i need female advice

I try to just drink a lot of water throughout the day. Then if I really cant help it ill make some eggs, or a salad, or eat some cheese or peperoni.

I have found that a good way to defeat those cravings, is gum try the flavored stuff like the desert kind i know it isnt the like eating a big piece of chocolate cake .......but if the gum just isnt enough i suggest getting a 60% ghiradelli chocolate bar and smuckers natural peanutbutter and have a piece of that everyday it is healthy and is bound to put you in a better mood(: just make sure you are only eating one cause calories do add up fast.

Apologies, I have not read every reply, but try replacing the food you're craving with something healithier: http://www.dailytransformations.com/2011/05/05/food-cravings-here-is-what-your-body-really-wants/

And drink a ton o' water!
Good luck!

My cravings are usually the worst after dinner, which is pretty much the most deadly time for me to eat. I find that forcing myself to go to the gym for a few hours gets me both distracted and out of the house (which means away from food!). Basically I distance myself from the kitchen and the house itself :P

Being in college (i.e. dirt poor), it's a lot easier to avoid buying sugary/chocolaty food when I'm away from home because I know my poor debit card can handle it just about as well as my tummy

believe it or not my mom never explained to me what a period was she just said what do u want pads or tampons. it scares me to see blood all over the place bekuz there so irregualr and been irregular my whole life i dont see my periods as much as other women do .. i never had a routine or know how long they will last. i get jealous of girls who know when there periods r gonna come and how long there going to b on them. one time i went a whole 5 months without a period and when it finally happened i was on it for weeks. im already considered anemic. this is the 1st time in years i have my period naturally back to back without any birth control or anything i honestly think because i changed my diet and have been exercising. but now i just cant handle it.

Yesssss! I'm so so glad I'm not the only one with irregular periods. I haven't had mine in well a very long time (longer than you) and I was starting (and still do) think that I'm weird and the only one that has irregular periods. I got a blood test and everything was normal so... guess I'll just have to wait but I'll probably scream when I have one out of joy (weird huh?) but I'll feel normal

I've been all over the place cycle-wise for about a year. I'm pretty sure I had a really early miscarriage and it threw my cycle for a tailspin. (I had one years ago and recognized the signs.) Anyway, I usually have two periods a month and they last 5-10 days. My dr has changed my pills a couple times and I'm almost normal again... I think... fingers crossed. But the emotional toll it takes can be brutal. And why, oh why, does it always seem that bad-for-you foods will help?!? I do it too, hon. Sadly, an apple will never replace a cookie.

My advice, as lame as it will sound, is to talk yourself out of overdoing it. Give in to small amounts of the treat or you might overconsume in other areas to compensate. If, say, Oreos were your thing, you could get the 100 calorie bags of Oreo crisps and only allow yourself one bag a day. Really LOOK at the treat you want and ask yourself if the progress you've made is worth taking the steps backward. I won't lie, some days I say yes and go for it anyway. But if you really take a good hard look at what you've accomplished and what you're doing... it starts to sink in. I have found it a LOT easier to say no to the things I know I shouldn't eat when I look at them long and hard first and think, "Do I really want to record that in my food tracker on MFP?"

thanks u guys i really appreciate all the advice. and i always seem to get waste a waist mixed up my mother told me the difference a few days ago but i still seemed to get them mixed up. i have spoken to my ob gyn. but i have also go advice from friends, and they told me that taking birth control can make it harder try and have a baby in the near future and that really scared me.

Okay, I feel the need to address this. There is NO evidence that taking reversible birth control methods will impact your chances of getting pregnant, once you are off them. A great number of women take birth control pills, so I'm sure if taking them had a great impact on fertility later on, it would be breaking news. With the pill, I know that with some women have a disruption of there cycle for a little while after going of of it, before they get back to regular periods, but that's it. What your friends have told you is a myth, and you should stick to the advice you get from credible sources. Check with your OB-GYN if you aren't sure. Here is an article I found, written by an OB-GYN, with their own answer to this: http://www.babycenter.com/404_can-long-term-use-of-the-pill-make-it-harder-to-conceive_1404486.bc