Is Losing Your Period Due To Weight Loss/exercise Dangerous?
I’m 17 years old, 141 pounds, and 5′6. I’ve just recently lost 40 pounds, and I want to lose 10-15 more. I eat a pretty low-calorie diet (900-1100 calories) and exercise 2 hours a day, 6 days a week. The problem is, I haven’t had my period in a couple months. Is this dangerous? What should I do?
Stop now. You are probably anorexic. I am not just a healthcare provider, I also was a teen who was anorexic. Feel free to contact me on myspace-rebekah montgomery. if you want more advice. You may not see the health issues now, but I guarantee you will when you get older. I have. Stop now. Get help. Tell your parents or someone you feel will listen. You are probably a highly intelligent girl, with a mass amount of potential. Listen to reason and chose to be healthy. Anorexia is not a sign of skinny people. Fat people can be anorexic too. It is about your body not getting the essential nurtrients and vitamins to sustain the normal amount of pysiological capabcity to function. Having no period, is the first physical most prevelant sign that your body is unhealthy and most definately related to your diet. Suggest, eating more calories up to 14 or 1500 as a normal 141 pound person requires 1500 to maintain weight. ADD exercise and they require more, about 17-18oo or more depending on level or intensity of exercise. You are starving yourself. Medically, with the info you provided, you should be taking in about 1800 calories a day to maintain you weight at the amount of activity level, and that is being conservative. I am 150 pounds and work out 4-5 times a week and eat about 2000 to 2300 calories a day and maintain my weight. In all honesty, you could probably eat 2500 calories a day and still lose weight if you are working out really hard two hours a day. You must be careful though, because you have lost this amount of weight so quickly, you could regain the weight very easily even though your body needs it and wants it. You should see a nutritionalist to find a better way of eating, if in fact you still want to lose weight. I am not saying, stop the desire to lose weight, I am SAYING- DO IT in a healthy way. You can eat more foods and more calories if the foods you eat are low in sugars and fats that get stored. It is too much to go into detail here. No, you can still keep losing weight, but do this safely and more healthy. Best of luck kiddo.
Think about it?
that is why you have lost your period. the first think i noticed is that your caloric intake is WAAAAAAY too low! Females shouldn’t drop below 1200 cals PER DAY! Eat more food, healthy food. you are exercising too long every single day (well, depending on what you are doing.) You may reach a point of diminishing returns on your work outs because of this. Sooner of later you body will start eating muscle which is what you need in order to keep a good metabolism. It’s great to be motivated to lose weight (congrats by the way) but slow down. you are doing more harm than good.
YOU SHOULD FOR SURE SEE A DR. YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH WEIGHT AND HAVE AN EATING DISORDER.
I wouldn’t say it’s dangerous, but it certainly is unhealthy. You are eating about 900-1100 calories a day and excercising for 2 hours, that’s drastic.
How about eating more calories and excercising for about an hour a day? That would be much more beneficial for you.
If you miss another period, please go see your doctor, periods are nothing to fool around with.
actually it is very dangerous. losing your period means unbalenced hormones. Perhaps you havent gotten your period because you may be pregnant? If not, then i suggest going to see your doctor
body needs 50cal/hour just for basic functioning (like when you are in coma) and thats 1200cal/day – for a person thats under 150lbs. (70cal/hour for a person thats over 150lbs)
this is not the first thing you are gona lose if you keep depriving your body – and you just get one of those in a lifetime!!!
find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast – they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner – repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)
Losing your period isn’t dangerous, but it could be a sign that you’re dieting too hard and losing weight too fast. And from what you wrote here … that diet is WAY too strict and never thought I’d say it, but you’re working out too much to.
So losing your period isn’t dangerous, but your diet and workout is. You need LOTS of calories when you work out that much. 900-1100 calories would be too little even if you were lying in bed all day. Imagine with all that training.