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emilyhbrown
emilyhbrown Posts: 26
edited September 24 in Health and Weight Loss
do you really gain weight where its your TOM?

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  • Phoenyxtears
    Phoenyxtears Posts: 173
    I do...upwards of 2 lbs and then it goes back down.
  • leighdlady
    leighdlady Posts: 11
    I do but it does go back down. I think it's just retaining water.
  • daffysbird
    daffysbird Posts: 42
    I definitely do and I seem to retain more water then
  • dawnkitchen
    dawnkitchen Posts: 161
    Different women gain different amounts during different parts of their cycle. It isn't impossible to gain up to 5 or so pounds. It does go away.
  • Wendi_S
    Wendi_S Posts: 489 Member
    The week prior to TOM is my JFW (my junk food week) I usually crave carbs and salty foods- not a good thing. Every cycle I gain about 3-4lbs but lose it right after- mostly water weight I know, but discouraging just the same......
  • HealthyishWithMaggieG
    HealthyishWithMaggieG Posts: 397 Member
    When I was in my early 20s and working out like a fiend (7 days a week of some kind of activity), my weight would vary by as much as 20 pounds in a month without me doing anything intentionally to gain/lose.
  • Anidorie
    Anidorie Posts: 291 Member
    haha i am anemic and i always loss about 2 lbs then it goes back up. i have never heard of anybody gaining weight on it. i have to take special stuff when im on it cause if i loss too much blood i will faint
  • Superrhi
    Superrhi Posts: 84
    I always loose weight on it.... by around 2lbs then it goes back.
  • JennyJH
    JennyJH Posts: 189 Member
    Didn't this month - but have been miserable as sin.

    Would rather gain a pound or two (as many women do and as I have done in the past) than feel like this!! The weight goes PDQ.
  • Belle_Fille
    Belle_Fille Posts: 469
    im unsure. this is my first time having a TOM while tracking my weight. I weighed in last sunday and was down 3.3 pounds. and then TOM started late monday night/early tuesday morning. it seems i didnt gain anything right before starting TOM like i hear a lot of women talk about. but I could have "gained" some right after i started, or right after i weighed in on sunday and not know it. i only weigh in once a week.
  • nlucero
    nlucero Posts: 14 Member
    I usually gain anywhere from 2-5 lbs.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm on Depo. TOM doesn't visit anymore. :smile:
  • namrettik
    namrettik Posts: 127
    I've only had one TOM since I started counting calories. I didn't gain weight, it just stopped. I was the exact same weight for the first three days; after that, it started plummeting to where it would have been if it didn't stop.
  • thefreemans28
    thefreemans28 Posts: 267 Member
    I am on a type of birth control that makes me have very sparrattic TOMs. In January it was my first one since August and I gained 2 pounds that week! Then the very next week it came off super fast! So I definitely think it's natural and it's just water retention, which, luckily, is easy to lose!
  • downtome
    downtome Posts: 529 Member
    Yes and I am also very hungry a week prior as well. I feel as though I am always empty and my stomach is a bottomless pit! Last one I had, I not only gained a few pounds, but I didn't lose them back either! Darn T.O.M.
  • 2hdesign
    2hdesign Posts: 153
    Last month's TOM I lost 2 pounds that week. This month's I gained 1. As long as it's not much and things are back on track the next week, I don't sweat it. We do tend to retain water and bloat, so it can happen.
  • JenBrown0210
    JenBrown0210 Posts: 985 Member
    I'm on Depo. TOM doesn't visit anymore. :smile:

    Maybe I should tell my aunt flo about this cause I sure wish she wouldn't visit anymore :)
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
    sometimes I fluctuate but it may just be that I crave sweets and tend to eat more of them during TOM,
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