Breastfeeding

You can log it as a food. Look in the database for breastfeeding ... there's a bunch of entries, and they give you "negative" calories. (Just remember to fill most of those calories with nutrient dense foods and a good balance of macros, your baby needs that )

Or you can set MFP to maintain and not log the breastfeeding at all. That will give you *about* 1 pound a week loss, in theory.

There are a good number of moms who struggle to lose weight for the first 6-12 months of breastfeeding (myself included). I don't know what all causes it, probably adherence issues, but be aware that it doesn't always make the weight fall off. Also, 500 calories is the average for exclusively breastfeeding, but it may be different from day to day and based on your baby.

(From mom of 5, EBF 4 of them, youngest is still going at 13 months. Feel free to contact me if you have any BF questions at all!!)

You can increase your calorie goal in the app, it's just under nutrition goals. Easy peezy lemon squeezy

I just set my goal to maintain so the extra calories from breastfeeding created my deficit. 500 calories is about the same as a 1 lb a week goal.

The negative calorie food feature stopped working on my app last January. I made MFP aware of it but they haven't fixed it yet (iPhone). It works on the website for me.

Eta - when I sate yes introducing foods to changed my goal to 1/2 a lb a week so about a 250 deficit. Assuming nursing was using about 300 (since he was nursing less) still left me at around 1 lb a week.