About Me

Hello!

My name is Hannah Laurel and welcome to my blog!

I am an 18 year-old sister and daughter, a future collegiate athlete, and a high-school senior in love with learning about health, fitness, and how to channel my own intuition to balance hormones, workouts, and yummy food.

My love of everything positive-body related came from being an athlete more than half of my life, and continuing. I used to run miles and lifts for hours only to end up going to sport(s) practice several hours later. I was eating way too many calories (and I've tried just about every diet in the book), and exercising way too much. My body was out of wack. And I'm not going to lie, it still is. But here I am on my journey to self-love, nourish, empower, cycle sync, and explore this crazy world called "The Health Industry" with recipes, balanced workouts & schedules, and hormone repair.

You can contact me by email at hannahlaurel.mcelroy@gmail.com

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Menstrual Phase Supporting Soup and Cycle Syncing

It started last night, after sitting in the church parking lot with my boyfriend. We had just attended Wednesday night student service and we were discussing the sermon. It was a really good message, one about diets. The pastor explained that the diet you follow, the things you consume, decide your direction. And my boyfriend and I discussed this for a good ten minutes before teetering off the subject. Somehow.. We came to the subject of my cycle . For an unexplained reason, boys find the topic "ew." Perhaps mommas forget to teach their boys that its not gross. Thankfully, I've found myself with a young man who allows me to talk about the subject and explain things to him like why my cycle is forty days long instead of the normal twenty-eight. And why I get so moody during certain phases, so talkative during one, and quiet the next phase. I had just mentioned to him that night that I was six days late compared to my last cycle. No big whoop. It was as if God heard me ...

What is my "Diet" ?

Diet is a broad term and a dirty word. I am not AT ALL a fan of the word "diet." But for some reason, it is a word the entire western hemisphere understands. When someone goes on a "diet," they change their eating habits, their exercise regime (if they even had one) and they stick to it. For like, two months. And then they go back to their old habits and regain most of - if not all - of the weight they worked so hard to lose. The original definition for "diet" is the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. How the heck did we change that? I am not going to go into how the western hemisphere has changed the definition of a whole word but rather I am going to rant about my diet. As the original definition has it. Except.. we are going to change the word. Because I still think "diet" is dirty. How about... Lifestyle? Yes, let us go with that. What is my Lifestyle? Lifestyle is defined as the way in wh...

Purple Power Smoothie

Beets are an amazing, earthy, tasting root. They're low in net carbohydrates and they're GREAT at staining what ever the heck you put them in. I had a salad, they stained the lettuce. I had ground turkey, the turkey turned bright pink! My fingers are stained as soon as I touch the purple power veggies. But oh they're so good. HOW TO COOK I had some pretty large beets. Like, the size of a grown man's fist. How'd I cook them? Scrub the beets with a brush or the back of the sponge until its clean Find a dish that is relatively deep, toss those beets in there Spray the beets with non-stick cooking spray Fill the dish/pan with about an inch of water Cover the dish/pan with aluminum foil and stick it in the oven at 400F until the beets are fork tender When they are tender, and you're ready to peel them, cut it so it lays flat and use a knife to scrap the skin off. Stick'em in the fridge when you're done SMOOTHIE TIME I like to ki...

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