Smoothie Diet After Baby?

Question

Im leaning toward getting on a fruits & vegetables smoothie diet everyday to help get my body back after I have my baby! Has anyone done anything similar to this & breastfed at the same time? Do you recommend another way? How many times should my smoothie intake be a day?

Answer

You need to eat!!! You're probably gonna need at least 3000 calories as you burn so many calories nursing. A liquid diet is not the way to go. You can eat healthy and still breastfeed and lose weight. Don't hurt your milk supply because you want your body back. I had mine back in less than 3 weeks after having my son. I lost a total of 38 lbs plus some.

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You need to eat more calories if you are breastfeeding! There is nothing wrong with smoothies, but you need more calories too

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I would talk to your doctor or a dietitian about how many calories a day they think you need before choosing to do that. I'm not sure what percentage of protein a day you need to get while breastfeeding but it would be good information to find out.😊

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Smoothies will be a good way to increase your fluid intake which is crucial to breastfeeding but that is absolutely not the time to try and all smoothie diet. Your body has to work hard to produce milk and feed your baby and for that you will need extra calories on top of lots of fluids. If you deprive your body of the needed nutrients then you will deprive your baby of good milk and it's will be what us nurses call "cows milk" aka useless. You're going to lose weight by breastfeeding anyway so just fill yourself up with lots of fruits, veggies and lean proteins. Fruit smoothies are a great way to get some fluid and some fruit so have one with or after each meal and it will definitely help!

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Honestly I recommend breast feeding as the best diet post partum. It can burn 800 cals a day of baby eats enough and 800caks equates to two hours hard cardio. So if you ate well and balanced you would lose weight healthier and easier than smoothies.

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Eat healthy lots of protein, healthy fats, and veggies. Bf is a help all in itself to lose weight for most! Liquid diets won't get enough of what baby needs.

Smoothie Diet After Baby?

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