How many calories are you eating?
smartblonde529
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Questions for you mommas that are steadily loosing weight:
1)how many calories are you actually eating
2) how many calories are you burning through exercise
3) how old is your baby that you are nursing
1)how many calories are you actually eating
2) how many calories are you burning through exercise
3) how old is your baby that you are nursing
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I am EBF my 3 month old and I eat 2000/day and subtract 500 calories for BF. If I exercise I eat back my calories burned. Right now my only exercise is taking walks with baby which doesn't burn a lot of calories but I'm going to get back to using my eliptical 30 min/day.0
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1) I am usually eating 1800-2000 healthy calories a day.
2) i walk a lot pushing the stroller, carrying the baby, etc. I also play at the park with the boys, go to the pool with them, etc. Not sure how many calories that all adds up to. Usually, I do not log more than 200 calories a day for exercise.
3) My baby is 5 months old. I am still nursing exclusively, no pumping, no solids yet.
I have lost almost 40 pounds in 4 months, so I am sticking with what I am doing.
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Between 1800-22200 usually. Baby is 3 months and I've slacked on exercise...but I would eat those cals back if I earned them!0
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1)how many calories are you actually eating? I usually eat somewhere in the 1000-1200 range
2) how many calories are you burning through exercise? I burn 400-500 through breat feeding and betwen 400-600 on light workout days and 700-800 on hvy workout days.
3) how old is your baby that you are nursing? My son is 10 months old and nurses 6 x a day (on average)0 -
OK thanks ladies that helps! I'm very active and workout a good bit so I'm wondering if I am not eating enough. I lost over 50lbs while nursing my son, but this time around I'm stuck. MFP says I need 1200 calories as a regular nonnursing individual and since my daughter eats 3 meals a day and usually only nurses 4-5 times I have just been adding 300 calories so I'm eating 1500 a day. I have not been eating hardly any of my exercise calories which usually range from 500-800. I have measured myself and found I'm loosing inches, just not pounds.0
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your net calories should ALWAYS be at least 1200, especially while nursing! Fuel your machines, ladies!
I've lost over 27 pounds in 3 months this way (weighed when I got home from the hospital, so that's not including the 16+ pounds I lost the first 3 days after he was born). This has been great for us because my milk supply has not suffered at all (and if I felt it dip, I enjoyed a bowl of oatmeal to help boost it back). If I feel like eating a few extra hundred calories, I do it, because that usually closely correlates with a growth spurt. 0 -
I have my calories set to 2000, but am eating around 2200.
I haven't really gotten back into working out yet, but I start back at my boot camp workouts next week which burn b/w 500-700 calories.
My baby is 10 weeks old and I'm nursing 7-10 times a day.0 -
I went back and looked at my net calories on the days I was exercising a lot and they were way below 1200 which I think was a major problem. I'm stuck not exercising right now as I just had knee surgery, but I'm pretty sure I was not eating enough when working out. It's so hard to see those calories go up sometimes, but I'm trying to make sure that I eat plenty of healthy calories instead of empty ones. Thanks for the input ladies!!!!0
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I try very hard to consume 2000 calories a day. It is very hard for me to eat that much, normally it is closer to 1800
I burn about 500 calories a day breastfeeding 12x a day, and another 500 or so calories a day with exercise.
My son is 5 months old in actual age.
I started off overweight. I always lose all the baby weight by 6 weeks postpartum. Then I start to gain steadily because my body goes into starvation mode. I am going to try very hard to consume enough calories each day this time. It was REALLY hard when I tandem nursed #3 and #4 as a single mom while my husband was deployed. I think I was consuming closer to 1,000 or less calories a day then.0 -
I'm eating 2000 calories a day.
I haven't really been working out at all.
My 5.5 month old is EBF (bites of food here and there) and still nurses 8-12 times a day.0 -
I'm eating 2000 calories a day.
I haven't really been working out at all.
My 5.5 month old is EBF (bites of food here and there) and still nurses 8-12 times a day.
I'm in the same boat. I want to exercise more for my own sanity. I feel better when I do!0
