Sorry TMI Period weight gain

TOM has a ridiculously negative effect on my weight loss. I can gain anywhere between 2lbs and 5lbs in water! Plus my appetite goes crazy and I just want to eat, not helped by the fact I am an emotional eater and just want to lie on the sofa with a huge bar of chocolate feeling sorry for myself. Blah. Worst part is, I usually get it for well over a week; it's like half of my month seeing progress and the other half of the month tearing my hair our with the fluctuations (today being one of those days!).

So, my experience is it is rubbish, but it is part of life; just got to grit your teeth, remember it will even out eventually and carry on doing what you know works!

Since this usually happens monthly, you get used to it. People, even men, have cycles of holding and releasing fluids.
It's on the scale and the tight feeling in your clothes. If you log your food and know you have been following your routine, just know it's just water and it will go away as often as it shows up.

Quit beating yourself up. It happens to practically everybody! Nearly everyone retains water during their TOM. I can put on as much as 5lbs during that week!

TOM totally effects my weight loss. The week before I feel like i'm starving- binge on everything in site lol. The week of, i'm much less hungry, but my weight is stagnant. Right after my period, I lose in a big WHOOSH. its very strange and really affects my month Don't be too hard on yourself during this time-- you cant control it

I carry at least 5 extra pounds, and that's with being on a diuretic! I'm also beyond starving the entire week, I could basically live on chocolate dipped salt if I succumb to the cravings.

My doc said the cravings are your body trying to store calories in case you get pregnant, like THAT makes me feel any better about it! Don't beat yourself up, it's biology.

Its normal, cyclical, and temporary.

Just keep eating to your calorie goal and ignore it. Focusing on fluctuations will drive you crazy and make you quit. Successful weight losers look at long term trends, not fluctuations.

Geege29 wrote: »

I carry at least 5 extra pounds, and that's with being on a diuretic! I'm also beyond starving the entire week, I could basically live on chocolate dipped salt if I succumb to the cravings.

My doc said the cravings are your body trying to store calories in case you get pregnant, like THAT makes me feel any better about it! Don't beat yourself up, it's biology.

That's BS. By the time you miss your period, you're already 4 (ish) weeks pregnant (pregnancy "counting" starts two weeks before you ovulate, in case anyone didn't know). The embryo would have already implanted into the uterus wall, a full week before your period. Your body already would already be producing HCG if you were pregnant. It doesn't need your period to come to tell itself whether its pregnant.

rabbitjb wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

My experience is that I apparently know stuff about periods that a big chunk of women don't. Which is mind-boggling to me.

Rips Tex's head off...stares down gaping neck...oh really now?

You carry a ladder?

My TOM is 3 days, then it ceases for 1 day & then I have it for 1 more day. So I have it for 4 days, spread over a 5 day period - (pun intended). I start retaining water about 5 days before & I gain approximately 5 Pounds. I become incredibly thirsty during that 5 days before I get but I don't become hungry for anything beyond sugar. So for 10 days, I have no idea; what I truly weigh.

Despite having to give into my desperation for Carbs, I still try to make sensible choices, so that I don't consume many more Calories & thus ruin a half of month of progress.

1 Instead of eating a couple packages of cookies, I'll eat a Honeydew melon & I don't cut the rind off, I eat it from the rind; so that it takes much longer to consume than cookies because I have to make sure that I don't eat part of the rind but also nibble every bit, from it as well. Since it takes longer to eat, I consume less of it; while I reach satiety.

2 I'll also eat thin spaghetti but also with vegetable spaghetti, to get a hint of the taste but without the Calories.

3 Instead of making tacos/fajitas with tortillas, I'll use lettuce (this can get messy but I always say that "If it isn't messy, it isn't food.") or just make it a taco/fajita salad instead but break up only a quarter of a tortilla & use as a topping instead of a base. Again so that you get a hint of the taste but without the Calories.

4 East a potato or corn because they're starches.

I don't eat anymore than 2 of these items a day, to save my Calories.

DeguelloTex wrote: »

My experience is that I apparently know stuff about periods that a big chunk of women don't. Which is mind-boggling to me.

Lol.

To be fair, I've just learned stuff now that I weigh myself daily that I didn't know before, such as I also gain and lose a few pounds around ovulation.