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I just mean that I set my weight loss goal at maintaining and don’t worry about entering any calories for breastfeeding. I don’t enter it as exercise calories and I don’t eat any more calories than I am given for maintaining. Yet because I am nursing I am still losing weight this way. The calories I’m burning by…
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What is working for me is to set my goal for maintenance and then let breastfeeding make up my calorie deficit. This works better than trying to guess how much extra I’m burning, I think it is like 300-500 calories a day. All I know is if I restrict too much while sleep deprived and breastfeeding I will eventually eat the…
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For me it was a cycle of binging, feeling guilty, over restricting, binging, self loathing etc. I found for me that advice that simply stated I lacked will power or the desire to stick to a deficit incredibly unhelpful. I already felt guilty for my behavior and this seemed to confirm that I was the problem somehow. What…
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Start simple and have fun! If you’re worried about how to include all the nutrition you need put that aside for now and just try. The only way you’d get it wrong would be by not even starting. Do simple things like bake chicken breasts (if you eat meat) and baked potato. Add a bag of steamed frozen veggies or a salad and…
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I did some research and what worked well for me was to set my calories at maintaining and let breastfeeding make the deficit. Since you are not exclusivity bfing maybe choose a smaller goal like a half pound a week? You can also make bfing a custom exercise and account for it that way. Either way you need an extra 200-400…
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That’s a good point! I do make sure to eat back most if not all my exercise calories on days I run which puts me well over the 2000 mark but I do think I underestimate the amount of calories I’m burning by breastfeeding. I read that I should set my goal to maintain and let breastfeeding make the deficit but it gave me such…
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I'm 31 and just had my fourth. I'd like to loose around 40lb. Just started keeping track of calories and jogging. I ran a half marathon three years ago and would like to do another :)
