I'm adopting the "fake it until you make it" theory today. I'm PMSing big time and I just want to eat and eat and eat. I'm depressed for absolutly no reason, I'm having constant anxiety and I'm am so b*tchy! I was feeling this way yesterday too, and I had a couple mini chololates from the office candy jar, which did nothing, and went home and all I wanted to do was binge, which during the week I usually don't have an issue with, but I dug my heals in, punished myself with no dessert because of the chocolates earlier and went to be starving even though I had a very good dinner. It was just PMS hunger and I wasn't going to give in. I'm generally hungry today, again just PMS hunger, and I just want to chew my arm off. But I'm not gonna, I'm going to fake that I have a healthy relationship with food and food is just food. I'm going to dig in today again and this weekend - I will prevail! We have a big Valentine's Day dinner out planned, and I will induldge, but that's it, no more, no other extras. Ugh! Being a women sometimes

Hang in there! This, too, shall pass.

You mean bleeding for 5 or more days isn't evil enough that now you're going to let that bastid mess with your eating too?

Kill the betch! Doooo ittt!! GRRRRR!!

I am a strong advocate for "Fake it TIl You Make it! You go girl, don't give in! we are all here for you

This may not be what you're looking for, nunceo, but chocolate cravings, esp. around ovulation, may have a physiological source: chocolate is high in magnesium, and magnesium levels tend to drop around menstruation. Our bodies may be telling us "more magnesium!" and we hear "more chocolate!". Some research shows that low magnesium levels are correlated with other PMS symptoms as well.

It probably won't help for this cycle, but you might try supplementing with magnesium (above and beyond what's in your daily multivit, if you take one) in the future to see if this helps with the chocolate cravings. In the mean time, faking it works!

//b. strong,
Kim

I'm a huge fan of the philosophy "fake it til you make it", and I say, go for it girl! If I can "fake it" eating-wise, after about 3 days I will usually "make it" and want to stick to the healthier eating. You can do it, ncuneo!

If I have time for it, a hard workout usually helps push me from the fake it to make it area mentally, too.