Food, Exercise, and PMS-Why Me?

I went to the grocery store and bought all this healthy stuff. Veggie burgers, stuff for salads, lots of fruite etc. Enough to last not quite a month.

All I want is greasy fast food.

In the last 2 weeks I have been to Zaxby's twice, Wendy's, and the Chinaman. I had a sugar attack and baked cookies. I didn't have brown sugar, so I used maple syrup (that I purchased for the lemonade diet that lasted 1 day) and baking powder.

So out of character for me.

I blame a really bizarre and intense case of PMS or even PMDD.

It started with the intense craving for baked goods...so intense it made me check my calender to see when Aunt Flow was coming. She was early. I think she was thrown off by my trip to England. She gets thrown off by daylight savings time, too. Then I had

• Heartburn..really bad I was eating Tums by the handful
• Bubbly stomach like I ate a gremlin along with
• Extreme bloating, worse than ever, like I drank a lake or something.
• Fatigue ....I almost dozed off during a dissertation proposal! How embarressing!
• Minor depression. I was in bed all day yesterday just because I could. (played hooky)
• No acne, though, interestingly enough.

I probably need to go back to taking evening primrose oil. I think it helped me from getting that emotional kinda PMS (crying during grey's anatomy, etc). I used to think PMS was more physical, but the older I get, I get really weepy..sniff sniff...

I tried to exercise through it because I wasn't actually cramping bad. I just walked. No running my stomach couldn't take it. And did a weight class. So in addition to period pain my abdomen is sore from crunches on those big exercise balls. Booooo. I hate ab work. I won't see any kind of pack until I lose weight anyway.

So I am making a pact with myself. If I can exercise 6 days a week, keep a food diary, and keep calories around 1500 a day, I can eat what I want the week before my period.

I need my hormones and cravings to return to normal before I go bankrupt eating out. They are starting to recognize me in the Zaxby's drive through. I already ate a huge salad today. I don't want anything I have to eat here.

Off to Zaxby's...regular diet returns on Monday.