For those of you who are (or were) nursing at one point, did you ever notice if a low calorie diet made your infant fussy? I have been doing a low calorie diet for about 2 weeks now and my daughter has been a grouchy bear. She wants to eat more often and is hardly sleeping. I cant tell if maybe she is just coming down with something or if it is my food choices.
I think I will change my dieting tactics for now until I figure out what exactly is going on with her. For now we (my whole family is going to suffer along with me lol) are just going to cut out white flour, sugar, and caffeine (a diet my dad swears by). If nothing else, at least im eating healthy. And of course there will be my upcoming trips to the gym as well as my morning sit-ups and such. I may not lose weight but at least I will feel healthy and full of energy. I can work more on the low calorie dieting after we are done nursing. Her health is more important than my figure..right??!!
update: i just talked to my sister in law, and she said she read in a book that it is necesary for your calorie intake to be at least 2000 calories for your body to make sufficient milk for a nursing baby. YIKES. I was trying to keep my maximum daily calorie count to 1200. Oh well, I guess the dieting will have to sit on the back burner for a little while.
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Diet + Nursing = No no. I forgot you were still nursing, I would've told you that. Nursing mom's have to hold onto the weight unless they start exercising. I would check with the doctor first. Good job on switching to whole grains though. Don't totally put them off limits or you might start craving them. :)
Yep, hear hear, no low calorie diets when you are nursing. I can't remember what I read, but I think you had to add at least 600 extra calories to whatever you eat normaly when you are nursing. Yeah, just stick the exercise and get in the habit, then when she stops nursing and you can go low calorie the wait will just slide right off!
You can still keep your calorie intake where it is supposed to be and cut out white flour, sugar, and caffine. Don't forget to drink plenty of water every day! That was one of the problems I had. I was drying up and didn't even realize that Kirsten wasn't getting enough to eat. It was hard to tell, she was born crying and never really stopped.
Whatever happened with your water leak?
You can follow the weight watcher's point system and still nurse..you get extra nursing points..great program! Lots of free info on the net.
Thanks for all the info and encouragement - I appreciate all of you!
*becky* - we are still waiting to get someone under our house to see what type of damage we have before we can do anything else. I will post on it as soon as I have some more info! thx for askin :)
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