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BF and losing weight

BusterJessBusterJess member
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Is it normal to keep losing weight while breast feeding. I lost all the baby weight plus more. I am down to a size 2. I don't diet.I eat well. It's just werid how I keep dropping weight. I just figure its from breast feeding. Does breast feeding make you lose weight?

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Re: BF and losing weight

  • astaraastara
    this hasn't happened with me...?
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  • riare12riare12
    That's supposed to be true...worked for all of my friends.  Most were back in their regular clothes 1 week pp.  Me however, 2 months and I still have 9 pounds to lose and am not close to my regular clothes, wish it would work for me sometime soon!
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  • amandabrooke81amandabrooke81
    imageBusterJess:

    Is it normal to keep losing weight while breast feeding. I lost all the baby weight plus more. I am down to a size 2. I don't diet.I eat well. It's just werid how I keep dropping weight. I just figure its from breast feeding. Does breast feeding make you lose weight?

    Ohh I hope this happens to me too! I'm down 37 lbs, but still have 18 lbs more to go until pre-preg weight. Of course I'm eating horribly (just finished off 1/3 of a pan of brownies actually) but since I'm still losing weight at a steady pace, I'm thinking I'll be back to "square one" in 2 months just from BFing.

    I do have a friend who went 5 lbs below within 4 months PP.

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  • christie.hchristie.h

    I don't know if it's because of BFing, but I'm under my pre-pg weight already (although I'm now shaped a bit differently) and DS is only 7 days old. I do seem to be eating a little less at meals and a little more often though, so that could be contributing.

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  • beebe929beebe929 member

    You need to eat more.  I don't know the exact # of calories BF burns but it is quite a bit. 

     

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  • kmmancilkmmancil
    I know the feeling.  I've lost all my weight plus a little.  Supposedly exclusively BFing burns 500 cals/day.  Crazy huh? 
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  • carefreebride1carefreebride1
    I'm not a two but I am down to a size 6, I was between an 8-10 pre preggo.  It's crazy but I think it means we need to eat more calories which with everything else going on, is so hard to do. Most days I get in like two meals a day.  At this point, I don't think the contiued weight loss is healthy.  But I'd be lying if I didn't say I didn't like buying my size six skinny jeans.
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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member

    Well I haven't been a size 2 since... idk, elementary school? Stick out tongue

    But yeah, I kept losing weight the entire time I BF'd. And I ate plenty, 3 full meals, plus snacks and desserts and midnight snacks while nursing (nursing at night made me hungry as well as thirsty). I was definitely eating more than I did pre-pg or even than I ate while pg and still lost weight. And I was not exercising other than an afternoon stroll with DD around the neighborhood.

    So I lost about 16lbs on top of losing my pg weight.

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  • jamie5315jamie5315
    It can burn up to 500 calories a day I think I read somewhere. I was wearing some pre-pregnancy clothes at 10 days PP. I got down to normal weight pretty quickly and then it kind of stalled. Just recently I dropped 7 more lbs and now I can pull my size 2s down without unbuttoning them. (TIme to go shopping!) Don't worry, it's not a bad problem to have :)
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