Nursing mom

HI I'm nursing a three month old. I found I had to pay around with my calories until I settled on a good amount that allowed me to lose weight while not interfering with supply. I'm currently at 1630 plus I add in breastfeeding at -300 calories in my food. I'm probably actually burning 500 but this gives me a cushion in case I don't log something perfectly. I did start of lower without adding breastfeeding but found my supply going down so made adjustments until it worked. I've lost 11 lbs in the past 30 days.

mammer83 wrote: »

That's excellent so far though! So the breastfeeding calories don't actually get added on. I'm confused how it works for this app.

They get subtracted from your food. Do a search in food for breastfeeding and add it as a snack and you will see how it works.

For now I would just track what you are eating then when baby is minimum 12 weeks you can start cutting calories slowly and seeing how your supply is doing. From everything I've read it is recommended to wait until at least 12 weeks postpartum before cutting calories. Most exclusively breastfeeding mom's would need between 1800 to 2200 calories per day. What I did was used mfp the way anyone else would. Set up my goal weight activity level etc then I just search for breastfeeding as if it were a food item and add it in each day to my food diary.this makes it so I'm eating around 1900 calories a day. You may need more or less.