Does your appetite increase just before you get your period?

[notachicken]

I'm pretty good at keeping my weight down and I think I have a pretty balanced appetite but I've noticed recently that just before my period I feel so hungry and just eat everything in sight. I have put on about 2 pounds in a week. Is this common? Is it due to hormones or what?

Starch. Natch

And I don't want any of that healthy shit like tangerines and cottage cheese. No, it's processed carbs all the way for me. Bread. Crisps.

Carbs for me.

Loads, I crave sweet things

ha ha, how interesting, never realised everyone gets this.

I'm starving the few days before, then eat very little for a couple of days after. Just don't want to.

Or just eat shitloads of nice carby cake, knowing that you NEEEEEED to get those serotonin levels up!

Yes i do, I have 2/3 really hungry days when I crave cheap, nasty carbs like potato waffles, preferably fried and in a sandwich

I also put on up to 7lbs in the run up to my period but all that goes a few days into it so it's just water retention and bloating.

While on my period though, my appetite is very low so it works out.

Just ate a packet of crackers and soft cheese last night. Bloody starving ate like a cave woman......Came on today.

Yes, big time!

I crave sweet things and I get a mass outbreak of spots on my chin.

I know AF is coming when I suddenly have an insatiable need for loaded potato skins and chocolate. :)

I'm the same, eat like a horse for a few days then go off food completely for a couple of days. I also have heard your body needs the extra calories.

I used to be a bit obsessive with food and dieting and found if I wanted to lose weight, the week before my period if I dieted, I'd still gain a little and that this was due to fluid retention etc. Once my period was over I'd lose that and then some from the careful eating. I always make time for a few extra biscuits or a slice of cake when I'm due though

Yes mine does, but then it's followed by having no appetite once I come on, mixture of tiredness, cramps and feeling bloated.

Carbtastic and homemade flapjack homemade because I can eat a tray full

Im always starving when I due on apparently is nature trying to bulk you up I read that some where its crisps and cheese I crave im normally wolfing down crackers for a week dont deprive yourelf op if you are hungry eat

Yeah I lose my appetite when I have my period

Carbs. I must have carbs. Dont try to stop me or i will kill you.
And eat you.