How do you manage intense cravings / hunger with PMS?

[LadyoftheLavaLamp]

I do so well for about half the month, then as things all start to go to shit in run up to AF it all goes back on again. Rinse and repeat.

If you suffer from quite severe PMS, what do you do to control your eating??

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Reading with interest having just made an eaten apple crumble and stuffed about 5 Maom sticks down. Plus jelly babies. I feel sick but absolutely had to have sugar

@LadyoftheLavaLamp what's your way of eating when you are not having the cravings?

My lifestyle change is geared towards keto/carnivore and Intermittent fasting. I eat one meal a day (OMAD).

I do get PMS cravings that you mention but when looking into this, it's down to the body lacking in vitamins and or minerals.

I tend to eat low calories by default from just listening to my body and eating when im hungry and stopping when i feel full. This is mainly protein so I feel fuller for longer.

When I get the cravings, I just have something that I crave but I don't spend the whole day eating the junk food.
I will just add it in of an evening and then go straight back to my keto/carnivore way of eating the following day. If I feel the same the day after, I will do the same in the evening.

I do make the conscious effort to tell myself I do not need the food I crave to try to change me wanting this but I don't intend to deprive myself to the point I end up binging and gaining all the weight I have list since April 2023.

With any weight loss journey, I think its important to build a healthy relationship with food and learn about different foods and how they affect our bodies. This helps me with some of the decisions I make, for example, if I go three consecutive days of eating junk foods, I start to feel pain in my joints...(I'm 34 and don't get this when eating keto/carnivore) By day 4, I've left the junk food alone because I ain't used to all the inflammation.

Sorry for the long post.

@HealthierHabits2023 I still might have half a chocolate bar, or a dessert, cream on strawberries etc on a normal day, but it’s broadly a quality food and balanced diet.

When the PMS hits all I want is sugar and carbs with a serious intensity. Last time there was a day where I ate large quantities chocolate, cake, crisps etc one after the other to the exclusion of meals, then felt sick!

I don’t have an answer but I feel your pain, I can’t think about anything but food.

Wish I could switch it off! Trying to exercise instead when I get cravings but my body/soul wants anything but.