Breastfeeding and weightless question

heatherboyce19
heatherboyce19 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello! Looking to drop about 7 pounds, but I am exclusively breastfeeding my son. I was wondering if there is a setting that accounts for the extra calories needed in a breastfeeding diet? Also if anyone has any tips they'd be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

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  • ashliedelgado
    ashliedelgado Posts: 814 Member
    There are a couple of ways. You can manually change your calorie goal to reflect that - so say MFP says 1600, manually change the # to 2100 in the settings. I don't like this, because at the end of the day it says you'll gain weight in 5 weeks. Which, every day of that, gets rough to look at.

    You can add it as cardio exercise, which I have done. 1 minute = 500 calories.

    You can search the food database for Exclusive Breastfeeding, and will find negative entries. This is where I ended up landing. Good luck, and feel free to add me if you want friends! I've been nursing my nugget for almost 4 months now, back at work for 2.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    edited February 2017
    Using a negative entry from the database would be my choice too.
  • ProfDawnLee
    ProfDawnLee Posts: 127 Member
    I am also exclusively breastfeeding and use the negative entry but it doesn't look like it is adding calories. How do you add it like cardio? Is that manual because I couldn't search for it. Please add me, I could use support from other bf mamas!
  • heatherboyce19
    heatherboyce19 Posts: 3 Member
    ProfDawnLee, I'm not sure if you already figured it out but if you search for it, then scroll down a little there is an option with -500 calories and it subtracts it from your daily total!

    Thanks for the input!!
  • annacole94
    annacole94 Posts: 994 Member
    I created it as an exercise. :) It worked for me. I miss those calories so much - I was my lowest adult weight when I finished breastfeeding.

    I also blame my 2 pregnancies + 5 years of breastfeeding for why I ended up gaining the 20 lb I'm losing now. ;) I got used to eating everything. I loved it.
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