[msnewboobies]

Congrats on your awesome progress so far! I wanted to ask you what hormone imbalance symptoms you experienced when you started the pm? Also, that info you posted about gut health is very helpful! Thank you for that. Im also struggling to maintain my weight and I'm at 110 currently but it's SO easy for me to lose weight so I have to work really hard to maintain it. How tall are you? (if you don't mind me asking)

Thank you!
I had quite a few symptoms and I am not sure if they all are because of estrogen dominance, but i think they all have to do with hormonal imbalances.
I had a LOT of hair fallout and a lot of discharge (mostly creamy white sorry if that's tmi), memory loss (still battling that right now but it's been a little better), foggy thinking, long and heavy periods (although that could be from my copper iud, but I think it should have gotten better by now), extreme irritability (I hated almost everyone lol), ZERO sex drive, and quite a few months ago, I felt slightly depressed during my period usually towards the end but I think that could have had to do with coming off BCP.
But I am fairly certain I have too much estrogen in my system because every time I take PM, I start to have hair fallout and excess discharge which are my first signs of an imbalance. And I think for two cycles before this last cycle, I was getting some mid-cycle spotting which I looked up online and found out it was due to high estrogen levels. Also I found online that heavy or long periods are due to too much estrogen since estrogen is what builds the uterine lining -- more E will make it thicker and there will be more to shed during your period. So I will definitely be staying away from any estrogenic herbs for a while now!

I'm glad the gut health info helped! It's definitely been such a huge help for me. Also, I think some of my irritability issues can be attributed to not having enough minerals from having so many gut problems and not absorbing nutrients correctly. So I am really trying to fix my stomach. A lot of health problems arise from issues with the stomach.

I am exactly the same with weight! It fluctuates so much and I don't think it's water weight. I'm pretty slim (I'm 5'4") and I have muscle because I work out all the time (mostly lifting with some cardio for heart health). I drink so much water during the day though that I never get that bloated/water weight issue.
I actually came across this chocolate bar recipe that I call "cocoa fat bars" lol. I'll post the recipe soon but maintaining weight has a lot to do with calorie intake and since fat has the highest number of calories per gram, I thought it would be good to increase my healthy fat intake.