breastfeeding and calorie consumption

skullgirl84
skullgirl84 Posts: 36 Member
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Hello all, I'm not new to the site. I actually was able to Lose 50lbs due to my fitness pal. By losing that Weight I was blessed with my first baby girl. Now I'm close to where I started in the beginning, -.- got a long road ahead of me, and I also want to try for baby#2. So my question is are any of you breastfeeding and counting calories? If so how do you do it without hurting milk supply? My baby is 7 months old and we're introducing solids

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  • jwtriathlon
    jwtriathlon Posts: 147 Member
    I also just recently had a baby and I am breastfeeding. I would actually like to know the same thing. I have seen a few different articles on dieting and breastfeeding but i would like to know what people are actually doing.
  • jwtriathlon
    jwtriathlon Posts: 147 Member
    I found some great info on ehow.com on breastfeeding and dieting. Here is the link:

    http://www.ehow.com/about_4598063_many-do-burn-day-breastfeeding_.html

    I also found an older conversation thread from myfitnesspal. The most helpful thing I found was that you can enter in negative calories for your breastfeeding in your food diary. I have tried it and it works. I just used the quick tool of adding calories. I do -500 because this is the average amount of calories ehow says you burn when breastfeeding.
    Here is the link for this as well.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/431316-how-many-calories-does-breastfeeding-burn

    I hope this is helpful. I am going try it out this week and see how it goes.

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