Moms with Nursing Babies?

inGodaloneItrust
inGodaloneItrust Posts: 6
in Health and Weight Loss
I am nursing my 3 month old, and wonder about calorie intake... and general weight loss while breastfeeding.

Anyone else out there breastfeeding too?

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  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    I'm still nursing my youngest, who just turned one this past weekend. What has worked for me is picking the correct activity level (even while I was at home, I was set at active for all the crazy running around up and down stairs), set my profile to lose 1 pound a week (now it's set at 1/2lb since I am so close to my goal), adding in the best breastfeeding option into my food diary, and eating all my base plus nursing, plus the majority of my exercise calories.
  • caramellips06
    caramellips06 Posts: 82 Member
    IM BREASTFEEDING TOO A 4 MONTH OLD. I HAVE READ GENERAL RULE FOR US NURSING MOMS NO MORE THAN A LB A WEEK BUT I HAVE LOST UP TO 3 IN A WEEK. JUST WATCH UR SUPPLY N U WILL KNOW WHAT WORKS FOR U SINCE EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT. IM ON A 1430 CALS INTAKE BUT I CAN ADD UP TO 500 CALS IF I NEED TO SINCE U BURN ANYWHERE FROM 200-500 CALS A DAY JUST BREASTFEEDING. TRY NOT TO FEED AFTER A HARD WORKOUT SOMETIMES UR MILK CAN HAVVE A SOUR TASTE BUT BABY WILL LET U NO. MAKE SURE TO GET EVEN WATER TOO IM DRINKING UP TO 100 OZ A DAY SOMETIMES. ALSO I WAS TAKING FERGNUREEK N DRINKING MOTHERS MILK TO HELP WILL SUPPLY BUT IM ESTABLISHED NOW SO GOOD LUCK N HTH THIS IS WHAT HAS WORKED FOR ME
  • jgm379
    jgm379 Posts: 97 Member
    I think you burn/lose at least 400 calories a day nursing the babes. I always lose weight faster when I'm nursing so your actually doing yourselft a favor by taking the weight off now instead of later. Later will be harder.

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