When you gain weight during your period, is it fat or water? Does controlling salt intake help if you want to lose weight? Expert Answers

If your kidney function declines prematurely at a young age, you will also experience frequent urination at night.

In the few days before menstruation, when estrogen secretion peaks, the strong taste will lead to drinking water, and coupled with the water retention effect of estrogen, the two combined will cause water to be retained in the body, causing natural weight gain and making the person appear swollen.

Losing weight during menstruation, is it true or false?

The term "menstrual weight loss" has been circulating on the Internet for a long time, which means using the characteristics of the menstrual cycle to lose weight. The people who proposed this method were very specific. They called the first to seventh days after menstruation the "weight loss benefit period", the seventh to fourteen days the "super-fast weight loss period", the fourteenth to twenty-one days the "fast weight loss period", and the twenty-one to twenty-eight days the "slow weight loss period". At this pace, many people can lose several kilograms after menstruation.

In fact, any woman can gain up to two kilograms in weight from five days after the end of the previous menstruation to two days before the next menstruation. If you weighed 50 kilograms at the end of the previous menstruation, then you may very likely weigh 52 kilograms two to three days before the next menstruation.

In less than a month, I gained two kilograms without any reason? Don't be in a hurry! Next, you can eat and drink as usual, and wait until the end of this menstrual period to weigh yourself again, and you will have lost two kilograms, because the weight gained is not fat, but water! You can lose weight successfully by eating less salt during the key days of your menstrual period instead of eating less. At this time, all that is reduced is water.

The taste is strong and will make you bloated!

A woman's large breasts and buttocks, menstruation, and childbearing are all determined by estrogen. In addition, it can help the body retain water. The reason why girls have delicate skin during puberty is that estrogen retains water in the skin.

However, while the skin retains water, the water content in soft tissues and internal organs will also increase, which will not only increase your weight but also make you bloated. This situation is most serious in the first few days of menstruation. If you observe carefully, you will find that you look particularly ugly and your eyes are easily swollen during those days, because it is the peak period of estrogen secretion and its water retention ability is exerted to the extreme.

Obviously, the secretion pattern of estrogen cannot be changed, but the only thing that can be done is to not have such a strong taste. Because heavy-tasting foods contain a lot of sodium, they will "help" cause edema and weight gain.

When sodium enters the body, it makes the blood thicker, but the body must maintain the concentration of the blood unchanged, which involves a concept - osmotic pressure. Therefore, eating too much salty food will make you feel thirsty. This is a signal sent to the brain after the blood becomes thicker, which will make people instinctively drink more water. At the same time, the kidneys will reduce urination, all to prevent the blood from becoming thicker after sodium enters.

If at this time, you are in the first few days of menstruation, when estrogen secretion is at its peak, and the strong taste causes you to drink water, coupled with the water retention effect of estrogen, the two combined will cause water to be retained in your body, causing your weight to naturally increase and you to appear swollen.

How to lose weight during menstruation?

Therefore, if you want to lose weight during your menstrual period, you should start controlling your salt intake about ten days after the end of your previous period. You cannot wait until the few days before your period to drink less water. This is useless for treating edema and is not good for the skin.

It's not only salty things that contain sodium. Chicken essence, MSG, noodles, white toast, nuts, anything with a strong flavor often contains a lot of sodium, including the "sports drinks" that young people like. Many people think that sports drinks are healthy, but this is actually wrong. Sports drinks are only valuable if you drink them after exercise. Because it contains sugar and salt, it is prepared for exercise consumption. If you don’t exercise, you will gain weight if you drink sugar water in vain, and the salt will easily aggravate edema.

Compared to sports drinks, drinking tea is healthier and can also reduce swelling. First, tea itself is very low in calories. Secondly, tea contains potassium, which can replace the sodium we eat. Doctors recommend that patients with hypertension eat low-sodium salt because it contains potassium chloride, which not only reduces sodium intake but also replaces sodium, which has the same effect as tea.

Among all teas, black tea contains the most potassium, so during the days of menstrual weight gain, you can drink more black tea to replenish water. This way, you will not retain too much water in your body.

This article is excerpted from the book "Wet Fat: Get Rid of Wetness First to Lose Weight" by Happiness Culture