Heal Think Lifestyle
A short guide to the app you use between sessions with Dr. Mayurika. Setting it up, what to do each day, and the questions people usually ask.
Most people already know roughly what they should be doing. What is harder is staying honest with yourself in the six days between appointments, and seeing whether any of it is actually working.
Body Signals does three things:
Your coach sees everything you log and uses it in your sessions. Nothing you write is answered by a machine.
What it is not
Body Signals is not a medical device and does not diagnose anything. It is a tool for you and your coach. If something is worrying you, speak to Dr. Mayurika or a doctor — do not wait for an app to tell you.
Your coach sends you a private link. Open it once, and the app remembers you after that.
Steps 3 to 5 matter more on iPhone than anywhere else. Until the app is on your home screen, iPhone will not let it send you reminders at all.
No. Once you have entered your PIN on a phone, that phone stays signed in. You will only be asked again if you change phone, clear your browsing data, or do not open the app for about three months.
Worth knowing in advance: the first two weeks will feel like not much is happening. That is deliberate, not a fault.
The app spends the first fortnight learning what is normal for you. Until it knows that, a number like a resting pulse means nothing — the same figure can be perfectly fine for one person and worth a conversation for another. So it says "still learning your normal — day 6 of 14" instead of showing you something it cannot yet interpret.
From about week three, patterns start to appear. That is when it begins to earn its keep.
One question, before you look at anything else: how do you think your body is doing today? Five options, one tap.
If you want, weigh yourself or count your pulse for thirty seconds. Then the app tells you how close your guess was — and it scores the guess, not your body. Getting better at reading yourself is the whole exercise.
Straight after, it asks how you slept last night. It asks then rather than at bedtime because by evening a whole day has written over the memory. It comes after your guess on purpose, so it cannot nudge the answer.
After a couple of months, the morning question gets harder — comparing today with yesterday, or guessing your pulse before you measure it. Each new question only opens once you have genuinely got better at the last one.
Tap "I'm about to…". More on that below.
Four taps: today's energy, mood, digestion and aches. Then your habits, yes or no. You can skip any question.
The Today screen shows what is ready for you now, what comes later today, and what is done. Nothing is ever locked — you can do your evening check-in at six if you are going out. It just tells you what it expects when.
If something you log does not save — no signal, say — the app tells you on the screen. It will not claim to have saved something it has not.
You → Your fortnight shows your last two weeks together: how you slept, your energy and mood, and what you guessed each morning.
This is the part that makes Body Signals different from a habit tracker.
A checkbox at bedtime asking "did you avoid the cold drink today?" is useless, because the decision happened at twenty to five when someone put a glass in your hand.
So there is one large button for that moment. Tap it, pick what it is, answer three quick questions about where you are and how you feel, and then sixty seconds — a slow breathing timer, a line your coach wrote for you, and one alternative she has suggested.
The pause is the point. Cravings tend to rise and fall in a couple of minutes; most people are surprised by how short that actually is. You are not fighting it, just outlasting it.
Twenty minutes later the app asks how it went. "I had it" is a perfectly good answer and is treated exactly like any other. Knowing when things slip is more useful to your coach than knowing when they did not.
Your streak counts the days you told the truth, not the days you succeeded.
This is the opposite of most fitness apps, and it is deliberate. Dr. Mayurika makes real decisions from what you log. If the app made you feel judged, you would start tapping "yes" regardless, and then she would be working from fiction — which is worse than working from nothing.
There is no wrong answer here. Only a missing one.
Roughly every three months, a set of short tests you do at home with a chair and a wall: standing up from a chair for thirty seconds, balancing on one leg, a two-minute march, and a few others. It takes about five minutes.
These matter because weight lags effort by about six weeks, and that gap is where most people give up. How many times you can stand up from a chair moves in three. "You did 11 in March and 17 today" is something a weighing scale can never tell you.
If anything hurts, stop. There is a button for exactly that, and using it is the right thing to do — not a failed test.
A game of cricket, a swim, a long walk, an afternoon in the garden — Move → Log something you did yourself. Choose what it was, roughly how long, and roughly when.
This matters more than it looks. Your weekly plan is built around what you are already doing, so three hours of Sunday cricket means Monday gets easier rather than harder. And when matters: tennis at seven in the morning and tennis at ten at night are different things, and the second one often shows up in how you sleep.
The app is not the same in month three as it was in week one. It moves through five stages:
Dr. Mayurika can move you along sooner or hold you longer. The weeks are a guide, not a rule.
Before Diwali, Navratri, Christmas, Holi, Ramadan or wedding season, the app asks you — about two weeks ahead — to decide what you want to do. You write it in your own words: "If someone hands me a sweet, I will...". A plan made while it is still a fortnight away is a decision. The same plan made in the middle of it is a negotiation you usually lose.
All optional, under You → About you, and all of it helps Dr. Mayurika read everything else properly.
Anything you take regularly. Some medicines change your pulse, your weight or your energy on their own. Without knowing, the app could credit or blame your habits for something they did not do.
Your cycle, if you have periods. Just the day one starts and roughly how heavy. Cycle length is one of the most useful health markers there is and often the first thing to change. This is not a contraceptive or fertility tool and must never be used as one.
A private weekly question that some people choose to answer, about one of the few free signs of hormone and blood-vessel health. Only you see your answers. Dr. Mayurika is told only if a private conversation might be worthwhile — never the answers themselves.
Your waist, measured at the navel, standing, breathing out. For people of South Asian descent this matters more than weight — the point where it becomes a risk is lower than Western charts suggest.
The app never gives you a verdict on any of these. If something looks worth a conversation, Dr. Mayurika is told, and she decides what to say and when.
You → What your data says. After about six weeks of logging, the app starts looking for links in your data — not averages from other people. Whether swimming lifts your energy the next day. Whether exercising late costs you sleep.
Be ready for this: most of the time it will say there is no clear link, and that is a real, useful answer. It means you can stop wondering about that one. An app that always found a connection would be one you should not believe.
It needs days with the thing and days without, plus your evening check-in on those days, so logging both makes it work sooner.
Only your coach can see what you log. Nothing is sold, shared, or used for advertising, and no third party receives it.
Under You → Your data and privacy you can, at any time:
Deletion is handled by your coach so that you can talk it through first, and it is done within thirty days.
No. Nothing except your phone. Some people add a bathroom scale or count their own pulse, and both are optional.
You can fill in the evening check-in and your habits for up to two days back. The morning guess is same-day only — guessing after you already know how the day went is not really a guess. Backfilled days are kept and your coach sees them, but they do not extend your streak.
Yes. Everything you tap is saved on your phone and goes through when you have signal again. You can log an urge in a basement or on a train and nothing is lost.
No. Everything a reminder would tell you is also waiting when you open the app, and the Today screen shows what is outstanding. Reminders are a convenience.
Because they would not mean anything yet. The app is learning your own normal, and a number without that context can be misleading or needlessly alarming.
Yes. Open your link on each one and enter your PIN. Both stay signed in.
Message Dr. Mayurika and she can send it again in a few seconds. If you still have the app on your home screen, it will remember you anyway.
Open You → Reminders and home screen and run the three checks near the bottom. They tell you whether the problem is your phone's settings, the app not being on your home screen, or something else. On iPhone, an app opened in a browser tab never receives reminders.
Tell the app under You → Going away. It keeps one or two habits running, pauses the rest, and your streak is safe.
Because by bedtime a whole day has written over the memory, and the answer is much less reliable. It asks just after your morning guess, so it cannot influence it.
The app now tells you on the screen if something did not save. If you see an error screen, there is a small "What went wrong" line — a screenshot of that sent to Dr. Mayurika is the quickest way to get it looked at.
The first fortnight is about getting into the habit of noticing, not about changing much. More habits at the start usually means none of them stick. You get more as you go.
No. Body Signals is a coaching tool, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose anything. Anything that worries you is a conversation with Dr. Mayurika or a doctor.