Stalled weight loss... Advice?

Question

I'm currently 3.5 months postpartum. When my weight leveled out about a month after birth, I decided to start small changes for weight loss...nothing drastic, as I didn't want my milk supply to suffer. So, I set MyFitnessPal for 1900 net cals/day and made a point to walk every day and just make sure I wasn't overeating. 
After six weeks of that, I had already dropped 11 pounds, from 188 to 177. It was really encouraging. But then, I just stopped losing! I've only lost maybe a pound the past month despite doing the same stuff. I'm currently 5'6" 176 lbs. 
Anyone have insight on what's going on? I'm not exclusively breastfeeding but my body makes about 50-75% of the milk baby drinks. Are my calories too low, too high? I'm eating pretty darn healthy (lots of veg/protein) so maybe should I look to up the intensity of working out?
Thanks in advance!

Answer

The true way to burn fat and lose weight is exercise, diet will only take you so far. 
You also don't want to drop your calories much further, your milk supply will suffer. You should be having 500 additional calories a day to your diet just to support supply alone. 
Dropping any further than 1900 (the 1400 you're getting after breastfeeding) will make your body go into starvation mode which actually makes you hold onto fat.
You should do some cardio, for at least 30 minutes in your ideal heart rate range for weightloss (online calculators for this) 3-4 times a week and potentially look into strength training.
Also consider that breastfeeding messes with your hormones and can make it harder for you to lose weight consistently.
Even though I was working out and watching what I ate, it was hard to lose weight until I stopped breastfeeding at 13mo.

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What you are doing is perfect! That is exactly what I did. My body just stopped around 4 months. BUT once you stop breastfeeding, you will start losing a lot again, and can take your calories down even more. Keep doing what you are doing!!! It will pay off in the end. I encourage taking pictures of your body and using a tape measure to measure waist. You will see changes there even though you are not seeing them on the scale. 
You could start working out more than just walking. Beachbody is a great one but it does cost a good chunk of money (99 for a year subscription). It’s worth it for me and I love it. But a free program, google: 15 day fit mommy challenge. It’s a free program, all the videos are on YouTube and it comes with an eating plan if you want to follow it. 
The weight loss is definitely a process, but it’s a great journey to start! 😉💪🏻

Answer

Your body usually gets to a plateau eventually and at that point you have to change things up.  Drop your calories, increase/change up your exercise, etc.

Stalled weight loss... Advice?

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