You’ll have to forgive me…
the whole, I’m giving up sugar and gluten till Valentines Day thing?
Um, ya….totally went out the window when PMS flew in.
Isn’t PMS the STRANGEST thing ever?
{men, you’re allowed to nod yes…}
I mean, one minute I am chugging along on my merry positive happy, God is so great, way….
and the next minute I am in my cozy clothes on the couch jonesing for a slice of Vons chocolate cake and doing all I can to hold back tears.
My life is fine, guys.
Things are great.
I have NO reason to cry.
{other than this sick baby attached to my side….ugh!}
Just as soon as I am able to swallow my unexplained sadness, I am then overcome with love.
Overwhelming love.
And it’s all I can do not to pick up the phone and call every single one of my favorite friends and tell them how much I love and adore them, and do they even know how much they could possibly mean to me????
But then, as soon as that passes….
I suddenly become obsessed with the fact that my legs must be retaining water,
because they seem bigger than they have ever been in my whole life.
So, once again, I am back on the couch in my cozy clothes…
EATING the chocolate cake from Vons because if my legs are going to be as big as tree trunks, I may as well eat something that explains it.
And then I convince Jimmy that if I’m going down, he is too, so we order a pizza and decide that PMS is an exception, and we’ll start over on Monday.
Only, as I am eating and enjoying, quite quickly I am struck with enormous guilt…
guilt that I have spent the entire weekend pouting around about thick legs, a pouchy tummy, and whether or not I should splurge on sugar,
when there are far greater issues in this world.
Seriously?
Am I really going to have a moment about a few pounds I may or may not have gained when there are orphaned children in Haiti?
Do you see how this crazy cycle of PMS works???
{summer, come back, come back!}
I promise…I am not weak, or shallow, I just blame the PMS.
© 2009 “Le Musings of Moi”
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You have explained PMS so very perfectly! I may have to print it and post it on the fridge so the guys might better understand me during these times!
I get to be the same way during that time! I want chips with cheese salsa and lots of m&m’s….then afterward I cry because I think the food made me gain 50lbs in 10 minutes!
It’s so hard giving up sugar- I know I have tried in the past– plus PMS does not help- I say give it during this time just your sanity-LOL
Have a great day!
Kelly
PMS is killer!!! it gives me the worst mood swings ever!!!! I hate it!!!!!
PMS does suck.
Im the same way! And I could never give up sweets and gluten for a day much less until Valentines!
yup. this was me sunday. i had so many fun things planned and i just could not motivate. ugh.
i adore you. hugs.
PMS sucks… and while I miss the fact that I will never carry another baby in my belly… I have no uterus therefore no PMS. And thank GOD because I am terrible with anything related to it.
*Hugs* It will get better (and I hope your little bub feels better soon!)
Rule #1- If you are purposely going to cheat on your diet, no feeling guilty about it is allowed. It totally ruins the enjoyment of cheating.
that is why I think that after we have the set number of children that we want, PMS and menstruating should go away all together.
Done.
i totally get the feeling. i hate when i PMS! bitches.
love you!
yep, that sounds pretty familiar. cravings, guilt, love, tears, and cake. that pretty much sums it up!
I must have PMS all the time because I crave carbs constantly!
Hang in there, girly!! xoxo
Sounds good to me. 🙂
The men blame everything on our PMS, why can’t we?
Hope you feel better very soon!
A thousand thank yous for voicing the feelings of women everywhere.
Reason #456 why I adore you.
Oh girl. Yes. Yes yes yes. PMS is evil and makes me into a completely unrecognizable crazy person. I have no idea who I am. And my poor boyfriend just watches the circus wide-eyed, not really sure what to do or say, but still hangs on for the wild ride. Bless his heart.
And bless ours for surviving this madness once per month! LOL 🙂
xoxo J
Hahaha! Friggen PMS is the WORST! The emotions…the eating…the pooch…the stupid effin cramps! Don’t feel guilty. You deserve a purge every once in a while…or should i say once a month.
OMG… PMS and MS (as I like to call the actual event) made me its bitch last week! It was the worst, and I don’t normally suffer these types of “feminine issues.” I’m normally pretty calm and rational, maybe a little more tired than usual the day before and day one, but that’s it.
Well, last week, I was crying, I was moody, I thought the world was ending, I was hungry, I had a headache EVERY NIGHT until Thursday night I really thought I was going to die.
So I hear you, Summer, and I think it’s absolutely fine you took a detour and made Jimmy go with you. You’ll get back on track!
I’m with Gigi…I think I should print this out too. Although this post made me smile, I feel for ya too.
I blame PMS for so much. I seriously ate at least 5 cookies today at work. Probably more, if I’m being honest with you. All I want before my period is SUGAR and more sugar. It screws up everything. So blame it away, sister!
That was me last week. It’s totally ok to blame the PMS. I do. 🙂
Honestly, I can’t recall much of pms, due to the 5 years of pregnancy and nursing… However I do think that much of the same feeling strike in pregnancy, well, and nursing/post baby. Hubs almost let me starve today, which was bunk. I was hungry, too tired to cook, ‘nough said… Shouldnt it be inferred that he should hunt and gather some food?! Sheesh. I am right there with you…
PMS is SUCH a pain!! ugh. Bleh. so sorry!!
OMG HAHAHA I did this just the other week! I’m not even kidding you, going along on my little diet happy as a lark and BAM…
Are you sure you weren’t spying on me? I did exactly the same thing…with the same guilt! uggh…does it EVER end?
I hate PMS too..makes me think of an Anne Taintor slogan in which a lady asks “Has anyone seen my hormones?”
Yes, this is it. This is TOTALLY it!!!!!! What the heck? Why can’t I just tell myself to feel the way I want to feel and then have myself feel that way?
Ha ha, this has totally been me the past week, you described what us women have to go through monthly. It sucks and it is so hard to say no to a lot of food. Everything sounds good to me right now!!
dude. same-same. same cycle. same symptoms. i so feel you.
Me too girlie!