A delicate subject...

I hear you! The week before my TOM (time of month) brings a short(er) temper and typically about 4lbs of bloat and constipation. As a daily weigher, I get frustrated to see that bump on the scale, especially when it comes at a time when I've been really really good eating- and activity-wise. So yes, I do weigh, but I don't beat myself up too much over the number that I see.
As for diet, I get ravenously hungry and sleepy just before TOM. If I keep my carbs extra low, I do fine. If I allow myself a carby treat, it's all over--I won't stop, and I may even binge. Thanks to hormones, it's a time when I don't have as much control over my compulsive eating, so making good food choices is especially important for me. I'm also more likely to choose sleep over exercise if I'm dead tired. If I'm crampy/in pain, I will do some crunches since they seem to help.

So, I have an iPhone. And my older sister told me about an app called iPeriod...which I thought was totally stupid and pointless...but she told me that I had to try it.

I did - and basically, you can chart just about anything from "love connections" (minus Chuck Woolery) to days you're on your period to your mood, to headaches...

Anyway, I've started making notes of when I'm cranky and Joe and I argue. It's so rare that we fight, that I wanted to find out why I was so sensitive sometimes.

Turns out, it's when Aunt Flow visits...so now I'm making a mental note that when I'm on the rag, I don't need to nag OR act like a hag.

Crude? Yes. But it rhymes. And I love me some rhymes. :)

I am borderline personality disorder about a week before, and it always takes me half a day to figure out why I'm being evil. Then I gain 5 lbs overnight. Then all the physical issues... Then it takes me 2 weeks to lose those 5 lbs. Real bleepin' cute.

For me Lady "fun" time is generally ok. more recently I've been having worse cramps. Unfortunately I've hungry all the time. And I read in a magazine you burn a few more calories around this time so my brain says "You can and SHOULD have a frosted jelly doughnut" Ummmm yeah. So I'm not doing so hot I stopped tracking during the pre week and I need to get back to that.

Also I'm pretty much a bitch. One birth control I was on turned me into UBER SUPER bitch but now I'm just down to a more irritated me. I think to myself "This isn't a big deal. I shouldn't be this angry. BUT THEY ARE WRONG!!!"

Have a great time at the party. And hit that gym up!

Oh, all you babes. Just wait until menopause is screaming at the door. The urge to slap every person you meet during that TOM becomes almost too irrestible. I say almost because I haven't actually resorted to violence yet, but I do warn my family to put the knives away and to not make any eye contact lest I turn into a snarling beast and rip their heads off.

Do I weight myself? Yeah, just because it's so much fun to see those 4-5 pounds magically appear and then disappear three days later, she says so snarkily.

Uh, I spelled "irresistible" incorrectly. *sigh*

Over-emotional, clumsy (not one whole set of cutlery or glasses left in our house!),feelings of hopelessness and despair. And chocolate consumption is off the scale. Then there's the pain and lethargy. I laugh at the very notion of doing exercise in the run up to or during TOM! Ha!

I have been totally cranky the past week due to that very issue. When my husband pointed out how crabby I was, I simply told him that I would probably snap at him for no reason for the next week due to hormones and he just needed to deal with it. I can't really exercise when I am cramping, but I try to take a pain reliever and do it anyway. Exercise is a great stress reliever for me so it actually relieves some of my irrational anger. SOME, not all.