Breastfeeding mom

syeehmzh

Anyone out there who is breastfeeding? How do you calculate your calories and macros? I'm exclusively breastfeeding.. I add about 440 calories to my calorie deficit, I feel pretty good so far.. am I doing this right? How do you guys do it? Share me some tips please! 😘

k8eekins

A friend is a nursing 1st-time Mum, who eats above 2,800 calories for she's big and tall, heavily reliant on lactation cookies. My sister (@777Gemma888) and I prepared chocolate chip cookie dough in batches which she bakes for herself, for her cookie jar refills as needed. She insists that those very cookies have boosted her milk supply.

sardelsa

I am breastfeeding. Although not currently tracking my calories. In the past when I just started (at least the first 4-6 months) I ate at maintenance and let breastfeeding create the deficit. Otherwise you can add 300-500 calories to your intake. Just keep an eye on your supply and how fast you are losing and adjust as necessary.

CarynMarie27

I read somewhere else that each ounce of breast milk is 20 calories. So my little one has about 32 ounces a day so that would be 640 calories that I burn per day. Seems about right.

hesn92

I’m breastfeeding. I set my goal to gain 1/2lb a week, and with the calories burned by breastfeeding it should end up being that I lose 1/2lb a week... at least that’s my hope. I’m eating about 2400 calories a day.

bl3ss3dmfp

I'm struggling with this as well. Last week was my first week back at MFP and it's going great... EXCEPT my milk is dropping :-/ She's only 9 months and I want to get to 12 months. I think I need to increase closer to 1800 and start back power pumping to see if that gets my supply back up. I think I made the mistake of lowering my cals too drastically.