Breastfeeding mamas

Sden1231

do any of you have open diarys so I can peek at what your doing calorie wise? Sometimes I have no trouble eating a bunch of food and then other days I'm just like...I don't think I can eat anymore. Now that I'm cutting back on ice cream and candy, I'm having trouble eating all my calories... Mfp says I need 1450 a week, then I add 500 for breastfeeding, (she eats every 2 hours) and then my exercise calories are about 300. So that's 2250 calories a day. I try to stay anywhere from 1800-2200

ITSSODAMNHOT

do any of you have open diarys so I can peek at what your doing calorie wise? Sometimes I have no trouble eating a bunch of food and then other days I'm just like...I don't think I can eat anymore. Now that I'm cutting back on ice cream and candy, I'm having trouble eating all my calories... Mfp says I need 1450 a week, then I add 500 for breastfeeding, (she eats every 2 hours) and then my exercise calories are about 300. So that's 2250 calories a day. I try to stay anywhere from 1800-2200

Mine should be viewable... I'm at 1800/day

Sden1231

Are you breastfeeding lol

ITSSODAMNHOT

LMFAO!!! I ready the Topic WAY TO FAST ROFL. I thought it said Breakfast meals...

But my wife is breastfeeding... Does that count?!?!? lol

ANeWcRe8N

LMFAO!!! I ready the Topic WAY TO FAST ROFL. I thought it said Breakfast meals...

But my wife is breastfeeding... Does that count?!?!? lol

Thats toooo funny!!!

alyssa92982

Mines open if u want to look-I just added 500 calories to my goal when I set up acct-I BF exclusively also

Ahzuri

The minimum you'll want to do in the beginning is 1800, any lower than that and you run a risk of compromising your supply early on. After it is established you can start lowering your calories, I didn't really start toying with that until around the year mark (dropped way down to 1500 couldn't do it, back up to the 1800ish mark and slowly coming down now as I lose weight) because I wanted to be sure that I'd be ok. Breastfeeding itself burns around 300-500 a day in the first year, I eventually stopped counting those so they would just be a nice extra boost. I think my diary is open to the public (if not its about to be lol) so you can take a look if you like at my first entries if you like.

If you've got any other questions don't hesitate to ask

*Edited* I used to count the BFing calories by adding them in as exercise at a flat rate of 500 for the first part of the year and as we got closer to 1 year 300 and then not at all. We are still going at a 1yr 1/2 but she doesn't nurse like she used to so I don't bother

sm26davis

Have you tried the babyfit.com site? Its like mfp but it adds in for BF. I have been having a hell of a time trying to loose. I have worked my butt off and have gotten no where. I started out eating 1200-1400 and ended up in startvation mode( was burning 600-880 working out) so I upped my cals to 1500-1800 and maybe one to two days I try to get to 2000 and lowered my workout to 400 cals burned and I got so tried again. Then I found babyfit and it tells me that I need to eat 2300-2500. It also has tons of articles about BF and one says it takes 750 calories to make milk but they tell you to eat 300-500 extra to loose weight and eating a little less forces your body to dip into your maternal stores and thats how you loose weight. I too am trying to find healthy foods to eat to get that many calories!! Add me if you want to maybe we can help each other find foods!

Sden1231

Thanks everyone! I know I'm not supposed to go under 1800, and I usually don't, even if that means eating ice cream lol, I just wanted to see what some other mamas were doing.

My supply is established and no problems there. My body let's me know when I need to eat, I get dizzy, and really cranky. Hubby usually can tell and tries to shove food down my throat lol