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nursing- eat more?
Anidorie
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if you were nursing and dieting should you eat more calories ince you are feeding two human bodies instead of one? if so how much more? If your baby was 8 months old and had only breast milk, (no other food whatsoever) should you eat more for the two of you?
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Nursing requires about 500 additional nutritional calories per day. Pregnancy is about 300 a day
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For what I read you need abougt 500 calories a day more when you are nursing.
You can look it up on google, there's probably different suggestions, as there are with everything you look up.
Just having given birth AND nursing takes a lot out of your body.
So besides watching your calorie intake, also watch what form the calories are in :-)0 -
I just asked this question yesterday. Apparently there is a "breastfeeding mother" food that will give you negative calories. Sorry, to clarify. You can add breastfeeding as one of your foods and it will give you the extra calories you need for your food journal.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/154400-nursing-moms-calorie-question0
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