Ladies: monthly cravings?

Do any of you want cooked food - or even just something you don't normally eat - around the time of your period? I'd kind of noticed this before, but this month it's crazy! I've been keeping it at bay (well, mostly - boo!) by eating around 3500 calories - lots more than I usually eat. Do I actually just need more calories right now, or is it a hormonal craving thing?

Tags: cravings, hormones, menstruation, period

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Permalink Reply by dangermouse on February 5, 2010 at 4:05am

No, not TMI at all. That's interesting; thank you. I hope it eventually gets to be more of a one day thing for me - a lot easier to deal with than a week and a half...

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Permalink Reply by Karmyn on February 4, 2010 at 4:16pm

I eat more right before my period as well.

I don't eat anything cooked though.

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Permalink Reply by dangermouse on February 5, 2010 at 4:05am

Hmm... Okay, I think it's probably a calorie thing, then. I'll just have to eat more. The cooked part of it for me would be because I haven't been eating this way for long and that's what my brain goes back to. A few more months and hopefully I'll be craving bananas, not baked potatoes!

Thanks everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Cat Moon on April 3, 2010 at 10:09pm

I have noticed this too. I was really craving meat and a bean burrito. So I stuffed myself with fruit, last night, I couldn't stop eating and even when I went to bed I was till hungry...my question would be;

**WHY do we need to more when its our period???** Does anyone have a theory?

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Permalink Reply by amilee on January 30, 2011 at 4:00pm

I believe it's because our metabolism speeds up at that time of the month, therefore our calorie consumption needs to be increased....(Apparently that's why womyn eat more at that time of the month, but dont put on any extra weight?!)

I have no idea if that's true or not, because I haven't studied it myself, but that's what I was told :D

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Permalink Reply by lady on April 3, 2010 at 10:36pm

I would like to say no but I just chowed down 3 small cherimoya mashed up with about 6 small sugar bananas! Oops!

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Permalink Reply by L∃N∀ on May 5, 2010 at 10:28pm

I experience the increase of appetite myself, but think that it caused by the slight imbalance and I do not need extra food... Not sure.

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Permalink Reply by Olive Fruitvegan on January 24, 2011 at 12:34am

So, no one came up with a theory why we actually are more hungry and need more food on our pre-days. Anyone in the meantime?

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Permalink Reply by Olive Fruitvegan on January 24, 2011 at 1:29am

yeah, still i wonder 'WHY'!

i usually eat 3000-35000 a day, and 4000+ on my pre-days.

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Permalink Reply by dangermouse on February 1, 2012 at 10:49am

Yeah, 3000-3500 si about what I eat now on average. At the time, I was eating less while I streeetched my stomach :) I never had this type of monthly craving while eating cooked food, so the whole idea of it was new to me. I basically just eat alll day for a week or so before my periods. I don't even keep track of calories - too busy eating.

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Permalink Reply by Iris on January 24, 2011 at 1:45am

Freelee wrote something very interesting about thishere.

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Permalink Reply by jaime on January 24, 2011 at 1:55am

I used to until I read freelee's article and I started adding 500 cals (3,500 a day) two weeks after the end of my period and this has kept cravings at bay. So I eat about 3,000 for the two weeks after the end of my period and then 3,500 until I get it again and until it is over. I mostly use dates for the extra calories though sometimes i use durian when I can get it.