 Welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. My name is Chelsea Knudsen. I'm a certified holistic health coach and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female related conditions using food as medicine. And today I want to talk to you a little bit about what a normal menstrual cycle looks like. Most people don't know what a menstrual, a normal menstrual cycle is supposed to look like and I was guilty of this as well. I had no idea even though I thought I did and most women think they know what a normal menstrual cycle is and they have no clue and I'm going to clue you into why that is in just a second. But I talk to women just about every single day in my different coaching programs that I have. I coach one-on-one. I have a group coaching fibroid program and I have a group coaching emotional healing program and I also talk to people one-on-one for free just to see if working together is going to be a fit for us. So if anybody has wondered whether or not working with me would be a good option for them, there's a link down in the description box where you can apply to work with me and we can see if working together is a fit for us. But anyway, when I get the opportunity to talk to people they often will describe their menstrual cycles either in a questionnaire that I asked before I'm you know going into coaching or in the midst of a conversation they'll talk to talk to me about their menstrual cycle and most women describe a heavy menstrual cycle regardless if they think it's not. So let me just tell you some of you have already heard me say this if you have already been in my coaching programs or if you've been in some of my in my Facebook group you've probably heard me say or saw a post that all the bleeding that we're supposed to do every month is two to three tablespoons of blood for the entire menstrual cycle that's right I said two to three tablespoons of blood for the entire menstrual cycle and so some of you are saying to yourself Chelsea you're insane that that's that you know that's nothing there's no you're not supposed to bleed that little well let me just tell you this the reason that we think we're supposed to bleed more is because most women are bleeding too heavy they are they're absolutely bleeding too heavy and so that has become the norm so whenever you say something about what the norm is the two to three tablespoon of bleeding for a menstrual cycle we get like are you kidding me that couldn't be right it couldn't be right that two to three tablespoons is always supposed to bleed well it is why it's and and here's here's the thing when you start taking care of yourself and you are strict to the plan that I teach and you do what I do what I teach you and you do it with all your heart and you're not one foot in and one for out here and there you will find that your bleeding will go down to two to three tablespoons every month it will I have clients that it has happened to and they are ecstatic about it they're wearing panty liners for their menstrual cycle or a if they don't feel comfortable wearing a panty liner the smallest pad there you know is in that category because that's what I wear I wear a panty liner and the smallest pad in that category and the only reason I wear the smallest pad is because I had have used my entire basically my entire adult adult life those overnight pads and I had gotten used to that that coverage and even though I don't bleed like that anymore sometimes I'm like just a little nervous just to wear a panty liner which I don't need to be nervous like that but can you imagine all you need is a little tiny panty liner whenever you have your menstrual cycle every month it is possible for that to happen for you the the key is is it's not just about food now putting the right food in is going to help you to get rid of that menstrual cycle but it's also what are you like getting the old junk out and learning to detoxify your body at a cellular level that's what gets you to a place where your body is healing and you don't have to worry about you know progressing the problem in your body with the reproductive or endocrine problem that you have so what we need to do is work on getting our stress levels under control because stress points to bleeding to and also what we're putting in our bodies we need to be consistent and we need to get all the toxicity out of our bodies now I can't tell you all that and this is one little video of course you can go through my youtube channel and piece all that together the information is basically there um that I teach in my huge I'm sorry in my 90 day walk to freedom from fibrous group coaching program it's basically there of course there's some probably some nuances that are not there but you can heal you can detoxify your body just get those foods to avoid um foods out of your out of your diet consistently and do it just every day just keep putting one foot in front of the other every single day and you will get well like there is no way that you can keep on doing the right thing feeding your body healthy food taking all the junk out keeping your body hydrated working on your stress levels that you won't get well like you can get well now below this video I would love to have you um write in any questions that you might have and I would be glad to turn those questions into videos over these next few months because I want to know what you've got what you've got a what you want to hear I have a library of videos on all different types of topics like how do you stop the heavy bleeding tips that you can take you can um you can um do in order to stop the heavy bleeding but we've got to stop this heavy bleeding and the heavy once we stop the heavy bleeding that's when we can work on building ourselves so that you know the things that we've got going wrong with us can start to heal so anyway I think that's about it I don't I mean I could keep talking about this all day long because this is what I do but you should not be bleeding your guts out every month you should not have a crime scene in your underwear every month and if you do you can reverse it I don't care what anybody says every month I used to have a crime scene in my pants every single month and not only did I have a crime scene in my month but I was bleeding seven eight nine ten eleven twelve days at a time during my menstrual cycle there have even been times when I've bled for six months straight so I know all about it I know how it feels and you don't have to be there you do not have to be there the the I think the biggest problem that people run into is they don't want to change and so if you're feeling like you don't want to change then that's probably something we can work on together so anyway I mean on the heart of hearts you want to change but like you just feeling like this is impossible tell see you're crazy there's no way I can do what you did what you do or eat like you eat but you can just you're worth it you're worth you're worth giving up all that crap so that you can feel like a million bucks so anyway that's all I want to say today I love you all and I'll talk to y'all soon see ya