Period tracking - game-changer!

Orphia
Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been using MFP and Happy Scale to log food and weight daily for nearly 4 years.

I've also been using the iPeriod app to log menstruation cycles, so now I have a record of how long each cycle was, and how many days and how heavy the flow was.

iPeriod recently did a big update and now you can also log/sync weight from Apple Heath (maybe others) and record also all sorts of symptoms, pain, moods, exercise, and steps, weight, sleep.

This might sound OCD, but I wouldn't have been able to lose 80 lb and keep it off 3 years so far without knowing that cycles, exercise, stress levels, hormones, fertility, and food all affect your weight every day.

I haven't managed to get a graph to show both my cycle length and my moving average weight, but that's now my mission!!

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  • k8eekins
    k8eekins Posts: 2,264 Member
    Will look into iPeriod and will refer sister-friends to it too. Thank you!
  • jelleigh
    jelleigh Posts: 743 Member
    My fitbit app also tracks my cycle. If you are using one already it makes one less app you need. ;)
  • marjorieshanks
    marjorieshanks Posts: 7 Member
    I'm going to try this! Thanks
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    edited April 2019
    jelleigh wrote: »
    My fitbit app also tracks my cycle. If you are using one already it makes one less app you need. ;)

    Does your Fitbit let you track moods, appetite, symptoms, pain, etc? Mine didn't. Nor my current Garmin.

    iPeriod does. BTW, I've got the free version.
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    Before Mirena I used the period tracker on my Fitbit. Worked pretty well, including being able to add symptoms and flow details.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,613 Member
    I've been using PTracker for a couple years ... but hopefully I won't need it much longer.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,613 Member
    I was using Clue too for a little while but they did some updates and I couldn't get in for a week or two so I dropped it.

    However it wasn't bad when I was using it.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,129 Member
    I haven't gone as far as tracking my full details of my cycle but I do make notes in my Libra weigh ins about TOM/Flow/hunger and find it useful to refer back to, to try and prevent bingeing by having a couple of maintenance days. It's very helpful for preventing all out hormonal appetite induced eat-everything-in-sight episodes.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    I was using Clue too for a little while but they did some updates and I couldn't get in for a week or two so I dropped it.

    However it wasn't bad when I was using it.

    I use Clue, too

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