Breastfeeding/weight loss/tracking

I had passed on from several mothers on a blog, a method I've passed on to several and they had success.

Set MFP to Lightly Active (since you will be easily).

Set to Maintain.

Do not account for the calories used for milk.

If you exercise, log them honestly if there is a speed or pace component and eat them back.
Strength Training is Weight lifting, and while low calorie burn, that's true.

If general (like Spinning or Elliptical) then change the calorie burn to 75 - 50% of suggested, depending on how hard you think you did it.

You have created a reasonable deficit.

Log food accurately, by weight grams, not by spoons or cups.

How old is baby? Typically if you are primarily breastfeeding that is considered an extra 500 cals a day. So maintenance would be your maintenance calculated by mfp + 500 calories for breastfeeding.

You can either add the calories daily by loggig it like food ( there sre breastfeeding entries in the database that will add calories) or just manually set your goal higher in the goals tab.

Since you are worried about supply I would recommend starting to log at maintenance + breastfeeding calories and slowly decrease from there. Try 100 less calories the next week and monitor supply. If all is well drop another 100 the next week. So on, if you do see a drop in supply go back to maintenance for a few days, get the supply back up, and slowly drop back down to where you were before your supply backed off.

Some women can successfully cut quite a bit and still have good supply, and others can't so take it slow and find out what works for you.

Congrats on the little one and good luck!

I just had my second son two weeks ago and also breastfeed a good way to keep your milk supply is adding oatmeal to your diet and drinking lots of water. Also try mothers tea it helps produce milk I wish the best of luck to you and your diet (:

http://exclusivepumping.com/oatmeal-experiment-will-eating-oatmeal-increase-my-supply/

I have been nursing my daughter for 15 months now (she still eats every 2 hours), and have struggled with supply the entire time. I've been losing weight consistently since November and actually notice an increase in supply with the increase in water and rich nutrients I'm taking in. Pumping or feeding on a schedule is essential. Feed your baby on demand, but if baby goes a few hours without feeding, pump instead. This isn't advice for everyone, people with a healthy supply don't always need to do this, but as someone struggling with supply, it was the best advice my lactation consultant gave me. Milk supply is supply and demand, the more you empty the more milk you'll make.

Thank you for asking this, I'm feeding my four and a half month old daughter and wasn't sure what to do. She takes bottle top ups too as my supply isn't quite enough (tried everything, she's just really hungry!) so I'll halve the advice given here. Thanks all!