Tracy

Jun 21 · Posted

49 and genuinely baffled by how you're supposed to know if anything is actually working. I've started taking magnesium a few weeks back (glycinate, because someone on here mentioned it ages ago) and I want to know if my sleep is better but I honestly cannot tell. My brain is so foggy that I can't remember what last Tuesday felt like, let alone whether three weeks ago was worse. So how do people actually track this stuff? I've tried keeping notes on my phone but I either forget or I write something like "bad night, anxious" and that's completely useless three weeks later. Do you use an app? A notebook? Honestly even a scribble on a calendar? Also slightly separate question - I've started trying to get more protein in because I read something about it helping with everything (muscle, mood, weight, apparently my car insurance too at this rate). More eggs, more Greek yoghurt, bit more chicken. Nothing dramatic. But again, no idea if it's doing anything because I changed it at the same time as the magnesium so now I can't separate any of it out. And I've got a GP appointment in a few weeks and I want to ask about whether any of this clashes with anything she might want to suggest. Is that a weird thing to bring up? Like do I just hand her a list of what I'm taking and ask? I don't want to come across as someone who's been self-prescribing off Instagram, even though, well. Here we are 😂 Any advice on the tracking thing especially would be genuinely helpful. x