female only Monthly Weight Fluctuations Driving Me Crazy!

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So, before surgery, I never even weight myself to see if my weight fluctuated throughout a month due to hormones or not. Now that I am at goal and fairly stable, I am more in tune with my body then I ever was before. And it is driving me CRAZY! I have weight fluctuations throughout my cycle that leave me scratching my head...what is my real weight!?

Ovulation = 2-4 lbs weight gain plus bloating for about a week. Then I go back down to normal for less than a week, and then back up 2-4 lbs during PMS until the tail end of my period, then BOOM, back down 2-4 lbs overnight. Then I will stay there for 2 weeks until ovulation starts again. I am a logically person and know that this is probably pretty normal, but none-the-less, it is driving me CRAZY!!!!

Anyone else have this experience?? Any confirmation that this is normal and I am not alone would be great!!

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So' date=' before surgery, I never even weight myself to see if my weight fluctuated throughout a month due to hormones or not. Now that I am at goal and fairly stable, I am more in tune with my body then I ever was before. And it is driving me CRAZY! I have weight fluctuations throughout my cycle that leave me scratching my head...what is my real weight!?

Ovulation = 2-4 lbs weight gain plus bloating for about a week. Then I go back down to normal for less than a week, and then back up 2-4 lbs during PMS until the tail end of my period, then BOOM, back down 2-4 lbs overnight. Then I will stay there for 2 weeks until ovulation starts again. I am a logically person and know that this is probably pretty normal, but none-the-less, it is driving me CRAZY!!!!

Anyone else have this experience?? Any confirmation that this is normal and I am not alone would be great!![/quote']

Yup. This is normal. Some women fluctuate 8-10 pds (!!) during their cycle. 2-4 pounds at "overweight" isn't a big deal, but that same 2-4 pounds at "skinny" is a much different matter. We usually try to get women to weigh at the same times in their cycle for three months so they have an accurate graph of the hormone-induced fluctuation. Almost always, the gain/loss has a net value of zero over the whole month, which means a) it's really hormones and not weight gain and it's not anything to get excited about. HTH.

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