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Molly Edmonds
No. We eat much less when we are ovulating – 5-25 percent less.
Cristen Conger
A lot of times when women will talk about gaining a little bit of weight or feeling bloated around their period – and it’s awful – but the good news is, girls, when you ovulate you’re just going to drop that weight right off. So don’t worry about it.
Molly Edmonds
And this word comes from Daniel Fessler who is our old friend from the foot size podcast.
Cristen Conger
Oh, Fessler.
Molly Edmonds
He looked at all these other studies. The researchers had reported that the women were eating less, but didn’t make the connection as to why they might be doing that. And he thinks that if you go back to our hunter-gatherer times, which all of this does – back when we were hunting for mates and gathering babies. That because food was a scarce commodity back
then, if you only had this very small window to get pregnant and continue the species, somehow your body would’ve adapted so that you had more attention to getting pregnant than the attention that would’ve been necessary to go hunt or gather berries. It was just a way to keep you mindful that this was a pregnancy time, not a sit by the fire and eat time.
Cristen Conger
Not a romantic dinnertime. There’s no time for a romantic dinner. And they’ve done similar studies in female baboons, monkeys, dogs, pigs, goats, sheep, and deer. Suffice it to say, it happens in animals, too. When female animals go into heat, they tend to eat less. And they’ve done studies trying to figure out the biochemical reason why this is happening and they’ve found that a certain molecule in our gut that tells our body that it’s had enough to eat – it signals us that we’re satisfied and we don’t need to eat anymore. When estrogen concentrations go up, the amount of this satisfaction molecule, if you will, drops.
Molly Edmonds
And it still does that even though we live in a time of plenty, where it’s not like you have to worry about going out and hunting your own food. So he’s saying this is a pretty strong instinct the body has to make you focus on getting pregnant. So that’s a lot of subliminal signs that it’s baby-making time.
Cristen Conger
Yeah. And we want to know listeners’ thoughts on this. Because like we’ve said, it’s kind of take it all with a grain of salt. But the most amazing thing that you just might not believe is the amount of research that’s been done. Because we’re just tossing out different examples, but a lot of these examples are comprised of multiple studies from multiple researchers at different institutions. People are very interested in how women act when we ovulate – like really interested.