Dear Period:

I know you are a necessary function of life. I know I desperately need you to be like clockwork every single month so that I may follow the biological directive you are made for and reproduce. I assure you that I very very much wish to do so. I am so very thankful that you are reliable and on time 99.9% of the time to help me in this endeavor.

But we need to talk.

What is this mess about making me gain 4 lbs???? I know it is you and I'm wondering exactly what I did to make you angry with me. I just don't get it. See, in order to fulfill your mission in life I need to get pregnant and I know me not being pregnant is making you think less of me, but the truth is; I can't get pregnant until I lose weight. I just don't understand why you would sabotage this by making me GAIN 4 lbs.

It seems very counter-productive. You should be ashamed.

It's very hard to want to stay on plan and eat right today when I feel so absolutely bloated and miserable. But I'm going to. I'm not going to let you win. I'm not going to let you sabotage my weight loss because you want to be a little b*tch.

Period, you need to grow up and get with the program.

Lol!!!!

LOL. Very cute.

So, I'm going to play the Pollyanna attitude here, and put my positive two cents in about your period, (in her defense )

I know from past posts that you are wanting to have babies and that is a big motivator for you, SOOOO maybe when you get your period and have these gains, you should TAKE COMFORT in the fact that your TOM is effecting your body exactly like it is SUPPOSED to.

In other words, if you didn't gain water weight, feel bloated, etc, your cycle would not be doing it's functions that it needs to do to prepare for the next time of fertility. The fact that it IS doing that, shows the process is working and it's keeping that area of your body clean, motivated and preparing for a time of fertilization.

So much of life is about accepting short term discomfort (eating at a deficit comes to mind!) in order to achieve a long term goal.

I don't like not being able to eat everything I want, but I surely like the results I see when I don't.

I think that is true for you and Ms. Period. You don't like the short term effects of her presence, but THANK GOD she is still visiting and making her presence known!

Hehe.....

I am happy it shows up every month for your reasons, just wish it wouldn't show up sometimes with a healthy vengeance!

She's coming around this time next week, but the pre stuff this week is driving me nuts. Stupid scale has hardly budged and more often than not in the wrong direction.

Good news though.... I feel so blah I'm not really hungry LOL. I have to eat something to keep my calories up for the day of course, but atm no idea what as nothing sounds appetizing. I'm sure I'll survive, but thanks for the encouragement!

I had a post about this last month. It happens every.single.time. So much so that I don't even know WHY I weigh myself for the week before my period ( I never learn lol) . I stress, I cry, I feel like a failure. I want to eat everything in sight. Then, like clockwork, I get a whoosh the day or two after my period begins and the weight is gone. It doesn't stop me from feeling the SAME WAY every single month about the water weight gain and bloat lol

NODS I'm the same way. I know this time next week all will be well, but it's the little things like a stupid number on scale that get me sometimes!

The emotional rollercoaster doesn't help with that either LOL.

Time to go down a few bottles of water to see if I can move things along.

I agree with Katydid77.

As much as I sympathize with the OP's letter, I'd give anything to have a normal period (and a chance of fertility)! I used to get them twice a month (so I thought) but it turned out the "2nd" one was a big problem with endometrial tissue that wasn't being shed properly. Please, please, please be thankful you are normal!