Breastfeeding And trying to lose weight

dressenk2015
dressenk2015 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm trying to lose weight and I'm trying to keep my daily calorie intake under 1400 , but I'm very hungry all the time. Should I add more calories because I'm breastfeeding , i don't know if someone know please help.

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Yes you should, not just for hunger but to keep your supply up. You can log breastfeeding as either exercise or food (giving you a negative adjustment) or set to maintenance and let breastfeeding create your deficit.
  • dressenk2015
    dressenk2015 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks a lot
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    Make sure your foods are quality ones to stay satisfied, nutrients for baby as well as youself are important. Drink lots of fluids also!
    When I nursed it was the best of weight loss methods. I would have taken in others babies to keep that trend running! :D
  • asviles
    asviles Posts: 56 Member
    My understanding is whatever the body needs to make adequate milk it will take from your body one way or another. That means if you're not eating it, you're body is pulling it from some other source (bones, liver, brain). Do what you need to with your calories in order to be healthy, but definitely make sure your diet includes everything you need and then some on the nutrients side of things.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,588 MFP Moderator
    the second half of this post has some great info in it:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10176233/gaining-weight-during-pregnancy-and-losing-it-post-partum
  • ashliedelgado
    ashliedelgado Posts: 814 Member
    Are you exclusively breast feeding? Or is your little getting some solids? Bottles? When your baby gets a bottle, are you pumping that feeding? How many calories to add is going to start there.

    I added 500 a day while exclusively nursing, and once she started getting solids, I made it around 250-300, depending on my pumping out put at work that day. By around 8 months when she was mostly comfort nursing (still. Sigh. almost 16 months deep), I stopped adding calories for it at all.

    And yes to @asviles. If you're not giving yourself adequate nutrition, your body will take it from you in more places than your fat stores. Calcium will come from your bones and teeth, muscle including your heart for protein, etc. For me, I shot for .25-.50 lb week weight loss and just made sure she had the best boob juice my body could make.
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