Pink Nectar

People ask what I eat like there's a list.

There isn't. There are rules.

Leafy greens every day, not most days. Organic where it actually matters, the thin-skinned produce, normal everywhere else. Something fermented. Protein before caffeine. Water before I'm thirsty.

I'm not eating for a body goal. I'm eating for a cycle that works, energy that lasts past 2pm, and skin that isn't reacting to me.

That's the whole diet.

A woman ran 26.2 miles on her period and the internet lost it.

Not because it's rare. Because we're not supposed to see it.

What nobody covered: running a marathon while bleeding is a different race. Estrogen and progesterone are at their lowest. Iron is dropping. Cramps are competing with your cadence. She ran the same distance carrying more.

She didn't do anything shocking. She just stopped hiding it.

Cramping is common. Pain that puts you in bed is not.

Mild cramping is your uterus contracting to shed the lining. Prostaglandins doing their job.

Pain that cancels your day. Pain painkillers barely touch. Pain with heavy bleeding or clots. That's a signal, not a personality trait.

Women wait years for an endo diagnosis, mostly because we were taught to push through.

Track it every month. Then walk in with receipts.

Stretch marks aren't damage. They're your skin recording growth it didn't get time to prepare for.

I have 5 kids, and no stretch marks!

B***y Butter is what I use.

Consistency does more than any miracle claim ever will.

Comment "B***y" and we'll send you the link

***yButter

Most of what's in your cabinet isn't doing what you think it's doing.

Worth it: probiotics. A womb tonic from a real herbalist. A parasite cleanse. Vitamin D — and go outside with it. Movement. Nature. Therapy.

Not worth it: multivitamins. Your body dilutes it right out. Bright yellow urine after you take one? That's your answer.

Optimize your nutrition instead. Every time.

Save this before you spend another dollar.

Ten minutes. Cleanser, toner, serum, moisturizer, and the mask once a week. Rose and hyaluronic acid in all of it.

Rose calms the inflammation. Hyaluronic acid holds the water in, and that's where the plumpness comes from.

Nothing in here strips your skin and leaves it tight. That tightness is damage, not clean.

The best product used once a month loses to a decent one used nightly.

Ten minutes nobody else gets to touch.

You don't have to buy everything organic. You have to buy the right things organic.

Swap:
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale
Grapes
Apples
Peaches

Keep:
Avocado
Pineapple
Onions
Cabbage

The swap list carries the heaviest pesticide load year after year. The keep list barely registers, so save your money there.

Screenshot this before your next grocery run.

If I could only eat ten foods for the rest of my life for my hormones, this is the list.

Leafy greens
Sea moss
Quinoa
Beans and lentils
Walnuts
Avocado
Ackee
Sweet potato and pumpkin
Eggs
Dark chocolate

Your body needs fat to make hormones, iron to keep up, and minerals most of us run low on. That's the whole list.

If I could sneak in an eleventh, moringa leaves. Every time.

Save this for your next grocery run.

We'll spend two hundred dollars on nails. Then the hair. Then the clothes.

I'm not knocking it. But your nutrition, your mindset and your emotional state need that same investment.

The two things that actually move your hormones never make the wellness list: nutrition, and getting the stress out.

You can even be in a stress state while you work out. Heart rate too high and it works against you.

Delegate one thing this week.

That pooch isn't fat.

If your belly still sticks out years after the baby and cones up when you sit up, that's diastasis recti. A separation in the abdominal muscles.

Nobody checked you at six weeks. So you went home and did crunches, and every rep pushed it further apart.

Check tonight. Lie down, knees bent, lift your head, press above and below the belly button. If your fingers sink into a gap, that's it.