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if you find an answer let me know, i have the same problem during that awful week, i feel like i am starving all day even when i eat what i would on a normal day i feel like i need much much more or i have tons of cravings and i have no idea how to control it.

Try to fill up on fruit and vegetables. I find if I am not hungry that I don't want treats as much. But this week also gets to me! So annoying isnt it!

I have planned cheat days, and a lot of the time, I plan my cheat days around my TOM. It feels better to me to give in when it's planned rather than out of a moment of weakness. Plus it gives me something to look forward to. If you told me I couldn't have junk food ever again, there'd be no way I could stick to a diet. But that week for me is pretty much wasted. You gotta cut yourself some slack. Perfection is just too hard to maintain. Esp when our hormones are going crazy each and every frigging month!

One Hershey's Dark Chocolate Bliss... or Two?! Give yourself permission to feed your body ... control your portions. The more we try to NOT do something... the MORE we want it! If you just DO IT... it's surprising how easily the desire goes away.

The same thing happens to me, like hardcore. I crave chocolate covered pretzels like no one's business. I found the best thing to do is give in, just in moderation. Instead of eating the whole bag, I just eat a couple and then look for something healthier to satisfy my cravings For salty I like pickles or olives, for sweet I'll some flavored rice cakes (Quaker oats has a marvelous 90 cal pack of cinnamon struesel flavored rice cakes that make me sooo happy). And if you go over sometimes it's not the end of the world, it the end it just stresses you out more and makes you miserable. But if you do go over and feel really bad just exercise for a little longer than normal.

I have the same problem. Although my symtoms last 2 weeks out of the month. I just had the surgery "Novasure", but that only helped with the bleeding. I give myself one day a month & I get to go crazy, for PMS reasons. That seems to help. I cannot keep any junk food in the house, because when I have the cravings, I will eat everything I see. Instead I am keeping healthy snacks in the house. You can do it, if I can!!!!

This is me right now! I have been STARVING this weekend no matter what I have eaten and all I want are carbs and chocolate!! Basically I kept tracking but I didn't eat as "clean" as usual. I LOVE cereal and usually don't even buy it, but I let myself have some and built it into my plan, same with peanut butter M&Ms Yeah, I ate that stuff but I made sure not to eat the whole box or bag and that I was tracking properly. Also, even though I felt like crap I still tried to keep on track with exercising. I have really bad cramps but actually once I get moving I feel much better - it's getting started which is the hardest part. Other than that I just try to make sure I drink a lot of water and I definitely agree with another poster - stay away from the scales!!!!

I find that Fiber one bars the chocolate and oatmeal ones work wonders. Only 140 cal and 4 g fat and they keep you full. You can eat one slowly or just half then the other half later.

Ever since I quit caffeine my PMS/TOM symptoms have lessened considerably. You might wanna try it if you consume caffeine.

If I make sure I exercise hard in the week leading up to my TOM, that seems to help too, even if I slack during my period.

But the biggest difference for me has been bio-identical hormone therapy. I had some female problems (fibroids, super heavy bleeding) and my naturopath started me on BIO-IDENTICAL (important) progesterone during days 14-28 of my cycle. It's been a like a miracle for me.

I also take an herbal/vitamin supplement called SloFlo all month long, plus a higher dose during TOM.

All that stuff helped all the cravings and stuff a lot. The few I have left, I cave in to to be honest!

A slight note of caution about low dose progesterone cream. Certainly there are some women who are anovulatory (don't ovulate) and only have estrogen in their system. but Dr. Vliet (herplace.com) said in her practice, the problem the majority of her clients have is too low estrogen during the luteal phase of their cycle (the last two weeks which are the progesterone phase). The most common symptoms of PMS being those from low estrogen. She supplements her clients with a low dose of estrogen during the last week before the menstrual cycle starts again. Some doctors theorize that the reason progesterone cream feels good at first (for those of us that had the initial positive response) is that it provokes better estrogen reception. Initially, Dr. Lee, the doc that popularized over the counter progesterone cream thought it wise to do three cycles of the P and then check to see if the tissues were loaded. None of his work was verified scientifically so his recommendations are based on anecdotal evidence. It's very easy to suck up too much P and because it is the most lipophilic (fat loving) of all the steroids it hides well in the body. The clearance of progesterone is far slower than many doctors realize and ultimately some need urine testing to determine the load. So what? Well, some women find blood sugar levels increase when using P.

i just say F*** it usually i still track every single calorie tho and be sure to at a minimum maintain also Fat free sugar free chocolate pudding lol don't worry you are not alone


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