not losing anything while breastfeeding please help

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  • salydra
    salydra Posts: 29
    Personally, I am breastfeeding and eat 1200-1500 calories per day. Since you exclusively pump, you are in a situation where you will be able to tell as soon as your supply went down and can respond promptly. I'd recommend lowering your calories to a point where you are comfortable and make sure to get plenty of fat (preferably in the form of things like avocado and meat), and eat lots of leafy greens like spinach.
  • kazaroona
    kazaroona Posts: 60 Member
    I would also say that your baby is only 2 months old, you'll find that over the next few months you will drop more weight naturally anyway, just dont expect too much too soon you have a considerable amount of time left until your trip.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    1.5lbs a week a lot in any case. you just had a huge trauma between your legs. Set it to 0.5lbs per week and eat enough to make some milk.
    A lot of people have some real hard issues with breastfeeding and milk and all that stuff. You should be thankful that although you have to pump, you can still do it.
  • havenbaby
    havenbaby Posts: 7 Member
    I have a 21 month old and a 6 month old and nurse half the time and pump half the time since I work full time. I recently just started getting serious about losing weight but mostly just getting in shape. I haven't been where I would like to be even before having kids and I am currently below my pre-pregnancy weight. I lost 30 lbs in the first two weeks not doing anything (except chasing my toddler) and than stayed constant at around 155. My base calories were 1200 to lose 2 pounds a week and than I add 800 calories for breastfeeding so my daily goal is 2000 and I have been working out consistently for two weeks and have been losing about 2 lbs a week. I try not to eat back my excercise calories but if I am hungry I eat. I also really love sugar/candy so have cut out that and eat more fruit when I crave something sweet and I am trying to eat low carb and low fat food but high in protein. I found this great website that you can input your gender and if you are lactating and weight and it will tell you how many calories you need to eat to maintain your current weight and than it tells you the minimum amount of carbs etc that you should be eating a day so I made my own breastfeeding "food" item to add the calories and carbs/fats/proteins to my food diary goal to reach the minimum I need from the website and I really try to eat all the carbs, protein etc that I need and so far it is going good and my supply has not been affected at all...maybe this website can help you out too:
    http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned
    Hope this all makes sense and Good Luck...I personally think breastfeeding has so many benefits to your babe and you and can also be a great weightloss tool since you burn so many calories but you might just need to play around with the calorie intake and see what works for you...you definately need to eat a lot more to keep up with breastfeeding but I have found eating more of the right foods is the key for me!!

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