Experimental Phase
The experimental phase will consist of a 12 month intervention.
If you are a subject with regular menstrual cycles, during the 12 month intervention you will complete the following:
- Two physical exam
- Three interviews with the nutritionist and clinical psychologist
- Four 3 day food logs
- Four 7 day periods of monitoring physical activity
- Five resting metabolism tests
- Four sets of 7 questionnaires
- Twelve body weight measurements (every month)
- One bone density test
- Four body fat tests
- Daily urine collections for three months
- Five metabolic blood sample (4 tablespoons, 80ml)
- Five bone marker blood sample (2 tablespoons, 40 mls)
- Five 3 day in a row 2nd morning urine samples
- Completion of daily logs to monitor exercise training and the
menstrual cycle daily for the entire study
If you are a subject with absent or irregular menstrual cycles, during the 12 month intervention you will complete the following:
- Four physical exams
- Fourteen interviews with the nutritionist and clinical psychologist
- Fourteen 3 day food logs
- Fourteen 7 day periods of monitoring physical activity
- Five resting metabolism tests
- Four sets of 7 questionnaires
- Twenty-four body weight measurements (every other week)
- One bone density test
- Four body fat tests
- Daily urine collections for 12 months
- Five metabolic blood sample (4 tablespoons, 80 ml)
- Five bone marker blood sample (2 tablespoons, 40 mls)
- Five 3 day in a row 2nd morning urine samples
- Completion of daily logs to monitor exercise training and the
menstrual cycle daily for the entire study