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[shootingstar]

I'm glad you like to cook, letsride..that's a good sign that you take an interest in how food is prepared for your needs.

Just get good balanced, nutritious meals. Don't eat junk food but have fun and relax with your food in terms of what you choose/make and eat. Do you cook or someone else?

At 19, you're too young to mess up your periods now...having 2 periods per month sounds like a hassle anyway. No girl needs that. So do something about that is long term with your diet.

I'm 5'1" at 98-100 lbs. I have small bones. I eat less than when I was 19 because my metabolism is slowing down abit now. At 19 I ate alot more and would shock alot of men of the volume I ate. I was approx. 93-95 lbs. at that time. I was less physically active but then my diet at that time, had very little sugar compared to now. I've always been small but never considered anorexic because I ate fairly healthy portions. I've never calorie counted ..yet.

My periods have been normal, no cramping nor pain/headaches, but I could never predict on exact day or wk. when things would start. That's ok, it's just me. Perimenopause looks pretty gentle and calm to me now...thank goodness..so far. (just to reassure you that it might take time for your period to readjust its cycles...but for some women it's never dead-on reliable/perfect cycles...but still healthy to have at least 1 period, for normal duration each month. Confirmed for me after thorough gyno checks.). No I do not take birth control pills to realign my periods. I was suggested this by a physician...who didn't push me on this (actually the physician didn't sound totally convinced about this method...) ..so I never took the advice. That was years ago.

Best of luck. You will get so busy in life that your diet path will align right.