Period cycle messed up - maybe because of folic acid/supplements?
I started the HE diet in earnest at the beginning of Jan and started taking folic acid (400mg x 3), multivitamin and vitamin D. My last period was 4-8th Jan, and after that I have just started my period today on 17th March. My cycle hasn’t been this delayed since I had my daughter a few years ago.
Question: Does anyone have experience of this when they went on a HE diet and taking supplements?
My BMI is 23, the heaviest I have been since giving birth a few years ago. Perhaps I gained weight too quickly which messed up my cycle…if anybody has any advice I would really appreciate it.
Some background and further info:
It was going all well until after my period ended on 8th Jan I couldn’t track my ovulation. The clearblue test started indicating high fertility for over a week (this was on 29th Jan) but I never reached the peak smiley. So I gave up and kind of started skipping the folic acid doses and reduced multivitamin to every other day.
My cycles are usually on the longer side on average 36-38 days. Ovulation I’m not sure about as it was my first time trying to track in Jan.