[panzees36]

How do you cope with PMS hunger? I do really well for about 3 weeks and then for about 10 days I get so hungry and have horrible cravings. I feel as though I am never full no matter how much I eat. And of course it isn't healthy food I crave. I always end up binging and it turns into a vicious cycle. I have tried to eat fruit etc. but it doesn't satisfy me. I totally undo all my hard work in that one week.

[side salad]

i can totally relate - it's like a beast has been unleashed with a bottomless stomach in the build up to TOM. i always end up in a sweet/savoury cycle -in the form of carbs of course! The only thing that helped me was going on The Pill, it reduced the 8 day beast to 3 and made my craving a little less rampant. So now there's less time i have to keep a handle on things and less damage done if i do fall off the wagon completely. i had very little weight loss success before then because, like you said, my 3 weeks of hard work were just undone.
i find that, during pms, if i allow myself potatoes/sweet potatoes, sweetcorn and wholewheat pasta without constraint it helps. maybe not the most ideal foods to have a lot of but it takes the edge off and is far less damaging

[Justwant2Bhealthy]

It may be hormones and it may not be, but you can't let cravings win. Don't give in to the temptation of making excuses for binging; that's a slippery slope going nowhere but ^up^ in lbs. You can up your protein, fat (just a little; say 1 tbl each day), and your veggies on those days to help as well. Protein and fat help satisfy you more too ...