Question for the ladies....
clang1
Posts: 44 Member
So do any of you find that your eating and excercising habits/desires are directly affected by your "cycle"? I find that during my first week and a half I'm hellbent on eating right and excercising regularly. Come the middle of the second week I find myself craving more foods and feeling hungrier. The third week I start feeling very lethargic - not wanting to excercise and feeling very reluctant to eat properly. The last week is usually my self pity week. I start eating yucky and even though I'm excersicing, I just feel like giving up! Then at the end of it all, I feel so horrible about the way I've eaten / felt over the last week or so that I'm once again hellbent on doing it right and it starts all over again!!
Am I alone in this??!??!?
Am I alone in this??!??!?
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You are NOT alone!!! I was nodding my head in agreement as I read your post!!!0
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Same here...like you said it's a cycle...I always feel lethargic the week before it arrives and all I want to do is sleep!0
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I agree ... I feel exactly the same way, a vicious cycle ... and then to top it off I have so much water retention, I can put on up to 5 lbs .... argh!!0
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Wow, that's exactly how I am too!0
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Sounds like my life! I have always said I have one good week out of the month lol0
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DEFINATELY NOT ALONE!!!0
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I suffer from this too... lol
I find that a reallly really Realllllllly hard work out in the middle of the lethargic or craving times cures it almost completely,.... its getting yourself to commit to the hard work out that is tough.0 -
Definitely have cycles of cravings, etc with cycle and I am finding it is changing as I inch closer to menopause! I try and find things to curb the cravings to offset it! Hang in there!0
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Ovulating definitely screws with me quite a bit as far as eating habits, etc., are involved. That is usually somewhere in week 2.0
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OMG - I'm so glad I'm not the only one!!! Not that I wish it upon ANYONE but it's encouraging to know that I'm not the only one dealing with it!
Thanks for the support guys!0 -
Feeling exactly the same and I was about to give up until I read your post. At least I'm not alone on this thanks for sharing.0
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Nope, not at all. I usually get “physically” sick when it’s my time, but I have found that working out regularly really does help with that. I’m not as motivated around that time, but it helps with the lethargic feeling.
I recently learned about flax seed oil. I started taking it recently and have been recommending it like it’s my j-o-b. It stops your hunger and is a great vitamin. I take the flax seed oil capsule, but they have actual ground seeds that you can mix with food if you’re not a pill person. Try that for your cravings, I absolutely love it!0 -
Yes I know that feeling well I am total mess with my eating a week prior, completely lazy while it's on and it sometimes takes me the next week just to get back on track.0
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I crave chocolate around my TOM. I always do well with exercize and I never feel more tired, but I crave the wrong types of foods. I just exercize more so I can splurge on my treats.0
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YES! this is my "week before" and i already ran downstairs to the snack shop at work and bought a dove chocolate bar and ate the whole thing! thank goodness it was only 190 calories of dark chocolate (could have been much worse), but now i have to go home and run my 3 miles tonight and it is the LAST thing i want to do. but i WILL do it!!!! have to!!
the week before is always worse than the actual week for me...0 -
Hehehe... EXACTLY the same thing happens to me. Like exactly. It's kind of scary...0
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Dito!0
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Menstruation used to complicate my life too. Finally had Jan spayed. Problem solved.0
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You are NOT alone!!! I was nodding my head in agreement as I read your post!!!
totally this!0 -
Menstruation used to complicate my life too. Finally had Jan spayed. Problem solved.
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Ugggggggh! I'm glad you posted this I was afraid of doing so yesterday. I totally understand :explode: I didn't believe it PMS & cravings and all the HORMONAL changes until I worked in Obstetrics & Gynecology for a while.
I learned tremendously :ohwell:
Well, I had a small chocolate slice today because of this so I will have to work off my booty .0 -
the week before, I eat everything in sight! it's ridiculous!0
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About a week and a half before my TOM, I go crazy out of control with my eating. I want to eat, and all the time. Junk food, too. It's never pretty. I try to stick it out and continue to eat healthy, just eat more...but I give in and eat a few bad things a week.0
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