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Breastfeeding

whitneybooker0515
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A friend of mine is wanting to join MFP and she is breastfeeding...is their an option to put that in so that she still gets enough extra calories for that??? Thanks!
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I believe she would enter as normal and then log breastfeeding as 400 calories of exercise.0
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No, I mean to add it into her daily calorie allowance. She will need more than what a person that doesnt breastfeed would need0
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There are a lot of different ways to input it. I put breastfeeding in as cardio that burns 400 calories a day. I EBF my 2 month old.
Others manually change their calorie goal and add 400-500 onto that. I have also seen some mom's put nursing in the food diary as -calories. The Breastfeeding group has lots of info.0 -
I breastfeed and i just add it into my food diary0
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I breastfeed and I just bumped my caloric intake up to 1800. She needs the extra cals or it could affect production.0
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I breastfeed but never add it. I've never had an issue with supply..and we still nurse 8-10 times a day.0
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I'd be alright with breastfeeding as long as it was a good source of protein and kept my macros in line.0
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I just add "breastfeeding" into my food log every day and it gives me -500 calories (so it takes me from 1300 calories available to 1800 available
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you can adjust your settings to what you want rather than using custom settings.0
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you can search breastfeeding on the food diary and add it that way - it add calories instead of taking them away0
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I believe she would enter as normal and then log breastfeeding as 400 calories of exercise.
Is exactly what you do (Although I thought it was 500 not 400), that way it gets added to your calories that you need to eat.0 -
I've seen it added as calories burned and as negative calories consumed. So you could do either. I nurse as well but never count it, my supply is doing just fine and my daughter is still nursing 6-10 times a day.0
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you can search breastfeeding on the food diary and add it that way - it add calories instead of taking them away
I do it this way. It takes away 500 from my daily total so I end up eating 1800-19000
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