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- 0:39Hello and welcome back. This is the Eat More Carbs
- 0:41podcast. It's Jenny here with Riley.
- 0:43We're going to be talking all about period recovery today.
- 0:46And specifically, do you need to eat 2800 calories in order to
- 0:50recover your period? Before we get into that though,
- 0:52Riley, what's going on? High and low?
- 0:54Hi. Everybody, welcome back to the
- 0:55podcast. This week my life has been
- 0:57consumed by a book called Onyx Storm, which was a high that I
- 1:02shared a couple weeks ago. A lot of you have also shared
- 1:06that you have been reading Onyx Storm.
- 1:07So I did officially finish Onyx Storm over the weekend and my
- 1:11low is now I have to wait until 2027 for the 4th book.
- 1:16If you are somebody who is still processing Onyx Storm like I am,
- 1:19you should definitely reach out because we're all in this
- 1:22together. All of us girlies are like,
- 1:24happy but like also a little traumatized, as predicted.
- 1:28OK so I have to ask this question.
- 1:30No spoilers we're not going to spoil anything.
- 1:32But I am currently attempting to read the same series to keep up
- 1:36with Riley's book club. I am not to the third book yet
- 1:39but I did see a lot of people that were like I didn't realize
- 1:42I was going to have to wait until 2027 until book 4 comes
- 1:44out which I was like holy cow. And I had no idea the popularity
- 1:48of this book. Everybody is reading this book
- 1:50so I definitely need to catch up and read it just so that way I
- 1:52can like keep up with conversation.
- 1:54But am I going to be super sad reading this?
- 1:56Because like, I've already felt sad and I'm nervous I'm going to
- 1:59feel more very sad. So like set the tone for us.
- 2:02Are we happy with the how the story is progressing or are you
- 2:05like, I don't know where this is going and I might be upset with
- 2:07it? I really loved 4th wing, like
- 2:094th wing I thought was a really good book and like you and I
- 2:12have even talked about how 4th Wing was really good.
- 2:14Iron Flame was definitely like pretty emotional I think.
- 2:18And the cliffhanger that you're going to get at the end of Iron
- 2:22Flame was pretty dramatic and pretty drastic.
- 2:25No spoilers, but he always puts a cliffhanger at the end of her
- 2:27books, right? Which it's good marketing, good
- 2:29public because it keeps us coming back for more.
- 2:32When I finished iron flame, like I was pretty depressed, not
- 2:35depressed, but I was also pregnant.
- 2:36But Onyx Storm is I was a really good book and I do think it is
- 2:40better than Iron Flame and you do get a really big cliffhanger
- 2:43at the end, but I feel like it's more of a positive cliffhanger
- 2:46than you did for Iron Flame. OK, I love that review.
- 2:49No spoilers here but like it gives me a good way to go
- 2:53because I'm having a really hard time getting through this second
- 2:55one. So maybe the third book I will
- 2:57do better with getting through. That I've been staying off book,
- 3:00so I've been trying to stay off the Internet.
- 3:02Let's say like you're going to judge me right now and a lot of
- 3:04people who have not read the book are going to judge a sex
- 3:06comment. But I'm currently on my reread
- 3:09of the book because the author puts so much information in the
- 3:14book and you don't always process all that information
- 3:17until you finish the book. So when you go back and you
- 3:20reread the book, it is a completely different experience
- 3:24because you know what's going to happen and there's so much
- 3:26foreshadowing that has been placed in the book.
- 3:28This is similar to like, I don't know if you've heard of like A
- 3:31Court of Thorns and Roses or Sarah J Maas.
- 3:33Like she's a really popular author as well.
- 3:35They put a lot of like foreshadowing into their books.
- 3:37So like when you reread the series, it's a completely
- 3:40different situation. But a lot of the people who have
- 3:44read the book, myself included, are almost saying that like Onyx
- 3:47Storm is better than Fourth Wing.
- 3:48So a lot of people are saying it is the best book so far that has
- 3:52come. Out.
- 3:52OK. All right.
- 3:53Well, that's a positive review. We like that.
- 3:55Like some people are like very upset about the ending.
- 3:57Some people are traumatized. I feel hopeful.
- 4:00OK, well that's kind of what makes a good book in a good
- 4:02series. OK, so this was your low, but I
- 4:05know that it was a big high that this book finally came out
- 4:07because you've been waiting for it for a while now.
- 4:09But what else is going on? Like what's your true high of
- 4:12the week? A true high.
- 4:13I've actually, I've been waiting for this high to share with you.
- 4:15We have planned our family vacation.
- 4:18We're very excited and we're going to Sedona, AZ.
- 4:22No, you're not. Yes, yeah, yes.
- 4:25We are here. We're coming in April, the end
- 4:28of March. Oh my gosh.
- 4:30Well, I'm so excited. Are you guys flying into
- 4:33Phoenix? Flying.
- 4:34Into Phoenix. I'll get to see you.
- 4:36I know, I'm so excited. Oh my gosh this is my high now.
- 4:39Was so great. I've known for like a month but
- 4:42I've been waiting to share it with you on the podcast.
- 4:46So are all three of you coming? It's actually Robbie's entire
- 4:48family and the three of us, we're renting like a house in
- 4:51Sedona. Oh my gosh, that's going to be
- 4:53so fun. And what a like perfect time of
- 4:55year to come. We're really.
- 4:56Excited. I'm so excited.
- 4:58I'm so excited for you. Well.
- 4:59Hopefully we can see each other. Will this be Charlie's first
- 5:01flight? Yes.
- 5:03How are you feeling about that? I'm OK.
- 5:05We are going to drive to Charlotte and then it's a direct
- 5:08flight from Charlotte to Phoenix.
- 5:09So I feel much better about that.
- 5:11And we also have two rows of three, so there's six of us will
- 5:16rotate the baby. Perfect.
- 5:17Everybody can kind of take a turn.
- 5:19What about you, Jenna? What is going on this week for
- 5:21you? OK so I'm going to share my low
- 5:241st and then I'll share my high. I had an allergic reaction the
- 5:28other day and I'm still not entirely sure what it was from.
- 5:32I have a food allergy and a couple food like intolerances
- 5:35but I to my knowledge did not eat anything that like I am
- 5:39intolerant of. I definitely didn't eat anything
- 5:40that I'm allergic to because that would have been very
- 5:43obvious. My body like neck down, like
- 5:46looked like I had like Poison Ivy all over my body.
- 5:49It was so bad and I was so itchy.
- 5:51And that kind of segues into my high, which is that if you are
- 5:54watching the video feed, you notice my background might be a
- 5:56little bit different than what you're used to.
- 5:57And that's because my husband and I moved into a new home,
- 6:00which is super exciting. But because of moving, we didn't
- 6:03know where everything was. Like I couldn't find cortisone,
- 6:05I couldn't find Benadryl. Like I couldn't find things that
- 6:07maybe like we usually would take, which made for a couple
- 6:10more trips to the store, which thankfully were close to a
- 6:11target. I was able to get something to
- 6:13like make it feel a little bit better but it was rough.
- 6:15Couple past days not feeling super great but we're on the
- 6:18mend. So you've been having a rush
- 6:20month? Tell me about how your half
- 6:22marathon training is going because it's coming closer and
- 6:25closer as the days goes on. I don't know what happened, but
- 6:27all of a sudden we're at the end of January and I don't know
- 6:31where the time is going. But if you didn't know, I just
- 6:33ran 1/2 marathon. Riley is getting ready to run
- 6:36her next half marathon. So we're providing training
- 6:38updates about how our running is going, how our training is
- 6:40going. So where you at this week?
- 6:42It was like 6 weeks until my half marathon, which is crazy
- 6:46because it's in the middle of March and like I'm still
- 6:48processing 2024. So you and I have talked about
- 6:51this before, but I'm at that point right now where my long
- 6:53runs are getting into that like 8-9, ten mile range, which I
- 6:57really love that mileage. It's just fun.
- 6:59So I'm doing like four runs a week.
- 7:01I'll do one that's just like a sort three mile run.
- 7:04I'll do 2 speed workouts and then I'll do my like longer run
- 7:07on the weekend. So anywhere between 8 and 10
- 7:10miles on the weekend. Is this race still party pace or
- 7:12because now that your husband is running it, has that changed?
- 7:16OK this is so silly. We are still trying to go party
- 7:19pace but we are meeting my sister's boyfriend for the first
- 7:24time and my sister was going to run the race and her boyfriend
- 7:28was going to run the race. My sister got hurt unfortunately
- 7:31so we're not going to be able to run it all together.
- 7:34We are like we have to be her boyfriend.
- 7:36Oh my. Gosh, And if she listens to the
- 7:38podcast, she's literally gonna drive North Carolina and kill me
- 7:41if we're saying this publicly. But like, we just keep having
- 7:43this like joke where we're like, it's party taste, but we gotta
- 7:46beat we gotta beat the new guy, like.
- 7:48Oh my gosh, that is the most you thing of all time.
- 7:51I know it's like so silly, but we keep kind of talking about
- 7:54that and we are trying to do party pace.
- 7:56But it's also funny because Rob's is like already running
- 7:59faster than me and I'm like, OK, is this party pace, Sir?
- 8:03What are we doing here? Yeah.
- 8:05So we'll see. I mean, when you put in the
- 8:07corral like information or you put in your projected time, it's
- 8:10like it's a party pace time that we're putting in.
- 8:11So we'll see. We'll see how it goes.
- 8:13But I think we'll be party pace, which is probably good for me.
- 8:15You just came off a really successful first half marathon
- 8:18back after having Charlie and OK to ease back into working up to
- 8:21that speed that you want to be at into your PRS.
- 8:24Like it doesn't need to happen the first race back.
- 8:26It doesn't even need to happen the second race back.
- 8:27Like you'll get there. But you can't PR every race.
- 8:31No. And if you are.
- 8:32That's impressive. You're also probably feeling
- 8:34properly if you are, so you know.
- 8:36Kudos. Tell us about your race though.
- 8:39How? Was it?
- 8:40My race was really fun. We had a great time.
- 8:42The weather, actually, I was a little bit nervous because the
- 8:46temperature in the morning was going to be so cold and I was
- 8:48really nervous about standing around beforehand and getting
- 8:51too cold because there's not a lot of room to like warm up
- 8:54where the race starts. I was so nervous about that that
- 8:56I ended up wearing long sleeves. And if you know me, I get very
- 9:00warm when I'm running to the point where it like pretty much
- 9:02no matter the temperature, I want to run in a tank top and
- 9:04shorts. I just overheat and then I'm
- 9:06uncomfortable and cranky, to be thoroughly honest.
- 9:09Like that's what happens. But I gambled because I was so
- 9:12nervous about the start of the race and I wore ear warmers and
- 9:14a long sleeve shirt, which I was really thankful for, for that
- 9:17standing around period. And then the start of the race,
- 9:20this race that I ran was party pace.
- 9:21So I wasn't trying to like stand at my, you know, corral for a PR
- 9:25or anything like that. So took a little bit of time to
- 9:27get like settled into a pace, but ended up doing that, ran it
- 9:30with my husband and brother, which was just so fun.
- 9:32My brother didn't really, like put a lot of mileage into his
- 9:36training and he carried the pace really well for like the first
- 9:40half of it and then kind of fell off just a little bit towards
- 9:44the end, but still held up like really good.
- 9:46Really proud of him for finishing his first half
- 9:48marathon. I think that he probably has the
- 9:50itch now, a little bit of wanting to do it again, but he's
- 9:53gonna like train and not tell us and then be like, I signed up
- 9:56for this too and then run it and probably beat everyone.
- 9:58But we had a really good time. It was a fun race.
- 10:01I really liked the course. Awesome.
- 10:03What's next now? Do you have anything planned?
- 10:06Are you going to take a break for?
- 10:06A little bit. My plan is to run another race
- 10:10this coming like spring, early summer.
- 10:12I guess you could probably say I'm going to announce the race
- 10:15that I decide probably on the podcast or on Instagram.
- 10:18So make sure you're sticking around and subscribing so that
- 10:20way you can find out what race I'm running next because I
- 10:23haven't fully decided yet. I've narrowed it down to 2 and I
- 10:26will make that announcement and then keep everybody updated on
- 10:28what training is look like moving into that race.
- 10:31You'll have to let us know. I'll keep everybody update on
- 10:33training stuff, but when it comes to what we're talking
- 10:36about today, which is period recovery, we're talking
- 10:39specifically about 2800 calories consuming 2800 calories in order
- 10:43to recover your period. So right off the bat, I have
- 10:46some feelings about this, Riley. I know that we've talked about
- 10:49this before and we're probably going to have some unhinged
- 10:51conversations going forward about this.
- 10:53But I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about like where did
- 10:56this number come from? Because we see it a lot.
- 10:59Sometimes we see, you know, 25 to 2800 calories and somebody
- 11:02mentioning that this is what they did in order to recover
- 11:04their period. But like why 2800 when I first
- 11:07started trying to Google this because like where does this
- 11:09number come from? A lot of the stuff that was
- 11:11coming up was like where did the 2000 calorie a day diet come
- 11:14from? Which most of us are familiar.
- 11:15That's what the food label is based off of.
- 11:17That's kind of the general guidelines is based off of a
- 11:192000 calorie a day diet. So it's kind of hard to find
- 11:22anything that really mentioned 2800 calories until I found that
- 11:27the figure 2800 was kind of this arbitrary number that was taken
- 11:30from research. Supposedly, there are a couple
- 11:33of studies by a woman named Doctor Mary Jane D'souza, and
- 11:36from her articles is where this number kind of came from.
- 11:40She is a researcher in the field of exercise Physiology and
- 11:44Women's Health. And supposedly this kind of came
- 11:46from like years and years ago. When you look up all of the
- 11:49research that Doctor D'souza has been involved with, it is
- 11:52extensive. So from like the late 90s all
- 11:54the way into like closer to now, and there's a lot of it.
- 11:57So from all of that, this is kind of where this number came
- 12:00from. From what I could tell, she
- 12:02never explicitly says 2800 calories is what you need to
- 12:06consume in order to recover period.
- 12:08But from one of her articles or maybe a couple of them, she
- 12:11mentions this idea that for many female athletes, especially
- 12:14those who are really active in endurance sports, in the
- 12:17endurance space, you need adequate energy availability to
- 12:20support hormone function and menstruation.
- 12:22And she suggests that it's a certain calorie per kilogram of
- 12:26body weight that most women need to be at in order to prevent the
- 12:29loss of a period. So from that number that she has
- 12:33suggested from a calorie per kilogram standpoint, most people
- 12:36have kind of taken that as an average and derive this number
- 12:40of 2800 calories. So now if we kind of like take a
- 12:43look at whether or not she actually explicitly says 2800
- 12:47calories, I'm going to be thoroughly honest.
- 12:48I didn't have time to read every single one of her research
- 12:51articles, so I don't know if that's the case.
- 12:54I asked the Internet if she ever explicitly says it.
- 12:57I couldn't find out if she ever explicitly says it, but I'm
- 12:59going to guess she probably didn't because to give such a
- 13:02bold one stop number in research is probably pretty hard to do.
- 13:06But like I said, she kind of gives this range of like you
- 13:09need to have this energy availability and this energy
- 13:11threshold where the major take away is that this concept of if
- 13:14you're below a certain calorie per kilogram, you're at a higher
- 13:18likelihood for developing the loss of a period.
- 13:20And if you're above that, you're at less of a likelihood of
- 13:23developing that, especially if you are a female athlete.
- 13:26So that's kind of this like magic number that we have for
- 13:292800 was kind of derived from research.
- 13:32So even though it's tied to research, it's not like we have
- 13:36research that explicitly said that if you have a loss period,
- 13:40you must consume 2800 calories in order to get your period
- 13:44back. That was such a great
- 13:45explanation, and if you are interested in the female athlete
- 13:48triad, Dr. D'souza has a lot of research in this space.
- 13:52She's kind of like the pioneer in this space when it comes to
- 13:55really looking at like menstrual abnormalities with female
- 13:58athletes and all of this stuff. So a lot of the information that
- 14:02you pulled from that is so interesting because a lot of the
- 14:05time with nutrition, we're so stuck on the single arbitrary
- 14:08number when it's even a range like in the research as well.
- 14:12What is your first thoughts on that?
- 14:142800 is not a magic number, unfortunately.
- 14:18So it's kind of cited as this like benchmark on social media
- 14:22where people talk about that that's the number that they
- 14:24followed in order to restore their regular menstrual cycle.
- 14:28But like what someone needs in order to do that very so
- 14:31drastically from person to person.
- 14:33And then also like we take away from like the energy
- 14:36availability, energy availability, just simply 1st to
- 14:38the number of calories available for your body functions,
- 14:41accounting for your energy expenditure.
- 14:44So for example, if we take 2800 calories and you exercise and
- 14:50require 2000 calories for your exercise, that would leave a
- 14:54remaining 800 that you consumed for the rest of your bodily
- 14:58functions, which is far too low. We kind of can see pretty
- 15:01quickly that like that might not apply.
- 15:03We've had other episodes in which we've talked about that
- 15:05some athletes need up to 4000 calories per day.
- 15:08So in that case, like this number would be not nearly
- 15:11sufficient in order to help someone have like even enough
- 15:15energy to do, you know, life. Exactly, just like almost all
- 15:18the information that we see on social media, it's a good
- 15:21starting point. It is a generalized nutrition
- 15:24recommendation and it is a starting point.
- 15:28It also might be something that is shocking to a lot of athletes
- 15:31because so many athletes are under fueling that they couldn't
- 15:34even comprehend, maybe before hearing that statistic that they
- 15:37need 3000 plus calories a day to fuel properly.
- 15:42Absolutely what are maybe some like other considerations as far
- 15:45as like recovering a period that someone would need to look at in
- 15:48addition to like just simply like calories?
- 15:51This recovery is so individualized, right?
- 15:53So that's, I think the first thing is we're going to provide
- 15:56some recommendations on this podcast, but every single person
- 16:00is so individualized in their recovery.
- 16:02And that's also why we don't love the 2800 calorie
- 16:05recommendation because there's so much more to fueling than
- 16:09just a calorie number. These calorie recommendations
- 16:12are based off of lean body mass, right?
- 16:14When we go back to what Jenna was talking about with the
- 16:17studies, right, there's ranges that are being provided in the
- 16:20literature for calorie recommendations.
- 16:22That's how people are getting this 2800 calories.
- 16:25But that's based off of an estimate of a lean body mass,
- 16:28which all of the body composition tools have somewhere
- 16:33between 3:00 to 6% error. So even if you're following the
- 16:36numbers 100%, there's going to be error with that.
- 16:39So that's kind of, you know, the first thing is there's so much
- 16:43more to food than calories because there's just so much
- 16:45error when it comes to calories. That's not the true state of
- 16:48affairs. So when we look at period
- 16:50recovery, it's more important to look at your macro nutrients,
- 16:53right? Are you consuming carbs,
- 16:55proteins and fats, or are you focusing on one, avoiding one of
- 16:58those? So you have to look at the macro
- 16:59nutrient composition. And then we also have to look at
- 17:02like the micronutrient composition as well.
- 17:04Yes, vitamins and minerals are micronutrients.
- 17:06They don't provide energy, but they we provide really important
- 17:09building blocks and other really important nutrients for other
- 17:13processes happening in the body. What about nutrient timing?
- 17:15Is that important for period recovery?
- 17:17Yes, because it's not necessarily the overall calorie
- 17:21consumption of the day. We have to look at energy
- 17:23availability. So yes, you could be eating 2800
- 17:26calories at 10:00 PM at night, but if you've had two training
- 17:29sessions before, you don't have energy.
- 17:31Availability. Can you explain how that might
- 17:33like work? Like when you say you don't have
- 17:35energy availability but you are eating 2800 calories.
- 17:38This goes back to one of like the basics of source nutrition.
- 17:41And we have the fuel for the work that's required.
- 17:44And I think that's a lot of the time something that we forget
- 17:46because we're so focused on like a calorie number or a macro
- 17:50nutrient number. But we really have to dive into
- 17:53like, when is the energy being made available and when is the
- 17:57energy being utilized as an athlete, but then also as a
- 18:00human, as a person? So in this scenario that you
- 18:02just mentioned where we have two training sessions earlier in the
- 18:05day and all of our intake late in the day, essentially actually
- 18:08what could be happening is that all of the intake, all of the
- 18:10energy that we have late in the day isn't provided at the right
- 18:13time to provide the energy that our body needs for those
- 18:16training sessions. So therefore like energy
- 18:18availability is low. Correct.
- 18:21You mentioned like hyperfixation almost on one macronutrient.
- 18:24I think right now, we've talked about this before, there's a
- 18:26really big health Halo around protein and specifically trying
- 18:29to get in a certain amount of protein per day.
- 18:31What benefits or what drawbacks are there for trying to get in
- 18:36like such a high amount of protein if you're trying to
- 18:38recover your period? Protein has such a health Halo.
- 18:40I think we're going to continue to say this and there's nothing
- 18:43wrong with protein. Protein is one of our six
- 18:45essential nutrients, right? We have to get it through our
- 18:48food sources to survive. But what happens is protein is
- 18:53digested and utilized a little bit differently compared to
- 18:56carbohydrates and fat. If we're only focused on
- 18:58protein, we're not going to be able to fuel high intensity
- 19:01exercise. We're not going to be able to
- 19:03fuel some of those other really important processes happening in
- 19:05the body that are essential for proper energy availability.
- 19:09So what happens is if we're only focused on getting in protein,
- 19:13we're going to have energy and availability and other areas of
- 19:17our body. And in our life, individuals are
- 19:19so focused on protein. We have that energy and
- 19:21availability. But then also one of protein's
- 19:24roles is satiety. And what happens is if we're
- 19:27eating too much protein, we're not going to be hungry for the
- 19:30other macro nutrients that we need in our feeling plan.
- 19:33So we just need to focus on making sure that in that case,
- 19:36we have a balance of nutrient intake, just like you mentioned
- 19:39before, like all of the macro nutrients are important, all of
- 19:42our essential nutrients are important.
- 19:44And so finding ways that you can balance that and get all of
- 19:47those in that support your goals is super important when it comes
- 19:50to period recovery. Exactly right.
- 19:52Carbs, proteins and fats, those are our three macro nutrients.
- 19:55They all provide energy in the form of calories for the body.
- 19:57But all of those nutrients are utilized a little bit
- 20:00differently by the body. And again, protein is structured
- 20:04a little bit differently. So we can't always like shuttle
- 20:06protein or shuttle carbs to. Do proteins job?
- 20:09Oh I like that you can't ask one nutrient to do the other
- 20:12nutrients job. The reason why we have different
- 20:14ones in the 1st place is because we have different needs and
- 20:16different uses for each of those things.
- 20:18Definitely. And IA big mistake I see a lot
- 20:20of athletes making is when they hear I need to increase my
- 20:24energy intake, I need to increase my energy availability.
- 20:28I have to maybe gain weight. They focus on, OK, I'm going to
- 20:32gain weight in muscle mass, so I'm going to eat a ton of
- 20:35protein and that doesn't solve the energy reliability issue
- 20:39that the athlete is currently going through.
- 20:40I think you bring up such a great point that we could
- 20:42probably do an entire episode on, on whether or not body
- 20:45composition changes need to be made in order to recover a
- 20:48period. So we'll do an episode on that.
- 20:50Just talking about changes in our body and what might happen
- 20:54while you are working towards recovering your period.
- 20:56And from that standpoint, any other final thoughts that you
- 20:58have Riley on 2800 calories to recover your period?
- 21:02I just want to reiterate that everybody's journey is so
- 21:05different and if you are listening to this episode and
- 21:09you are maybe shocked that we aren't recommending 2800
- 21:12calories, definitely reach out if you have questions.
- 21:15I think it can be really, really intimidating when you go onto
- 21:17the Internet and you type in like period recovery or how can
- 21:20I recover my period? And you hear this very drastic
- 21:24and extreme advice or you hear individuals complaining about,
- 21:27oh, I had to stop training for six months and I changed my body
- 21:30composition. And those are extreme examples.
- 21:33And that's not happening for every single person.
- 21:36Some individuals, yes, they need to be removed from training from
- 21:38a health and safety perspective, but that doesn't apply to every
- 21:42single person. We have so many individuals in
- 21:44our period recovery program that still get to train, that stay a
- 21:47similar body composition. And they have just made small
- 21:50changes that help increase their energy availability so that they
- 21:54can have a sustainable life like after our program.
- 21:57And I think that is so huge because so many people are so
- 22:00scared to get their period back or even get started on this
- 22:03journey because they're thinking in the extremes.
- 22:05I don't think that I could add anything else to that.
- 22:07I think that that is such a strong thing to reiterate is
- 22:10just like this idea of extremes. But if you have questions for
- 22:13Riley and I over period recovery, please reach out to
- 22:15us. You can find Riley on Instagram
- 22:17at easy dot sports dot nutrition.
- 22:19You can find me at Jenna dot Fischer dot nutrition.
- 22:21You can always leave comments on this episode and we will get
- 22:24back to you about anything period recovery or nutrition
- 22:27related. Thank you so much for listening
- 22:28to this episode of the Eat more Carbs podcast.
- 22:30Please make sure you rate, subscribe and review.
- 22:33And as always, remember to eat more carbs.