Weight loss stopping. Am I eating too little?

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  • bloodbank
    bloodbank Posts: 468 Member
    my stats as of today are:
    height 5 foot 2 in
    'weight 144.6
    age 22

    According to here: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html your stats indicate that with 'light exercise' (exercising 1-3 times per week) you burn about 2000 calories per day. Add exclusively breastfeeding to that and you're sitting at around 2500 calories per day. To lose 1 pound per week you should be eating about 2000 calories per day. Large deficits aren't generally recommended for nursing mamas, and coupled with the fact that you don't have a terribly large amount to lose, a pound per week is probably just right for you.
  • Maggies90
    Maggies90 Posts: 27 Member
    Wow you got such great info!
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    my stats as of today are:
    height 5 foot 2 in
    'weight 144.6
    age 22


    Even if you're at only a "light" activity level, and wanting to lose 1 lb/week - without breastfeeding you should be eating around 1500 calories/day (plus eating back most or all of your exercise calories). With breastfeeding that's at least 2000/day...


    Any chance you'd consider opening up your food diary for us to look at?

    Pro Numbers:

    BMR 1379
    TDEE 2137

    Cut at 1710+500 for breastfeeding= 2210

    This results in about a pound a week lost if she ate this daily and breastfed the lil one.
  • momRN2B
    momRN2B Posts: 247 Member
    So to give you all on update. I upped my calorie intake to 1440 Net. and I continued doing "The 30 Day Shred". I just completed Level 2 on Day 20. In the last 20 days I lost 2 lbs (1.8 lbs was this past week) and I lost 2 inches off my waist, hips and bust and an inc off my arms. .I am so happy wit my results so far. Thanx for all the advice
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