16:8 and periods

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Does anyone avoid intermittent fasting when they are due on? I've been fine for 5 days and I've woken up this morning feeling like I'm going to vomit and I'm due on in 3 days. Usually get hungry just before I'm due on.

Check out Mindy Pelz and Fasting Like A Girl. Basically the week before your period your progesterone should rise but fasting interferes with this. She recommends saving longer fasts for first 10 days of your cycle, scale it back days 10 to 15, then fast again 15 to 20 ish days then have shorter / no fasts last week of your period. All about how the 3 hormones oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone interact.