Advice please...19 day cycle caused by LE diet/exercise or something else?

Apologies if this has been asked before. Does LE diet and exercise reduce cycle length? My cycles do vary but I have just got AF on CD19?? That's the shortest ever.

I've been swaying pretty hard since January, have lost about 21lbs, exercising 5-6 times per week for at least an hour and following LE diet. My calorie intake is 1200-1500 most days.

Other info: I've been suffering with persistent conjunctivitis and my legs are injured at the moment due to all the running on a TM so I've had the last 3 days off exercise and then tonight AF arrived.

Just wondered if this is consistent with anyone else's experience?

Yes it absolutely does! I'm not swaying hard and my ovulation date has jumped up to cd 14 from a normal cd 18/19. My normal cycle length is about 31 days, the last couple of months it's been 28 days.

If you're doing that much exercise I would say you need to up your kcal intake a lot. My cycles went mad with exercise and I had to force myself to eat 1800 kcal sometimes 2,000. I didn't gain any weight doing this but 1200 whilst exercising is def not enough.

Thanks so much for your replies ladies xx honeybee, I'm just so worried to up calories in case I gain weight. You were brave to force yourself to eat more. Can I ask how you increased and what types of foods you added in? Or was it just more of the same?

My cycle this month was only 22 days and that's short for me!

Thanks for chiming in Frilly. How long are your cycles usually?

28 days on average but when I started swaying last year they got shorter. Then even shorter when I started again this year, but never as short as this month. I am a geriatric though!

Glitter mouse I am still staying within the protein and fat limits but eating more white carbs etc. Having said that I wouldn't listen to me as my luteal phase is ridiculously short and I am not going to conceive easily since my AF turned up today at 7dpo (worse than last month...). It's a nightmare knowing what to do for the best, isn't it!!

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Originally Posted by GlitterMouse

Thanks so much for your replies ladies xx honeybee, I'm just so worried to up calories in case I gain weight. You were brave to force yourself to eat more. Can I ask how you increased and what types of foods you added in? Or was it just more of the same?

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Oh honeybee I'm the same. My luteal phase this month was 8 days. It is a total nightmare knowing what to do I agree. Has your luteal phase always been short? Mine has and I did manage to easily conceive my two boys. Is short lutal phase linked to having boys? I always feel that that could be the reason I only have boys iykwim?? I really hope I'm way off the mark with that!

GM, how short was your shortest cycle prior to swaying? Earliest O day, pre swaying? Shortest LP, pre swaying?

Also, average cycle length, average O day, and average LP, all pre swaying?