Is it easy to gain weight during menstruation? You should also learn to avoid certain foods during your menstrual period!

Some female friends experience dysmenorrhea during their menstrual period and always like to eat some sweets to relieve the pain. However, they do not know that whether eating more sweets during menstruation can relieve dysmenorrhea varies from person to person, but it will definitely cause obesity. Therefore, if you do not want to gain weight, you must eat less sweets.

1. Will eating sweets during menstruation make you fat?

Many people like to eat sweets. It is rumored that eating sweets during menstruation can relieve menstrual pain and will not make you gain weight. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. Whether eating more sweets during menstruation can relieve menstrual pain varies from person to person, but it will definitely cause obesity problems.

2. Reasons why eating sweets during menstruation leads to weight gain:

Before the menstrual period, I often can’t resist the desire to eat sweets and eat a lot of chocolate, cakes, and ice cream. After eating, even if I feel good for a while, I often can’t hold on for long and feel tired and have a headache again. In fact, this is a common premenstrual syndrome that occurs frequently in women of childbearing age.

Don't ever think that you won't gain weight if you eat sweets or chocolate during your period, or that your metabolism is particularly good during your period and it's the best time to lose weight. These are all beautiful misunderstandings and are often related to physiological edema before menstruation.

This physiological edema does not mean there is something wrong with the kidney function, but the exact cause is still unknown. It may be due to an increase in adrenocorticotropic hormone (cortisol), changes in female hormones, or increased vascular permeability, leading to water accumulation in the body.

Women with this physical condition may find that their face, fingers, and body are swollen than usual when they wake up in the morning before their period. However, the condition will improve slightly after they move around for a while. If they weigh themselves, they may find that they weigh one or two kilograms more than usual. After menstruation comes, I quickly lose one or two kilograms. This is just a change in water content in the body and has nothing to do with the increase or decrease of fat or muscle.