Thread: THUNDER thighs before period!!!

I'm 18, in college, you've probably already heard this story before.

Anyway, it's bad enough i'm as skinny as a toothpick and desperately want to pack on some pounds (i'm 106 WITHOUT water retention) but it's even worse that my friggen period is TEASING me ! i suffer from (well, not really suffer, since lots of people go through it) a little thing called water retention a full week and a half before my period. my thighs get bigger and my boobs swell up (i basically look just the way i want to) you would think i would be satisfied with this temporary change, but that's just the problem...it's temporary. i enjoy this excess weight but it only stays for about two weeks, so i really don't want it at all unless it's truly there to stay and comes from fat/muscle, not water retention. i'm tired of getting excited about the sudden six pound weight gain thinking i'd actually succeeded in gaining weight when it's only my friggen cycle.

i said all this to say; is there any way i can stop water retention? any way at all? and does anyone else experience the same thing?

thanks.