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To my knowledge, no. What I do is add an exercise every day for breastfeeding for 60 minutes and have that at 400 calories. The other option is to increase your calorie goal for the day. The estimates I have seen say that your burn 300-500 calories a day nursing (assuming exclusively). So I take the middle of that and use…
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I have nursed and lost weight after my both my middle child and my youngest (2 1/2 months old). For both times, I tried to keep my calories around 1800 to 2000 while nursing. It allowed me to still lose weight and not affect my supply. After my middle child I actually got to a weight I hadn't seen in 15 years and much…
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For my prior baby and my most recent baby (less than 3 months old), I put in my weight and set a goal to lose 1 lb per week while breastfeeding and determined what MyFitnessPal said was my net calories for the day. Then every day I added cardiovascular exercise of breastfeeding for 400 calories a day. For my weight, that…
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I had my son in April of 2014 and started tracking calories in May because the pounds were just hanging on (not gaining but just staying). Since starting to track last May, I have lost over 60 lbs. I am still nursing on demand/pumping at work and give myself 400 calories a day for that. I was not good about exercising so I…
