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Best way to decrease body fat % and level needed to stop menstruation?

I'd do weights, full body workout, 3 times a week (to preserve your muscle and therefore focus the weight loss on fat) and HIIT cardio 3 times a week too.

Remember, if on the same day, do weights before cardio. Stop drinking alcohol completely, as that reduces your body's ability to burn fat for up to 48 hours after drinking even just a couple of drinks.

Diet is most important though - forget low carb diets and the like, you're going to need lots of carbs for energy given the excerise you need to do. Go for a nutritionally balanced, low fat, calorie deficit diet. I would stick to roughly 60% carbs, 20-25% protein, and 15-20% fat. This means that if you were on say 1600 calories a day (for example purposes; you may well need more than this, choose 500 less than what you burn in a day) this would work out at approx 240g carbs, 90g protein, and 30g fat (try to keep saturates as low as possible - a third or less of total fat).

Divide your food into 6 small meals a day to keep your metabolism up and drink 2 or 3 litres of ice cold water if possible.
 
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maybetinymaybesad said:
fairnymph-
i am just curious why you want to skip your period. is it for birth control? or do you just not like it? i have lost my period due to low body fat (i think) for three or four months stretches a few times, but it was always because i would get depressed and lose my appetite, and i'm pretty sure the depression isn't worth it:\

tons of exercise does stop your period, though. my sister is a top-ranked squash player and she barely, if ever, gets her period. it's not because of low body fat because she has way more body fat than i do.
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Does anybody READ threads anymore before responding to them?? She JUST described WHY she doesn't want her period.

Good luck, Julia. That's some major dedication.
 
yeah, dude, i'm not sure what it is, but there's GOT to be a better way...
 
If your hormone levels are extremely high anyway, that might be one reason you wouldn't lose your period when you lost a lot of body fat....if you've already noticed you can get to 16% and not lose them, then that might be why??

I also agree that there has to be some better way, and this is something best discussed with a medical professional rather than through some sort of self-medicated way.
 
Um, I'm 5'8", two months ago I was about 95 lbs, and didn't get my period for a year. This was not what I wanted, and I had been struggling to gain weight. Not getting your period means all sorts of chemical imbalances. I was fainting all the time. Now I'm 115 lbs. And I got my period back only yesterday.

Sorry for the lecture, but it's not worth it... You're gonna cause long term damage to your body. Periods are cleansings, and you will become lodged up with crap.
 
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deja, if you had read one of my responses, you would see that I can't take hormones of any type (although, I tried this when I was younger, and instead of not getting my period, I just bled for 16 days straight). As it is my hormone levels are too high (prog/estr).
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Sorry about that, I was in a hurry and just read the first post.
 
i'd rather be at risk for stroke, then alter my body chemistry to produce amenhorrea. it's a very drastic approach.
i don't know many doctors that wouldn't be willing to work with you to find a better solution to your dilemma than to deprive/alter your body.

...plus ... you may not achieve your goal ... meaning you might still menstruate in some form. i'm wondering if this wouldnt make you more apt to trying even harder to alter your already delicate state of physical "turmoil".

...im not a doctor but high doses of depo provera seem like they might be an option ... or perhaps naproxen (which i've found helpful for cramps)

i wish you the best, but ask that you reconsider medical intervention should you not attain the results you seek. although you might even consider steroids... the side effects can be horrible.

don't let it get out of hand. you seem extremely reasonable and knowledgable. keep some room in your mind for reflective evaluation before the point of harm. be it physical or mental.

The research has not conclusively proven that there is a ‘critical level’ of body fat necessary to maintain regular cycles. As well, female athletes with adequate body fat may still experience menstrual irregularities. Conversely, many very lean athletes do not experience amenorrhea. The rate of body mass loss may be more critical than the absolute amount of body fat lost. After all, muscle tissue and the skeleton, not just body fat, also determine the total body mass. Therefore, alterations in both lean body mass and body fat may be important in concluding if a critical body fat level is a valid hypothesis for causing amenorrhea.

Fertility and sexual response would be my main worries.

Kids and great sex are right up there on the importance scale.
 
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This being the healthy living forum, I just can't help but point out how ridiculously unhealthy this is. I know you said no lectures, and are probably aware of all the risks, but this is just not a good thing to do to yourself at all.

That being said, you might want to talk to your doctor about using a triazole anti-estrogen agent to lower your naturally high estrogen levels.
 
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Um, I'm 5'8", two months ago I was about 95 lbs, and didn't get my period for a year. Not getting your period means all sorts of chemical imbalances. I was fainting all the time. Now I'm 115 lbs. And I got my period back only yesterday.

...You're gonna cause long term damage to your body. Periods are cleansings, and you will become lodged up with crap.
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^^periods aren't cleansing if you never develop the uterine lining created during a normal unhormonally induced menstruation. when altered with birth control hormones ...your body thinks it's already pregnant. using hormones such as birth control prevents ovulation.

[url]http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/cr-wr2615.pdfmenstrual nirvana[/URL]

Have you been checked for endometriosis? Your physical complaints seem to indicate a possibility for this condition.

There are many options without stressing out your body and causing irreversible damage.

Goserelin and Danazol are extreme. Maybe an interuterine device with hormone release. ?
 
I cannot take hormones, as I've stated. There's really no point in me going over this all, so I won't.

Thanks for those who have helped (and actually answered my questions), I'll report back if I reach new lows of body fat.
 
i'm kinda just jumping in here but couldn't you just get on the pill continuously so that you don't get your period for like 3 months (or however long youd like it)? My girlfriend does it and it works fine.

Again sorry if I missed it if this was already mentioned, it's late and there are too many posts to read.
 
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After a short discussion with a collegue ... he pointed out that it is more likely amenhorrea will occur if the BMI - or body mass index ...is low. Bone, muscle and otherwise all account for total BMI. Unfortunately most BMI's are done by height and weight ... which is only moderately accurate. Maybe a fitness and nutrition specialist would know more. How is it going, if i may ask?
 
Chromium and ALA work wonders for increasing one's metabolism.

There is a female anabolics forum here: http://www.cuttingedgemuscle.com/Forum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=16

Read everything you can about the various fat-burning drugs before using them, as some of them are extremely dangerous, and irreversible... so the slightest overdose could lead to a miserable death without hope of cure.

The most dangerous include clenbuterol, T3, and DNP... Don't forget that biologists regard these as mitochondrial poisons.
 
^DNP is a mitochondrial poison...

But T3 is just thyroid hormone, which occurs naturally in your body. And clenbuterol isn't particularly dangerous (or effective unless combined with T3, and some sort of non-aromatizing anti-catabolic like trenbolone).
 
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