Healthy ways to lose weight during menstruation

Don't pursue quick weight loss, make light adjustments according to changes in hormones, avoid cold or cold stimulation that makes you uncomfortable, don't do high-intensity exercise, and don't deliberately diet. This can not only stabilize your aunt, but also help you seize the golden period after she loses your scale. It is 10 times more efficient than messing around. In fact, hormone fluctuations during menstruation are like the rainy season. Don't rush out to get soaked in the rain. Adjust your itinerary according to the weather, and you won't get soaked in the rain.

There used to be a lot of quarrels on the Internet. One group said that menstruation is a "favorable period for losing weight" and you can eat whatever you want without gaining weight. The other group said that you can't lose weight at all during menstruation and that every movement will hurt your body. Among the girls I've met, most of the girls who believed in the first type retaliated by eating cakes and milk tea during menstruation, and ended up with weight gain and edema. Those who believed in the second type didn't dare to do anything after lying down for a week and gained back some of the weight they lost before. In fact, both are too extreme.

Let’s talk about food first. A student I just picked up last week was told that “you can eat whatever you want during menstruation to avoid gaining weight.” He ate taro custard rolls and bubble milk tea for three days in a row. He had lost 4 pounds in the first half month, but suddenly gained back 2.8 pounds. His eyelids were swollen and he came to me crying and asked if he was in a plateau. In fact, the principle is very simple. Estrogen and progesterone are reduced to the lowest three days before menstruation, and the basal metabolism will indeed be 100 to 300 calories higher than usual, which is almost the amount of half a cup of milk tea. If you eat a whole cake, the extra calories will definitely help you gain weight. There is another controversial point: can I eat ice during menstruation? I have a typical palace-cold physique. I ate a popsicle greedily and curled up in bed for three hours in pain. I drank two large cups of ginger tea before I recovered. However, I also know a girl who grew up abroad. Her aunt chewed ice hockey balls with no problem, so there is no need to follow the standard answer card. If you feel uncomfortable after eating, don’t touch it. There will be no reaction after eating. It’s not a big problem if you take an occasional bite. If you really want something sweet, you might as well bake a red sweet potato, or cook a white fungus soup with a few red dates. The sweetness can also add some iron, which is much better than a cake full of trans fats. Just put less salt in the home-cooked dishes you usually eat. During menstruation, you are prone to sodium retention and edema. If you have a heavy mouth, it will be so swollen that you can't even put on pants, so you can't do it.

After talking about food, let’s talk about exercise. I stepped into a big pit two years ago. I was anxious to lose weight. On the first day, my aunt had a stomachache and broke into a cold sweat and she still managed to run 5 kilometers. After running 2 kilometers, she was so painful that she squatted on the side of the road and couldn’t stand up. Finally, a friend took her home and rested for two days before she recovered. Nowadays, there are two extreme opinions on the Internet about menstrual exercise. Some people say that if you exercise, your uterus will ptosis, while others say that you will lose weight if you exercise to death. This is really nonsense. In fact, it depends on how you feel in your body. If your waist hurts, your lower abdomen feels heavy in the first 1-2 days, or it hurts so much that you need to take painkillers, then just sit on the sofa and watch a TV show. The most you can do is pour water and mop the floor. Don’t force yourself to move. ； If your period is like normal, then after the third day, go for a 30-minute walk, do some gentle stretching yoga, or even do a light-weight Pilates session. Don’t do abdominal crunches or weight-bearing squats that put a lot of pressure on your abdomen, and don’t do high-intensity intervals. Proper movement can also help expel the flatulence in your stomach, which is better than lying down for a week with back pain.

By the way, there are still many people who are superstitious about folk remedies for menstrual drainage and swelling, such as drinking strong coffee, boiling barley water, and taking medicine for drainage and swelling. I have tried drinking barley water for two days in a row. The amount was not much, and it was almost gone. Later, after asking an acquaintance of traditional Chinese medicine, I found out that barley is cool in nature. For girls with a cold constitution, drinking it will aggravate the uterine cold, which is not worth the gain. In fact, menstrual edema is a normal physiological phenomenon. It will generally disappear on its own after the menstrual period. If you want to relieve it, drink more warm water and eat some fried winter melon. Don’t mess around with what is available or not.

I have been dealing with weight loss for almost 7 years, and have helped no less than fifty girls adjust their weight loss rhythm during menstruation. I really feel that there is no need for everyone to regard menstruation as a multiple-choice question about whether to lose weight or maintain health. You can just follow your own body. Hungry Eat something nutritious when you are pregnant. You don’t have to eat boiled vegetables until you feel dizzy from hunger. When you are tired, lie down. Don’t force yourself to exercise. Don’t eat too much with the mentality of “you won’t gain weight anyway”. You don’t have to lose two or three pounds in pursuit of your period. It’s really unnecessary. If you take good care of yourself during your menstrual period, wait for the week after your aunt leaves, your metabolism is full, control your diet a little and exercise regularly, and you will fall off the scale faster than anything else. But if you mess around with your menstrual period, either your aunt will delay it for two or three months, or all the water you lost will come back immediately. What are you talking about?