Do you become lazy when you are on period?

Yes, definitely. But only for a day or two, max, so I use them as rest/cheat days

Words have power. If you call yourself lazy, you will be. If you call yourself an unstoppable badass, you'll be that instead. It's a choice.

I used to be too busy stuffing my face during TOM to even notice whether or not I was any more lazy than normal. It always made me insatiably hungry with strong cravings. I swear let loose I could have scoffed my way through an entire cadbury's factory.

I then discovered that us gals need more magnesium at that special time, and magnesium is one of the things I seem to struggle to absorb effectively with my IBD. I double my Mg dose 5 days before due day and whilst bleeding and I'm now fine. I can eat normally, no cravings, no ridiculous hunger, which means I can function normally too.

I don't really get lazy - like a lot of other people I actually find the exercise helps - but I do get dreadful cravings the week before and usually end up going over cal target - although it's by relatively small amounts most days, with extra little treats, they do add up! So I guess it has the same effect!

I just dose up on brufen and paracetamol and carry on, albeit feeling like carp.
I have the same attitude with any illness, it's rare I allow anything to stop me doing stuff, and when it does I usually have to sleep it off.

I just usually factor in a rest day for it..I feel crappy, do a little bit of extra walking around on that day but don't ''work out''. I just do what my body wants me to. Crippled with pain, crazy heavy flow..may as well just take the one day to rest my body :-)

I don't use my period as an excuse. It's just a normal day for me and I carry on as usual.

My waist band felt constricting just looking at that

I used to take off the whole week of my period from working out. Now I don't do that anymore and find my periods to be lighter and more manageable. I still get the I feel really fat days, like today. But I work through it despite the scale being up a few pounds. I try and not over eat on carbs, and drink as much water as possible. Seems to work for me so far.

I HAVE to get lazy, because if I do too much, accidents happen.

Don't you feel week though when you get period?

I don't feel like a full week, I just feel more like a Monday.

I almost spit my water out LOL :laugh:

I'm usually pretty tired the couple of days before and I want to eat anything Buffalo Wing flavored...

newp not lazy. I get in pain sometimes though which limits my movements, after I had a child and had contraction pain in my thighs not in my stomach or back but frickin thighs, now I have pain in my thighs extending down to my knees for the first 3 days of my period every month. So I load up on otc pain meds and that cuts it down to a dull ache, sometimes I have to power through because I work, I always kind of hope it starts on a friday evening though so I can just take it easy over the weekend and put my legs up on my couch and lie on my floor when it gets really bad that helps a little bit too.

For sure...... even when I workout on my period my body just feels like I am dragging myself to keep up, I also tend to get more sweet cravings it sucks.

not lazy so much as just exhausted to my bones the day before or day of. sometimes a few days before. and the carb cravings. oh god it's brutal. the day of or after i snap right back and feel great.
the cramps settle into my right hip though. that' started in the last couple of years. yoga helps a little for that. but mostly it's just sugar and a nap.