# Girls - Weight gain during your period? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622 "2007-05-18T17:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/1 "2007-05-18T17:42:10Z")
How much weight to you temporarily gain during your period? Does is subside as soon as your period ends? I usually grab 2 extra pounds, but it does go away right after. I’m assuming it’s water retention (that’s what I learned from that commercial, anyway!) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/2 "2007-05-18T17:50:07Z")
About 2 pounds. I once went up 4 pounds overnight and, of course, I was due to weigh-in at Weight Watchers that morning. Oh well, at least I had an equally spectacular “loss” the next time. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/3 "2007-05-18T19:54:23Z")
2 or 3 pounds is fairly normal for me. It melts away afterwards (along with the cramping, the headaches, the nausea, the insane mood swings… :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/4 "2007-05-18T20:21:44Z")
About 3 pounds, but sometimes as much as 4 or 5 if I’ve had something with lots of salt, like pizza or Chinese the night before. It goes away within two days, thank god. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/5 "2007-05-18T20:24:26Z")
Anywhere from 2-5 pounds, depending on diet and weather (yes, weather - my gains seem to be higher during the winter). ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/6 "2007-05-18T21:22:25Z")
I think it’s been more like 5 this past year. I look like a flippin’ beach ball that’s been had at by a tire inflater but it all goes away again after ‘water elimination day’ a.k.a. ‘don’t go too far from a potty day’. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/7 "2007-05-18T22:10:00Z")
A few pounds of water, which don’t fall off again until a few days after the bleeding stops. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/8 "2007-05-18T22:12:23Z")
4-6 pounds. Typically in the stomach and the boobs. I have to have a seperate set of bras and pants from period days. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/9 "2007-05-18T22:38:00Z")
yeah i reckon 4-7 pounds. Mostly in my boobs. And then as soon as my period is done i go straight back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/10 "2007-05-19T00:10:51Z")
My boobs swell up like water balloons. It’s very uncomfortable and my bras don’t fit right . . . good idea to buy a second set of bras for Big Boobage Week. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/11 "2007-05-19T00:53:52Z")
As much as two pounds, but not any more. I’m on the pill, though. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/12 "2007-05-19T01:09:02Z")
My weight used to fluctuate massively before I went on the Pill and then it stopped. Then I switched to Implanon and I do get some bloating in my lower abdomen sometimes, just enough to make my jeans uncomfortable but it only lasts a few days. That said, I don’t get cramps before my period, but during. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/13 "2007-05-19T01:51:24Z")
It’s got to be between two and five pounds, and I feel it in my breasts. They certainly become tender and swollen. All of me becomes tender and swollen. I also have the weirdly clumsy thing going on pre-menstrual, which I thought was just nuts and just me, but apparently not. I literally, literally! not figuratively! walk into walls and doors and stuff flies out of my hands. But yeah. Two to five, six pounds up pre-menstrual, plus the urge to eat Saskatchewan. While walking into walls and crying hysterically over nothing. I just LOVE being a woman. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/14 "2007-05-19T01:53:22Z")
I don’t gain weight when I have a period, but every time I miss one, I gain about 30 pounds and a baby. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-weight-gain-during-your-period/404622/15 "2007-05-19T15:28:56Z")
4-6 lbs. More in the summer (which is almost all year here). I also get (even more) clumsy those days.