Dieting to prevent menstruation from coming back

Losing weight is what everyone is most concerned about at any time. Everyone knows that if you are too heavy, it will not only affect your health, but also make you feel inferior. In life, many people lose weight by dieting, which results in abnormal menstruation. In fact, if you don’t have menstruation by dieting, generally, your diet will return to normal and your menstruation will slowly recover. You must use scientific methods to lose weight.

How to restore menstruation after losing weight

1. Stop losing weight. Most women who don’t have their periods due to excessive weight loss do so because they eat too little, diet excessively, and their bodies lack nutrients and energy, which inhibits the secretion of sex hormones and metabolic hormones. If this continues, it may cause serious loss of reproductive function. Therefore, if you find that your menstrual flow is less, or is delayed, or has stopped while losing weight, you should stop losing weight immediately.

2. Resume your diet. If excessive weight loss causes amenorrhea, you should resume your diet immediately, strengthen your nutrition, and take care of your body. For example, eat more foods rich in protein, vitamins and minerals to ensure adequate energy supply. If you insist on waiting until the fat is lost before resuming your diet to treat amenorrhea. By then, even hormone therapy may not be able to cure the disease, and will cause irreparable damage to the body.

3. Reduce the amount of exercise. If excessive weight loss leads to amenorrhea, on the one hand, you need to immediately resume your diet, and on the other hand, you need to reduce the amount of exercise. Reduce the body's energy consumption, replenish nutrients for various tissues, restore body functions, and then plan a reasonable diet and exercise plan.

4. Seek medical attention in serious cases. If your menstrual cycles have not returned to normal in the next 1-2 times after you resume your diet and reduce your exercise, you need to pay attention to it. It is best to see a doctor for examination and receive timely and effective treatment.

The relationship between weight loss and menstruation

Being too fat or too thin can cause menstrual disorders. Women who are too fat may suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome; simple obesity can also cause endocrine disorders and irregular menstruation; and women who are too thin, especially those who lose more than 10 pounds in a month, are very likely to suffer from malnutrition, anorexia nervosa, and finally lead to amenorrhea. Even if the latter regains weight, it will still take about a year for menstruation to slowly resume. Therefore, for people who are not fat, there is no need to lose weight at all, and they should never lose weight blindly.

Female body fat and menstruation are closely related. Generally speaking, a girl’s body fat must account for at least 17% of her body weight before her menarche can occur, and her body fat must reach at least 22% of her body weight to maintain a normal menstrual cycle.

Excessive dieting will cause a large amount of fat and protein in the body to be consumed due to insufficient energy intake, resulting in estrogen synthesis disorders and obvious estrogen deficiency, affecting menstruation, and even causing scanty menstruation or amenorrhea. Do not diet blindly. This is also a common cause of irregular menstruation.

Weight loss can affect menstruation. The central nervous system is extremely sensitive to a sudden drop in weight. A weight loss of about 10% within a year can cause amenorrhea, even if it is still within the normal range. Amenorrhea will occur if the body weight is lost by 10% to 15%, or if the body fat is lost by 30%.

How to diet correctly to avoid irregular menstruation

When women lose weight through dieting, they must remember not to be blind and not to reduce the intake of protein, vitamins and various trace elements. Although fat intake can lead to weight gain, it is best to ensure 60 to 80 grams of fat intake during menstruation, so as to maintain normal body activities and keep the menstrual period normal.

Blind weight loss is harmful, please lose weight scientifically

Blind dieting can easily lead to gastroptosis and gallstones

Human bile is secreted by the liver and contains cholesterol, bile salts, calcium, lecithin, etc., which maintain a certain ratio between them. People who are too thin generally do not consume enough calories, so the fat deposited in the body tissues is consumed faster, and cholesterol also moves with it, causing its content in the bile to increase. The bile then becomes viscous, crystals precipitate and settle to form stones. If the diet is irregular, the bile secretion in the body is reduced, the gallbladder contraction is weakened, and it cannot be emptied in time, it is more likely to form stones, and in severe cases it may cause peritonitis, cholecystitis and other diseases.

Losing weight carelessly may lead to hyperthyroidism

Blindly believing in advertisements and drinking slimming tea may cause hyperthyroidism. Because some slimming teas contain thyroid hormones, although they have a certain weight loss effect, it is best to take them strictly according to the time and dosage under the guidance of a doctor. Some weight loss medicines may have added thyroid hormone. This hormone can promote the body's metabolism, accelerate fat decomposition, and has a certain weight loss effect, but if taken for a long time, it will lead to an excess of thyroid hormone and cause hyperthyroidism.

Excessive weight loss leads to hair loss

Along with the "weight loss craze" comes the increasing number of people suffering from hair loss, among which 20%-30% are young women in their twenties and thirties. The reason why people who are losing weight suffer from severe hair loss is that hair contains a protein called ichthyol and a lot of trace elements such as zinc, iron, and copper. People who are losing weight do not take in enough protein and trace elements, which makes it easy for their hair to fall out due to severe malnutrition.