r/Amenorrhea

Hi all! I am naturally underweight and have been my whole life but recently lost my period after taking up walking. I really loved it and would walk up to 30k but recently dropped it back down to 10k. I also drank ensure to try and see if it was my weight even though I have always gotten a regular period. I gained 4kg but still nothing happened. My period has been gone for 6 months now and I feel like I have tried everything but nothing has worked. Does anyone have anymore ideas? Thank you so much!

Hello beautiful people of reddit,

I have had 4 periods after recovery from HA, my fifth should be coming quite soon. I feel so proud and grateful that I've recovered, however in my luteal phase especially when emotions are higher, I can't help but wonder about my weight.

For context, I was at about 122 lbs before HA (15 y/o), then while HA I dropped down to around 110-115 lbs. Now, post HA, I am about at 130 lbs (now 16 y/o and 5"6) and probably the heaviest I've been, even if it's not by a crazy much.

Sometimes I wonder if I should loose weight again, or I'm scared that I'll keep gaining weight if I continue to eat freelly. I think these are leftovers of disordered thoughts, but I'd like to know what you ladies do to help them out, and also how to even approach weight loss if that's a thing I want in the future.

Furthermore, I am increasing my workouts because I want to grow muscle and become stronger, so that might not cause me to loose weight per say - just a side note.

Another thing I wanted to ask - throughout HA and even now I am alwasy bloating. Of course it varies, as in right after period in follicular phase my stomach is flatter in the morning, but during luteal phase, like right now, my stomach always looks round + pregnant like. I am a lot freer with foods these days, but I don't think fodmaps are the cause (though it could be i guess?) anyways what do yall think? should I go to a nutritionist or doctor? how did you help this, or did it go away naturallyy?

thank you so much for reading my post, wishing you all a great day💕

I’m a 16yr girl, I lost my period to HA and I cannot consistently get it back or get it back so it’s full-I finally got it back last month and it was patchy ect, I’m three days late this month and I’m scared I lost it again, I’ve been eating at my maintain 1500-1650 calories and I do go to the gym, I’ve given up cardio part from getting my steps in. I need to know the fastest ways you guys got your period back with minimal weight gain please! (I’ve also been working on restoring my relationship with food and I’ve come a long way from where I started and I yeah) if you have questions feel free to to ask-also I guess I’ll say it tw weight- I’m 5,6 and 110lbs but when I was more seriously disordered I was 85-95lbs and 5,3-5,4/5, I still had my period but now i don’t? I’m so confused I just want to be normal and be able to go to the gym and become strong and like how I look with my period so I don’t have to do any of this stupid stuff.

EDITTT: thank you everyone Thank you I’ve decided I’m going to start eating more at least 2-3 times a week and increasing my other intake as well, Ik I’m Ha ur not spossed to eat refined carbs and u want the healthily ones but I just asked my mom to pick me up hot cheetos(something I’ve been wanting so so badly for over a year but never let myself) and I think..I’ll actually have some if she gets them-I’m gonna try and focus more on whole carbs though.

Context:
Pre Covid: 250 lbs
Around 2022: 205lbs ish
April-Sept 2025: 205/10-160/170lbs
Height: 174cm/ 5’9
Ever since Sept 2025 and my body has been giving out, my original goal was to get to 130 lbs, I did this with no ozempic or any help, and initially didn’t track calories, during covid I think it was that we couldn’t go anywhere so I lost the weight via no fast food, but my second half was mostly dialing to 2 meals and snacks, but I didn’t think it that extreme because looking back they were pretty rounded meals most times? But fast forward to now (2026), haven’t gotten my period for 6 months, despite me eating intuitively since February, I tracked calories around September 2025 to February 2026 to eat around maintenance, then thought it’d be safe to return to a safe deficit (after learning ab calories) but then I didn’t get Marchs period and here we are. I’m 150lbs now, after trying to accept I need more calories to get a period I’ve been eating around 25-2700, fluctuating around 156-8, and noticing some signals of recovery but still no period. I am terrified to say the least of gaining weight, questioning if I can ever get to my goal weight of 130-135 at least anytime in life, and idk what I could’ve possibly done wrong. I was never super disordered/ really that bad, I naturally have a low appetite/ busy schedule and not enough time to eat, but recovery is just adding to the pile for me.
I get that recovery should b prioritized, but I also never thought weight loss was this bad? I also like to work out in the mornings, but like a 20 minute Pilates YouTube video, with 30 min walks is my usual rhythm for 4x a week, nothing too crazy, so it makes no sense to dial back exercise. There are people out there who lose more weight than me and function fine, why is my body failing me? Even as I put in the effort to recover, it’s so annoying. I’ve been using ChatGPT mostly, cause doctors give me mixed signals and I’m again, terribly afraid to regain any weight. I don’t want to give up on my goal, and I don’t like having to eat 2k+ calories just to better my CHANCE of recovering my period, not even for a guarantee yk? Like sure my body may need it, but it could also be stress from school/ work, or just cs I’m a Virgo I stress/ overanalyze everything (even this lol), but STILL. Why can’t I get what I want? It isn’t even that extreme? I’m at a bmi of 22 ish? Like what.
Also lab tests were showing a mildly low T3, low progesterone and estrogen, but I feel like maybe now things are getting better? Not sure. Also haven’t been able to feel anything sexually related. Like at all. 😐 Sorry tmi but idk who to talk to ab all this. Lol help/ tips would be appreciated!!