Weight gain from my period ugh!!!

gypsykit1

I usually gain close to five freakin pounds when I get my period. I usually eat larger portions or more food or more sweets so some of the extra pounds could be from that. Even though I know most of it is bloat and water retention from my period, it still really psychs me out and depresses me greatly. I've read articles that say once your period comes the weight goes back down but not true for me. It takes until my third or fourth day of my period for the bloat to settle down. I avoid wearing my tight jeans cause I feel so much bigger and it depresses me more if I feel it in my clothes.

nutmegoreo

For some women it takes a whole week, and others even longer. I know it still sucks to see the scale going in a different direction than you want. Some women won't jump on the scale for that week. I've mostly learned to just let it go, after that initial irritation. I hope you can get to a better place with it, because it's not going to change anytime soon.

Nony_Mouse

If it psychs you out, avoid the scale for those few days. When the water weight drops off is also highly individual. Mine used to all woosh off the first day, now it takes a couple.

As for food, plan for it, eat at maintenance if necessary, that way none of the scale spike will be actual fat gain.

barefootcassie

I have found that my weight jumps up 5 lbs when I ovulate and another 5 pounds for shark week. It sucks.

Nony_Mouse

A tip for minimising the TOM bloat - drop your salt intake in the days before. Women are more sensitive to sodium in their late luteal phase.

ghudson92

Don't let it get you down, it happens to pretty much all of us! I retain all of the water on planet earth the week before I am due on, then it drops drastically the first two days, then goes up again the remaining three days. A few days after my cycle I am kind of back to normal. Try to eat at maintenance and stay off the scales if it is making you feel bad.

whitpauly

I feel like by the time my weight is back to normal after TOM it's time for it to start again

LivingtheLeanDream

If it freaks you out stay off the scales during that time? I gain 2-3lbs water weight from mine each month which lasts for 3-5 days, that water gain happens every women I'm pretty sure so don't let it get to you.

quiksylver296

I'm up 5 pounds since Sunday morning. Guess when TOM started? Monday.

I know I haven't eaten 17,500 calories over maintenance since I weigh and log all my food. Therefore, it isn't fat gain. Just have to ride it out.

collectingblues

gypsykit1 wrote: »

I usually gain close to five freakin pounds when I get my period. I usually eat larger portions or more food or more sweets so some of the extra pounds could be from that. Even though I know most of it is bloat and water retention from my period, it still really psychs me out and depresses me greatly. I've read articles that say once your period comes the weight goes back down but not true for me. It takes until my third or fourth day of my period for the bloat to settle down. I avoid wearing my tight jeans cause I feel so much bigger and it depresses me more if I feel it in my clothes.

Takes me 10 days for it to come off. Which means that the time between start of cycle and midcycle weight means that I see *no* losses. (I get anovulatory cycles, but still get all of the water retention...) And then I get big losses after midcycle is done.

VUA21

That's called being a normal woman. Period related water retention is just one of the things that can be annoying about being a woman.

gypsykit1

Wow. Thank you sooo much everyone for taking the time to give such positive thoughts and advice. I thank all of you and wish you all the best in return. 😘💫☀️❤️🦄

Famof72015

barefootcassie wrote: »

I have found that my weight jumps up 5 lbs when I ovulate and another 5 pounds for shark week. It sucks.

Mine too!!! So I’m basically normal mentally, physically two weeks out if the month. Question after menopause, will I be Dr Jekyll forever or will I be Mr Hyde forever? 😩 😂I’m hoping Jekyll

mmnv79

gypsykit1 wrote: »

I've read articles that say once your period comes the weight goes back down but not true for me. It takes until my third or fourth day of my period for the bloat to settle down. .

I weight myself every Monday. I too have read that once it comes, the weights goes back down, but as an experiment, I weighted myself daily during TOM and same here, it took me five days to return to my 'usual' weight.

Cahgetsfit

yep happens to all of us. I actually used Happy Scale app for a few months and weighed in daily (trying really hard not to see it as getting fat or not fat but simply as a data collection tool) - it's quite an interesting exercise you can really start to see a pattern in weight correlating to period and ovulation. For example, just before I start to bloat, I have one day where my weight drops dramatically - like a kilo or 2 in ONE DAY.

Once I did that experiment it has helped me to not feel so much like crap when I weigh in and the weight is not what i expected (eg after a great week with good eating and exercise and hello 1 kilo up - like today... UGH) I know that it's not 1 kilo up due to fatso, but 1 kilo up due to water retention/hormones etc.

lalabank

For me I just hold my weight after I ovulate until the first day of my period. Before I figured this out I was massively bummed out, literally cried about working so hard and seeing no results. After studying my weight lose chart it clicked for me, now I focus on holding steady and not using it as an excuse to quit. For me weighing in everyday helps me look at it like a science experiment, seeing my body’s patterns is awesome. We are all unique.
I spend more time on MFP during this 10-14 days of bloat. I read as many inspiring and supportive threads as I can.

Log your food. Chart your weight. Use the community at MFP as a support system. We are all in this together.

cerise_noir

It’s completely normal. Just make peace with it.

jennifer_417

Yeah, it's usually the next week before I see the drop in period weight. It's perfectly normal.

confidenceinrain

I usually lose on the scale during that week as usual and still feel like hell on my period--avoiding tight jeans and all. I read that your uterus or something is a bit swollen and that makes the whole area feel bulky, if that makes sense, so it accounts for a lot of discomfort.

astrid8228

thank you, I dropped in all depressed.

WilmaValley

Bummer but normal

MelanieCN77

I started my period yesterday - in the morning I weighed 132.2, had a perfect day of eating all balanced and nice, this morning 133.4. After a week of eating in line, any other time of the month I would have stayed the same or dropped a half pound or so. Is what it is, will sort itself out.

Runningchick11

I told myself not to weigh myself this week, but I did. And now im upset! Stupid periods.

Running2Fit

I always gain the week before my period. Even knowing it’s just water weight and will drop quickly it’s still frustrating!

yirara

gypsykit1 wrote: »

I usually gain close to five freakin pounds when I get my period. I usually eat larger portions or more food or more sweets so some of the extra pounds could be from that. Even though I know most of it is bloat and water retention from my period, it still really psychs me out and depresses me greatly. I've read articles that say once your period comes the weight goes back down but not true for me. It takes until my third or fourth day of my period for the bloat to settle down. I avoid wearing my tight jeans cause I feel so much bigger and it depresses me more if I feel it in my clothes.

Yeah, well... I usually lose the water weight about 1-2 days after starting the pill again. So that's about 8-9 days with a higher weight. Fortunately I only do a stop week every three months or so. But yeah, I guess that's what it means to be a woman. Can't help it. Flight water weight is very sticky for me as well, usually about 4-7 days. *shrugs*