I have been averaging 1755 a day. I had been steadily losing 2 lbs per week for the last 7 weeks. Last week I hit a wall and lost 0. I have been reading all the different breastfeeding posts and I think I may be eating too little? I had been including breastfeeding under my exercise as 300 calories burned. I am going to up it to 400. I am pretty sure I burn at least 400 feeding my little one.. I am going to stop coming under in calories and meet my calorie goal at least 3 days a week. I am also going to change my workout . I had been doing 30 day Shred. I got to level 3 (which I still can only do at about 85%) My hubby told me maybe I need to switch it up. So we will see how I do this week.


I am interested in any feedback on the topic. Ladies it helps me to know what works for others. I was happy to see this post as I was wondering the same thing.

I suggest reading the post about "are you eating enough". She gives some good information on how many calories you should be eating and gives you a link to calculate how many calories you need for your own little one. Here is the link to the article: http://www.playdatecrashers.com/2011/07/calories-and-breastfeeding/
The link for the "milk calculator is:http://www.fourfriends.com/cgi-bin/milk.pl?lbs=18&oz=&feed=7&formula=

Hope this helps you ladies. It sure has helped me

Here is the link to the post: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/398395-make-sure-you-are-eating-enough

This has a been a huge question I've had that I haven't been able to get an answer to. My calories goal is 1200 and I'm beginning to wonder if that is too little. My baby is only 3mos old, so he's exclusively breastfeeding 5-7 times a day. I lost a lot of weight to begin with but recently I've plateaued. Its really hard for me to get into the mindset more calories can help you lose weight. I've been doing 30 Day shred as well and trying to eat all of my exercise calories on the days I workout. The may be something I need to rethink...Any insight would be helpful!

I have struggled with this too and have done a ton of research on it. From what I have found, your milk supply won't diminish if you eat too little as your body feeds your baby first, but you will stop loosing weight and start feeling tired and hungry all the time. I also found that your calories should be 1500 at the lowest and if you exercise you should eat those calories back. I have a hard time eating that many calories, but it is easier if you choose all healthy food instead of "empty calorie" items. Hope some of this helps!

Thank you for all the feedback ladies. Last week I increased my calories and changed my workout routine. I also did calorie cycling. I lost 3.4 lbs! I am going to keep "eating more to lose more"

My Progress: I also have been doing what the BF support group recommended and changing my goal to 2 lbs per week loss goal and adding back in my BF calories. However that gave me 1700 calories to burn per day. That was just too much food and I couldn't see losing weight by eating that much. I usually came in under by 300 or 400 calories so it would "yell at me" for eating too little. I also found I was sitting there calculating how many calories I was "really" eating and doing too much math for my little brain to figure out. So, what I did was just change my weight loss goal to only 1 lb per week and I won't add in the BF credit. It now gave me a goal of about 1550. I still think that is a little high but I'd rather just have that goal and eat under it than do the 1 1/2 lb per week and go over. Why is that? I think it is the perfectionist in me that can't stand seeing that red bar or red numbers when I'm over my goal--LOL. Anyone else like this??