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Women: Let Your Cycle Plot the Schedule

Research suggests that for women, the best time to start a diet would be the first day of your period. Apparently, the hormones responsible for junk food cravings are unusually high during the premenstrual stages, and eventually drop when women have their periods. Syncing a change in diet with the hormonal fluctuation would make it a whole lot easier to deal with food cravings.

If you’ve been thinking about going on a diet for ages yet never found the time – or the control – to start it, now would be a good time to begin. If you’re not on your period yet, then you can still cheat a little and savor those calories.

Before anything else, let's admit that not all women keep track of their cycles. But there's a way to address that. You can either grab a pen and start marking your wall calendar now, or if you have a fitness watch like this one, it might already be capable of doing just that.

The Menstrual Cycle and Weight Loss

When Day 1 comes, make sure that you can stick to the healthy diet plan and stay on it for as long as you need to. This doesn’t necessarily mean, however, that one cannot choose freely when to start a diet. Neither does it imply that lifestyle changes that aren’t done in sync with female hormones are doomed for failure. What this simply means, though, is that if you’re the kind of person who has some trouble with self-control in the food department, then you might want to know about the options that can help you deal with it better. If you’ve got everything under control, though, then by all means, plot your diet schedule whichever way you want it.

Taking advantage of the menstrual cycle for weight loss plans could be a good start for a sustained healthy lifestyle. Not only is it a cheap weight loss method for controlling your cravings, it’s also one that lessens the effort of having to fight them.

So eat and be merry, ladies, for tomorrow we starve! Just kidding.

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