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Pms
5'1 and 109 pounds. 20/f. I'm really up to date with my exercise and I work put almost every day for 2 hours. I also eat super healthy. Basically tuna every day for lunch and for dinner turkey and vegetables. I don't usually eat rice or pasta. Today, I'm PMSing really badly and i ate pasta and bread and a a mini brownie. I know its not the end of the world but i feel SO guilty. Do u have any advice for me?? Like to feel less guilty. Maybe you can let me know if you've been there before? Thanks and God bless!
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It's actually really good for your metabolism if you change up your eating habit like this every once in awhile. Meaning, a splurge once a month isn't likely to actually affect you negatively as long as you get back on track quickly and don't slip into an unhealthy eating habit.
Additionally, try taking a multivitamin each day of month to see if it helps reduce some PMS symptoms.
Please also know that your body does NEED carbohydrates, and that it's important to incorporate a little bit into your diet each day. You don't need to go overboard, but it is fuel for the body. It could be possible that your body was craving it so much that the need, coupled with the PMS symptoms, just became too overwhelming. Take a good look at you diet.
These no-carb diets work this way:
Yes, your body burns off the fat so that you can gain energy, but once that fat reserve has reduced substantially, your body begins breaking down your muscle tissue for energy. Your body will NEVER burn off 100% of your fat before it starts breaking down muscle tissue to use as energy.
Muscle weighs more than fat. Carbohydrates help to build those muscles. So you see the scale drop dramatically. It actually isn't a good thing though.
Muscle helps to break down and burn off that fat. So, what happens is when you DO gain weigh, you start gaining fatty tissue because there isn't enough muscle to keep breaking it down and burning it off.
What you end up with is a person who has a very small amount of muscle, who will gain FAT easily, and will have a hard time losing that fat if they ever change their eating habits from no-carb to, well, anything else.
Additionally, this is why people on these no-carb diets never seem to have any energy. It's the reason they tend to over-eat on other foods (especially fatty meat) and have strong cravings during the diet. This is why they also seem to have saggier skin once they've lost weight than of people who ate a balance diet and exercised. It's why people who stop Atkins-type programs end up gaining a HUGE amount of weight back very quickly and end up having to do a diet-cycle to keep the weight in check.
So, advice?
Don't worry about it so much.
Make sure you don't KEEP splurging like this every day.
Take a good look at your eating habits already. Make alterations if needed.
And take a daily multivitamin.
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