The Deep Dive: How to Use Your Cycle to Maximize Your GLP-1 Results
What nobody tells you about your hormones, your medication, and why tracking your cycle might be the most important thing you do on this journey.
This is a paid subscriber deep dive. If you’re here, you already know the basics from this week’s free post: estrogen good, progesterone loud, luteal phase is not your friend. But knowing the basics and actually using that information to change how you move through your month? That’s what we’re doing today. Grab a coffee. This is a long one, and worth every minute.
What’s in this post:
Why your GLP-1 feels like it stopped working (and why it didn’t)
A deeper look at all four cycle phases and what’s actually happening in your body during each one
The science behind why progesterone is louder than your medication some weeks
The exact decision framework I use to figure out if it’s my cycle or my dose
A step-by-step ChatGPT tracking setup with word-for-word prompts you can copy and paste
The 30-second daily paper tracking method that builds into a map of your own body
What to eat and how to move in each phase (the practical version, not a rigid meal plan)
The mental health layer: anxiety, PMDD, and why the luteal phase is when fear-based decisions happen
Your month-one action plan with specific steps, reminders, and timelines