Any breastfeeding mommas??

I was above 2000 calories daily while breastfeeding. It takes more calories to breastfeed than it does to be pregnant, which makes sense since the baby is bigger. When your baby is 4 months old, you’ll need even more calories.

I recommend eating whatever you feel like eating for a few days and logging all of it to get a feel for how many calories you’re consuming. If you’re not happy with the direction the scale is going, drop your calories by 100 or so. Just be aware that to maintain your supply, you’ll have to go up in calories for a few months until your baby starts solid food. Because of this, I didn’t really get serious about losing the baby weight until mine was about 8 months old. I breastfed until 17 months.

I did slimming world in the end whilst breast feeding as they have extra portions of certain carbs and dairy so I knew I would be safe supply wise and to be fair it did work for me x

I’m still breastfeeding my 15 month old and aim for about 1600 calories, but most days I go over that by 100 or 200 calories. Some days I even eat up to 2000 calories. I’ve lost 97 pounds in 15 months by tracking calories & breastfeeding, no working out or anything yet. I can’t seem to lose these last 8 pounds though 🤔 So I’m thinking I need to exercise and/or reduce my calories to lose the last little bit.

If your sweet baby is only a month or two old. I would find the correct calorie range for you to lose weight and then add 400-500 calories onto that and just drink lots of water.

Have never breastfed myself, but have seen many long-timers post that after a few months of not worrying about the weight and just recovering, they ate maintenance calories, and let the breastfeeding create their deficit.