Women - Menstrual Cycle and Weight Gain

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  • sophiecls
    sophiecls Posts: 4 Member
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    It only affects the scale around the time of your period. For me, I usually see a slight gain or my weight will stay the same that week despite my efforts. But, once it's over I usually see a pretty satisfying drop.

    That's how I am. Starting the week before, my weight will either go up a little or stay about the same. As long as I stick with my healthy eating, after my period is over the water weight plus whatever I normally would have lost over that time comes off almost overnight.

    It does seem like if I'm really good about drinking lots of water the whole time I won't gain much in water retention, so at least I won't get discouraged by seeing the scale go up during that time. I usually divide my weight measured in pounds in half and aim for drinking that number in ounces of water throughout the day.
  • mumof76
    mumof76 Posts: 1 Member
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    Yes I freaked out too!! I got down to 82.1 kgs then at the start of P was up 600gms!!! Now day 6 of cycle and down to 81.7!! :) ahhh so much better!;)

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