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That is total bull! I've known plenty of active females who have gained wait from birth control. 10lbs in one month? That doesn't come from sitting on your butt when you play soccer, tennis or any other sport. (Expecially with running everyday.) These researchers need to try harder. It doesn't tell you if they compared physically active women to non physically active women. How many women, age groups or anything to that extent.

---and it's also in the prescribing sheets. Which means the birth control companies did their studies too and that was one of the side effects found to be common.

XD I see I've been beaten to it, but I had a terrible time when I was on BCPs with weight gain. Despite improving my diet and exercising more, I gained 10-15 pounds every year I was on it and could never actually take weight off for more then a few short weeks. So they can say what they want, I didn't gain all that from eating poorly and sitting on my butt. As soon as I came off BCP for the first time in 9 years, I started just losing weight. I know my weight gain was an extreme case, but damn, it happened.

No correlation my foot. lol

I haven't had any experience with gaining weight on the pill. In fact, I've had the opposite. I've lost half a stone since going on the pill 3 months ago.

It might change though. I hope it does, I want that half a stone back! gonk