Breast feeding

I'm currently breastfeeding my 19 month old. Feel free to add me!

I went through it with two children. With the first, I was much younger and the weight came off with little to no effort. With my second, it's been much tougher! I originally started with the goal of losing 1 lb per week, but it was tough because i didn't want my supply to dwindle because of not getting enough calories in my body. It's tricky because, as the pp stated, you don't know exactly how many calories you are burning from bf. At full bf status, when I was exclusively bf her, I figured I was burning up to 500 extra cal a day. As she began solids, I figured it was around 300. I stayed active and kept eating what my body needed, and was able to lose 1 lb a week. As she gradually weaned, I had to watch it more carefully because I wasn't burning as much from bf. Anyway, my point is, yes, it's possible, and yes, you can do it! Feel free to fr or pm me if you'd like to chat more about it!

Hi All,
I'm also a BFing mom! I have 3 boys, 4 y.o., 2 y.o. and now a 2 month old. Looking to lose 10-15 pounds of baby weight! I lost the weight after each son without calorie counting etc, but this go-round, since it'll be our last child, I really want to get into shape and be a fit mama. Especially since the summer months are rolling around and since I'm living in Hawaii, want to be confident in my bathing suit. Would love support and friends! Last time I did this was about 8 years ago for my wedding. I was successful in getting down to my highschool weight!!! I'm not expecting that this time around, but do want to at least get to my prepregnancy weight. What is everyone eating to stay healthy and full with a hectic schedule being a mommy?! (I also work full time too).

I'm a new mom. I was a little heavy when I got pregnant with my 1st and ballooned up to 167lbs and I'm only 5'2. I got down to 135 breastfeeding but now I'm back to 145. I gained 8lbs in my first trimester with my second pregnancy but just lost the baby. Now I'm determined to get healthy before we try again. Please help me stay motivated!

Hi

My second child is 10 weeks old, and I started calorie counting 4 days ago. With the first child the pregnancy weight came off within 6 weeks, but then I gained tons of weight through the 14 months of breastfeeding - told myself to eat with hunger and breastfeeding needed lots of extra calories. I've since learnt that this is not true. You often feel hungry from feeling tired and stressed out which leads to comfort eating. And the extra calories you need for milk production isn't all that much. So this time around I decided to be careful, and also to loose that extra weight from first breastfeeding (rather than first pregnancy). I eat 1800 calories a day (I read somewhere that this is the minimum required for breastfeeding) and I exercise on a stationary bike for 20 mins. I eat oats and drinks lots of water. So far, it hasn't affected my breastmilk supply and its a bit early to tell about the weight. If it stagnates, I will gradually cut down the calories keeping an eye on the milk production (if only there was a built in volume gauge!). I've got 10 kilograms to loose, and aim for 0.5 kilo a week. If anyone has low calorie, high protein, hunger resolving snack recipes (that can be pre-prepared), I would love to know. Snacks let me down everyday.

oh just read zeenatadam's response, I guess I will do 1800 a day :-)

Low calorie, high protein snacks I like are an apple with peanut butter (can't have too much pb though), plain greek yogurt with some berries, or cottage cheese with fruit. I had gestational diabetes so was always looking for low sugar high protein snacks, I really should just eat like I did when pregnant and I would probably lose weight no problem haha

I wish myfitnesspal would allow us to deduct calories lost from breast feeding. Most women lose an additional 500 calories a day from breast feeding.

Hi, feel free to add me as a friend too, I am EBF my 5 1/2 month old son (although we did start weaning about 3 days ago so in a week or so he might start to swallow some real food, lol!).

You can add your breastfeeding calories as a food (search for nursing or breastfeeding - they are a negative amount). I count -350 cals a day for nursing as I found 500 too many (I wasn't losing) but on 350 it seems to be working out.

I am managing to lose between 1/2 and 1lb a week, which is slow but steady and I am happy with it. I tend to use my nursing calories as my treat allowance, as I too am really craving sugar, but I think that is because of the nursing, so am allowing myself some treats. And of course due to tiredness - the days I am most tired I definitely need more sugar.

I am not able to get to a gym, but am walking a lot, I do a pilates class and I am doing the 30DayShred again (although not nearly as regularly as I like). I went for my first run since being pregnant at the weekend.

It's so hard when you are tired, getting the balance. a bit of exercise does help but it can be hard to motivate yourself!

Anyway, feel free to add me

Hi, I'm nursing my 9 month old twins and also my 3yr old (although that's down to 1-2 times a day now) and I managed to GAIN weight since they were born! I figured since exclusive breastfeeding supposedly burned 500cals a day that I could times that by 2 and eat an extra 1000! That did not work out too well for me and I gained 10 lbs after they were born. Since the beginning of May I have been doing Shaklee and am down 6 lbs with no noticeable affect on my milk supply. I still have about 25lbs of baby weight to lose (and then maybe a tiny bit more).
I find when I'm tired or stressed or the kids are being extra difficult I want to stuff my face with carbs and sugar. Now that I am aware of that it kind of keeps me in check. When I'm feeling like that, I'll grab a small handful of almonds and a big glass of water and that usually helps perk me up a bit. And now that the weather is nicer, I'm outside (and away from the fridge) a lot more.

I wish myfitnesspal would allow us to deduct calories lost from breast feeding. Most women lose an additional 500 calories a day from breast feeding.

Search for breastfeeding when you enter a food. It will give ypu a negative 500 cals and reduce your overall recorded intake.

I was two pounds under my pre-pregnancy weight a week after giving birth. But a year later, I was only 2 lbs under my total pregnancy weight. Same as others have said -- I ate a ton while breastfeeding and was really sedentary because I was spending all my non-work time nursing or pumping.

My baby is now 14 months old. Joined MFP 7 weeks ago and have been losing 2 lbs a week, but am only "set" to lose 1 lb a week. The other pound I attribute to breastfeeding, since I am always pretty close to my calorie goal. I like not logging my breastfeeding calories -- I have no way of knowing exactly what they are and by "ignoring" them i am able to lose "bonus weight."

If I were planning to set up my account to lose more than 1 lb a week, I would log breastfeeding as an exercise, though. And if MFP had given me a goal of under 1,500, I would manually increase the goal or log breastfeeding.

Thanks!!! I didn't know breastfeeding was listed with the foods. You rock!