loosing weight 6 weeks after birth

Start here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
Buy a food scale and start logging in the diary. After two weeks you will get a handle on the database.

jdleanna wrote: »

Are you nursing? If so please be careful, because you should not eat in a calorie deficit while breastfeeding and in fact still need a few hundred above maintenance to supply your milk (& breastfeeding really helps the extra weight come off anyway, even with the extra calories!). If you're formula feeding, then go ahead and eat in a deficit. But, my advice would be to set your weekly loss goal low. Don't try to do it super fast- you need to make sure you're fueling yourself enough to have the energy to take care of a new baby, plus you're getting so much less sleep. Aim for half a pound a week. Stay active by taking walks with baby.

Whoops. I missed that. (it is early in the a.m.) 'Sorry.

Then while you are breastfeeding you really can't cut back on calories. If you do, you risk being malnourished and drying up your milk supply. You should still be eating 300 or so extra calories a day. Please do not try to cut back on what you eat.

But trust me - mom of 5 here - tons of the weight will come off on its own just because you are breastfeeding. Even with you eating extra calories.

I successfully lost all my baby weight and then some while nursing. I cut back to approx 1700-1800 calories a day (I weighed 175 and was 5'5" at around 5 weeks post partum) and exercised 5 days a week with both cardio and strength.

I ate to nourish my body and let my milk production caloric needs come from my body fat. The entire reason a woman even stores fat as part of her baby weight gain is to have fat stores for nursing. It is totally safe to use those stores as your energy needs while nursing.

And since you're past the 6 week mark it's okay to slowly add back exercise.

While nursing you typically burn anywhere from 300-500 more calories per day. I say make good use of your increase metabolism and get the weight off. By the time my son was 6 months old I was down to 155 and I didn't wean him until he was 15 months old. My check ups and his were always super healthy. No malnoruishment over here.

I do not think it is safe to advise a stranger that she "definitely can safely" eat at a caloric deficit while just starting out nursing. Great that it worked for you, nicediva007, but that's not the norm and not what most OB/Gynecology advise to new nursing mothers. At the very, very least she should first talk to her OB and a dietician before cutting calories.

OP, try reading through this too...

Http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-toddler-health/in-depth/breastfeeding-nutrition/art-20046912

She should surely consult a medical professional. That's the recommendation whenever a person would like to lose weight. While nursing your body needs specific nourishment, however the fat stores on the body (if you're in the normal body fat percentage), makes losing weight while nursing safe in most cases.

But yes, of course, my nursing experiences do not necessarily mean they hold for everyone. Her situation very well may be unique, so I agree that she should seek the advice of a professional in the field before committing to a strategy.

I didn't start to lose weight until after I was done breastfeeding my little one. I tried a calorie deficit and I started to lose my milk supply so I had to stop. However, looking back, I should have set my weight loss to .5 pounds a week instead of the 2 pounds a week I had it set to.