Re: PMS...tnot a free pass to eat whatever anymore

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Wow. What you say makes a lot of sense, and good on you for listening

to your body.

Mel

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> Hey guys, I lifted this from my blog because I am too lazy to type it

> out again.

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> xoxo,

> R

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> Hey guys! Happy Thursday! Woo Woo. Almost Friday!

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> So I am in a bloggy mood today about one of my oldest (and most

> reliable excuses, at least since I hit puberty hahah) to eat:

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> PMS

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> So with IE, it's all about listening to your body. One day last week,

> i woke up absolutley bloated, constipated, cranky and hungry. And

> wanting chocolate and salt. I immediately berate myself because I think:

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> 1. It must be my fault that I am bloated and constipated and I begin

> to interrogate myself on what I ate the day before.

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> 2. I hate myself for feeling hungry and wanting bad foods.

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> 3. I am in a bad mood. A Very Bad Mood.

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> Oh but wait, I took a deep breath, and realized that yup my period was

> only 7-10 days away. PMS time to the max!

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> Now, we all know what PMS means, right ladies? It means that since we

> are on PMS, it is our god given FREE PASS to eat the entire week

> before our periods because we deserve to, given the pain and suffering

> our monthly friend bestows on us. It means that stuffing ourselves and

> going for broke (both calorically and financially as we run to the

> store to buy everything that we had forbidden ourselves for the weeks

> before).

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> So I was confronted with this: How the hell was I going to do IE while

> PMSing, especially since in the past PMS cravings have sent my diet to

> hell in a handbasket…err…basket of fries and chicken strips???

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> Well, I just decided I was going to have to liseten to my body each

> and every step of the way. I was verrry scarred and had doubts about

> it the whole time though.

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> So I listened, and guess what I found out:

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> I only had immense cravings for salty, chocolatey foods for one days

> in the midst of this PMS period (I'm still in it).

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> I was also only bloated and constipated one day for this time frame.

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> I have had breast soreneess on other days, headaches and all the other

> good stuff that goes along with PMS, but instead of letting the first

> symptom of PMS be my trigger to overeat, I was shocked to see thant

> ACTUAL hunger and cravings were a small part of the PMS spectrum.

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> I suspect that the increase in " hunger " I used to feel during PMS was

> really a desire for comfort, anxiety and irritably which led to stress

> eating, which led me to thinking that my hunger increased the ENTIRE

> TIME during PMS.

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> Has my hunger increased during PMS? Yes. Have I eaten more duing this

> round of PMS then I have the rest of the month? Yes.

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> It's just now, I am trying to not use PMS as another all excuse free

> pass to eat whatever the hell I want.

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> Happy almost Friday everybody!

>

> le

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