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Breast feeding - calories???

Bradburycm
Bradburycm Posts: 2
edited October 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hi I'm new to this group and have just started so I can loose the last of my baby weight, finding it really good so far, but I was told I should get extra calories as I'm still breast feeding, is this true and how would I set this up? Thanks :happy:

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  • LiseMarieBrown
    LiseMarieBrown Posts: 11 Member
    Hello,

    If you are full time exclusively breastfeeding, you'll need an extra 500 cals a day, I hav seen someone enter it in on a diary as "Exclusive BF - 500 cals" and it minused it off, I think they must have enter -500?

    HTH
  • Bradburycm
    Bradburycm Posts: 2
    Yep got it, thanks for that, would never have worked that one out! X
  • fortunaa
    fortunaa Posts: 2
    i heard that you would loose weigth during breast feeding, wel nevermind
  • jnelson1985
    jnelson1985 Posts: 1 Member
    I Weighed the same since my baby was 6 weeks she will be a year next week.iv tried eating more eating less working out .im going nowhere near the extra 300_500 calories most days ...hopeless
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