Breastfeeding

I add it as a 1 minute 500 calorie exercise each morning. My baby is just over 9 months old. I tried reducing calories a bit now he's on solids but that just made me too hungry.

DaniCanadian wrote: »

Another bfing question...do I set my weight loss goal (half lb per week) and let it tally my daily calories and then add the 500 negative?
I'm due in 11 weeks and this is something I never figured out with my first. Thanks!

It really is best to wait until your baby is at least two months before cutting calories as it takes that long to establish your milk supply. Once you are ready I would recommend starting small and going from there. My son is just about for months and I started tracking and cutting calories when he was two months. I bounced around doing trial and error for the first month then this past month I kept at about 1800 calories and ate back most of not all my exercise calories. My goal is set to 1lb per week.

DaniCanadian wrote: »

ragenhay1 wrote: »

DaniCanadian wrote: »

Another bfing question...do I set my weight loss goal (half lb per week) and let it tally my daily calories and then add the 500 negative?
I'm due in 11 weeks and this is something I never figured out with my first. Thanks!

It really is best to wait until your baby is at least two months before cutting calories as it takes that long to establish your milk supply. Once you are ready I would recommend starting small and going from there. My son is just about for months and I started tracking and cutting calories when he was two months. I bounced around doing trial and error for the first month then this past month I kept at about 1800 calories and ate back most of not all my exercise calories. My goal is set to 1lb per week.

I don't plan on doing anything but eating healthier food choices as far as losing weight is concerned for the first 4-8 weeks. It's after that's where I run into problems. I gained 10 lbs bfing my first and that's what I want to avoid again.

Great! I did lots of reading before I started cutting calories and found most breastfeeding women need between 1800 and 2500 calories. You can drop as low as 1500 but it could cause a. Drop in your supply. When you start dropping don't cut all at once start with small drops of 50-100 calories and see how you are doing. There is a calculator online that helps you figure out calories for breastfeeding.



http://www.freedieting.com/tools/breastfeeding_calorie_calculator.htm

There is a "food" you can add titled breasfeeding and its -500 calories. I always used that

laynie81 wrote: »

Thank you! I'm having the same issue. This helped. I wish the app had a built in feature instead of these work around though.

Wouldn't that be fantastic!