The cycle cravings cheat sheet.
What your body tends to reach for in each part of your cycle, why it isn't random, and what's worth keeping within arm's reach before the week it happens.
Hormones are at their lowest and the uterus is doing real work. Cramps, a heavier feeling, and a pull toward warmth and comfort are common.
Worth keeping nearby: dark chocolate, ginger or chamomile tea, something warm and soft rather than cold and crunchy.
Estrogen climbs and for many people appetite quiets down. This is usually the calmest stretch for cravings, and the week fresh, light things sound best.
Worth keeping nearby: fruit, crunchy things, nuts and seeds. Stock up on the luteal snacks now, while you don't want them.
A short, high-energy window. Appetite often dips right here and then turns around within a couple of days.
Worth keeping nearby: not much changes yet. This is the last quiet week.
Progesterone rises. Research suggests the body burns somewhat more energy in this phase, blood sugar becomes a little harder to keep steady, and serotonin tends to dip. That combination is the whole story behind late-night grocery runs.
The sweet pull is quick energy. The salt pull is comfort and water balance. The heat pull, when spicy sounds perfect, is capsaicin nudging the same feel-good chemistry a workout does. The crunch pull is stress looking for somewhere to go.
Worth keeping nearby: the good version of each. Dark chocolate with something salty, roasted chickpeas, a properly spicy snack, and a caffeine-free tea for the evening. This is the week the box is timed to land, a few days before it starts.
Cycles run anywhere from about 21 to 35 days, so the day numbers above are a map, not a schedule. The pattern holds; the dates move. If yours are irregular, count backward from when your period tends to start rather than forward from day one.
None of this is a rule. If you want the chips, have the chips. The point is knowing why, and having the version you'll actually feel good about already in the cupboard.
Or let the box do the remembering.
Mawuu Cravings is a snack box matched to your cravings and timed to your cycle, so it arrives a few days before the luteal pull starts. Founding pricing is limited to our first 50 subscribers.
Join the founding listThis sheet is general education about common patterns, not medical advice, and it doesn't know your body. Cravings that feel out of control, cycles that change suddenly, or symptoms that get in the way of your life are worth a conversation with a clinician. Mawuu Cravings ships within the U.S. only for now.