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How I healed my skin, my hormones, and my relationship with food — without cutting out dairy, carbs, sugar, or my cultural meals.
If you’re tired of waking up afraid to eat breakfast…
If you’re exhausted from Googling “acne-safe foods”…
If you’re sick of demonizing dairy, carbs, sugar, eggs, fruit, or anything you actually enjoy…
This episode is going to feel like a deep exhale.
Because I’m an acne nutritionist who eats carbs.
I eat fruit.
I eat dairy.
I eat soul food.
And my skin is clear — consistently — because of how I eat, not what I avoid.
This is not a “copy my meals” post.
This is a peek into the nutrition philosophy that allowed me to heal my acne, manage my PCOS, reclaim my energy, stop fearing food, and help my clients do the same.
Let’s walk through what I actually eat in a day — and more importantly, why I eat this way.
You Don’t Need More Restriction — You Need Nourishment
Before we get into meals, let me be honest about something:
Most women dealing with hormonal acne aren’t eating too much … they’re eating too little of what their bodies actually need.
When you’ve spent years hearing:
- “Dairy causes acne.”
- “Gluten causes acne.”
- “Sugar is the enemy.”
- “If you want clear skin, cut carbs.”
- “Coffee is bad.”
- “Eggs are inflammatory.”
…it’s no wonder you wake up every day asking yourself:
“What am I allowed to eat?”
And the answer becomes smaller and smaller until you’re scared of fruit, scared of cheese, scared of your culture’s food, scared to go to brunch, scared to eat out, scared to enjoy your own life.
❌ It’s not the food that’s hurting your skin.
✅ It’s the under-eating, the low minerals, the unstable blood sugar, the low stomach acid, the stress, and the lack of nourishment.
When you give your body what it needs, your skin calms.
But when you underfeed your body, your skin panics.
That’s why my Daily 8 Method — the foundation of how I eat — focuses on:
🥛 minerals
🍳 protein
🌾 carbs
🥗 fiber
💛 digestion
🎨 color
⚖️ blood sugar balance
🧠 nourishment > restriction
Let me show you how this looks in real life.
🍽️ Breakfast: Greek Yogurt Bowl or a Breakfast Sandwich
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for hormonal acne.
Why?
Because if your first meal doesn’t stabilize your blood sugar … your cortisol spikes → your insulin spikes → your oil production spikes → your acne gets inflamed.
Coffee on an empty stomach?
Skipping breakfast?
Grabbing a protein bar and calling it a day?
These are the habits keeping your skin inflamed and your energy tanked.
Here’s what my mineral-rich breakfast looked like:
- 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt (18g protein)
- Wild blueberries (higher fiber than regular!)
- Flax seed for minerals & digestion
- Honey
- Cookie granola from Purely Elizabeth
- Optional: protein powder to boost to 30–35g protein
Why this works:
- Protein anchors your blood sugar
- Fiber feeds your gut and supports hormones
- Carbs give your body energy (not cortisol spikes)
- Minerals support skin healing
And I can make this in 90 seconds.
Breakfast is NOT where you restrict.
Breakfast is where you intentionally give your body energy to stop relying solely on caffeine.
🍽️ Lunch: My Heaviest, Most Satisfying Meal
Lunch is when your digestion and insulin sensitivity are at their peak.
This is when your body thrives with balanced carbs.
Here’s what I ate:
- 4 oz lean ground beef
- Mix of russet potatoes + sweet potatoes
- Garlic green beans
- Lemon-lime Olipop
Macros looked something like:
- ~35g protein
- 30–40g carbs
- 10g fiber
- 25g fat
Why this works:
- Beef = iron + zinc + B vitamins (all essential for clear skin)
- Potatoes = minerals + carbs for stable energy
- Fiber = supports digestion + hormones
- Olipop = an easy 6–9g fiber boost
I used to think carbs made me tired at lunch.
No — unbalanced meals made me tired.
When I did keto, I was still tired.
It wasn’t the carbs.
It was the lack complex, balanced meals with protein, fiber, fat, & minerals WITH the carbs.
🍽️ Dinner: Lighter, Easier to Digest
Dinner is lighter because your insulin sensitivity dips in the evening.
Dinner looked like:
- Blackened grilled chicken
- Spinach, cucumber, tomatoes
- Crispy jasmine rice (half serving)
- Feta
- Olive oil + lemon
Again:
- 38g protein
- ~30g carbs
- ~7g fiber
Why this works:
Dinner shouldn’t overstress your digestion.
You want to go to bed with steady blood sugar, not a roller coaster.
🍧 Dessert (Yes, Dessert)
Sometimes it’s fruit.
Sometimes ice cream.
Sometimes a peanut butter treat.
Sometimes nothing at all.
Not because I “earned it.”
Not because I was “good.”
Not because I feared it.
Because I trust my body.
When your meals are balanced, cravings stop being a big deal or something you depend on to get you through the day.
The Real Transformation: Food Stopped Controlling My Life
When I ate restrictively, my acne got worse.
When I ate keto, my PCOS worsened.
When I cut out fruit, I felt miserable.
When I feared every ingredient, my stress made my skin more inflamed.
Now?
👉🏽 I can go to brunch, vacations, dinner with family, holidays, work events — without my skin spiraling.
And this is what I teach my clients inside The Hormonal Acne Reset Method:
✨ how to eat with freedom
✨ how to eat with confidence
✨ how to nourish your skin instead of starving it
✨ how to keep blood sugar stable
✨ how to support minerals & hormones through real food
When you stop believing “food causes acne” & start believing “nourishment heals acne”, you’ll be able to eat all kinds of foods to clear your skin.
If You Want to Eat Like a Normal Person AND Clear Your Skin…
❌ You don’t need more rules.
❌ You don’t need more restriction.
✅ You need clarity, nourishment, and support.
If you’re waking up confused about what you “should” eat…
If you’re scared to eat dairy or carbs…
If you’re tired of jumping between diets and trends…
It’s time for a Clear Skin Call.
This is where we figure out:
- what’s keeping your skin stuck
- whether minerals, gut testing, or blood work are needed
- how to shift the way you eat so your skin calms
- what your next best step is
No pressure.
No judgment.
Just clarity and a plan.
👉🏽 Click HERE to book your Clear Skin Call.
You deserve food freedom and clear skin — and you CAN have both.
And if you know someone scared of food because of acne?
Send this to her.
Set her free.
