Will eating more during menstruation make you fat?

Menstruation is a physiological period that every adult woman experiences every month. The color, amount, and cycle of menstruation are all important factors that directly affect a woman's successful pregnancy and childbirth in the future. Therefore, female friends should also pay special attention to their menstrual care to contribute to the health of the reproductive system. So will I gain weight if I eat more during menstruation? Let’s take a look at the introduction below!

The metabolism is faster during menstruation, so it is not easy to gain weight even if you eat too much. When menstruation comes, special care is needed due to blood loss. At this time, you can slow down the pace of weight loss and supplement more iron-rich foods, such as pork liver, kelp, pig blood, grapes and other nutrients. You can even eat some skinless chicken legs to replenish your energy and love yourself a little more.

Cold foods can easily affect the amount of menstrual blood, causing blood to stagnate and be unable to be discharged from the body. It is not recommended to eat too much. In traditional Chinese medicine, you should eat less lettuce salad as it is cool in nature, and you can replace the cool green beans with red beans, and green tea with black tea. Sometimes Chinese medicine practitioners will prescribe blood-replenishing soup recipes, such as Shenghua Tang, to help expel blood stasis more cleanly. Occasionally eating some sweets, such as red beans or sesame oil, can also warm the uterus and make menstrual blood discharge more cleanly.

Menstrual period care:

1. Try not to wash your hair during your menstrual period. If you must wash your hair, try to wash it at noon and be sure to blow dry your hair immediately after washing.

2. During your menstrual period, you should keep warm, which means you should use less air conditioning and wear more clothes in an air-conditioned room.

3. Avoid drinking cold drinks. Drinking ice water will prevent the dirty blood from being discharged smoothly.

4. Eating some sweets can help metabolize dirty blood.

5. Get enough rest.

6. Don’t be too emotional.

7. Avoid taking a bath in a tub.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone has already known that eating more during menstruation will not make you gain weight. Because women lose blood during menstruation, their metabolism will be relatively faster, so they need to supplement nutrition at this time. Therefore, eating more food will not cause weight gain, but you should avoid eating cold foods.