I found fasting alleviated pre-menstrual and menstrual symptoms, including water retention and cramps. Well, I say fasting, but it’s probably as much due to a change in diet – I pretty much cut out added sugar and refined white carbohydrates.

I stopped eating bread and pasta every day! And made biscuits/ cakes a once a week treat at most. I don’t believe that products labelled ‘whole grain’ are automatically a healthy switch, it depends on the processing. So I didn’t just substitute whole grain bread for white bread/ wholewheat pasta for white, etc. I made more fundamental changes to my diet.