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Author: Brooke
Date: 01-06-02 20:24
Hello.....I am new here and was wondering if anyone could give me some good advice. I just had a baby 3 weeks ago and have decided to breastfeed. However i need to lose weight and have no idea how many calories i should be having or how much is safe to cut back. If anyone has any information or knows another website that could help i would appreciate it. ty
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Author: Laura
Date: 01-08-02 15:41
All you need to do is figure out how many colories you need for your body,then add 500 colories,and you have it,good luck nursing is wonderfull I have been nursing for about six years,I have five children and nursed them all!!!plus their is great health benifits too....So hang in their and enjoy that sweet baby!! their will be plenty of time to lose weight......just keep nursing and eating and drinking LOTS of water.....
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Author: kristine
Date: 01-09-02 11:12
I breast feed my childern and I in no way wanted to restrict my eating. It is more advisible to foscus on exersise and flexiblity than loosing weight. Give your body 6 months for the hormones to come back. Having childern is not a 9 month process. Do not diet....But eat healthy... small meals every 2-3 hours. Stay away from the scale. Fosued on the health and well being of the baby not on yourself. You are doing the most awesome job right now and that will take 110% of your energy. Milk production is essential and so is eating for you. I am a fitness competitor, I waited 1 yr to loose 36 pounds. The baby came first, not me.
I look awesome now and he never got sick nor had tummy problems!
It will be worth it in the long run. DO YOGA!!!!!!! imagine how your baby feels when he or she is lying against your body and nursing. Is is not amazing???
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Author: naomi rankin
Date: 01-24-02 11:43
I just loved breast feeding my two daughters - one for almost three years and the other for more than five! There's just nothing like that kind of cuddling.
However, there is a very good reason to lose weight slowly while breast-feeding. The chemicals that build up in our bodies are mostly stored in the fat tissue. If you lose weight quickly, you are flushing out a lot of these chemicals and will increase the amount that go into your breast milk. If you lose weight slowly, you minimize the chemicals freed up to go into breast milk.
Please don't take this as a reason to stop breastfeeding, though! All other sources of food for baby will also have some chemicals in them anyways. Breast milk is still way better than any baby formula.
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