with two heaping tablespoons raw crunchy almond butter, shredded coconut and cinnamon (after a nice 5 mile run)
32 ounces lemon water
Snacks:
1 cup "Go take a Hike!" raw trail mix with goji berries, mulberries, golden raisins, cashews and pistachios
32 ounces lemon water
Dinner:
garlic olives
salad with romaine, purple cabbage, daikon, carrot, 1/2 avocado and sprouts, with dulse, nutritional yeast and olive oil
Dessert:
2 rolled dates in coconut
12 ounces water
As a follow-up to yesterday's blog, increasing my water gave me the most energized run in a couple of weeks! And, goddess women, my menstrual cycle started today, so imagine that; all that speed and energy to run, just from water!
Speaking of cycles, the other component is how you eat. Would you like to eliminate symptoms of PMS; bloating, tenderness in the breasts, fatigue and huge emotional swings? OK, then start with eliminating these food categories two weeks before your period is due: Sugar, salt, processed food, white flour, dairy, caffeine and alchohol. Watch what happens. You may feel so good that it's a complete surprise when you actually do get it.
Please write in and tell me if you have experienced this or if you would like to try this experiment and write in with the results...
About Me
- HolisticGirl
- Stamford, Connecticut , Worldwide Counseling, United States
- Hope Stanger is an international Health Consultant, Speaker and Holistic Health Counselor who counsels clients to have empowered lives and extraordinary health. She is an expert in the field of raw,living and whole foods, integrative nutrition, eating disorders, abuse and trauma and holistic counseling. Hope created “Ecstatic Eating!™,” as a new model for how we can relate to our food. Hope teaches and speaks on the quantum physics of nutrition and how to utilize plant-based food and cleanses to heal and support the body on a core level. She counsels individuals, couples and groups worldwide. Hope has been asked to appear on radio and television programs in the areas of health, nutrition, business and entrepreneurial expertise. Hope was born and educated in the United States and is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She currently lives by the water in Stamford, Connecticut. To contact Hope for counseling or speaking, email her at theholisticempire@yahoo.com
4 comments:
It's true! I've had a huge change in not only my pms symptoms, they're virtually gone most months, but also the nutty hormone fluxuations all around that time.
Hope guided me through dietary changes that made a huge difference.
I think biggy for me was cutting out dairy, and of course the sugar (even sugar in very sweet things like banannas a week or so before) helps to keep the gittery feelings away. It's really amazing!
~Thank you Hope!
Also I don't eat processed food or white flour, and don't drink caffeine or alchohol!
I do notice, depending on the month, I either get a surge a really great energy the day before or day of where I have great work outs....or I am fatigued to the point of needing to lay down. I need to keep a food journal again maybe, as you suggested to see what might be going on around this. Thanks Hope! You're amazing!
Yes yes I've experienced it. It's fabulouse. the only syptom that I was left with was a bit of sadness the day before other wise it's just about changing my pads.
Thank you , Goddess Women! I love this discussion. Thank you for sharing this with our women readers; it is so valuable to show examples from our own lives. The dairy is huge, as it it such an acid producer in the body, which really bloats us.
Definitely keep the food journal, Wendy, cause it might be a subtle tweaking that is needed in your food. However, we women need to allow that blood is flowing out, changes are happening, and the body might need a little more rest. After all, it's a magical process. It's kind of exciting that sometimes we get the energy surge and sometimes want to crawl into bed. How lucky are we to live in these beautiful women's bodies!
Steph, some additional "greening" might help with the sadness; more oxygen and chlorophyl.
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