OMG PMS!!!

scgbball

Your body is speaking to you! Don't go crazy, but if you're body needs extra fuel, feed it! Just try to be as healthy as possible :-) Personally I tend to have no appetite at all the first 2 days of my period, so I feel like it all evens out.

banks89202

Yep it sucks! I eat goldfish crackers to try to fill me up 55 fishys only 140 calories and keeps me feeling full for a little while!

jesslaur75

I ate healthy yesterday and nothing seemed to fill me until I broke down and had shrimp cakes, that were fried. Immediately I felt satisfied. I guess I was craving fried foods!! Tada! Today I feel fat and can't fit into anything because I have to go to a charity event. It doesn't help that it's 7:15 and it's still about 90 degrees and humid. Southern California feel like Charleston, SC!! Blech!

marylovehellokitty

I know the feeling

oOMusicBabii

Want to eat ALL. THE. TIME!!!
Every month I just want to eat all the time for the few days leading up to my period, then I'm back to normal. I don't have to have fried or fatty or sweet, but I am hungry constantly for three days or so. It's so difficult to stick to the calories. I still go to the gym and do my workouts, I have no problem staying motivated I just want food.

WORST feeling in the world...so glad that beast woman only comes out once a month or I'd go bonkers.

Tank_Girl

Im feeling pretty depressed, eaten desert and more desert today... Could nearly cry... So now im having a beer... Its taking all my willpower to not drink more beer and eat more tarte au chocolat

Yuukigirl

I usually have the conundrum of knowing I need to eat but my body says "No! Don't! I'll punch your insides!" *punch*
I also have (usually) very mild anemia that also gives me MONSTER cravings for red meat(saturated fat,anyone?). And my period is irregular(a commonly occurring side effect of being very overweight) so I don't know what's going on until I'm writhing on the bathroom floor in pain hoping I caught a stomach virus. Hopefully, I'll get better control over everything now that I've got a new period tracker app on my phone(MyCalendar is the BEST).

jesslaur75

Im feeling pretty depressed, eaten desert and more desert today... Could nearly cry... So now im having a beer... Its taking all my willpower to not drink more beer and eat more tarte au chocolat

We all have days like that. Tomorrow is another day. Don't fret. You didn't undo everything.

TheRealParisLove

There is science behind this. Here is an article about a study done on women and food cravings during PMS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-j-wurtman-phd/dr-oz-rubber-wristbands-a_b_785512.html

Basically, it says that the hormones that bring on menstruation also mess with brain chemistry, making it harder for the brain to get the proper serotonin levels.

Serotonin is boosted by non-fructose carb consumption. Unfortunately, we crave all carbs at that time of the month, fructose or not. Eating fruit won't help, but eating chocolate will. A cookie or other high carb snack will help the brain get back to normal.

The article goes on to say that 30 grams of carbs is all that is necessary to beat those cravings. Avoid protein when the carb cravings strike and grab a granola bar or something instead. When the craving has passed, then eat your usual proteins.

Protein will short circuit serotonin production, that is why you should stick to non fruit and non-fructose carbs when the craving strikes. Dark chocolate, a piece of bread (no jelly or peanut butter) with butter, a bowl of cereal (without fruit or nuts), a roll or some pasta will get you feeling better and back on track quickly.

kaclaire

Yeah I just began my period today and it's such a struggle always. It's also hard because I always gain weight and bloat when I'm on my period and it just makes me feel even worse. I did have 2 squares of dark chocolate today and I'm going to try really really hard to let that be it this month. All I want are sweets!

LeggyAmericanGirl

I give in, my goal is to not feel starving !

opuntia

I get cravings too - I find it helps to eat a banana with a handful of cacao nibs, and a teaspoonful of himalayan crystal salt dissolved in water. And red meat in my evening meal. Those are the specific sorts of things my body seems to be craving, but unless I make a point of giving myself those things I'll just eat anything!

tundeke

OMG! I just posted a very similar topic a minute ago, i am struggling too!

karenwill2

since I switched my diet in the last two weeks to mostly vegetables, I am not suffering from those cravings anymore. It is AWESOME!!!!

BamsieEkhaya

5roasted and salted cashews (£1) at the corner shops...and a single cherry drop saved my lady week though...weigh in at the end was painful, only lost 0.2Ibs

Graelwyn75

There is science behind this. Here is an article about a study done on women and food cravings during PMS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-j-wurtman-phd/dr-oz-rubber-wristbands-a_b_785512.html

Basically, it says that the hormones that bring on menstruation also mess with brain chemistry, making it harder for the brain to get the proper serotonin levels.

Serotonin is boosted by non-fructose carb consumption. Unfortunately, we crave all carbs at that time of the month, fructose or not. Eating fruit won't help, but eating chocolate will. A cookie or other high carb snack will help the brain get back to normal.

The article goes on to say that 30 grams of carbs is all that is necessary to beat those cravings. Avoid protein when the carb cravings strike and grab a granola bar or something instead. When the craving has passed, then eat your usual proteins.

Protein will short circuit serotonin production, that is why you should stick to non fruit and non-fructose carbs when the craving strikes. Dark chocolate, a piece of bread (no jelly or peanut butter) with butter, a bowl of cereal (without fruit or nuts), a roll or some pasta will get you feeling better and back on track quickly.

Seems to take a lot more than 30g carbs for me. I often end up having well over 200g in the run up to my period, and often in the form of chocolate, brownies, doughnuts, ice cream and cream cakes. Though I do cycle/elliptical for an hour + almost daily as well.

Actually, I have noticed one craving that seems to override all others the last few months and that is cream. Fresh cream cakes seem to call my name. I end up carb loading in the run up to my period which might be hormone related, but I suppose could be related to my being 126 Ibs at just under 5'10 and my body trying to grab a load of fat or something.

Imaan2012

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