female only Bloating/slow weight loss/pms?

[Kelly1334 52]

I'm due for my period this weekend and I'm feeling/looking bloated. I also only lost 3lbs this week ( compatrd to 24 the previous weeks).I'm three weeks out. Everyone says I keep looking thinner but I feel yucky this week. Has anyone else experience slower weight loss with their period looming?

[Chaparra 85]

Mine started on Monday. I haven't lost a pound, AND I'm more hungry that I have been in a long time. I'm hoping that after it ends I will start dropping again.

[arthritis_me 12]

Oh yes, that's 1 week every month that I really can't lose weight. Most times I don't gain weight just hold steady but as you've probably lost all of your water/carby weight it'll be a little slower to take it off now and that time of month can really be difficult. Just have faith that it'll come off the next week, also try to watch your sodium and drink lots of water/tea to flush your body.

[Kelly1334 52]

Oh yes' date=' that's 1 week every month that I really can't lose weight. Most times I don't gain weight just hold steady but as you've probably lost all of your water/carby weight it'll be a little slower to take it off now and that time of month can really be difficult. Just have faith that it'll come off the next week, also try to watch your sodium and drink lots of water/tea to flush your body.[/quote']

Thx ladies!

[TexasMiss 314]

That's it! The scale hasn't moved all week but I'm supposed to start Friday. I'm going to have faith it will move again soon!

[Kelly1334 52]

That's it! The scale hasn't moved all week but I'm supposed to start Friday. I'm going to have faith it will move again soon!

Yea my periods been lasting longer only down two lbs this "period" of time. Looking outward for it to be over so I can get back to the big time weight loss.

[UEvrWndrY 60]

I've been on my P since I had my surgery 11 days ago. Not heavy, but just a long annoying unending blah fest. I think my cycle is all sorts of messed up now. I am blaming it for not losing as much as I did pre-op.

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[arthritis_me 12]

I've been trying to conceive for 2.5 years now and having the extra fat on my body messed up my hormones so badly, it really has made me very infertile. Now that I've lost 30+ lbs out of the 70ish that i had to lose I've got my cycle back and I'm ovulating every month.

Your hormones are fat soluable so the more fat you have on your body the more bogged down your hormones are going to be. When you get the fat off you might have a change in your cycle like some of the ladies have posted but it will be better, you'll be closer to functioning normally than when you were fat. I'm going through IVF right now because I've been told my chances are slipping away from ever having kids, I have nearly nothing left in my ovaries lol.

Don't be too hard on yourself when you don't lose during that week, just be glad you have a regular cycle and keep guzzling the water/tea and exercising!

[luckysmomma 407]

...I am only a little over a month out, but my first one since surgery was late, heavy, and I only lost 1 lb at Weight Watchers when I did my weekly weigh-in...unfortunately, for we women, I think we will always struggle at that time of the month with the scale, the bloat, etc...surgery or not.