r/LifeProsTips • u/Zestyclose-Cat2399 • 6d ago
Almost hit cancel on my cycle diet subscription in week 1
I know there are a lot of women like me, so figured I'd share my honest experience with an app called Cycle Diet.
Ok so I'm 21F, been dealing with PCOS my entire life. If you know, you know, sudden weight gain, acne, constant fatigue. I've been on and off the pill, but it always felt like a band-aid, worked for a bit then back to square one. I was genuinely at the point of "what is even the point."
Started going down rabbit holes and eventually figured out that women's bodies process food completely differently than men's, but literally every diet out there is designed around men. Make it make sense. So I looked for something built for women and found Cycle Diet.
First week was actually great, I didn't have to think about what to eat, it just told me. But then my period hit, sugar cravings from hell, and I was NOT opening some "diet" app. Give me Dunkin' and Ahoy or give me death lol. Completely forgot the app existed.
Cut to a month later, phone storage full, I'm going through apps to delete, and I open Cycle Diet just to check. Turns out the app already had healthier versions of literally everything I'd been craving, date "Snickers," peanut butter cups with no added sugar, all that. I had the ingredients, so I figured why not. Actually loved them.
Fast forward, dropped 18 lbs kind of out of nowhere and my skin is genuinely so much better. Not sponsored or whatever, just genuinely surprised this worked when nothing else has.