I am a breast feeding mom and my daughter is 7 months now. I have two other children and I fed them till they were a year old. I never actually counted calories like I am this time but I find that if you just eat when you are hungry and drink plenty of fluids you should be fine. I am doing a 1300 calorie diet and its hard to stay within that because I do find myself getting hungry especially after dinner. So I am trying to make sure my snacks are healthy even if all of a sudden I get a huge craving. But I'm not working out either. If I were doing more cardio and burning calories that way then I wouldn't do a 1300 calorie diet. I read online that you can burn up to 500 calories a day by breastfeeding alone and to eat a 1800-2000 calorie diet to maintain your supply. But it also said to eat when you are hungry and not to deprive yourself or do any crash diets. Basically this is the time to not be so strict on yourself. You can eat right and still lose some weight even when you breastfeed and also indulge a little. Don't stress too much since that can also affect your milk. Stay active, eat right, rest when you can, watch your calories and enjoy the baby. The weight will gradually melt off and stay off that way. Good luck!

Ryeb2u, can I ask how you add bf to the snacks? I can't work it out... not very computer savvy Thanks x

Hi I'm new here, but I am also a busy breast feeding mom to a 7 month old. I have always struggled with weight but using MFP I managed to reach my mini goal literally ONE WEEK before I found out I was pregnant. I stayed healthy and worked out 4-5 nights a week right up until I delivered. I have lost all but ten pounds of the baby weight, HOWEVER I am wearing 1 to 2 sizes larger than previously because I have not been able to keep up my gym regimen. I work full time and have grad school 2 nights a week until 10pm. My husband works second shift so I am the sole caregiver to my daughter each night I am not in school. The only time I can make it to the gym is at 6am before work a few times a week. Even this schedule is hard to keep, but it's not enough to get me back into the shape I was in before. I hate when people talk about breast feeding just melting the weight away!! It's not working for me!! I just started back on MFP because I realize I need to focus more on my diet because of the lack of gym time. I am eating around 1400 calories a day and my milk supply is still strong and I'm not starving. So far, it's too early to tell if I am dropping weight, but I feel better. I just wanted to post on here for the ladies who can't lose weight by just breast feeding or cutting out soda or desert. There really are some people who need to give up much more than that to drop the weight. Hang in there and remember to appreciate all the natural talents you have that make up for this one pain in a** trait.

Hello,

I have 13lbs to loose post baby... Now I am actually watch the calories and paying attention to what I eat I hope it will start to fall off... My baby is 4 months so we'll have to see.

Exercise for me has to fit round my baby and two year old. I dot't like to workout in the evenings, so I have a collection of exercise DVDs which work for me. The 30min ones are good as I can just do that before one of them needs my love!

I found it by searching "breast feeding" under the snacks section.
But I prefer to add it to my cardio. I added it myself as "breast feeding" and gave it 500 calories.

Where in the world is the snacks section???
why is this so hard for me?