Losing weight while breast-feeding?

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Has anyone successfully lost a decent amount of weight while breast-feeding without it affecting their supply? What did you do? how much weight did you lose etc?

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I can't keep weight on while breastfeeding. I lose my pregnancy weight fast and I always end up pretty underweight while breastfeeding. But I'm also very thin, sometimes underweight, when I'm not breastfeeding so my lifestyle and stuff are the same. I've just got a very poor appetite and can't manage to consume more calories than I burn.

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If you are exclusively breastfeeding and aren’t moving your baby onto solids fast you can lose a ton of weight just by eating a balanced diet. I dropped about forty pounds after giving birth the first time within a year by breastfeeding and eating veggies, lean meats and whole grains. No caloric restriction, but no upping my intake. I ended up too skinny and switched up my diet to a bit more carbs.
I will say that I’m not entirely sure if it impacted my supply. I was working and pumping a few days a week too and I ended up having to supplement with formula (not sure if it was my diet though, or the pumping). With my second and third I didn’t drop down to nearly so low a weight and never had to supplement (but I also never pumped, too many variables to know which - pumping or weight loss - caused the supply drop).

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i did. lost 60 lbs. didn’t do anything crazy. eveybody is different

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I lost all but about 5-10 lbs of the pregnancy weight gain within a couple weeks of giving birth, then I held onto that weight until around when my son was 18 months and had weaned down to a point where I felt I could cut calories and not worry if it affected my supply or not. I wouldn’t recommend restricting calories if you want to exclusively breastfeed because it can cause supply to dip.

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I had my son in April was 160-170 I can’t remember and I’m usually 125-130, I walk like 2-10 miles a day, I eat a lot and drink a lot of water I just walk and walk. It’s therapeutic to me, and I walk with my mom in the evenings. I’m down to 135, I think I don’t weigh myself very often but I go by how I feel not the number on the scale

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Breastfeeding caused me to unintentionally lose a ton of weight. I lost so much I was lower than my pre pregnancy weight which wasn't good. I had to be more intentional and make sure I was eating enough extra calories. It's not really good to lose a bunch of weight while breastfeeding. You really need to be eating around 400 extra calories a day because it burns so many calories making milk.

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I gave birth to my son at 207lbs and breastfed for 16 months. Got pregnant when he was like 13 months though but I was down to 173lbs when I got pregnant. Same with my daughter I lost the weight n breast fed for a year and a half. I might fed for both every 2 hrs 🥲

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I did. Thanks to DMER and postpartum depression so 10/10 would not recommend. For the first 3-4 months of breastfeeding every time I had a letdown, I’d get so incredibly nauseous to the point where Id be gagging and dry heaving while nursing. So I essentially had 0 appetite 24/7 for months. But it did get better after a few months. I also had a stressful time returning to work and pumping and I am a stress starver vs. a stress eater. I lost about 30lbs in the 16 months I breastfed.

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I breastfed for 18 months with both kids and with my first I lost all the pregnancy weight plus 10lbs extra. I was 5’6 and got down to 129lbs. With my second I had trouble losing.

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I did but not in the way I imagined. My baby was born with jaundice so the hospital made me triple feed for a week to jump start my milk and boost the supply. I was breastfeeding and pumping every three hours around the clock, day and night. I didn't sleep for days, literally. I was so sleep deprived I began having hallucinations. 
However I did lose about 10 lbs during that time. Now that my breastfeeding journey is normal and everything I definitely gained it back lol.

Losing weight while breast-feeding?

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