Lori HarderFounder of glōci | Bestselling Author

How to Master Your Monthly Cycle (No More Cramps or Cravings!)

6 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short motivational/informational segment (YouTube video) in which Mindy Pelz explains that menstrual cycle symptoms (cramps, cravings, irritability) result from not aligning lifestyle with hormonal needs—especially the week before menstruation when progesterone requires higher glucose and lower cortisol. She advises against fasting, intense workouts, or low-carb diets during that premenstrual week and frames hormones as a controllable ‘superpower.’

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So many women have written off like, oh, your cycle is just a terrible thing. This is what I'm trying to demystify. It is not a terrible thing. Our hormones are our superpower. And if you learn how to work your lifestyle to match them, you will witness your body in a new way. All these women were going into this low carb, low sugar experience the week before their periods. And so that's the worst time to fast. It's the worst time to push your workouts. It's the worst time to stay up all night because progesterone wants glucose to be high and cortisol to be low. When you don't honor that, the week before your period, when your period starts, you have cramps, you have cravings, you are irritable. So that whole thing about us feeling horrible when our period starts happened because we didn't take care of what progesterone needed the week before. She's a diva. She's a total diva.