Period Coming. HUNGRIER THAN HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

Maybe porridge with a treat of brown sugar? Thats filling for me and is sweet and delicious

I too suffer from this, it sucks BIG TIME!! I really don't have many suggestions but I do drink this Yogi fasting tea and it helps but it's our hormones I hope someone has more ideas cause I need them too!!!!!!

I am like that too. It is sometimes ridiculous. I just have to eat. I usually cut up a load of different vegetables air popped chips, sweet potato (roasted), corn this with jam, chick peas. Just find some relatively low calorie but yum food and just eat it, all day. lol

Argh, I can't find anything that helps, once I know why I'm crazy hungry I am usually ok, but it's usually the couple of days before my period that I get really hungry but because of my birth control (Jadelle - implant in the arm) I'm super irregular - so I never know, and I eat like a madwoman for a couple of days and then I'm like, oh crap - that's why I've been stuffing my face with chocolate and getting angry at the cat for looking at me funny...

i too have this problem at that time!! its so HARD tp resist. for my salty cravings i try to stick to sunflower seeds r beef jerkey but the sweets is a hard one!!! skinny frapp's help some for sweets

Yep.

Also, your username is Derpina. Me Gusta.

Well played...

Great suggestions. Even better is knowing that I am not alone. I almost felt like I was going a bit mad. Trying to think up reasons to break my diet... Self Sabotage is what I do best

Self sabotage is a *****. I'm currently trying to fight through the wall now and I don't have the excuse of a period. It's so frustrating!

Hokai, but onto the topic now...

Here's what my friends and I do. On the FIRST day of your period when you really get hit hard with the cravings...give in! Don't go overboard, obviously, but use it as a cheat day.

I eat crap on the first day of my period. Usually it's either McDonalds, dill pickle Doritos *drool*, or pizza. Or all of the above. It depends on how super hungry I am. After I do that, the cravings tend to go away.

Also remember that while you're on your period, your body is burning extra calories to flush out your uterus. Sooo give yourself an extra 250 calories per day, and that's a low estimate. It should help the cravings and the constant hunger.

I just came off of a year of continuous BC hormone pills (no sugar pill 1-week break, in there), which I was taking to suppress my normally super-heavy period (which is the way it is because of my extra weight. I've even had bouts of menorrhagia. It's NOT fun), so right now I am going through a pretty bad one. Even an extra strength Ibuprofen couldn't knock out the sweats and that "boot-to-the-ovaries" feeling.

Today I had a 591 ml bottle of Wild Cherry Pepsi, I had a 2-pack of Big Reese's Cups, and 3 big slices of pizza, and that was just the really crappy stuff in the midst of my other stuff. You know what, though? I marched my butt over to the rec centre gym this evening, hoohaa shored up with a quality pad (Always Infinity, I lurve you), and did upper body lifting for 75 minutes, and 30 minutes of walking on the treadmill. Factoring the walk to and from the rec centre, I logged another 40 minutes of walking. The endorphins helped curb all of my period pains, and I got to indulge in a big egg white omelet with cheddar, green onion, chicken, and homemade guacamole when I got home. I came in under my calorie goal with 9 to spare.

So yeah, eat some junk, but get thee to a gym to atone for your caloric sins. I know it's hard to think of doing in the first place, when you feel like crap from the time of the month, but once you get going on the workout, you'll probably feel a lot better.

Just a little update: All of my incessant complaining motivated my very annoyed boyfriend to attempt to solve my munchie problem. He cut a apple up in to like what looks like shoe string potato fries and sprinkled them with cinnamon. Its lovely and highly recommended. He was so impressed with his genius he insisted I share it with you ladies.

Lol, good job boyfriend!

That's what my fiance does for me if I'm cranky and on my period. An apple with cinnamon. He doesn't cut it up as nicely, but hey, he tries, lol.

I indulge myself. I figure it's stuff I avoid for the most part the rest of the month, so what the heck. I don't do lowfat stuff either, just the regular stuff. The fat gives you full feeling sooner anyway.

Because the cramping is insane I tend to workout more, though. When it hurts I hurt it back worse.

works for me.

OMW I'm suffering with you. I won't even be hungry, but I'd end up eating tons.

HEY!!! So there are soooo many posts on here! Which is awesome!! But I can't find my glasses and I just can't squint through all of them, hope this hasn't been asked......

MY QUESTION: Yes I am starving and craving but I AM STAYING ON COURSE!!! But NOT LOSING ANY WEIGHT!!!
I am currently PMSing, my period has been wacky as of late (only lasting like 3 days but the pre-cramping lasts a week!). Why am I not losing anything right now? I am watching what I eat, drinking plenty of water. Someone suggested watching my sodium intake and possibly upping my iron, I know the iron will help the cravings but what will get my weightloss back on track???
PLEASE HELP!!!!


P.S.: Since I've started this life change my weight loss has been steady until now, it has stopped at about 5 pounds. It will not budge!! As in, it only moves back and forth about 0.4 a lb!!!

I know this has been said before, but I am SO glad that I am not the only female with these issues! I used to never have PMS, which kind of was not all good because my period would just show up at the most inopportune times. After my sixth child, I have zits, cravings for every carb filled food in America, and cramps. It's horrible! I have to use face scrub, and special wash and zit cream to tame my face and last night I attacked my kitchen for any ounce of chocolate I had. Luckily the only chocolate was fiber one 90 cal brownies and a slimfast double dutch chocolate bar. Still I had three more sugar free hard candies and popcorn! I am like an animal on a hunt the week before my monthly friend comes and it is NOT pretty! I am also anemic so I also crave peanut butter and steak. Not a good week for me.