lost my period?

 i have recently lost 5-8 pounds in a couple weeks and i now cannot find my period, i know that its been over a month, and i've never had sex so i'm not pregnant and i was wondering if the weight loss could cause a missed period?

If you are a teen (or any age, really), your periods are going to fluctuate and not always be at the same time every month.

Are you severely overweight or underweight?  If you are either of these, your period sometimes also just doesn't happen.

Normal weight loss shouldn't case your period to not occur, so talk to your mom about this and let her know, though honestly it's probably just another one of those awful times in a woman's life when their period is late and they're grouchy, etc.. trust me, I've experienced it all!

what are your stats? are you an athlete? engaging in vigorous exercise? have you changed your diet radically?

i am an athlete, i swim for 2 hours every day for a national team, i am engaging in vigorous exercise and i have changed my diet but i changed it a little bit over 1 month ago.

Maybe you arent eating enough protein. That happened last semester for me. I mean I had lost weight, I worked out 5 or 6 days a week (pretty hard), but I was only 108. At 5'1 I was healthy. So I figured, it was seriously utter lack of protein. Too poor, living in a dorm, and basically couldn't get any meat whatsoever.

oh, that makes a lot of sense cause i don't usually eat much protein at all. thank you!!!!

i am 5'4 and i weigh 115

Original Post by mandapanda9736:

 i have recently lost 5-8 pounds in a couple weeks and i now cannot find my period, i know that its been over a month, and i've never had sex so i'm not pregnant and i was wondering if the weight loss could cause a missed period?

Yes, it can.  I've seen some of your previous posts, manda.  You've admitted to not eating even 1500 calories.  You have also said that sometimes it can be as low as 1000 calories.  First of all, that is NOT enough for a 14 year old girl.  1500 is the bare minimum for a young teenage girl.  When doing physical activity, you need even MORE than that.  When we lose weight rapidly, especially during dieting or under-eating, it is completely possible to lose our periods.  Hopefully this will be temporary.  However, if you get yourself to too low of a BMI, you could lose it permanently, which is not a good thing.

How much more weight are you wanting to lose?  At one point, I thought you said you wanted to lose down to a 17.5 BMI.  Am I correct???

no that was a typo. i meant to get it down to 19.5, which i have been told by my doc is a healthy weight for my height, i am just trying to lost some stretch marks off of my stomach and thighs. i don't mean to eat so litttle calories but the foods i eat don't have many calories in them. i have been eating more good calories for the past few days, but i tend to eat a lot of bread and tons of carbs but few calories. i am hoping that its just a bit late, i think it will probably come at the moment when i absolutely don't want it to.

Losing weight wont get rid of stretch marks. It can actually produce them.

oh. whoops. well then i think i will just go and get rid of the fat around them, and then work on those later.

About a year ago, starting from when I dropped to 115 (I am 5'4"-5"), I lost my period for about a year. Although I went all the way down to 107, I did not resume my period until I reached 122. Now I maintain at that weight and have been doing well so far.

I'm a little higher than average and eating 1300 calories and I only had my period when I went to 2500-3000 calories a day. i'll NEVER go back there, how will I ever have my period? without my period I can't have children!

CRAZYPERSON: if you're under the age of 21 you should be consuming a bare minimum of 1500 calories. if you know that your undereating is the cause of your lack of menstruation then why don't you take the corrective steps to get the problem under control. it is in your power to eat the appropriate amount and have your period. please follow CC guidelines of not posting replies that encourage/condone undereating. I hope that you choose to nourish your body and your periods will return.

CHRISSY1988:

I'm undereating. not by a lot, not enough to have an eating disorder. I eat healthy. I exercise. I don't know why I need 3000 calories to get my period. A recovering aneorexic told me she ate only 300 calories everyday and lost her period, then went up to 1300 calories and got it back   ?

I'm not encouraging you or anyone else to eat the way I am.

You don't have to eat 3000 calories to get your period back. That's just what you've forced yourself to believe after it happened once. If you ate 2000 a day, your period would come back, it just takes time.

but I don't want to eat 2000! Believe me once I reach 110 pounds and grow some more, I'll try to get my period back! B/c my approximate height is supposed to be 5'8, so I should be 10 pounds heavier and so I'll have to gain after I lose at one point.

If you don't eat enough, you won't grow properly anyway. Your brain, your bones, everything is still growing (women don't stop developing til around their mid 20's) and it needs nutrients. Hasn't health class taught you this? I eat 1800-2000 calories a day and still lose 2 pounds a week.

Closing advice: Don't make threads asking for help if you're just going to continue your unhealthy habits no matter what people say.

jackattack:

okay. YOU lose 2 pounds a week. I don't. Deal with it. I DID NOT MAKE THIS THREAD AND I WAS REPLYING TO THE WRITER OF THE THREAD. YOU just butted in and I'm still growing at a perfect rate. I'm tall for my age in fact,

Sorry about confusing you with the thread creator, my bad. But can you measure your brain growth? Being tall doesn't mean anything.