Mar
28
DoveyBuzzy asked:
I had my baby 6 months ago and I have lost all my pregnancy weight plus 10 additional pounds. Before I was pregnant, I tried everythign to lose weight and couldnt lose a pound. Now I have lost all this weight and am at the ideal weight. Is this normal while breastfeeding or is this too much? My family says I’m withering away but I love it and feel great. I eat very well and always have an appetite yet I keep losing weight.
Nicole
I had my baby 6 months ago and I have lost all my pregnancy weight plus 10 additional pounds. Before I was pregnant, I tried everythign to lose weight and couldnt lose a pound. Now I have lost all this weight and am at the ideal weight. Is this normal while breastfeeding or is this too much? My family says I’m withering away but I love it and feel great. I eat very well and always have an appetite yet I keep losing weight.
Nicole
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Keep it up! Don’t worry about what others are saying as long as you are eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising. With my firstborn, I gained 50 pounds and held on to all of them and gained more after he was born and I finished nursing (I was a teen mom with an absent husband). With my secondborn, I gained the 30 recommended pounds and dropped them all +20 from my son that I was still holding onto (when he was 1, I lost 20 of it, but couldn’t shake the rest for the 2 years between children). I weigh less than I did my senior year of high school and my mom says the same thing to me. But I feel great, I am eating very healthy, exercising, sleeping and my hubby and I are working as a team now.
Nursing typically burns 500-800 calories a day and you need to burn/cut at least 500 per day to lose a healthy 2 pounds per week. That is why God made pregnancy and nursing and the caloric intake fit together so beautifully LOL. You should be losing weight nursing if everything else is running smoothly, just make sure that being a mother and providing enough food for your baby are the number 1 priority and everything else should fall into place!
As long as you are EATING and you are at a NORMAL height to weight ratio, I don’t see a problem. Now, if you are cutting calories, exercising, and below your ideal weight…then your family may be right. While it’s nice to be skinny, you need to be healthy also.