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Periods and weight: is there a connection?

Reply 20

Jenna999

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isn't it rougly 7.5 stone when you start menstruating?

Reply 21

jozza

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well, i weigh just over 7 stone and i'm 5'7" and i have really heavy and painful periods :frown:

Reply 22

niamhster

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telecastro_59

bein male i dont really know but i heard that women can gain up to 7lbs of weight in water during a period!!
but not sure of reliability

You're right!!! :smile:

It is actually true women can gain up to 7lbs of weight the week up to and including her period. It is due to fluid/water retention.

Avoiding salty foods and drinking lots of water helps to flush out all the toxins in your system and helps to aleviate water retention.

Reply 23

eurasianfeline

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Jenna999

isn't it rougly 7.5 stone when you start menstruating?

not really...i had my first period when i was about 94lbs...which is about 43kg...so...less than 7 stones? :confused:

(i don't relaly know the stones system)

Reply 24

No Future

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eurasianfeline

not really...i had my first period when i was about 94lbs...which is about 43kg...so...less than 7 stones? :confused:

(i don't relaly know the stones system)

94lbs = 6st 10. (1 st = 14lbs)
98lbs - 7st

Reply 25

bohogirlie

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Jenna999

isn't it rougly 7.5 stone when you start menstruating?

No, i don't think so, well not for everyone. I only weigh about that now, i'm 18 now and i started my period when i was 11, i certainly didn't weigh that much at 11!

Reply 26

Trousers

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I always thought that, generally, the fitter you are the less painful your periods become. I've gone through a few keep fit phases in my life, and whenever I've been excercising regularly my periods have become less icky. I assume this would relate to weight in a lot of cases.

Reply 27

bohogirlie

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Trousers

I always thought that, generally, the fitter you are the less painful your periods become. I've gone through a few keep fit phases in my life, and whenever I've been excercising regularly my periods have become less icky. I assume this would relate to weight in a lot of cases.

They do reccommend that you exercise when you have bad period pains so i guess that this would be true.

Reply 28

Jenna999

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i didnt mean that was set in stone for everyone, that exactly 7.5 stone you start mensttruating, because that would just be silly! Its just I watched a documentary once that followed these twin girls through puberty and it said that roughly 7.5 stones is the average weight.

Reply 29

Lidka

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Luckeh

im 110 pounds and im 5'8ish and mine come whenever they feel like it and when it does come it sometimes only lasts 3 days with the first day being heavy and the rest of the days not showing really anything