Effect on hormones
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Cadori
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I can't seem to search the group, so please forgive my newbie question...especially if it's asked all the time.
What (if any) effects have you noticed on your cycle, PMS specifically? I don't have PCOS, but figured if LCHF/Keto can help that then there's probably an impact on someone with a "normal" cycle as well.
What (if any) effects have you noticed on your cycle, PMS specifically? I don't have PCOS, but figured if LCHF/Keto can help that then there's probably an impact on someone with a "normal" cycle as well.
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I don't have PCOS and had a steady cycle before eating LCHF and losing a lot of weight. The first 3 months (during which time I lost nearly 50 lbs) my hormones were a mess, my ToM turned into a ToW, it was constantly stopping and starting. My body was going through massive changes though, so I just rolled with it. Things have been fine ever since until about a month ago when things went haywire again, but it's since evened out again.
The hormonal, ToM issue was one of the reasons I gave up eating LCHF before as it really freaked me out. im so glad i tried it again and toughed it out. Im down 90lbs now and have no regrets.4 -
My wife said after I was Keto for a few months that I was not as mean as when I was on high processed carbs.
Getting good pain management from Keto was part but I expect it helped my hormones in general as well.
People new to Keto as @PaleoInScotland points out KETO can get weird especially during the first 90 - 180 days in my experience as an old guy (65 now). Others on MFP had pointed this out already so it helped me power through the weirdness phase
My cholesterol jumped up nearly 200 points after the first year but last month after 2 Keto years it was back within a normal range.
Keto is a normal way of eating for humans but I did not do it for my first 63 years so my body took a couple years to adjust to ketones/fats vs mainly only glucose/carbs for fuel.
Best of success.4 -
Thank you both for your replies!0
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Well, I'll save the details but before keto I was a disaster on shark week. You name the symptom, I had it. Since keto I find that time to be a breeze; I get very few PMS symptoms now.2
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I don't think it had any effect on my cycle, not that I noticed anyway. There's stories on Reddit in /r/xxketo where it affected some people and they just toughed it out for a few months while their bodies adjusted, IIRC.
Daily weighing gives me a heads up though when shark weeks about to hit. A 1-2lb fluctuation every day is normal for me. If I gain 3-4lbs in a day of water weight that's a hint that somethings about to hit me. Any more than that and I'd be running for a pregnancy test, lol.1 -
I know when I 1st started KETO my husband said I was even nastier than usual (hormones in a turmoil I think) but things levelled off and now I am happy ALL the time which I never was before this WOE as I would get pretty hangry every few hours.2
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I know when I 1st started KETO my husband said I was even nastier than usual (hormones in a turmoil I think) but things levelled off and now I am happy ALL the time which I never was before this WOE as I would get pretty hangry every few hours.
I intentionally started right after my period so that I would have a couple weeks to ease in without PMS rearing its ugly head. I've been a bit more emotional/weepy which for me is usually a sign of my period starting the next day.
I am LOVING the energy and lack of sugar crash/being hangry.3 -
I did have some of the worst hot flashes (probably some "Keto flu" symptoms too!) while getting adapted 19 months ago. As long as I take my estrogen I don't have any other problems with hormones, now. 0
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Switching over to a keto lifestyle a couple of years ago completely normalized my cycles for the first time in my entire life.4
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I still want to eat All The Things a few days before my cycle begins, and I'm more likely to rationalize carbs and experience carb creep. I am not sure if LCHF has influenced my cycle because I got a Mirena a few months in, and that definitely has.1
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RalfLott - nasty is in the eye of the beholder #wink #wink4
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I'm fairly young, IMO, to experience hot flashes but I have been experiencing them as well. I do have PCOS-IR, Hashi's, and the list goes on so I know this is having an impact on my hormones. My thought is that long term it will be extremely beneficial but my body may have some ups and downs the first few months...1
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I'm perimenopausal so I have all kinds of goofy *kitten* going on. Like twelve days of no merriment, if you get my drift. I'm sick of my own uterus and it's *kitten*. Anyway, I've noticed no change in the lady parts department, but I'm much less a *kitten* these days....0
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My uterus got voted off the island but I still have both overies. I just mentioned my insatiable hunger at times and someone pointed out it could still be pms and I did used to be ravenous before. Just my two cents is all2
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Hoping this WOE "cures" my problems too. My ladytime has been all over the place since it started. It never evened out. One month it's 2 weeks long. The next, 3 days, then I skip 2 months. Then it's for a week again. All at random times.
I started taking BC to regulate it. And came off it recently. It's still fairly consistent, although not quite like with BC.0
