Calorie goals and nursing

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Maerwhyn
Maerwhyn Posts: 22 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So when you put in your profile information, the site automatically calculates your daily calorie needs to lose the weight you want. I am currently nursing my new baby, so I need more calories per day than I otherwise would. Does anybody know exactly how many extra calories are needed while breastfeeding, and is there any way to make the site reflect that?

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  • n2thenight24
    n2thenight24 Posts: 1,651 Member
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    I'm not sure how to change it, maybe someone else can help with that, but I am pretty sure you need 500 extra calories to breast feed. so maybe just put into mfp that you wish to maintain? Because I think 500 is what hey usually take off for weight loss.
  • rosieg1979
    rosieg1979 Posts: 99 Member
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    If you put nursing or breastfeeding into search under Cardiovascular Exercises you'll find several different entries, pick the one that is closest to your situation and add it every day.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,119 Member
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    Both of the above answers are good. You can also manually edit any of your Goals at

    MY HOME> Goals> Change goals> Custom

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