Women problem

It's okay to take a break during your monthly. Be good to yourself and get back to working out when you feel all right again. Maybe just go for a walk rather than being totally sedentary, at least when you aren't cramping too bad.

Keto has reduced my "binges" around that time. I usually had a whole week where I would eat 200-800 calories over maintenance. Now I just have 2 days where I eat at maintenance and it's enough.

As far as the pain goes, I just take a mix of Ibuprofen and Paracetamol (the best for me, because it doesn't make me sleepy) and get back to exercising. My mood suffers too much if I skip it, and I feel even more fatigued then.

I think the most important thing to do is just accept it. Accept that for 2-3 days that you're going to be not at your best b/c of hormones. My 2-4th days are the days that generally give me the biggest blues. But I just accept that that's the way my body operates, do my best with my workouts and try to keep my eating in control as much as possible.

I eat at maintenance for a few days and do what exercise I can, which is not much during my heavy days as I am sleep deprived and lose a scary amount of blood due to my fibroids. But I feel better if I at least move around a little - maybe pick up sticks in the yard or do some gentle yoga.

I don't feel like cooking but do feel like eating so when I feel premenstrual stock up on easy meals and high volume, low calorie snacks. It's a rough three days but afterwards I have a nice weight loss whoosh to look forward to, as long as I didn't use this time as an excuse to #eatallthefood.

Looking for some insight from others. I am 48, 49 in October. I think I may be in early stage of menopause, whatever that means. For many months no period. I lost almost 50 lbs since March and all of a sudden, here comes my period. I told my husband that maybe it had stopped because I was too fat! LOL. Well now, it seems like I have it all the time. Over the past ,onto it has been very hard to loose any weight despite increasing exercise, logging food, not going over daily calorie allowance. Any feed back is appreciated.

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I hate it too. just not being able to workout. i know that lots of people say that working out will actually help you (less cramps) but i don't really have awful cramps (i take pain relief first day) and i am fine. I just feel like my battery is completely drained, i get dizzy whenever i stand up and i just don't feel like working out is going to help me in anyway, i tried it once though. i don't have lots of cravings at that time really and if i do i can help myself with small portions of anything i want. so no problem there.

lastly, i don't think women gain water weight during their period. we actually lose water weight during period. but we do gain weight before.

I actually gain on my period. Always did. I wish it was the other way around for me!

I gain the day before my period and it doesn't disappear until the day after it ends.

I had horrible period problems. Awful cramping and then I would start bleeding until I needed a blood transfusion. I got an IUD that helped for a while, and then I had to have it removed due to a medical issue. We tried an ablation, but the doctor actually couldn't get into my uterus! I wound up having to have a hysterectomy, when they discovered a grapefruit sized non-cancerous tumor in there. Since the hysterectomy, I've been doing much better. I didn't realize how bad my periods were making me feel until my parts were finally gone.

Even periods that aren't as bad as mine were suck. You'd think that something that is normal to our biology wouldn't make you feel so miserable. Increasing your fluids might make you feel better. If you can't manage your regular workout, maybe some gentle walking may make you feel better. Yoga was pretty much the only exercise I could do during my period. The stretching may help to relieve some of your discomfort. A square or two of dark chocolate may help with cravings for sweets if you are able to limit it and eat a small amount without losing control.

A warm bath can also make you feel better, or a heating pad set on low on your belly.

If you're receptive to using herbal remedies, valerian root, passionflower, and cramp bark were life savers for me. You can usually find them in capsule or tincture form at the health food store.

Good luck, and I hope you feel better soon.

I had a copper IUD fitted in January and definitely get the same sluggish/lack of energy thing, try B vitamins during your period? They don't make me feel like exercising but I definitely feel less sluggish. I am struggling to find some balance personally as with the IUD my period now lasts 7-10days and for at least 5 days I don't feel like exercising, went for a run and my limbs felt like lead. However, due to adverse affects of hormonal contraception the IUD works best for me so....

Perhaps see your GP/nurse and rule out any underlying issues. Eat at maintenance, get plenty of water and sleep, treat the pains, hot water bottles, painkillers whatever works. Don't stress if it's only a couple of days without exercise. If you are worried, get a period tracker app, identify the week before and perhaps (if capable/time allows/is safe) step up your activity that week, then you might feel better about having some days off or at the very least feel like you have banked calories for the extra snacks.