PMS hunger!

Marchmallow
Marchmallow Posts: 124 Member
edited November 14 in Food and Nutrition
Anyone else get crazy hungry before your period starts? For the past two days I've been struggling to stay within my calories, and sometimes I plough through the exercise cals too. I'm trying to get in proteins and good fats to stave off the hunger, but I'm fantasising about cookie dough ice cream...

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  • jeo33
    jeo33 Posts: 13 Member
    I can completely relate to your struggle. I do my best to ignore and overcome it, but it is sooooooo hard :\
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    *sigh* yes. But now you know, so you can plan for next month (and the one after, and so on). I'm going to make sure I have lots of low cal snacky things ready to go so I can graze all day, cos that's actually what I want to do.
  • angier321
    angier321 Posts: 45 Member
    I went thru that last week. Just wanted to punch somebody, anybody in the throat! Someway, somehow I did pretty good. I don't know how. Thank god everybody made it out alive!
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    Yup. I tend to eat lower calorie, high volume meals during that time (200grams of chicken breast with 250grams of vegetables is a HUGE plate of food for someone dwarf sized like me, and only for 350 calories?!!!) and that tends to leave me some room for grazing.

    I also favor tea/coffee when a munch attack hits. They are hot and take a long time to drink, plus for some reason the hot liquid fills me up a little better than just water.
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    Yup. I tend to eat lower calorie, high volume meals during that time (200grams of chicken breast with 250grams of vegetables is a HUGE plate of food for someone dwarf sized like me, and only for 350 calories?!!!) and that tends to leave me some room for grazing.

    I also favor tea/coffee when a munch attack hits. They are hot and take a long time to drink, plus for some reason the hot liquid fills me up a little better than just water.
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    Sorry double post. Phone app.
  • guinevere96
    guinevere96 Posts: 1,445 Member
    Ugh around my period I get this craving to dip literally everything in ranch dressing, its going to be the end of me.
  • Tata66
    Tata66 Posts: 3 Member
    I have the same struggle -- I just can stay satisfied and I want everything chocolate and salty/sweet!
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    Tata66 wrote: »
    I have the same struggle -- I just can stay satisfied and I want everything chocolate and salty/sweet!

    I sometimes eat a whole block of chocolate for breakfast during that time. Lol its ridiculous. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
  • crystalewhite
    crystalewhite Posts: 422 Member
    Me! Right now! I try to load up on vegetables and lean meat, they are very filling for me and I just eat a bit of whatever I'm craving.
    I'm also about to start slapping some coworkers.
  • crystalewhite
    crystalewhite Posts: 422 Member

    I sometimes eat a whole block of chocolate for breakfast during that time. Lol its ridiculous. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
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    This sounds amazing

  • ameliajane90
    ameliajane90 Posts: 24 Member
    I went through this last week. The 'just take it one day at a time' thing really helped. I just kept asking myself what would make me more upset? Being hungry (knowing that its hormones) or backtracking on my hard earned progress? I didn't lose any weight last week, but I also didn't over eat and gain anything either. I call that a win.
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    crystalewhite wrote: »
    I sometimes eat a whole block of chocolate for breakfast during that time. Lol its ridiculous. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

    This sounds amazing

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    Not very filling though. I try not to do it too often.

    But sometimes the cravings win over even satiety, then I would have one day where my entire amount of calories is made up of everything I crave. 1650 calories of only sweets. Would look like this:

    Breakfast: 100g Lindt chocolate (550 calories)

    Lunch: 1 piece of chocolate iced cake (500 calories)

    Dinner: 2 cups of light ice cream (500 calories)

    Snack : 1.5 cups of airpopped popcorn. (150 calories.)
  • srrosenbalm
    srrosenbalm Posts: 35 Member
    Oh, the struggle is so real. Usually a few days before my period I just want to eat everything in sight. Chocolate is a really huge craving for me too. I usually end up giving in pretty easily for two days and then try to get back on track. I usually end up having so much junk during those two days that I don't want anymore for a good while after. I know it's probably not the best way to go about it, but it works for me. :)
  • prettygirlstorm1
    prettygirlstorm1 Posts: 721 Member
    This is so my problem. My eating is out of control. I find myself exercising more so I can eat more!!! lol My stomach is like a bottomless pit. I asked my doctor if there was anything I could do for this and she said NO!!! So i just suffer through it.
  • scaryg53
    scaryg53 Posts: 268 Member
    Yes! I want to stuff my face with everything! It's a struggle for sure!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Every single month. But it's not even sweets, it's typically complex carbs and fats that I crave. And I've tried eating the things that usually fill me up for low calories... and that doesn't help me one bit... Last time I even went to the store to get ice cream, hoping that a big bowl would help, and it didn't.

    Next time I'm just making myself chicken parm with pasta or getting pizza for lunch. Maybe if I eat those high carb/fat dishes earlier in the day, I won't be as miserable and won't end up eating 4500 calories (yup...). But I'm seriously dreading it, it seems it got worse and worse every month.
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