Resuming Period and Weight Gain? I am worried...

Has anyone else experienced weight gain that stayed after getting your period back? Like you gained some weight to get it back, but then out of nowhere gained even more weight that stuck on for a while after? Maybe because of the increased hormones your body wasn't used to?

That's exactly what has happened to me, and I was wondering if it has happened to anyone else before jumping the gun and getting freaked out...

Most women do gain weight around their period. You are retaining fluids too. Also a body varies so in combo with ones period it can make the scale increase. There is a range though in weight for ones height so maybe you just needed extra weight for your body to be healthy. I am not sure how much you gained and what your current weight is. I hope you remain healthy

I hope so too!

Here's the story that's a little strange. Basically in February, I got period symptoms a month after I had taken Provera (this was the fourth time I tried it, and it actually brought on a period the other times it didn't). At that point, I was around 115 pounds, but slowly incorporating more foods into my diet because I had lost my period most likely due to undereating. Right after I was finished with Provera, I still stayed around 115 until I got the period symtpoms a month later...then slowly my weight increased about 7 pounds in total. Stayed around there, even felt like I lost  tiny bit...

Then I went to England for 2 weeks and was not working out, I didn't gain much weight but I got my period a week after I came back! And again the next month. But, again my weight has gone up about 7 pounds and won't budge. So now I am around 128-130 and i am 5'1, medium frame. I really eat very healthy, and hardly eat any bread, pasta, rice...

So I am wondering if it is hormonal weight gain that is normal, or if its the beginning of something like PCOS? I just get so worried...

You are in a medically healthy range for your height, but only you know what feels truly comfortable - so if your weight gain is concerning you and you would like to lose a little, then at least you know you have this site to help you!   


Just type in your details and your goal weight and it well recommend how much to eat! It is a good guideline, but you may need to alter things a bit  and eat a little more/less or etc.

Have you been counting calories?  It is very easy for extra calories to add up!    200 extra one day, 100 extra the next day… 50 extra 3 days later….     & nbsp;   

I am not doctor, but for you to get your period back, various things in your body need to be in place - so maybe the things that  you needed to start your period have also caused you to retain fluid, or maybe your hormones have changed in a way that has caused you to gain weight easier than usual.. Who knows!

There are a lot of reasons you could have gained weight, but there is a solution to your problem so don’t stress!

115 may have been a tiny bit too low for your body type, so the initial weight gain could have been necessary…. The rest of it could have been partly necessary and also a combination of you eating excess caloreis, over a period of time.

Thank you for the comforting answers by the way!

Well I defnitely eat more calories than I USED to, but it's all very clean, not really excess, I probably don't go above 1500-1600 per day, except saturdays or something. I am currently going to intensify my work outs a little bit; I don't think the diet needs to be changed completely because I still don't really eat a alot of bread, oatmeal, potatoes, etc. So I would like to get more of that stuff in without gaining weight.

But yeah, I mean it makes sense to me that having more hormones will initially result in some gain..but I just feel like this 15 pound gain has been so over a few months, yet any real increase has been abrupt, and that I haven't been able to lose it..I get scared that it is the initial sign of something such as PCOS, or Thyroid. I've been to my endocrinologist and she is not sure if this is just normal or if its a mild pcos? I just think it's weird that ever since I got my period BACK I have gained weight. 

But yeah, I guess I was so used to not gaining, that I like think there's something wrong if I do...

Also, it makes sense to me, but I don't see many other women who lost their periods and got them back saying there was a bigger weight gain after they got it? That's also why I was asking