Campaign asset · Day 17 of the 30-day calendar · 10 slides
This is what a cycle overlay chart actually looks like
Everybody says "track your symptoms." Nobody shows you the page. Here's the page.
Pillar 1 · The Moving Deck · intent: educate
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Hook
Everybody says "track your symptoms."
Nobody shows you the page. Here's the page.
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Slide 1 · art direction
Opening type slide, no photograph — the hook line carries the frame.
What ships with it
The caption, the alt text, and the art direction.
One call to action, pointing at /interactive-tool.
Caption
Everybody says track your symptoms. Almost nobody shows you the actual page, which is why three food logs in your notes app went nowhere.
A food log has one axis: what you ate. That's the problem. It can't answer "why was the same salad fine on Tuesday and ruinous on Thursday," because the thing that changed isn't on the page.
A cycle overlay chart has two axes. Symptom score down one side, cycle day across the other. And once both are on one page, something either shows up or it doesn't — the bad days cluster in a window, or they scatter.
If they cluster, you now know which weeks your readings can't be trusted, which means you know which weeks to test food in. If they scatter, that's a real answer too, and it means this isn't your mechanism. I'd tell you that.
Fourteen days is the minimum. One full cycle is better. It takes about ninety seconds a day, which is less than the food log you already abandoned.
Swipe to see the page. There's a charting tool on the site if paper isn't your thing — link in bio.
Charting tool
- #symptomtracking
- #IBS
- #lowFODMAP
- #registereddietitian
- #FODMAPdietitian
- #cycletracking
- #premenstrualsymptoms
Art direction
This is the visible-rigor carousel of the month and four of its ten slides are photographs of real paper. Slide 5 is the hero: the full chart shot flat from directly above in warm daylight, edge to edge, close enough that the reader can read the column headers and the 0–10 scale and see pen pressure and a crossed-out entry. Slides 6 and 7 are two different charts — one with a visible cluster of high scores in a shaded window, one without — because showing the negative case is the credibility move and a single annotated example would read as a sales graphic. Annotation is a translucent terracotta band aligned exactly to real day columns, nothing else: no arrows, no callout bubbles, no animated sine wave over a uterus icon. Slide 2 photographs a phone showing a genuinely abandoned notes-app food log, last entry nine days in.
Alt text
Slide 2: phone screen showing a notes-app food log with entries stopping after nine days. Slide 5: overhead photo of a paper chart with a 0–10 symptom score axis, columns for cycle days, and handwritten daily entries. Slide 6: the same style of chart with a band of high scores shaded in orange. Slide 7: a second chart where high scores appear scattered with no shaded cluster.
Where it sends people
Swipe to see the page — then go and make one of your own.
This carousel exists to make one argument: a food log has one axis, and that is why three of them went nowhere. The chart has two.
Everything downstream of it is free — the guide, the printable template, and the charting tool in the browser.