This is episode 232. I'm snacking on a perfect keto bar. I'm so hungry. We've just been all day running around and I just like stuff my face with three bars. Okay, clear my palette, let's do this. Today I wanted to share with you my

amenorrhea story and for those of you who don't know what amenaria is, amenaria

is when you don't get a period. Now this lack of period could be because you never got a period as a teenager or a young adult or it could be a lack of period where you had your period for a while and it went away.

Now the recording I'm going to share with you was a recording that I did back in 2015 after I had gone

two full months of getting my cycle. I remember being so excited. This was also the time that I

released my second digital program, Fat Fueled. I had written the keto beginning

a couple months before and as soon as I got my period back I developed

an entire program to help women understand their bodies and use a ketogenic diet to balance their

hormones and so fat fueled is still available. That then fueled my passion behind

happy keto body, which you can find a happy ketobody.com and this experience was like a pivotal moment for me.

Now being February 16th, 2020, we're talking over four years.

My cycle has had its ups and downs after I recorded this. My cycle started extending past, I think it was like 35 days and it stayed there for a couple of years.

And then I got very consistent at 28 days and then as you heard recently in my

why you should never go off thyroid medication, oh my gosh your thyroid is so important episode from a couple of episodes ago on the

podcast I went off my thyroid meds and it caused my cycles to come every 19 days

and unfortunately at the time of this recording I am still experiencing 19 day cycles which I'm pretty

bummed about it means I'm not ovulating and I really took a massive step back by going off my thyroid meds but

hey you live you learn I forgive myself now I understand how important it is and you know the

cycle is a very and I do touch on this in the recording but the cycle is such a key aspect of our health and understanding that you don't need to get blood tests,

you don't need to find doctors and do all these things and spend all this money.

If your cycle sucks, like it's short, like

19 days, or the bleed is really light, or the bleed is really heavy, or the blood is very clotted,

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