How To Coordinate Your Life With Your Menstrual Cycle

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Perform tasks when you're at your best, hormonally speaking, by scheduling around your menstrual cycle.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A record of your menstrual cycle
A record of your menstrual cycle

Step 1: Adjust for your cycle

Realize that the days cited in the following steps are based on a 28-day menstrual cycle. Your dates may vary.

Step 2: Start a diet

Start a diet at the beginning of your cycle, when you're menstruating. At this point, a drop in the hormone progesterone causes a drop in insulin, a hormone that creates hunger by reducing sugar levels. Less appetite, more willpower.

Tip: If your willpower usually flags several days into a diet, start dieting the week before you get your period.

Step 3: Attract a man

Lay off deodorant and perfume during Days 6 to 14 of your cycle. Research has found that men find your body's natural scent most appealing in the week around ovulation.

Tip: Lighten up on the face paint, too: Men tend to find women most attractive during ovulation, but makeup masks the effect.

Step 4: Go on a game show

On Days 6 to 13 of your cycle, challenge your friends to an evening of charades. Rising levels of estrogen and testosterone boost your confidence and make you unusually quick-witted.

Step 5: Have sex

Pencil in sex for day 13 or 14 of your cycle, when the libido-boosting hormones testosterone and progesterone are peaking. Do it in the morning, when a man's testosterone peaks.

Step 6: Feel pain

Schedule anything physically painful—bikini waxes, root canals, tattooing, or piercing—on Day 14, around the time you ovulate. That's when your tolerance for pain is highest.

Step 7: Get a pap smear

Schedule your annual pap smear between the 14th and 24th day of your cycle, when the reading tends to be the most accurate.

Tip: The best time for a mammogram is the week after your period ends.

Step 8: Quit smoking

Increase your chances of giving up cigarettes by quitting during the second half of your cycle, when high levels of progesterone could help reduce withdrawal symptoms. One study found that women who tried to quit smoking in the first half of their menstrual cycle were half as successful as those who quit in the latter half.

Step 9: Burn more calories

Focus on aerobic exercise on Days 15 through 22, when increased progesterone could help you burn up to 30 percent more fat than at other times, according to one study.

Step 10: Don't sing

Stay out of karaoke bars from Day 26 of your cycle until the first day of menstruation. Retained fluid could swell your vocal chords, preventing you from hitting those high notes.

Step 11: Do some yoga

Practice yoga or Pilates in the day or two before your period: Levels of the hormone relaxin rise, making you more flexible by softening ligaments.

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[SirCheezey]

"Day 15 is the day you are invincible to bullets.."

I swear I was waiting to hear that toward the end...

[88lottiep]

spend a week moaning and becoming fat, then be normal.

thats what i do

[merilinmanni]

wait... if ur menstrual cycle (28-30days) will you stop the HOLE menstruation??

[mark902]

i don't know. i mean, i'm a guy, but i'm pretty sure that it would be a better idea, than all of whatever was suggested here, to just go ahead and get a hysterectomy. then you could have that half of the month back. and you wouldn't have to worry about that unfortunate side effect of heterosexual sex. kids.

[pakapoa]

i never said you don't notice and thank you for confirming me. you will hit it no matter what. and beside bad breath is not limited to women only but to men and animals as well. so it's best if you don't open your mouth too.

[madjunir]

@pakapoa

yes, that's true, but if you have bad breath we notice it no matter what.

so if you're doing it in the mornings before brushing your teeth, dont open your mouth.

[MuminF4n]

@MasonsTurtle and still most people (99 % men) think men are more worth than women. we are equal, it's just that no-one ever notices that.

[heeheeproductions2]

@MasonsTurtle you have no idea

[pakapoa]

fuck that, men like nice clean deodorant female. nah, men will bang you no matter how bad you stink. i should know, i could be tired and sweaty and smelly and some guy will still want to hit it.