Ladies--PMS ever sabotaged your diet?

PMS is just an excuse to eat. YOU sabotaged your "diet".

You have a penis. You are not allowed to post in this thread. Your opinion is completely and totally irrelevant.

I'd agree except for the cissexism. Some women have a penis, and if they have the same PMS-y hormones, can experience the same cravings.

Are you talking about transgendered folks on estrogen therapy? If so, okay. A little deeper analysis than necessary of my playfully sarcastic comment, but yes I suppose they can as well. Wow that is the first time I have ever been accused of any form of "ism"

Yup, I am. My trans* gf experiences cravings. ^_^
And don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not accusing YOU of being a cissexist person. Just pointing out cissexist wording and stuff.

Glad to realize it is not just me. For past few years or so have had same symptoms leading to my cycle.

When mother nature visits me, I find that keeping extra fruit around the house helps. Instead of eating candy and sweets, fruit is my sugar. Things like banana's have a lot of sugar in them. I also try to keep strawberries, grapes, peaches.. things that don't take time to peel (oranges.) These are good for grab-and-go cravings. Also, if you freeze the grapes they are more like a desert.. just don't put the sugar on them before you stick them in the freezer! My other option, if fruit isn't cutting it, is to buy all natural fruit popsicles.. for example Edy's. They have 45 calories so if you eat a box you don't feel as bad. haha..

Well, I already have horrid female issues.

I pms most of the month, it goes through stages depending on the week. But in all honesty, if I crave something and it doesn't go away, I eat it. I never really seem to go over my calories even if it's something unhealthy, because it might be the only time i am hungry all day (during pms) and i will end up binging on everything else all day long until I eat what my pms driven body decided it wants.

For years now, even on a diet, I HAVE to have a once a month bacon cheese burger. I won't want one again for another month, and it's not going to set me back. Sometimes I absolutely *need* a garbage plate, it will last me 3 days but if I don't eat it, the repercussions are worse. Granted, I don't need ice cream, candy (although I will eat a couple squares of dark chocolate around that time and save the rest of the bar for next month in the freezer) pastries etc, which would be my downfall I'm certain. But if one burger, or one anything is going to make my uterus happy, she gets it. period.

PMS is just an excuse to eat. YOU sabotaged your "diet".

I know some men like you. Not everything psychological (brought on by chemical changes) is preventable by sheer willpower.

OP- yes many times in the past. The way I work it out is increase how many times I eat and make myself full with lots of fruits and fibers and protein bars. Exercising while having moodswings sucks

You dont wanna know me from the 10-20 of the month! Lol
if im hungry ill eat, i make sure i dont have crappy food around those days, i keep with my workouts because studys show a week before period woman tone up better.

I have a problem with chocolate and bread around that time. Bread and butter are such a treat. I ONLY eat bread once a month and enjoy every single warm and buttery bite around this time.. AND I limit the portion size.. That way I don't feel bad. And I load up on healthy carbs (fruits and veggies) the whole day before I eat the piece of bread or chocolate so that the fiber does it's job days ensuing. (Sorry about being too graphic. Not sure how else to explain it better). Give in a little. Just make sure to do it in portions and with lots of fruits and veggies. Your body will thank you!

Every. Single. Bleeping. Month. :grumble:

The guy I grandpa-sit for likes cookies. I think he'd have nothing but cookies if we'd let him. So the gal who's there M-H during the day, who generally goes grocery shopping, buys him cookies.

Most of the time I can ignore them, but for one week I will stand there every evening furtively cramming them into my mouth until I've had like 6 or 8, plus a glass of milk (and she never buys skim), all the while thinking "what am I doing?!" and adding up the time I'll have to spend on the elliptical to work it off. :sad: :mad: :sick:

um yes every single month..but a couple of days isn't a sabotage

PMS is just an excuse to eat. YOU sabotaged your "diet".

You have a penis. You are not allowed to post in this thread. Your opinion is completely and totally irrelevant.

Absolutely!

freaking out and slapping the guy who thinks he has a right to say anything about a life experance he will never go thru is just a perk

:laugh:
I wonder that any male doctors or nurses survive their clinical rotation in OB/maternity, for exactly that reason.

Not everything psychological (brought on by chemical changes) is preventable by sheer willpower.

I'd venture to say that very few biological chemical problems (such as brain diseases & diabetes) are controllable by willpower. That's why there's such a stigma against mental illness; people mistakenly think it's just a bad attitude.

next time, if I'm on my period and I want a cookie, I will eat the damn cookie

LOL!!! I love this.

Some women have a penis

Are you talking about transgendered folks on estrogen therapy?

Yup, I am. My trans* gf experiences cravings

Um, then he's a man taking women's hormones, not a woman with a penis. Still an XY.