Losing motivation due to medical problems!

I'm soooo frustrated!

I don't know about you guys, but when I get my period I really do crave sweet, filling things. It's insanely hard for me to keep up with my calorie limit. And usually I can keep up, as long as its once a month.

The problem is, I've had my monthly four different times (each lasting a week) in the past six weeks. And I've never had an irregular monthly before in my life. My doctor's been running tests and says she's seen this before in a girl who was later diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Now I'd rather not focus on the 'what if's but instead live normally. But I'm feeling sooo frustrated! My weight keeps fluctuating ridiculously every week that I don't trust the scales anymore, and I don't know what I actually weigh. I'm also constantly having cravings. I swear, everything keeps triggering cravings. The Splenda ads on CC make me salivate. The rat food that the lab rats at my work are fed are now making me hungry. It's insane!

And to top it all off, it is my monthly. I usually don't get crabby during it, but I do get very antisocial. As a result, I've basically stopped going outside the house except for when I head to work. And I'm a veeery social person - love to get all made up and go out. But now I don't even want to hang out with my boyfriend.

I'm just really frustrated and in the dumps and want some encouragement/advice, anything. Even stories of something similar that has happened to you would help a lot.

Thanks for listening to my pity party guys

wow thats alot to deal with and I be worried and eating everything. I started working out after the first of the year determined to make it this time a week after I started walking I had a knee go out and a bone spur in my foot on the same side as the knee...I could barely walk. I thought well thats it I'm done. I sat around the house for weeks feeling sorry for my self and thinking I would never be healthy again. Finally I said you know what pro sports players get hurt all the time and still play. Some people lose a leg or both legs and still walk again. That was it I got off my fat butt and started over I bought better shoes and lifted weights to increase my burn and changed my diet and I am not looking back. You can do this and if you do find out your sick your body will be better equipted to fight, Don't think negitive think postive when your body quits on you fight back you own it it doesn't own you!!! If you need a friend to talk to IM me good luck

justluckie33@yahoo.com

Ohhh! Thats a lot of bleeding! Glad you have the Dr running some blood work! 

Your body needs your love and support, whether it is well or ill. would you kick your best friend if she fell down? NO!!!!! so why do we punish ourselves when we get disoriented, confused, and scared? crazy! but we do. and,

we don't have to! 

i've found that not giving into the menstrual uber refined carb and sugar cravings has helped them decrease over time. I make a conscious effort to make sure i am getting whole grains and enough protein. the body needs iron and b-vitamins when its bleeding, to make new blood i think, i dont know, but i figured the cravings were perhaps in part a lingering of the older pattern that thinks white flour and sugar are good for fueling the body. energy low, eat those now. thats the old pattern. new pattern is energy low, eat whole grains, high quality proteins, and if i still want a little treat, thats fine, but i dont need to eat that way all day. sugar is now fruit. or carrots. and really, its gotten better over the months. way better! my body is thanking me for it. 

i agree with justluckie, 1) support your body with healthy foods, it needs you now more than ever. 2) we have to make a decision and just move forward! dont look back. make it sustainable, manageable, balanced. 

i have read alot of threads here that the body needs more calories while bleeding, numbers vary, i think usually about 100-300 a day, so you might let yourself eat closer to maintenance than usual and dont sweat the weight loss until you've got this thing worked out. you can still make good choices, get your exercise, run a light deficit, but dont stress on the numbers, the scale, any of it. sounds like you have alot going on right now and its ok to support yourself in a healthy and loving way during the process. 

best! hope its just some weird anomaly and nothing serious. b. 

Original Post by justluckie:

wow thats alot to deal with and I be worried and eating everything. I started working out after the first of the year determined to make it this time a week after I started walking I had a knee go out and a bone spur in my foot on the same side as the knee...I could barely walk. I thought well thats it I'm done. I sat around the house for weeks feeling sorry for my self and thinking I would never be healthy again. Finally I said you know what pro sports players get hurt all the time and still play. Some people lose a leg or both legs and still walk again. That was it I got off my fat butt and started over I bought better shoes and lifted weights to increase my burn and changed my diet and I am not looking back. You can do this and if you do find out your sick your body will be better equipted to fight, Don't think negitive think postive when your body quits on you fight back you own it it doesn't own you!!! If you need a friend to talk to IM me good luck

justluckie33@yahoo.com

 Aw, thank you! Yeah i'm trying to think positive, just gets hard sometimes. >.>

Original Post by bubbles556:

Ohhh! Thats a lot of bleeding! Glad you have the Dr running some blood work! 

Your body needs your love and support, whether it is well or ill. would you kick your best friend if she fell down? NO!!!!! so why do we punish ourselves when we get disoriented, confused, and scared? crazy! but we do. and,

we don't have to! 

i've found that not giving into the menstrual uber refined carb and sugar cravings has helped them decrease over time. I make a conscious effort to make sure i am getting whole grains and enough protein. the body needs iron and b-vitamins when its bleeding, to make new blood i think, i dont know, but i figured the cravings were perhaps in part a lingering of the older pattern that thinks white flour and sugar are good for fueling the body. energy low, eat those now. thats the old pattern. new pattern is energy low, eat whole grains, high quality proteins, and if i still want a little treat, thats fine, but i dont need to eat that way all day. sugar is now fruit. or carrots. and really, its gotten better over the months. way better! my body is thanking me for it. 

i agree with justluckie, 1) support your body with healthy foods, it needs you now more than ever. 2) we have to make a decision and just move forward! dont look back. make it sustainable, manageable, balanced. 

i have read alot of threads here that the body needs more calories while bleeding, numbers vary, i think usually about 100-300 a day, so you might let yourself eat closer to maintenance than usual and dont sweat the weight loss until you've got this thing worked out. you can still make good choices, get your exercise, run a light deficit, but dont stress on the numbers, the scale, any of it. sounds like you have alot going on right now and its ok to support yourself in a healthy and loving way during the process. 

best! hope its just some weird anomaly and nothing serious. b. 

 Thank you! I like that plan of replacing sugar with better foods... I'm going to try that out =)