Episode 88: Is Cycle Syncing Legit? Should your exercise routine and diet change based on your menstrual cycle?
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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah discuss the recent uprising trend, Cycle Syncing. For all our menstruating friends and people who know menstruators, the girls break down the question: should you change your diet and exercise routine based on what phase of your menstrual cycle you’re in? Only eat oats during your follicular phase? No high-intensity during your luteal phase? Tune into this episode to hear the girls’ thoughts and some useful takeaways you can start applying!
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hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the upbeat dietitians podcast
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Hello everybody welcome back this episode is for all of our menstruating
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listeners so if you menstrual welcome menstruating hello hello menstrators
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it's actually kind of part one of two of apparently we're doing a menstrual cycle
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series it wasn't like planned but we're going to talk about today uh cycle
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sinking which is a really popular thing on social media right now and then we'll go more into PMs and how to incorporate
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the intuitive eating principles with all of that next week but for today
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we're going into what's called cycle syncing which if you haven't really heard of that to kind of sum it up
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before we get into the nitty-gritty it's basically just structuring your diet and exercise habits along with like your
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work and lifestyle too in some cases around the four different phases of your
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cycle So today we're going to go over um kind of a refresher what those phases
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are some of the claimed benefits of cycle syncing how the experts claim to do it
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in terms of like nutrition and exercise we're going to touch on seed cycling a little bit which is like another part of
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this and then kind of give our final thoughts on if we recommend being a cycle Sinker or not yes so
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let's get into it let's kind of Define where this started and where this came from so
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Alyssa bitty I apologize if I mispronounced their name
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is a self-proclaimed women's health expert and author and they are the ones
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who first coined the term Single psyching in her single single psyche
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yeah for the one of us single psychics it it just came out so well it sounded
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good that's not right sick psych cycle
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sinking it's like a it's like word twister that's not also not the word
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definitely not it tongue twisters yikes well she wrote a book called woman
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code and this is where she brings up Cycles thinking and according to a list when one lives a
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plant-based or quote-unquote plant-based lifestyle they work and flow in alignment with their hormones
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and overall this is just like a term or like practice to help women sink
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their goals and behaviors with their menstrual cycles so it's kind of like all encompassing
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with our Cycles hence the cycle sinking single cycling
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[Laughter] um and
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a spoiler alert right off the bat you're probably like oh this is an individual
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who has a book and they sell things they probably sell something else if this is a common Trend and
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surprise surprise Alyssa sells cycle sinking supplements and we're gonna have
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to go We're not gonna go too in depth into these but we potentially could do a future episode on them if you guys would
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like so let us know comment on the episode post on our website DMs
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whatever it is let us know if you want to hear maybe there's someone else who's
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advertising some type of supplement oh I guarantee there's tons of like cycle
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syncing supplement people out there yeah when I saw that she had like her
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supplement line I was the opposite of surprised I was like oh that just makes sense at this point I just surprised she
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didn't have supplements yeah like yes it's nice when you can it's predictable that's true
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hopefully you guys are getting good at that too at this point if you're a 88 episode deep listener I'm sure you guys
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can kind of catch this BS too at this point let's talk about the menstrual
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cycle oh thrilling I'm sure actually you know what I'm
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taking that back I'm not sure I was going to say we learned this in health class I don't
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know how much we really learned about we learned about people that we bleed menstrual cycles
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okay so this is going to be a little bit more advanced in our fifth grade health class
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so as nutrition goes and also it can be carried over to our cycle every cycle is
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slightly different not everyone's the same there isn't a perfect number of days the average
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days and like healthy cycle typically lasts for 23 to 35 days and that
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includes all four Cycles so let's grow through the different phases number one
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the most popular and I don't popular popular as in most well-known phase is the
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menstrual phase typically for three to seven days this is we're most familiar
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with this and this is when we bleed energy levels tend to be lower we experience a lot of those well something
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I've seen people experience PMS symptoms with their menstrual cycle or the menstrual phrase phase I can't speak
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Today podcast we're gonna power through this
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um but that's the most common that's not common isn't most familiar we're most
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familiar with this yeah I don't know if Common's the best word but because I think if hopefully if you have a cycling
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of all these phases but yes that's the one that I think we all think of when you hear of like your period you think
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of this phase but there's three others so the next one is the follicular phase that one lasts about like seven to ten
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days ish this is right after we have our actual like bleeding part of our period
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so energy levels start to go back up we feel more creative motivated excited
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things feel good you're not bleeding anymore out of an orifice like it's just it's all good all around from this point
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on we're feeling good yeah this is our getting excited like yes phase
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the next phase we'll discuss is the ovulatory phase this is for typically
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three to four days and this we commonly hear about because like people are like oh I'm ovulating or I'm in ovulation and
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if people are fertile and trying to get pregnant under like
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they don't have any type of hormonal disorders going on this would be the
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kind of the time that people are most gonna say susceptible to pregnancy
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that's how we view it as like a disease but even if you're not trying to get
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pregnant you are most susceptible to pregnancy during this time so overall people tend to feel a little bit
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more social and confident and there might be that more that desire to be with like other people during this phase
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yeah they say it's like when you have like your best hair days and your skin looks the best and you just like want to
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be chatty which I think that's relative I mean someone like me probably is not
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as Chad during this phase as someone else who is naturally very chatty at All Phases but anyway yeah this is The
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Confident social phase and then lastly before we get our period again we have the luteal phase which is about 10 to 14
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days in length and this is when our energy levels start to go back down as like hormone levels fall we feel more
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tired more withdrawn this is when we kind of get those like
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PMS symptoms like before we until enter the menstrual phase where it's like actually like the cramps and headaches
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and things like that that go along with like the actual bleeding part and to bring us back to
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the topic of today everything that cycle sinking does is supposed to be aligned
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with these four phases you're probably like well why would I want to do that
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there are a couple claimed benefits of cycle syncing so we'll just run quickly
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through these first one being more regular periods and this means this can mean a couple different things for
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different because regulars are very looks different to everyone it could be like
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consistency of when you get it around the time of the month like if you get it always on if you start bleeding or you
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enter your menstrual phase on the 10th of every month or maybe like the
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I keep thinking of like not the right words I was going to say severe I guess maybe severity of your PMS symptoms that
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could be a little bit more lower tamed but that's kind of one of the biggest claims
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to cycle syncing another one is a more gentle PMS it's actually going back to those symptoms maybe like if you get
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really bad cramps beforehand or really intense Cravings or something like that
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just kind of lowering the intensity there another claim of cycle sinking is a
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better connection or more connection with your body and its needs in general
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you may experience less mood swings experience more effective workouts and
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then fertility spoke support and knowing the best time to conceive or not to conceive yeah so those are what the
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experts say which we have experts in quotes because I'm not really sure who of the best person to like gets
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education on this topic would be I mean it's hormone so I think like some kind of like actual medical provider
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but at the same time like women's health like that I I don't know I don't know who the best expert would be on this
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subject to be honest I I always think like either like OB GYN or like
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endocrinologist but maybe like because of like it's your
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Administration cycle maybe OB gyn's a little bit more yeah hurting it then so
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I don't really know what this Alyssa person is they just are a proclaimed
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women's health expert and author but um anyway the whole point of this too is
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to kind of like make it your own it really sounds like so as we'll go into next actually of like how to actually
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cycle sync it really is just seeing how your body responds to
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different exercise and nutrition of changes and choices depending on like your energy levels and your mood and all
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of that so I don't even know how much an expert would be able to help in this Beyond just
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understanding like what nutrients are the most beneficial which maybe could be a good time for a dietitian if someone
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does specialize in that I don't know this is very open-ended which can be a good thing I
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guess but yeah it can be a little bit confusing too for some people yeah but
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the first step um of like how to cycle sync cycle syncing 101 the first step is to track
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your cycle so kind of figure out like if you can when you are entering and exiting each phase because you'll use
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that information to decide what habit changes modifications to do in each
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phase so once you have a good understanding of what timeline each phase looks like for you
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this is where you can start to modify your nutrition exercise they even say
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like your lifestyle habits like when you're the most social like your work they say to like be the most productive
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and like this these days and like make decisions on these days
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um maybe kind of lay low on these days it's it's very interesting really but um we'll go over some cons in a little
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bit too um Emily if you didn't see already I attached this picture I found that goes
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through each of the food groups and like with each phase what foods are recommended what are your
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thoughts on that yes so I'm looking for some type of pattern
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and there isn't really it seems very there's all kinds of
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things like this like I know Pinterest is notorious for this where it's like eat just these foods for weight loss as
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if like only one category of like nuts leads to weight loss or something like
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that um yeah or like just eat these foods for heart disease like literally whatever it
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is you could find a image like this that specifies like which foods you should and shouldn't eat but as you guys know
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it's not that simple or straightforward yeah
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I yeah I think it's just a random so it basically says like to sum up like
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the grain phase for example or the grain category it says the menstrual phase to eat buckwheat or wild rice during your
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follicular phase to eat barley or oats during the ovulatory phase eat some
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quinoa and during the luteal phase brown rice or millet but like what if you're in your
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ovulatory phase and you really want some wild rice like are you just not allowed to because you're cycle sinking and that
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would just make you feel crappy yeah or like what if I know that like
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oftentimes people with uteruses sync up to people they're like around a lot what
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if you're not synced up with someone else in your household yeah like sorry
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I'm making let me build a meal this is so fun oh
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okay so sorry we're having like pork chops with wild rice and kale tonight
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but oh you must be frustrating I'm menstruating thank you but Hannah is uh
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in her follicular phase so she
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is gonna make chicken with barley and zucchini but we
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like want to eat dinner together and that's not to say we can't make except for meals but like what if we were like
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it's gonna be a big grocery bag I'm creating like a family now I'm like we're a family and our children
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and now we have to make different meals because of our phases yeah like yeah
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what if like the children are on us and our three daughters who are all of age to be menstruating
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this is gonna be chaos yeah and then what if you don't even
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like either of those Foods or whatever you're allergic and like the only grains in like the follicular face or barley
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and oat like those are the most boring grains in the world not a lot of options
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what if I want some like sourdough bread for goodness sakes oh my gosh I never get that apparently
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according to this which I'm surprised because the wellness girlies love sourdough
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yeah maybe that's why they're trying to stand out with this one yeah this is just one
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of many adaptations anyway but yeah that's kind of a spoiler as one of
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our cons of all this but like while there could be some benefit to like eating certain nutrients support
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certain hormone levels and all of that it can become
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obsessive for some people where if like you don't get enough vitamin E then the World's Gonna Come crumbling and turn to
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dust and you'll be okay
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and it's like likely an estimation anyway most of us can't really know for sure exactly what phase we're in based
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on like the day of the month they can estimate but it's really best at best
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yeah oh yes then the other big parts of this
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so there's the food component and then there's the exercise component
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which I feel like I've heard more about the exercise component than me too food component
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which is actually really interesting to me and I feel like it holds some ground I'm gonna say this
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before we even go into this but not in the way that people are gonna think yeah
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so let's go let's review The Phases again this is actually a learning exercise where you're going to learn all
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four phases and you'll be very educated on now you can tell other people about the face if they need to know tell your
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non-menstrating friends about the phases yeah educate them so starting off with good old menstrual
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phase if from an exercise standpoint there's
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been a recommendation that if you feel fatigued in low energy but still want to
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move you should try incorporating yoga walking or light stretching so someone more of those like low intensity
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exercises if you're in the follicular phase and energy levels are rising as
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estrogen levels increase this might be a good time to ink or to incorporate cardio or Zumba or other or those higher
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intensity exercises in our ovulatory phase they recommend
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this is when we feel our best to do so so to do more of those like higher intensity exercises like hit or
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have you weight lifting which like sometimes super only in this for like three to five days so you only get to do
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those for three to five times a month exactly that's the con is like if I want to do Zumba dermolodial phase I'm going
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to do Zumba during my luteal phase it just yeah yeah and then that's the last one is the
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luteal phase if you're more anxious or tired and hormone levels fall yoga Pilates or meditation could be
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beneficial so the reason I feel like this I said this holds some ground is based off of like
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gauging your energy levels and kind of what can my body take right now like if
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you are bleeding and feeling exhausted please do not go a high do a high intensity like
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hit workout followed by a heavy weight training session you're I would simply
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pass away if I did that during my period yeah no one will be happy
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during that um but also like Hannah said it can feel
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very restrictive and I know that they included like may and might so that
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they're giving you that leeway um but I feel like there's a general
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good idea here but you don't need to stick to the phases so you can just
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focus on like listening to our body or like what are we feeling today
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type situation yeah exactly I think the other con can be how accessible all
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these forms of movement are like if you can really only access a place to go for
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walks or like that's all you feel good doing is walking that's okay like if you can't
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get into the YMCA to do a Zumba class one day I hit class the next a yoga
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class the next go to pilates studio that's okay like for me like my two
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forms of movement are like to lift weights I like to go for walks within I'm not really into Zumba Pilates yoga
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not that I like dislike them but I just don't do them or have a place to do them in
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like a class form specifically it just feels like it's not the most
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accessible if they are recommending doing all these different forms of movement that not everyone can do
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he asks and it's expensive yeah Pilates I think especially is like hi Dolla oh
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yeah yoga so that's kind of the main nutrition and
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like exercise component something else we mentioned before is seed cycling this
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is almost like a little baby version of the nutrition and it's actually only
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broken down into the two phases so like it sees is it like Days 1 through 14 in
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days 15 through 28 if you bleed before you bleed I hope you don't bleed for 28 days oh my God see ya see them
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additional if you are um but if you essentially if you're a
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menstrual cycle lasts longer than that you just divided into that's kind of how the seed
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cycling would work and essentially the idea around it is you would add like one to two tablespoons of ground flax or
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pumpkin seeds to like whatever you wanted the form does not matter on like a salad or a smoothie or
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whatever it is and this is apparently meant to enhance estrogen production and
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then the second half you add one to two tablespoons of sunflower sesame seeds to whatever it is and this is help it's
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supposed to enhance progesterone production there's not a lot of research
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I have a lot of questions yes it's it's been debunked but
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seed cycling still decently popular it really is this
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is just like wellness girly like 101 like this whole yes episode
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this is like the girls yeah there's like the gut health girls and then there's
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like the hormone girls exactly this is in the hormone girls the ones who have like their little
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greens powders and their matching outfit their matching set their Lulu set
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and they post I actually just saw posts like this and I was like oh
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oh are they toast posted like before and afters of like I balanced my hormones oh
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my gosh and it's always a it's always focused on weight loss every time
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oh yeah it's always about weight loss so they do the body checks for the sugar
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their day of eating here's my abs and here's what I eat yes every time so yeah evidence is weak with
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with that one not great um overall no which leads us to our next
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piece which which is our potential issues with single cycling
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um we really went over the first one already which is just the whole fact that it could lead to being obsessive
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around all of this you know if I'm in my follicular phase I can't eat this food because it's only meant for the luteal
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phase none of that that's kind of silly but the other issue could be for those who
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don't have regular Cycles or like by that we mean like consistency of when
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you're in the different phases or if you take hormonal contraceptives this could
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also suppress ovulation and so that takes away that whole piece of the puzzle right there so you
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can't sync up to that when you don't have an ovulatory phase so for those of you who Maybe
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maybe you haven't tracked you just don't know when they would be um but if you maybe have tried tracking
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and you're like I have no darn clue like when I'm in in which phase or maybe your phases aren't consistent this may not be
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a good fit for you and that's okay yeah like there are some components you could
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incorporate if you like the idea of it but you don't need to hold yourself to those strict rules to follow it
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so let's share some takeaways because we don't want to just
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critique although Hannah and I are good at that yeah we want to give you guys something that you can actually or
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things we'd recommend some general advice so how exactly can intuitive eating in
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your menstrual cycle go together and there's a couple different ways one of the first things that we've actually
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been talking about through this entire episode but we'll just kind of say a point blank is intuitive eating is all
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about like listening to your body and not expecting to eat and exercise the
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same every single day and that's okay so if you menstruate and have female
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hormones your hormone like Ebon flows like ebb
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and flow is in a cyclical fashion and that goes along with like your energy levels Cravings
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um what other maybe common symptoms you experience with your menstrual cycle and
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you can kind of gauge how you're feeling that day like we talked about the exercise kind of engaging how are my
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energy levels today what do I think I can handle are we bleeding should I probably not go
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do like a 90 minute high intensity workout I'm
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just kind of thinking about that and stay in tune with your body like intuitive eating is getting back into
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with your body which I feel like a lot of the cycle sinking kind of emphasizes a lot of
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um but you don't need to follow a strict regimen with intuitive eating yeah the
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point I want to make with this one too is if you do have like biological female
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hormones they as we described occur in a cyclical fashion and so like how you feel one day
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of the month will be different than how you feel a different day of the month and so that's why like certain diets aside from like all of this don't work
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for a lot of biological women because they expect you to like follow the same
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meal plan or exercise regiment or whatever like every single day of the month but like we've described our
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energy levels are always changing our moods are always changing just because of like the cycle we go through so it
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may feel difficult to maintain just like consistent habits every single day of the month when we just aren't built like
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that a very good point you can kind of focus on both they don't it's not intuitive eating like does just
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disregard your menstrual cycle there are ways to implement it something you can practice those if you want to
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incorporate some of that gentle nutrition is building like well-balanced plates to help with blood sugar control
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this helps with hormonal control and this doesn't have to just be when you're on your in your menstrual phases can be
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any time from like a hormonal balancing standpoint and it's
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not going to be advertised it's like oh guys we're really into hormone balancing
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now like insulin is a hormone
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listen if your hormones are like out of whack don't go to some gut health girly
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online that is a self-proclaimed hormone expert like if your hormones are unbalanced whatever that means like
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ghosting endocrinologist yes a hormone expert Gurley is not gonna this is not
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gonna fix that problem no no here estrogen levels are off your
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testosterone levels are off whatever it is seek professional medical help please
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right like nutrition can definitely be helpful like eating the right amounts of
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like protein versus carbs and certain nutrients during different phases can like support Hormone Health and
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regulation but if they're like medically out of whack
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that's not going to fix the problem food is not medicine no and then some other components that
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we've emphasized in the past that will just help in general with kind of like
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feeling okay while you're menstruating in off or like emphasizing sleep making
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sure we're sleepy enough of our we're not sleeping enough everything else gets affected if you are not managing your stress well
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which I feel like the large majority of us are not managing our stressed will those cortisol levels another hormone
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will spike a little bit more and this can look kind of a couple different
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ways I know I know there is cortisol managing nutrition experts oh yes the
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number one way to manage as someone who is been in that space
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the number one way to manage cortisol is to eat regularly it almost always come down comes down to
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just eating enough and eating consistently yes it's not some specific food
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it's not to avoid this food it's eating enough and
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throughout the day or as much as you're able to eat throughout the day yeah
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additionally hydration is important from all aspects hydration I feel like
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gets either like way too emphasized or like not emphasized enough so make sure
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you're drinking water but don't over hydrate it's hard to do but can be done and then lastly just incorporating some
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joyful movement you don't always have to have energy for like those hit workouts or those Pilates classes and that's okay
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the like form of the movement and the intensity that you do can change
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depending on how you're feeling and that's completely okay you don't have to like run for 30 days in a row you don't
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have to do three Pilates classes for eight weeks straight it can change and that's okay
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you're accommodating your body's needs you can also rest too like yes when I'm
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bleeding like the first few days I'm not doing a damn thing I'm not doing any kind of workout maybe take them for a
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walk but that's like very low intensity for us
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yeah yeah yeah so bottom line today the
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cycle sinking thing it may have some benefits especially when it comes to intuitive eating like tuning into your cues like
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we said a million times responding to your energy levels all things that we talk about a lot when it comes to just
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intuitive eating um it doesn't recommend like pushing through a workout when you have low
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energy so those are all good things but anything that has a name anything
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like this like cycle sinking imminent fasting which also has a lot of hormone benefit claims
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it may have guidelines that feel a little tough to follow and that could lead to that subsequent guilt if you
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can't do it quote unquote correctly based on whatever the guidelines say so in theory it could be helpful but make
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sure if you do do this to kind of take it gently and tailor it to your
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specific body not what some holistic girly says to do and if
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you want to hear us talk more about this in our menstrual cycle next week we're
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going to be talking about PMS intuitive eating so it'll be our continuation of
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our little menstrual series and if you are someone who does not menstruate you
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should listen to these anyway to support your loved ones who do have to worry about these stupid things
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some empathy is always good yes very much needed so let's do the bonus
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question I'm very excited for this one and I want you to go first I know you're
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probably not going to want to go first for this one but I don't know my answer so you're getting it first
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um and the question is what is your favorite PMS snack
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if you know I don't have one I know I'm the one who usually picks these questions and I need to start picking
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ones that I like know I can answer um I think just generally especially
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this time of the month too I love like sweet and salty so I'm
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thinking like actually my favorite thing might be like a chocolate covered potato chip
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ooh have you ever had those yes they're so good yes
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or like I'll do like popcorn like a ton of butter and like chocolate chips or like chocolate squares or something like
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that to go with it yeah or I love a chocolate covered strawberry too which I plan to make some this week
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actually I got some strawberries lots of chocolate in your snacks which I know is cliche but I really I like chocolate
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anytime so it's not just because of the whole like chocolate on your period thing yeah sometimes I forget that's
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like a stereotype yeah chocolate's always good yeah I have chocolate like literally right here next to me I'm
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gonna eat when we stop recording this podcast episode and I am not amazing actually yes I am oh well
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I just countered counter what's the word single psyching
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single psychic um I just went against my word but
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yes that's the word I was going to say counter-indicated I'm like that's not that's what I was trying
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to say but that wasn't right okay what is your favorite PMS snack I
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actually have a very similar answer to you because I know it's coming when I crave two things I start craving like
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chattery or like really salty chips like the Ruffles Cheddars or like sour cream
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and onion yes I like I love those anytime they're so good something
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happens and I like those it's so good right now
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and then I start craving chocolate because I normally choose fruity
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desserts and Candy over chocolate like any day but the moment I start craving
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chocolate also very apparently meeting The Stereotype yeah um I just know I'm like ah yeah also I'm
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not satisfied with Cravings that's like my number one giveaway is I just like start eating everything
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like I also don't feel full too like I get the hunger is constant and the
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Cravings are there we will cover that next week actually but that's to be expected
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but like I think I'm entering my chip era I like I cannot eat enough potato
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chips lately they're so good they're so good especially like the the cheddar
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like Ruffles oh I got these sweet onion kettle cooked ones from Meyer a couple weeks ago
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so good it sounds really good so they're like kind of sweet and like oniony obviously
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um oh well it's gonna be a good bonus question but we'll ask it now anyway do you like like the kettle like what's
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your favorite style of potato chip like the kettle the Ruffles the regular like lays it's a good question I feel like my
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favorite despite everything I hate with my
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fingers getting dirty is the ones that are more coated like so like I love Doritos I love
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Doritos I could eat so many Doritos I love Doritos and then I think the
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cheddar Ruffles and like sour cream and onion might be up there like those might be my top three because
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we can do like a nice psychological dive is I would always eat those three with
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like my childhood like best friends like since we were probably like five
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granted I don't know how much how much we were getting our hands on as like little kids now I'm thinking about it
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like as we grew up we were able to like reach cabinets and you know yeah not be
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monitored as much but those three I don't think I could choose a favorite
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I think maybe Doritos actually Doritos are so good are they just like the general like ruffle texture is just so
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good so good but now I'm like I feel like there's one I'm missing I feel like
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barbecue is a very common favorite very controversial like Ross is not a fan
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I think it's good but I wouldn't eat a whole bag of it
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I don't think I would either I really like them but if it was like sitting in a box like those party boxes with like
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Doritos and Ruffles I would choose those first but what was even the question your
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favorite chip what is I feel like the texture like kettle ruffle like regular lays kind of texture
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which I think I would say Ruffles yeah it's just so satisfying the mouse
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feel yeah the amount of topping distribution you can look at someone yeah you can get like so much flavor in
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the crevices it's so good and it's like sturdy it's not I feel
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like sometimes like the Lays are like really thin those are my last choice
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Last Choice again I will eat them but yes not the best all right well we'll figure out a new
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question for next week related to all of this so we'll think on it or we could do it would you rather Maybe
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oh do you have any ideas let us know but otherwise maybe we'll both be menstruating next time
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um I probably will be my my speaking of irregular periods mine is not okay so I
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don't know it'll be a surprise they'll let you guys know I don't know I just feel weird letting everyone know I feel
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like they can like somehow steal my identity if they'd know like what I'm menstruating
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I'm making everyone's business it's not like embarrassed to talk about it I just don't know if I want the internet to
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know because they're gonna like I don't know like that's like something they could
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like take from me somehow I mean if they want my egg I know I wish
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I could just like have like one really terrible period get rid of all of them yeah
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and Samuel menopause is I think so we're working towards it we'll get there
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one day we're alike 30 years away you know how many periods
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that is that's a lot maybe I'll just get the whole thing taken out
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but then I I hear a lot of cons to that too same we are not medical professionals do not have heard this
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podcast for what you should do about your reproductive health no because we are just speculating oh my gosh my phone
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oh never mind my like I thought it was gonna be a period reminder I have I use like the the Apple health
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app thing and it always like says your period's gonna start in like X days I
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thought it was just telling me that but it's telling me to go to bed oh dang it is that time
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all right well tune in next time for PMS new tube reading and to find out if we
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are menstruating maybe or maybe My Little Secret
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probably I'll let you know Hannah will remain a secret you'll just have to
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stick around because maybe one day she'll tell me ooh intrigue all right guys thanks for listening
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we'll see you next week for part two all right bye
