I just made an observation!
I mentioned in the last post that I'm extraordinarily bitchy and unmotivated today, and want to do nothing but lay on my couch with all the food in the world at my fingertips (Well, maybe I didn't say it exactly like that...). This afternoon, two things occurred to me: 1. I've said this before, and pretty recently. 2. I'm having sort of regular cycles now.
One of the lovely things about posting something here nearly every day (even when I'm boring even myself) is that I can dig back through the archives and look for trends of more than just food and exercise. I've spent the past 20 minutes looking through the last 3 months of archives, and actually found a pattern.
1/12/04: I bitch about TOM not starting, and being bloated.
1/15/04: Got some random anger going on.
1/26/04: TOM starts.
2/9/04: I start bloating.
2/12/04: Bring on the bitchery. At least I had some clue as to the cause.
2/20s/04: Bitchery subsides.
3/4/04: This is the part where I get unnecessarily emotional about a burger.
3/9: Crash!
3/10: TOM starts.
3/22/04: Bloat.
3/23/04: Again burying the needle on the emotionometer.
So, to summarize, I have 6-week cycles, punctuated by bloating, increased appetite, decreased motivation, and crabbiness/depression at both two weeks after TOM and two weeks before the next one. Essentially, I seem to hit PMS twice per cycle. Woo!
The funny thing is, I hardly ever see it coming, really. I'm rocking along, feeling pretty good, staying on top of stuff, and then my world crashes and I can't figure out what went wrong. Then everything's back to normal for a week or so, I forget about the moodiness just in time for it to hit again. Then 2 weeks later, TOM hits and I say, "Ooooooh, that's why!"
Like I say, Rob is a lucky, lucky man. Couple months of marriage, I'm going to be living in a tent in the back yard 3 weeks out of six. Probably a red one.
That is too funny to read. As I am the SAME way!!! I have been really trying to become "in tune" with my body and about 2 weeks before TOM I am an emotional mess....and I thought it was just "in my head". Thanks for sharing as I now know it's not just me!
Posted by: Christy on March 24, 2004 08:27 AM