Diet & Weight loss general support #6

Sloane - :hello: Welcome to the thread. I can absolutely imagine that finding the energy to exercise while still getting up a few times a night must be difficult. Even if for a few weeks you don't worry about exercise just concentrate on your diet. You may find once your eating really healthy foods you may have more energy.

Nai- How did you go at the 2 parties? Hopefully you resisted too many temptations lol

Krysalyss - You can definately do 0.5 by the weekend with all that soccer you will be playing! Thats great you have all that organised for the week!

Belfie - Sounds like you had a fun day at the shops. Woo hoo on being down .3 already :clap:

Kaz - :happyforyou: Way to go on the loss. Well done. Isn't it great to change your ticker!!!!

BW - Hope you saved Sam from the freak out, my two don't like the sound of the whipper snipper either. Thats great you are restraining your diet a bit. Also at least when you are walking around the shops getting a bit of exercise you are in the air con which is another bonus!

AFM - Have had a pretty good weekend. We did go to a friends house for dinner last night, but the dinner was healthy which was good, however I did have a few glasses of wine and two roses chocolates lol. But been super good again today. Went out with DH today and bought a heap of new work out gear on sale so that was fun!!

Hi ladies, just wondering if I can join in? Need to keep myself accountable.

I have been following this thread for a while and your progress and determination is inspiring.

I've only got 3 kgs to lose but I'm finding it tough. With my firstborn all my pregnancy weight plus more fell off by 3 months with breastfeeding. This time it's not falling off at all !!

I've decided I need to knuckle down, so got some exercise DVDs. My goal is to do 3-4 x 1 hr sessions each week. I'm confused about calorie intake while breastfeeding. Calorie King says I need to go for 1200 for a 1kg loss each week or 1700 for a .5 kg loss each week (that's taking into consideration the fact that I'm breastfeeding). But I have also read that you shouldn't go under 1800 cals while breastfeeding. Another website says I need 2200 cals just to maintain my weight without breastfeeding. And yet another (babyfit) says I need to go for 2200 cals to lose weight while breastfeeding. I'm very confused.

So anyway, I decided to err on the side of caution, and have been aiming for 1700 cals per day. For the last 10 days I've been coming in at around 1900 cals, but have put on 400 grams !?!

So.. are any of you breastfeeding? How many cals do you eat? Any advice?

I am not breastfeeding but the calorie king guideline seems too low. I am 168cm tall, and around 66kg. And my allowance each day is 1380 calories (using calorie king). So to say 1200 I would say is definitely too low. Not sure on what is the right amount though. BTW welcome aboard!

ETA: CalorieKing wouldn't let me put in breastfeeding into my profile. It said the calorieking guidelines are not suitable during breastfeeding or pregnancy. So maybe go with one of the others if it specifically states it is suitable for bf

Skeetaboat - I am bfing but have no idea how many calories I eat every day. Obviously too many though since I'm in here!! :lol:

I think the CK website numbers sound about right (given you only have 3kg to lose) for if you weren't bfing. I think it's really hard to say how many extra calories you need with bfing. It all depends on how often you're feeding each day I think and whether your baby is on solids yet etc. Could your weight gain be because you've started to restrict your intake of food so your body is holding onto everything it can? Or it could be related to your cycle? Or if you're exercising and putting on some muscle it will weigh more than fat. Maybe keep going for a few more weeks at your current cals and see what happens.

Now I'm curious about how many cals I eat each day!!!

Have you been doing any exercise skeeta??

I did WW online while I was BF'ing and I think it was about 1900 - 2000 calories a day that I was on (I started at 70kg and height: 158cm). It said that you weren't supposed to lose more than .5kg when you're BF'ing... and I found apart from the first week I didn't lose more than that.

I've also tried putting BF'ing into CK (which I'm now using - but no longer BF'ing) and while it initially says you shouldn't (go see your doc etc) you can actually do it - you just keep going past that screen and it does adjust your calories up. I think I went from WW points 28 (or 29) to about 21/22, and on CK I went from 1900/2000 down to 1300 calories (not BFing). Does depend on your exercise and your own height/weight of course too - I wouldn't go off what anyone else was consuming. Does that help?

Oh and GEEZ I wished I'd lost all the weight while I was BF'ing. In retrospect those calories were SO easy! The other thing too is that with only 3 kilos to lose, it may be harder anyway. I had a heap to lose and it did seem to fall off pretty easily.

The only other thing I can think of - are you eating good cals, IYKWIM? I found I could still eat a bit of crap if I tried.... and if you're eating crap (but within your cals) late at night that might impact mebbe? Not sure why it's not coming off otherwise... GL in working it out.

Hey everyone thanks for your replies :)

I've been doing weights for ages so I don't think it's the putting-on-muscle- &-losing-fat thing. If anything it might be reverse coz I haven't been to the gym since Chrissy (just pilates at home and walking) so probably losing muscle & gaining fat, ugh!! Still no AF so it can't be that. Don't think I'm in 'starvation mode' as I don't feel hungry, shakey, weak, tired, etc. I think I'd have to go several hundred cals lower for starvation mode to kick in. I stuck to 1800-2000 cals during my first preg so it's not that low for me.

Bubs isn't eating any solids yet so I think you're supposed to add 500 cals when exclusively bfing.

My stats are similar to yours kysalyss so if I add 500 to your allowance, that brings me to 1800-1900, which sounds about right according to belfie's ww-while bfing figure. How much do you lose if you stick to 1380 krysalyss?

As far as I can tell I really should be losing & not gaining!! Will try for another week & see. Frustrating to do the hard work with no result but the alternative is giving up & having to buy a new wardrobe!! Maybe I just needed to do a big poo on weigh in day & will get a nice surprise next week, lol (I always tell myself that haha)

Welcome Skeeta!

Sorry very quick here - I weighed in yesterday and no change from Friday. Which is a little woohoo as I wasn't very good at the birthday parties. Both times I missed lunch before getting there so ate more than I should have :(

GL Skeeta - you certainly sound like you know what you're doing! Fingers crossed it will start to work.

Nai - well done for getting through those b'day parties!

Krysalyss - tehehehehe about the boot camp! And um... HOP TO IT! :lol:

AFM - i'm down 1kg so far this week (for a thurs weigh-in). Woo hoo! Bit scared some of that is fluid as it's just so gosh-darn hot here atm.

Nai I was thinking of you this morning and wondering how your weigh in went. Not increasing is good if you had parties on!

Just got to share guys - last night, or early this morning, I had a dream that I was twisting around to look at my butt in the mirror and it was shrinking before my eyes!! It was so cool :rofl: I wish it would shrink that fast in real life :rolleyes:

Did an hour of Wii this morning - did nearly all the muscle exercises in Fit Plus and then finished the Expert cycling course in just over 13km!!

well ladies, I'm gonna have to bow out - a certain little :bfp: has changed my plans! I promise to lurk & cheer tho!!

OMG Belfie, Congratulations hun. I am so pleased for you :leap: I hope you have a h&h 9 months. You must come back and help support us and keep us updated on how you are going. Congratulations again :clap:

Kaz - Love your dream. Wish it really did happen that quickly. Sounds like you are going well on the wii exercises.

Nai - No change is a good thing if you were a bit naughty. How has the rest of the week been for you so far?

Skeet - lol at your poo comment :lol: Hang in there, it may just take a bit longer to drop off as you don't have heaps to lose.

Hi to everyone else. How are you all going?

AFM - This week has been good and bad. I have had mostly good days but did have a really bad day yesterday. But I am not going to dwell on it. I have been super good today again so back on track. I will be weighing in again on Friday, hoping for a loss, fingers crossed.

Belfie - woohoo!! Congratulations hun! I guess that ocean swim is off now :lol: but I will hold you to it in about 2 years time ;)

Kaz - I love the dream. I have dreams where my arms are no longer flabby - oh how I wish!!

KT - I think you need a few bad days to help keep your metabolism up (that's my excuse anyway).

AFM - I've been ok I think although yesterday I was soooo hungry. I haven't done much exercise but I did push both girls in the pram to the library and back yesterday which is 20min each way and combined they weigh about 25kg so that was something.

hey guys, just letting you know that out of the 1.5 kg or so that i put on over christmas that i have lost 800g since 1st jan.
woohoo.

JBM - Well done on the weight loss :clap::clap:

Nai - A walk to the library is great especially pushing the girls in the pram :thumbsup:

AFM - Weighed in today and have stayed the same this week :crying: but I think I may be getting AF which always makes me a bit heavier. On a positive note though I did my measurements again yesterday and I have lost 8 cm since the start of the month so I am really happy with that!!

Kaz: LMAO - of maybe I should say, DMAO (dreaming my ass off) hehe. If only it were that easy. Look at it as a prophesy!

Belife: Woot woot! Congrats. Maybe you can keep posting your weekly weight gains here to keep yourself in check?? I can definitely recommend continuing exercise throughout pregnancy. I did
HEAPS of resistance training while I was pregnant and felt so fit, healthy & energetic. No back pain etc coz my muscles & joints were really strong.

JBM: well done - 800 gms is awesome!

Nai - hang in there. I find that thinking that hunger = calorie deficit (which is what we want) helps me get through it. Also that it's only temporary. Sometimes a good low cal snack is good to help you through. Hunger is good, but ravenous is bad (where's the chocolate?!?!).

KT - well done on the 8cm loss. It's the cms, not the kilos that count :) Plus you've probably lost fat & holding water.. that post AF weigh in might be pleasantly surprising.

AFM - I have lost the 400 gms I put on, so back to my new years day weight. But at least the scales are going in the right direction, which is the main thing, and I know that if I stick with it i'll get there.

Just popped in quickly to say that even though I'm not exercising at the moment, I have lost 700g this week! Can't put it down to anything other than I've upped my water intake. I tried swimming the other day and the pain in my hip was like before I was getting physio :(. Very happy for the loss though!