That special time...

[chabbah]

Yeah, I'm minutes away from that wonderful time myself. I too notice a significant drop in endurance and am more prone to feeling achy all over. Most of the time, I just work through it and find that a hard, sweaty cardio session does wonders for my mood and for relieving some of that water retention.

My big problem around that time is controlling the appetite increase and wild cravings. I have heard that your metabolism increases and that you can burn up to an extra 500 cals a day around that time, but I'm not sure I'd trust myself to eat according to my hunger pangs and cravings.

Spat, you talk a lot about listening to your body. This is something I was able to do well before I started dieting for comps. Now it seems I'm paranoid of eating too few cals in a day (fear of losing muscle mass) and am still very hung up on measuring my food. This, of course, flies in the face of trusting one's body and makes me feel that I have to clean my plate at most meals. Help. Any suggestions?

 

[poohbear]

Period, what's that

Though, I have it, I just pretend it's not there. I make sure I drink plenty of liquids.

 

[FitFossil]

If I have cramps, working out definitely helps. Sometimes it seems like my cardio capacity is better during my period.

I thought I was just imagining things until I read how a woman's VO2max (oxygen capacity) can actually increase during her period.

I think Joan Benoit won the women's Olympic marathon while she was having her period.

 

[Phemomena]

Re: Period, what's that

Though, I have it, I just pretend it's not there. I make sure I drink plenty of liquids.

hehe in your case it isn't there though... so that's easy you must be in your 40th month or something by now?

 

[CardioGirl]

I gotta say some of my best cardio sessions are done while i'm on my period but on the other hand i find my lifting isn't up to par. Since this is only 5 days a month I don't sweat it I just plug away and do my best.
Also, a few days before I'm gonna start, my appetite is CRAZY !!!...I'm sure I could eat non stop if I let myself..I've even eaten more than my man (who is 6'2, 257lbs) but it never seems to really affect my weight even if I do give in a little. Gotta love Mother Nature (not)

 

[poohbear]

Re: Re: Period, what's that

hehe in your case it isn't there though... so that's easy you must be in your 40th month or something by now?

LOL, I would definitely have to induce labor, heh? I've been lucky not to have it and can probably live without it for the rest of my life, but I suppose that's why we sometime call it the curse.

Hubby and I are going to try to induce labor this weekend This will give me an extra week to prepare for the first game of rugby j/k.

 

[Phemomena]

hey... aren't you due around LABOUR day??? hehe (not sure if they have that where you are, but i beleive its September 3rd... wouldn't that be ironic...)

or if you like you can have the lil one on my bday (aug 29th) i'd be honoured hehe

 

[Phemomena]

it's proper spelling!!! (okay its english/canadian spellings... that's the way i was learneded)... don't think it has anything to do with en francais?

 

[smallmovesal]

it's brit phem

at least you didn't read a lot of british authors... now i tend to spell things -isation instead of -ization, etc.

 

[poohbear]

or if you like you can have the lil one on my bday (aug 29th) i'd be honoured hehe

I'll try to shoot it out on Wednesday, but this cuts into my rugby training, you know j/k