Do you gain or lose weight during menstruation?

Women usually feel very painful during menstruation. Most women will experience different degrees of discomfort during menstruation. Some people even feel weak and have severe dysmenorrhea, which has a great impact on women's daily life. However, each woman's physical condition is different, and the changes during menstruation are also different. Many women want to know whether their weight will increase or decrease during menstruation?

Do you gain or lose weight during menstruation?

Generally speaking, women's weight will increase slightly during menstruation. During menstruation, the progesterone level in women's bodies will drop to the follicular phase level, and estrogen will also drop sharply, reaching the lowest level during menstruation. Due to changes in hormone levels, women have a certain degree of water and sodium retention in their bodies, making them look swollen, which leads to a slight weight gain. In addition, before menstruation, the appetite of some women will increase, and the metabolism will weaken during menstruation. These factors also lead to a slight increase in weight of women during menstruation to a certain extent.

Weight changes during menstruation

1. Before menstruation

When women's body fat is easily accumulated 1 to 7 days before their menstruation, it is because the progesterone in their bodies has begun to be secreted in large quantities, so edema will appear in the few days before the menstruation, so women's weight may increase by 1 to 2 kilograms during these days. So don’t be too pessimistic if you gain weight at this time. It is not because you failed to lose weight, but because of the estrogen in your body.

2. During menstruation

Usually the normal menstrual period is about seven days. Some female friends will feel that they will lose weight after a few days of continuous endometrial bleeding. This leads some women to think that they can eat a lot of high-calorie food without restraint during menstruation and will not gain weight. This is because your estrogen concentration is low during this stage. If you do not control your eating, your weight will still soar.

3. After menstruation

The week after the end of menstruation is called the golden period for weight loss, because the progesterone concentration at this time is already very low, and the metabolism is relatively fast. You can control your diet to 600 calories during this week, which will have a significant effect on weight loss.

In fact, it is normal for women to gain 1 to 2 kilograms in weight before, during and after menstruation. Just eat normally, do some exercise, and maintain physical and mental health.