Emotional support required...

I have been PMSing for 4 days now and have been feeling every second. I've gone from eating under 1500 cals per day to over 2000 and as a result look and feel like a huge blob. I have been breaking out because of all the hormones too, just to add that extra level of hideousness. Also I've been having mood swings - and by that I mean alternating between homicidal and suicidal. The only rational explanation is that the Spanish Inquisition has taken up residence somewhere in my body and is doing terrible, terrible things to it that I'm fairly sure I don't deserve.

Here is my message to my body: "OK, I get it, my period is on its way. Thank you for the warning, I now feel fully prepared, got a full pack of tampons and everything. I think I have reached a point in my life where I have had quite enough of being premenstrual and would like to be just plain old menstrual."

Also, I have a 2500-word essay on Post-structuralism due by tomorrow, of which I have written 100 words.

As I can no longer rely on myself for sanity or rational thought, can someone else tell me how much weight I can expect to gain from eating 200/300 cals over my maintenance for a few days and what I should do to rectify it once this living hell is over.

Thank you.

I'm going to address a question you didn't really ask, and say that you should see if there's something you can do about this nasty PMS thing, because that sounds bad.  I never had any PMS symptoms till I switched birth control pills, and then I realized  how bad it could be.  Maybe you could talk to your doctor about it.  I know it's SO hard to control yourself when you feel that way!  Try to drink lots of tea and water. I don't think a few days of eating 200-300 over maintenance would make you gain too much -  a few ounces, maybe, which would hardly be noticeable. 

I'm on the same boat...
PMS-ing... been crying for everything, depressed...and above all: EATING.
everything I saw today went to my mouth... I ate like 4,000 calories >.<  worth of JUNK.
pizza.. oreos, bread with butter... chocolate pretzels... and so on.. I feel sick and disgusting. yet I went downstairs and kept eating. then cried..and ate again. WTH?!
I'm on maintainance in Weight watchers ..and this morning was weigh in..2 lbs UP... yeah yeah.. I know it's because of water retention and so on... but still..knowing that I'm up 2 lbs got me even more anxious and that's why I ate like a  hyna today.
i HATE PMS!
but I'll try to jump back on the wagon.
It's just ONCE  a month,
we can beat this sheez ;3

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You are too funny... at least your sense of humor is still good.  You can do it.  Just think of it as two days , after which your body can rebound into losing again.

Good Luck!

Post-structuralism is confusing but awesome. I realize that was unhelpful, as your paper was due today. But if you ever wanna chat about theory...

I say next time you PMS that bad just try to be kind to yourself. Take a few days off. Or schedule your maintenance calorie days to fall around your period!

This is too spooky ... literally about 15 minutes after posting this message I got my period, like my body had actually heard me pleasing with it. It was beautiful, I swear I actually heard an Hallelujah chorus, after all that torture I was finally free, finally on the road back to normalcy and loving every...

Cramps.

%$*&

UGH! I am going through the same thing! I'm at work right now eating everything in sight and I want to do is go home and lay on my couch with a gallon of Hagan Daz and call it a day. The only comfort Ic an bring you is that you're not alone in your craziness...