Breastfeeding

kelsiegarcia
kelsiegarcia Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
Does anyone know how to add breastfeeding to your profile so that it is taken into consideration for your calories? Thanks!

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  • MysticAngel92
    MysticAngel92 Posts: 4 Member
    Sorry got no help but I'd like to know this too
  • FitnessGirl11mfp
    FitnessGirl11mfp Posts: 232 Member
    There is an option for breastfeeding in the database. Or you could add it as exercise. Either way is fine. Exclusively breastfeeding burns around 500 calories so just add that in. It just depends on how much you breastfeed. For example, if you breastfeed and supplement with formula equally, it might be more like 250 calories burned. I hope that helps :-) I am a breastfeeding mama (well now exclusively pumping). Feel free to add me for support.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    If you search breastfeeding under the food section, there is a negative calorie entry so it will increase your calorie goal.

    Or you can log it as exercise.

    Or you can set your calorie goal to maintain and let the BFing create your deficit. Assuming 500 calories for exclusive BFing, if you set to maintaince, you are actually creating a 500 calorie deficit (1lb a week calorie goal). When we added solids I changed it to .5lb a week goal. So that plus about 300 for non-exclusive BFing kept me around the same 1 lb a week goal.
  • MysticAngel92
    MysticAngel92 Posts: 4 Member
    Silly question would you add every time you breastfeed?
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    jenniferellen92 wrote: »
    Silly question would you add every time you breastfeed?

    I just used one entry for the whole day. It gave me the 500 calories extra for the day (and then when he started eating solids, I used the partial one for 300 a day).

  • MysticAngel92
    MysticAngel92 Posts: 4 Member
    Okay thank you
  • kelsiegarcia
    kelsiegarcia Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you! This is very helpful!
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