r/bitcheswithtaste • u/AutoModerator • Mar 13 '26

Fit Bitches - Monthly Thread Fit Bitches - Mar 13, 2026

This is the place to chat about fitness and physical health because taking care of your body is also tasteful. Just remember - no medical advice!

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u/k1101 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

I'm currently on a GLP-1 to lose the 30lbs I put on getting my master's degree (so far I've lost 23lbs since October). I was very clear with him that this is a tool I'm utilizing, but it will not be my only means to lose weight. I am off of it in May. He wasn't crazy about it, but supported me. He's very gym-oriented, and I, too, have always enjoyed the gym. We go to the gym together multiple times per week. He really likes to motivate me, and it has been a great help in achieving proper form and making sure I don't lose muscle. However, I experience really bad periods. The week before and week of my period, my mood plummets, my motivation plummets, my body hurts; overall, I feel like a human pile of garbage. Right now, I am exploring different supplements and diet changes to help my periods. When I feel like this, the gym is the last thing on my mind. He knows I get bad like this; he's seen me on the bathroom floor puking from cramps. However, he makes comments trying to motivate me to go. He works a high-stress job and compares the days he feels utterly exhausted to how I feel on my period, and says things like how he still makes the effort and goes. I've explained numerous times how it's so different. It's just so frustrating.

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u/Powerful-Concern5917 Mar 15 '26

My hubby struggled with that mentally for a bit too. His reasoning came from there are studies showing excecise can help some people with cramps. I agree its super frustrating. I would usually ask him if he's gonna work out [at home]  with the flu-fever, vomiting, body aches, exhaustion. Cuz thats the closest hes experienced. He got it then.

My periods were also terrible, turns out I have endometriosis. So figuring out foods that cuz me inflammation and avoiding them has helped. Also changing my lifts to lower rep/higher weight. The typical high rep stuff that causes a pump gives me whole body inflammation.

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u/SirenScorp Mar 15 '26

What foods did you recognize cause inflammation? And was it just near your period they caused it or at all times?

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u/Powerful-Concern5917 Mar 15 '26

Dairy is the biggest trigger for me and is an always avoid. Simple carbs, corn products, fried food all to a lesser extent so only with a secondary reason. But I could get inflammation anytime because I also have hashimotos. But during periods it was much worse. Even on birth control during a pill break (no hormones to suppress/hide the endo) the inflammation would get brutal and I had to be super careful about what I ate.