Dieting While Breastfeeding - Cleveland,TN

Hey S.,
Congrats on your new baby boy! While I haven't tried weight watchers while breast feeding, they do tailor a program for nursing mothers. I can testify to Weight Watchers working before my first child I lost 86 lbs on it. Best of luck.

I don't think just breastfeeding will take the weight off. I didn't start really losing my baby weight until I started running -- I think exercise and a lot of it is what it takes. If you drink plenty of water, your milk supply will keep up. I started running at 6 weeks and started training for a half marathon at 6 months (that got rid of the last 10 pounds) and my milk supply was fine as long as I drank enough water. With all the running, I didn't really watch too much what I ate. Actually, I ate all the time and had a ferocious appetite, which I attributed to the running and breastfeeding. As far as a good diet, Weight Watchers is a great way to eat healthy and lose weight and they have a program for breastfeeding mothers. Good luck.

I just started Weight Watchers online (no meetings, YAY) and they cater to breastfeeding mothers by showing you what intakes to change to prevent too much weight loss and to keep milk production. go to www.weightwatchers.com to check it out :) Good Luck.
PS I used WW once in the past and lost 35lbs. :)

I have not suggestions but I wanted to say I complete agree with you, this is my first I have been BF for 10months and besides the weight I lost immediately the other 15lbs still lingers. If you find any good suggestions pass them my way.

S., unfortunatly, you should not be dieting while breastfeeding, you still need 500 extra calories a day. What you can do is make sure those calories are nutritous ones. It's the summer, so eat plenty of fresh fruits and veggies and drink plenty of water. If you cut out all the junk and go for optimum nutrition instead of dieting, your milk supply will be good and you will set yourself up for weight loss down the road. Please keep in mind that they say it takes 9 months to put it on and 9 months to take it off. Don't feel that you have to rush back to your old self, you just had a baby, and some extra weight is expected and normal. Just take it one day at a time and when you stop nursing you can go at it full force. Hope this helps,
-K.

I asked my doctor about this when my DD was still young. Doctor's don't recommend dieting, just exercise (and not too excessive). "Dieting" is eating certain things, limiting carbs, calories... all the things DC needs. He said the only diet that could be safe is the Body for Life diet. (6 small meals a day, that way you constantly have nutritions for nursing). Good Luck!!