Breastfeeding

monkey99

Hi Everyone,
I'm new to MFP and just wondering how I account for breastfeeding?

Thanks for the help!

fwdmotion

When I was breastfeeding I heard that it burned 500 calories a day! Feel free to double check. It might depend on how many feedings a day, etc. I would just add it as a new exercise (if it's not already on there) and add the calories that you burned. Go you! I lost a lot of weight breastfeeding.

NoAdditives

Breastfeeding generally burns 300-500 calories per day, depending on how much your baby nurses. So, you need 300-500 calories on top of your maintenance calories in order to stay healthy, keep your supply up and to maintain the nutrition level of your milk.

fitstarr

Good for you for breastfeeding!!!!What a beautiful gift of health to give your child.

MisdemeanorM

You can enter it under food and it will add negative calories, or under exercise where it will just add on extra calories to your daily count.

young1726

Yeah, I add it daily under my food diary. It's Mom - Breastfeeding. My baby girl is just over 6 months and I have accounted for 500 cals extra all along and have been losing 1 to 2.5 lbs weekly. Good luck!

minicakeumz

In your food diary, add food and type Nursing Mommy - Breastfeeding.

margarita953

I'm piggybacking on this post to ask another related breastfeeding question-if I'm only nursing 1-2x a day, should I even consider this as calories burned? I'm thinking if any it would be minimal.

Chrysti3

I've been tracking my food as normal, with my goals realistic, and adding in 2-3 glasses of milk and 1-2 glasses of juice (real juice, not sugar water!) every day without 'counting' them into my calories.

My baby girl will be three weeks old on Saturday, I've lost 22lbs, and have more milk than she knows what to do with (Thank God!)!