Women - menstrual cycle, weight, and fitness matters
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domgibson88 wrote: »Does anyone get fevers on their period??I do, for about 3 days leading up to it my body temp goes up and I am constantly either freezing, or sweating bullets in very short periods of time..and I feel weak..this seems pretty extreme but it happens at the exact same time every month...
No...but at this point I wouldn't be surprised by ANY kind of symptom before my period.1 -
domgibson88 wrote: »Does anyone get fevers on their period??I do, for about 3 days leading up to it my body temp goes up and I am constantly either freezing, or sweating bullets in very short periods of time..and I feel weak..this seems pretty extreme but it happens at the exact same time every month...
Some women use temperature to determine their fertile times ... either to get pregnant or as a birth control method. So the body temperature does seem to fluctuate depending on what's happening with the female cycle.
For several years, I got really dizzy about 1-2 days before my periods started. Thankfully, that has died off and now it only happens maybe every 3rd or 4th month.
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I lost my period 2 years back. It came back 2 months ago (yay!) but I missed my cycle this month. Bummed. I've been upping calories and focusing on good fats... But no period (and I'm not on birth control) really freaks me out
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yoplait311 wrote: »I lost my period 2 years back. It came back 2 months ago (yay!) but I missed my cycle this month. Bummed. I've been upping calories and focusing on good fats... But no period (and I'm not on birth control) really freaks me out
Do you know why you lost it?
How many grams of fat do you get per day? How many calories?0 -
No idea why I lost it.. Possibly due to stress / poor adrenals / over exercise.
I'm around 1900-2400 cals a day with 60ish grams of fat.0 -
yoplait311 wrote: »No idea why I lost it.. Possibly due to stress / poor adrenals / over exercise.
I'm around 1900-2400 cals a day with 60ish grams of fat.
Oh. Those are good cals and decent amount of fat. Hope things straighten out for you. I've lost mine, but only for a month or so, because of low fat and calories.0 -
If it was gone for nearly 2 years maybe it hasn't stabilized yet? But the calories could be doing it too. In my experience it can take several months of consistently eating at maintenance for it to return. Are you eating at maintenance now?0
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Great post! Thanks for the information.0
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If it was gone for nearly 2 years maybe it hasn't stabilized yet? But the calories could be doing it too. In my experience it can take several months of consistently eating at maintenance for it to return. Are you eating at maintenance now?
Actually no
I do workout a lot and I'm still in a deficit most days...
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yoplait311 wrote: »If it was gone for nearly 2 years maybe it hasn't stabilized yet? But the calories could be doing it too. In my experience it can take several months of consistently eating at maintenance for it to return. Are you eating at maintenance now?
Actually no
I do workout a lot and I'm still in a deficit most days...
I'd suggest eating at maintenance for several months. Once you're in the lost period/heavy exercise loop even a slight deficit can make your period disappear. (Speaking from personal experience.)1 -
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Oops, duplicate.0
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Excellent thread! I have been beginning to notice how my weight changes throughout my cycle and it makes it a lot easier to cope with the stalls when you know there's a whoosh coming up soon!
To those who were asking about apps for tracking your cycle, I use Clue https://www.helloclue.com
It has a beautiful interface and allows you to track anything and everything you need. There's even a section for inputting your weight.
Coming late to this one...
But Clue is so good I tried a few others but Clue beat them out of the water. It's useful to track a whole bunch of 'womens issues'. I started tracking after I had my Implant removed even though my cycle is 25-32 days Clue is fairly accurate at predicting and has made my stalls and weight gain premensturally much less stressful. Like this week
Also @kshama2001 that YouTube video was really interesting2 -
I'm already dealing with 101 perimenopause symptoms including but not limited to hot flashes, night sweats, and dizziness in the day or two leading up to my periods. Weird calf and foot cramps (especially at night). About a year of adult acne ... that was so much fun. About 18 months of ... well, what can best be described as the moods and rage etc. of PMS, I guess. Every day, not just before my periods. Fortunately that has settled down quite a bit. And I can't use HRT at all, so I've been finding other ways to deal with everything with variable success.
My gynaecologist thinks I've been in perimenopause since about 2011 or so, and 18 months ago, he guessed that I should have about 3 years to go. I am more than ready to be done! There will be dancing in the streets!!!
I'm almost 50 and with the possible exception of briskly growing fibroids I have Not One Single Symptom of perimenopause. Come on hot flashes!0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »
I'm already dealing with 101 perimenopause symptoms including but not limited to hot flashes, night sweats, and dizziness in the day or two leading up to my periods. Weird calf and foot cramps (especially at night). About a year of adult acne ... that was so much fun. About 18 months of ... well, what can best be described as the moods and rage etc. of PMS, I guess. Every day, not just before my periods. Fortunately that has settled down quite a bit. And I can't use HRT at all, so I've been finding other ways to deal with everything with variable success.
My gynaecologist thinks I've been in perimenopause since about 2011 or so, and 18 months ago, he guessed that I should have about 3 years to go. I am more than ready to be done! There will be dancing in the streets!!!
I'm almost 50 and with the possible exception of briskly growing fibroids I have Not One Single Symptom of perimenopause. Come on hot flashes!
Not every woman experiences symptoms. My mum didn't even know she was going through menopause. She found after getting blood tests done.
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So, according to this image, this woman would be at her heaviest weight on day 28 of her cycle, and it would be gone around day 5. You're gaining weight as your cycle continues and lose that weight during menstruation. Did I understand that right?
It could be interesting to keep track of my weight daily and see how my cycle influences it, even though I'm using the pill. (Really like it, because now I know when I'm getting my menstruation.)0 -
This month I found that it was around ovulation that I held water weight, although my weight has stalled the last three days of my period, but that's three days so hardly a stall anyway!0
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