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Mentstrual Cycle and Weight Gain

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  • mdcjmom
    mdcjmom Posts: 597 Member
    I don't know if anyone else is having this issue but I just got off mine two weeks ago and now have started again. Also have ballooned up like 4 lbs not too happy!
  • corrieville
    corrieville Posts: 113 Member
    I can gain up to 7lbs during that time. :( I sometimes give into my cravings and binge on some bad food and I still manage to lose maintain at the end of my cycle and I lose it all again. I have lost 68lbs so it must not be hurting me to do it :)
  • MissHellsing
    MissHellsing Posts: 133 Member
    NO SCALE DURING MENTSTRUAL! It will make you A lot happier trust me!
  • All_Mimsy
    All_Mimsy Posts: 49 Member
    I always weigh more during my period. I just ignore what the scale says that week, because the next week I see a drop of several pounds. Nothing to worry about. :)
  • All_Mimsy
    All_Mimsy Posts: 49 Member
    Also, remember that if you've been remaining within your calorie limits most of the time, there's no way that that's real weight gain. It's just fluids.
  • Jezebel_Barbie
    Jezebel_Barbie Posts: 198 Member
    I weigh more during that part of my cycle too, but it isn't actually a 'weight gain' any more than other random fluctuations are, so I ignore it.
  • katemiddletonisawesome
    katemiddletonisawesome Posts: 152 Member
    You tend to burn the most calories the FIRST week of your cycle - which would be when you get your period. Thus, finally making some sense of why you're hungrier that first week......... The week after my period I experience the biggest loss - mostly because that first week is nothing more water weight and the dreaded bloat.

    Don't get frustrated - and don't weigh yourself anymore until at least three days after your friend moves on............
  • l2rell
    l2rell Posts: 88
    Gained like 4IB could easily take a hammer to the scales trust me!!! I knw it's TOTM any day had cramping since Sunday sooo frustrating especially if your addicted to frequent weighing just wish it would hurry up n do one
  • amycool
    amycool Posts: 57 Member
    Taking dandelion root is brilliant for reducing water retention :-)
  • Charlene_91
    Charlene_91 Posts: 323
    Oh yes.... I usually put on around 3lbs and cravings oh boy all i want to eat is the junk your not suppose to eat!
    But it comes off just as quick as it went on by the time its finished.
  • shakybabe
    shakybabe Posts: 1,578 Member
    mines gone all weird dunno if its form dieting since last June and the exercise.. or peri-menopause starting?.. I get the cravings on time water goes on (4-5lb) then when they are meant to start I get the cramps but water starts coming off but not all.. sometimes 2-4 days later my actual period will start and water has gone back up again! .. eventually it will come off and get my lowest weight now only once a month now 1-2lbs.. 3 if I'm really lucky... and I'm on slim fasts and doing 2-3 workouts a day but it still slow. :sad:
  • charm_quark
    charm_quark Posts: 304 Member
    all I want to do is eat chocolate, ice cream or biscuits!
    I experienced one of my worst pre-menstrual weeks.
    I ate about 1 kg of parfait chocolate ice-cream with chocolate syrup (maybe more but I really don't want to know exactly how much!) all by myself, a pizza, Greek pita, semolina halva with orange syrup and tahini halva with cocoa and chocolate coverage.
    It was the worst week I can recall mostly because it lasted soooo long (I'm used to this symptoms for 1-2 days... not a week or so!!!) . It still goes on but at least, as they were saved by the bell...
    I'm saved by Tom!
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