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Ladies: effect of fat loss on cycle duration?

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  • totaloblivia
    totaloblivia Posts: 1,164 Member
    mongoosealamode wrote: »
    I just started keto today. I have had mirena for about 4 years and had a gradual shift to virtually no period. I wonder how it will be effected.
    I have mirena too! Was down to very light spotting like you. When I started keto I got "full flow" period for 2 cycles, but back down to light spotting again thank goodness. :p TMI?
  • mindysmerski
    mindysmerski Posts: 1 Member
    Do you guys see your weight loss stall during menstration? I just started Keto a few weeks ago and I am wondering what to expect.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    I get the usual weight loss stall during menstruation (actually beginning a few days before) due to water retention, aka bloating.
  • zoom2
    zoom2 Posts: 934 Member
    nicsflyingcircus wrote: »
    I get the usual weight loss stall during menstruation (actually beginning a few days before) due to water retention, aka bloating.

    I kind of notice that, too. I'm seeing a whoosh around days 17-19, but then by days 21-24 (when I typically start) I stall for maybe a week or more...then maybe a tiny whoosh around day 10.

    2 cycles ago was 26 days (LONG for me), then I had a weird 11 day cycle that I initially thought was ovulation bleeding...until I bled for a good week. And I've never had ovulation bleeding, anyhow. Today is day 21 and my app is telling me that I should be starting today. Given how my boobs feel and mild crampiness, I suspect that it will be within the next 12-24 hours.

    So my current theory is that fat loss = wonky cycles. Or maybe it's fat loss + perimenopause that is to blame.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    Yeah, I am due in 11 days and hoping to drop 3 or so more pounds before then :disappointed:
  • zoom2
    zoom2 Posts: 934 Member
    Weirdness...still no AF, 2 days after my app predicted it. But it was predicting 21 days and I've generally been at 23ish for several years, aside from the last couple of months of wonkiness.
  • vanhavely
    vanhavely Posts: 33 Member
    edited March 2015
    mindysmerski wrote: »
    Do you guys see your weight loss stall during menstration? I just started Keto a few weeks ago and I am wondering what to expect.

    I get the stall and gain a few before and during. All gain goes away after the "deflation" towards the end of my AF attack. I started Keto a week before my AF and have stayed pretty much in the 28 day range. Give or take a few days.

    I have been tracking my AF since I went off "the pill" 18 years ago. Through regular activity and eating it hasn't changed. I've been Keto only 2 months so far and no change in duration. Little bit more on the twingy pain side though.

  • zoom2
    zoom2 Posts: 934 Member
    So I just finished-out a 24 day cycle...so aside from a long one followed by a really short one, I'm pretty much back at square 1. My couple wonkier cycles appear to coincide with the period where I lost the fastest, so maybe the fat loss simply has yielded a temporary hormonal shock. Darn, I was hoping that I'd see a trend of increasingly longer, "normal" cycles. I'm regular, but sure would like cycles closer to the 28 day ideal. *sigh* Menopause, take me away!!
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