🎀💜postpartum diet help??💜🎀

Question

Okay so I will be having my baby in 3 weeks or so. I will be breastfeeding and would like a good diet plan or healthy eating plan that works well with breastfeeding. A lot of the meal plans out there are focused on not eating calories but with breastfeeding I'll need calories! In your experience ladies what is the best meal plan or healthy eating habits that you have used? I do plan on losing my baby weight and excersize for and getting toned again. But eating healthy is important too! Shoot me your advice and experiences!!! ❤️

Answer

How much have you gained? You will probably lose 20 pounds in the week or 2 after you give birth. By 10 days I had lost all 30 (I had lots of water weight though because of preeclampsia). By a month I was 10 below my pre pregnancy weight without really trying. If you have trouble I recommend eating fruit smoothies for breakfast and cutting some junk, maybe keep some healthy snacks like cheese and veggies around but you shouldn't need to do much more then that. You will probably be extra hungry but, you also will burn 500 extra calories a day breastfeeding. Just a small effort will make a big difference.

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I didn't lose much at all and at 5 months postpartum I've lost 34 pounds. After birth I only lost about 12, and that's including baby.

I did gain 70 pounds though. So I went from about 176-172 (depending how much I ate ) to 154 currently.

I didn't start actually trying to lose the weight until 2 months ago. I for sure waited until 2 months postpartum to start anything. I tried walking 3 miles a day, and calorie counting so I got enough calories. I didn't lose anything.

Now I do low carb. I still have cheat days, more like cheat weekends and I'm still losing. 
I have 50 carbs a day. I eat more, and I actually make more milk then when I was before I started this. Low carb has been the only "diet" that's ever worked for me. I think it's because I love chocolate and cookies. So it's more like I just eat clean foods now.

🎀💜postpartum diet help??💜🎀

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