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MissKayGee
MissKayGee Posts: 11
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Good Morning Everyone!

I am new to MFP (well I am just starting to use an account I've had forever. I gave birth to baby #4 on 11/25/12. With my first two children I had no issues losing my baby weight. This time, however, I am struggling. My 3rd daughter was 9 months old when I got pregnant again and I had yet to lose the weight I'd gained with her. I was 183 pre-preggo and about 235 when I gave birth to my son in November. I weighed myself yesterday and I am about 207 but I am trying to get to 160 as soon as I can.

I am a FT teacher and am nursing my son at home and pumping while at work. He is still exclusively on breast milk. I find that I am hungry ALL the time so I am trying to manage healthy snacking and eating in addition to starting an exercise regimen. Last Sunday, I re-joined LA fitness and have been three times so far.

I just want to know what some other moms are doing. I enjoy weight loss challenges and things of the sort so I would love to participate if there are any out there.

I hope all of you are doing well!

Thanks so much and have a great day!

MissKayGee (Karen)

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  • shrinkinc
    shrinkinc Posts: 74 Member
    You and I are about the same right now. My son was born 11/12/12 and I was 235 when I gave birth now I'm down to 204, my GW is 145. I work full-time and pump while I am away and nurse when DS and I are together. Yay for breastfeeding! I have MFP set to lose 1 lb/week and then I add in 500 cal for breastfeeding. I eat about every 2 - 3 hours and average about 200 - 350 cals during the day every time I eat. I usually do ok. Today is a day I'm VERY hungry for some reason. Right now I'm training for a 5k so I just run for 30 minutes every other day. The weight is definitely coming off and I average 1.5 - 2 lbs loss every week. I'm having issues being consitent with my eating so I do yo-yo almost every week, but it's something I'm working on.
    I'm not involved in any challenges however I do have an excel sheet I set up with my goal to lose 1 lbs a week and I track my weight on there as well as NSVs I hope to achieve to keep me going. You could probably search groups to find some challenges going on.
    Good luck!
  • MissKayGee
    MissKayGee Posts: 11
    Thanks for responding! So my question is right now MFP says I can have about 1250 calories a day to lose a pound a week. Should I manually do it and make it 1750 since I am nursing?? It just seems like it wants me to eat so little and Im really ALWAYS hungry. I know I should be as active as possible but I am just starting to get into the swing of things. You are doing great with your weight loss keep up the good work!!

    KayGee
  • chickybuns
    chickybuns Posts: 1,037 Member
    Hello. My son was born 11/25 as well! I currently have my goals set up on maintenance, take 500 for breastfeeding (although I mostly pump and pump 35-40 which would be more like 700-800 calories) and I have it set to sedentary, which I have started working again so it's probably more like lightly active. This has worked better than when I had it set to lost 1lb per month. I am also very hungry a lot! I would for sure add in those calories, 1200 is not enough while breastfeeding! Fell free to add me :)
  • aranchmom
    aranchmom Posts: 176 Member
    I haven't been doing this long enough to see a difference, (one week?) but just set my cals to maintenance, and figure the extra 400-500 from BF will be my deficit. I get starving too, and thats why i don't set it lower, cause I have noticed my milk supply suffers if I don't eat plenty. This is my 5th time BFing so I can tell pretty good when I am not getting enough to eat.

    Good Luck!
  • MoodieMama
    MoodieMama Posts: 7
    some of us add breastfeeding as an exercise and manually enter in estimated calories (I use 500). others enter it in as a food. hope this helps and ggod luck on your journey.
  • MissKayGee
    MissKayGee Posts: 11
    Thanks for responding. I wish I could run but I've never done it and don't even know where to start. A brisk walk I guess? Hopefully the pounds start to come off soon :-)
  • aranchmom
    aranchmom Posts: 176 Member
    I used to do the Couch to 5K program. Made for beginners. But I got pregnant and never finished. Seemed doable, though. There's a website or you can download free apps that have prompts, etc. There's also C25K groups/topics on MFP.

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