Why do girls get bloated before their period and gain weight? I know its water but is their an explanation?
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from month to month. In other women, the cramps are always very painful. Sometimes the cramping is also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, nervousness, fatigue, diarrhea, fainting, bloating, and mood swings. Women who experience these extreme maladies during menstruation have been found to produce more prostaglandin’s, hormones secreted by the uterine lining to increase contractions.
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The reason you should drink more water is to help your body filter more effectively. It should not cause you to bloat unless you are eating things that cause you to retain water. An excessive salt intake will cause you to retain water. Consider this. \n\nSometimes keeping a food diary can help. Sometimes we don't remember how much we have snacked on during the day. The food diary can help you see if you are snacking excessively or help you see a bad habit. \n\nIf snacking is your problem you can look into a couple of options. You can cut down on your snacking or plan for healthier snacks. Don't drastically change your diet unless you know that you can stick with it. Otherwise you just gain all of the weight back because you go back to old habits. Just change a little at a time. Try having two "healthy meals" a week. Something as simple as having grilled food, instead of something fried. \n\nAlso, to lose weight you really need to do some type of exercise. Find something that you enjoy doing. You will be more likely to stick with it. Maybe walking, swimming, yoga, dance, aerobics. Just whatever you find interesting. If you bore easily you may want to try doing more than one thing. For instance, walking with friends on Monday and Wednesday, yoga on Tuesday and Thursday. The next week try dance on Mon. and wed. and aerobics or Tues. and Thurs.. You just have to find what works for you. The most important thing is to keep it fun and interesting. Take time and try some new things!\n\nI hope these suggestions were helpful. Good luck and just keep the faith in yourself. You can do it. You just have to decide that you are ready to.
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Usually, your breasts feel hard. You becomea little bit moody. You might also experience stomach cramps. Pimples also begin to show. Having a menstruation is a bit uneasy. Anyway, just wear a suitable sanitary napkin. It's part of being a lady~! ^^
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Talk to your doctor about the pill. They'll tell you everything you need to know, and they'll have advice you can trust (don't trust everything you read on the internet).\n\nThe pill can cause some weight gain, but that's mostly water retention.
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a lot of times we gain weight from not drinking enough water. When we aren't getting enough water as a defense, our bodies start to retain water. When you drink water or take water pills the body flushes out the water that your body retains and properly uses the water that we drink. \n\nWeights for your arms. Crunches for your tummy. Maybe you might want to invest in a trampoline or a big excercise ball those help with your thighs and your legs. \n\nYou just have to keep up on it, don't start a new routine and then stop that is a bad mistake.
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I don't, but it you do it's probably just because you tend to retain more water when you are on your period.
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Girl! Eat what you want. . .you are about to experience the most annoying function of a woman's body - treat yourself! I've never heard of anyone dying from eating too much chocolate or Ben & Jerry's before their period. It's only once a month. . .
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I assume you mean hungry? \n\nIts hormonal.  Estrogen fades as you get ready to start a period.  Estrogen helps keep insulin under control.  Insulin, thus, can go wild.  The purpose of insulin is to open the "cell's mouths" to let food and water in.  Thus, right before your period, insulin is madly tucking food and water in cells, causing bloating and weight gain.\n\nThe food insulin tucks in cells is blood glucose.  If insulin tucks in too much glucose (a condition known as hyperinsulinemia), it can result in there being too little blood glucose in the blood stream for the rest of the body to use during the day (a condition known as hypoglycemia).  If the brain senses a low blood sugar condition, it requests food, lots of it, high carb food like chocolate and potato chips and french fries and such.  \n\nThat is why you may be hungry before your period.\n\nTo find out whys and what to do, visit www.hufa.org
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Roxylee, I'm not a doctor but if I may, it could be that the low estrogen and progesterone levels just before your period are responsible for PMS.  One of the PMS sequellae is URI.  Does this explanation make sense to you?
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It really depends on the women. I actually loss a pound or two when i have my period, because it makes me hyperactive and not want to eat. Most women gain one or two pounds because of water weight and cravings.
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Water retention which usually takes places just before menstruation.
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when you have your period you gain water weight. But when your periods over then you go back to normal weight. sometimes when i have it I cant button my jeans because of the water weight. to Avoid that you can get Midol.. good luck..
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I get headaches at that time and especially if I drink alcohol. It's because alcohol can dehydrate you. It also makes me drunk faster too.When you have your period you get dehydrated anyway. You are losing fluids. You need to drink extra water and stay away from the liquor.
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Wow! First of all breads and salts make you retain water. Second I don't think your weight is a problem but maybe you are concerned about the "pouch" which is water retention in women.  Laxitives could make you bloat more.  The reason why you bloat is becuase your body needs more water.\n\nAnd you shouldn't eat more than 2,500 calories a day or less than 1800.
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Water weight is actually an excess of fluid caused by high salt intake.  A good way to lose it is to drink more water, use a diuretic such as cranberry juice or an over the counter drug.  You will instantly notice a reduction in bloat and fatigue.  Decrease your salt intake too.
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I don't either --- but I have begun eating these little fibre disk and am getting more regular.  i also feel better.  i often wander if this is why I have so much PMS because just before my period I have a biggy and then start.  after that I begin to feel better.  Try the fibre and drink a lot of water.
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Only one rule: Wear a tampon and change it when necessary.  Otherwise, you can do what you want and don't be embarrassed if you are a little bloated because you are menstral and its all only natural and out of our control