Do you get hungrier when you get your period?

I feel like I have been starving for the last 3 days.  I just got my period yesterday.  Is this why?

you use more cals on menses.

i think its like 10-15% more

Yes, it happens to me, and that I've noticed, every woman on this site who has their period.  I have a hard time staying at my maintenance calories for almost a full week it's so bad! lol =)

Just another FYI, just in case you don't know, you will retain 2+ pounds of water weight (I gain around 5!).  Don't freak because it will all come off in a couple of days after it ends.  If you do already know, this, then just ignore me (I didn't really know this and did freak a little until I read it in another post, so I figure it is better to say it at the risk of being repetitive than have someone worry about it).

I seem to be a couple of days before... I'll stuff anything into my face if given the chance and then maybe on the first day but it just subsides....

How relieving.  I forgot I was about to start my yuck-o this month and was angry I hadn't moved the scale...and I've been HUNGRYYYY.. Phew.

Yep.  Hungry, grouchy, tired, and in the mood to clean.  But mostly hungry.  and grouchy.

Totally normal and it will pass. Until next month. ;)

a week before TTOM I gain 5 lbs, eat everything within arms reach, and I'm either weepy or really b**chy.  I hate it!  

I get insatiably hungry, and always for the wrong foods!  I NEED chocolate during TTOM!

HELL YEAH I DO GET HUNGRY.. lol

3 days before and during my period my system goes upside down i eat alot and munch alot and cry alot lol

 BUT i still fit in exercise even a tiny little walk helps :)

Wow the question i came on here to ask has been answered! Ive been starving today and eating non stop so it didnt make sense.

Glad im not a total freak!

Actually its really funny.... just before and during my period I always feel full and bloated, i actually struggle to eat (except that I crave chocolate, of course *rolls eyes*). Just shows what the same processes do to different people

I am like a monster during my period!! I eat and eat and eat...not for the sake of eating, but because I truly never feel "full" during my period. It's like never ending hunger for me! Hah, but yeah the water weight and all that sucks.

about a week and a half before my period I will notice that the weight seems to stay the same no matter what I do then 3 days before I want to eat like a freek but if I stay steady then right after I start I will see a big drop and that feels so good. 

Yes, period = hollow leg.  I just want to eat and eat and eat at that time of the month.

Not only do I get hungrier...I get hungrier for the worst kinds of food....bring on the mozzerella sticks, jalepano poppers, french fries...if it is loaded with sat fat and deep fried I want it!!!!  These craving are worse than any I had while pregnant. I don't have to look at a calendar to know what's coming!

Yes!  Hungry hungry hippo seems to come to mind (for me).  And my mother doesn't help (yeah, I still live at home...I'm trying to pay off some college and credit card bills).  She ordered pizza last night.  I'm on my TOM, there's awesome pizza.  I limited myself to one piece though, which I'm VERY proud of.  But...lo' and behold, this morning I had a half piece (which is huge still).  I'm hungry now and that was an hour ago.  Damn you TOM!

Eh...I'll try to resist snacking too much.  But I'm a teacher and all I have is junk to choose from, so it gets easy.

On the upside, I spent like 80$ last night on an exersize ball, yoga mat, dumb bells, ex. pants, socks and random supplies.  But that balls was the focus of that -- I got the Reebok ball and it has a sandy substance inside of it to keep it from rolling all over the place.  That thing is awesome!

Ohhh it feels so good to see this post this week! I am like a starving freak of nature right now for insane amounts of food!!! I want anything that is baaadd!!!!!  Hang in there ladies!! Men have no idea about this battle!! hehe

I don't get that hungry during TOM, but I get extremly hungry a week or two before, when I'm pms'ing.

I do crave chocolate though. Dark choccie is my saviour.

omg i can't stop eating!!!
it's like there's no way to stop it
even though i'm NOT wanting to food, i'm suddenly like ravenously hungry and i just keep consuming
EWWWWW it's so gross and i have my prom in like a week!!! i'm doing sooooo bad like 1500-excess-calories-on-junk-plus-regular-foo d-intake BAD
my boyfriend just thinks i "need it" and he just wants me not to restrict myself .. and i feel like it is soooooo hard to stop myself ahhh
*hugs heating pad*

Hmm... I guess I'm the odd one out here cuz I don't get hungry at all during TTOM... i literally have to force myself to eat enough during that time...