Crying? Tired? Angry? Could Cycle Syncing Be The Answer To Our Changing Moods?

I started following someone on Tik Tok recently.

Her videos around hormones really resonated with me, so much so that I started following her on Instagram as well, mainly because Tik Tok is a black hole and I want to limit my time on there.

She recently shared a cycle syncing guide and I was intrigued. I’ve seen lots of talk about women’s cycles over the years, but I’ve never really bothered to learn about it as I never had a “cycle” until a couple of years ago when I came off the mini pill, so I didn’t see how it would apply to me.

These days, however, I find that one moment I am teary, sometimes I’m exhausted and other times I am full of beans. I want to learn how to work with that, instead of against it, which sometimes feels like the case!

So what is cycle syncing?

It’s a way of adjusting your diet & lifestyle to meet the needs of the four different phases of your cycle. Menstrual, Follicular, Ovulation & Luteal.

Working alongside these different phases making changes to things such as what you eat, which exercise you do and even adding certain seeds to each phase of your cycle is thought to help with various symptoms, such as low mood or tiredness.

So in my constant quest for self-improvement, I thought I have nothing to lose by giving it a go. I started by adding the different phases into…