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  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    I feel like it starts two weeks before my period and then gets easier when my period ends. So, I have roughly ONE WEEK a month when I'm not fighting the beast.
  • Foxxy18
    Foxxy18 Posts: 119 Member
    Yes. I usually eat whatever I want and cry. And I don't exercise. It's a mess.
  • MBCook2
    MBCook2 Posts: 34 Member
    GAH! Yes.....and I crave everything that is not good!!

    THIS^^ I hate it!!!!
  • jenniferswooten
    jenniferswooten Posts: 137 Member
    I'm fighting it right now myself.
  • sunshine421969
    sunshine421969 Posts: 273 Member
    I crave chocolate not bad food



    THIS ! ;)
  • Cre8veLifeR
    Cre8veLifeR Posts: 1,062 Member
    I crave chocolate not bad food

    me too!
  • whitneyas
    whitneyas Posts: 95 Member
    Ah yes! Chocolate, steak tips and brie... my husband usually looks at me like I am a crazy person because I want it all at once!
  • HypersonicFitNess
    HypersonicFitNess Posts: 1,219 Member
    Yep, sometimes...
  • haniay
    haniay Posts: 17 Member
    I don't necessarily have particular cravings (at least if I've been eating well leading up to that time), but I'm like a bottomless pit. The same food that would normally be totally satisfying just seems to disappear somewhere in an abyss and I'm in this perpetual state of feeling like eating would be a good idea. I wonder if there's some hormonal connection to whatever triggers the feeling of satisfaction in the brain.

    Not that I've thought about it : )
  • CrystalDreams
    CrystalDreams Posts: 418 Member
    Yep. All the salty goodness I can cram down my throat.
  • ncseabrze
    ncseabrze Posts: 6 Member
    I don't really crave anything. I just get hungry and nothing is satisfying. The weight roller coaster that accompanies this is frustrating!
  • CrystalDreams
    CrystalDreams Posts: 418 Member
    I feel like it starts two weeks before my period and then gets easier when my period ends. So, I have roughly ONE WEEK a month when I'm not fighting the beast.

    I have this too! Rawr.
  • Okapi42
    Okapi42 Posts: 495 Member
    Yup. We call it "locust mode" in our household. What's funny is that my partner and I crave different things. She craves crunchy, carby things. I crave salty, or better yet salty and sweet, things. It's insane.

    Hah, I love the "locust mode" label, that describes it exactly.

    Like most people here, it's chocolate for me. And salty things. And tinned peaches - not the taste, but the mouthfeel!
  • majoki
    majoki Posts: 151 Member
    I think I may get a little hungrier, but not every month... just some months I notice it. Then again, I'm the one who, when my gynecologist asks the date of my last period, I always look at my doctor and say "uhhhhhmmmm...." :laugh:
  • hellokittyykat
    hellokittyykat Posts: 66 Member
    Yes! on it right now and it's horrible. I'm trying so hard to hold back! lol
  • Saaaam42
    Saaaam42 Posts: 154 Member
    Biiiiiiiiiiiiiig time....
  • Femmekid
    Femmekid Posts: 424 Member
    Yep! I pretty much crave sweets and fast food. I hardly ever eat fast food (once every 4-6 months) and I don't really crave or want chocolate when I'm not on my TOTM.
  • Starfish1125
    Starfish1125 Posts: 169 Member
    Oh yeah. If it is chocolate, salty or carb-like - I WANT it. :laugh:
  • keepitcroosh
    keepitcroosh Posts: 301 Member
    Why must we suffer like this!
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Yep. For every period I've had for the last 20 + years.

    It's not new news for me. 20 + years of previous experience in it and all.
  • glynda66
    glynda66 Posts: 184 Member
    YES!!! Im experiencing that now... =/
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    I find myself hungrier a few days before, and thirstier during. Nothing that would blow my calories, but I do go over on my sugars more. I do a lot of baking in the week before. It's a hint that TOM is coming...:laugh:

    P.S. Sending love out to those who suffer during TOM. I've been blessed with short, light, easy periods all my life - more of a slight inconvenience than anything else. My sister gets hideous migraines so I know it can be a pain - literally - for some of you! :heart:
  • JediMomof3
    JediMomof3 Posts: 29 Member
    YES! Chocolate, Caffeine, and Greasy cheesy hamburgers! UGH. I have managed to fight the hamburger ones but the caffeine and chocolate Yikes!
  • ms_leanne
    ms_leanne Posts: 523 Member
    I used to binge so much during TOM but since losing weight I've found it's not as bad. The cramps have eased off too. Mine lasts about 5 days and is very regular as I am on the pill but back when I was 18 before i started taking it they were painful, 8 days long and very heavy.

    I'm on now and get a little bit of back pain for a few days. The cold weather doesn't help that (and a cold flat). Have felt a bit more hungrier than usual but try to hold off and nowhere near as bad as I used to be.
  • vicky1804
    vicky1804 Posts: 320 Member
    Yep,I'm all finished this month but have ate nearly everything in site the last 4 days. Mostly stuff that isnt good for me
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    I always crave sweets and carb combinations. Cookies in particular, and chocolate bars, sometimes PB/Choco. I hold back pretty well, only let myself have two cookies last time and never binged the whole week. It was a particularly painful week with massive bent-over-double cramps-with-tears-in-my-eyes for the first 3 days, so I was happy with myself. :)
  • SquidgySquidge
    SquidgySquidge Posts: 239 Member
    Yup!

    Can barely stand let alone eat on the first day due to the intense pains I get but after that, chocolate mainly (but that is my weakness most days) and just food in general lol.
    Now I'm thinking of it, I do crave a lot of carbs. Last month I developed a thing for eggs with marmite on toast.
  • LindseySprake
    LindseySprake Posts: 333 Member
    aghhhh yep! Sugar, carbs and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!!
  • LindseySprake
    LindseySprake Posts: 333 Member
    eggs with marmite on toast.

    I :heart: ^THIS^
  • taniaxkoi
    taniaxkoi Posts: 18
    During TOTM I find myself snacking more on sugary foods and less healthy food, but then feel the guilt the following week!

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